You have typed a question into a chatbot and gotten a reply so confident it made you feel like the last person on earth who did not get the memo. Maybe you asked for a poem about your cat and it delivered, and then you closed the tab and never went back, because nobody ever explained what to actually do with the thing. Or you are the person who keeps hearing that AI will change everything and quietly fears being left behind. This book exists to drag you across the line from dabbler to oper...

Consider this your official notification. As of your most recent birthday, you have been formally classified as a Living Fossil, and the Department of Midlife Affairs has assigned me to walk you through the transition. I know fossil sounds like an insult, and I want you to hold that feeling for a moment, because the entire purpose of this manual is to take the word apart and hand it back to you as a compliment. You are not being demoted by this designation. You are being promoted into a cl...

You trust your brain more than anything else. But what if your memory is not a recording but a reconstruction, your perceptions are controlled hallucinations, and your conscious mind is not the author of your choices? For decades, neuroscience has revealed that the brain is not the reliable narrator you imagine. It's a prediction engine, a fiction writer, and a master of self-deception—all designed to help you survive, not to show you objective truth. This book pulls back the curtain on th...

Welcome, and congratulations on taking one of the most meaningful steps of your life. Choosing to become a United States citizen is a decision built on years of work, patience, and hope, and you have already done the hardest parts. What remains is the final academic hurdle, the civics test, and this book exists to make it feel manageable instead of overwhelming. You do not need to be a history professor, because the test asks a fixed set of questions, and the best way to learn them is in s...

This year, the holidays are FUCKED! This is not a children's happy family Christmas book you're looking at right now. Oh no. There is blood. Guts and Garland. Brutality. Faustian wraiths. Patricide. Soul-sucking shrunken heads. Entire wars unfolding at the North Pole. Aliens. Mutant streptococcus. Evil Christmas bread. Badly behaved elves. Twelve brain-fritzing days of Christmas. Oh. And werewolves, not to mention dryads. Also...someone put a hit out on Santa! Within these 24 stories, no o...

The Empire of Pilth Rabour is run by a tyrant, but that might be about to change. Assassins, rescue two orphan children from their would be murders. While they attempt to safely escort the children to a long lost uncle, a three-way war for control of the Empire of Pilth Rabour threatens to tear the empire apart. As the empire tries to settle into a new norm murderous trade factions, warlord prophets, demons and assassins constantly threaten the tenuous peace.

Told through an ever expanding collection of microstories, short stories, novelettes, novellas, and audio dramas, the events of Summer Culling take place between the inciting Carrington Event of 2012 and the days leading up Spring Peeling, a primary novel within the larger series of Post Carrington.This first collection is comprised of eight terrifying tales. Told through short, punchy horrors, we get a glimpse into what happens when an entire civilization is sudd...

For a thousand years the mages of the Empire have flourished through sorcery. But an ancient spell, forged by the semi-divine Simurgh, is draining magic from the world. They call it the BAN.This does not much matter to two clueless shepherds, Zanthred and Millie, who arrive at the capital ready do their civic service for the Emperor. Zanthred immediately disgraces himself with foolish romantic gestures and is soon the butt of every joke in the town.But as mages start rebell...

'Excellent . . . an in-depth excavation of the murky and mysterious world of football business. Smith's candid and often shocking book reveals the true workings of football business that take into account things few of us even could even imagine . . . The Deal answers some of those questions and leaves you wanting more. It is an educational tool that most fans could do with researching' Joe Short, ExpressFootball analysis has grown at the same exponential rate as ...

Look Away! considers the U.S. South in relation to Latin America and the Caribbean. Given that some of the major characteristics that mark the South as exceptional within the United States—including the legacies of a plantation economy and slave trade—are common to most of the Americas, Look Away! points to postcolonial studies as perhaps the best perspective from which to comprehend the U.S. South. At the same time it shows how, as part of the United States, the South—bo...

What bloke is entirely ready or totally prepared for the reality of a new baby and all that it entails? Babies may bring boundless joy into your life but they also bring temper tantrums, stubborn moods and 90-decibel fits of hysterical screaming. In Jon Smith's new, absolutely essential and extremely entertaining baby manual, he provides all the treasured wisdom that will help new dads master coping with delights such as projectile vomiting, sleep-deprived mums, the 'hidden gifts' that com...

A follow on to the bestselling Blokes Guide to Pregnancy, this pocket bite size guide book has all the crucial advice for expectant blokes and outlines 100 absolute need to know tips for surviving pregnancy. Written in his customary no nonsense, straightforward style – These 100 tips are taken from interviews with 100 blokes who have lived to tell the tale. This is the only guide to be reading for all expectant dads out there.