In the squalid, gothic city of New Crobuzon, a mysterious half-human, half-bird stranger comes to Isaac, a gifted but eccentric scientist, with a request to help him fly, but Isaac's obsessive experiments and attempts to grant the request unleash a terrifying dark force on the entire city.

"Rules for Revolutionaries is a bold challenge to the political establishment and the "rules" that govern campaign strategy. It tells the story of a breakthrough experiment conducted on the fringes of the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign: A technology-driven team empowered volunteers to build and manage the infrastructure to make seventy-five million calls, launch eight million text messages, and hold more than one-hundred thousand public meetings--in...

"[This] book's mission [is] to describe a path to success for those who don't know how to walk a straight line or follow text-book directions (or don't want to)--in other words, the oddballs, misfits, outliers, rebels, and nonconformists. [I] tackle some old and new ideas from a different angle, one that I hope makes it clear that a dark horse, an outlier, can triumph over any career obstacle (aka opportunity)"--Author's note.