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Have you ever felt like the systems built to protect us from harm were designed to fail? The Macro Lens: Against the Drift is a weekly podcast exploring the systems beneath the systems: the structural forces shaping social work, child welfare, and community advocacy from the inside out. Each episode is an AI-generated deep dive into original work from Joseph Wernau, LMSW, translating interwoven theory, analysis, and practical guides into conversations built for busy practitioners, emerging social workers, and anyone who has ever wanted to call out institutional hypocricy. themacrolens.com

Want to break into distressed investing but aren’t sure how? The Distressed Investing Playbook by Joseph E. Sarachek, one of America's leading authorities on distressed debt and intangible asset trading, offers a definitive guide to succeeding in this highly volatile and highly lucrative area of investing.

From the author of the emotionally devastating epic fantasy series The Spellbinders and the Gunslingers comes... well, the complete opposite of that. It begins and ends, as things do, with a girl throwing a birthday party for a dragon. Or it would, if things were ever that simple. Generations...

Carmilla, el clásico vampírico de Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, se anticipó en un cuarto de siglo al Drácula de Bram Stoker, pero su valor va mucho más allá que el de ser el antecedente femenino del famoso conde de Transilvania. La escabrosa y atrevida relación entre sus protagonistas, Laura y Carmilla, aún hoy resulta sorprendente. La temática de la femme fatale alcanza aquí su máximo exponente, y los ecos de esta magnífica novela gótica la convierten en uno de los principales referentes del terror que se escribe en la actualidad.

Step into a world of magic and wonder with this collection of four classic English folk tales featuring the legendary hero, Jack! Whether he is climbing a giant beanstalk to find treasure, outsmarting massive monsters in the time of King Arthur, or making hilarious mistakes while trying to bring...

This beautifully curated anthology draws on major historical figures including Emerson, Thoreau, Carlyle, Oliver Goldsmith, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Francis Bacon, Montaigne, and Aristotle. The pieces range across themes such as the sentiment of friendship, its pleasures, and the art of choosing...

The Giants Are Hungry. And You’re on the Menu. In the mist-shrouded cliffs of Cornwall, the giant Cormoran treats humans like cattle and despair like a sport. The villages are broken, the magistrates are desperate, and the monsters are winning. But one man is about to turn the hunters into the...

St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face is one of the most beloved saints in the history of the Church, yet the depth of her spirituality is often misunderstood. Living the Little Way: Six Keys to the Spirituality of St. Thérèse offers a fresh and penetrating exploration of the “Little Flower,” uncovering dimensions of her life and teaching that remain largely overlooked.

A bold and honest exploration of what it means to be Catholic in a changing world, from two of America's beloved spiritual teachers In this candid and wide-ranging work, Richard Rohr and Joseph Martos confront the tensions many Catholics feel about their faith, identity, and belonging. Written...

In the shadows of London, a quiet shopkeeper is living a dangerous double life. Adolf Verloc appears ordinary—a husband, a small business owner, a man who keeps to himself. But behind the dusty windows of his shop lies a web of espionage, anarchists, and secret orders from foreign powers. Pressured to prove his usefulness, Verloc becomes entangled in a reckless plot that spirals far beyond his control. As the scheme unfolds, the consequences ripple through the lives closest to him—especially his wife, Winnie, whose quiet loyalty is tested in ways she never imagined.

A biography of Sir John A. Macdonald, the first Prime Minister of Canada. It was written by the man who served as Macdonald's private secretary from 1882 to 1891. - Summary by TriciaG

The perfect Christmas gift, this beautiful book explains how the bearded, red clad, big bellied, reindeer driving jovial gent came to be the face of Christmas, and reveals the historical origins of Saint Nicholas over seventeen hundred years ago in the Eastern Roman Empire. In a winding, magical...

Bloomsbury presents… Matching Minds With Sondheim Written and read by Barry Joseph By near-universal consensus, Stephen Sondheim was the greatest musical theater composer of his generation—celebrated, among other things, for the wit, sophistication, and intricacy of shows from West Side...

Professor H. L. Sabsovich is recognized as one of the foremost figures in the field of Jewish social service. A great part of his active life was given to the work of the Baron de Hirsch Fund, and he distinguished himself as a visionary thinker as well as an excellent administrator and, significantly, the Builder of Woodbine, the Woodbine Agricultural School, and later as General Agent for the Baron de Hirsch Fund.

Utility, not originality, has been aimed at in the compilation of this work. The obstacles and difficulties its author had met with in his endeavors to learn something of the article he was commissioned to sell when he first entered the Tea trade, the almost total lack of knowledge displayed by the average dealer in the commodity, allied to the numerous inquiries for a work containing “all about tea,” first prompted the undertaking. The material was collated at intervals, in a fragmentary manner, covering a period of over twenty years, and arranged amid the many interruptions incident to ...

From the celebrated bestselling author of The Power of Your Subconscious Mind comes a new collection that reveals the inner path to greater health, happiness, and abundance Joseph Murphy is one of the most influential voices in the New Thought movement. His books and recordings have sold...

Albert Dietrich, the German composer and conductor, was a friend of Johannes Brahms and the first part of this book includes vivid recollections of his relationship with the composer as well as charming letters between them. J.V. Widmann, a Swiss writer and editor, first met Brahms when the composer was 33 and he provides an intimate portrait of Brahms in the latter part of his life. They became good friends and traveled often to Italy together and were in contact until the end of the composer's life. - Summary by mkirkpat

Niccolò (or Nicolò) Paganini (1782 – 1840) was an Italian violinist, violist, guitarist, and composer. He was the most celebrated violin virtuoso of his time, and left his mark as one of the pillars of modern violin technique. François-Joseph Fétis (1784 – 1871) was a Belgian musicologist, composer, teacher, and one of the most influential music critics of the 19th century.- Summary by David Wales

What Is Property?: or, An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government (French: Qu'est-ce que la propriété ? ou Recherche sur le principe du Droit et du Gouvernment) is an influential work of nonfiction on the concept of property and its relation to anarchist philosophy by the French anarchist and mutualist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, first published in 1840. In the book, Proudhon most famously declared that “property is theft”. Proudhon believed that the common conception of property conflated two distinct components which, once identified, demonstrated the difference between ...

The complete trilogy, Ark Ship Found, Ark Ship Colony and Ark Ship PortalCalliope, Holly loved her life. Working at her familybusiness, her boyfriend, maybe marriage? And her bestfriend. Everything was great. Her future was bright, Atight-knit community of friends and family. Everything isabout to change when she rescues a lost hiker. Where shefinds him is about to change her world, maybe everyone's.