What if your greatest blessing became a curse you couldn’t escape?From acclaimed horror writer Jude Ellison S. Doyle and artist Lisandro Estherren comes a Southern Gothic descent into religious dread, generational shame, and cosmic terror.Cora Reims once embraced a vision of pure light—an angelic messenger who left behind a terrible miracle: her son, Jordy. Despite his angelic countenance, it soon becomes apparent that Jord...

Jeff Lisandro is Australia's most successful poker player. He plays in the world's biggest cash games and has half a dozen World Series of Poker bracelets. Years before his public poker success, he ran casinos for underworld gangs in Sydney and Moscow. Join him in a high-stakes adventure across two continents as he stays one step ahead of the police, hitmen, and Mob bosses. Playing Poker Against the Mob is the first of three books. An unforgettable story of poker as you've never seen it be...

“Walang basagan ng trip,” is one of the vilest phrases in colloquial Tagalog, reflecting a long anti-critic tradition in Philippine arts. When artists use the term, they are asking critical voices to shut up and smile: Don’t criticize my work (my “trip”); we’re all just trying to be happy here. Shouldn’t art, after all, be fun?Being a critic and essayist was, one could say, my only means of self-expression. Indeed, I cannot create, so I just complain. I’ve made some complaints that have of...

The global history of liberalism has paid too much attention to the West, neglecting the contributions of liberals from colonial nations. This book mines the thought of Filipino propagandist and novelist, Jose Rizal, to present a vision of liberalism for the colonized. It is both an introduction to Rizal and a treatise on rights, freedom, and tyranny in colonial contexts. Though a work on history, it responds to the illiberal present of rising authoritarianism and populism.

The Bowmans are vampires who have quietly run the local barbecue joint in their small town for years, living off cow's blood. Their peaceful coexistence ends as generations of hate, fear, and bad blood bubble to the surface—making it impossible to separate man from monster! By superstar writer DONNY CATES (Venom, CROSSOVER) and artist LISANDRO ESTHERREN. Who is Demus, the first vampire? How did the Human-Vampire War begin? And just where in the hell did these vampires come from anyway?! Jo...

The Bowmans are VAMPIRES who have quietly run the local barbecue joint in their small town for years, living off cows' blood. Their peaceful coexistence ends as generations of hate, fear, and bad blood bubble to the surfacemaking it impossible to separate man from monster! Critically acclaimed writer DONNY CATES (GOD COUNTRY) and artist LISANDRO ESTHERREN serve up the tale of a DIFFERENT kind of family just trying to get by, deep in the heart of Texas. Collects REDNECK #1-6

Cora Reims lived the isolated life of a simple farm girl until one fateful summer day, prophetic visions brought her a visitor made of pure light… an angel. In the aftermath, Cora gave birth to a child, a Nephilim: the offspring of an angel and a human woman, seemingly imbued with evil itself.17 years later, that child’s cherubic appearance can no longer hide his monstrous nature. Frogs boil in their skins as he passes. Crops rot. The townspeople live in fear, knowing that atrocitie...

In the wake of their darkest day, it's time to say goodbye to The Lone Star State as the Bowman family searches for salvation in the shadows of Mexico. Collects REDNECK #19-24

With life at its absolute lowest for the Bowman family, they're forced to turn to a clan Bartlett had hoped to avoid for the rest of his very long life. Why? Because it's led by his ex, July Collects REDNECK #13-18

After leaving Sulphur Springs behind in a bloody hurry, the Bowmans are lying low from the law with a new member of the family in tow. But there are rules to being a vampireand when the rules are broken, the family will surely suffer. Collects REDNECK #7-12

The unforgettable story of a family swept into history by the Cuban RevolutionIn The House on G Street, award-winning author Lisandro Pérez tells Cuba’s story through the lens of a single family: his own. His book relays the tales of two officers who fought against the Spanish for Cuban independence; a plantation owner who smuggles himself onto a ship; families divided by political loyalties; an orphaned boy from central Cuba who would go on to amass a for...

The network management community has been pushed towards the design of alternative management approaches able to support heterogeneity, scalability, reliability, and minor human intervention. The employment of self-* properties and Peer-To-Peer (P2P) are seen as promising alternatives, able to provide the sophisticated solutions required.Despite being developed in parallel, and with minor direct connections perceived between them, self-* properties and P2P can be used concurrently....