How does an iconic brand die? For more than two decades, Blockbuster was America's favorite way to watch movies. Millions of customers visited more than eight thousand stores around the globe every week, providing more data about movie audiences than anyone in history had ever owned. If any company should have predicted the disruptive forces coming down the pike, it was Blockbuster. But as new threats emerged, none of its five CEOs had answers, and the company collapsed long before its tim...

An exotic and ambitious collection in which deceptively simple structures are built to carry an impressive weight of interest and reference. – Andrew MotionThe guardian spirit of this book is a mahogany sculpture called Eve, part of the permanent collection in the Graves Art Gallery in Sheffield. She's looking over her shoulder. Her gaze takes in journeys across the Atlantic, beaches in the Caribbean, a boarding school in Yorkshire, departures and...

Having given up her high-powered career in the FBI, Jac Swann left the Bureau for the quiet life of a small town sheriff in rural Virginia. But the bucolic escape takes a grisly turn when a brutal murder happens on her new turf, and the dead man is a local businessman who apparently had no enemies. But as Swann and her lead investigator, Rob Lyle, begin to dig deeply, all is not as it seems. The man was not the stellar character he appeared to be, and the secrets he held would give rise to...

Murder . . . Romance . . . AdventureJake Starky gave thirty years to his country. He's earned his retirement. It's great. It's marvelous. He's stagnant. The man who made Inspector General of the Marine Corps before age fifty is rusting like a precision instrument left out in the rain.But when Carlos Dupree is brutally murdered in a dark alley on Capitol Hill and the police log it as a mugging gone awry, Dupree's rich widow has reasons to believe otherwise, and turns to Starky...

Intrigue . . . . Murder . . . . BetrayalA Pulitzer Prize is the only major award Jonathon Stone has never won. And now that he's left investigative journalism to write nice little articles for magazines, it seems he never will. But the embers still smolder, and when Leo Zimmer crashes head on into his life with a ragged tale of blackmail aimed at the highest echelons of government and diplomacy, the seed for the Pulitzer once again germinates and grows, and Stone is drawn deeper an...

Albert Luderman was new in town. He didn't know the unstated rules. He was in for a big hurt. Or was he?

Everyone knows the story of the codebreaker and computer science pioneer Alan Turing.Except …When Dermot Turing is asked about his famous uncle, people want to know more than the bullet points of his life. They want to know everything – was Alan Turing actually a codebreaker? What did he make of artificial intelligence? What is the significance of Alan Turing's trial, his suicide, the Royal Pardon, the £50 note and the film The...

Black Cat Weekly #98 features 10 short stories and a novel. This time, we have five mysteries (including a terrific original by Adam Meyer, courtesy of Acquiring Editor Michael Bracken), modern tales by Dharma Kelleher (courtesy of Acquiring Editor Barb Goffman) and Jack Halliday, plus a classic by Frank Gruber, who was a prolific pulp writer and novelist. Gruber’s story of a dance-hall clip-joint provides a window into a long-gone era. And of course, no issue is complete without a solve-i...

Do you want a life with a clear purpose? Do you want to be happy and less stressed? Do you want to be the best you can be? For most of us, "Yes" is an easy answer, but to do this is more of a challenge. This book provides a powerful and personal framework to help you find your VALUES superhero and to be the best version of yourself. It all starts with your core personal values, giving a foundation for the way you want to behave. Values are like a moral compass, guiding us when we...

Georgia has played a formative role in the writing of America. Few states have produced a more impressive array of literary figures, among them Conrad Aiken, Erskine Caldwell, James Dickey, Joel Chandler Harris, Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor, Jean Toomer, and Alice Walker.This volume contains biographical and critical discussions of Georgia writers from the nineteenth century to the present as well as other information pertinent to Georgia literature. Organized in alphabetica...

Equip your students for the OCR GCSE (9-1) Geography A specification with our fully revised second edition Student Book. Our expert author team bring you new and revised case studies and a wealth of practice questions to help your students apply their knowledge to succeed at GCSE.- Maps the content against the specification, providing an easy-to-follow teaching pathway designed by an author team of experienced teachers and examiners- Equips students with th...

Equip your students for the OCR GCSE (9-1) Geography B specification with our fully revised second edition Student Book. Our expert author team bring you new and revised case studies and a wealth of practice questions to help your students apply their knowledge to succeed at GCSE.Build your students' subject knowledge and cross-disciplinary enquiry skills with this modern, topic-based approach, brought to life through clear explanations and skills-focused activitie...