Former covert operative Rael Voss arrives at Tarsis Station expecting a routine classified audit of minor gate anomalies. Instead she finds an impossible authorization code buried inside the transit network’s records, a dead department that still has the power to act, and evidence that the system is making decisions no one in authority understands.As delays spread across Tarsis’s cluster of faster-than-light gates, Voss uncovers a buried pattern of suppressed investigations, unexpl...

Can one political leader change the course of history? Should CEOs be given big bonuses when a company performs well? Will firing a coach actually change the fortunes of the team? What does a religion’s success owe to a charismatic founder?In a fresh take on the interplay of power, character and success, world-renowned historian and bestselling author Jared Diamond argues that great leaders are so much more than either heroic exceptions or products of circumstance. Looking at natur...

From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning, multimillion-copy bestselling classic Guns, Germs and Steel,  a landmark study of leadership across politics, religion, business, and sports—seeking to decode how and why leaders matter.Can one person change the world?In his acclaimed and influential books Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now, i...

"The best baseball book I've read in years." — Sam Walker • "An exhilarating story of innovation." — Ben Reiter • " Swing Kings feels like a spiritual successor to Moneyball." — Baseball ProspectusFrom the Wall Street Journal's national baseball writer, the captivating story of the home run boom, following a group of players who rose from obscurity to stardom and the rogue swing coaches who helped them usher the game into...

""This is the best baseball book I’ve read in years. Swing Kings is a love letter to small people with big ideas."" — Sam Walker, author of The Captain ClassFrom the Wall Street Journal’s national baseball writer, the captivating story of the home run boom, following a group of players who rose from obscurity to stardom and the rogue swing coaches who helped them usher the game into a new age.We are in a historic ...

Brought to you by Penguin.We often read history as the biographies of ‘great men’ who shaped the world. But are leaders, whichever field they are in, really that influential? Should CEOs be given large bonuses when a company performs well? Why, when a political leader is assassinated, is their successor as likely to improve as damage a country? When do we know if firing a coach has changed the fortunes of the team?World renowned historian and bestselling au...

America's schizoaffective writer looks at the amazing and tragic lives and their families that parallel each other in history. The examination is of King Tut and JFK.

From the author of?the Pulitzer Prize-winning, multimillion-copy bestselling classic Guns, Germs and Steel,? a landmark study of leadership across politics, religion, business, and sports—seeking to decode how and why leaders matter.Can one person change the world?In his acclaimed and influential books Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse, Jared Diamond transformed our understanding of what makes civilizations rise and fall. Now, i...

Commodified and Criminalized examines the centrality of sport to discussions of racial ideologies and racist practices in the 21st century. It disputes familiar refrains of racial progress, arguing that athletes sit in a contradictory position masked by the logics of new racism and dominant white racial frames. Contributors discuss athletes ranging from Tiger Woods and Serena Williams to Freddy Adu and Shani Davis.Through dynamic case studies, Commodified and Criminali...

In "And Seek (Not) to Alter Me," 16 authors and 15 artists have come together to create an exquisite, full-color collection of artwork and stories inspired by William Shakespeare's play "Much Ado About Nothing." We encouraged contributors to stretch their imaginations, think outside the box, and put their own unique—and queer—twists on Benedick, Beatrice, Hero, Claudio, Don Pedro, and the whole gang! In true Shakespearean fashion, our creators utilize gender, sexuality, romanticism, and a ...

An enthralling collection of new and classic tales of the fearsome Djinn, from bestselling, award-winning and breakthrough international writers.Imagine a world filled with fierce, fiery beings, hiding in our shadows, in our dreams, under our skins. Eavesdropping and exploring; tormenting us, saving our souls. They are monsters, saviours, victims, childhood friends.And they are everywhere. On street corners, behind the wheel of a taxi, in the chorus, betwee...

In And Seek (Not) to Alter Me, 16 authors and 15 artists have come together to create an exquisite, full-color collection of artwork and stories inspired by William Shakespeare’s play Much Ado About Nothing. We encouraged contributors to stretch their imaginations, think outside the box, and put their own unique—and queer—twists on Benedick, Beatrice, Hero, Claudio, Don Pedro, and the whole gang! In true Shakespearean fashion, our creators utilize gender, sexuality, roman...