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This collection of 14 stories by Bram Stoker Award winning author David Niall Wilson represent more than 20 years of writing. They all feature madness in one form or another. There is everything here from serial killers to fairy tales, crazy artists, and other worlds that might—or might not—actually exist.

It seems obvious that we should use history to improve policy. If we have a good understanding of the past, it should enable better decisions in the present, especially in the extraordinarily consequential worlds of statecraft and strategy. But how do we gain that knowledge? How should history be used? Sadly, it is rarely done well, and historians and decision-makers seldom interact. But in this remarkable book, Francis J. Gavin explains the many ways historical knowledge can help us understand and navigate the complex, often confusing world around us.

How to Measure Anything in Project Management explains why popular methods for measurement in project management are flawed and describes how to conduct measurements that better inform decisions, reduce project risks, and improve the chance of project success.

In Untangling AI, founder and Chief AI Officer at Multiplai Tech, Matt Kesby, delivers an incisive roadmap for business leaders interested in assessing where their companies stand in the AI adoption lifecycle and where they want to go. Kesby explains how to rethink your current operational model and how to replace traditional workflows with AI-powered decision-making and execution.

Tulsa, Oklahoma might not be the first place mentioned when people talk about American music history. But this bustling city has a rich and diverse legacy that spans genres, generations and cultures. Tulsa Sounds: Contributions to American Music takes you into the stories behind the songs, the artists and the venues that made Tulsa not only a musical hot spot but influenced social, cultural and political change in the city as well as the nation. There is Leon Russell and his contributions to rock and roll. There are the toe-tapping pioneers of Western Swing, Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys.

What Therapists Say and Why They Say It, 4th ed, is one of the most practical and flexible books available to counseling students and professionals. The new edition includes several new techniques, as well as a robust section on the use of AI in counseling, continued expansion of telehealth counseling, and the use of robots and holograms in the counseling process.

What if Jesus was cloned… and didn’t want to save the world? In the neon-drenched dystopia of 2144, spirituality is a subscription service, and megachurches sell miracles like fast food. Meet Jesus 3. 0, the latest cloned messiah, who’s more anxious human than divine savior. Teamed with Sadie Vox, a jaded ex-pastor, Gary, a foul-mouthed donkey prophet, and Bishop Synth, a sentient AI toaster, Jesus must navigate a world where faith is a brand and love is a liability.

In The Good Marriage, Dr. Kevin Meyer shares a transformational approach to strengthening your relationship by drawing from personal experience, biblical wisdom, and proven scientific data.

Songwriter turned lawyer and author, Andrew Banks Townsend, recounts the events of his youth that led him to important lessons about race, acceptance and overcoming adversity. Much of his journey involved learning from the experiences of his grandparents and others of his grandparents' generation. Andrew's life reminds how seemingly unrelated historical events continue to ripple through ensuing generations in unexpected and sometimes mysterious ways.

In 1962, three sorcerers converged to do battle in a hidden chamber near a disused platform in the London Underground. Prophecy foretold that the victor would hold the very fate of humanity in their hands. Since then… nothing. Now, the people who are trying to find out exactly what happened all those years ago are being murdered – there is a killer coming after them, a killer with a plan – and their only hope for survival lies with Skulduggery Pleasant and Valkyrie Cain.

A foul-mouthed fairy. A princess with an axe. A kingdom one bar fight away from collapse. Exiled from the Fairy Realm for “excessive profanity and reckless endangerment” (a total misunderstanding, really), Flit is stuck in the mortal world—where everyone is far too tall, not nearly drunk enough, and weirdly obsessed with quests. All he wants is a stiff drink and to be left alone. Instead, he gets kidnapped by a princess who thinks he’s her magical sidekick.

In Drunk on Genocide, Edward B. Westermann reveals how, over the course of the Third Reich, scenes involving alcohol consumption and revelry among the SS and police became a routine part of rituals of humiliation in the camps, ghettos, and killing fields of Eastern Europe. Westermann draws on a vast range of newly unearthed material to explore how alcohol consumption served as a literal and metaphorical lubricant for mass murder. It facilitated "performative masculinity," expressly linked to physical or sexual violence.

Johnny Mize was one of the greatest hitters in baseball’s golden age of great hitters. Born and raised in tiny Demorest, Georgia, in the northeast Georgia mountains, Mize emerged from the heart of Dixie as a Bunyonesque slugger, a quiet but sharp-witted man from a broken home who became a professional player at seventeen, embarking on an extended tour of the expansive St. Louis Cardinals Minor League system.

In A Horse for Joe the lead character is becoming part of a new family. He has some rough edges to deal with, but he's guided by love. Through the character of his adopted father, Dr. Knox Alastair MacGregor, the listener gets a glimpse of what is coming for the U.S. in Vietnam while Joe watches the news with innocence.

Eric Soda started out in the insurance business while in high school in his hometown Princeton, Wisconsin, population 1,200. After high school, while building his insurance business he was also fighting fires and pulling people out of car wrecks as a paid on-call firefighter. It put life into perspective for him. Those years shaped him as a business professional and a person. Those images and lessons stick with him to this day.

From “The Godfather of FI”, a follow-up to his international best-selling personal finance sensation The Simple Path to Wealth! Pathfinders brings together scores of amazing and insightful real-life stories from real people on the journey to financial independence—providing practical encouragement and inspiration for anyone who wants to join them.

Michael Bloomberg became mayor of New York just four months after the 9/11 terrorist destruction of the World Trade Center, and he led the rebuilding of a physically and emotionally devastated city so well that within two years, the city had budget surpluses. Weikart reveals how state and federal governments constrained Bloomberg's efforts to set municipal policy and implement his strategic goals in the areas of homelessness, low-income housing, poverty, education, and crime.

At the end of Edge of Disaster, Luke finds his daughter, Sierra, facedown in the snow. Now Luke wants revenge. As the cult tries to reassemble under new leadership, Luke and his allies work together to end the cult’s reign of terror. He’ll do whatever it takes to protect what’s left of his family, even if it means sacrificing himself.

George Armstrong Custer, one of the most familiar figures of 19th-century American history, is known almost exclusively as a soldier, his brilliant military career culminating in catastrophe at Little Bighorn. But Custer, author James E. Mueller suggests, had the soul of an artist, not of a soldier. Ambitious Honor elaborates this radically new perspective, arguing that an artistic passion for creativity and recognition drove Custer to success and, ultimately, to the failure that has overshadowed his notable achievements.

This is your one-stop, definitive resource as you prepare for a secure and comfortable retirement. Investment and personal finance experts Larry Swedroe and Kevin Grogan present uniquely comprehensive coverage of every important aspect you need to think about as you approach retirement, including social security, Medicare, investment planning strategy, portfolio maintenance, preparing your heirs, retirement issues faced by women, the threat of elder financial abuse, going beyond financials to think about your happiness, and much more.