Every day, we face dozens of tiny mirrors.Some are literal-bathroom glass, car windows, passing reflections-but most are invisible, found in our thoughts, choices, and interactions with others. How we respond to these moments quietly shapes who we are becoming.The MERK Method invites readers to pause and reflect on a simple yet powerful truth:We reflect what we practice.When we move through life mindlessly, we often...

The Black Speculative Arts Movement: Black Futurity, Art+Design is a 21st century statement on the intersection of the future of African people with art, culture, technology, and politics. This collection enters the global debate on the emerging field of Afrofuturism studies with an international array of scholars and artists contributing to the discussion of Black futurity in the 21st century. The contributors analyze and respond to the invisibility or mischaracterization of Blac...

From New York Times bestselling author Josh Malerman, the newly minted master of modern horror, and Bram Stoker Award-nominated John F.D. Taff, the "King of Pain;" to the mind-bending surrealism of Erik T. Johnson; the darkly poetic prose of J. Daniel Stone and the transgressive mania of Joe Schwartz, I Can Taste the Blood offers up five horror novellas from five unique authors whose work consistently expands the boundaries of conventional fiction.I Can Taste ...

Davey Johnson is best known for managing the New York Mets, Cincinnati Reds, and Baltimore Orioles—and taking all three clubs to their respective league championship series during his time at the helm. When teams needed to improve, they hired Johnson, and he delivered, memorably leading the Mets to the 1986 World Series title. Yet even as he raised the bar of their success, all three clubs parted ways with Johnson, a pattern that puzzles him to this day. A self-termed "army brat," Johnson ...

In this book, two titans of social movement scholarship bring together the best current research on the nexus between the local and the global in translating the global justice movement into action at the grass roots, and vice versa. Using recent cases of transnational contention_from the European Social Forum in Florence to the Argentinean human rights movement and British environmentalists, from movement networks in Bristol and Glasgow to the Zapatistas_the original chapters by distingui...

One of our most innovative, popular thinkers takes on-in exhilarating style-one of our key questions: Where do good ideas come from?

Eight years ago Francesca Canetti testified against her father.Now this mobster's daughter is Frannie Peters, running a bakery in the witness protection town of Sanctuary. Her former-starlet mom and her younger sister mooch off all her hard work, her best employee has terminal cancer, the town’s mafia crew insists she’s one of them, and her love life is so non-existent it isn’t even funny.Dare she try and unearth a better life?Matthias Hernandez is ...

U.S. Marshal John Mason gains full custody of his son and is transferred to Sanctuary, a witness protection town that isn't on any map. When the town's first-ever murder occurs, John's plans to reconnect with his boy are derailed by the investigation. Andra Caleri gave up her old life a long time ago, but someone wants her out of Sanctuary--to pay. As accusations fly and John uncovers a conspiracy that stretches all the way to Washington, Andra's past comes back in a true test of the mercy...

An exceptional, beautifully illustrated resource on general anatomy and the musculoskeletal systemTHIEME Atlas of Anatomy: General Anatomy and Musculoskeletal System, Fourth Edition, Latin Nomenclature, by renowned educators Michael Schuenke, Erik Schulte, and Udo Schumacher, along with consulting editors Wayne Cass, Nathan Johnson, Lia Lucas Neto, and Pedro Oliveira, expands on the award-winning prior editions. Detailed musculoskeletal illustrations eluci...

Have you got your teddy? Settle down for bedtime this Easter with a collection of enchanting short stories and fairy tales.

Particular Passages 3: West WingDown another forgotten hallwaylie more unexplored rooms.Each room contains another worldwaiting to be discovered.Some are wonderful and beautiful,others are dark and terrible.You won't know whichuntil you step inside.So take a deep breath, and open the door...15 stories by 15 authorsJ. A. Campbell, W.O. Hemsath, D.H. Aire, Michael James, C.J. Dotson, S.A. McKenzie, Amelia...

A proven systems approach to driving innovation and strategy in complex technical organizationsThe call for corporate innovation is often celebrated in theory, but innovation is rarely achieved at scale within established technical organizations. Developing the Innovative Technical Organization: How to Implement a Systems Approach to Strategy addresses this challenge by exploring how the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) successfull...