In a dark, seedy world full of bad cats, a lone detective is puzzled by a city-spanning crime that has him licked.Nub City is in the grip of a Depression, and its cat inhabitants are getting desperate. They'll resort to thievery, deception, and even murder to fill their furry bellies. It doesn't help that mice are an untouchable, endangered species, and the cats have to get their favorite food from illegal squeakeasies.Only a few good cats keep the streets ...

Danger prowls around every corner in Bast.Julius Kyle is a down-at-paw journalist with a nose for news, a volatile love life, and an addiction to sour milk. When his editor tells him to investigate a friend's tragic death, Julius finds himself in the Doghouse, a bad neighborhood on the wrong side of the river.There he finds a gang war that threatens to tear his city apart. Julius's investigation unearths a world of corrupt politics, fluffy assassins, savage...

The entrepreneur with both autism and ADHD sits at the center of a strange contradiction. The same brain that finds a 9-hour hyperfocus session effortless can lose 3 hours to a single notification. The same brain that sees patterns nobody else sees can fail to see that the rent is due in 2 days. The same brain that craves total autonomy is overwhelmed by total freedom. You are running two operating systems at once.Every single business decision you make asks both sides to agree. Wh...

Microsoft Copilot promises to change the way you work, but the reality can be confusing. The available information falls into two useless extremes: overhyped marketing demos and frustrated forum complaints. This is the book that bridges that gap. It is a practical, honest guide to what Copilot can do, what it cannot, and how to work around its limitations across Word, Excel, and Outlook.The Copilot Companion is designed for real users. Whether you are a writer struggling with a bla...

You started taking a GLP-1 medication because you wanted to feel better. The weight loss happened, just as the clinical trials promised, but it came wrapped in a package of bone-deep tiredness that no one had warned you about. You celebrated a lower number on the scale while struggling to find the energy to prepare a healthy meal, complete a workout, or even stay awake past 8 PM. The fatigue is not a sign that you are doing something wrong or that your body is failing you. It is a predicta...

In this follow up to I Was Wrong: The Meanings of Apologies, Nick Smith expands his ambitious theories of categorical apologies to civil and criminal law. After rejecting court-ordered apologies as unjustifiable humiliation, this book explains that penitentiaries were originally designed to bring about penance - something like apology - and that this tradition has been lost in the assembly line of mass incarceration. Smith argues that the state should modernize these principles and techniq...

You know how to write code. But writing code that compiles is not the same as building systems that endure. The gap between being a developer who ships features and a craftsperson who builds lasting, maintainable software is vast, and it’s not about learning another framework or language. It's about a fundamental shift in mindset, habits, and tooling that most developers never make.This book bridges that gap. It’s not a syntax guide or a cookbook of code snippets. It is a practical...

There is a good chance you are reading these words on a device powered by a microchip, yet you probably cannot name the person who invented it. The microchip is the single most transformative invention of the modern era, more consequential than the printing press, and the story of how it came to be is a human drama of ambition, ego, and occasional brilliance. This book reveals the hidden history of the people, ideas, and rivalries that made every smart phone, laptop, and medical device pos...

The person who most needs this book was a brilliant engineer who had built a product that solved a genuine problem, and he had watched 2 founders with weaker products raise 6 times more money because they could sit in a room and make someone believe. He had also negotiated his own salary 3 times and lost every time, and the cost of his belief that selling was beneath him was a career of watching the yeses that mattered go to someone else. Every one of us is in that engineer's position more...

The phrase "fail fast" has been repeated so many times it has become meaningless. Teams treat failure like a participation trophy, celebrating every misfire as though being wrong were itself a deliverable. The problem is not the idea that we should learn from mistakes. It is the lazy translation of that idea into a culture where shipping broken experiments became a substitute for doing the hard work of actually understanding customers.The difference between teams that innovate succ...

Social media is extremely difficult to implement and manage on an organization-wide basis, for three reasons: Social media is new, so best practices, tools and skills continually evolve at a relatively rapid pace, and organizations lack expertise, and tools. This book provides management systems and tools. Successful social media efforts require significant coordination across many functional areas. This book explains how. While most social media tools are free to start, companies that see...

Every year, thousands of new companies raise money, hire talent, build products, and launch into the world. Most of them fail. A small fraction survive, and a tiny number go on to define the categories they compete in. These category-defining companies do not merely win market share from existing competitors. They create new markets that did not previously exist, establish the rules of competition, and become so synonymous with their category that the company name becomes a verb. They do t...