An attempted murder sends Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge to a small coastal town simmering with secrets and brings him face-to-face with a man from his past.

For millennia, the alien union called the Weave had been at war with the Amplitur. But only in the handful of centuries since Earth had joined the Weave had the tide of the battle been slowly turning in the Weave's favour. Then an elite unit, raised from childhood in dedication to the Amplitur Purpose and designed to match perfectly the Humans they were to fight, came of age - and it looked as if at last the Amplitur might prevail against the Weave. But when one of the elite unit, a warrior called Ranji, was captured by the Weave, a horrible truth was revealed: Ranji was in fact Human, a subject of the Amplitur's vile genetic manipulations. The Weave promised to reverse the effects and help Ranji rescue other altered Humans from the clutches of the Amplitur. But neither Ranji nor his new allies could have know that the proposed cure would result in an abomination that could tear the Weave alliance apart - and brand Ranji and his kind as the most despicable creatures in the galaxy...

Published in conjunction with the exhibition ... held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sept. 28, 2013-Jan. 12, 2014, the Menil Collection, Houston, Feb. 14-June 1, 2014, and at the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29-Oct. 12, 2014.

Imagine if Clive Cussler and Spider Robinson sat down with a cup of coffee and decided to write adventure thrillers together, featuring an unlikely pair of heroes thrown in among stone-cold killers, a shadowy organization whose real motives are unclear and device that could literally start Doomsday. That's TRIANGLE: FALSE MIRROR, the first novel in the TRIANGLE series from novelist D. G. Speirs. Steve Tate and Amy Rogers are Talents - people gifted with extraordinary abilities forged from personal tragedy. Each thinks they are alone and unique, until the day their paths cross in the Bahamas and Steve discovers the tragic link between Amy's fate and a devastating loss from his past. That link turns out to be part of a much larger conflict - a fight led by Triangle, an organization working on the margins and in the shadows of society to keep humanity safe. The stakes are raised when the person responsible for Steve and Amy's tragedies sets their sights on False Mirror, one of Triangle's most dangerous projects, a device capable of causing chaos and destruction on a global scale. Now Steve and Amy must quickly learn to work together as their pursuit takes them across the globe, from the deserts of New Mexico to the waters San Francisco Bay, from the beaches of the Caribbean to the streets of Tokyo, and from deep underground to the very edge of space itself. But even as they draw closer to their quarry, they find that this person might hold the key to an even greater mystery - who they truly are. TRIANGLE: FALSE MIRROR is a fun, high-speed thriller that jumps straight out of today's headlines, races around the globe at a breakneck pace, yet also questions how much we take for granted about the way things work, and how vulnerable that makes us all. "You've written a real page-turner " - Mark Palmer, screenwriter (Kim Possible, Penguins of Madagascar) Be sure to read the other stories in the TRIANGLE series by D.G. Speirs - TRIANGLE: RESCUE and TRIANGLE: WILDCARD, now available on Amazon.com.

An essential reconsideration of one of the most far-reaching theories in modern neuroscience and psychology. In 1992, a group of neuroscientists from Parma, Italy, reported a new class of brain cells discovered in the motor cortex of the macaque monkey. These cells, later dubbed mirror neurons, responded equally well during the monkey’s own motor actions, such as grabbing an object, and while the monkey watched someone else perform similar motor actions. Researchers speculated that the neurons allowed the monkey to understand others by simulating their actions in its own brain. Mirror neurons soon jumped species and took human neuroscience and psychology by storm. In the late 1990s theorists showed how the cells provided an elegantly simple new way to explain the evolution of language, the development of human empathy, and the neural foundation of autism. In the years that followed, a stream of scientific studies implicated mirror neurons in everything from schizophrenia and drug abuse to sexual orientation and contagious yawning. In The Myth of Mirror Neurons, neuroscientist Gregory Hickok reexamines the mirror neuron story and finds that it is built on a tenuous foundation—a pair of codependent assumptions about mirror neuron activity and human understanding. Drawing on a broad range of observations from work on animal behavior, modern neuroimaging, neurological disorders, and more, Hickok argues that the foundational assumptions fall flat in light of the facts. He then explores alternative explanations of mirror neuron function while illuminating crucial questions about human cognition and brain function: Why do humans imitate so prodigiously? How different are the left and right hemispheres of the brain? Why do we have two visual systems? Do we need to be able to talk to understand speech? What’s going wrong in autism? Can humans read minds? The Myth of Mirror Neurons not only delivers an instructive tale about the course of scientific progress—from discovery to theory to revision—but also provides deep insights into the organization and function of the human brain and the nature of communication and cognition.

"An important contribution to film theory. . . . Williams has a fluid, assured style. She is clearly in command of the subject. She's made a strong and original argument for the psychoanalytic basis of Surrealism."--James Monaco, author of The New Wave

This fascinating and intelligent non-dogmatic study analyses the credibility of the first 11 chapters of the book of Genesis, from a combined perspective of philosophy, theology and science. The stories of how the world began and the creation of humankind are scrutinised by the author in an attempt to convey an advanced and objective understanding for its readers. The author has no intention to convert or de-convert to or from the Christian faith, instead, he chooses to share his findings with readers who can them make up their own mind. To support his plausible findings, he has evidenced and referenced a wealth of resources, and extensively researched this highly debated and constantly evolving topic. The finely detailed content reflects his meticulous undertaking, and the results are thought-provoking, to say the least. Everything has been included in this absorbing piece of work, from insights into extra-terrestrial beings, the bible's contradictory take on incest, eternal hell, moral standards, reproduction and symbolism, to the notion of the Babel tower myth, the reality of the animals on Noah's ark, the inconsistency of the flood stories, and the 'real' image of God; and the content throughout is highly compelling.

One girl, one painting a day...can she do it? Linda Patricia Cleary decided to challenge herself with a year long project starting on January 1, 2014. Choose an artist a day and create a piece in tribute to them. It was a fun, challenging, stressful and psychological experience. She learned about technique, art history, different materials and embracing failure. Here are all 365 pieces. Enjoy!