It is commonly agreed by linguists and anthropologists that the majority of languages spoken now around the globe will likely disappear within our lifetime. The phenomenon known as language death has started to accelerate as the world has grown smaller. This extinction of languages, and the knowledge therein, has no parallel in human history. K. David Harrison's book is the first to focus on the essential question, what is lost when a language dies? What forms of knowledge are embedded in ...

The Mental ToolboxYour mind isn't broken—it's just overloaded. Stress, anxiety, brain fog, and overthinking? They're signs your brain has been pushed too hard for too long. The Mental Toolbox is your practical stress management guide for getting back in control and building real mental resilience—without having to overhaul your entire life.Look, we're all dealing with too much these days. This book gives you actual solutions that work in the real world. It's written by some...

Warning! May Contain Nuts!For Maude Appleby, award-winning cupcake maker and bakery owner, the tragic deaths of a sugar-crazed juvenile delinquent and his victim spells the end of her livelihood. The British government steps in to restrict the sale of sugar, closing the oven door on her baking business. In retaliation, Maude forms the Granny Cartel, an underground criminal enterprise that smuggles illegal confectionery to the masses. With the notorious Baker’s Dozen as her muscle, ...

Imagine living in a box at the bottom of the sea for a month at a time. Locked away in a saturation chamber, plumbed to depths of more than 500 feet, this has been David Beckett's love, life, and work for all his adult life. He brushed with death on more than one occasion—such as when called in to assist when the MS Estonia sank in the Baltic Sea in 1994 and claimed 852 lives. Among the depths of despair, there are lighter moments, including treasure hunting in the Philippines, al...

Part travelogue and part scientist's notebook, The Last Speakers is the poignant chronicle of author K. David Harrison's expeditions around the world to meet with last speakers of vanishing languages. The speakers' eloquent reflections and candid photographs reveal little-known lifeways as well as revitalization efforts to teach disappearing languages to younger generations. Thought-provoking and engaging, this unique book illuminates the global language-extinction crisis through photos, g...

A Warhammer 40,000 AnthologyThe Imperium is at war with xenos, the servants of Chaos, and worse. Warriors, both human and post-human, fight on far-flung battlefields with no end in sight, selling their lives dearly for the sprawling domain of Humanity to hold on for just a moment longer. This collection of short stories and a novella tells just a fraction of their tales.READ IT BECAUSEThis anthology features stories from some of Bla...

The heartwarming tale of Christopher Naylor Jr., a third generation owner of a women's hosiery store in an unremarkable town in the middle of nowhere America. From the outside looking in, his life is perfect. But there is a dark family secret that has always made Chris ask who he is or how the hell he's ending up selling women's lingerie to elderly women who couldn't - and shouldn't - squeeze their ever-expanding asses into thongs without warning. With the help of his new best friend Willi...

It is commonly agreed by linguists and anthropologists that the majority of languages spoken now around the globe will likely disappear within our lifetime. The phenomenon known as language death has started to accelerate as the world has grown smaller. This extinction of languages, and the knowledge therein, has no parallel in human history. K. David Harrison's book is the first to focus on the essential question, what is lost when a language dies? What forms of knowledge are embedded in ...

Few institutions have as profound an impact on the American theatrical landscape as the Tony Award-winning Williamstown Theatre Festival, located in Williamstown, Massachusetts.New Plays from Williamstown Theatre Festival 2015-2021 provides a sample of the dozens of plays that have been created and/or premiered at the Festival during the Artistic Directorship of Mandy Greenfield. In addition to stories that shine a light into new or underexplored corners of the human condi...

David Harrison Horton's Necessary is a poetic exploration of time, place, and connection. Drawing on sources as diverse as Babylonian creation myths, Carolingian history, Marco Polo, Paul Éluard, Elizabeth Willis, and Xinran, Horton layers fragments and imagery into a contemporary meditation on how we come to understand our place within inherited and unfolding narratives.Structured in a fixed nine-line form, each poem places these elements in dialogue with the movements an...

Finally! A book for the corporate newbie that sheds light on the strange and mysterious world of Corporate America…Often the difference between the hot-shot “brand builders” who rise to corporate success and the “brand burners” who crash and burn early in their careers is seldom about intelligence or even hard work. That would be too straightforward.Corporate survival and ultimate success are more often about who understands the Unwritten Rules of Corporate...

This book explores the role of expectations within the modern capitalist system. Through looking at how they are formed and develop, the impact of events that lead to a collapse in expectations, such as a major financial crisis, is examined to highlight the precarious and unstable nature of the economic system. With a particular focus on the UK and USA, it is also considered how public policy and institutions can shift the balance away from speculation and back towards enterprise.T...