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Space Science Fiction Super Pack
With linked Table of Contents
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2016
'Space Science Fiction' was launched in may of 1952. During it's impressive run it published many of Science Fiction's top writers. Collected here in this massive six hundred-plus page anthology are all of the most important stories that were published during its distinguished run. Included here are:...
Ethics of Spying
A Reader for the Intelligence Professional
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2005
Intelligence professionals are employees of the government working in a business that some would consider unethical_the business of spying. This book looks at the dilemmas that exist when one is asked to perform a civil service that is in conflict with what that individual believes to be 'ethical.'...
Like a Family
The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2012
Since its original publication in 1987, Like a Family has become a classic in the study of American labor history. Basing their research on a series of extraordinary interviews, letters, and articles from the trade press, the authors uncover the voices and experiences of workers in the Southern cotton...
The Gilded Age
Perspectives on the Origins of Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2006
The United States that entered the twentieth century was vastly different from the nation that emerged from the Civil War. Industrialization, mass immigration, the growing presence of women in the work force, and the rapid advance of the cities had transformed American society. Broad in scope, The Gilded...
Target-Centric Network Modeling
Case Studies in Analyzing Complex Intelligence Issues
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
In Target-Centric Network Modeling: Case Studies in Analyzing Complex Intelligence Issues, authors Robert Clark and William Mitchell take an entirely new approach to teaching intelligence analysis. Unlike any other book on the market, it offers case study scenarios using actual intelligence reporting...
American Catholics, American Culture
Tradition and Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2004
Sheed & Ward, in partnership with Commonweal magazine, presents the second of two volumes in the groundbreaking series, American Catholics in the Public Square, a project funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts. Essays by scholars, journalists, lawyers, business and labor leaders, church administrators...
Financing the New Federalism
Revenue Sharing, Conditional Grants and Taxation
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
Financing the New Federalism is the fifth in a series on the governance of metropolitan areas which aimed to improve the political organisation of metropolitan regions in America. Originally published in 1975, this particular study focusses on federal revenue sharing exploring its effects and implications...
Is It Worth Dying For?
How To Make Stress Work For You - Not Against You
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2010
A groundbreaking examination of stress and its effects on health and disease
Cardiologist Robert S. Eliot identifies “hot reactors”—apparently healthy people who overreact to such common occurrences as losing a tennis game or missing a train. If you are a “hot reactor,” you may be...
by Fiction River, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Dean Wesley Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2015
Money, business, sports, love: All involve risk—and skill. The skilled authors in this volume masterfully exhibit both. Buckle in while a locomotive engineer uses magic in a race to avoid extinction, a game developer must outmaneuver an alien for Earth’s fate, and an exterminator risks everything...
by Robert E Howard, C L Moore, Fritz Leiber
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Blood will flow, heads will roll, dragons will soar, and the dead shall rise. Journey to ancient cities ruled by sinister mages, storm-tossed seas where monsters dwell, mysterious towers full of ancient secrets, and dark dungeons with untold treasures. From Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Barbarian to...
by Robert Louis Stevenson, R. L. Stevenson, Golden Deer Classics
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
A Christmas Sermon by Robert Louis Stevenson written while he convalesced from a lung ailment at Lake Sarnac in the winter of 1887. In the short text he meditates on the questions of death, morality and man's main task in life which he concludes is "To be honest, to be kind — to earn a little...
The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Volume 2: Purgatorio
Volume 2: Purgatorio
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2003
The second volume of Oxford's new Divine Comedy presents the Italian text of the Purgatorio and, on facing pages, a new prose translation. Continuing the story of the poet's journey through the medieval Other World under the guidance of the Roman poet Virgil, the Purgatorio culminates in the regaining...
by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Alexandra Brandt, Alan Dean Foster
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2019
The call of the deep rings ever in our ears, from myth and legend to crime and mystery. Sea-people, mer and monster, immortals and reluctant heroes feature in this sea-worthy bundle.
Table of Contents
"The Women of Whale Rock" by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
"We, the Ocean"...
From the Yenisei to the Yukon
Interpreting Lithic Assemblage Variability in Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene Beringia
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Who were the first people who came to the land bridge joining northeastern Asia to Alaska and the northwest of North America? Where did they come from? How did they organize technology, especially in the context of settlement behavior?
During the Pleistocene era, the people now...