On a Wednesday at 6:47 AM, a transport van arrives at Renée Hartwell’s apartment in Detroit and takes her away on the authority of a court order signed the previous afternoon by a judge no one in her family has ever heard of. The order is supported by an algorithmic score of seventy-three out of one hundred, generated by a vendor whose name has appeared on no one’s lease, no one’s prescription bottle, no one’s tax return.Three days later, her older sister Cynthia — sixty-eight, ret...

Understand the full range of systems approaches and how to use them with this innovative overview.Leaders and managers face increasing complexity and uncertainty because technical, organizational, socio-cultural, political, and environmental issues have become intensely interconnected. Systems thinking is recognized as the essential competence for managing complexity. As the demand for systems thinking grows, however, the fragmentation of the field into different m...

Do you feel isolated due to hiding secrets and deception in your life that are too painful to share? Are you insulating from others because the reality of betrayal from others is too much? Has the enemy deceived you by whispering lies that tease and taunt you? Are you holding and hiding wounds that you’ve carried for a lifetime? You don’t have to carry the heavy burden of deception any longer. You don’t have to pretend that everything is OK when it’s not. And you can actually walk away fro...

Elias Voss is fifty-eight, a former financial-fraud examiner who spent three decades reading ledgers for the lie hidden at the bottom of the page — until an AI system called ARGUS did his job faster and the firm let him go. After a harrowing winter (the events of Thirty Years of Tuesdays and The Room Above the Flowers), he has built something out of the wreckage: a free Saturday clinic in a donated room above a flower wholesaler, where he teaches ordinary...

Seven months after the election, a box of complaints nobody wanted lands on Lori Buchanan’s desk.A ballot-paper delivery that ran four hours late. A traffic light that stayed stupid all afternoon. A surge price that tripled outside a hospital. Three counties, three states, no connection—each with a complete, boring, innocent explanation. Every honest person involved would swear nothing happened.They’d be telling the truth. That’s the problem.Lori is...

At dawn, in a village above the clouds, a six-year-old girl kneels in a dead field, trying to salvage a potato that was engineered to rot. By nightfall the village is burning, and Dr. Sarah Jensen — anthropologist, former Army intelligence, witness — is running for her life with the only proof that the famine was designed.The design has a name: Project Chimera. Its engine is NQ, a supercomputer buried in Nevada bedrock that has quietly assembled behavioral, medical, and genetic pro...

Maya Rivera never expected her new job as the Fire Chief’s assistant to come with so many challenges — or that her biggest challenge would be resisting her stoic, undeniably attractive boss. Captain Alex Cole has a strict no-dating policy, and Maya knows better than to cross that line. Yet every shared glance, every accidental touch, ignites a fire that’s impossible to ignore.Alex Cole has dedicated his life to his team, leading with unwavering discipline and setting boundaries to k...

Do you know how they get animals to breed in captivity? They put them in the same cage.One moment you're colleagues, and then it's Friday night drinks, a quick grope, and you're an item. When Tom and Amy get together, they find themselves living in each other's pockets. But all too soon the ghosts of relationships past begin to interfere with the here and now.A comedy about love, loss and laminating machines, My Romantic History premiered at the Traverse T...

THE WORLD DOES NOT NEED A PERFECTED VERSION OF YOU. IT NEEDS THE REAL YOU. What would become possible if you stopped hiding, stopped shrinking, and stopped waiting for permission to become who you truly are? 2 In Unleashed: The World Needs to See You Now, Le'la C. Jackson invites readers into a transformational journey of self-discovery, healing, courage, authenticity, and purpose. Written for anyone who has ever felt unseen, unheard, disconnected from themselves,...

Shifting Baselines explores the real-world implications of a groundbreaking idea: we must understand the oceans of the past to protect the oceans of the future. In 1995, acclaimed marine biologist Daniel Pauly coined the term "shifting baselines" to describe a phenomenon of lowered expectations, in which each generation regards a progressively poorer natural world as normal. This seminal volume expands on Pauly's work, showing how skewed visions of the past have led to disastrous ...

Sirens at 2 a.m. hit differently when you've already lost someone to the job. These five firefighters know that weight, and they carry it into every shift, every burning building, every call that might not end clean.Each story follows a man built by heat, loss, and the kind of duty that doesn't clock out. They run toward the chaos. That part they can handle. What they can't always handle is what waits for them on the other side of it - a woman who gets under their skin in ways the ...

An original graphic novel based on the IVF stories of its husband-and-wife authors and the 1-in-50 couples around the world like them.Conrad and Joanne met in their final year of university and have been virtually inseparable since then. For a while, it felt like they had all the time in the world. Yet now, when they are finally ready to have kids, they find that getting pregnant isn’t always so easy.Ahead of them lies a difficult, expensive, and emotional ...