The American Experiment is at a breaking point-but the story isn't over yet.Do you feel the tension at every family dinner? Do you scroll through your social media feed with a sense of disbelief, wondering how your neighbors can see the world so differently? You aren't imagining it. The United States is more divided today than it has been in decades, and the fracture is no longer just about policy-it's personal. In Fractured Union: Understanding and Healing Political Divi...

The stories in this collection are clever, devastating, frightening, and satirical; they can thrill or depress, seduce or repulse. The very best short stories by women are included in this anthology. Mary Shelley; Willa Cather ; Jane Austen, Emily Brontë, Louisa May Alcott, and Mary Ann Evans (George Eliott) are a few of the authors of these short stories

Solution Focused Brief Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques provides a concise and jargon-free guide to the thinking and practice of this exciting approach, which enables people to make changes in their lives quickly and effectively. It covers:The history and background to solution focused practiceThe philosophical underpinnings of the approachTechniques and practicesSpecific applications to work with children and adolescents...

He saw something he shouldn’t have… and now the most dangerous man on campus won’t let him go.Ethan has spent his life surviving by keeping his head down, working hard, and never drawing attention. In a city divided by power, money, and violence, staying invisible is the only thing keeping him safe.Then one wrong turn changes everything.Luca De Vries is ruthless, powerful, and heir to a criminal empire hidden beneath privilege and prestige. Cold, calculating, and im...

Transformed tells how civic leaders in Pittsburgh—once the world’s steel capital—brought new uses to five derelict industrial brownfield sites. Polluted and largely abandoned Herr’s Island became Washington’s Landing, with upscale housing, a marina, rowing center and riverfront trails. LTV’s shuttered Pittsburgh Steel Works became the Pittsburgh Technology Center, a home to academic and commercial R&D. USX’s Homestead Works, once the largest steel mill in the world, became the Sandcastle w...

Brief Coaching offers a new approach to coaching by considering how the client will know when they have reached their goal, and what they are already doing to get there. The coach aims to work towards the solution rather than working away from the problem, so that the client's problem is not central to the session, but instead the coach and the client work towards the client's preferred future.This book employs case examples and transcripts of sessions to offer guidance on...

Isa Moskowitz's Vegan With a Vengeance and Sarah Kramer's How It All Vegan! showed the world that plant-based cookbooks don't have to be full of sanctimonious text and wilted sprouts recipes. But why should vegans have all the fun? Food-blogging duo Alex Brown and Evan George--better known as Hot Knives--have shown their 60,000 monthly readers that vegetarians are "cheeky [and] over-the-top" too and "don't much care for established notions of propriety" (LA Weekly

Contained here is thecomplete run of Crime Illustrated, an innovative “Picto-Fiction” magazine containing illustrated prose stories of frightening crimes, daring heroes, and dangerous psychopaths, written and illustrated by Jack Oleck, Reed Crandall, Wally Wood, Joe Orlando, and more!This archive volume contains Crime Illustrated issues 1 though 3. Features the rare third issue, unpublished in its time.

Enjoy the complete run of Terror Illustrated, an innovative “Picto-Fiction” magazine!Containing illustrated prose stories of terror, murder, and more of society’s supernatural secrets—featuring work by the classic crew of the EC bullpen: Al Feldstein, Jack Davis, Joe Orlando Johnny Craig, and more! Features the never printed third issue and a brand-new foreword by Mick Garris!This archive volume contains Terror Illustrated issues 1 though ...

Part 1 of The Executive Summary shows you a technique that will have you smashing targets like an adrenalin fueled downhill ride and not an uphill struggle. You're an owner/manager or senior exec in a corporation and flat out making your business a success. You've got snatched moments for inspiration and nuggets of wisdom but you want it delivered in fast and succinct way. The Executive Summary gets right to the point. It gives you the concept and some practical ways that the author has us...

Experience the dangers and thrills of aerial combat with Aces High! This handsome volume collects issues #1-5 of the classic war comic, including unforgettable stories from the all-star artistic lineup of George Evans, Wally Wood, Jack Davis, Bernie Krigstein, Irv Werstein, Carl Wessler, and Jack Oleck.• Aces High issues #1-5, the complete series, in full color!• Features stories drawn by all-star comic artists George Evans, Wally Wood, Jack Davis, and Ber...

By: Rev. George Evans Brewer, Pub. 1942, reprinted 2023, 314 pages, New Index, soft cover, ISBN #978-1-63914-138-8. The history of Coosa County has been reproduced from a revised edition of the Alabama Historical Quarterly, published by the State Department of Archives and History in Montgomery, AL. Coose County was created in 1832 from land acquired in the Creek Cession of 1832 and named for the Coosa River which shapes the western boundary of the county. In 1900 all court records were d...