For fa****ns of Between Two Fires and Angel Down comes a breakout biblical horror novel that Kirkus Reviews lauded as "The New Testament à la Cormac McCarthy,” about a butcher plagued by violent visions of the future who sets out to kill a pre-ministry Jesus.How does one choose between personal redemption and the salvation of the world?The Butcher has spent decades trying to atone for his part in King Hero...

Fate by Fire is a fiction novel reflecting multiple book genres including drama realism, historical suspense thriller, and science fiction. Fate by Fire takes place during the Great Recession primarily 2008 showcasing hardships the Mallory family experience together. Main characters Jesse and Valerie Mallory and their two children Stacy and Stevie live in Pasadena, California. The family experiences bad luck and misfortune including job loss, hospitalizations, foreclosure, foster care, and...

You polished your resume for hours, checked every spelling, rewrote your summary 3 times, and applied to a dozen jobs you were qualified for, and then you waited, and the silence was the hardest part. If that sounds familiar, you are in the right place, because most job seekers never learn the real reason their applications disappear. Before a recruiter ever laid eyes on your document, software read it first, and that software is called an Applicant Tracking System, and it now sits between...

You have an idea that keeps you up at night, and the wall between you and that idea is made of code. Every founder who lacks a technical background eventually confronts this moment of truth, and the conversation around AI is dominated by two equally unhelpful narratives. The hype merchants tell you AI can build anything with a single prompt. The skeptics insist the tools produce nothing useful. Both are wrong. Claude cannot replace a technical cofounder, but it can fundamentally change wha...

How contradictory sensory experiences of horror films appeal to audiences.Diffrient's strikingly original work mounts an intersensorial critique of the horror film, bringing disability studies, affect theory, and phenomenology together to evaluate how assistive technologies, such as audio description and subtitles for deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences, become sites for interrogating embodied experiences of cinematic spectatorship. Exploring a broad range of case s...

Examines the origins, cultural significance, and legacy of the groundbreaking CBS television series M*A*S*H, which aired from 1972 to 1983.Few American television series are as deeply entrenched in twentieth-century popular culture as M*A*S*H, a Korean War medical comedy characterized by its dark tone and finesse in tackling serious social and political issues. By the end of its run, M*A*S*H had been a mainstream hit for several seasons and won fourteen Emmys, lead...

Set in the world of social media moderators, @Sa>ag3 and @Jun1p3r must survive their first 90 days to qualify for health benefits and a life-changing mystery bonus.As they flag a nonstop torrent of the most heinous [NSFW] videos, their coping mechanisms expand to include office sex, drugs, and a jellyfish.But when copium is no longer an option, @Sa>ag3 & @Jun1p3r turn to a more bizarre form of therapy: intimacy.Meanwhile a stream of ominous warning videos keeps popp...

Discover the evolution of governments everywhere! This social studies book explores the past, present, and possible futures of governments around the world. Across the world, local, state, and national governments work to protect and serve their citizens. This teacher-approved book provides students with opportunities to understand the ins and outs of government, including how governments from different countries can work together. The book covers the structure and history of each type of ...

Discover the evolution of governments everywhere! This social studies book explores the past, present, and possible futures of governments around the world. Across the world, local, state, and national governments work to protect and serve their citizens. This teacher-approved book provides students with opportunities to understand the ins and outs of government, including how governments from different countries can work together. The book covers the structure and history of each type of ...

About the BookDavid Scott’s A Bohemian in a Precarious Belfry is a philosophic treatment of life and death via his collection of poems, short stories, essays, and random dialogs – the latter almost as would be experienced by an eavesdropper. It is an unusual reflection on, and examination of, friendship, enmity, joy, strife, hope, and what life does to us in the form of favor and brute random chance, and what we do with one another in the form of friendship, love, loyalty and, too, ...

This book studies design in airline travel posters of the 1920–1970: period. It is both a semiology and a sociocultural cultural history that explores the way advertising posters combine information and fantasy to create seductive images/texts. The book is lavishly illustrated in colour, the images constituting part of the overall argument.The field of poster studies is vast, but it is surprising how little work has been done till date on the fundamental structures – semiotic and s...

The field of poster studies is vast, but it is surprising how little work has been done till date on the fundamental structures – semiotic and semantic – that underpin the visual messages posters produce. Most studies of posters focus either on their history; on specific themes – politics, travel, sport, cinema; or on their status as collectable items. Though such approaches are valid, they hardly account for the specificity of the poster’s appeal or for the complex semiotic and cultural i...