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Designed as a “how-to” manual, Practical Preservation and Conservation Strategies for Libraries provides librarians with practical information to help them grapple with specific preservation challenges by identifying areas of concern, optimizing the use of resources put towards preservation, and...

The only A-Z guide available on this subject, this book provides a wide-ranging and up-to-date overview of the fast-changing and increasingly important world of cyberculture. Its clear and accessible entries cover aspects ranging from the technical to the theoretical, and from movies to the everyday,...

Jackups, semisubmersibles and drillships are the marine vessels used to drill offshore wells and are referred to collectively as mobile offshore drilling units (MODUs). MODUs are supplied through newbuild construction and operate throughout the world in highly competitive regional markets. The Offshore...

Sitting prominently at the hearth of our homes, television serves as a voice of our modern time. Given our media-saturated society and television’s prominent voice and place in the home, it is likely we learn about our society and selves through these stories. These narratives are not simply entertainment,...

Now you're playing with… TERROR Demons stalk the circuit boards. Phantoms roam the arcade. Programmers embed occult secrets into the code. Madness spreads from player to player like a virus. Virtual and augmented reality are haunted by unspeakable forces. Doom-cursed warriors live and die...

From Scout Media comes A Haunting of Words—the third volume in an ongoing short story anthology series featuring authors from all over the world. In this installation, the reader will experience a multi-genre journey beyond traditional haunts; from comedy, to drama, fantasy, romance, and...

As a writer who, beginning in the 1930s, gave voice to the ordinary man and woman, Steinbeck came to be the conscience of America. He witnessed and recorded with clarity much of the political and social upheaval of the 20th century: the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War, Vietnam. Yet his...

The Penny Farthing Stories is a collection of fantasy stories in poetic form, containing tales of colourful animal characters with human attributes. The stories are all set in the nineteenth century.

A SADISTIC OVERSEER TORMENTED THEM AS CHILDREN - IS HE NOW STALKING THEM AS ADULTS? Tom Wallace is born from communal coupling during the Great Depression of the 1930s. He endures physical and sexual abuse at the hands of a sadistic cult and bonds with Calvin, Luke and Ben, staunch allies who look out...

REVENGE SERVED COLD IN THE BADLANDS Calvin Summerville took away everything Dave Porter cared about. Now Dave is hunting Calvin to have his revenge or die trying. But getting to Calvin won't be easy. There are other monsters in the post-virus world now. And some of those monsters will prove even deadlier than Calvin Summerville.

Bundle and save! Get the first three Badlands books in one volume for a reduced price! Three years after a devastating pandemic transformed humanity into vicious and wild creatures, Ed Brady struggles to protect his two sons. His wife is dead. His boys are all that matter to him now, his only...

Billy Howton is a shy high schooler in a small town facing two big problems: a painful crush and a relentless bully. Too afraid to act, Billy is helpless to get Penny to notice him or to get his nemesis, Brad, to leave him alone. But when a vicious monster is accidentally released from an old...

Terror on the high seas… It was supposed to be three days of fun on a weekend cruise. Instead, this small group of friends find themselves fighting for their lives against passengers and crew inexplicably transformed into vicious and bloodthirsty savages. Trapped in open waters, surviving...

In an attempt to rebuild his life from the wreckage of a failed marriage, Scott Stevenson moves to a small town miles away from the problems of his former life. There he buys a new home, makes a friend, and even catches the eye of a local girl. But something is very wrong in this idyllic, Midwestern...