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Create an army of rabid fans by telling richer, deeper stories that readers love.David Wright has garnered thousands of avid fans by writing dark stories that pull his readers in and keep them hooked to the last page. He masterfully balances darkness and light to create gripping stories his readers can't put down, with just enough hope that they are left feeling satisfied and dying to read the next book.In Into The Darkness, Dave takes you into his world and shows you how h...

Live More by Choosing LessOur lives are full of stuff. Our world encourages both buying and holding onto things. We seem to have this obsession with possessing things. And, sadly, we are reluctant to let go of what we already own. This leads to clutter, hoarding, and the unhealthy thinking that goes with it.Thanks to clever advertising and eager sellers we’ve become accustomed to wanting more, bigger, improved faster, more efficient products. We can’t get e...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHORS OF YESTERDAY'S GONE AND WHITESPACE COMES A NEW THRILLER — 12.At 6 p.m. on a Wednesday in October, a gunman will enter Goldman's Diner and commit one of the worst massacres the small coastal town of Palm Isles, Florida has ever seen.Twelve hours earlier: twelve lives are on borrowed time, unaware that death is coming, or that their paths will collide in one tragic moment.A young waitress and mot...

English Romantic poetry from its beginnings and its flowering to the first signs of its decadence. Nearly all the famous piéces de résistance will be found here - 'Intimations of Immortality', 'The Ancient Mariner', 'The Tyger', excerpts from 'Don Juan' - as well as some less familiar poems. As far as possible the poets are arranged in chronological order, and their poems in order of composition, beginning with eighteenth-century precurs...

For 150 years, Down's Syndrome has constituted the archetypal mental disability, easily recognisable by distinct facial anomalies and physical stigmata. In a narrow medical sense, Down's syndrome is a common disorder caused by the presence of all or part of an extra 21st chromosome. It is named after John Langdon Down, the British asylum medical superintendent who described the syndrome as Mongolism in a series of lectures in 1866. In 1959, the disorder was identified as a chromosome 21 tr...

"An amazing book." – Dan Lepard"The rich and fascinating story of bread." – Lily Vanilli"A brilliant, timely and important book full of compassion." – Olia Hercules"A fascinating exploration of our universal love of bread. David traces the past, present, and future of bread through his personal lens as a third generation baker." – Edd KimberDiscove...

Today we are all too well acquainted with a view of work and economics as necessary evils—means to an end. Our culture shouts its disapproval of work as bothersome, if necessary. It is conflicted over competing economic views and challenges the notion that one system can be better than all the rest. Even in the church the importance of work and economics can be undermined or dismissed. But what if we took great joy in our work? What if we began to develop an economic vision that reflects G...

This isn’t a book full of rules on How You Should Write Your Book.First off, I don’t even know all the rules to writing, at least not in any instructional sort of way. For every rule identified by an expert, you can easily find someone else who did the exact opposite and somehow managed to create a kick-ass story.This is a book about how I understand darkness, its place in story, and how I make dark fiction that people enjoy reading.I'll show you my...

This fascinating book is aimed at all those modellers who wish to create a model railway set in an urban landscape. It covers the selection and the construction of a wide range of urban buildings, and presents many detailed photographs of real buildings from which the modeller can gain ideas, identify specific features and draw inspiration. Special attention is paid to modelling architectural details and to the effects of weathering. Scratch-building techniques and materials, as well as re...

Natural toxins are commonly used to subdue or incapacitate potential prey organisms but may also act as a defence against predators or parasites. Additionally, these compounds may act to give their producers an advantage when competing for food and other natural resources. Competing organisms may also deploy their own counteractive chemical measures in a form of biological warfare.Because of their enormous range of bioactive properties, many natural toxins have been isolated and re...

Have you ever felt like a quiet forest trail existing in a world of noisy highways? You're not alone. In Introverts Hate Small Talk, David M. Wright unpacks the introverted experience with depth, humor, and unapologetic honesty. This book is not just a guide—it’s a celebration of the quiet strengths that introverts bring to relationships, workplaces, and society.Discover the science behind introversion, explore how cultural norms shape personality dynamics, and gain practical tips ...

This Element's contribution explores the historiography of madness in the Modern era, including landmark publications in the overlapping fields of the history of psychiatry and the history of lunatic asylums. As this examination of almost 200 academic works will demonstrate, the field is vast and highly contested, with researchers sometimes disagreeing about the basic terms of analysis. Nevertheless, from Foucault to Fanon, from Goffman to Gilman, these debates about social and medical res...