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After his father's death, Miles Storch followed in his footsteps, becoming a bounty hunter to bring down the toughest outlaws. Only, Miles has abilities that his father wasn't born with, making him much better at taking on the more dangerous jobs. When he comes across an outlaw listed in an old journal, he discovers that there was more to his father's past than Miles realized. Something that got him killed. Can Miles pick up where his father left off, or will he end up in the plot next to ...

After a night of gambling on the Las Vegas strip, Mark Cavanaugh just wanted to hit it big. He wanted to hit the monster jackpot, but this wasn't exactly what he had in mind. Can Mark make it out alive as giant creatures swarm the streets of Vegas?

A new danger has entered the arena.With the egotistical supervillain, Sight, brought to justice, the city's superhero saviors get some much-needed downtime to rest and recuperate. But a new threat emerges, bringing Patrick and the team back together.Things take a turn for the worst when the Brotherhood of Armageddon proves far more powerful than any threat the city’s heroes have ever faced.With the weight and responsibility of leadership on Patrick’...

Can a team of misfits stop Armageddon?The city’s heroes are defeated. The team has been torn apart. Patrick is forced to pick up the pieces, and lead them back into the toughest battle of their lives.Complicating matters, the FBI has sent in a pair of super-powered federal agents to regain control and put a stop to the Brotherhood of Armageddon.Ground Zero and Warhead are on a rampage, wrecking anything the city can throw at them. The villains in th...

What if you drew the short straw in the superpower draft picks?Can Patrick, a part-time hero with a seemingly useless super-ability, build a team of misfit supers to defeat a maniacal madman with desires of world domination?The heroes must learn to trust each other and work together to face an army of supervillains and henchmen. In order to come out on top, Patrick has to dig deep and unleash everything he's got.Two Percent Power.If...

“Every practice is a mode of thought, already in the act. To dance: a thinking in movement. To paint: a thinking through color. To perceive in the everyday: a thinking of the world’s varied ways of affording itself.” —from Thought in the ActCombining philosophy and aesthetics, Thought in the Act is a unique exploration of creative practice as a form of thinking. Challenging the common opposition between the conceptual and the aesthetic, Erin Manning and Brian Mass...

Chosen by Randall Mann as a winner of the Jake Adam York Prize, Brian Tierney's Rise and Float depicts the journey of a poet working—remarkably, miraculously—to make our most profound, private wounds visible on the page.With the "corpse of Frost" under his heel, Tierney reckons with a life that resists poetic rendition. The transgenerational impact of mental illness, a struggle with disordered eating, a father's death from cancer, the loss of loved ones to addiction and sui...

Through a series of penetrating conversations originally published in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Review of Books, Brad Evans and Natasha Lennard talk with a wide range of cutting edge thinkers--including Oliver Stone, Simon Critchley, and Elaine Scarry--to explore the problem of violence in everyday life, politics, culture, media, language, memory, and the environment. "To bring out the best of us," writes Evans, "we have to c...

This collection bundles the first three books of the action-packed John Stone adventure.The Hard KillJohn discovers the murder of his friend, and abduction of his goddaughter might involve a prototype technology that could threaten the security of the free world. Now, with time running out, he must rely on the abilities of his former life to save his goddaughter from the same fate as her father. They want power. He’s going to bring...

This collection bundles the next three books of the action-packed John Stone adventure.Head of the Serpent: A vicious new terrorist cell emerges. With the Hostile Response Division disbanded, John Stone wants to go back to a quiet life. But word of a tragic terrorist attack draws John back into the fight. Now he must find the leader of a new terror cell, and stop their plan to unleash chaos and destruction on a scale never before seen.The Hard ...

The thrilling conclusion!This collection bundles the final three books of the action-packed John Stone adventure. Includes the following:Black and White: With the help of retired detective Scott Maverick, John Stone is on the trail of the assassins that almost killed a friend. But they soon find themselves pulled away from the mission, when a group of rogue mercenaries shake things up and get onto the radar of the Hard Core.With innocent li...

It is now 25 years since the first edition of Person-Centred Counselling in Action appeared, offering the definitive exposition of the theory and practice of the person-centred approach. Since then the book has supported and inspired hundreds of thousands of trainees and practitioners worldwide.This important Fourth Edition maintains the book's accessibility, clarity and verve whilst incorporating new developments in the approach. John McLeod joins...