How to Wield Power in a Post-Trump World: How Power Actually Works in American Democracy by Eric L. Hall is a clear-eyed, nonpartisan guide to the operational reality of American politics. Moving past the idealistic diagrams of middle-school civics textbooks, Hall maps out where political power actually lives, how it moves, and who operates the levers of governance behind the scenes.This book does not take sides, nor does it argue for a specific policy agenda or pol...

Hit the jackpot with stories from Michael Connelly, Laura Lippman, Walter Mosley, Alexander McCall Smith, and more superstars of mystery.In "One Dollar Jackpot," Michael Connelly's curmudgeonly Harry Bosch finds himself going toe-to-toe with a professional poker player. Jeffery Deaver offers up "Bump," a tale of a has-been actor trying to make it big by hustling cards. "Hardly Knew Her" by Laura Lippmann showcases a young woman learning about bluffing the hard way, ...

As an aspiring or seasoned writer, do you feel like you aren't making headway, stumbling on what to write next, or wondering if you're even on the right path? Are you unable to find the motivation to charge up your computer and put your fingers on the keyboard after that last rejection?Between the pages of What I Wish I'd Known: For Writers, 100 highly accomplished authors share their time, energy, and knowledge to pay it forward and inspire other writers, experienced or a...

"Eric Adams: From Brooklyn Streets to City Hall" by Tam Toney is a powerful narrative that captures the life and career of Eric Adams, the current mayor of New York City. This captivating biography traces Adams' journey from his humble beginnings in Brooklyn, through his groundbreaking work in the NYPD, to his rise as a trailblazing public figure and eventual mayor of America's largest city.This compelling account delves into Adams' formative years, his dedication to reforming the ...

The final year has come and the mine has failed to find what it was tasked with.Now Dorian Ironstrike and the others feel the weight of time upon them, and if they fail the King of Zirad will be displeased.But there is something else out there, pulling strings and making plans, and they know that they won't be safe for long.They will have to fight against time and the odds, dig deep, and discover the treasure that they were sent to find, all while preparing for an a...

Whether in terms of practices, equipment or services, the sports sector is characterized by intense inventiveness and is an excellent subject to study innovation processes.This book provides a sociological reading of these processes, illustrated by case studies that allow us to grasp the complexity of innovation trajectories. The case studies highlight the astonishing pathways, from the origin of inventions to their effective dissemination and use, and including the bifurcations of ...

Books 4-6 in the Brandon Hall series...Loose EndsHall is lured into a trap, then rescued by an old acquaintance. That same acquaintance also helps Hall get his next job. It’s nothing but a simple blackmail case. Only in this case, there’s nothing simple about it.Is anybody actually who they appear to be? And have we seen the last of James Rankin? Or is he the mastermind behind the latest case, once again?The Dead Cli...

One forbidden song can outlive an empire.In a broken near-future Texas, silence is survival. The Dome has turned memory into spectacle, mercy into law, and obedience into public ritual. Katie Hall has learned to keep her mouth shut, her head down, and her brother Sam's name locked behind her teeth.But when Katie leaves the Dome and joins a desperate road of refugees, mothers, children, fugitives, and the forgotten, silence becomes harder to carry. Across ch...

A suspicious death and a large inheritance without anyone to receive itEric Ward is forced to retire from the police when he discovers he suffers from glaucoma. But he qualifies as a lawyer and sets up his practice on the Quayside in Newcastle, where he deals with the seamier side of the law.Ward thinks there is something odd about Arthur Egan’s life and death, but the former police inspector is trained to be suspicious. Egan left a large sum, but Ward make...

"Wow! Where did you learn to facilitate like that?"That's what your colleagues or clients will say once you have facilitated a workshop using what you will learn in this book by nationally recognized facilitator and award-winning author Eric Meade. You will learn:-An overall philosophy of facilitation-How to plan an agenda and what exercises to use-How to choose a venue and set up the room-How to facilitate discussion and mediate disagreement in large gro...

Eric Berne lived and worked during the first development of psychology as we know it today. He was one of the forward thinkers of that time and is best known today for his life-changing book, Games People Play, a compilation of situations and interactions he observed with the aid of his earliest work that described the basic components he employed to arrive at the existence or as well as interworkings of the patterns of behavior between two or more people. He called these "games", and the ...

Reexamining a seminal work on British capitalism and Caribbean slavery and its continuing reverberations in the twenty-first centuryEric Williams’s Capitalism and Slavery (1944), with its insightful and provocative theses about the relationship between Caribbean slavery and the growth of the British economy and the Industrial Revolution, has proved an enduring and controversial book. Never out of print since its publication, it is constantly being reevalua...