A public health approach to understanding and eliminating excessive police violence. Excessive police violence and its disproportionate targeting of minority communities has existed in the United States since police forces first formed in the colonial period. A personal tragedy for its victims, for the people who love them, and for their broader communities, excessive police violence is also a profound violation of human and civil rights. Most public discourse about excessive police violence focuses, understandably, on the horrors of civilian deaths. In From Enforcers to Guardians, Hannah L. F. Cooper and Mindy Thompson Fullilove approach the issue from a radically different angle: as a public health problem. By using a public health framing, this book challenges readers to recognize that the suffering created by excessive police violence extends far outside of death to include sexual, psychological, neglectful, and nonfatal physical violence as well. Arguing that excessive police violence has been deliberately used to marginalize working-class and minority communities, Cooper and Fullilove describe what we know about the history, distribution, and health impacts of police violence, from slave patrols in colonial times to war on drugs policing in the present-day United States. Finally, the book surveys efforts, including Barack Obama's 2015 creation of the Task Force on 21st Century Policing, to eliminate police violence, and proposes a multisystem, multilevel strategy to end marginality and police violence and to achieve guardian policing. Aimed at anyone seeking to understand the causes and distributions of excessive police violence—and to develop interventions to end it—From Enforcers to Guardians frames excessive police violence so that it can be understood, researched, and taught about through a public health lens.

Dr. Mindy Thompson Fullilove, a clinical psychiatrist, exposes the devastating outcome of decades of urban renewal projects to our nation’s marginalized communities. Examining the traumatic stress of “root shock” in three African American communities and similar widespread damage in other cities, she makes an impassioned and powerful argument against the continued invasive and unjust development practices of displacing poor neighborhoods.

Mindy Thompson Fullilove traverses the central thoroughfares of our cities to uncover the ways they bring together our communities After an 11-year study of Main Streets in 178 cities and 14 countries, Fullilove discovered the power of city centers to “help us name and solve our problems.” In an era of compounding crises including racial injustice, climate change, and COVID-19, the ability to rely on the power of community is more important than ever. However, Fullilove describes how a pattern of disinvestment in inner-city neighborhoods has left Main Streets across the U.S. in disrepair, weakening our cities and leaving us vulnerable to catastrophe. In the face of urban renewal programs built in response to a supposed lack of “personal responsibility,” Fullilove offers “a different story, that of a series of forced displacements that had devastating effects on inner-city communities. Through that lens, we can appreciate the strength of segregated communities that managed to temper the ravages of racism through the Jim Crow era, and build political power and many kinds of wealth. . . . Only a very well-integrated, powerful community—one with deep spiritual principles—could have accomplished such a feat.” This is the power she hopes we will find again. Throughout Main Street, readers glimpse strong, vibrant communities who have conquered a variety of disasters, from the near loss of a beloved local business to the devastation of a hurricane. Using case studies to illustrate her findings, Fullilove turns our eyes to the cracks in city centers, the parts of the city that tend to be avoided or ignored. Providing a framework for those who wish to see their communities revitalized, Fullilove’s Main Street encourages us all to look both inward and outward to find the assets that already exist to create meaningful change.

In the Prince Malock World fantasy series, Prince Tojas Malock, the Prince of Carnag, lives in a world where the gods were long ago divided as a result of a terrible civil war fought between them. As he strives to succeed his father as the King of Carnag, Malock must deal with terrible gods, enigmatic figures and mysteries, and the end of the world itself. In this omnibus, readers can get all four books in the Prince Malock World—The Mad Voyage of Prince Malock, The Return of Prince Malock, The New Era of Prince Malock, and The Coronation of Prince Malock—for the first time ever for half of what it would cost to buy all four volumes separately! KEYWORDS: epic fantasy adventure series, epic fantasy dragons, epic fantasy magic, epic fantasy sword and sorcery, sword and sorcery adult fantasy, sword and sorcery series, sword and sorcery series magic

With his faith in the gods shattered, Prince Tojas Malock returns to his home island, where he hopes to lick his wounds and plan his revenge against the gods. But when Malock arrives, he discovers that his parents have already set up an arranged marriage for him with the princess of a rival nation without his knowledge or approval and who he dislikes. And when a new movement against the gods led by a charismatic prophet rises, Malock must now decide whether to support this social movement or reject it and accept his marriage to the princess, which would make it impossible for him to fight against the gods and get his revenge for what they did to him. Whatever decision Malock makes, his life will never be the same. KEYWORDS: epic fantasy adventure series, epic fantasy dragons, epic fantasy magic, epic fantasy sword and sorcery, sword and sorcery adult fantasy, sword and sorcery series, sword and sorcery series magic

Although they say God is everywhere, he is nowhere to be found in these stories. Instead, Satan takes the drivers seat in the lives of five individuals, taking on various forms, titles, and names as he carefully seduces each of them. In The Griffin, he transforms a promising young man into a killer. He becomes a pimp for a young woman in The Harlot. In the guise of a prison warden, he recruits a prisoner in jail for the rest of his life. He comes to a young man in juvenile detention and molds him into something he can use, and he finds a politician on the campaign trail who will serve his purposes. As the tales of these five people intertwine and Satan prepares positions for them in hell, they soon learn that when you make a deal with the devil, you are boundbound to lose, bound to suffer, and, most importantly, bound to eternal torture. In these five interconnected short stories, Satan recruits five troubled souls with the goal of preparing them for positions in hells hierarchy.

For the first time ever, get all twelve books from the Martir Chronicles series in one convenient package! In the Prince Malock World series, follow Prince Tojas Malock as he grows to succeed his father as the next king of his homeland while also dealing with the actions of the enigmatic and often antagonistic gods; in Mages of Martir, Darek Takren, a student at the most prestigious magical school in the world, must defeat a powerful new threat to Martir that even the gods are unable to combat; and in Tournament of the Gods, three mortals--Braim Kotogs, Raya Mana, and Carmaz Korva--are chosen to participate in the Tournament of the Gods, in which the ultimate prize is godhood and immortality for the winner, though with enemies scheming in the background to destroy them, winning the tournament may be an insurmountable challenge. Also includes the bonus short story, What Sharks Hide From. KEYWORDS: epic fantasy adventure series, epic fantasy dragons, epic fantasy magic, epic fantasy sword and sorcery, sword and sorcery adult fantasy, sword and sorcery series, sword and sorcery series magic