What happens when a man loses the one thing that defines him-himself?Trapped in a cycle of fear, self-doubt, and relentless setbacks, he searches for the person he used to be while life keeps throwing obstacles in his path. Every step forward feels earned, every answer just out of reach, yet quitting is not an option.The Boy in the Pit is a gripping story of survival and self-rediscovery, about a man determined to rise from the depths even when the way out is unclear. It's ...

Surviving and Diving is a short book of poetry based on Brian Walker's experiences as an African American professional and creative. The book includes commentary about the 2020 Election, BLM, 2020 Pandemic and Racism. Walker started to write the book on his 32nd Birthday in October and wrote a poem each day for 32 days. Surviving and Diving is a reflective piece that describes hope, struggle, and sociopolitical unrest in America.

Logan Mueller is a designer and engineer of high-end lighting and sound systems and a resident of Manhattan. Partially due to his superhuman hearing, he's famous for his work-a little too famous. After six years of constant demands on his time, his career has obliterated his social life, and life in the inner city has depressed him. He finally resolves to move to a rural area, in a more moderate climate, and ends up in the house of his dreams.The property he buys comes with a grann...

Floods, fires, famines, epidemics and disasters of all kinds are on the increase, and as their frequency rises so does the call for greater resilience. But what does that mean? The word is used differently in psychology, ecology, economics and engineering and runs the risk of becoming meaningless jargon. This would be most unfortunate because, if we are to successfully navigate very real and dangerous global trends, it is resilience that needs to be understood and fostered. Finding Resilie...

Increasingly, cracks are appearing in the capacity of communities, ecosystems, and landscapes to provide the goods and services that sustain our planet's well-being. The response from most quarters has been for "more of the same" that created the situation in the first place: more control, more intensification, and greater efficiency."Resilience thinking" offers a different way of understanding the world and a new approach to managing resources. It embraces human and natural system...

What happens when a man loses the one thing that defines him-himself?Trapped in a cycle of fear, self-doubt, and relentless setbacks, he searches for the person he used to be while life keeps throwing obstacles in his path. Every step forward feels earned, every answer just out of reach, yet quitting is not an option.The Boy in the Pit is a gripping story of survival and self-rediscovery, about a man determined to rise from the depths even when the...

About the BookThe Book of Daniel: Adopt and Die starts in 1989 with a three year old boy who is severely abused and neglected by his heroin-using parents. He is punished for not cleaning the apartment every morning, including the used syringes left by users who have slept on mattresses the previous night. When a social worker sees him being used as a mule to pick up the drugs his parents sell, she calls DSS, but not before he has been infected with HIV. Before the cops arrive, the b...

He couldn't listen to music or talk on the phone without her jumping all over him about what they listened to up in Maine, or how they talked up in Maine, or how he better not go up to Maine and start acting ghetto.Maine.Anthony's mother didn't even know where it was until he'd shown it to her on a map, but that still didn't stop her from acting like she was born there.Anthony "Ant" Jones has never been outside his rough East Cleveland neighborhood when he's given a...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. For many people, sleep was never something they had to think about — until it changed. The nights grew longer, the waking more frequent, the mornings emptier of rest. And almost no one connects that change to the thing that actually caused it.The change usually arrives with isolation. A partner lost. A marriage ended. A move, a retirement, an empty house, or simply years in which the connections quietly thinned. We treat loneliness as an e...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. There is a particular kind of evening that most people know. The day is done but the mind isn't. Too restless for silence, too tired for anything that asks much of it. The body wants to sleep. The brain has other ideas.This audiobook was made for that exact hour.Ten stories drawn from the science and history of sleep — each one fascinating enough to quiet a restless mind, calm enough not to keep it awake. A seventeen-year-old who s...

In 2006, Resilience Thinking addressed an essential question: As the natural systems that sustain us are subjected to shock after shock, how much can they take and still deliver the services we need from them? This idea caught the attention of both the scientific community and the general public.In Resilience Practice, authors Brian Walker and David Salt take the notion of resilience one step further, applying resilience thinking to real-world situations and explo...

GREAT MEN NEVER DIE!When John Wilkes Booth shoots Lincoln with a bullet cursed by the notorious Chicken Man, a local voodoo practitioner, he unwittingly sets in motion a chain of events extending far into the future. Instead of killing Lincoln, the bullet puts the president into a coma for sixty-eight years, his body remaining limber and ageless.When he awakens in 1933, Abe Lincoln is a man out of time, a revered icon...and a political pariah. FDR and J. Edgar Hoover not on...