Reflections IIBy: Allan Edward Young, Ph.D.Reflections II is a continuation of Reflections I, the fact and fantasy of his life, as told by Allan Edward Young, Columbia University, 1967. There have been semi-interchangeable careers in the academic, government consulting, and business investment-advisory fields. There have been both lifelong and brief friendships and relations of both dubious and inestimable value. There's been extended work and travel on each of the world's ...

Reflections IBy: Allan Edward Young, Ph.D.His life, as told by Allan Edward Young, Ph.D., Columbia University, 1967. Reflections I is part fact, part fantasy, and part folly. There have been semi-interchangeable careers in the academic, government consulting, and business investment-advisory fields. There have been both lifelong and brief friendships and relations of both dubious and inestimable value. There's been extended work and travel on each of the world's continents,...

A New York Times bestseller.In a Paris cafe, American surgeon Paul Osborn looks across the room and spots the man who murdered his father 30 years before. In London, a grizzled L.A. homicide cop named McVey joins Scotland Yard to unravel the mystery of a severed head and seven headless corpses. Neither American knows the link between the long-ago killing and the recent murders. But Paul’s obsession to catch his father’s killer will send him careening across Europe at break...

The legacy of Edgar Allen Poe continues through his ongoing popularity as a writer. ‘Hop-Frog’, like many of his best stories, carries the force of parable. It is a curious mixture of revenge, horror, and spectacle, It's all about a king’s jester- a dwarf- who exacts spectacular brutal vengeance on the cruel monarch. The story was first published in March 1849. It’s a tale about the “little man” triumphing over his evil oppressors and earning his freedom in a literal blaze of glory. ‘Hop-F...

This collection brings together 23 chilling tales by landmark gothic writers, including Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Sheridan Le Fanu, Sir Walter Scott and many more.Gothic fiction emerged in the 18th century, recognized for its bleak and sinister landscapes which housed unnatural forces of evil. Often controversial in their time, these stories pushed the boundaries of what was possible in fiction and evoked unsettling emotions as they told their tales of mysteri...

The classic and deeply influential work on business management, leadership, problem solving, and quality control—based on Denning’s famous 14 Points for Management.Now reissued for the managers and leaders of today!Translated into 12 languages and continuously in print since its original publication in 1982, this highly influential framework presents the foundations for a completely transformational way to lead and manage people, processes,...

A collection of interviews from the June 1964 Beatles' tour of Australia and New Zealand.

In the Dawn of Science Fiction: 22 Groundbreaking Novels charts the formative centuries of speculative narrative, gathering Gothic experiment, satirical voyage, technological romance, dystopian prophecy, lost-world adventure, and cosmic fantasy. Its works trace science fiction's emergence from Enlightenment irony and nineteenth-century industrial wonder into a modern literature attentive to invention, empire, social organization, and humanity's place in an expanding universe. Tales of arti...

DAWN OF THE APOCALYPSE gathers foundational visions of catastrophe, social collapse, and remade futures across satire, Gothic romance, scientific romance, dystopia, and speculative adventure. Its range extends from plague-ravaged landscapes and planetary disaster to authoritarian states, technological menace, and utopian schemes turned troubling. By placing classic nightmare narratives beside politically charged future histories and uncanny tales of survival, the volume reveals apocalypse ...

I hope you will find enjoyment reading these sci-fi stories. They include many diverse subjects. Travel to planets far from our own. A range of potential situations regarding the increase of robots among us. A massive variety of subjects to stimulate both thought and imagination. May you find aspects of these stories that deliver ideas that help bring a widening of the mind.

Recipient of Significant Lifetime Achievement in Social Work Education Award 2025 by The Council on Social Work Education Social work ethics provide practitioners with guidance on how to promote social work values such as respect, social justice, human relationships, service, competence, and integrity. Students entering the profession need to develop a real-world understanding of how to apply these values in practice while also managing the dilemmas that arise when social workers,...

Immortalized in the spellbinding documentary Dear Zachary, this angry, raw, and brutally honest true crime memoir of murder and loss chronicles a system's failure to prevent the death of a child. In November 2001, the body of a young doctor named Andrew Bagby was discovered in Keystone State Park outside Latrobe, Pennsylvania, five bullet wounds in his face, chest, buttocks, and the back of the head. For parents Dave and Kate, the pain was unbearable? But Andrew's murder was only the first...