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For the last two centuries, groups of influential men have, in the professed interest of fiscal responsibility, crime reduction, and outright racism, attempted to control who was allowed to bear children. Their efforts, "eugenics," characterize a movement that over the last century swept across the world—from the US to Brazil, Japan, India, Australia, and beyond—in the form of marriage restrictions, asylum detention, and sterilization campaigns affected millions. German physicians and scientists adopted and then heightened these eugenics practices beginning in 1939.

Winning Your Election the Wellstone Way is based on the work of Wellstone Action, a leading-edge progressive training center that has instructed thousands of political activists, campaign managers, and volunteers, of whom more than two hundred have gone on to run for office and win. Jeff Blodgett and Bill Lofy analyze the crucial lessons learned from many successful (and several losing) campaigns and demystifies what it takes to run for-and win-a political seat.

We often think of God as loving, or judging, or other things. But patient? There's a good case to be made that God is often very patient with his people!

A harrowing chronicle by two leading historians, capturing in real time the events of a year marked by multiple devastations. When we look back at the year 2020, how can we describe what really happened? In A Deeper Sickness, award-winning historians Margaret Peacock and Erik Peterson set out to...

Seven authors retell their favorite fairy tales as science fiction adaptations. Adventuring to the far reaches of space and the not too distant future, these tales explore what would happen if the tales we've always known were to have taken place in a futuristic setting.

A newlywed Mormon thinks a honeymoon in the Amazon jungle of Brazil where he served his mission is a great idea, since he's been there and speaks the language. But he's completely unprepared to face the creatures of legend that roam the rainforest. This short story first appeared in the 2011 collection Monsters & Mormons, edited by Wm Henry Morris and Theric Jepson.

Short story: A surveyor on an alien world suspects his daughter's new pet isn't as innocent as it seems. Can he convince the colonists of the danger before it's too late?

Short story: A super-powered thief gets caught in the power struggle between superheroes and supervillians as one of the city's biggest baddies is brought down. Originally appeared in The Gruff Variations, edited by Eric James Stone, a charity anthology featuring retellings of the story of the Three Billy Goats Gruff.