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An extensive update to the authoritative introduction to Mexico's ancient civilizations. Mexico arrives in its eighth edition with a new look and the most recent discoveries. This is the story of the pre-Spanish people of Mexico, who, with their neighbors the Maya, formed some of the most...

AI is at the forefront of everyone's minds: from students and artists, to CEO's and service workers. But what exactly is AI, and how does it influence our everyday lives? And more than that, what does it mean for our future? Is there a way for us to retain our "humanness" in a world ever-reliant on tech? This groundbreaking book argues that the key technology we use to make strategic, political, and ethical decisions is flawed.

"This is a slim and modest book, a volume of oral histories in the vein of Studs Terkel’s Working (1974), but everyone who eats out regularly should know about it...Voices From the Kitchen is an optimistic book — it reminds you that if many restaurant careers begin that way, they don’t...

Jesse Mathis's life was in shambles. He lost the woman he loved just months before their wedding, his career as a surgeon was at an all-time low, and his forbidden feelings for his best friend were growing more confusing by the day. Taking a step back from his once perfect life, Jesse makes a mistake that threatens to change his future forever. Forced to deal with the dark secrets that now threaten his happiness, can Jesse decide where his heart truly lies? And will admitting his feelings destroy the only safe thing he has in his life—the girl who's always had his back?

It is a time of Perpetual War. The legions of armored Archengardian warriors and the Noda—powered by dark technology—have been shedding each other's blood for as long as anyone can remember. The cause of the hostility has been lost to time, but the battle rages on.

"I am ready to join the Sisterhood of Viggy after reading The Rotting Room. Time to take my vows, now that I've novitiated on this awe-inspiring novel, and commit myself to a lifelong calling of reading whatever Parr Hampton writes." —Clay McLeod Chapman, author of Wake Up and Open Your Eyes...

Weaving between preparations for his father’s funeral and memories of life on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border, Obed Silva chronicles his father’s alcoholism—a lifelong love that ended only at his death at the age of forty-eight, having poisoned himself one Carta Blanca at a time. Addiction respects no borders; the havoc Silva’s father wreaked on his family not only followed them north, where mother and son moved to escape his violent drunken rages, but would make itself felt even from the grave.

One pilot's fight could change everything. David Wayne is a talented but underestimated mech pilot struggling to build his company, Raven Inc., in a half-finished facility plagued by sabotage attempts But powerful forces are circling. When the elite Wolverine mercenary squad—the same group...

Amid the chilling rise of Hitler’s Germany, a twelve-year-old boy and his friends confront rising Nazi threats during a family trip to Austria in this third book in the action-packed middle grade series Web of the Spider for fans of I Survived and A Night Divided. It’s the summer of 1931 and...

Sleeping Worlds Have No Memory is a thought-provoking meditation on the fragility of the human condition, our beliefs, the manipulation of propaganda for political gains, and our ability to distinguish the real from the unreal and our willingness to accept convenient "truths." The novel is a compelling exploration of memory, its fragile nature, and its profound impact on our perception of identity, relationships, and facts themselves.

The Wolverines thought David Wayne was too scrawny to pilot a mech. They laughed in his face, telling him he needed more muscle and, hell, maybe a mustache to be worthy. But they underestimated the furious spark of ambition that burned inside. Driven by the sting of their ridicule, David teams up with his sarcastic AI, Tabitha, and a crew of overlooked society rejects, transforming scrap into a weapon that defies all expectations.

David Wayne spent years proving he was more than just a "twiggy" engineer unfit for the battlefield. Now, as the mastermind behind Raven, Inc., he's built a team of outcasts, innovators, and fearless pilots willing to defy the impossible. When the Wolverines—a powerful mercenary force that once mocked him—come knocking with a lucrative offer, David knows better than to trust their sudden interest.

David Wayne just wanted to repair his battle-scarred mech, Raven One—but life had other plans. A remote colony on Therasis begs for rescue, thieves and pirates plague the galaxy's shadows, and a brilliant scientist's research could save millions . . . or become a weapon that topples empires. His secret weapon? A fiercely protective, sometimes sarcastic AI named Tabitha. Together, they skirt the law with forged sedation logs, bribe corrupt officials, and hack Federation databases—all while rushing headlong into a war that corporate giants would rather keep hidden.

The Santo Daime is a syncretic religion that arose in the Amazon region of Brazil in the middle of the twentieth century and now has churches throughout the world. Its spiritual practice is based around the sacramental use of ayahuasca, a psychedelic brew consumed only within regular ceremonies. In Liquid Light, G. William Barnard—an initiate of the religion and a scholar of religious studies—considers the religious practice and transformative inner experiences of the Santo Daime community.

In AI for Good: Applications in Sustainability, Humanitarian Action, and Health, a team of veteran Microsoft AI researchers delivers an insightful and fascinating discussion of how one of the world's most recognizable software companies is tackling intractable social problems with the power of artificial intelligence (AI). In the book, you'll see real in-the-field examples of researchers using AI with replicable methods and reusable AI code to inspire your own uses.

In The 15-Minute City: A Solution to Saving Our Time and Our Planet, Carlos Moreno delivers an exciting and insightful discussion of the deceptively simple and revolutionary idea that everyday destinations like schools, stores, and offices should only be a short walk or bike ride away from home. This book tells the story of an idea that spread from city to city, describing a new way of looking at living that addresses many of the most intractable challenges of our time.

Gus Van Sant’s film and the ’90s cult of the alternative Gus Van Sant’s 1991 indie darling My Own Private Idaho perplexed and provoked, inspiring a new ethos for a new decade: being different was better than being good. Gentlemen of the Shade examines how the film was a coming-of-age for a generation of young people who would embrace the alternative and bring their outsider perspectives to sustainability, technology, gender constructs, and social responsibility.

Alexander Otkazov is a failed pianist trying to start a new life in journalism. But when he starts reporting on a mysterious group of avant-garde musicians, the story takes him into a shadowy world of obscure composers, megalomaniac artists, and real estate barons, where the lines between art, finance, and fraud blur and the stakes are existential.

Relit features sixteen original stories by award-winning Latinx YA authors that revamp classics, myths, and fairytales to center the multilayered Latinx experience through fantasy, science fiction, and a dash of magic. Pride and Prejudice is launched into outer space, Frankenstein is plunged into the depths of the ocean, and The Great Gatsby floats to an island off the coast of Costa Rica. A shape-shifter gives up her life to save the boy she loves from an evil bruja. La Ciguapa covets a little mermaid’s heart of gold. Two star-crossed teens fall in love while the planet burns around them.

In The Spirituality of Dreaming, leading dream scholar and expert Dr. Kelly Bulkeley brings us a set of time-honored methods to stimulate innate dreaming capacities and amplify their impact in our waking lives. Relying on years of research, data analysis, and interviews, Bulkeley offers wisdom and strategies from "big dreamers"—people who have vivid, intense dreams and remember them.