In the latest from New York Times bestselling author Andrew Klavan, retired assassin Cameron Winter is drawn back in for one last job.In the wilderness bordering Afghanistan, an American soldier dies in a devastating explosion. Across the world, in a withering Pennsylvania factory town, his father is stabbed to death and left in the surrounding woods amidst colonial ruins known as Nowhere. The Recruiter wants Cameron Winter to find out why.All Wint...

An interpretive approach to current literary criticism grounded in critical histories and an openness to the unpredictability of readingRethinking the relationship of current literary criticism to the discipline’s past, Reading the Literary Past presents an interpretive approach to literary criticism grounded in critical histories rather than methods, attentive to the idiosyncrasy of reading and the contingencies influencing it.Andrew Mattison comb...

This is the story of a crime that reverberated around the world. The victim is a tree.For more than a century, the tree at Sycamore Gap stood along Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland. Planted in the nineteenth century, it became an iconic local landmark. It was immortalised in the 1991 film Robin Hood starring Kevin Costner, which transformed it into a symbol of the North East. One night in September 2023, two men – Daniel Graham and Adam Carruthers – cut it down, pr...

Murder at the Mersea Island HotelThe Mersea Island Hotel is a small, discreet luxury hotel on the eastern side of Mersea Island. A respected arms manufacturer is found dead in locked hotel room 104, a bayonet buried in his neck. The weapon appears symbolic—until it proves anything but.Silas Quirk, a former War Office investigator, is summoned to assist the local police. Upon initial review, the case appears straightforward. A discreet hotel, a priv...

The School Leader’s Guide to Digital Wellness is a practical resource for schools grappling with the linked challenges of digital distraction and student mental health in the age of smartphones. Personal devices and constant connectivity are eroding attention spans, academic performance, and school climate, but simply banning phones or restricting access often falls short of addressing underlying issues. This book offers a comprehensive plan for K-12 educators to “untangle” studen...

Foreign aid has been a powerful tool for advancing the United States' national interest, serving the poor of the world, and accelerating the modernization process in developing countries. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) functioned as the principal US government defense against famine and starvation, tyranny and chaos, pandemics and disease outbreaks, and extreme destitution. This book is about what USAID was, what it did, and some of the hidden challenges the...

An investigation into how zoos fail to protect the animals they work to save.Few places on Earth force us to reckon with the power we wield over the natural world quite like the modern zoo. Yet, for all our handwringing over the Anthropocene, and at a time of unprecedented concern for animals, the zoo has mostly avoided serious inquiry-until now.In Born to Be Wild, former zoologist and bestselling journalist Andrew Westoll takes readers behind the ...

A practicing hospitalist reflects on the challenges of modern medicine—and the moments that make it worthwhile.Every shift in hospital medicine brings decisions that matter to patients, to teams, and to the person making the call. In The Modern Hospitalist, Dr. Andrew Parks shares stories from the front lines of care—sleepless nights, unexpected breakthroughs, and the everyday work of showing up in a system that doesn’t always make it easy.Written ...

This completely updated edition walks you through every step of the process—from valuation to securities laws to closing and successful integration.When done correctly and cautiously, your company's next merger or acquisition should be an exciting, profitable time. But these complex transactions carry significant risk, no matter how simple or appealing they may look on the outside.Complete with expert advice, case studies, checklists, and sample documents, ...

A complicated friendship blooms during a fated meeting in northern Michigan between two nineteenth-century women writers. In the mid-1830s, the author Anna Brownell Jameson was called from Britain to Canada to see her husband. Before she returned back home, she embarked on a trip around the Great Lakes to gather material for a book on the "plight of the Indian woman." In a remarkable interaction on Mackinac Island, where the current-day lower peninsula of Michigan meets the upper peninsula...

A fascinating window into America's past via one of our favorite foods.There is no humbler food than bread, none easier to take for granted. So ancient that it shows up in prehistoric sites, bread is still full of surprises. Heirloom grains and artisan loaves fetch top dollar, while home bakers pour their passion into naan and challah, anadama and pistolet.In this book, award-winning author Andrew Coe provides the definitive history of American bread, from ...

Every day in America, we debate events, motives, and politics, yet often lack the imagination to perceive and name what often lurks within: evil.Matthew Fox, one of our nation's most evocative theologians, argues that Christianity's great symbols, stories, and works of sacred art were never meant merely to describe evil. They were meant to train us -- to see how evil disguises itself, seduces, and leaves chaos in its wake.Trump and the MAGA Movement as ...