Detective Aaron Pike discovers a police report for a murder that hasn't happened yet, located in a room that doesn't exist. As he investigates, he uncovers a secret government algorithm designed to calculate the future. Now, Pike must solve a crime that the system says is inevitable before he becomes the next victim of a pre-determined fate. A high-stakes mystery about free will in a digital age.

Kerkyra (Corfu), the mythical island of the Phaeacians, was the last 'port of call' of Odysseus before he returned to Ithaca. Scattered traces of the ancient heritage of Kerkyra are preserved today. However, what really makes the island stand apart is its urban architecture, which constitutes an important heritage not only for modern Greece, but also for Europe. For this reason, the city of Corfu has been declared a World Heritage site by UNESCO. Its architectural wealth includes fortresse...

A reckoning with the radicalisation of modernist aesthetics that took hold in the mid-twentieth century, (In)aesthetic Theory illuminates the limits of aesthetic presentation by bringing Theodor Adorno and Alain Badiou's divergent philosophies of art into critical proximity.Both theorists uncover moments in which art ceases to represent and begins to insist – where its truth is not stated outright but intimated in a gesture beyond the world as given. Their...

Standing in the kitchen one day, a young woman discovers that her tiny, elderly Hmong mother is not who she appears to be.Yia grew up with a traditional mother who wanted her to marry, raise a family, tend a garden, and cook Hmong food. Yia wanted freedom. The two had little in common, except their opposition to each other.In a seemingly ordinary moment in Mom's kitchen, Yia had a sudden awakening. She watched her mother move from pot to pot with t...

Caleb Monroe returns to his dying hometown of Ashford after eight years, only to discover a mysterious printing press in the basement of the local newspaper office. The machine doesn't print news; it prints the confessions of crimes that haven't happened yet. As Caleb finds his own name on the proof sheets, he must decide if he is a victim of fate or the author of his own destruction. A gripping atmospheric mystery.

Lily Harper, a struggling artist, finds a mysterious iron key at a flea market that opens a door in her apartment to an endless, impossible hallway. As she explores the rooms within, she discovers they are frozen moments of other people's lives. A profound and atmospheric mystery that blurs the lines between art, memory, and reality.

The Teach the Text Commentary Series utilizes the best of biblical scholarship to provide the information a pastor needs to communicate the text effectively. The carefully selected preaching units and focused commentary allow pastors to quickly grasp the big idea and key themes of each passage of Scripture. Each unit of the commentary includes the big idea and key themes of the passage and sections dedicated to understanding, teaching, and illustrating the text.In his commentary on...

With humor and sensitivity, poet, playwright, and writer Ka Vang examines and critiques what it means to be “a good Hmong girl” in America today. Excerpted from Hmong and American: From Refugees to Citizens (MHS Press, 2012).

A young reporter named Joseph Rouletabille is called to investigate an impossible crime: a woman was attacked inside a room that was locked from the inside with no possible exit. As the police flounder, Rouletabille uses pure logic and 'the right side of his reason' to solve a puzzle that has baffled the world. A cornerstone of the locked-room mystery genre.

Dr. Miles Porter is on the verge of a breakthrough that could allow humanity to access the collective memories stored within our DNA. As he calibrates the Neuro-Genetic Resonator, he uncovers a delicate lattice of instinct and memory connecting us all across generations. A poetic and thought-provoking exploration of what we carry in our blood.

Dr. Miles Porter is on the verge of a breakthrough that could allow humanity to access the collective memories stored within our DNA. As he calibrates the Neuro-Genetic Resonator, he uncovers a delicate lattice of instinct and memory connecting us all across generations. A poetic and thought-provoking exploration of what we carry in our blood.

History is replete with false and unfulfilled promises, as well as singular acts of courage, resilience, and ingenuity. These episodes have led to significant changes in the way people think and act in the world or have set the stage for such transformations in the form of rational expectations in theory and the hopeful anticipations of dialectical imagination.Negative Dialectics and Event: Nonidentity, Culture, and the Historical Adequacy of Consciousness revisits some of Theodor W...