In Close Your Eyes, The New York Times bestselling duo Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen are back with a suspenseful novel about a once-blind woman with a talent for tracking serial killersThe FBI doesn't usually consult with music therapists to solve their cases. But Kendra Michael's astonishing powers of observation and analysis have made her a favorite of law enforcement agencies all across the country. Blind for the first twenty years of her life, she car...

Motion is the only law Una understands.Since walking out of the Stadium she has kept going west, across a Montreal that survives by staying still. Villages that have taught themselves to make no sound at all. A weather station still tracking storms that stopped being storms. A toll gate on the old highway where the wind is wired to report you.They call the thing they are hiding from the Pressure. It reaches into minds, into machines, into the air, and corrects whatever drif...

***Multi-scale and Multi-physics Simulation of Fracture and Fatigue***presents a comprehensive exploration of theoretical and computational methods used in the analysis of fracture and fatigue in materials, effectively bridging length and time scales. It explores both fundamental concepts of fracture mechanics and cutting-edge multi-scale computational modeling.By focusing on methods to predict material properties, including fracture toughness, based on nanoscale interactions up to...

This book presents a comprehensive overview of urban economic development in the Global South, a region experiencing rapid urbanisation. Anchored by INHAF, it brings together perspectives from public administration, urban planning, economics, geography, and social work to present an interdisciplinary social science approach to urban economic development. Drawing on empirical evidence, case studies, and policy discourses from across the world, the book explores key drivers and challenges co...

This book examines how citizenship operates in the contested borderlands between India, Nepal, Myanmar, and Bangladesh, revealing a complex reality that defies conventional nation-state frameworks. By focusing on these reportedly porous regions where state authority proves inconsistent, the collection uncovers how cross-border mobility, intimacies, and connections generate anxieties and conflicts that acquire unique intensity in these liminal spaces. Rather than accepting citizenship as a ...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling duo Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen comes Sight Unseen, the next thrilling novel featuring Kendra Michaels.She was safe in a world of darkness.Now danger threatens in the cold light of day…Before the experimental surgery that gave her sight, Kendra Michaels developed her other senses to an amazing capacity. Now she can identify a Nissan by the sound of its engi...

Across Mongolian Plains is a vivid expeditionary narrative that combines travel writing, natural history, and ethnographic observation. Andrews records journeys across the grasslands, deserts, caravan routes, and frontier towns of Mongolia and northern China with the trained eye of a field scientist and the dramatic pacing of an adventure writer. Its style belongs to the early twentieth-century literature of exploration: empirical in its attention to animals, terrain, and climate, yet anim...

".... this is an excellent primer for someone starting to read about the Great War. Roy delves into the personalities of several leaders, exploring strengths and weaknesses, and how these contributed to victories, defeats, and disasters." – Roads to the Great War While battles and wars and 'the clash of civilizations' are as old as time itself, there is little doubt that the conflagration of 1914–1918 was something unique and terrifyingly new. There was not a corner of the globe that did n...

Author's note: Zombie Kong was my first novella. Of course, the very concept of Zombie Kong is preposterous, but I figure that's what makes the story so much fun. I didn't write this tale "tongue-in-cheek", nor did I bother with explanations regarding how the monster came to be. I just pulled the old George A Romero move: here's a bunch of zombies, deal with it. Or in this case: here's a 50-foot zombie monster kicking the shit out of the city, deal with it.Kong, for the record, isn...

The little-known story of Gandhi's reluctance to challenge the caste system, and the man who fought fiercely for India's downtrodden.Democracy hasn't eradicated caste, argues bestselling author and Booker Prize–winner Arundhati Roy—it has entrenched and modernized it. To understand caste today in India, Roy insists we must examine the influence of Gandhi in shaping what India ultimately became: independent of British rule, globally powerful, and marked to this day b...

World Class Selling, 2nd edition is a scientific process that enables you to sell any product, service, or idea. Behind its procedures, lies an ethical philosophy that you can rely on: a win-win philosophy of servicing the customer. You never need to con or pressure a prospect, or do anything against your standards or contrary to your personality.You will learn the buyers hidden agenda: the Five Buying Decisions that every prospect must make before buying. If you don't know what th...

"One of the most useful books I've read about mental illnesses . . . It demystifies our complicated medical and legal system." —Pete Earley, New York Times-bestselling author of Crazy: A Father's Search Through America's Mental Health MadnessFinally, a book that explains everything you ever wanted to know about psychiatry!In Shrink Rap, three psychiatrists from different specialties provide frank answers to questions such as:...