A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEARBased on an unprecedented eighteen-year study, the center of this riveting book are three engaging streetwise brothers who provide powerful testimony to the exigencies of life lived on the social and economic margins. With profound lessons regarding the intersection of social forces and individual choices, Black succeeds in putting a human face on some of the most important public policy issues of our time.

Two decades after a disease that turned sane men into ravenous werewolves destroyed civilization, the last bastion of humanity, the flying city of Wardenclyffe, careens toward certain doom.Desperate to save both his home and his missing love, Elijah faces the final confrontation: invading Menlo Station, the floating metropolis full of such misery and pain that its victims know it as the Howling City, where the Cabal birthed the werewolf horror that broke the world.With the ...

The world is a broken place—we feel it, and long for things to change. This book contains a few encouragements that place the church and all followers of Jesus in the center of figuring out how to foster true change, both spiritual and physical. Does God care about the hopelessness felt by billions of people living in desperate poverty? Do followers of Jesus have a mandate to engage poverty that flows from a gospel-motivated center? If so, what does it look like?The purpose of this...

The erotic and exciting adventures of Charlotte Frost, Tantric Aviatrix, continues...In a world where sex is magic, Captain Charlotte Frost is confronted with the mystery of her world's origins. Having narrowly escaped the Matriarchy with the enigmatic, sentient, and shapeshifting Doll, they now find themselves trapped in the mysterious Temple of Ishtar, long buried in the past under the sands of the Syrian Desert.Together, Charlotte and the Doll must face the trials and tr...

After taming the Temple of Ishtar, rebel airship captain Charlotte Frost and her clockwork courtesan, Arslan Tash, have a monumental task ahead of them. They must protect and defend the Temple from Gabriel Harper, a mysterious alchemist who has designs on the Temple and the secrets therein.The problem? Charlotte is attracted to Gabriel. She must overcome this attraction to the enigmatic man while simultaneously orchestrating a defence against the Matriarchy, who plan to break into ...

In 1890, a disease that turned sane men into ravenous werewolves swept through the United States like wildfire. On the brink of humanity's extinction, Nikola Tesla and a mysterious order of scientists known as the Tellurians revealed a bold plan: the uninfected would abandon the Earth's surface by rising up in floating salvation cities, iron and steel metropolises that carried tens of thousands of refugees above the savage apocalypse. The remnants of mankind huddled fearfully in the clouds...

On the brink of humanity's extinction, Nikola Tesla and a mysterious order of scientists known as the Tellurians revealed a bold plan to save a world ravaged by a disease that turned sane men into ravenous werewolves: the uninfected would abandon the Earth's surface by rising up in floating salvation cities, iron and steel metropolises that carried tens of thousands of refugees above the savage apocalypse.Twenty years later, only one salvation city remains aloft, while the beasts s...

The world is a broken place-we feel it, and long for things to change. This book contains a few encouragements that place the church and all followers of Jesus in the center of trying to figure out how to foster true change, both spiritual and physical. Does God care about the hopelessness felt by billions of people living in desperate poverty? Do followers of Jesus have a mandate to engage poverty that flows from a gospel-motivated center? If so, what does it look like?The purpose...

The expectation for fathers to be more involved with parenting their children and pitching in at home are higher than ever, yet broad social, political, and economic changes have made it more difficult for low-income men to be fathers. In It's a Setup, Timothy Black and Sky Keyes ground a moving and intimate narrative in the political and economic circumstances that shape the lives of low-income fathers. Based on 138 life history interviews, they expose the contradiction that whil...

In 2013, New York City launched a public education campaign with posters of frowning or crying children saying such things as "I’m twice as likely not to graduate high school because you had me as a teen" and "Honestly, Mom, chances are he won’t stay with you." Campaigns like this support a public narrative that portrays teen mothers as threatening the moral order, bankrupting state coffers, and causing high rates of poverty, incarceration, and school dropout. These efforts demonize teen m...

Software Defined Networks: A Comprehensive Approach, Second Edition provides in-depth coverage of the technologies collectively known as Software Defined Networking (SDN). The book shows how to explain to business decision-makers the benefits and risks in shifting parts of a network to the SDN model, when to integrate SDN technologies in a network, and how to develop or acquire SDN applications. In addition, the book emphasizes the parts of the technology that encourage opening up the netw...

The U.S. Supreme Court, with its controlled, highly institutionalized decision-making practices, provides an ideal environment for studying coalition formation. The process begins during the oral argument stage, which provides the justices with their first opportunity to hear one another's attitudes and concerns specific to a case. This information gathering allows them eventually to form a coalition.In order to uncover the workings of this process, the authors analyze oral argumen...