VENTURE OUT INTO THE UNIVERSE…The Master of Orion game lets players take their place as one of thirteen different races of the galaxy, each seeking to carve out their own empire from the stars. Now, Catalyst Game Labs and Wargaming.Net are pleased to present the first anthology set in the Master of Orion universe.Ranging from one end of the galaxy to the other, these original stories explore the galactic politics, backwater planets, and ou...

The primary goal of any industrial hygienist is to prevent hazards before they affect workers. However, safeguards can fail, and human error is inevitable, leading to potential overexposure to occupational hazards. This book explores how to create a dynamic and responsive workplace, emphasizing the importance of early detection and intervention using modern technology through wearable monitors and sensors.This book explores the integration of wearable technology in industrial hygie...

Point Break, in Bloomsbury's Timecodes Series, is a detailed, minute-by-minute critical exploration of Kathryn Bigelow's 1991 action film Point Break.Moving sequentially through the film's two-hour runtime, the book blends formal analysis, cultural history and theory, action genre study, and personal reflection and interpretation. It positions Point Break as both a quintessential action spectacle and a film layered with thematic tensions: masculin...

Synopsis: Johnny Cobalt is not just another down-on-his-luck PI with a bad attitude to blame for his hard-knock life. He's a Christian in compromise who needs to learn that submission to Christ is the only way out of his problems. And problems are what he has in spades: cops he can't or won't trust and who don't trust him, a partner he can trust professionally but not morally, a girl he loves but whom he keeps pushing away, and a gangster he has sold his soul to but whom he must f...

Arthur Bryne struggles. Recently divorced, financially overwhelmed, mentally exhausted, physically spent - he's adrift in midlife. Purposeless. In a rare moment of quiet, while playing a game with his lifelong friend Chris, Arthur receives a call. His only child has been hit by a car.Sam, Arthur's only child, is a brilliant, kind, thoughtful nineteen year old. While Arthur struggles to rediscover his purpose, Sam navigates concepts of sexuality and gender. Despite often being at od...

This guide from the founder of Kombucha Wonder Drink demystifies the process of brewing kombucha at home and offers recipes for using it in infusions, smoothies, cocktails, and more.The Wonder DrinkKombucha—a fizzy, fermented tea-based beverage packed with probiotics, vitamins, and enzymes—has home brewers salivating. And who better to guide you through the brewing process than a tea guru with more than forty years of experience under his b...

What can post-catastrophe films tell us about our current real-world circumstances?This book proposes that a new sub-genre of film called ‘post-catastrophe’ is emerging that displays narratives directly analogous to our current predicament of runaway climate disruption. Post-catastrophe film sits in the space between blockbuster disaster movies that use scenes of destruction to blow the world up and disrupt the flow of humanity and post-apocalyptic films where a version of society ...

The aliens needed super-soldiers. They grabbed four guys from Bucksnort, Tennessee. Things get crazier than your uncle after that 4th Premium Ultra™.Mack, Ricky, Bret, and Keith aren't heroes. They're the guys arguing about lawnmowers outside the gas station - until the night they're abducted and injected with an alien super-serum meant for Martian super-soldiers - then things get a little more than interesting.These four small-town southern boys have world...

Dennis Hopper (1936-2010) was one of most charismatic and protean figures to emerge from the American independent film movement of the 1960s and '70s, an incredibly compelling screen presence who helped give cult classics like Easy Rider and Blue Velvet their off-kilter appeal. But his artistic interests went far beyond acting, and this collection of essays is the first major work to take in Hopper as a creative artist in all his fields of endeavour, from acting and direc...

Your Practice Set – Applications and Interpretation for IBDP Mathematics Book 1is the second book of our exercise book series which is suitable for both Applications and Interpretation (MAI) Standard Level and Higher Level students. Here are some of the main features:Common and compulsory topics for both MAI SL and MAI HL studentsNew topics including Voronoi diagrams, Trapezoidal rule and Spearman’s Rank Correlation Coefficient100 example ...

Father Joe Macaffery is a man whose life was a mystery before his arrival in the sea-side town of Bindaree. He enjoys great popularity, until he decides to help school the town's disadvantaged Indigenous teens in his church. With a handful of streetwise helpers he fights a bigoted Mayor, a psychotic drug dealer and the prejudices of small town Australia.

MERE CHRISTIAN is a personal journal written from a layman's perspective. Arthur Bryne documents his efforts to reconcile modern ideas about Jesus with Christian scripture, modern politics, and Old Testament precedent.For believers struggling to ignore toughquestions about Christianity; for anyone tired of shallow apologetics designed to silence challenges to tradition; for anyone seeking earnest, raw discussion about clear problems in scripture - YOU AREN'T ALONE.B...