On a whim, I bought an inflatable doll, and to my surprise, it actually got pregnant...After I threw it away, it mysteriously came back, and the people around me kept getting into trouble because of its evil influence.I have to find this eerie doll; I want my life back.

This is a world that reveres martial arts, where the internal energy techniques and moves created by the legendary masters Zhang Sanfeng and Yang Luchan have brought Eastern martial arts to their pinnacle. As we enter an era where genetic technology and neural networks are becoming increasingly widespread... Jiang Yaoyang, who is completely incapable of cultivating internal energy, is knocked unconscious by a backpack filled with martial arts manuals! The Bone-Marrow Washing Classic! The M...

Joanne thought she'd found safety when she escaped her abusive husband. She was wrong. Homeless and desperate, she seeks refuge in a women's shelter—the last place meant to protect the most vulnerable. But when a biological man is granted access to her space, her bed, her most intimate moments, Joanne discovers that the word "woman" no longer means what it once did. Defending herself becomes her crime. Speaking the truth becomes her hate. And the system designed to protect women becomes th...

Investigate fundamental coding ideas and techniques and get started making games straight away! Kids' Coding: For youngsters, Scratch is a comprehensive handbook that makes learning the Scratch programming language enjoyable and simple.Scratch Coding for Kids teaches you everything you need to know to make incredible games that you and your friends can play, from sprites and code blocks to scripts and scorekeeping. As the games you're creating get harder, you may see your confidenc...

The essential resource on military and political strategy and the making of the modern worldThe New Makers of Modern Strategy is the next generation of the definitive work on strategy and the key figures who have shaped the theory and practice of war and statecraft throughout the centuries. Featuring entirely new entries by a who’s who of world-class scholars, this new edition provides global, comparative perspectives on strategic thought from antiquity to...

Earth Beings is the fruit of Marisol de la Cadena's decade-long conversations with Mariano and Nazario Turpo, father and son, runakuna or Quechua people. Concerned with the mutual entanglements of indigenous and nonindigenous worlds, and the partial connections between them, de la Cadena presents how the Turpos' indigenous ways of knowing and being include and exceed modern and nonmodern practices. Her discussion of indigenous political strategies—a realm that need not ab...

In Exorbitance, Deborah A. Thomas calls for new approaches to political sovereignty grounded in the embodied forms of autonomy and relation created in daily life. Rather than rooting sovereignty in the violence of the state and its institutions, Thomas conceives of sovereignty as the embodied refusal of law and dominion. Drawing on the insights of Caribbeanist thought and studies of Jamaican social, political, and spiritual life, Thomas proposes an exorbitant sovereignty enacted t...

In Subversive Archaism, Michael Herzfeld explores how individuals and communities living at the margins of the modern nation-state use nationalist discourses of tradition to challenge state authority under both democratic and authoritarian governments. Through close attention to the claims and experiences of mountain shepherds in Greece and urban slum dwellers in Thailand, Herzfeld shows how these subversive archaists draw on national histories and past polities to claim legitimac...

In The Future of Futurity, Purnima Mankekar and Akhil Gupta examine the lives and experiences of call center agents in India’s business process outsourcing (BPO) industry, who live in Bengaluru and work for customers in the Global North. Mankekar and Gupta show how futurity—an affective-temporal potentiality and mode of being that emphasizes the unfolding of time—enables BPO workers to strive for hopeful futures despite their experiences of growing inequality, volatility, and viol...

In A Book of Waves Stefan Helmreich examines ocean waves as forms of media that carry ecological, geopolitical, and climatological news about our planet. Drawing on ethnographic work with oceanographers and coastal engineers in the Netherlands, the United States, Australia, Japan, and Bangladesh, Helmreich details how scientists at sea and in the lab apprehend waves’ materiality through abstractions, seeking to capture in technical language these avatars of nature at once periodic...

In this innovative collaborative ethnography of Italian-Chinese ventures in the fashion industry, Lisa Rofel and Sylvia J. Yanagisako offer a new methodology for studying transnational capitalism. Drawing on their respective linguistic and regional areas of expertise, Rofel and Yanagisako show how different historical legacies of capital, labor, nation, and kinship are crucial in the formation of global capitalism. Focusing on how Italian fashion is manufactured, distributed, and marketed ...

A revealing biography of J. P. Morgan, one of the most powerful and enigmatic financiers in history, from bestselling author Frederick Lewis Allen.Celebrated as a titan of industry by some and decried as a monopolizing robber baron by others, John Pierpont Morgan was without a doubt a dominant player in American finance at the turn of the twentieth century. He founded U.S. Steel, a conglomeration of leading steel and iron producers, which was the nation's largest c...