A former CIA locksmith turned glorified janitor is haunted by a botched Cold War operation with ramifications that extend to the present day.New York Times bestselling author Jason M. Hough pens a fast-paced thriller packed full of action, perfect for fans of Alma Katsu and David McCloskey.Lars Bergman is no ordinary janitor. He’s the CIA’s locksmith.Formerly part of the CIA’s infamous Surreptitious Entry Team, Lars is now ...

Materials and Techniques of Post-Tonal Music provides the most comprehensive introduction to post-tonal music and its analysis available. Covering music from the end of the nineteenth century through the beginning of the twenty-first, it offers students a clear guide to understanding the diverse and innovative compositional strategies that emerged in the post-tonal era, from Impressionism to computer music.This sixth edition has been updated throughout with new musical exa...

Joining the authoritative New Naturalist library is this definitive natural history of a beloved quiet space: the churchyard.In this much-anticipated addition to the New Naturalist library, Stefan Buczacki and George Peterken delve into the natural haven provided by churchyards, their flora and faun and their importance in the natural history of urban and rural environments alike.

Test more. Assume less. How a scientific mindset drives smarter decisions in an uncertain world.Every day, leaders face high-stakes decisions about products, customers, strategy, and resource allocation. Yet many of these decisions rely on untested assumptions. Overconfidence, gut instinct, and "what worked before" often stand in for evidence, leaving companies exposed to costly missteps. And the problem goes beyond the workplace: we all make countless choices abou...

Test more. Assume less. How a scientific mindset drives smarter decisions in an uncertain world.Every day, leaders face high-stakes decisions about products, customers, strategy, and resource allocation. Yet many of these decisions rely on untested assumptions. Overconfidence, gut instinct, and "what worked before" often stand in for evidence, leaving companies exposed to costly missteps. And the problem goes beyond the workplace: we all make countless choices abou...

Advocates for an approach to Christian end-times, not as the anticipation of particular futures, but as a way to inhabit the existential crises of our present, the ‘times of extinction’ in which we livePublic environmental concern has turned to the so-called “sixth mass extinction event” currently underway. The interdisciplinary field of extinction studies was established to increase our cultural understanding of that phenomenon, but hitherto there has been little ...

In a forgotten chapter of history, 1.5 million Polish civilians-arbitrarily arrested by Stalin as enemies of the people following the Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939-were deported to slave labor camps throughout the most inhospitable forests and steppes of the Soviet Union. The Ice Road is the gripping story of young Stefan Waydenfeld and his family, deported by cattle car in 1940 to the frozen wastes of the Russian arctic north.

The hitman hero of the acclaimed Cinemax series comes out of retirement for another nail-biting suspense thriller from the New York Times bestseller, MWA Grandmaster and award-winning author of Road to Perdition, Max Allan Collins. YOU’RE CORDIALLY INVITED TO CELEBRATE 50 YEARS OF MURDER … Since his first appearance in 1976, Max Allan Collins’ quintessential killer-for-hire, Quarry, has starred in 17 novels, two films, a graphic novel, and a Cinemax TV series—and with Quarry’s...

Audio Paper offers a conceptual and practice-based approach for researchers across a wide range of disciplines to integrate auditory culture into their published work in the form of the audio paper.The audio paper is an academic text presented as an audio production. Introducing this new format, the book invites scholars to work in a publication format that integrates aesthetic perspectives and technological components in an academic work. This text builds...

A murderous game. The killer makes the rules. Death hangs on the roll of the dice.In murder investigations, it pays to keep things simple: motive, method, opportunity. But the case in front of Detective Fabian Risk is a nightmare. A killer who strikes out of nowhere. No apparent motive. No consistent method. Victims are tortured, strangled, burned, dismembered – each grisly killing carried out with savage precision, as if following the rules of a hellish game.

Quo vadis, theology? This was the question addressed at an international conference on which this volume is based. Various perspectives were added to the guiding intention of thinking theology in the public sphere: the contributions range from church-historical contexts to systematic-theological horizons and practical-theological challenges. These perspectives gain an additional decisive profile through the transnational expansion of the authors. On this basis, the volume attempts to provi...

Winner of the 2024 Broken Tribe Novella AwardThis deceptively 'small volume' is a propulsive missing-persons mystery that deepens into an existential psychodrama as resonant as E.T.A. Hoffmann's "The Sandman" or a season of True Detective. Like the mute ferryman it draws you toward its dread unveiling; like a siren pitched just beyond range, singing the hidden harmony behind all things.—Derek Nikitas, author of Pyres and The Long DivisionBook after ...