When Edward Snowden hit the send button on a laptop in Hong Kong in June 2013, just shy of his 30th birthday, he became the poster boy for an acutely American conundrum: the tension between the government’s constitutional commitment to the privacy of individuals and its responsibility for the safety of the nation. Stuart Taylor, Jr. reviews 200 years of surveillance in the U.S., the leading actors in the NSA debate since Snowden’s leaks, and the challenges that lie ahead-namely, finding th...

This book delivers an innovative critical approach to better understand U.S. fiction of the information age, and argues that in the last eighty years, fiction has become increasingly concerned with its representations of mathematical ideas, images, and practices. In so doing, this book provides a fuller, transnational account of the place of mathematics in understanding mathematically informed novels. Literature and science studies have acknowledged and situated historical points of cultur...

Truly, Madly, Charlie is the story of footballer, fashion icon and 1980s celebrity Charlie Nicholas one of the most popular, talked-about and enigmatic figures of his generation.Fashionista. Model. Pop star. Influencer. Footballer. Charlie Nicholas was many things to many people. The embodiment of the 1980s, he breezed into Highbury in the summer of 1983 with the promise of sex, goals and rock ’n’ roll, but weighed down by expectations that would prove imp...

"With its evocative Dublin setting, lyrical prose, tough but sympathetic heroine, and a killer twist in the plot, Sarah Stewart Taylor's The Mountains Wild should top everyone's must-read lists this year!" — New York Times bestselling author Deborah CrombieIn a series debut for fans of Tana French and Kate Atkinson, set in Dublin and New York, homicide detective Maggie D'arcy finally tackles the case that changed the course of her life.

As gravestone expert Sweeney St. George tours burial sites of the Civil War, she stops to watch a battlefield reenactment in Massachusetts. There, she meets Pres Whiting, a boy whose family is in the gravestone business. When Pres discovers a dead man in a Revolutionary War-era British soldier's uniform, Sweeney and Cambridge homicide detective Tim Quinn jump on the case.While they search for clues regarding the dead body, Sweeney and Quinn investigate other strange events. While Sw...

This powerful and reflective book explores the losses encountered during social research—of people, communities and environments—collectively referred to as The Lost. Drawing on the contributors’ varied research experiences, it gives voice to lives marked by marginalisation, trauma or quiet disappearance. Stories emerge from women who didn’t survive domestic abuse to those displaced by ‘natural’ disasters, or affected by homelessness. Through deeply personal and ethical reflections, each c...

Enter the world of 1960s Bethany, Vermont in this suspenseful short story featuring characters from the forthcoming Agony Hill.It's mud season in Bethany, Vermont. As spring nears, the thawing ground and melting snow-pack have created muddy, impassable roads. It's not unusual to see a driver pushing their car or going for help. But a car with Pennsylvania plates has been completely abandoned, still stuck in the mud.Alice Bellows, an inquisitive wid...

The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll presents an intimate, documentary portrait of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, the Oxford mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman, photographer, and author who wrote under the name Lewis Carroll. Drawing on correspondence, recollection, and biographical narrative, it places Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass within the intellectual and social world of Victorian Oxford. Its style combines affectionate family memoir with archival...

Looking for heart-racing romance and breathless suspense? Want high-stakes stories that cause sparks to fly between adventurous, brave characters in life-and-death situations?Harlequin® Romantic Suspense brings you all that and more with four new full-length titles in one collection!Colton's Yuletide Manhunt (A The Coltons of New York novel)By Kacy CrossDetective Isaac Donner wants to catch the notorious Landmark Kill...

Looking for heart-racing romance and breathless suspense? Want stories filled with life-and-death situations that cause sparks to fly between adventurous, strong women and brave, powerful men?COLTON'S CODE REDby Tara Taylor QuinnFollowing a string of recent arrests, Special Agent Jacob Colton is this close to exposing the human trafficking ring in Dark Canyon. But he needs Mae Copeland to close the case. The introverted, workaholic forensic scientist...

Unlock the secrets of advertising success with this comprehensive guide! Dive into practical insights and real-world data to enhance your campaigns. Explore the Super Bowl as a live advertising lab, dissecting branding strategies, creative elements, and societal impacts. Learn from advertisers, agencies, and experts, and apply these lessons to your own efforts. Perfect for marketing managers, advertisers, and educators looking to leverage the biggest advertising event in the world. This bo...

Liberation and Education brings together a collection of essays about Black educators’ and organizations’ quests to cultivate and employ educational strategies for the liberation of Black people. The contributions examine the enduring nature of Black people’s thinking about education prior to and through enslavement to the present. It documents a variety of critical accounts of how Black people have developed ways to free themselves mentally from the legacies of slavery, the view ...