Five fantastical tales, each with a magical twistDiscover a lady with a taste for immortality, a man who becomes a dragon, a man-eating witch and a modern retelling of Beauty and the Beast. Perfect for fans of fantasy, these epic tales are packed with magical elements, fantastical creatures, and heroic conflicts between good and evil.In Lady Faustus by Michael Payne, the town gossips have only one subject of conversation - the myst...

Five uproarious plays that chronicle the rise of the modern American business model through the impudent lens of late 19th and early 20th century Broadway.This collection introduces the satirical examinations of business, found in American theatre through the 20th and 21st centuries. In many ways, these plays serve as a template for later works of art like the hit series Mad Men, Billy Wilder's The Apartment, and Meredith Willson's The Music M...

Ink shaped a nation. Before global fandom and streaming anime, manga rebuilt postwar Japan one panel at a time. Orbit Manga – A Visual Revolution is a 22-page, full-color comic anthology exploring the origins, architects, and cultural reach of manga. From Osamu Tezuka’s cinematic panels to the Year 24 Group’s emotional revolutions, from Shōnen Jump’s rise to the worldwide spread of Sailor Moon and Naruto, this standalone comic traces how black-and-white lines became a multibillion-dollar, ...

Secret cults, forbidden knowledge, and cryptic prophecies await in this companion collection to Shadows Over Innsmouth, containing 12 more short stories inspired by the legendary horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.Featuring stories from some of the biggest names in horror fiction, including H. P. Lovecraft, Ramsey Campbell, Kim Newman, Caitlin R. Kiernan, and many more.This newly redesigned edition also includes a revised and updated Int...

Organizational Development Essentials You Always Wanted to Know (2nd Edition) is a practical, accessible guide to building expertise in organizational development and change management. It combines core OD principles with modern practices, including AI-enabled insights, evolving workplace dynamics, and a focus on measurable impact.Key Features Include:Complete coverage of OD fundamentals, frameworks, and planned change models...

Take control of your and your family's health with The Vaccine Bible, a common-sense, medically sound resource for everyone searching for the straightforward facts about vaccines.For those looking for clear and reliable information on vaccines for themselves and their families, it can feel like an overwhelming amount of confusing information. Sorting through it all takes time. And for most people, it's nearly impossible to fully understand how vaccines wor...

This book collects chapters from Michael L. Morgan examining how Levinas speaks to various issues in moral, social, and political philosophy. The chapters, half of which are previously unpublished, put Levinas in dialogue with key figures in contemporary Anglo-American and Continental thought.Morgan places Levinas's ideas about responsibility for the other, second-person or face-to-face encounters, and the primacy of ethics in conversation with contemporary philosophers including S...

In June 1968, a twenty-four-year-old Palestinian immigrant named Sirhan B. Sirhan assassinated Senator Robert F. Kennedy, marking yet another killing in a decade haunted by political violence. As he was being subdued, Sirhan shouted, “I can explain. I did it for my country,” by which he meant Palestine. On trial, he testified that his motives included opposition to Zionism, with particular anger directed toward Kennedy because of the senator’s call for arms sales to Israel. Despite Sirhan’...

Honor made her a judge. Betrayal made her a warrior.Josephine Givens believed in the law until it turned on her. Framed, branded, cast out—she lost everything to someone's lies. Now she commands JUDGEMENT, a warship that exists in the shadows between legal and lethal.Corporations trap thousands in vertical coffins, suffocating dissent one elevator at a time. The innocent cry for justice. The guilty hide behind purchased laws. Somewhere in the towers, those ...

A team of superbeings are all that stands between Earth and total annihilation at the hands of a predatory alien species.An alien ship crashed into Alaska’s Mendenhall Glacier 150,000 years ago and froze within the ice…until glacial melting thawed out its deadly inhabitants in the present day.Kai and Jules Bevins, both professors of astrobiology at Caltech, are roused from their home and whisked away to the site where a special division of the army has take...

Take control of your and your family's health with The Vaccine Bible**, a common-sense, medically sound resource for everyone searching for the straightforward facts about vaccines.**For those looking for clear and reliable information on vaccines for themselves and their families, it can feel like an overwhelming amount of confusing information. Sorting through it all takes time. And for most people, it's nearly impossible to fully unders...

Within a military that prides teamwork, strength in numbers, and camaraderie, the sniper is the outlier. The loner. The specialist whose talent can mean the difference between mission success and disaster—and often between life and death. Kyle Monroe is one member of this exclusive fraternity. Wade Curtis is another. From Pakistan to the tunnels beneath the ruins of Vlad the Impaler's castle in Romania to the jungles of Indonesia, Monroe and Curtis are the best at what they do: eliminating...