Nerd gangstas, weed, and The Boss combine in a darkly comedic story of resurrecting shattered dreams within a bureaucratic circus. Fight Club meets a Half-Baked Big Bang Theory with a CSI twist in an Office Space, but only cake gets punched. Yes, that’s right, cake. Pharmers is a fictional story written for the newly found literary genre of ‘dark nerd-comedy’. Meet Deymann, a down and out medicinal scientist slaving away in corporate America. He feels trapped in a godless machine, toiling ...

In a beautiful garden filled with flowers, birds, and curious woodland friends, one question sparks a thoughtful journey:Why does the willow weep?The rose, the lavender, the tulip, the bunny, and the robins all wonder why the willow tree stands with its branches bowed low. Is it sad? Is it lonely? Or is there another reason entirely?As the garden's friends seek answers, they discover a powerful lesson about kindness, purpose, and the quiet strength ...

Once, the world got very quiet. Schools closed, playgrounds emptied, and kids were given strange cloth masks that puffed in and out when they breathed, masks that looked a little like beaks. So people started calling them the Beak People.The Beak People is a gentle, warm-hearted picture book that captures what it was like to be a child during an unforgettable time, learning through screens, waving through windows, and finding new ways to laugh, play, and stay close to the ...

Bramble is a young buck who feels different from everyone else.While the other deer have antlers that grow proudly forward, Bramble's antlers curl backward. The forest animals stare. Some laugh. Others tell him he'll never be a proper buck. Feeling alone and misunderstood, Bramble spends his days with his two loyal friends-a clever squirrel named Pip and a strong, steady turtle named Moss.But when a raging forest fire threatens every creature in the woods, Bramble discovers...

Why does a frog look so different from a baboon? Why does a hummingbird have a tiny beak while a crocodile has a giant mouth full of teeth? And what would happen if they traded parts for a day?Join young readers on a hilarious and imaginative journey through the animal kingdom as they explore some of nature's most curious creatures. From giraffes and turtles to peacocks and moles, each playful comparison invites children to wonder what life would be like if animals shared their uni...

In the winter of 1193, King Richard the Lionheart lies captive in a foreign land, and England holds its breath. At Fontevraud Abbey, a convent servant named Aveline sweeps frost from the gatehouse steps when a single rider changes everything: Eleanor of Aquitaine, dowager queen and duchess of Aquitaine, has come to rally a fractured realm.What follows is a court drama of ransom, betrayal, and quiet defiance, as Eleanor gathers her lords, outmaneuvers a hostile emperor, and moves co...

Some things break so they can be made new.Archaeologist Yael Bar-Am has spent her life piecing together what history left behind, fragments of clay, layers of stone, the quiet proof that nothing is ever truly lost. Then Captain Daniel Carter arrives at her dig, an American Army Reserve officer sent to document cultural sites before conflict swallows them, and for one golden afternoon before the holiday, the ancient land feels only beautiful, not dangerous.On Yom Kippur, the...

Why would a casino try to stop a gambler from losing? How can a mathematical formula find your future spouse? Would you know if statistical analysis blackballed you from a job you wanted?Economist Ian Ayres has spent the better part of his career examining the power in numbers. Decisions used to be made by traditional experts based on experience, intuition, and trial and error. Nowadays, cutting-edge organizations are crunching ever-larger databases to find answers. Today’s super c...

The Intellectual World of Late-Antique Christianity explores new perspectives on early Christian epistemology in relation to the changing discourses, institutions, and material culture of late antiquity. Early Christian modes of knowing and ordering knowledge involved complex processes of appropriation, reproduction, and reconfiguration of Jewish and classical epistemologies. This helped Christians develop cultures of interpretation and argument as textually oriented religious communities ...

In recent years, food sovereignty has emerged as a way of contesting corporate control of agricultural markets in pursuit of a more democratic, decentralized food system. The concept unites individuals, communities, civil society organizations, and even states in opposition to globalizing food regimes.This collection examines expressions of food sovereignty ranging from the direct action tactics of La Vía Campesina in Brazil to the consumer activism of the Slow Food movement and th...

In this volume, a group of distinguished international scholars provides a fresh investigation of the most fundamental issues involved in our dependence on natural resources. In Scarcity and Growth (RFF, 1963) and Scarcity and Growth Reconsidered (RFF, 1979), researchers considered the long-term implications of resource scarcity for economic growth and human well-being. Scarcity and Growth Revisited examines these implications with 25 years of new learning and experience. It finds that con...

Shift your fear into top gear. Set your pulse racing with this collection of automotive horror that fires on all cylinders. This bad boy comes fully-optioned with fifteen tales of classic cars and motorcycles behaving badly, and the star-studded lineup is sure to provide all the nightmare fuel you can handle. So strap in and hold on, because we're going pedal to the metal. It's blood-soaked horror or bust, and we aren't stopping for anything. You're in for a ride.