On 15th October 1977, Christine Eadie and Helen Scott left the World's End pub after a fun-filled night with two men in their arms. They had their whole lives ahead of them. They had nothing to fear and everything to look forward to.Their naked bodies were discovered the following day. They were found six miles apart from each other. No attempt had been made to conceal their bodies, and both girls had been beaten, gagged, tied, raped and strangled.The case attracted widespr...

You picked up this book because you know the exact moment when a small request, one that should take 2 minutes, lands on you like a demand to lift a car, and the internal display switches from a steady green to a blinking red. You know the afternoon crash when the words in a paragraph stop meaning anything, and when the only honest answer to the question of what you can do next is nothing. The most useful way to talk about this state is to call it a low battery brain, because that is exact...

In Dongying, secrets don't stay buried. They just learn to walk in daylight.Ashe came to China to teach English and stayed for the life he built: a house in the newer district, a girlfriend who trusts him, a weekend school, and a pen name that pays the bills. He told himself the third year would be quieter. He told himself Lucy was only a voice in his headphones.Lucy is twenty-one, a third-year English major with an America-shaped dream and a boyfriend who cooks for her. Sh...

Ryan green explains how the mind influences every single thingthat you do and how, by understanding it and learning to controlits incredible force, you can improve the quality of your daily life.

Every marketing book you have read has told you that to build a successful brand you must put yourself at the center of it, that you need a face, a story, a personality, and a willingness to perform in public every single day. That advice was true for 20 years, and it is becoming less true by the day, because the personal branding industrial complex has created a landscape so saturated that audiences are experiencing personality fatigue on a massive and accelerating scale. This book exists...

In 1983, a United States Army lieutenant colonel sat down to explain consciousness to the Central Intelligence Agency, and the memo he produced spent 2 decades classified before it was released to the public in 2003. The document, officially titled Analysis and Assessment of Gateway Process, remains the most remarkable official acknowledgment that the intelligence community took altered states of consciousness seriously enough to study them, and it sits inside a much larger archive that in...

Take a deep breath, because if you picked up this book you have already done the hardest part, which is deciding to learn a language that once looked like a wall of impossible words. Maybe you are starting a healthcare career as a medical assistant, a nursing student, a receptionist, or a phlebotomist, and the terminology is standing between you and the job you want. Maybe you are a caregiver or a patient who wants to understand what the doctor actually said. Whatever brought you here, you...

A political, poetic excavation of the human landscape, charting the history of geography through the historic movement of its residents' bodies and complicated habits.Through intertextual intervention, this anti-linear collection reconceives the archives of Phoenix, Arizona to create a counter-map of the city and its trajectories of supremacist violence. [gamerover] tracks trajectories of colonial enterprizes, from the Arizona State Fair to the World's Col...

Elena Salamanca's TAL VEZ MONSTRUOS Fragmentos de [INCOGNITA FLORA CUSCATLANICA] / MONSTERS MAYBE Fragments from [INCOGNITA FLORA CUSCATLANICA] is an excerpt from a book-length poem that explores the intersection between ecology, colonial violence, personal memory, family-ancestral knowledge, and place. Written from a historian's eye for research and detail, Salamanca weaves poetic language to explore colonial practices that led to ecological devastations in El Salvador...

WHO AM I?How do I live up to my potential and how do I let go of things that hold me back?How can I become my best, authentic self without compromising my relationships?These are just some of the questions we ask ourselves while basking in our solitude. To know who you truly are and how to cultivate a stronger sense of self and purpose, you must first learn to look within, and then figure out what role you play your life and the lives of others.The world is a me...

Every company has a dark side filled with secrets and scandal, which means your favorite ride service is no different. Technological advancement has always improved lives and shaped cultures. It gives us better food, increased productivity, and enjoyable entertainment. Uber is the birth of such technological advancements, and it has changed our lives drastically. The rise of Uber brought cheaper transportation that was more accessible; with the click of a button someone is there to pick yo...

We view the world through a narrow lens and demand that others see and do things as we see fit. This is where conflicts arise and communication fizzles out. If we only learn to widen our awareness and celebrate each individual for their authentic self, we will be able to deepen our connections and learn to grow and thrive together.This is why the Enneagram has proven to be such a potent tool for finding common ground. It reminds us that every person sees and interacts with the worl...