Yes, it's you against your 30 billion fat cells! They stay with you forever and can expand to store as much fat asyou choose to stash in them. Fat Wars: 45 Days to Transform Your Body isn't another diet book. Instead, it's the book that will tell you how your body works: how it makes energy, how it stores fuel (fat), how it moves fat around and how to get it to burn that fat instead of putting it into storage. Then Fat Wars will tell you how to take that knowledge to craft an eating and ac...

New York City in the 1980s was a cesspool of corruption, violence and drugs. In a city gripped by fear, one man took it upon himself to bring order to the chaos, all while building an empire that would span the entire state. His name was Walter King, and the only thing more legendary than his reign was the path he blazed in his rise to the top of the underworld.An homage to the great gangster stories of old, House of King tells the tale of one man's meteoric rise from obscurity to ...

"A touching and provocative exploration of the latest research on animal minds and animal emotions" from the renowned anthropologist and author ( The Washington Post).Scientists have long cautioned against anthropomorphizing animals, arguing that it limits our ability to truly comprehend the lives of other creatures. Recently, however, things have begun to shift in the other direction, and anthropologist Barbara J. King is at the forefront of that movement,...

The author of How Animals Grieve "contends that religion . . . is a consequence of primate evolution" in this "brilliant book" ( Booklist, starred review).Religion has been a central part of human experience since at least the dawn of recorded history. The gods change, as do the rituals, but the underlying desire remains—a desire to belong to something larger, greater, most lasting than our mortal, finite selves.But where did that desire c...

What if the world needed saving, but only those past their prime could answer the call?In Never Too Old to Save the World, discover a collection of nineteen stories where the fate of humanity rests on the shoulders of unlikely heroes navigating midlife. Forget the Chosen One trope—these are the soccer moms, cat ladies, retirees, and social workers who've already weathered life's storms and are ready for a new kind of battle.This anthology explores:...

In this "invigorating study," a maritime historian delves into the environmental and scientific concerns beneath the surface of Melville's epic tale ( Nature).One of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is also a landmark of nature writing. In conversation with the works of Emerson and Thoreau, this epic of the sea draws on Melville's own travels to the Pacific. The author spent more than three years...

A down-and-out private eye is hired to find—or find out what happened to—several missing young girls. But what begins as a routine missing persons case soon spirals into a dangerous web of corruption, deception, and unspeakable horror.Justin Bolt—a disgraced cop turned drunken private dick—reluctantly delves into his latest case and quickly discovers the one thread that links each of the missing girls together is the enigmatic man of privilege that they all encountered shortly befo...

In recent years, scientific advances in our understanding of animal minds have led to major changes in how we think about, and treat, animals in zoos and aquariums. The general public, it seems, is slowly coming to understand that animals like apes, elephants, and dolphins have not just brains, but complicated inner and social lives, and that we need to act accordingly.Yet that realization hasn't yet made its presence felt to any great degree in our most intimate relationship with ...

Defiant Souls is a supernatural thriller about a young woman who finds herself in the middle of a brewing war between Heaven and Hell.After suffering a tragic loss two years prior, 19-year-old Jade Harris gradually pulled herself from the grips of depression and is now a thriving college freshman who just completed her first year. She has an easy-going job, a place of her own, and is dating the most desired guy on campus. Life was definitely looking up for Jade.But that was...

A delightful A-to-Z menagerie of the sea—whimsically illustrated, authoritative, and thought-provoking.For millennia, we have taken to the waves. And yet, for humans, the ocean remains our planet's most inaccessible region, the place about which we know the least. From A to Z, abalone to zooplankton, and through both text and original illustrations, Ocean Bestiary is a celebration of our ongoing quest to know the sea and its creatures.Focusing on i...

How complicated is your love?The beginning of drama, pain, love, sex, and makes you want to question your own relationship. Marcus J. King brings out the best with realistic emotional characters in his work. It is the beginning of the Love Under Series Volume 1. A true page-turner!---Inspired by True Events---Dexter and Oscar have been best friends since college. Inseparable, nothing comes between them - until Oscar meets Ava. Ava's a show-stopping beauty, but the s...

Amazing debut science fiction fantasy from the nominated author in the WildSound Festival!Osana, a malicious king from Zaire, is told that his will to live has run its course. What can he do to survive as time is running out?Kavon Newman, a 4-year-old boy, is stripped of his childhood. He is put through "changes in his veins" beyond human control as long as Osana is involved.Desmon Newman, father of Kavon, struggles with his mothers behavior as no one understands ho...