STARWAKE is a gritty, character-driven science fiction saga set in a fractured future where humanity survives across isolated colonies, broken trade lanes, and silent alien ruins buried beneath the stars. At the heart of the story is a drifting frontier where every signal matters, every decision has weight, and every crew is one mistake away from collapse.When an unknown phenomenon begins spreading through deep-space communication networks—altering navigation routes, awakening dorm...

This book represents an international gathering of friends who happen to be highly qualified martial art scholars and practitioners. We have come together in celebration of the more than twenty years the Journal of Asian Martial Arts inspired scholarship in this field to higher academic standards while encouraging all aspects of responsible practice. Each article was written specifically for this banquet, with topics representing the rich variety found in the Asian martial traditi...

What happens when who you are is treated as a sin?Sacrifice to Their Gods is a powerful LGBTQ+ coming-of-age novel that follows Sean, a teenage boy awakening to his sexuality in a world where being gay is not just frowned upon it is condemned.As Sean navigates faith, family, and identity, he is pushed to the edge by intolerance, religious shame, and the fear of rejection. Told entirely in his own voice, this raw and emotionally honest story sheds light on the devastating imp...

Studies of the eighteenth-century periodical have long tended to understand the form according to the period’s own insistence on adhering to and promoting politeness. In contrast, this collection reads for impoliteness, revealing a more nuanced, granular, and dynamic view of eighteenth-century periodicals such as Addison and Steele’s popular The Spectator, and a fuller sense of their value within the societies that produced and consumed them. By inverting the tra...

This collection profiles understudied figures in the book and print trades of the eighteenth century. With an explicit focus on intervening in the critical history of the trades, this volume profiles seven women and three men, emphasising the broad range of material, cultural, and ideological work these people undertook. It offers a biographical introduction to each figure, placing them in their social, professional, and institutional settings. The collection considers varied print trade r...

Wide-ranging and astutely argued, Talmud and Philosophy examines the intersections, partitions, and mutual illuminations and problematizations of Western philosophy and the Talmud. Among many philosophers, the Talmud has been at best an idealized and remote object and, at worst, if noticed at all, an object of curiosity. The contributors to this volume collectively ignite and probe a new mode of inquiry by approaching the very question of partitions, conjunctions, and disjunctions...

Life is precious. It's an adventure, a privilege and it's magical.You get to choose to add things in or adjust them out.This book is designed to get you thinking.Will you slide sideways into your grave one day, having lived a F#%K YES life, shouting "What a ride!"?Will you show courage, grit and commitment? Your life is your masterpiece. Get into creating the magic you desire.

In his short life (1865–1921), Mikhah Yosef Berdichevsky was a versatile and influential man of letters: an innovative Hebrew prose stylist; a collector of Jewish folklore; a scholar of ancient Jewish and Christian history. He was at once a peer of Friedrich Nietzsche, the Brothers Grimm, and a diverse circle of Jewish writers in the Russian Empire and German-speaking countries. As a Yiddish writer, however, he remains unknown to general readers. Written in 1902-1906, but not published in ...

In his short life (1865–1921), Mikhah Yosef Berdichevsky was a versatile and influential man of letters: an innovative Hebrew prose stylist; a collector of Jewish folklore; a scholar of ancient Jewish and Christian history. He was at once a peer of Friedrich Nietzsche, the Brothers Grimm, and a diverse circle of Jewish writers in the Russian Empire and German-speaking countries. As a Yiddish writer, however, he remains unknown to general readers. Written in 1902-1906, but not published in ...

This collection profiles understudied figures in the book and print trades of the seventeenth century. With an equal balance between women and men, it intervenes in the history of the trades, emphasising the broad range of material, cultural, and ideological work these people undertook. It offers a biographical introduction to each figure, placing them in their social, professional, and institutional settings. The collection considers varied print trade roles including that of the printer,...

When Carly Black stepped off the school bus, nobody could have imagined it would be the last time anyone saw her. The public wants answers. In the wake of a police scandal, infamous columnist David Budge demands them! With all roads pointing to Aaron Keogh, a local salesman with money problems, DCI Sam Mainard soon discovers his number one suspect knows more than letting on. But to find the truth, Mainard must challenge his loyalties. Four years later, Karina Nylund, sister of one of Halms...

A brilliant observation of the current global economy, or complete and total nonsense? No one can say for certain, but what they can say is that it is a good time!Have you ever noticed how some people seem to have all the luck, while so many others suffer?You haven’t???It must be because you’re one of them… Looking down from your castle, as the poor tired masses fight to keep hold of their meager existence.You don’t have a castle either!? No...