"Are we in public right now, or not?"Twelve people, old friends and new acquaintances, have abandoned everything they knew to create a self-contained society in a former shopping mall. Welcome to A Better Place."I'm not in charge at all. I'm just a facilitator."With the right blend of personalities, it could be paradise. But what about with this mix? Everyone's thrilled to escape the drudgery of their former lives,...

An arrogant, high profile scientist at a Midwest university is found dead and headless. The bloodless laboratory murder scene and missing head mark the beginning of a series of events that push the brilliant but somewhat misanthropic Dr. Andy Cobb to the top of the suspect list. Andy's alleged guilt is bolstered by circumstantial evidence and a personal vendetta against him by the local law enforcer, Art Fletcher. As Andy strives to avoid the law while solving the murder mystery, he is aid...

A top-tier pimp, Dumond Presley, and his favorite employee, Shaunlese Courage, discover a plot to put deadly "performance enhancing" drugs into the hands of their clients. The perpetrators of this malicious scheme hail from the upper-most echelons of the pharmaceutical industry and government. A cast of colorful characters assist Dumond and Shaunlese as they outwit these criminal masterminds.

Improving the dire health problems faced by many Native American communities is central to their cultural, political, and economic well being. However, it is still too often the case that both theoretical studies and applied programs fail to account for Native American perspectives on the range of factors that actually contribute to these problems in the first place. The authors in Medicine Ways examine the ways people from a multitude of indigenous communities think about and practice hea...

Four experts with the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard University provide the essential—and now newly updated—guide to becoming a more effective crisis leader while equipping yourself with the tools for everyday transformative leadershipToday, every leader must be ready to lead through a crisis. In You’re It, the faculty from the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard University draws on their expansive field research ...

Become a better crisis leader while equipping yourself with the tools for every day transformative leadershipToday, in an instant, leaders can find themselves face-to-face with crisis. An active shooter. A media controversy. A data breach. In You're It, the faculty of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard University takes you to the front lines of some of the toughest decisions facing our nation's leaders-from how to mobilize during a ...

Become a better crisis leader while equipping yourself with the tools for every day transformative leadershipManaging crisis well is at the very heart of good leadership. Here, the team from the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard University draws on a deep well of research as well as their experience working with leaders to respond to crisis events of all kinds, from terrorist attacks to the COVID-19 pandemic, to more everyday crises like a prod...

Become a better crisis leader while equipping yourself with the tools for every day transformative leadershipManaging crisis well is at the very heart of good leadership. Here, the team from the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative at Harvard University draws on a deep well of research as well as their experience working with leaders to respond to crisis events of all kinds, from terrorist attacks to the COVID-19 pandemic, to more everyday crises like a prod...

The Eternal Empire's war against the Phobes opens a new front in the Skull Nebula! Vic and company join Forged teams Rapier and Gladius to bring the fight into T-space—but things go sideways fast when Vic is declared KIA! Now, CrazyJo must lead Scimitar-3 alongside the other Forged teams on a mission that will spell genocide for the Phobes. And behind it all, politics on Throneworld become all the stranger as Davian enters an uneasy alliance with the leader of the breakaway cabal of Cassan...

Collecting the first arc of the comic that combines the pulp-sci-fi-over-the-top-frenzied-mayhem of Operation: Black Box with the spirit of Heavy Metal and any other comics you tried to hide from your parents! Meet the Forged, elite warriors in service to the Eternal Empress. It's a routine recovery op on a distant world. What could possibly go wrong? Spoiler: Just about everything!

CrazyJo must lead Scimitar-3 alongside two other Forged teams into T-space on a mission that spells genocide for the Phobes, while the KIA-listed Vic finds herself face to face with an old frenemy. On Throneworld, Davian enters an uneasy alliance with a Cassandra, but will their alliance reveal the Empress's true agenda, or is it just part of a longer game?

The Forged are trapped on the hellscape of Gehenna where the locals are very hungry. CrazyJo loses an arm. Again. Another engaging issue of this series delivers new developments, unexpected turns, evolving dynamics, and moments that keep readers curious for more.