Design a complete Voice over IP (VoIP) or traditional PBX system with Asterisk, even if you have only basic telecommunications knowledge. This bestselling guide makes it easy, with a detailed roadmap that shows you how to install and configure this open source software, whether you're upgrading your[...]

In the second edition of this witty and infectious book, Madsen Pirie builds upon his guide to using - and indeed abusing - logic in order to win arguments. By including new chapters on how to win arguments in writing, in the pub, with a friend, on Facebook and in 140 characters (on Twitter), Pirie [...]

Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, and Barbara Stanwyck to name a few maintained their images as glamorous big-screen sex symbols complete with dashing escorts, handsome husbands, and scores of male admirers, thanks to studio publicity departments. But off the set, all three box office divas were involv[...]

"The criminal class is a more exact cross-section of humanity than any trade could be." -Luc Sante, interview by "The" "Believer"
Weed, coke, heroin, molly, promethazine, crack, PCP, LCD, opium, hashish, mushrooms, and countless other illicit substances flood the streets of New York City where [...]

This text and professional resource offers an alternative approach to thinking about and working with "difficult" families. From a nonpathologizing stance, William C. Madsen demonstrates creative ways to help family members shift their relationship to longstanding problems; envision desired lives; a[...]

This is a heavily illustrated guide to an important category of antiques and artifacts with new insights into identification and interpretation for collectors, archaeologists, and historians. The blue and white porcelain exported by China in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries is an import[...]

At last Down-to-earth advice about enhancing large open areas with modern machine quilting. The 'modern' look in quilting is quilting Lots of it, in large, unpieced areas of the quilt. Caught somewhere between making a wholecloth quilt and something that is all pieced, many quilters seek inspirati[...]

This is the epic mini-series collected for the first time! Earth, 2020. United States Special Forces Major Laurence "Prophet" Barnes and the soldiers of Raptor Team thought their deployment on the Lingshan islands was a basic covert op against North Korean forces. They couldn't have been more wrong.[...]

What if your life wasn't your own?
Liv comes out of a coma with no memory of her past and two distinct, warring voices inside her head. Nothing, not even her reflection, seems familiar. As she stumbles through her junior year, the voices get louder, insisting she please the popular group while s[...]

Make every inch of a quilt jaw-dropping with Judi Madsen's book on secondary quilting. Featuring unique, modern quilting designs with complete piecing instructions, this book takes an extensive look at Judi's creative process as she discusses each of her quilts. Included are plenty of examples of Ju[...]