13: Cursed or Blessed? – The Dual Life of the World's Most Controversial NumberUncover the truth behind the most feared—and revered—number in history.Is the number 13 truly unlucky, or has it been misunderstood for centuries?In this thought-provoking nonfiction book, "13: Cursed or Blessed?", journey through time, culture, religion, and psychology to discover why one number has sparked fear in skyscrapers, suspicion in airlines, and...

Sole Connection: The Definitive Guide to Healthy Dating & Intimacy with a Foot FetishWhat if the very thing you hide is the key to the deepest connection you've ever known?For too long, your fascination with feet may have felt like a quiet secret, a source of anxiety, or a barrier to real love. You wonder: When do I bring it up? Will they judge me? Will this ruin everything? Whether you are the one with the specific attraction, or ...

The Sweat Survival Guide: Managing HyperhidrosisBy E. GoodwinLiving with hyperhidrosis means sweating beyond the norm—and beyond your control. Whether it's shaking hands at an interview or simply choosing what to wear, everyday situations can become overwhelming.This 12,000-word guide offers real-world help across 9 practical chapters. Written by someone who understands the struggle, it's packed with...

Successful on the outside, but battling anxiety within? If you're hitting targets while wrestling with inner stress, this toolkit is for you."The Anxious Achiever's Toolkit" isn't just another self-help book filled with vague platitudes. It's a practical, down-to-earth resource designed specifically for professionals, entrepreneurs, and ambitious individuals like you who navigate high-pressure environments daily. We get it – the drive that fuels your success can also feed your anxi...

Imagine Ancient Rome… a world teeming with powerful gods and goddesses, majestic temples, and age-old rituals. For centuries, this vibrant pagan tapestry defined the empire. But beneath the surface, a quiet revolution was brewing. From the shadows of persecution to the halls of imperial power, a new faith – Christianity – was rising."From Pagan Gods to One God" unravels this epic transformation, taking you on a journey through the Roman Empire's mo...

Unlock Timeless Leadership Wisdom for Modern Business Success - From an Unexpected Source: The Twelve Disciples.In a world saturated with business gurus and fleeting trends, where can entrepreneurs find truly lasting leadership principles? What if the answers weren't in the latest tech innovation, but in ancient wisdom – in the lives of twelve ordinary men chosen to follow an extraordinary leader?"The Entrepreneurial Apostles: 12 Leadership Secrets ...

Texas is a Southern state, and in many ways, Houston is a typical Southern city. While Houston did not experience the types or degrees of racial violence found in other Southern cities during the Jim Crow era, black Houstonians nonetheless found themselves often relegated to the margins of society. For decades there were two distinct Houstons: one white and the other black. However, Houston�s black community created businesses that flourished and schools that educated children and develope...

A psychological drama with a masterful, pulse-quickening plot revolving around two seemingly very different men, who have more in common than they know.Thomas Clarin is a divorce lawyer whose profession has fostered a deep and abiding distrust of marriage, preferring instead to "play the field." Thomas Loos is a somber widower intensely mourning his wife's death. With Clarin's flirtatious, roving eye and Loos's complete disenchantment with the world around him, it would seem these ...

Many Texans will recognize schools and buildings across Texas bearing the name “Blackshear,” but few know the story of the man behind the name. Author John A. Adams Jr. seeks to rectify that in the first full-length biography of Edward L. Blackshear, bringing to light previously unexplored aspects of the life and work of a man Adams characterizes as “a pivotal leader, educator, strategist, essayist, poet, agriculturist, and advocate in the struggle to advance opportunities for Blacks acros...

In 1962, George Ruble Woolfolk, perhaps the foremost Black historian in Texas at the time, published his most well-known work Prairie View: A Study in Public Conscience, 1878–1946, a history of the state’s first institution of higher education for African Americans. Recording the university’s first six decades of existence, Woolfolk’s book also chronicled the many social and educational challenges faced by Black Texans during what was still the Jim Crow Era in Texas and the Americ...

This book examines the many ways in which the New Deal revived Texas’s economic structure after the 1929 collapse. Ronald Goodwin analyzes how Franklin Roosevelt’s initiative, and in particular, the Work Progress Administration, remedied rampant unemployment and homelessness in twentieth-century Texas.

"The economization of our entire lifespan and the apparent compulsion to constant self-optimization are dead ends into which the dynamics of the market economy have led us. Julian Poerksen asks how we might re-emerge from this state and, drawing on the speculative approaches of Georges Bataille, Walter Benjamin, Michel Foucault, and Friedrich Schiller, recommends an investment in its antithesis: the waste of time and talent without guilt feelings and bad conscience. This is fun to read and...