Welcome to the Carnivale Mystique, where the bizarre, the horrifying, and the beautiful live and perform, side by side. Sink your teeth into seven stories of horror, mystery, suspense, and the paranormal. Watch your step, though, else you become part of the act:Wishful Thinking by P.M. Hernandez—Stuck in his family’s failing trapeze act with no future in sight, Bruno Fanucci wishes for a different life. Too bad he doesn’t have the guts to do someth...

Summer's over and school is right around the corner. As nervousness turns to fear of the unknown, Jacob wonders who his teacher will be and his imagination runs wild, imaging all kinds of scenarios. Will he get lots of treats and double recess, or will the stories of mysterious disappearances, tests every day, and headless mice prove true?

Unlock the secrets of forgotten attics and ancestral halls, where mysteries await those daring enough to listen. All The Promises We Cannot Keep is an anthology of tales that reach across generations and distant realms, drawing readers into worlds where intrigue and beauty intertwine. Here, in the shadowed corridors of crumbling manors and beneath the starlit canopy of enchanted forests, stories from 51 authors uncover what lies between the cracks—whether it's hope blossoming in the ru...

This volume explores Husserl’s theory of sensibility and his conceptualization of spatial and temporal constitution. The author maps the linkages between Husserl’s ‘transcendental aesthetic’, the theory of pure experience in empirio-criticism, as well as Immanuel Kant’s transcendental philosophy. The core argument in this analysis centers on the relationship between spatiality and temporality in Husserl’s philosophy. The study interrogates Husserl’s understanding of the relationship betwee...

This book provides an in-depth analysis of border and boundary enactments in post-war and “deeply divided” societies. By exploring everyday places in post-conflict societies, it critically examines official narratives of how ethno-national divisions arise and are sustained. It challenges traditional accounts regarding the role that international intervention has in producing and/or weakening boundaries in such societies, while questioning clear-cut distinctions between the local and the in...

Being the Alpha means making the hard choices. Being a cop means following the law. Stephen Butler is about to learn he can't be both.Chief of Police Stephen Butler didn't ask to become a werewolf. His best friend infected him with an experimental serum, turning him into the genetically perfect Alpha, humanity's last hope to save a dying species. Now Stephen leads a pack while trying to maintain order in a city where humans have no idea monsters walk among them.Balancing th...

This book outlines past and new developments in molecular response theory in terms of static and dynamic-induced current densities and showcases an important step forward in the field of molecular density functions and their topological analysis. The book begins with a general perspective on topics such as classical Hamiltonian, quantum mechanical Hamiltonian, and topological analysis of the electron charge density, followed by an in-depth overview of time-dependent and -independent pertur...

The question of whether movies can deliver philosophical content is a leading topic in the cognitive and analytic debate on film. But instead of turning to the well-trodden terrain of narrative and emotional engagement, this is the first time fashion and costume choices are analyzed to demonstrate how movies can be said to be doing philosophy.Considering how fashion and costumes can deliver the epistemic content of a film and act as a guidance to the interpretation of the philosoph...

2026 Notable Book of the Year, Helen: The Journal of Human ExceptionalityBursting with wit, warmth, music, and unexpected friendships, Trevor the Noteable GOAT is an inspiring story about embracing who you are, finding confidence, and discovering that your differences make you extraordinary.Trevor Chaplin has always felt a little different— brilliant at math, but uncomfortable in social situations and bullied by his peers. As a boy with a...

An A to Z guide for understanding employee stock options (ESOs).In Getting Started In Employee Stock Optionsauthors John Olagues and John Summa provide a full understanding of ESOs and demonstrate how to make the most of them. Page by page this author team, a highly experienced options market maker and a professional trader, share essential information that you're probably not hearing anywhere else. This book contains the keys to managing and hedging ESO o...

Pablo is a pig who enjoys spending his free time with his friends, Cathy the cat, Freddie the fish, and Mia the mouse. When Pablo presents himself with poor manners at a dinner party, Cathy, Freddie, and Mia step in to save the day!

Our experience of other individuals as minded beings goes hand in hand with the awareness that they have a unique epistemic and emotional perspective on the experienced objects and situations. The same object can be seen from many different points of view, an event can awaken different emotional reactions in different individuals, and our position-takings can in part be mediated by our belonging to some social or cultural groups. All these phenomena can be described by referring to the met...