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Your photos, messages, bank records, avatars — they keep living when you don’t. The Digital Afterlife explains, without jargon or judgment, what actually happens to your online life: who can see it, who can control it, and how platform rules and shaky laws shape the outcome. Readable, a little wry, and full of concrete examples, it turns an awkward mystery into manageable choices. You’ll learn who technically owns your accounts, how social networks treat the dead, why email is the skeleton key, and how to give a trusted person safe access without handing them your whole life. Concrete...

In "Pisces: Lost at Sea," JD Arden invites you to dive into the depths of the Piscean soul, where mutable water flows between dreams and reality. Guided by the dual rulers, Jupiter and Neptune, this book explores the delicate dance between compassion and boundaries, imagination and practicality. Discover how to transform your sensitivity into strength, allowing intuition to flourish with discernment and love to thrive with clarity. Embrace the cosmic insights of Pisces, where surrender does not mean escape but rather a transcendence into a more profound existence. Whether you're a dreamer, ...

If a salmon could speak, you still wouldn't understand me. You would hear vowels and miss the cold tug of current, the taste of gravel between my gills, the humming magnet under my skin that points me home. I don't tell stories; I register chemistry, pressure, and direction. I leave the ocean because my body remembers a river the way a clock remembers midnight. This book takes you inside that body. Sparse, sensory chapters—birth in gravel, the slow remapping to salt, the rumble of magnetism, the naming of home by smell—trace a life driven by appetite, physics, and place, not meaning. ...

The Sun – The Source of All Things is a deep dive into the celestial body that defines life as we know it. More than just a giant ball of burning gas, the Sun is the heartbeat of the solar system, a dynamic force of energy that shapes everything from our climate to the very cycles of life on Earth. This book uncovers the Sun’s inner workings, its immense power, and the profound effects it has on the planets, the solar system, and our daily lives. With chapters exploring the nuclear fusion that powers the Sun, the complex magnetic fields that shape solar weather, and the ancient human ...

He saw patterns in chaos and logic in life itself. Decades ahead of his peers, Alan Turing built the mental machinery that birthed modern computing, cracked the seemingly uncrackable Enigma, and sketched the first outline of a thinking machine. This is a sharp, humane account of that mind—how it worked, what it achieved, and how the country he saved repaid him with cruelty rather than gratitude. Clear-eyed and urgent, JD Arden strips away myth without stripping away wonder. Technical ideas land with clarity; human costs land with a sting. You get the mechanics of codebreaking, the seeds ...

Cancer: Sideways is a cosmic manual for anyone who feels the world deeply and wants to build something lasting from that sensitivity. Guided by the shifting light of the Moon, JD Arden explores the heart of Cancer—attachment, empathy, and the tides of mood. This book shows how to hold care in your hands without letting it slip through your fingers, how to build emotional homes that shelter and grow, not cages that confine. Drawing on the hidden treasures of the Cancer constellation and the quiet brilliance of the Beehive Cluster, these pages teach the art of emotional architecture—...

Hypatia was the brightest mind in the ancient world’s greatest library. She taught geometry as fiercely as she argued philosophy, interrogated scripture with reason, and held a classroom that doubled as a state of conscience. This book strips away myth and sentiment to reveal the real woman behind the legend: a mathematician and philosopher whose intellect made a city listen and whose choices made history tremble. Concise, sharp, and rigorously sourced, Hypatia & The Library of Alexandria places her work inside the thrum of a changing Alexandria — politics, piety, scholarship, and the ...

We’re told that real cures come in bottles and blister packs, prescribed by white coats with years of training. But what if the most powerful medicine is nothing at all—just a sugar pill and a whisper of hope? In Placebo: When Nothing Works, JD Arden peels back the curtain on one of science’s strangest, most astonishing phenomena: the placebo effect. Why do some people get better after taking “fake” pills, undergoing sham surgeries, or hearing soothing words from someone they trust? Is healing just in our heads, or is the mind the secret master switch for the whole body? From ...

Uranus: The Tilted Rebel invites readers to uncover the strange and unique qualities of the ice giant that spins on its side. Uranus’s extreme axial tilt and chaotic magnetic field make it an enigma in our solar system, while its methane-rich atmosphere gives the planet its distinct blue-green color. This book examines the planet’s unusual moons, its violent history, and the implications of Uranus’s eccentricities for our understanding of planetary dynamics. Uranus symbolizes nonconformity and individuality—an object of scientific intrigue and philosophical reflection.

Privacy used to mean closing the curtains—now it means dodging a thousand invisible needles. The Death of Privacy traces how everyday choices and clever technologies turned personal life into a profit engine, who sells and buys those pieces of you, and why the stakes are literal: stolen money, ruined reputations, nudged decisions, and a weaker democracy. Clear, unsentimental, and sharp, this book turns technical systems into plain language so you actually understand what’s watching you. You’ll get short, realistic tools you can use today (no tin-foil hats required): how phones and ...

