Some distances can't be measured in miles.Mike is back. Physically, he never left — not for long, anyway. But the man his family needed has been somewhere else for years, unreachable behind walls built from duty, suppression, and the kind of exhaustion that sleep doesn't fix. His marriage is fraying. His kids are growing up in the shadow of his absence. And Mike doesn't know how to close the gap between who he is and who they need him to be.Come Home is a story about the in...

Jake came home from war. He just didn't come back whole.After years of service, Jake returns to a life that no longer fits — a house that feels foreign, relationships strained beyond recognition, and a silence inside him louder than anything he faced overseas. The weight he carries isn't visible. There are no wounds anyone can point to. But it's there, pressing down on every moment, every conversation, every attempt to simply be present.The Weight of Stillness is a raw and ...

Jimmy and Kyle didn't serve. They didn't have to — the war came home to them. Raised in households shaped by deployment, trauma, and the particular silence of parents who couldn't talk about what they'd seen, these two young men are navigating adulthood with maps drawn from someone else's damage. They're angry in ways they can't name. They're loyal to people who hurt them. And they're trying to figure out who they are when the only models they had were men held together with suppression an...

This book introduces the mathematics that supports advanced computer programming and the analysis of algorithms. The primary aim of its well-known authors is to provide a solid and relevant base of mathematical skills - the skills needed to solve complex problems, to evaluate horrendous sums, and to discover subtle patterns in data. It is an indispensable text and reference not only for computer scientists - the authors themselves rely heavily on it! - but for serious users of mathematics ...

She did everything right. The institution didn't.Amber Clark came home from the Army with an honorable discharge, a structured life, and a fracture so quiet she had nearly convinced herself it wasn't there. She had served with distinction. She had filed a report. She had watched it disappear into a system designed to protect itself. So she did what survivors do — she kept going, built a life, and became very good at being fine.The Quiet Fracture is the story of military sex...

Despite its name, “naturalism” as a world-view turns out to be rather unnatural in its strict and more consistent form of materialism and determinism. This is why a number of naturalists opt for a broadened version that includes objective moral values, intrinsic human dignity, consciousness, beauty, personal agency, and the like. But in doing so, broad naturalism begins to look more like theism. As many strict naturalists recognize, broad naturalism must borrow from the metaphysical resour...

What can we learn from the spatial patterns of disasters? What human and structural factors need to be addressed to explain hazard vulnerability? As populations grow and the climate warms, how can natural hazards be mitigated? Thoroughly revised and updated, and now with a more global perspective, the second edition of this accessible text provides an integrated framework for understanding and managing natural hazards. Numerous case studies from around the world illustrate the complexities...

In recent years, political discourse about gun control and the Second Amendment has become increasingly volatile and this collection of original essays by top scholars illuminates the various reasons why. Gun lobbies such as the National Rifle Association are more organized and aggressive and their issue agenda has evolved as new and more powerful weapons and militia appear. On the other side of the debate, the critical wounding of James Brady gave gun control advocates a visible martyr wi...

An " engrossing collection of rigorously researched articles" from Elizabeth Warren, Jared Bernstein, William Julius Wilson, and more ( Publishers Weekly).Can the wealthiest nation in the world do anything to combat the steadily rising numbers of Americans living in poverty—or the tens of millions of Americans living in "near poverty"? In this book, some of the country's most prominent scholars, businesspeople, and community activists answ...

Black Panther. Ruler of Wakanda. Avenger.This is his destiny. But right now, he's simply T'Challa-the young prince.Life is comfortable for twelve-year-old T'Challa in his home of Wakanda, an isolated, technologically advanced African nation. When he's not learning how to rule a kingdom from his father-the reigning Black Panther-or testing out the latest tech, he's off breaking rules with his best friend, M'Baku. But as conflict brews near Wakanda, T'Challa's...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA LANDMARK NEW ACCOUNT OF THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT DAY OF WW2, IN THE WORDS OF THE PEOPLE WHO LIVED IT**** 'Comprehensive... from a large and wide range of witnesses on both sides' -The Telegraph'A sprawling history of D-Day from the point of view of participants on both sides.' -Kirkus'A masterpiece of oral history. Stirring, surprisin...

The third book in the hit Young Prince series from Ronald L. Smith, recipient of the 2016 Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Author Award. When T'Challa gets special permission to have his friends from America, Sheila and Zeke, come to Wakanda, he can't wait to show them his home for a change. But their tour is brought to a halt when one of T'Challa's peers, Tafari, summons dark forces in order to return Wakanda to the "old ways" before Vibranium was discovered. Tafari manages to b...