"The Bristol Royal Mail: Post, Telegraph, and Telephone" by Robert Charles Tombs explores the intricate history of communication in Bristol, focusing on the evolution of postal services, telegraphy, and telephony. Tombs delves into the establishment of the Royal Mail in Bristol, detailing how it transformed the way people connected with one another. The book highlights significant milestones in the development of communication infrastructure, showcasing the impact of these advancements on ...

Murder marks the Kid's first day on the team carving the Mountain monument in the Black Hills. These artists use dynamite and jackhammers to carve granite and show the Kid the ropes of working atop a forty-story drop. All struggle with painful personal crises, and baseball binds them as the complications of a bloody body on the Mountain unfold. More murders crop up as they unravel the mystery, racing against the demands of dangerous work, heat, deceit, and the money menace of Dust Bowl '34...

It is no longer news that the texts that became the official Bible excluded apocryphal books, in many cases because they didn't serve the worldview of the ruling classes. Early in the 20th century, R.H. Charles translated and edited a series of these texts. In 2003, we published The Book of Enoch, apocrypha describing the hierarchy of angels and demons. Now we are pleased to publish this significant end-times text.Writing at the time of the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 ad, Baruch convers...

While on an enlightening journey to seek the truth, Robert Charles Cooke ultimately gained an acute awareness of his innate nature. Now able to clearly see his place in the world and a path forward, he shares his experiences with the hope of helping other seekers realize the same inner peace. Robert, who understands he is flawed, once struggled with self-condemning thoughts as he mirrored his parents and became more like the people around him rather than his true self. While chronicling hi...

Following the success of their Locus Award–winning anthology The New Space Opera, editors Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan up the ante with The New Space Opera 2, in which more of the most beloved names in science fiction spin stunning tales of interstellar adventure and wonder. Authors include:Neal AsherJohn BarnesCory DoctorowJohn KesselJay LakeJohn MeaneyElizabeth MoonGarth NixMike ResnickJustina RobsonKristine Kathryn RuschJohn ScalziBruce SterlingPeter Wat...

In today’s culture, we all seek rational answers to events that we can’t explain, don’t believe, or have trouble comprehending. Curious Journey: Origins was the first in a series of books in which nationally known civic leader and business entrepreneur Robert Charles Hunter introduced readers to various perspectives of our world, often called elements of the New Age. In Curious Journey: Energy Hunter blends that with the science of today, taking the next logical step to understand Energy a...

When Rube Foster was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1981, his rightful place alongside baseball's greatest black heroes was at last firmly established. A world-class pitcher, a formidable manager, and a brilliant administrator, Rube Foster was arguably more influential in breaking down the color barrier in major league baseball than the venerable Jackie Robinson.Born in 1879, Rube Foster pitched for the legendary black baseball teamsthe Cuban X-Giants and the Ph...

In our rapidly-changing world of "social media", everyday people are more and more able to sort themselves into social groups based on finer and finer criteria. In the near future of Robert Charles Wilson's The Affinities, this process is supercharged by new analytic technologies--genetic, brain-mapping, behavioral. To join one of the twenty-two Affinities is to change one's life. It's like family, and more than family. Your fellow members aren't just like you, and they aren't jus...

Sometimes, we become so wrapped up in our day to day affairs, we forget to stop and look at what is going on around us. What reasoning did we use before we did this or that? Questions we need to ask ourselves and decide if we made the right decision and if not, do we have the guts to admit it and try to change or merely make excuses for ourselves. After all, life is not easy for any of us. These poems are a reflection of lifes experiences, my analogy of things around me. May they reflect s...

Managing Your Leadership is the first in a series of e.books on business topics that provide and insight and useful approaches to leading and managing a business, an organization, an association, or your own personal life. The CEO Perspective gives you the benefit of the author's more than forty years of proven business perspective along with techniques that can make anyone a better leader. It can be used as a quick reference guide in stratetic vision development as well as day to day resp...

Debugging by Thinking: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach is the first book to apply the wisdom of six disciplines—logic, mathematics, psychology, safety analysis, computer science, and engineering—to the problem of debugging. It uses the methods of literary detectives such as Sherlock Holmes, the techniques of mathematical problem solving, the results of research into the cognitive psychology of human error, the root cause analyses of safety experts, the compiler analyses of computer science, ...

When Robert Graber entered the world into a Mennonite farm family, he was the boy his mother dreamed of having. However, his father never seemed excited about the arrival of a new son. Little Robert had no idea that his father’s reaction was only the beginning of what would become more than four decades of ill treatment—not just to him, but also to his mother and sister as they bravely faced hardships, fears, and rejection while living within their small, central Kansas religious community...