This guide to negotiating is "mental judo, where you use the other guy's energy to win. It's mind-set. It's charisma" ( New York Times).The art of the argument. It's mysterious and powerful. It's the art of having things go your way. But it's also the art of getting out of your own way. It's having the Moves. But it's also about having the Touch. Welcome to the "new normal." It's a time and place where conversations are tougher, disagreements more frequent,...

From the award-winning journalist, the "infectiously funny" classic superhero satire that inspired comic books like Watchmen and Miracleman ( Los Angeles Magazine )With a Foreword by Grant MorrisonDavid Brinkley used to be a hero, the greatest the world had ever seen—until he retired, got married, moved to the...

For fans of Serial and Making a Murderer, the true, bewildering story of a young woman’s disappearance, the nightmare of a small town obsessed with delivering justice, and the bizarre dream of a poor, uneducated man accused of murder.**On April 28, 1984, Denice Haraway disappeared from her job at a convenience store on the outskirts of Ada, Oklahoma, and the sleepy town erupted. Tales spread of rape, mutilation, and murder, and the police set out...

New Orleans, August 2005. The lives of a ballet dancer, a reporter, a psychiatrist, and a voodoo queen intersect and overlap in the shadow of a stalker and a serial killer... and all the while, a bad wind named Katrina is headed their way.Written by Robert Mayer, acclaimed author of Superfolks, The Dreams of Ada, and Combustoica's The Ferret's Tale, this all-new novel mixes stark reality with mysticism, dark history with hope, and both the lowest and the highest of human impulses.

It was a time of love, of struggle, of hope, of worship, of the birth of dynasties and the crushing affliction of hatred...In the 1770s, the Jews of Frankfurt are trapped, both physically by the walls of the ghetto within which they must dwell, and in a larger sense by the rules of a society in which they are outcasts, legally debased and barely suffered to live.And yet within those confines they find life, in all its glories and tragedies. This is the story of young Guttle...

A droll comedy/drama about love and the gods, Confessions of a Rain God is set among the classic Mayas. They, of course, did not predict the end of the world. (It caught them by surprise.) The book is narrated by the Mayan rain god Chac -- long-nosed and elderly -- the most important god of the Mayas, who depend on his rain for their very lives. Chac has the misfortune to fall in love with a beautiful young Maya girl, Tika. But physical love between a god and a mortal is forbidden, causing...

Dr. Michael Lee, smart and literate, is the chairman of ophthalmology at a major California hospital. He may be up for a Nobel Prize. Without wanting to, he has fallen madly in love with a beautiful young Marine recruiter – who happens to be his son's girlfriend. Worst of all, for 40 years his life has been controlled by a deadly secret – a secret that even he has all wrong.Robert Mayer is the author of fourteen books. He has written for Vanity Fair, The New York Times, The Washing...

"The language is lush and tactile . . . Beautifully told."-- Santa Fe ReporterFrom the acclaimed author of Superfolks and The Dreams of Ada comes this tale of the human struggle, of love and war, sorrow and joy, death and renewal, faith and doubt... all seen from the ferret's point of view.Ezra, a master of science facing his own mortality, meets Cleo, a ferret who understands him better than he understands himself... or is what is happening not quite what it seems?...

Are you the parent of an argumentative teen or a teen with an argumentative parent? Are you anticipating an argument with your boss when you ask for a raise? Are you expecting trouble from a supplier, contractor, landlord, or subordinate? Or do you just ignore conflict situations hoping that they'll magically disappear or solve themselves? The art of argument. It's mysterious and powerful. It's the art of having things go your way. But also it's the art of getting out of your own way. It's...

They will see it is all a mistake, and they will unlock the gates, and I will go out again into the world, with still time to make Mama proud. And some sweet young thing still growing up for me. And all possibilities.I know that is the truth.—Walter BriggsAt 21, Walter Briggs knows when he will die but not how: the State of Utah has asked him to choose the method of his execution—firing squad or the gallows—and the young black who sits on Death Row cannot make up his mind. This harrowing a...

When a knock on the door interrupts her nightly escape into the pages of a cheap romance, Midge, aka Beatrice Audra Smith, is understandably annoyed. Paperback romances may not be the world's best protection against the "lonelies," but what else is a 4'11", 87 pound, 30 1/4 year-old dreamer to do in the middle of the Enchantment Trailer Park in Santa Fe?Enter Horace Decker, out on parole and in every sense a getaway man. He explains his presence outside Midge's trailer as easily as...

Walter Scott and Fame is a study of correspondences between Scott and socially and culturally diverse readers of his work in the English-speaking world in the early nineteenth century. Examining authorship, reading, and fame, the book is based on extensive archival research, especially in the collection of letters to Scott in the National Library of Scotland. Robert Mayer demonstrates that in Scott's literary correspondence constructions of authorship, reading strategies, and vers...