Some cargoes are difficult. Some are dangerous. And some are so unusual that only a stubborn starship captain would agree to haul them halfway across the galaxy.When Captain Bart Hannah takes a contract to deliver Earth’s largest land animal to an eccentric collector on a distant world, he quickly learns that moving an elephant through deep space is far more complicated than loading freight and plotting a course. Every aspect of the journey becomes a puzzle. Weight, balance, food s...

Captain Hannah has hauled strange cargoes across the galaxy, but nothing could have prepared him for the living nightmare hidden inside a shipment of priceless marocca plants. What begins as a lucrative delivery quickly becomes an exhausting ordeal involving exploding growth cycles, swarms of maddening insects, bizarre ecological dependencies, and a ship that seems determined to fight him every step of the way.Told as a hilarious tale of interstellar commerce gone horribly wrong, C...

A collection of short stories of eight African American's who each overcame adversity and beat the odds to become a first in American Politics.

Tyrus grew up in a world without seasons, only snow and ice. A world, where humans and elves used to get along. A world, where fiery magic once thrived through a connection between owls and people. A world, he is destined to save.Long ago, a never-ending Winter conquered all of the Wingspan Continent, and any hopes of that ever changing, had died silent deaths. But when Tyrus bonds with a curious owl that shouldn't exist, all those hopes are resurrected. He becomes the first Owlbou...

Tyrus grew up in a world without seasons, only snow and ice. A world, where humans and elves used to get along. A world, where fiery magic once thrived through a connection between owls and people. A world, he is destined to save.Long ago, a never-ending Winter conquered all of the Wingspan Continent, and any hopes of that ever changing, had died silent deaths. But when Tyrus bonds with a curious owl that shouldn't exist, all those hopes are resurrected. He becomes the first Owlbou...

Lost Sci-Fi Books 596 thru 600 brings together classic tales of unexpected fortune, manufactured happiness, dangerous journeys through time, unusual alien encounters, and human behavior pushed into unfamiliar territory.In The Cosmic Jackpot, George O. Smith turns an extraordinary opportunity into a fast-moving adventure where winning may create more trouble than anyone imagined. John R. Pierce’s The Good Life explores a future that...

This unique book examines how U.S. domestic policy regarding the death penalty has been influenced by international pressures, in particular, by foreign nations and international organizations.International pressure has mounted against America’s use of the death penalty, straining diplomatic ties. U.S. policies that endorse the execution of juveniles, the mentally handicapped, and disadvantaged foreign nationals have been recognized by allied nations and international organizations ...

This book provides a timely reconceptualization of Zimbabwe’s anti- colonial liberation struggle, resisting simple binaries in favour of more nuanced, critical analysis.Most historiographies characterize Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle as being defined by simple bifurcations along racial, ethnic, class and ideological perspectives. This book argues that the nationalist struggle is far more complex than such simple configurations would suggest, and that many actors have been overlook...

Building on the emerging field of biopolitics of security, this research monograph demonstrates that political speech can be crafted to manipulate segments of the voting population who are inherently predisposed to being receptive to certain language. The authors, who come from both political science and behavioral neuroscience, examine how the human brain reacts to expressions of political ideology regarding terrorism. They apply these reactions to specific forms of political communicatio...

The Cayuga are one of the original five nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, a powerful alliance of Native American tribes in the Northeast, inhabiting much of the land in what is now central New York State. When their nation was destroyed in the Sullivan–Clinton campaign of 1779, the Cayuga endured 200 years of displacement. As a result, relatively little is known about the location, organization, or ambience of their ancestral villages. Perched on a triangular finger of land against...

An author's visions are revealed through their stories. Many authors have strange and unusual stories, indeed. Within these pages, you will find the stories of eighteen different authors, each unique and thought provoking. These are the fantasy, science fiction, paranormal, and horror stories that will keep you awake long into the night.What happens when:An inexplicable monster plagues a town for generations, taking people… and souvenirs?

Moral injury has developed in earnest since 2009 within psychology and military studies, especially through work with veterans of the U.S. military’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. A major part of this work is the attempt to identify means of healing, recovery, and repair for those morally injured by their experiences in combat (or similar situations). What this volume does is to provide insight into the identification of moral injury, the development of the notion, attempts to work with th...