Blue is a sixteen-year-old with autism and dissociative identity disorder, a nonverbal teen who communicates through AAC and sees the world through soft eyes and simple truths. Daniel is angry, broken, and terrified of himself - a teen carrying the weight of trauma, psychosis, and a mind that never feels safe.Thrown into the sterile walls of a youth psychiatric facility, the two meet - one guarded, the other open-hearted. As Daniel battles the ghosts in his head and the shame of ne...

A tribute to the story's beginnings — and a glimpse of what comes next.This anniversary edition celebrates the moment Blue first came to life. What began as a spark and a stubborn belief grew into a world that shaped its author as much as its characters. Written without a roadmap and built chapter by chapter, Blue became the foundation of a journey into authorship — imperfect, instinctive, and transformative.This special edition gathers early visions, unrel...

Dr. Leila Maxwell is a forensic specialist, her expertise is at getting the story behind a murder and she's recognized as one of the best. But she soon meets her match as a serial killer goes on a rampage in San Francisco as numerous prostitutes are found murdered. Her investigation then takes on a whole new sense of urgency when her troubled younger sister is declared missing.

When communication becomes the engine of white supremacist violence.Manifesting Violence: White Terrorism, Digital Culture, and the Rhetoric of Replacement by Casey Ryan Kelly and William Joseph Sipe is a compelling exploration of how the digital world has become a fertile ground for white supremacist ideology. Through an in-depth analysis of white supremacist manifestos, online rhetoric, and the myth of “white genocide,” Kelly and Sipe uncover th...

Your Call Is Very Important to Us is a powerful collection of stories, poems, and artwork from veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan War era-voices that are too often unheard, yet deeply needed. Through raw honesty and creative expression, these servicemembers share their experiences not only of war, but of what comes after: the search for purpose, identity, and healing.This anthology stands as a reminder that veterans are more than their service. Their talents, perspectives, and st...

An Authority Transfer Relationship is a negotiated, consensual, non-egalitarian relationship style. The four authors of this book have lived and loved this way for over twenty years per couple. Lead Follow Love contains some of the most intimate and difficult topics the authors could find, answered with a brutal time-limit to force unfiltered and authentic responses. The authors’ plan: • 30 questions • 30 minutes to answer each question • 4 individual journal-style answers per question • N...

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century is the story of a family of Southern aristocrats on the brink of personal and financial ruin. • The definitive corrected text, including Faulkner's AppendixOne of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 YearsThe Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in li...

Cybersecurity and Applied Mathematics explores the mathematical concepts necessary for effective cybersecurity research and practice, taking an applied approach for practitioners and students entering the field. This book covers methods of statistical exploratory data analysis and visualization as a type of model for driving decisions, also discussing key topics, such as graph theory, topological complexes, and persistent homology. Defending the Internet is a complex effort, but applying t...

From bookshelves overflowing with self-help books to scholarly treatises on neurobiology to late-night infomercials that promise to make you happier, healthier, and smarter with the acquisition of just a few simple practices, the discourse of habit is a staple of contemporary culture high and low. Discussion of habit, however, tends to neglect the most fundamental questions: What is habit? Habits, we say, are hard to break. But what does it mean to break a habit? Where and how do habits ta...

Is "ambitious" a compliment? It depends: "[A] masterpiece of intellectual and cultural history."—David Brion Davis, author of Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New WorldFrom rags to riches, log house to White House, enslaved to liberator, ghetto to CEO, ambition fuels the American Dream. Yet at the time of the nation's founding, ambition was viewed as a dangerous vice, everything from "a canker on the soul" to the impet...

Most business books are filled with B.S.“Hack this!” “10X that!” “Guaranteed!”But the business success you want isn’t hidden inside thousands of buzzwords.Massive success only comes when you get massively clear about the one outcome you can control in your business: YOU.In The No B.S. Small Business Book, you will learn how to get ruthlessly honest about yourself, your business, and what you really want from both—and how to get it.You’ll roll up your...

Britain’s War for the Mediterranean provides a definitive study on British warmaking in the Mediterranean during the War of the First Coalition. It traces the origins of foreign and naval policies from the early eighteenth century to describe the duality of British affairs. These contradictions manifested themselves in the War of the First Coalition as Great Britain attempted to build consensus in the Mediterranean World while clinging to its power base of naval power and commerce...