The legendary bestseller that encouraged millions of readers to look at the hidden side of everythingWhich is more dangerous: a gun or a swimming pool? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? What do real estate agents and the KKK have in common?These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much-heralded scholar who uses data analysis to study the riddles of everyday life—from cheating an...

Named one of 100 Leadership & Success Books to Read in a Lifetime by Amazon EditorsThe world’s most trusted guide for leaders in transitionTransitions are a critical time for leaders. In fact, most agree that moving into a new role is the biggest challenge a manager will face. While transitions offer a chance to start fresh and make needed changes in an organization, they also place leaders in a position of acute vulnerability. Missteps mad...

For more than twenty years, I lived by my Air Force code.Until I made a choice. Put my family first. Something a soldier is never allowed to do.Now I don’t know who I am. Or where I belong.Getting lost in Mexico sounds like a good idea, but with only guilt and regret as my constant companions, I’ll never figure it all out.Until a chance meeting with Dr. Mikayla Salim in a hotel bar changes my course.She’s everything I’m not. Full of life and on a mis...

Angel Kael refuses to believe that his brother has fallen. Logan was a great guardian angel; he would never become a fallen angel. Another question that baffles Kael is who murdered Prophet Joshua of earth and why? These questions drive Kael to break one of heaven's rules - that of going down to earth to investigate. On earth he quickly discovers that nothing is as it seems and before long, he finds himself breaking a few more rules as he unravels numerous secrets and mysteries, and the mo...

The kingdom is in trouble……and one mage has a plan.Will it be enough to stop the dragon?Subin just became an apprentice to the legendary Dugen the Blue, the high mage of the kingdom. Old rivalries between his boss and the general have put him in a tough spot. Will he need to choose sides?Can the army and the mages come together for the greater good?Or will their personal feud cost them everything?Do they even know the real threat?You’...

“Mahalia Jackson was the greatest gospel singer of her time and an overlooked leader in the Civil Rights Movement. Her voice seemed born of heaven.” —Henry Louis Gates Jr.If Americans today still recognize the name Mahalia Jackson, they might recall that she was perhaps the greatest gospel singer who ever lived. But for many people, there is no awareness at all, not even for an entertainer whose “Move On Up a Little Higher” sold eight million copies, who headlined ...

Tamsin Greer has always been different.A street-smart private investigator with psychic gifts she's spent years trying to ignore, Tamsin is barely holding her life together when a stranger walks into her Brooklyn office and changes everything. She has family she never knew, and a sprawling, psychedelic Victorian manor on the coast of Washington State to prove it.Brightstar Manor is nothing like she imagined. The house hums with old magic, the woods press in...

This book examines how science education can either reinforce or counteract genetic essentialism, a misperception that social groups share genes which determine their cognitive and behavioral characteristics.The first chapter examines genetic essentialism’s key features, current manifestations and impacts, and historical precedents. The middle chapters analyze how science textbooks and curricula enable and may amplify essentialist reasoning through simplified explanations of geneti...

The problems with the Bible that New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman discussed in his bestseller Misquoting Jesus—and on The Daily Show with John Stewart, NPR, and Dateline NBC, among others—are expanded upon exponentially in his latest book: Jesus, Interrupted.This New York Times bestseller reveals how many books in the Bible were not written by their traditional authors, and that the New Testament itself is filled with c...

The Bard's Blade is the start of the new Sorcerer's Song fantasy adventure series from Brian D. Anderson, bestselling author of The Godling Chronicles and Dragonvein.Mariyah enjoys a simple life in Vylari, a land magically sealed off from the outside world, where fear and hatred are all but unknown. There she's a renowned wine maker and her betrothed, Lem, is a musician of rare talent. Their destiny has never been in question. Whatever life brings, they wi...

He's still my enemy.After centuries of bloodshed, the Redstone Treaty brought an uneasy peace between the Elemental Realms and the Elduiri invaders. Now, the only conflict Princess Jaede of the Western Water Realm must be wary of is amongst her own people - the people she is expected to protect at any cost. However, with reports of an Elduiri war fleet sailing rapidly toward the Southern Fire Realm, Jaede realizes that treaties are no more than sheets of parchment, easily ...

Three of Dr. Robert Lesslie's popular books of inspiring true stories are now gathered into one ebook set for the first time ever!In Angels and Heroes, Angels in the ER, and Angels on Call, Dr. Lesslie shares moving accounts of remarkable people and incidents from his 25 years as an ER doctor. During this rich history he has witnessed many amazing moments of people exhibiting the grace and strength of angels in the face of danger every da...