‘V.A.P.O.R.S’ is a straightforward, practical guide to safeguarding your home, family, and neighborhood from crime. Written by Captain Howard, a former burglar once known as the “Green Mile Burglar of Silicon Valley,” this book provides readers with a unique perspective: security strategies explained by someone who once exploited their weaknesses. Today, Howard has dedicated his life to helping others avoid becoming victims and restoring the peace that crime often takes away.Reader...

'V.A.P.O.R.S' is a straightforward, practical guide to safeguarding your home, family, and neighborhood from crime. Written by Captain Howard, a former burglar once known as the "Green Mile Burglar of Silicon Valley," this book provides readers with a unique perspective: security strategies explained by someone who once exploited their weaknesses. Today, Howard has dedicated his life to helping others avoid becoming victims and restoring the peace that crime often takes away.Reader...

'Dubbed: The "Green Mile" Burglar of Silicon Valley' is the remarkable true story of Howard Allen Young, whose life journey spans the streets of Boston to the prisons of California and the quest for redemption after years of chaos.Born into a blended family in Roxbury, Howard grew up facing racism, poverty, and the early loss of his father. What started with petty crimes escalated into a series of high-tech burglaries in Silicon Valley, earning him the nickname "The Green Mile Burg...

‘Dubbed: The “Green Mile” Burglar of Silicon Valley’ is the remarkable true story of Howard Allen Young, whose life journey spans the streets of Boston to the prisons of California and the quest for redemption after years of chaos.Born into a blended family in Roxbury, Howard grew up facing racism, poverty, and the early loss of his father. What started with petty crimes escalated into a series of high-tech burglaries in Silicon Valley, earning him the nickname “The Green Mile Burg...

Recent reports predict that, barring any changes, the Social Security program will become insolvent--no longer able to pay promised benefits in full--around the year 2030, well within the retirement years of the baby boom generation. They also predict that the trust fund will stop being a net contributor and become instead a net claimant on the federal budget in the year 2013--much earlier than previously thought. With the world population aging, the increasing number of dependent senior c...

Improve your bullet journals, to-do lists, class notes, and everything in between with The Art of Visual Notetaking and its unique approach to taking notes in the twenty-first century.Visual notetaking is the perfect skill for journaling, class lectures, conferences, and any other time that retaining information is key. Also referred to as sketchnoting, visual notetaking is ideal for documenting processes, planning projects, outlining idea...

A comprehensive guide to car ownership and maintenance intended for anyone—regardless of age, gender or experience.When did you last pick up a book about cars? Typically written for men, particularly automotive enthusiasts and mechanics, these books rarely appeal to the everyday car owner. Mechanic Shop Femme’s Guide to Car Ownership is different. Automotive educator, journalist, and social media influencer Chaya M. Milchtein is a queer woman who has spent...

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A shocking, groundbreaking oral history of the infamous Rikers jail complex and an unflinching portrait of injustice and resilience told by the people whose lives have been forever altered by it“This mesmerizing and gut-wrenching book shows the brutal realities that tens of thousands of people have been forced to navigate, and survive, in America’s most notorious jail.”—Piper Kerman, New York Ti...

The first organizing system that can be customized to fit YOUR lifestyleAre you overwhelmed by clutter? Do you have a hard time finding things in your home or office?The disorder in your life may be keeping you from accomplishing your goals.The Art of Organizing Anything helps you streamline your life at home and at work, reduce stress, be more efficient—and locate all those misplaced items. Bestselling author Rosalie Maggio introduces an a...

A forensic psychologist answers true crime fan questions and reveals the terrifying truth behind the world's deadliest serial killers.Serial killers haunt our dreams and inspire the terrifying villains of TV shows and horror movies. But how much do you really know about the minds behind the world's deadliest killers? What drives these murderers to kill and kill again? And what fuels our fascination with the true stories of their horrific crimes?Now forensic p...

For readers of The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up and The Power of Habit comes a revelatory, witty guide to a clearer home and a more creative mind.Can a decluttered space fuel a creative mind? Heck yes, says organizing expert Fay Wolf, who has helped everyone from Hollywood celebrities to schoolteachers to work-from-home parents achieve a simpler, more fulfilling life. Here*,* Wolf outlines her basic rules for saying goodbye to the stuff crowd...

A "persuasive and essential" (Matthew Desmond) work that will forever change how we look at life after prison in America through Miller's "stunning, and deeply painful reckoning with our nation's carceral system" (Heather Ann Thompson).Each year, more than half a million Americans are released from prison and join a population of twenty million people who live with a felony record.Reuben Miller, a chaplain at the Cook County Jail in Chicago and now a sociol...