In the new crime thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author, Lt. Eve Dallas journeys into the darkness where murder is born...NYSPD homicide detective Eve Dallas has seen a lot in her time but even she is shocked by the savagery of a beating which leaves a wealthy biotech executive dead in his home office. The victim's corpse is so mangled and damaged it's hard to believe a lone assailant would be capable of this. The killer is clearly unnaturally strong. Or very, v...

**ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROur earliest experiences shape our lives far down the road, and What Happened to You? provides powerful scientific and emotional insights into the behavioral patterns so many of us struggle to understand.**“Through this lens we can build a renewed sense of personal self-worth and ultimately recalibrate our responses to circumstances, situations, and relationships. It is, in other words, the ke...

“Mahalia Jackson was the greatest gospel singer of her time and an overlooked leader in the Civil Rights Movement. Her voice seemed born of heaven.” —Henry Louis Gates Jr.If Americans today still recognize the name Mahalia Jackson, they might recall that she was perhaps the greatest gospel singer who ever lived. But for many people, there is no awareness at all, not even for an entertainer whose “Move On Up a Little Higher” sold eight million copies, who headlined ...

'I devour everything Schwager writes' – Barry Ritholtz, Bestselling author, How Not to Invest'This new chapter may be the most compelling yet' – Chris Camillo, Investor and co-host, Dumb Money Live'I expected to like it. I ended up loving it' – Tom Hougaard, author, Best Loser Wins************Market Wizards: The Next Generation continues in the three-decade tradition of the hugely popular

The legendary bestseller that encouraged millions of readers to look at the hidden side of everythingWhich is more dangerous: a gun or a swimming pool? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? What do real estate agents and the KKK have in common?These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much-heralded scholar who uses data analysis to study the riddles of everyday life—from cheating an...

For more than twenty years, I lived by my Air Force code.Until I made a choice. Put my family first. Something a soldier is never allowed to do.Now I don’t know who I am. Or where I belong.Getting lost in Mexico sounds like a good idea, but with only guilt and regret as my constant companions, I’ll never figure it all out.Until a chance meeting with Dr. Mikayla Salim in a hotel bar changes my course.She’s everything I’m not. Full of life and on a mis...

The kingdom is in trouble……and one mage has a plan.Will it be enough to stop the dragon?Subin just became an apprentice to the legendary Dugen the Blue, the high mage of the kingdom. Old rivalries between his boss and the general have put him in a tough spot. Will he need to choose sides?Can the army and the mages come together for the greater good?Or will their personal feud cost them everything?Do they even know the real threat?You’...

Aubrey is turning twenty-eight this year. She has never been in a relationship. She’s never been anyone’s girlfriend, never said I love you, never had a first fight or first of mostly anything. She swears it’s not a big deal. No one really believes her. No one seems to agree.She’s not sure how she got there, really—maybe it was because of Oliver, or Rami, or Sam, or Simon. Maybe it’s her. Maybe spending a year in Nova Scotia helping her aunt manage a creaky...

A concise and updated classic for college instructors, this third edition provides a clear and practical introduction to the principles, purposes, and best practices of rubrics.When used thoughtfully, rubrics save grading time, spark meaningful discussion, and foster independent learning. This book explains how to design effective rubrics, align criteria with learning outcomes, and apply them across assignments—from term papers and portfolios to lab work, presentations, and critica...

Figuring the Contemporary in US Popular Cinema, 1967-2022: Genre, History, Event explores how popular film offers us frameworks through which to historicize the present and to imagine alternative futures in the opacity of the contemporary moment.This book offers an original way to interpret the contemporary as form, presenting the idea of contemporaneity as historical concept and not simply as "period" in the temporal sense. It explores how we might histor...

Between Barricades and Breakthroughs begins where most crisis training ends.This is not a book about de-escalation techniques or communication scripts. It is a book about the decisions that matter most in high-stakes crisis work - the ones that have to be made under pressure, with incomplete information, in conditions that are rarely clean and never fully predictable. It is about knowing when words are still the right tool and when they are not. When voluntary engagement is suffici...

Rodney Hall and the Global Imagination offers the first comprehensive study of one of Australia's most innovative and overlooked writers.Spanning seven decades of poetry, fiction, and cultural advocacy, this book uncovers the intellectual and artistic currents that shaped Hall's creative philosophy – from Vico's poetic wisdom and Graves's mythic thinking to Joycean experiment and Latin American fabulism. It demonstrates how Hall uses labyrinths, masks, myth, and imaginatio...