Humanity’s experiments with artificial life backfire in the science fiction graphic novel "R.U.R." In search of a low-cost workforce, an island factory creates an AI that looks and acts like a human being and is capable of completing a... Read More

Using varied stories to lead by example, the self-help book "Outsmart the Learning Curve" guides ordinary people toward extraordinary lives. Joe Sipher’s self-development guide "Outsmart the Learning Curve" explores how ordinary people... Read More

In Lilian West’s mystery novel "Pretty Dead Things", a bride-to-be works to solve a peculiar cold case buried and forgotten about for decades. Newly engaged Cora relocates to Hickory Falls, the small town where her fiancé grew up. At... Read More

Spanning literary criticism, social science, and the study of the fairy tale, Kimberly J. Lau’s "Specters of the Marvelous" foregrounds race in often whitewashed European fairy tales. Prior to cinema, fairy tales were collected,... Read More

Treating innovation, imagination, and creativity as distinctive human traits, the leadership guide "The Imagination Emporium" is about capitalizing on the unique abilities of each and every employee. Duncan Wardle’s "The Imagination... Read More