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Horror movies hold a complicated space in the queer community: historically misogynist, and often homo- and transphobic, the genre has also been inadvertently feminist and open to subversive readings. It Came from the Closet features twenty-five original essays by writers speaking to this relationship, through connections both empowering and oppressive. From Carmen Maria Machado on Jennifer’s Body, Jude Ellison S. Doyle on In My Skin, Addie Tsai on Dead Ringers, and many more, these conversations convey the rich reciprocity between queerness and horror.

What if America hasn’t stopped caring? What if we’ve simply become more selective about who counts? Americans argue constantly about empathy. One side sees cruelty in immigration enforcement, Medicaid restrictions, abortion bans, and cuts to public assistance. The other sees compassion distorted into dependency, disorder, and obligations that ignore taxpayers, victims, unborn children, and communities carrying the cost. But there is a problem with both stories: Nobody has ever built an instrument that can tell us which side cares more.

Some trees witness a boundary. One has witnessed a murder. Robledal is a town built from timber, cattle, and careful forgetting. Its old quicksilver works are cold, its sawmill runs on creek water, and its land records look clean enough to satisfy any court. Then Abner Cole is found dead in the mill flume. The law sees a drunken accident. Silas Thorne sees the wrong body in the wrong water, a sealed bottle that was never opened, and a dead man’s notebook filled with a warning no honest surveyor can ignore: the witness oaks are too young. The corners have been moved.

Tesla is worth more than Toyota, Volkswagen, and GM combined. SpaceX launches more often than the rest of the world's space programs combined. But are these companies good investments —or just compelling stories? Betting on Elon answers this through rigorous analysis of the technologies, markets, and integration strategies connecting Musk's ventures. It's an investment thesis disguised as a technology roadmap —or vice versa. Understanding where these companies are headed, and why they're headed there together, may be the most valuable financial insight of the 21st century.

A dead surveyor. A corrupted compass. And buried iron that points to murder. Nevada Territory, 1882. Surveyor Virgil Peck is found face-up on the alkali flats east of Furnace Creek — no water, no hat, no horse, and a shattered compass at his side. The coroner rules it exposure. The desert, after all, doesn't require malice. Silas Thorne knows better. Hired to verify Peck's railroad survey, Silas and his partner Linus arrive in a town built around a water tower and controlled by a man who owns every spring in the basin. The survey should be routine.

A dead man among survey stakes. A woman in a cell. And a boundary worth killing for. Oregon's Cascade Mountains, 1881. Surveyor Silas Thorne is hired to verify a disputed treaty boundary that separates Klamath reservation land from a timber empire. The surveyor who drew the correct line — the brilliant, uncompromising Harriet Lockwood — sits in jail, accused of murdering the man whose body was found among her boundary markers. But Silas reads ground the way other men read books. And the ground is telling a different story. Stakes driven plumb vertical — not perpendicular to the slope.

A twelve-year land war. Two dead lovers. And a map that's been lying longer than anyone's been fighting. California, 1879. When surveyor Silas Thorne is commissioned to draw the definitive boundary between two feuding ranching families in the San Joaquin Valley, the assignment looks straight forward: one meridian line, eight hundred acres of disputed ground, and a territorial judge who wants the matter settled. Then two young lovers from the rival families turn up dead on the disputed strip, and nothing about the valley is what the records claim. A crime measured in inches.

The Latitude of Lies: Thorne & Linus Cartographic Mysteries, Book 1In a town built on a fifteen-degree lie, the truth is the most dangerous thing you can measure. Silas Thorne is a man of precise measurements and hard angles. As a licensed surveyor, he knows that while people lie, the land never does. When he’s hired to verify a high-stakes mining claim in the remote Sierra Nevada boomtown of Promise Creek, he expects a routine audit of quartz veins and property lines. Instead, he finds a town whose very geometry is an impossibility.

Change doesn’t take time. It just takes intention. In this meticulously revised and expanded edition of 'The Exquisite Art of Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy', Freddy Jacquin strips away the fluff and dives straight into the raw reality of rapid transformation. This is hypnosis that works in the real world. Whether you're a practicing hypnotherapist, a student of hypnosis, a coach, or someone interested in experiencing these transformative techniques in order to make real change happen, this book will show you how. Simple. Real. Exquisite.