Master Creator Destroyer Slave represents the four steps to freedom. If you feel stuck, unable to make the most out of life, this book will show you how to destroy the old and create the new, guiding you through the four steps to freedom: Slavery-Destruction-Creation-Mastery one step at a time.SLAVEWhile slavery is no longer permitted, most of us are still enslaved. We are slaves to our emotions, relationships, attachments, work, ad...

"A compelling case for transforming how research methods are taught to undergraduate students of political science." — London School of Economics Review of BooksEach year, tens of thousands of students who are interested in politics go through a rite of passage: they take a course in research methods. Many find the subject to be boring or confusing, and with good reason. Most of the standard books on research methods fail to highlight the most important con...

Visual portraits of the iconic spaces where your favorite records were recordedMark Howard has worked with Bob Dylan, Neil Young, R.E.M., Willie Nelson, U2, the Neville Brothers, Tom Waits, Lucinda Williams, Emmylou Harris, Marianne Faithfull, and the Tragically HipProducer Mark Howard has always made unique records. For Howard, it’s not just about the recording process — making great music is also about creating unique, comfortable environ...

The first comprehensive map of the social safety net, public and private, in the United States. Societies are often judged by how they treat their most vulnerable members: the poor and near poor. In the United States, this responsibility belongs not only to governments, but also to charities, businesses, individuals, and family members. Their combined efforts generate a social safety net. In Who Cares, Christopher Howard offers the first comprehensive map of the U...

The Welfare State Nobody Knows challenges a number of myths and half-truths about U.S. social policy. The American welfare state is supposed to be a pale imitation of "true" welfare states in Europe and Canada. Christopher Howard argues that the American welfare state is in fact larger, more popular, and more dynamic than commonly believed. Nevertheless, poverty and inequality remain high, and this book helps explain why so much effort accomplishes so little. One important reason ...

Are vampires real? It's a question young college student, Yuki Yamamura, is about to find the answer to the hard way. In a city plagued by a rash of gruesome killings, a late-night lapse in judgement puts Yuki in harm's way. Even with the aid of a mysterious stranger, an ally she never knew she had, it's a night of terror she might not live to see the end of.

Fittingness explores the nature, roles, and applications of the notion of fittingness in contemporary normative and metanormative philosophy. The fittingness relation is the relation in which a response stands to a feature of the world when that feature merits, or is worthy of, that response. In the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth century, this notion of fittingness played a prominent role in the theories of the period's most influential ethical theorists, and in recent years it ...

A lonely widower, accused of a horrendous crime for which he claims innocence, is given the chance to tell his side of the story--a bizarre tale of the choice he had to make to save not just his soul but, perhaps, even his own humanity--to the one man who just might believe him.

Marooned on a remote, desolate world, the surviving crew of the Serpent's Kiss must struggle to find a way back to the known, planetary systems to impart a warning of dire importance, a warning that could save billions of lives. With the fate of entire empires hanging in the balance, the solution may lie in a terrifying new discovery.

A major earthquake in Alaska exposes a rare archeological find not in line with accepted history. In the aftermath, a local research team, assisted by a Princeton professor known for his expertise on North American antiquities, is sent to determine the discovery's authenticity and significance, but soon discovers that some things are best left buried.

An elderly woman dies under seemingly inexplicable circumstances, and Detective Josef “Grim” Belasco, assigned to the case, gets more than he bargained for when he begins to unravel the bizarre truth behind the woman's ultimate fate. Juggling both the tasks of his job and the arrival of the dead woman's headstrong daughter, Angela, the stalwart Belasco has his hands full as he methodically pursues the trail of evidence to the case's horrific, earth-shaking conclusion.

A wealthy industrialist with a terminal illness, cryogenically preserved in the hope that a cure will eventually be found to save him, wakes from his long sleep to an almost unrecognizable, distant future. But has he found the salvation he ultimately sought or unimaginable horror?