The “happiness agenda” is a worldwide movement that claims that happiness is the highest good, happiness can be measured, and public policy should promote happiness. Against Happiness is a thorough and powerful critique of this program, revealing the flaws of its concept of happiness and advocating a renewed focus on equality and justice.Written by an interdisciplinary team of authors, this book provides both theoretical and empirical analysis of the limitations of the hap...

Traditional Ranching and Cattle Range Conflicts – 4 Classic Western Novels delves deep into the rugged landscape of the American West, encapsulating an era rife with tensions between traditional ranching lifestyles and the burgeoning conflicts of cattle range expansion. This anthology presents a varied spectrum of literary styles and narrative techniques, capturing the raw, unpolished yet profoundly compelling spirit of Western literature. The collection masterfully includes tales that exp...

The “happiness agenda” is a worldwide movement that claims that happiness is the highest good, happiness can be measured, and public policy should promote happiness. Against Happiness is a thorough and powerful critique of this program, revealing the flaws of its concept of happiness and advocating a renewed focus on equality and justice.Written by an interdisciplinary team of authors, this book provides both theoretical and empirical analysis of the limitations of the hap...

Zion Station. Slowly decaying in a backwater of human space, now only useful as support for the methane mining industry that operates in the atmosphere of the gas giant planet below.But Zion harbors secrets that could topple the Consortium, Earth's oppressive, genocidal empire.Zion's saga continues, as Police Chief Pilar Jones y Garcia and her friends continue to protect those secrets with their lives and work toward bringing down the Consortium.The stories within b...

Forced to take a vacation, Zion Police Chief Pilar Jones y Garcia joins Skip and his Far Trails crew on what she thinks is a random cargo run. Grumpy and short-tempered on the second anniversary of Garcia's death, she just wants to be left alone. Instead, she finds herself on a ship full of idealistic hippies, who are traveling to a hidden ecological preserve planet.But sabotage on the ship and a murder on the colony derail Jones's hope of an uneventful vacation. And as sh...

Captain Skip Thompson, cargo specialist without a ship. It's been stolen right out of Davadas Station's space dock. His ship, its cargo, its other cargo, in order of increasing importance.And heading fast for the nearest Jump point. If it goes through, it's gone for good. The ship and cargo can be replaced, but the losing the other cargo will get Skip killed.With his crew in the brig and the Davadas sheriff refusing to help, his only assistance comes from ...

Nine months before the AI Purge, Cray Solnik, newly hired onto the Far Trails, accepts an invitation to Zion Station's null-grav arena to celebrate Police Chief Jones's birthday with an experimental virtual reality experience. He and his new friends become characters in a throwback sci-fi story, run by the station's AI Max, complete with rocketships, ray guns, and evil Martians who want to steal Earth for themselves.But the fun ends when the birthday treat goes arwy, threa...

This prequel story to Survival Instincts finds Daniel Bennett serving hard time on the Holt penal station. Outed as a former cop, he doesn't stand a chance. His survival requires that he give up who he is - a good cop and honorable man - and become even more ruthless than the dregs of humanity that surround him. Instead, he attempts a precarious balancing act between Bennett the cop and Bennett the convict. But when an asteroid mining accident leaves him and two convicts adrift and short o...

Embark on a flight of discovery with ten stories from the fertile mind of M.E Owen, including:A group of extraterrestrials finds an exciting new venue for date night—Earth.A Seattle bar houses a clandestine interplanetary waystation nicknamed the "Vortex of Hell."An alien discovers that the small child of the powerful human she was sent to observe may hold the key to initiating peaceful relations.A generation ship's engineer wakes up as a clone o...

Pilar Jones y Garcia, Zion Station's police chief, still mourns her husband's death years later. She, and everyone else with a radio, heard his last transmission moments before his small ship incinerated in the toxic atmosphere of the gas giant below.But Emilio Garcia y Jones had secrets that he kept even from the woman he adored. Secrets that hunted him down, forcing him to make the hardest decision of his life.Join us for a story set before the Consortium's AI genocide, w...

Zion Station. Decrepit, nearly forgotten on the edge of human space, and harboring a secret that could shift the course of humanity.Eight months ago, the Earth-based Consortium committed genocide against the AIs, destroying thousands of sentient beings, along with hundreds of thousands with the potential.Only six humans know that Zion Station's sentient AI, Max, survived the purge.Even as they rush to complete Max's move from the Consortium-built neural network to Z...

Old, poorly maintained, and sliding into decrepitude, Zion Station orbits a gas giant planet in a backwater of human space. Originally purposed for scientific research, its scientists are long gone, leaving dusty closed-off sections of the station behind. These days it supports the methane mining industry for the planet below.But Zion has secrets. Big secrets. The type of secrets that may just topple an oppressive, genocidal empire.Police Chief Pilar Jones y Garcia knows th...