Winner of the 45th Annual 3-Day Novel ContestIn a future hotter than today, people meet their needs through tailored forms of intelligence. From the cyborg security at the food mart to the ever-learning, ever-loving forms that can effectively, and acceptably, be a life partner. The processing nous of an AI spouse is all the more valuable in a world where everything's a game. An actual game.So We Blush Less When The Phone Rings presents a world where differences hin...

With bugs in her skin and noise in her head, Riz is real and the rest are fake. What matters to her: Mark Rothko's art. So despite the horror of family time, it's a fine thing that a major Rothko show coincides with the global conference where her so-called Dad is such a big wheel.Holed up with VIPs at a heavily guarded hotel, Riz collides with a sharp-dressed assassin she calls The Man. As she plunges into a world of covert deals and power plays, Riz is befriended and betrayed by R...

Everything is just a little more difficult for thirty-something Margaret Rudge. Adjusting to single life after her no-good husband Tommy leaves her for a shrink, Margaret manages to snag a job slinging coffee on the street. “Everyone hooks up waiting for their latte,” her sometimes-fabulous friend Cindy advises. And maybe it’s good advice because it’s while working at Frank’s coffee cart that she meets a handsome young dancer and is drawn into the exhilarating and slightly unhinged world o...

Outdoor Leadership, Third Edition, introduces students to a wide variety of theories and concepts that are integral to the understanding of outdoor leadership, and it demonstrates how these concepts come to life in the field. Written by a team of internationally recognized authors, the text introduces eight core competencies that are essential to outdoor leadership:Foundational knowledgeSelf-awareness and professional conductDecision making and ju...

This textbook on combinatorial commutative algebra focuses on properties of monomial ideals in polynomial rings and their connections with other areas of mathematics such as combinatorics, electrical engineering, topology, geometry, and homological algebra. Aimed toward advanced undergraduate students and graduate students who have taken a basic course in abstract algebra that includes polynomial rings and ideals, this book serves as a core text for a course in combinatorial commutative al...

Map UseWith a topographic map in front of you and the basic information in this booklet to augment it you may get more out of using the map.Written by Mors Kochanski

The CompassThis booklet is the companion volume to Map Use. It is the minimal knowledge anyone stepping into the wilderness should have about compass use. This is not an orienteering manual.Written by Mors Kochanski

Outback Survival is a timeless, practical run down on everything you need to know to survive in the outback.Bob Cooper's incredible bushcraft skills have been developed through more than 25 years of experience in Australia's harsh outback. He has picked up tools of survival from the experiences of living with traditional Aboriginal communities, instructing with Special Forces Units, lecturing with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Service on desert survival in ...

The original nineteenth century wilderness guide offering illustrated instruction on building traps for prey of all kinds, from big game to household vermin.First published in 1882, W. Hamilton Gibson’s guide to camping and trapping shares time-honored lessons in self-sufficiency and living simply. Charming sketches throughout the book capture the rustic nostalgia of this timeless guide and depict many of the traps it describes. Here you will learn practical tricks...

Build a pocket-sized survival kit you’ll actually carry.This book will explain what items to carry in your pocket survival tin. It is so small and light weight, you should always have it on you!The Complete Survivor Series Collection:Volume 1 - The Ultimate Survival TinVolume 2 - The Urban Survival TinVolume 3 - The First Aid Survival TinVolume 4 - Th...

Build a pocket-sized Combat Survival Kit you’ll actually carry.This book will explain what items to carry in your Combat Survival Tin. It is so small and light weight, you should always have it on you.The Complete Survivor Series Collection:Volume 1 - The Ultimate Survival TinVolume 2 - The Urban Survival TinVolume 3 - The First Aid Survival TinVolume...