What begins as a World War II training mission becomes a haunting mystery that will stay with readers long after the final page.In A Deadly Storm: A Memoir, James West recounts his firsthand experience as a young B-17 radio operator during World War II. As he and his crew prepare for combat, a routine training flight is suddenly overtaken by a violent storm that leaves multiple aircraft hopelessly lost. Through quick thinking and determination, West finds a way to reestabl...

A rupture has opened between realities.On one side lies a dying planar universe, fragile, organized, and impossible to understand by ordinary means. On the other lies a source world dense with motion, chemistry, hunger, architecture, and life that refuses to fit inside familiar definitions.The containment teams are not explorers by choice. They are specialists sent where contact itself can become contamination, where a wingbeat can become an extinction event, and where the ...

Unlearning What Worked is a collection of lived stories about trying to be a successful human in a world that keeps changing the rules.For much of my life, I relied on the tools that once kept me safe: staying invisible, avoiding risk, following the rules, and doing what was expected. On paper, those strategies worked. The career progressed. The responsibilities grew. From the outside, things looked successful.But over time, those same tools stoppe...

This is a collection of personal essays that examine the humor that is available when awkward decisions, missteps, over-confidence, and the logic that only makes sense at the time occur. The personal essays by Matthew West-James offer a self-deprecating look at moments that were embarrassing at the time but insightful in hindsight. From bad ideas and misinterpretations, to tales that will not die quietly into the past, the essays examine the space between the person you think you are and t...

**A fast-paced, character-filled history that brings the unique American saga to life for readers of all ages“This is a little history with a big heart, meant to be savored more than studied, read out loud like poetry, or perhaps sung like a hymn.”—Joseph J. Ellis, author of Founding Brothers**“Davidson has written a work that should lead readers to reflect anew on America’s past and present. . . . We can all use not just a good refresher course on American...

An unusual, Short Story-Novella occuring in a fascinating location with reluctant heroes fighting evil with amazing inventions and humorous situations. A lighthearted but dramatic story that draws the reader into a delightful and dangerous situation in Costa Rica.

Jack and Natalie cruise through the Asteroid Belt, searching for valuable rocks to push back to Sanctuary, a fantastic inside-out world. Unfortunately, there are people that are better at stealing than prospecting. The reader will enjoy this fast paced adventure with drama and humor sprinkled throughout the story.

From its launch in 1945, Ebony magazine was politically and socially influential. However, the magazine also played an important role in educating millions of African Americans about their past. Guided by the pen of Lerone Bennett Jr., the magazine’s senior editor and in-house historian, Ebony became a key voice in the popular black history revival that flourished after World War II. Its content helped push representations of the African American past from the margins to ...

This book brings together leading scholars to interrogate the enduring and evolving relationship between journalism, mass communications, and the built environment. From the emergence of the first newspapers, media buildings have provided their producers and consumers with a “definable shape” and served as key nodes in the urban geography of communications. At the same time, the changing form and function of media buildings has both reflected and reified transformations in modern journalis...

Alison Riley works as a legal secretary by day, but she spends her nights banging away on her beautiful blue drum set. Office politics and ill-advised romances rule the halls at work--something Alison steers clear of until the firm hires Joan Stevens as a secretary. Joan is the most intense, most self-confident, and most brash woman who's ever worked at the firm. She's also a stunning beauty that everyone in the office, including Alison, can't help admiring. When Joan goes out on a date wi...

Multiple Award-Winner!Winner of the 2023 Michael Nelson Prize of International Association for Media and History (IAMHIST)Recipient of the 2022 Jane Jacobs Urban Communication Book AwardWinner of the 2023 American Journalism Historians Association Book of the YearWinner of the 2023 ULCC’s (Union League Club of Chicago) Outstanding Book on the His...

With contributions from well-respected figures in the field, this book explores the use of narrative and image in the therapeutic treatment of trauma and addiction.The book considers topics such as early trauma and its impacts, therapeutic methods based on images and narrative, and recovery and post-traumatic growth through community engagement.Despite a close practical association between the two, trauma and addiction are often addressed or treated separately. By consideri...