It's Okay to Struggle is the second book in The Cost of Silence series. This is a raw, unflinching and emotionally charged novel that exposes the dark realities of grooming, manipulation and broken trust, told through the eyes of Kyle, a vulnerable teenager drawn into a world he doesn't fully understand until it is almost too late. This powerful second instalment in the Cost of Silence series plunges the reader into Kyle's fractured home life, where the e...

A man's journey through life unfolds amid drinks, adventures, and family ties. From youthful escapades to mid-life reflections, he navigates love, career, and the complexities of existence, while balancing his tendencies favoring hubris and hedonism along the way.In In Between Drinks, readers are invited to explore the life of Henry Ford Johnson, whose experiences span three decades filled with ordinary moments punctuated by extraordinary reflections. This narrative is a v...

The most surveilled city on Earth can track a face in a crowd of two hundred, read a gait from a block away, and name a stranger before he reaches the corner. So how do you hunt an assassin the cameras cannot see?For NSA analyst Elena Carr, the pattern shouldn't exist: a single killer moving through three continents at once, buying phones in Singapore while walking the streets of Washington, slipping through every system built to catch him. Her superiors call it paranoia. Elena cal...

The concern that the democratic purposes of higher education -- and its conception as a public good -- are being undermined, with the growing realization that existing structures are unsuited to addressing today's complex societal problems, and that our institutions are failing an increasingly diverse population, all give rise to questioning the current model of the university. This book presents the voices of a new generation of scholars, educators, and practitioners who are committed to ...

Suicide and Social Justice unites diverse scholarly and social justice perspectives on the international problem of suicide and suicidal behavior.With a focus on social justice, the book seeks to understand the complex interactions between individual and group experiences with suicidality and various social pathologies, including inequality, intergenerational poverty, racism, sexism, and homophobia. Chapters investigate the underlying and often overlooked connections that link risi...

We all believe. Be it in love, God, Santa Claus, or the workings of an internal combustion engine, we all believe in something. After all, we’re only human. Belief, however, is hardly black and white. It’s one thing to believe in things we can see. It’s quite another to believe in things we cannot. And another task altogether to trust in things we cannot see. Like God. Faith isn’t easy. But it’s us: we’re finite beings. Faith recognizes our limits; it acknowledges life’s ambiguity. And it ...

What is the solution to human angst and nothingness, the gnawing emptiness and frustration with the lim-its and fragility of this present existence?After reviewing the work of Sren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, and Jean Paul Sartre on this question, this work argues that the proper re-sponse must be metaphysical metanarrative, a transcendent metaphysical metanarrative that is the ground of all that is, yet a metaphysical metanarrative that makes the fullness of meanin...

This book addresses the incentives for nations to develop nuclear weapons and the technical expertise needed for that purpose. Ballistic missiles are required by any nation wanting to optimize the effectiveness of deterrence and the threat derived from possessing nuclear weapons. The basic science of ballistic missile programs is discussed using the North Korean program as an example, although to some extent the programs of other countries are also covered. In addition, there is an introdu...

Problems with the conceptual foundations of quantum mechanics date back to attempts by Max Born, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, as well as many others in the 1920s to continue to employ the classical concept of a particle in the context of the quantum world. The experimental observations at the time and the assumption that the classical concept of a particle was to be preserved have led to an enormous literature on the foundations of quantum mechanics and a great deal of confusion then and...

This book takes the reader from some elementary ideas about groups to the essence of the Standard Model of particle physics along a relatively straight and intuitive path. Groups alone are first used to arrive at a classical analog of the Dirac equation. Using elementary quantum mechanics, this analog can be turned into the actual Dirac equation, which governs the motion of the quarks and leptons of the Standard Model. After an introduction to the gauge principle, the groups introduced in ...

We’re all on a journey.We all want more meaning than what we have at the present moment.We wouldn’t be human if we did not.Imagining Eternity is about one person’s journey.It’s an honest and forthright account of a human being looking for lasting value and purpose in his life.In this, Imagining Eternity is everyone’s story, a thoroughly human sojourn into the dreams, pain, hopes, and longings which all of us explore and encounter.It’s a mirror, not so much of cont...

Many people find themselves going through one life changing event after the other, and sometimes those events can happen all at the same time. Ramblings of the Third Eye helps you to acquaint with your happiness, grief, and/or sorrow, while at the same time, helping you to recognize the emotions that keep you from moving forward. Expressed through the eyes of many women and men, Ramblings of the Third Eye captures the emotions of life; happiness, sadness, separation, loss, and divorce. Div...