Abel LeBlanc, better known to his brothers as Riggs, is the President of Kings of Retribution MC, Louisiana Chapter. As a former Green Beret, he runs the club with the same precision and grit he did serving his country.Dedicating years of his life to mercenary missions and his club left no time or desire to settle down and start his own family.No one has ever come close to making him want more until Luna.A call from Jake, President and founder of Kings of Retributio...

The Chronicles of Pirates gathers nine landmark accounts of maritime outlawry into a capacious history of piracy, balancing documentary narrative, biography, adventure writing, and later historical reconstruction. Moving from the buccaneering Caribbean to the wider Atlantic and Mediterranean worlds, it tests the distance between popular legend and archival reality. Narratives of sea raids, mutiny, colonial conflict, and notorious captains illuminate piracy not merely as romance, but as a v...

The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Policing, Communication, and Society brings together well-regarded academics and experienced practitioners to explore how communication intersects with policing in areas such as cop-culture, race and ethnicity, terrorism and hate crimes, social media, police reform, crowd violence, and many more. By combining research and theory in criminology, psychology, and communication, this handbook provides a foundation for identifying and understanding many of t...

This book provides the foundations for a rigorous theory of functional analysis with bicomplex scalars. It begins with a detailed study of bicomplex and hyperbolic numbers and then defines the notion of bicomplex modules. After introducing a number of norms and inner products on such modules (some of which appear in this volume for the first time), the authors develop the theory of linear functionals and linear operators on bicomplex modules. All of this may serve for many different develo...

Front porches, family cars, playgrounds, swimming pools: from such familiar haunts of childhood, these stories look out on the world through young eyes and hearts. Wise beyond their years—or soon to be—Ruthie, Omar, J.J., and the other kids in these stories veer in and out of touching distance to hard lessons about trust, love, and mortality. However engaged or aloof, grownups are always nearby. Far-from-perfect emissaries to the realm of adulthood, they pose questions for children even as...

Explore the birth of a new world!Journey through time and space to the intricate biosphere of Juno, where three species have been birthed by the gods.First the Kuhifadi, inheritors of sun magic, able to do great deeds with magic stored in their bodies.Second the fearsome Uchafumlaji, technological savants who live in the depths of the ground.Third the weird Ngisikaa, a species uplifted from animals through communal memories.Small dec...

In the light-drenched world of Luminocity, there are two types of power granted by the gods: the power to find and the power to lose.Laxerion is adept at finding lies, a skill that grants him a unique advantage as he blends into high society, leading heists to steal from the rich. Although Lax is used to being a target, he doesn’t anticipate reconnecting with his estranged father and inheriting a failing family business drowning in debt. If he doesn’t find...

In these poems, Fitzpatrick weaves story and song, narrative and image, free verse and traditional forms to spin a yarn of life and art. These are poems of place, first and last of the rich riverbend tableau of New Orleans, but also of Greece and Spain, of Tampa and Paris and Oxford. Along the way the speaker's voice meets those of dozens of artists, from Wangechi Mutu and Picasso to Dante and Homer. The result is a pageant as various and riotous as that of life in New Orleans itself, and ...

Are you ready to embark on an extraordinary adventure? Join Willow, Kalei, and Trinity, three best friends with hidden powers, as they uncover the secrets of magic and destiny in the enchanting Magic of WillowBrook series!When Willow discovers she’s a chosen one with special abilities, her world transforms into a realm of wonder and mystery. Alongside Kalei, who can control water, and Trinity, who has the power of telekinesis, the girls navigate the challenges of growing up while l...

“Electrical Conductive Adhesives with Nanotechnologies” begins with an overview of electronic packaging and discusses the various adhesives options currently available, including lead-free solder and ECAs (Electrically Conductive Adhesives). The material presented focuses on the three ECA categories specifically, Isotropically Conductive Adhesives (ICAs) Anisotropically Conductive Adhesives/Films (ACA/ACF) and Nonconductive Adhesives/Films (NCA/NCF). Discussing the advantages and limitatio...

An exploration of the science behind being alive and aware, from the author of Brainstorms and Darwin's Dangerous Idea."Brilliant . . . as audacious as its title. . . . Mr. Dennett's exposition is nothing short of brilliant, the best example I've seen of a science book aimed at both professionals and general readers." —George Johnson, New York Times Book ReviewConsciousness Explained is a full-scale explora...

A heartwarming children's book about breaking generational cycles and learning to be emotionally present across three generations of fathers.The story follows three generations:Curtis's grandfather: Absent, leaving a woundCurtis's father: Present but distant, trying to heal without the toolsCurtis: Present AND emotionally available, completing the healing