An anthology about pirates and the open seas.Stories included:Alongside the Coasts of Sumatra by Sergio PalumboCaptain Bs By Pyle HazardLa Conquista by Rob NesbitIn the Name of Free Enterprise by HL DowlessOf Squalls and Sailors by John ToresPirates and Mutiny by Laura NelsonRiders to the Sea by Prabir Kumar RathSail Away by Mariah LyndeThe Salt Cartographer by Ky-oh RangiPoetry By:Dr. Thomas S....

The Python Book Cybersecurity Practitioners Actually NeedCybersecurity moves too fast for you to stay stuck at the level of syntax, toy exercises, and generic coding use cases. Introduction to Python for Cybersecurity Practitioners is for those who need more than "Hello, world" examples and want to use Python to access, retrieve, and synthesize real cybersecurity data. The author wrote the book he wishes he'd had when he first started learning Python—one g...

Dave Morrison is a bike courier in a futuristic city where every citizen is under continuous surveillance, personal privacy is nonexistent, and disappearing is damn near impossible.Dave's simple life is drastically altered only minutes after accepting a routine delivery assignment; he's suddenly the most wanted man in the city.Hunted by an all-seeing surveillance network and powerful forces desperate to recover three mysterious data chips he is carrying, Dave, the bike cour...

Discover the BRAND NEW gripping, twisted suspense thriller from BESTSELLER John Nicholl, author of The Holiday.Two women running from their pasts. Two predators determined to find them. One isolated cottage with a deadly secret…Ella Hart believed the nightmare was over when her manipulative, abusive ex-boyfriend, Nigel Franks, was sent to prison. But now Nigel is free – and his obsession with revenge is stronger than ever.

A rallying call to modernize combat logistics within the Canadian Armed Forces.— Brigadier-General (Retired) Tod Strickland, MSM, CD, former deputy commanding officer of Task Force OrionGood battlefield logistics have always been more about people than things. Yet military logisticians in the Canadian Armed Forces have suffered in the cellar — the underappreciated bottom of the institution — for decades. These soldiers were called upon mightily in the summer...

Timeless insights into military logistics sprang out of the hardship and sacrifices of Canadians who fought in Afghanistan.Good battlefield logistics have always been more about people than things. Military logistics in the Canadian Armed Forces have long suffered in a dry cellar, as the under-appreciated bottom heap of the institution. Yet Canadian logistic soldiers were called upon mightily in the summer of 2006 to sustain an infantry battle group in one of the w...

My Trivial Pursuits is the definitive account of how Trivial Pursuit—a cardboard sketch dreamed up in a smoky Montreal kitchen—exploded into one of the best-selling and most recognizable games ever created. John Haney, one of the original co-creators, takes readers inside the chaotic early days: the first hand-drawn board, the heated debate over categories, the breakthrough of the scoring "wedge," and the marathon writing of thousands of questions pulled from newspapers, memory, a...

A Companion for Your Journey from Ash Wednesday to Pentecost"Let no one fear death, for the death of our Savior has set us free."—St. John ChrysostomLent is a pilgrimage of the soul when Christians have always commemorated the death and resurrection of Jesus with a season of reflection. Through poems, essays, and devotional readings, A Radiant Resurrection invites you into the time of reflection from Ash Wednesday through Eastertide. Writt...

A Companion for Your Journey from Ash Wednesday to Pentecost"Let no one fear death, for the death of our Savior has set us free."—St. John ChrysostomLent is a pilgrimage of the soul when Christians have always commemorated the death and resurrection of Jesus with a season of reflection. Through poems, essays, and devotional readings, A Radiant Resurrection invites you into the time of reflection from Ash Wednesday through Eastertide. Writt...

An indispensable resource for preaching and teaching the book of DanielIn this well-researched commentary, scholars Aubrey E. Buster and John H. Walton guide readers through chapters 7–12 of the book of Daniel. They provide historically informed, theologically sound interpretations of the content in these chapters: Daniel's apocalyptic dreams and visions, his encounters with the angel Gabriel, his prayer for restoration, and more. Buster and Walton also help reader...

How do poor Black communities co-exist with downtown revitalization? How do Black social movements respond to urban renewal to ensure access to better housing and city spaces? John Tilghman investigates these interlocking questions in Jim Crow from the Harbor. Looking at Baltimore, Maryland’s redevelopment in the post-war era of deindustrialization and population decline through white flight, Tilghman tells the story of how Black activists clashed with urban regimes.Tilghm...

A fresh, witty and sophisticated guide to men’s fashion – from wing tips to wristwatches, turtlenecks to tuxedos – from bestselling author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, John Berendt.For more than a decade, beloved author John Berendt wrote a series of smart, sophisticated columns for Esquire on matters of manners and men’s clothing. Class Act brings together over fifty of these updated and revised pieces, as well as two new ...