A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEARBased on an unprecedented eighteen-year study, the center of this riveting book are three engaging streetwise brothers who provide powerful testimony to the exigencies of life lived on the social and economic margins. With profound lessons regarding the intersection of social forces and individual choices, Black succeeds in putting a human face on some of the most important public policy issues of our time.

The world is a broken place—we feel it, and long for things to change. This book contains a few encouragements that place the church and all followers of Jesus in the center of figuring out how to foster true change, both spiritual and physical. Does God care about the hopelessness felt by billions of people living in desperate poverty? Do followers of Jesus have a mandate to engage poverty that flows from a gospel-motivated center? If so, what does it look like?The purpose of this...

Two decades after a disease that turned sane men into ravenous werewolves destroyed civilization, the last bastion of humanity, the flying city of Wardenclyffe, careens toward certain doom.Desperate to save both his home and his missing love, Elijah faces the final confrontation: invading Menlo Station, the floating metropolis full of such misery and pain that its victims know it as the Howling City, where the Cabal birthed the werewolf horror that broke the world.With the ...

On the brink of humanity's extinction, Nikola Tesla and a mysterious order of scientists known as the Tellurians revealed a bold plan to save a world ravaged by a disease that turned sane men into ravenous werewolves: the uninfected would abandon the Earth's surface by rising up in floating salvation cities, iron and steel metropolises that carried tens of thousands of refugees above the savage apocalypse.Twenty years later, only one salvation city remains aloft, while the beasts s...

The erotic and exciting adventures of Charlotte Frost, Tantric Aviatrix, continues...In a world where sex is magic, Captain Charlotte Frost is confronted with the mystery of her world's origins. Having narrowly escaped the Matriarchy with the enigmatic, sentient, and shapeshifting Doll, they now find themselves trapped in the mysterious Temple of Ishtar, long buried in the past under the sands of the Syrian Desert.Together, Charlotte and the Doll must face the trials and tr...

After taming the Temple of Ishtar, rebel airship captain Charlotte Frost and her clockwork courtesan, Arslan Tash, have a monumental task ahead of them. They must protect and defend the Temple from Gabriel Harper, a mysterious alchemist who has designs on the Temple and the secrets therein.The problem? Charlotte is attracted to Gabriel. She must overcome this attraction to the enigmatic man while simultaneously orchestrating a defence against the Matriarchy, who plan to break into ...

The expectation for fathers to be more involved with parenting their children and pitching in at home are higher than ever, yet broad social, political, and economic changes have made it more difficult for low-income men to be fathers. In It's a Setup, Timothy Black and Sky Keyes ground a moving and intimate narrative in the political and economic circumstances that shape the lives of low-income fathers. Based on 138 life history interviews, they expose the contradiction that whil...

In 2013, New York City launched a public education campaign with posters of frowning or crying children saying such things as "I’m twice as likely not to graduate high school because you had me as a teen" and "Honestly, Mom, chances are he won’t stay with you." Campaigns like this support a public narrative that portrays teen mothers as threatening the moral order, bankrupting state coffers, and causing high rates of poverty, incarceration, and school dropout. These efforts demonize teen m...

◆已故歷史學家東尼‧賈德：史奈德是我一九八九年之後一直期待的那類人的典範：研究東歐的一代美國學人。……◆史奈德的敘事功力，令人想起同樣任教於耶魯大學歷史系的中國史學家史景遷（Jonathan Spence）教授。這是歷史的幽靈徘徊不去的亂世大濫殺、強制滅絕、滅種、滅族再度上演？！當今世界現況已和希特勒所處的世界愈來越像！地球人口爆炸、乾淨水源短缺、糧食危機，外加全球氣候變異、天災人禍頻傳……一直以來我們誤會大屠殺的真正成因：生態恐慌和國家毀滅！原來，人人都可能是滅絕的幫凶！！★全球東歐史研究領域最著名的重量級歷史學專家★耶魯大學開授東歐史課程，選修人數動輒逾兩百人的知名教授

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[Timothy] Snyder identifies the conditions that allowed the Holocaust—conditions our society today shares. . . . He certainly couldn’t be more right about our world.”—The New RepublicA “gripping [and] disturbingly vivid” (The Wall Street Journal) portrait of the defining tragedy of our time, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of On TyrannyONE OF THE...

West Central Wisconsin has a thriving population of black bears. The author provides over 125 of his best bear photos taken over the years, along with insightful commentary about the social and family dynamics of black bears. Detailed are several bear tidbits and a few specific bears are discussed at length, including a couple of dominant males and one dominant female, but the 2019 Triplets - Huey, Dewey, and Louie - steal the show with their amusing wrestling antics.

Black Water, Human Hands is a deeply researched and emotionally powerful examination of the Buffalo Creek flood of February 26, 1972—one of the deadliest and most preventable industrial disasters in American history. In the narrow coal hollows of Logan County, West Virginia, a coal-waste dam owned by the Pittston Coal Company collapsed after days of heavy rain, unleashing more than 130 million gallons of black water, slurry, and debris into the communities below. In a matter of mi...