My book attempts to present what I believe is a serious threat to our Constitutional Republic, based on the current administrations increasing imposition of Federal regulations, policies, and programs that infringe on the basic rights of the American citizens. It is partly my personal story of growing up in this great country and making a positive contribution to society, but it is also a call for Americans to wake up to the reality of the continued overreach of the Federal Government rega...

The Director saw it as his personal legacy builder: the Perfect Monster, the Engineered Killing Machine. Half animal, half machine, all deadly. Thousands would be ordered by the U.S. military, and The Director's company, the inappropriately-named Institute for Life and Learning Advancement (ILLA) would make hundreds of millions of dollars. He would be lauded as a genius and a patriot, and would retire in a blaze of fame and glory. But the U.S. Government didn't get it. The “suits” and the ...

Aaron Chiang has learned the truth of his heritage - he's the last of the dragons, which have been hunted to extinction by a secret society of wizards called the Magi. Only Aaron's mother stands between him and the Dragon Hunters...but she might very well be far more than she appears. Featuring a variant cover by Brandon Peterson (X-Men: Divided We Stand)!

Imprisoned in a dungeon high up in the Himalaya Mountains, Aaron Chiang comes face to face with the father he always believed was dead - the Dragon King. Can father and son manage to escape from their imprisonment - or will one have to sacrifice his own life to save that of the other? The modern fantasy by Ron Marz and Lee Moder roars to its pulse-pounding climax! Featuring a special variant cover by Ryan Sook (Countdown)!

On the Mexican-Arizona border two US border agents are murdered as they try to stop drugs from entering the country; in a convenience store parking lot in Las Vegas, Nevada, the wife of a private investigator is seriously wounded while sitting in her car waiting for her husband to buy milk to their baby; again in Nevada a father seeks help in freeing his daughter from the clutches of a drug lord; in Honolulu, Hawaii a family walks on the beach and discovers a vial of heroin washed ashore o...

Political Campaign Communication: Theory, Method, and Practice brings a diversity of issues, topics, and events on political campaign communication around the concepts of theory, method and practice. The volume contains studies of political campaign communication utilizing a wide range of empirical, rhetorical, content analyses and social science methodologies as well as a variety of foci on the practice of political campaign communication with studies on the communication dimensions and e...

This time, we have a special all-mystery issue. But don’t panic! We have mysteries by science fiction and fantasy writers, too…tales by Phyllis Ann Karr (best known for her fantasy novels, such as Idylls of the Queen and the Frostflower & Thorn series) and Theodore R. Cogswell (author of the 1952 classic “The Specter General,” voted one of the greatest science fiction stories of all time by the Science Fiction Writers of America). We also...

The next wave of business intelligence, Self-Service BI, seeks to meet the demands of powerful hardware and shorter decision time frames. This book introduces PowerPivot for Excel and SharePoint, showing you how to use this innovative software for self-service analytics and reporting. Authored by key members of the Microsoft team that built the product, this book will guide you through the use of in-memory BI server technology, data analytics eXpressions, and report gallery. The book also ...

The Cutting Edge of Modern Short FictionA three-time Hugo Award nominated magazine, this issue of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine offers up nineteen fantastic stories by some of the best writers working in modern short fiction.No genre limitations, no topic limitations, just great stories. Attitude, feel, and high-quality fiction equals Pulphouse."This is definitely a strong start. All the stories have a lot of life to them, and are worthwhile reading." —Tangent Online o...

Mayhem, destruction, and domination. Cooperation, friendship, and even love.When strangers from vastly different backgrounds collide, the potential fallouts are infinite.Within these pages you’ll find stories of man vs. man, sapient vs. sapient, and culture vs. culture. These tales span the entire spectrum from political strife among the far-flung stars to the mundane horror of Earthly paperwork. But whether the stories take place in the stars, or in worlds touched by eleme...

The Cutting Edge of Modern Short FictionA three-time Hugo Award nominated magazine, this issue of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine offers up nineteen fantastic stories by some of the best writers working in modern short fiction.No genre limitations, no topic limitations, just great stories. Attitude, feel, and high-quality fiction equals Pulphouse."This is definitely a strong start. All the stories have a lot of life to them, and are worthwhile reading." —Tangent Online o...

This collection arguably contains some of the most charming lyrics ever written in English. The childlike simplicity and trust of these artless verses are unique.Blake’s poems can be enjoyed, not only for their historical importance in an age which was fiercely proud of its genius and its traditions, but also for their simple and beautiful expression of “two contrary states of the human soul.”Songs of Innocence was originally a complete collection of twenty-three p...