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A Novel of America’s FutureAmerica is at the brink of the precipice. Competing ideologies divide the citizens, setting neighbor against neighbor, brother against brother. In a time when facts are what anyone wants them to be, disinformation and mistrust of each other are the only truth being broadcast. As everyday Americans hunker down, trying to avoid becoming a statistic in the cancel culture wars, America is self-segregating into warring tribes, each believing the other is evil ...

Based on a national survey of hundreds of teenage girls, Jeff Feldhahn and Eric Rice give young men insight into the hearts and minds of teen girls while opening the way to healthier relationships between guys and girls, both now and in their future.

Just for guys…the inside scoop on girlsfrom the girls themselves.Okay, the authors aren't girls. But to bring you the facts they surveyed more than 1,000 of them. Every teen guy wants to know how girls are wired, what they want, and how they really think…Or at least how to talk to a girl without feeling like an idiot.Here's your chance to find out.

Rhetorics Change/Rhetoric’s Change features selected essays, multimedia texts, and audio pieces from the 2016 Rhetoric Society of America biennial conference, which spotlighted the theme “Rhetoric and Change.” The pieces are broadly focused around eight different lines of thought: Aural Rhetorics; Rhetoric and Science; Embodiment; Digital Rhetorics; Languages and Publics; Apologia, Revolution, Reflection; and Intersectionality, Interdisciplinarity, and the Future of Feminist Rhetoric. Simu...

The Cambridge Handbook of Policing in the United States provides a comprehensive collection of essays on police and policing, written by leading experts in political theory, sociology, criminology, economics, law, public health, and critical theory. It unveils a range of experiences - from the police chief of a major metropolitan force to ordinary people targeted for policing on the street - and asks important questions about whether and why we need the police, before analyzing the law of ...

This book marries social work and artificial intelligence to provide an introductory guide for using AI for social good. Following an introductory chapter laying out approaches and ethical principles of using AI for social work interventions, the book describes in detail an intervention to increase the spread of HIV information by using algorithms to determine the key individuals in a social network of homeless youth. Other chapters present interdisciplinary collaborations between AI and s...

With essays written by leading performer-scholars, The Clarinet offers unique perspectives on the clarinet's historical role in various styles, genres, and ensembles. Beginning with a chapter on clarinet iconography, the book continues with an overview of the instrument's early history, chapters on the clarinet in the opera orchestra and the traditional symphony orchestra, and examinations of important genres involving the clarinet (the concerto and the clarinet quintet). Also inc...

In "Tarzan: 8 Novels in One Volume," Edgar Rice Burroughs amalgamates adventure, romance, and existential exploration through the icon of Tarzan, a character who straddles the line between civilization and the wild. Written in the early 20th century, Burroughs employs a rich narrative style that draws from both the pulp fiction traditions and the burgeoning fascination with the exoticism of the African landscape. The novels unfold the evolution of Tarzan, juxtaposing themes of identity, be...

Since its inception in the 19th Century photography has been a trusted source capturing both truth and reality. It cannot lie. Our eyes may deceive us, but the camera cannot. It is also an Art. Down through the decades this art has produced stunning images that literally capture a story whether it be in War photography, celebrity mishaps, even political downfalls and much else besides.In this volume whilst our classic authors are at the early edge of photography’s development, they...

In "Beyond Thirty," Edgar Rice Burroughs artfully weaves a narrative that intricately blends science fiction and adventure, set in an imagined future where a war-torn United States has become an unrecognizable land bounded by strict isolationism. Employing his trademark imaginative prose, Burroughs presents a riveting tale through the eyes of a British protagonist, who straddles the line between past civilizations and a mysterious, primitive American continent. The story is further enriche...

The Detective has been a mainstay of fiction writing ever since we can remember.Their deductive powers, their intuition and fleet-footed grasp of every detail can often turn the unlikeliest situation, or bunch of red herrings, into a breakthrough to capture even the most ingenious and dastardly of criminals.In this series our classic authors explore not only various themes, such as Occult Detectives, Female Detectives, Curious Crimes and a whole host more, but also bring a ...

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. Obviously for most of humanity’s time people couldn’t read and texts couldn’t be publishe...