David Peters has been unemployed for months. The former brilliant marketing guy is caught in a relentless downward spiral; he's been wearing the same T-shirt for weeks. His lawn looks like a hayfield, the car is belching blue smoke, and his wife is ready to kill him. He's convinced the government is behind it all.

Tired of pointless job interviews, David divides his time between coffee at a local diner and do-it-yourself science explorations. During one of these explorations David devises a new twist on time-lapse photography, revealing secret patterns of behavior in everyday life. He combines his time-lapse ingenuity with satellite images to uncover patterns on a grand scale. Now, if only someone would take him seriously.

The government takes David quite seriously when they realize he has uncovered a human catastrophe they are desperately trying to hide. When his wife becomes a victim herself, David's conspiracy theories become all too real. He seeks the advice of an expert, only to discover that he has tapped into a primal legacy, and the government wants a piece of it. At every turn the stakes get larger, until finally David finds himself at the crossroads of good and evil. Now his creativity and brilliance will be put to the ultimate test. The future of humanity is on the line.

Of all those who served with Robert E. Lee in the headquarters of the Army of Northern Virginia, no one was as close to him as Walter Taylor. Twenty-two years old when hostilities broke out, Taylor served at Lee's side virtually without interruption during the entire Civil War. The only officer who could lay claim to such a distinction, Taylor served first as aide-de-camp and subsequently as assistant adjutant general of the Army of Northern Virginia. He traveled with Lee, ate at his mess, shielded him from a flood of administrative concerns, and on occasion delivered his battlefield orders to division and corps commanders. His personal correspondence, written without reserve as he enjoyed an unparalleled opportunity to observe Lee's inner circle, constitutes a unique addition to the Civil War record. The 110 letters compiled in Lee's Adjutant shed light on day-to-day life at Lee's headquarters and on the general himself. Written to Taylor's fiancee and family, these letters recount the Army of Northern Virginia's early triumphs, invasions of the North, defeat at Gettysburg, the bloody struggle in the Wilderness, the siege of Petersburg, and final surrender. In them the young officer testifies to the simplicity of Lee's lifestyle as well as the gentility of his demeanor. He describes the bond that developed between himself and the general, and he discusses the furloughs, reports, dispatches, petitions, and grievances that he handled as Lee's alter ego in administrative matters. In addition to offering an eyewitness account of Lee's Civil War service, Taylor's correspondence illumines social, religious, and military concerns of the period. To these revealing letters Lockwood Tower adds abiographical sketch of the young adjutant. Tower describes Taylor's role in helping Lee organize the Army of Virginia, his midnight wedding on the night that Richmond fell, and - as an officer who lived to see the fiftieth anniversary of the war's end - his role in shaping Confederate memory.

More than a hundred people killed on a bright spring day. The city's most beautiful and iconic landmark in ruins. The man accused of setting the fire is dead, buried in the rubble along with answers to the question, "Why?" As Juni Bruder of the Orlando Herald talks to rescuers and survivors, she can't shake the feeling that something isn't right. The official story doesn't ring true. Her interviews become front-page news. So does her suicide, a year after the blaze. Her brother Peter, a Jesuit priest, finds a clean apartment and a stack of papers sealed in plastic bags. Sifting through his sister's effects, he reads the stories of the dead, from the architect who designed the famous building to the janitor blamed for destroying it. A file on Juni's laptop will reveal the hidden threads that bound the victims together, the seemingly random acts that brought them to a single place and moment in time. In the end, the answers Juni seeks won't be the ones she finds. Told through an inspired mix of puzzle pieces-news stories, phone transcripts, press releases-and filled with gallows humor, this is a novel about life, loss and the slippery nature of truth.

Overview: Fact-filled, humorous, and meticulously researched (1,235 endnotes), this is the definitive book on President Obama's education at the schools that shaped him and his politics: Punahou, Occidental, Columbia, and Harvard Law School (six chapters on Harvard Law). Written by a libertarian/conservative with a JD/MBA, the book skewers Obama's full-immersion liberal education with facts, logic, and humor. A sampling of some of the best excerpts from this book is contained at the beginning of the "Look Inside" for the KINDLE version of this book. For additional information on this book, go to www.barackoliberal.com or email [email protected]

Serious Stuff: Learn a massive amount of never-before-revealed information about Obama's academic record, including his LSAT score, class rank, courses, grades, professors, extracurricular activities, applications, and recommenders; peek into the inner sanctum of Harvard Law's admissions process; read the true story of how Obama became a member and then the president of the Harvard Law Review; discover the fallacies in his law review article and the strong bias of his Law Review presidency; hear about his request for affirmative action for himself - and his denial of it for female law students; and get the real scoop on the disclosure of Obama's transcripts.

Tongue-in-Cheek Stuff: The Obamassiah Invocation: Genesis; Obama's application essays for Occidental, Columbia, and Harvard Law; the Harvard Law rejection letter Obama almost received; Occidental's Phallus, Mother Goose, and Stupidity courses; Harvard Law Review's debate over rodent rights; Baby Banjo's lawsuit against Mother Banjo over moonshine-lost IQ points; Obama's rejection by the Black Men of Harvard Law School Calendar; Barack O'Einstein, Barack O'Groucho, and Barack O'Conservative; the Low-Score-on-Timed-Test Syndrome; the civil war at Beirut-on-the-Charles; the Liberal Rapture quiz; Harvard's H-bombs; the liberal vs. conservative horse race; and Obama's other Nobel Prizes.

This is a work of free form poetry.It is a love story and awakening of feelings that can take you to the heights of passion or plunge you into the darkness of despair. It is about love pure and simple, as if love was simple.

David Peters has been unemployed for months. The former brilliant marketing guy is caught in a relentless downward spiral; he's been wearing the same T-shirt for weeks. His lawn looks like a hayfield, the car is belching blue smoke, and his wife is ready to kill him. He's convinced the government is behind it all.

Tired of pointless job interviews, David divides his time between coffee at a local diner and do-it-yourself science explorations. During one of these explorations David devises a new twist on time-lapse photography, revealing secret patterns of behavior in everyday life. He combines his time-lapse ingenuity with satellite images to uncover patterns on a grand scale. Now, if only someone would take him seriously.

The government takes David quite seriously when they realize he has uncovered a human catastrophe they are desperately trying to hide. When his wife becomes a victim herself, David's conspiracy theories become all too real. He seeks the advice of an expert, only to discover that he has tapped into a primal legacy, and the government wants a piece of it. At every turn the stakes get larger, until finally David finds himself at the crossroads of good and evil. Now his creativity and brilliance will be put to the ultimate test. The future of humanity is on the line.

The landscapes of violence have become too familiar, too close to home. Despite decades of scientific research, we are only beginning to understand the roots of violence that connect child maltreatment, spouse and partner abuse, and aggression in our neighborhoods and communities. Cruelty to animals is often part of these landscapes of violence-at times, a strong link to destructive interpersonal relationships. Research on this link has recently received increased attention. However, the layperson, student, and professional interested in this link often face the daunting task of locating the critical references in this area of inquiry. Cruelty to Animals and Interpersonal Violence presents in one volume historical, philosophical, and research sources that explore the maltreatment of animals and the ways people hurt each other. Diverse disciplines are represented among the readings, including psychology and psychiatry, criminology, social work, veterinary science, and anthropology. A bibliography of related books and articles is provided for readers who wish to pursue this topic in greater detail.