A starship on the run from just about everybodyWith a renegade captain as their only chance.After a pair of contracts goes spectacularly wrong, Noah Denson is faced with the worst outcome imaginable. His fold drive starship just blew one of its engines and has trapped them in a remote star system.Their only chance? Sidewinder Station, a human settlement that had a sketchy past even during the war. Noah prays that the old capital ship boneyards might ...

Ignition! is the inside story of the Cold War era search for a rocket propellant which could be trusted to take man into space. A favorite of Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, listeners will want to tune into this "really good book on rocket[s]," available for the first time in audio.Ignition! is the story of the search for a rocket propellant which could be trusted to take man into space. This search was a hazardous enterprise carried out by ri...

Some common traumatic injuries in athletes include joint dislocations, sprains, muscle strains, broken bones, tendon inflammation, and ligament tears. The most common fracture injury in the athletic population occurs in the fingers. Articles included in this issue are: The challenges of treating athletes- Sport specific injuries, Wrist ligament injuries, Scaphoid fractures, Carpal fractures other than scaphoid, Thumb UCL and RCL injuries, Ulnar sided wrist pain in the athlete and many more...

From James Chang MD, FACS, Associate Professor of Surgery [Plastic Surgery] and Orthopedic Surgery Hand and Microsurgery, Program Director, Plastic Surgery, Stanford University Medical Center:"The Yearbook of Hand and Upper Limb Surgery is an annual review of the year's most relevant articles pertaining to this specialty. World-recognized hand surgery experts provide commentary on their personal experience related to these published abstracts. This interactive format allows the resident, f...

In a galaxy broken by war, the ceasefire didn't stop the conflicts.It just moved them out of sight.Noah Denson thought he was just taking another job.Smuggle the spy. Run the blockade. In this case, free the prisoner. Freelancers like Noah made a fortune providing services like these—especially when they had a fold drive starship and could jump light years at a time.But what started as a simple jailbreak turns into something much different wh...

Empowered to Make Every Moment CountIt’s not easy to follow God when everything around you seems to pull in the opposite direction. At school, online, or even among friends, it can often feel safer to keep your faith to yourself. But what if you were made for something more?In Called to Take a Bold Stand for Teens, Pastor Jack Hibbs equips you to live out a faith that’s resilient, purposeful, and effective no matter what you’re facing. Rooted in Sc...

Whether big or small, global or local, family businesses are the engine of wealth and security for owners, families, employees, and business as a whole. But as this book shows, that engine can easily break down:If the family, ownership, and business circles related to the business fail to hold regular and candid conversations that clarify ownership's intent for the business and the rules for family members' ownership of and employment in the company

Give your patients the non-surgical spine pain relief they need with help from the Atlas of Image-Guided Spinal Procedures by Dr. Michael Bruce Furman. This medical reference book features a highly visual atlas format that shows you exactly how to safely and efficiently perform each technique step-by-step. A unique, systematic, safe, and efficient approach makes Atlas of Image-Guided Spinal Procedures your go-to resource for spine pain relief for your patients. The highly visual format sho...

"There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor."This collection of unabridged recordings brings together five of Charles Dickens' most famous Christmas stories, including what is probably his most famous work of all, A Christmas Carol. From the timeless redemption at the heart of that story to the charming, lesser‑known seasonal pieces that brim with humour, nostalgia, and social insight, each story captures the spirit of a se...

Since most applications today are distributed in some fashion, monitoring their health and performance requires a new approach. Enter distributed tracing, a method of profiling and monitoring distributed applications—particularly those that use microservice architectures. There’s just one problem: distributed tracing can be hard. But it doesn’t have to be.With this guide, you’ll learn what distributed tracing is and how to use it to understand the performance and operation of your ...

Black Mask, the greatest American detective magazine of all time, is back with another issue. This time around, it includes nine new stories in the Black Mask vein by Brian Townsley, Jane Jakeman, Brian Stanley, Hannah Honeybun, William Burton McCormick, Frank Megna, Jonathan Sheppard, Michael Bracken, Jim Doherty, as well as a new article on Raymond Chandler’s The Little Sister by Katrina Younes. In addition, Boris Dralyuk has kindly supplied his translation of Isaac Bab...

Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America's manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades. As a flight director in NASA's Mission Control, Kranz witnessed firsthand the making of history. He participated in the space program from the early days of the Mercury program to the last Apollo mission, and beyond. He endured the disastrous first years when rockets blew up and the United States seemed to fall further behind the Soviet Union in the space race. He helped t...