Security Boot Camp is a direct, experience-based guide to professionalism within the security industry. Written from decades of frontline experience, this book focuses on discipline, presentation, punctuality, operational awareness, and personal accountability.It examines the core pillars of effective security work: access control, patrolling, reporting, legal awareness, and the responsible use of force. Rather than offering theory alone, it presents practical standards that can be...

The mysterious door in your basement is a portal to any time and place. What do you find when you walk through it? The Basement Door answers this question with a cornucopia of tales, spanning a wide range of styles from middle-grade fiction to high fantasy, from memoir and poetry to science fiction and romance. There's something for every reader, if you are brave enough to open the basement door!

We have another great issue this week, with original mysteries from N.M. Cedeño (courtesy of Acquiring Editor Michael Bracken) and Brian Rieselman, plus a terrific tale by David Dean (courtesy of Acquiring Editor Barb Goffman). Our classic mystery novel is The Winning Clue, by James Hay, Jr. (A note to the sensitive: it has some dialog in racial dialect, which was common in novels of the era.) And, of course, we have a solve-it-yourself puzzler from Hal Charles.On the science ficti...

Au fil des vingt et quelques chapitres que compte cet ouvrage, les auteurs explorent le passé, le présent et l’avenir de la recherche, de l’enseignement et de l’expérimentation en sciences humaines numériques au Canada. Ce recueil, qui rassemble les travaux de chercheuses et de chercheurs établis et émergents, présente des initiatives contemporaines dans le domaine des sciences humaines numériques. Celles-ci sont conjuguées à un réexamen de l’héritage légué par ce domaine jusqu’à ce jour e...

Every store faces security challenges, from shoplifters to disruptive customers—but most retail staff aren't trained to handle these situations confidently. Retail Security Quick Training Blueprint is your step-by-step guide to mastering essential retail security skills in minutes, not hours.Inside, you'll discover:Practical, easy-to-follow strategies to prevent incidents before they happen.Methods for safely managing difficult or aggressive custome...

Essential for the laboratory, this practical manual presents a wide variety of techniques associated with the use of human CNS tissue obtained at autopsy. The book contains detailed methodologies in discrete chapters written by an expert in the specific field. It also addresses the potential for extending molecular studies in brain tissue obtain

From the Bestselling Author of Solitude!A routine test flight. A mysterious crash. Humanity’s first encounter with an alien race.When Major Anthony Spinelli takes his P-51 Mustang on a routine test flight over the deserts of New Mexico, he expects a few mechanical glitches—not to encounter a craft unlike anything built on Earth. After a storm forces Tony into a life-or-death spiral, the alien craft saves him at the last second, onl...

Cave Creek, Nevada—Where the Unexpected Meets the Real WorldA mythical town nestled in a hidden canyon north of Las Vegas, Cave Creek attracts the strange, weird, and inexplicable.Founded by a few settlers in the waning days of the 19th century, a gold rush in 1900 exploded Cave Creek into a boomtown with more than 8,000 residents.But right from the beginning, strange events bedevil the residents. Unexplained things that often chase a resident down the valley to saf...

Our seventh anthology features original Star Trek®, Star Trek: The Next Generation®, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine®, Star Trek: Voyager®, and Star Trek: Enterprise stories written by Star Trek fans, for Star Trek fans!Featuring new stories by new writers and a few contest veterans, Strange New Worlds VII spans the entire Star Trek universe from the original days of Captain Kirk and throughout the tenures of Captains Picard, Sisko, and Janeway and back in tim...

Best-selling author and narrator team from Solitude: Dimension Space Book One.A routine flight. An encounter with the impossible. A race against time.Captain Jake Giard's world is turned upside down when a routine training flight becomes an encounter with the impossible. After seeing a UFO with physics-defying abilities, Jake finds himself at the center of a government cover-up as he struggles to uncover the truth about the death o...

A lifeless fleet. A weapon that defies understanding. A battle for the future of humanity.Captain Jake Giard thought the nightmare was over. But when he and Colonel Newcastle explore the immense alien carrier drifting silently above the Atlantic, they realize the fight is far from finished. With its crew mysteriously vaporized, the carrier fleet holds the key to Earth’s survival—or its destruction. As Jake ventures deep into the eerie, deserted starship, he uncov...

Malcolm would like for his life to stay comfortably predictable. He spends every day with his best friends in the world, and it takes 12 seconds for him to walk to his job as a bartender below his apartment. Like an episode of Friends, it's the type of thing every person in their mid-20s wants. But good things don't last. Malcolm's self-proclaimed archnemesis, Peter, has re-entered his life after their long-dead rivalry back in college—a rivalry which seemed to start without Malcolm's know...