The Lawful Kidnapping of America's Disposable Class
An American couple is kidnapped from their home by a Las Vegas court. Two thousand miles away, a journalist investigates the same thing happening to thousands of Michigan residents. Victims of conservatorship abuse, they are stripped of their freedom, rights, identity, possessions, and life savings by a professional guardian, and it's all ......
Groundbreaking discoveries in reproductive biology and regenerative medicine are reshaping our ideas of conception, fertility, and the origins of disease. In Embryo, world-leading developmental biologist Alfonso Martinez Arias traces the embryo's formation over its first fifty days while exploring how new technologies are changing how we view our ......
How Political Language Has Made America Less Inclusive (and How to Bring Us Back Together)
Trigger Words examines how language in the United States has been manipulated and politicized to sow division and dehumanization, rather than to encourage inclusion and equity. From "woke" to "DEI" to "CRT," words that once emerged from marginalized communities to speak truth to power have been weaponized by conservative movements--especially the ......
How Chaos Became the Most Powerful Tool in Politics
Humanity is currently defined by constant crisis and information overload. Flooding the Space reveals a disturbing truth: the greatest political power no longer lies in persuasion, but in chaos. From the rise of emotionally charged misinformation to the collapse of coherent public debate, today's leaders are no longer simply communicating. They ......
How Belief Is Not a Choice and Why That Changes Everything
Unconvinced is a bold, accessible, and morally urgent book about a widespread assumption in religion that often goes unexamined: that we are responsible for what we believe. Drawing on philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, and theology, it makes the case that belief is not a choice--and that salvation systems which reward or punish people for what ......
Henry and Amelia Champlin and America's Maritime Ascendancy
Faith and Fortune is a history of the United States of America between 1780 and 1880. Using the love story of Captain Henry Champlin and his wife Amelia as the narrative vehicle, this book illuminates a remarkable yet forgotten story of the transatlantic packet ships that sailed between New York and London. These large, swift moving vessels, built ......
An Anthology of Robert Traver Award Fly-Fishing Stories
The Robert Traver Fly-Fishing Writing Award has been the most widely recognized international award for fly fishing stories in the English language for 30 years. The annual Traver Award is jointly administered by the John D. Voelker Foundation of Marquette, Michigan and the American Museum of Fly Fishing in Manchester, Vermont. As an anthology of ......
A Firsthand Account Behind Enemy Lines in World War II
They were a platoon of misfits--and proud of it. Soldiers like Rodney Orange, Myron Wadsworth Folsom, Tex Whaley, Vic Svagdis, Ace Meyer, and Bruiser Neerman, rebellious young men who bristled at military authority, who had a chip on their shoulder and something to prove. Among them were a Chicago cop, a Los Angeles milkman, a Pennsylvania coal ......
A Season in Patagonia is angler, naturalist, and outdoor conservation author Steve Ramirez's newest collection of fly fishing, nature trekking, and exploration stories that are intended to entertain and enlighten his readers while focusing on "Nature and the Best of Human Nature." In A Season in Patagonia, Ramirez takes us on an epic journey ......
