Unlock the potential of AI to revolutionise your professional life with The Generative Edge. This essential guide empowers you to integrate generative AI tools like ChatGPT into your daily workflow, boosting productivity, enhancing decision-making, and driving career growth. Designed for professionals navigating the modern workplace, this book demystifies AI, providing practical strategies and real-world applications to elevate your skills and value!Learn ...

In 1913, Adam McLaurin, 16-years-old, attends Windsor Academy. Leaving his sweetheart, Carrie Napier, he promises to return. Entering a regimented life, he suffers loneliness and harassment, but prevails. Major Thomas West, commandant, observes the boy overcoming his nemesis, Frank Turner, a belligerent classmate. Harold Sanders, an encourageable roommate guides Adam through these difficult months. Adam learns Carrie has married another man. Heart broken, Adam returns to school and has an aff...

In the closing months of the Civil War, Maj. Gen. James Wilson, in an effort to destroy Confederate war materials, factories, foundries, and cotton leads the largest cavalry raid executed on the American continent. Silas Mechum, a young Union cavalryman from Indiana meets Lorena McNeill, a Southern beauty, and immediately the two fall in love. He departs with the 13,480 heavily-armed horsemen on the raid, which rides through Southern cities, defeats the formidable Rebel general, Nathan Bedfor...

This “well-researched, nuanced” study of the rise of social media activism explores how marginalized groups use Twitter to advance counter-narratives, preempt political spin, and build diverse networks of dissent (Ms.)The power of hashtag activism became clear in 2011, when #IranElection served as an organizing tool for Iranians protesting a disputed election and offered a global audience a front-row seat to a nascent revolution. Since then, activists have...

The classic tale of one man’s struggle with alcoholism, this revolutionary novel remains Charles Jackson’s best-known book—a daring autobiographical work that paved the way for contemporary addiction literature.It is 1936, and on the East Side of Manhattan, a would-be writer named Don Birnam decides to have a drink. And then another, and then another, until he’s in the midst of what becomes a five-day binge. The Lost Weekend moves with unstoppable speed, propelled by a hea...

Shy good girl Charlotte Scott secretly writes steamy romance stories in the library after school.Or she tries to.Having no real world knowledge, the spicy bits tend to... fall flat.But when she's cornered during her writing time, college bad boy Hunter Jackson is all too happy to:• A.) Tease her relentlessly• B.) Tell her she'll never be like the heroine in her story• C.) Basically ruin her life• D.) All of the above

A masterful collection of short stories exposing the seamy undercurrents of small-town American life from Charles Jackson, celebrated author of The Lost Weekend.A selection of Jackson’s finest tales, The Sunnier Side and Other Stories explores the trials of adolescence in America during the tumultuous years of the early twentieth century. Set in the town of Arcadia in upstate New York, the stories in this collection address the unspoken issues—homosexuality, mastu...

The power of hashtag activism became clear in 2011, when #IranElection served as an organizing tool for Iranians protesting a disputed election and offered a global audience a front-row seat to a nascent revolution. Since then, activists have used a variety of hashtags to advocate, mobilize, and communicate. In this book, Sarah Jackson, Moya Bailey, and Brooke Foucault Welles explore how and why Twitter has become an important platform for historically disenfranchised populations, includin...

Diana Wolf likes to think she has it all: a rock-god husband, an empty nest, a wine cellar, and a dream home in the woods. Life is good. It has to be. But when she hires a cartographer, Kerry Perkins, to survey and map her estate in rural Tennessee, she pulls back a frayed corner of the lie that is her fairytale life. On his first night at Wolf Hollow, Kerry stumbles across a young girl's skeleton buried in the woods. But what really scares Diana is a familiar symbol carved into the girl’s...

A rare first-person account that combines a journalist’s skilled reporting with the raw emotion of a younger brother’s heartfelt testimony of what his family endured after his eldest brother killed a man and was sentenced to life in prison.At the age of nine, Issac J. Bailey saw his hero, his eldest brother, taken away in handcuffs, not to return from prison for thirty-two years. Bailey tells the story of their relationship and of his experience living in a family ...

In these impassioned, powerful essays, an award-winning journalist deals forthrightly with what it means to be Black in Trump’s America.South Carolina–based journalist Issac J. Bailey reflects on a wide range of complex, divisive topics—from police brutality and Confederate symbols to respectability politics and white discomfort—which have taken on a fresh urgency with the protest movement sparked by George Floyd’s killing. Bailey has been honing his views on these...

The story of Adam McLaurin continues with his returning from World War I, completing college, and teaching at Windsor Academy. He finds his childhood sweetheart Carrie Napier, they marry, rear their children, and live out their lives on the campus.