Escaping the Iron Cage_ by Pattrick B. Sullivan challenges the way we think about work, leadership, and organizational culture. In a world where systems often matter more than people, this book reveals how lack of trust, poor communication, and disconnected teams quietly undermine success. Drawing on decades of real-world experience, Sullivan uncovers the root causes of workplace dysfunction and explains why the same problems continue to repeat across organizations.Rather than offe...

Not all the folks who roamed the Old West were cowhands, rustlers, or cardsharps. And they certainly weren’t all heroes.Give-a-Damn Jones, a free-spirited itinerant typographer, hates his nickname almost as much as the rumors spread about him. He’s a kind soul who keeps finding himself in the wrong place at the wrong time.That’s what happened in Box Elder, a small Montana town. Tensions are running high, and anything—or anyone—could be the fuse to ignite them: a recently re...

A funny, sharp, and slightly unhinged field guide to the agentic workplace.AI agents are not just chatbots. The moment you give a model permissions, you give it authority. And once authority shows up, your organization does what it always does. It measures everything that moves, logs every breath, builds dashboards like emotional support animals, and starts managing humans by whatever the dashboard can count.Meet Team Space Otter, the builders and shippers. Team Goth Koala,...

Discover your Language of Evangelization and bring people to Jesus Christ in a language they understand.Your language profile will explain your primary language of evangelization, what it means, and how you can use it to connect others to God.Join more and more of the baptized who are realizing that they speak the Faith by emphasizing Truth, Goodness or Beauty.Your quiz awaits!

So how do we move the future from the distant horizon to the present day? We need Intellectual Anarchy.The accelerating challenges facing our planet—such as climate change, food scarcity, sustainable energy, overpopulation, nuclear proliferation, income inequality, and rising healthcare costs—are solvable. The question is not if, but when.All these challenges directly impact our lives and our unwritten future. They have enormous economic consequences for humans and society....

Since the 1950s, television flooded the American soundscape with not just pictures but sounds, a constant aural stream infiltrating domestic life. In Stay Tuned, Patrick Sullivan treats network-era television sound not as background noise or auxiliary signal but as a formative texture of aesthetic life in postwar America. He theorizes how television’s sonic forms—asynchronous audiovisuals, noises, affective rhythms, what he collectively terms “network aurality”—trouble traditional...

The Best ManTen years Mary Breen has been trying to decide whom to wed, and ten years failing.That’s why, on the weekend before the All-Ireland Road Bowling Championship, two strong men will square off in a winner-take-all shootout.Davis Tone and Barry Murphy, warriors equally matched, waging a final battle in a cross-border rivalry that’s been simmering for the better part of a decade.A battle for the hand of Mary Breen, the woman each man professes to love...

A dozen of the best young spellcasters in the land. The heir to the throne, determined to beat them all. And Maddy Dune, a half-human enchanter who'll settle for getting through the competition without killing anyone.This story was first published in L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 27.

In May 1915, the RMS Lusitania, then the world's fastest liner, departed from New York. Seven days later she was torpedoed off the Irish coast with the loss of 1,198 lives. Suspected by the Germans of carrying clandestine munitions to Britain, the great ship steamed into a fatal encounter with the German submarine U-20. One of the largest naval disasters in history, it was a factor in bringing America into the First World War. Patrick O'Sullivan presents the complete story of the Lusitania...

Why and how the French made the balloon into one of the quintessential symbols of late nineteenth-century modernity, and how the balloon’s reinvention shaped the airplane’s assimilation in the early years of aviation.On August 27, 1783, a large crowd gathered in Paris to watch the first ascent of a hydrogen balloon. Despite the initial feverish enthusiasm, by the mid-nineteenth century the balloon remained relatively unchanged and was no longer seen as the harbinge...

This book assesses the oversight regime in Afghanistan to identify and characterize the oversight failures, and then links them to specific negative strategic outcomes. Although there are high-quality analyses available about what went wrong in Afghanistan and why, few of them are grounded in scholarly research that uses empirical methods. This book fills that epistemological gap as well as provides a unique contribution to the body of literature, which does not contain any comprehensive s...

A man on the move, without a past, without a future. An unwanted package bearing police reports, disturbing photographs, hints of escalation. And a handwritten plea in a lady's delicate hand, a summoning invocation Merlin Thorn dare not refuse. "Come home."