THE SECRET IS IN THE TOWER. THE PROBLEM IS THE BEAST. THE ANSWER IS TWO THIEVES.When a destitute young woman hires Royce and Hadrian to help save her remote village from nocturnal attacks, they are once more drawn into the schemes of the wizard Esrahaddon. While Royce struggles to breech the secrets of an ancient elven tower, Hadrian attempts to rally the villagers to defend themselves against the unseen killer. Once more, what begins with the simple theft of a sword places the two...

Sometimes it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission.Siberia in April isn't in any tourist guidebook. But that is where Trapp finds himself. It's cold, dark, and the vodka tastes like gasoline.After brawling with half a dozen corrupt Russian cops, he's taken to the infamous penal colony marked on maps as IK-29, but known to inmates as the Black Eagle. The guards are brutes, their prisoners little better than animals. It's hell on earth.And this time, he's on...

You have probably felt it by now. That quiet frustration that creeps in when you have been creating content for months or even years without seeing the results you know you are capable of. Maybe you have a camera gathering dust because the setup process feels overwhelming. Perhaps you have dozens of half-edited videos sitting on your hard drive because you are never quite satisfied with how they turn out. You might even have a channel with decent views but disappointing ea...

The biggest advantage in prediction markets is not speed. It is better information, better probability estimates, and better decision-making. Modern AI tools can help you process breaking news, analyze data, identify market sentiment, and uncover opportunities that many traders overlook.Bet on Everything Using ChatGPT or Claude is a practical guide that teaches beginners and experienced traders how to use artificial intelligence to improve prediction market research without replaci...

Every year, millions of people decide to learn programming. Most give up within the first few weeks. They do not quit because programming is too hard or because they are not smart enough. They quit because the resources they use teach syntax without context, vocabulary without conversation.This book exists to solve that problem.Python Jumpstart takes a different approach. It does not try to cover every feature of Python. It focuses on the concepts that matter most to beginn...

If you live in a house where everyone has ADHD, you know the chaos is not a mystery and it is not a moral failure. It is the predictable output of a household that has more people who need executive support than people who can provide it. The standard organizing advice, the chore charts, and the color-coded calendars were never designed for a brain like yours. This book is the counterargument.Built around 12 powerful laws, this system shows you how to build a home that does the rem...

Do you lie awake at 2 a.m., replaying the same conversation, dissecting every word, and imagining the worst possible outcomes? This is the worry loop, a powerful and self-reinforcing pattern of chronic anxiety and overthinking that can feel impossible to escape. But it's not a sign of weakness, and it's not your destiny. This book provides a powerful, evidence-based escape route.Most people try to stop worrying by force, telling themselves to "think positive" or just "let it go." T...

When did you last hear of a poetry book selling in the millions? Well, since 1958 when John Betjeman's Collected Poems was first published, sales have exceeded 2.5 million and are still going strong. When he died in 1984, still as Poet Laureate, he was by far the nation's favourite poet (as Philip Larkin acknowledged). Thanks to his work as a broadcaster and architectural campaigner he was also a celebrity. However his life was full of insecurities, frustrations and busted relationships, a...

Do you lie awake at 2 a.m., replaying the same conversation, dissecting every word, and imagining the worst possible outcomes? This is the worry loop, a powerful and self-reinforcing pattern of chronic anxiety and overthinking that can feel impossible to escape. But it's not a sign of weakness, and it's not your destiny. This book provides a powerful, evidence-based escape route.Most people try to stop worrying by force, telling themselves to "think positive" or just "let it go." T...

AI agents can now write code, manage infrastructure, and execute transactions. But capability has outpaced control. Most organizations lack the policies, permissions, and guardrails to operate agents safely at scale. This book closes that gap.The AI Agent Governance Playbook provides a complete framework for governing semi-autonomous AI agents. You'll learn the three pillars of agent governance: policies that define rules, permissions that enforce boundaries, and guardrail...

Pseudoscience and Extraordinary Claims of the Paranormal: A Critical Thinker's Toolkit provides readers with a variety of "reality-checking" tools to analyze extraordinary claims and to determine their validity.Integrates simple yet powerful evaluative tools used by both paranormal believers and skeptics alikeIntroduces innovations such as a continuum for ranking paranormal claims and evaluating their implicationsIncludes an innov...

With this influential book of essays, Jonathan Z. Smith has pointed the academic study of religion in a new theoretical direction, one neither theological nor willfully ideological.Making use of examples as apparently diverse and exotic as the Maori cults in nineteenth-century New Zealand and the events of Jonestown, Smith shows that religion must be construed as conventional, anthropological, historical, and as an exercise of imagination. In his analyses, religion emerges as the p...