GW Canyon is a tech executive who builds aircraft navigation systems. He is competent, well-intentioned, and absolutely certain he understands the shape of the problem. What he doesn't know—what he may never fully know—is that the women around him have been reading the room for decades. Allison Tobias, his brilliant aeronautics partner, has already mapped three moves he hasn't considered. Connie Finley, Allison's closest friend, has been watching GW's emotional blindspots with the patience...

Inside America’s preventable sports-gambling debacleIn 2018, the United States Supreme Court opened the floodgates for states to legalize betting on sports. Eager for revenue, almost forty states have done so. The result is the explosive growth of an industry dominated by companies like FanDuel and DraftKings. One out of every five American adults gambled on sports in 2023, amounting to $121 billion, more than they spent on movies and video games combined.T...

Does state acquisition of nuclear weapons lead to stability and peace or instability and crises? This is one of the great debates in international relations scholarship. Michael D. Cohen argues that nuclear weapons acquisition often does dangerously embolden the acquiring state to undertake coercion and aggression, but that this behavior moderates over time as leaders learn the dangers and limitations of nuclear coercion. This book examines the historical cases of the Soviet Union and Paki...

North Korea is perilously close to developing strategic nuclear weapons capable of hitting the United States and its East Asian allies. Since their first nuclear test in 2006, North Korea has struggled to perfect the required delivery systems. Kim Jong-un’s regime now appears to be close, however. Sung Chull Kim, Michael D. Cohen, and the volume contributors contend that the time to prevent North Korea from achieving this capability is virtually over; scholars and policymakers must turn th...

The mountains are on fire. Someone set them.When a catastrophic wildfire tears through the Colorado Rockies—killing dozens and erasing a community—it looks like weather and carelessness. Tali Gold knows otherwise. She's been in the crosshairs of powerful men her entire life, and she recognizes the shape of a hit. Getting out alive is only the first problem. The second is proving it without becoming the story.GW Canyon, her boyfriend, is the man who stands beside her without...

She arrived at the edge of their marriage and made herself indispensable. That was the plan. It worked better than expected.Sharna Taylor is the most effective operative in the series—not because she carries a weapon, but because she reads people the way a diagnostician reads symptoms. She sees GW Canyon's need for steadiness and Tali Canyon's need for surrender, and she builds a strategy around both. What she doesn't account for is the journal she keeps. Or what happens when someo...

Elaine Ionello was a climber, a coder, and GW Canyon's most trusted friend. Then a bike courier hit her in a crosswalk, and when she woke up, something had shifted. Her mother noticed. Her neurologist noticed. Tali noticed.GW did not notice.Starfish is the novel where the series' central architecture becomes visible—a network of influence operating through neurological conversion technology, and a woman whose traumatic brain injury may be the only thing sta...

GW Canyon, 54, Technologist and Investor, Dies in California.The obituary is accurate. It is also almost entirely beside the point.Solstice is the final novel in the GW Canyon Journey series, and it is the one where the series' true architecture becomes undeniable: GW was never the protagonist. He was the organizing intelligence that the women in his life built themselves around, against, through, and beyond. What remains after his death is not a void. It i...

Dr. Michael D. Cohen, a 30+ year veteran of working on, teaching, and writing about political campaigns shows readers how campaigns are organized, explains state-of-the-art tools of the trade, and reveals how some of the most interesting people in politics got their big breaks. He combines academic insights and practical advice that will be of interest to practitioners and students considering careers in politics, and people interested in how elections are won. The second edition, updated ...

When mental health conditions limit your ability to navigate daily life, a psychiatric service dog can be transformative—but the path to partnership is complex, costly, and often misunderstood.This comprehensive guide provides the realistic, evidence-based information that prospective handlers, families, mental health professionals, and communities need to understand psychiatric service dog partnerships. Drawing on personal experience as a handler, professional exp...

Logic-Based Therapy & Consultation (LBTC) is a popular modality of philosophical counseling developed by philosopher Elliot D. Cohen and the first one to have undergone a randomized, controlled efficacy study. Logic-Based Therapy and Consultation: Theory and Applications brings together leading LBTC researchers, trainers, and practitioners to provide the latest account of its theory and apply it to diverse populations including persons with mental health issues, children, athletes...

An illustrated survey of artist hoaxes, including impersonations, fabula, cryptoscience, and forgeries, researched and written by an expert “fictive-art” practitioner.In her groundbreaking book, internationally recognized multimedia artist and writer Antoinette LaFarge reflects on the most urgent question of today: where does truth lie, and how is it verified? Encouraging readers to critically question the role art plays in shaping reality, Sting in the Tale: A...