Alex J Alex: 101 books
DIY Citizenship
Critical Making and Social Media
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2014
How social media and DIY communities have enabled new forms of political participation that emphasize doing and making rather than passive consumption.
Today, DIY—do-it-yourself—describes more than self-taught carpentry. Social media enables DIY citizens to organize and protest in new ways...
Dark and Twisted Reads
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
This box set of three terrifying thrillers will keep you up far into the night!
ALL THE PRETTY GIRLS by J.T. Ellison
The Southern Strangler is slaughtering his way through the Southeast, leaving a gruesome memento at each crime scene—the prior victim’s severed hand. Nashville Homicide...
by Alex Acks, C.S.E. Cooney, Matt Dovey
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2018
Nominated for the World Fantasy Award, the Aurealis Award and the Ditmar Award.
Sword and Sonnet contains twenty-three fantasy and science fiction stories featuring battle poets. A poet in search of the dragon her mother banished. A labyrinth that is the last sanctuary against the hunger consuming...
by James McKimmey, Jr., H. B. Fyfe
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Worlds of If was a three time winner of the Hugo Award for best science fiction magazine. Worlds of If discovered many talented writers who would go on to dominate genre fiction. This is the third in our Worlds of If series with even more memorable stories from its tremendous run. ‘The Yillian Way’...
by Robert Chaouad, John J. Mearsheimer, Stephen M. Walt
Language: French
Release Date: March 22, 2017
Language: French
Release Date: March 22, 2017
La notion d’intérêt national, qui a structuré de longue date l’action des États en matière de politique étrangère et servi de fondement à l’étude des relations internationales, continue à être mobilisée dans les discours politiques et médiatiques pour soutenir, expliquer et / ou...
First Thrills: Volume 4
Short Stories
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
New York Times bestselling author Lee Child and the International Thriller Writers, Inc. present a collection of remarkable stories in First Thrills. From small-town crime stories to sweeping global conspiracies, this is a cross section of today's hottest thriller-writing talent. This original collection...
Our Story Begins
Your Favorite Authors and Illustrators Share Fun, Inspiring, and Occasionally Ridiculous Things They Wrote and Drew as Kids
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
From award-winning author Elissa Brent Weissman comes a collection of quirky, smart, and vulnerable childhood works by some of today’s foremost children’s authors and illustrators—revealing young talent, the storytellers they would one day become, and the creativity they inspire today.
Everyone’s...
by John Law, Kalpana Shankar, David Hakken
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016
The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field.
Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and...
Undercurrents
An Anthology of What Lies Beneath
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Fear is primal. Instinctive. Unavoidable. And right now, there is something you fear—and you can feel it. Creeping up behind you. Lurking in the darkness that lives under your bed, or in your closet. A nameless dread.
In Undercurrents: An Anthology of What Lies Beneath, twenty-three talented...
Undead Tales
15 Thrilling Zombie Stories
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2019
They're coming for you.
In 1968, a young and ambitious film maker created an iconic cinematic masterpiece and changed the industry forever. 50 years later, a group of hardy writers converged in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to celebrate the 50th anniversary of George Romero's classic, Night of the...
Preventive Measures
Building Risk Assessment and Crisis Early Warning Systems
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 1998
State failure, ethnopolitical war, genocide, famine, and refugee flows are variants of a type of complex political and humanitarian crisis, exemplified during the 1990s in places like Somalia, Bosnia, Liberia, and Afghanistan. The international consequences of such crises are profound, often threatening...
Tales of Ever After
Fellowship of Fantasy
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
Rescue a princess, meet a mermaid, win your reward.
The authors of the Fellowship of Fantasy tackle fairy tales from once upon a time to happily ever after. Explore twists on old tales and brand new magical stories. Meet feisty mermaids, friendly lampposts, and heroes who just might be monsters...
Spectrum
SmartyPants Spectrum Series, #1
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
**You are an explorer in a galaxy of worlds... **
...with countless stories to delve into or even just try out.
Inside, you are the rescuer of the kitten who rescues you right back. You are the citizen making a life-or-death decision. You are the teenager experiencing her first...
by Erika Balsom, Kenneth Berger, Susie Bright
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019
We all have images that we find unwatchable, whether for ethical, political, or sensory and affective reasons. From news coverage of terror attacks to viral videos of police brutality, and from graphic horror films to transgressive artworks, many of the images in our media culture might strike us...