What does one do in the face of a relentless enemy?Stories Rule Press presents: Space Opera Digest 2021: Fight or Flight.Fight or flight is one of our most primal instincts, a leftover from primitive days. It cannot be denied. In the backwater colonies on the fringes of outer space, it is one of our most valuable skills.Ptolemy Lane. Sergeant Fisher. The Dagger. Senior Chief Jack Palahniuk. Jedidiah Kramer. Captain Hedge. Six heroes face that choice.Fight or...

They're back. They're smarter. And the landings are DEADLIER!CONTESTED LANDING VOLUME TWO!The cosmos erupts as new threats demand bolder tactics! Orbital drops into hellzones! Planetary assaults against impossible odds! Every move is a knife-edge decision! Every attack, a desperate gamble!Experience the future of warfare: lightning strikes, brutal sieges, and the raw courage of soldiers pushed beyond breaking point! Lasers scream! Worlds tremble! Su...

“I may dare to speak, and I intend to speak and write what I think,” wrote a New York volunteer serving in the Mexican War in 1848. Such sentiments of resistance and confrontation run throughout the literature produced by veteran Americans in the nineteenth century—from prisoner-of-war narratives and memoirs to periodicals, adventure pamphlets, and novels. Military men and women were active participants in early American print culture, yet they struggled against civilian prejudice...

Following the 9/11 attacks, approximately four million Americans have turned eighteen each year and more than fifty million children have been born. These members of the millennial and post-millennial generation have come of age in a moment marked by increased anxiety about terrorism, two protracted wars, and policies that have raised questions about the United States's role abroad and at home. Young people have not been shielded from the attacks or from the wars and policy debates that fo...

The gaze of educational researchers has traditionally been turned "down" toward the experiences of communities deemed at-risk, presumably with the purpose of improving their plight. Indeed, theorizing about the relationship between education, culture, and society has typically emerged from the study of poor and marginalized groups in public schools. Seldom have educational researchers considered class privilege and educational advantage in their attempts at understanding inequality and fom...

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Mastering online business acquisition is essential for entrepreneurs and investors looking to expand their digital portfolios. This course provides insights into every phase of acquiring an online business, from assessment to post-purchase optimization, ensuring informed decision-making and significant ROI.Expand Your Portfolio Through Online Business AcquisitionGain the skills to understand and compare online business models, analyze industry trends, and ev...

This is the first mini-ebook in this series. It explores the various recent events that have happened and are still happening in the USA, and even the world, that have made individuals feel alone, isolated, afraid, and full of sorrow. Although divorce is a topic in this book, it is just one of the many topics. Being the first edition of this book and the first book of this series, I would love to hear your feedback after you read my book. Also if you have topics you would like me to talk a...

Identity Economics provides an important and compelling new way to understand human behavior, revealing how our identities--and not just economic incentives--influence our decisions. In 1995, economist Rachel Kranton wrote future Nobel Prize-winner George Akerlof a letter insisting that his most recent paper was wrong. Identity, she argued, was the missing element that would help to explain why people--facing the same economic circumstances--would make different choices. This was ...

THE JOSSEY-BASS READER ON Contemporary Issues in Adult EducationWith contributions from leading experts in the field, The Jossey-Bass Reader on Contemporary Issues in Adult Education collects in one volume the best previously published literature on the issues and trends affecting adult education today. The volume includes influential pieces from foundational authors in the profession such as Eduard C. Lindeman, Alain Locke, and Paulo Freire, as well as cu...

More and more, fathers are deciding to stay at home and care for their children rather than work full-time outside of the home. More and more, Canadian families are lead by single fathers. Shining a spotlight on the lives of stay at home dads and single fathers, Do Men Mother? provides groundbreaking evidence of dramatic changes in mothering and fathering in Canada. Using evidence gathered in a four-year in-depth qualitative study, including interviews with over 100 fathers - from t...

An in-depth look at America's changing gay neighborhoodsGay neighborhoods, like the legendary Castro District in San Francisco and New York's Greenwich Village, have long provided sexual minorities with safe havens in an often unsafe world. But as our society increasingly accepts gays and lesbians into the mainstream, are "gayborhoods" destined to disappear? Amin Ghaziani provides an incisive look at the origins of these unique cultural enclaves, the reasons why the...