"Vivid prose plunges the reader into the politically fraught, self-contained world of a military base" and a chilling true case of triple murder (Linda Landrigan, editor of Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine).Carlton "Butch" Smith was a troubled teenager who'd been kicked out of school for aggressive behavior. His parents lived at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, in Jacksonville, North Carolina, and when Butch was home with them, his life was fairly normal. ...

This book explores understandings and experiences of 'dirty work' – tasks or occupations that are seen as disgusting and degrading. It complicates the 'clean/dirty' divide in the context of organizations and work and illustrates some of the complex ways in which dirty work identities are managed.

One of the most important questions of our previous common volumes about affective, schizoaffective, and schizophrenic disorders was the question of what connects and what separates psychotic disorders (Marneros and Tsuang, Schizo affective Psychoses, Springer-Verlag, 1986; Marneros and Tsuang Affective and Schizoaffective Disorders, Springer-Verlag, 1990; Marneros, Andreasen, and Tsuang, Negative and Positive Schizophrenia, Springer-Verlag 1993). The boundaries between various psychotic d...

Re-imagining the Family explores contemporary films and literature about the effects of legal and illegal immigration on the structure and the stories of the contemporary 'European' family, with a focus on Germany.

In a world where perfection is mandatory and patterns control everything, sixteen-year-old Anson Miles discovers a dangerous truth: the system that keeps everyone safe might be their greatest prison.When Anson and his friends notice glitches in ALGO's perfect calculations, they uncover a hidden network of resistance. Following cryptic messages left by the mysterious Dr. Marshall, they learn that breaking free from perfect control might be possible – but at what cost?As the ...

N. F. Simpson was one of the leading exponents of the theatre of the absurd, and is best known for his play A Resounding Tinkle, made famous by its premiere at the Royal Court in 1957, and later to star Peter Cook. But beyond that he was a major force in the satire boom of the sixties, and wrote much exceptional comedy for film and TV for the likes of John Cleese, Beryl Reid, Hattie Jacques and Eric Sykes, as well as a number of brilliantly funny plays for theatre, which starred ...

Master storyteller Robert P. Simpson will regale you with fifty-five tales of family, friendship and love. He will remind you of the miracle of a baby's birth through the eyes of an adoring first-time father and the joy of teaching a child to ride a bicycle for the first time without training wheels. His tributes to his departed mom, dad and friends will bring you to tears as he remembers lessons learned and love shared. But those tears will turn to laughter as he describes phone calls wit...

CEO BLUES: The Reckoning(Book 3 of the CEO BLUES Trilogy)Five years after walking away from the empire he built, Nathaniel Stone returns to a world that never stopped waiting for him.Planes are flying again.Headhunters are calling.Old colleagues whisper invitations: "We have a chair with your name on it."Former students now run companies—and they want to know what happened to the man who once taught them to bow.The boardroom is fracturing. The stock...

In the hush of an ordinary home, where silence should feel comforting, something begins to stir. A faint murmur drifts from a rarely used bathroom at midnight. Shadows slide across a bedroom ceiling when the branches outside are still. Metallic clangs echo from inside a locked garage. Footsteps circle the driveway in slow, deliberate loops. Warm breaths rustle the bushes at dusk. Laughter—high, mocking, childlike—spills from an empty side yard.These are the small disturbances that ...

What do you do when the corner office, the seven-figure contracts, and the title that once defined you are gone overnight?Nathaniel Stone already lost everything in The Fall.In Eastern Horizons, he trades the only thing he has left: his pride.Exiled to a city of glass towers and night-market steam (somewhere east of everything he knows), the former CEO becomes just "Teacher."No assistants. No expense account. One basic flip phone and twenty teenagers who b...

After the Great War shattered civilization and poisoned humanity's ability to reproduce, salvation came not from nations or leaders, but from a singular machine mind: ALGO.Under its flawless coordination, society rebuilt from ashes. Infertility was cured. Resources were balanced. Chaos became manageable. And humanity began to believe—truly believe—that free will had been restored.Five years later, Earth's population thrives in structured harmony. Cities hum with qu...

From Middle School Candy King to International CEO: A Journey of Triumph, Failure, and RedemptionWhat does it really cost to chase the corner office? In this first volume of the CEO Blues trilogy, N.L. Simpson takes you behind the polished veneer of business success to reveal raw truths about leadership that no textbook can teach.Follow Nathaniel Stone's journey from his first entrepreneurial venture selling candy in middle school to navigating the complex waters of interna...