Galileo & The Telescope by JD Arden cuts through reverence and rumor to reveal the man at the razor edge of discovery and doctrine. He was equal parts showman, scientist, and stubborn rebel—someone who trained a crude lens on the heavens and, in doing so, aimed the light at earthly power. Arden’s prose is exacting, urgent, and humane, tracing the experiments, public performances, and moral stakes that turned a tool into a provocation and a private conviction into history. This is a history of ideas made vivid. Expect clear-eyed scenes of observation, the friction between evidence and ...

A king’s seal, a riverside meadow and a sheet of parchment—what looked like baronial bargaining at Runnymede became something more dangerous: a claim that power must answer to rules. The Day of the Magna Carta follows that combustible scrap from negotiation and clause-by-clause trade-offs to a global emblem used by lawyers, rebels and statesmen. It tells the story as theater and as law, without hagiography or legalese. JD Arden pairs scene-rich reconstructions—the frozen throne, the march to the meadow, the shiver of sealing—with short, pointed readings of clauses and later ...

Data is the world’s most traded currency—and you’re spending it every day without looking at your receipts. The Hidden Language of Data decodes those invisible transactions in plain English: what data actually is, how phones and websites collect it, how companies turn tiny signals into big decisions, and why that matters for your privacy, your schoolwork, and your future. Short chapters, real examples, and a few laugh-out-loud metaphors make a dry topic suddenly useful. This classroom-friendly guide gives you the map and the toolkit: spot trackers, understand profiling and bias, weigh...

In the North, the gods are not eternal—they are on a countdown. From the first collision of fire and ice comes a world carved by violence, cunning, and uneasy truces. Odin bargains pain for knowledge, Thor swings a hammer to hold back chaos, and Loki threads mischief through every fate. This is myth stripped of mercy and dressed for battle: frostbitten courage, cosmic serpents, and halls that only the brave remember. No promises of forever—only the chance to meet your end with honor and to shape whatever comes after. GODS OF SCANDINAVIA is an unflinching epic of gods and giants, faith ...

The Chinese zodiac is more than myth or fortune-telling—it is a living map of character, history, and human connection. In The Beasts of Fate, JD Arden guides readers through the twelve animals as they appear in real life: shaping personality, love, work, and family. Drawing on centuries of tradition, Arden explains how each sign’s strengths, struggles, and patterns echo in daily choices, from the Rat’s keen resourcefulness to the Horse’s restless drive. With clear research and deep cultural respect, this book explores the backbone of the zodiac—the Earthly Branches, the ...

Think machines "think" like people? They don't — and that’s the good news. The Machine and the Mind cuts through the hype with clear analogies, tiny thought experiments, and just enough tech to be useful. In short chapters you’ll see neurons vs. transistors, sticky notes vs. databases, pet tricks vs. reinforcement learning, and why a chess victory doesn’t mean a machine understands the world. You’ll finish knowing how memory, learning, decision-making, language, and creativity work in both brains and machines, when to trust an algorithm and when to whistle for a second opinion, ...

How does a notch on a bone become a camera that recognizes your face? From Abacus to AI follows the simple, surprising steps — notation, tools, and tricks — that turned counting into thinking machines. Clear, witty, and classroom-ready, JD Arden walks curious teens and adults through abacuses, mechanical calculators, punch cards, silicon chips, and the modern algorithms that run the Internet, all without requiring a math degree. Each chapter ties method to machine to social impact, with short classroom experiments you can try with a pencil, a spreadsheet, or a cheap microcontroller. ...

A tailored suit over a predator’s heart: Hannibal Lecter as refinement weaponized. He is a man who “eats the rude,” who turns grief into ritual and courtesy into camouflage. This is not a catalog of crimes but a forensic study of taste—how a cultivated mind learns to curate pain, build a memory palace, and make violence an aesthetic. From Mischa’s ruined streets to Baltimore parlors and Florentine galleries, the book follows the slow, surgical education of a monster who prefers dinner conversation to confession. Witty, razor-sharp, and uncomfortably civil, it asks why civility can...

She was not born a monster. Medusa was a glare — a woman whose beauty made gods look away — until a crime in a temple turned worship into indictment. Instead of punishing the god who broke sanctity, the goddess punished the maiden: beauty wound into venom, hair into living snakes, a single look that could stop a heartbeat and freeze a world. Banished to the edge of the map, she becomes what everyone needs her to be — monster, warning, prize — while the story that made her is reshaped and sold back to a frightened culture. Medusa: The Gorgon’s Curse is both close, cinematic ...

Is sex the secret weapon behind every success, every scandal, every act of sabotage? In SEX! The Biggest Cheater, JD Arden pulls no punches. This witty, fearless exploration takes you from the bedroom to the boardroom, revealing how sex rewrites the rules of power, pleasure, and human ambition. Why does sex make people risk it all? How has it started wars and ended dynasties? From ancient myths to modern memes, Arden exposes how desire manipulates, motivates, and—yes—cheats its way through every corner of our lives. Candid, clever, and deeply human, this book is for anyone who’s ever ...