Ethan Rifts hates space, and yet he has joined a space faring crew of a small ship called the Hook Line to escape the troubles on his homeworld. The Hook Line crew needs an extra hand for an easy contract they took, and Ethan figures it will be worth it. They get help, and he gets away and can start over. Everyone wins. The crew heads to the distant planet of Onyx for their job, but upon arrival, they find that something has gone wrong. The space port is missing, and they...

Robin Alia Brook is considered a loser. She works at customer service for one of the largest companies in humanity's interstellar empire, gets stood up on dates, and accidentally kills people. Then when her ex-online boyfriend gives her the winning vacation lottery ticket to the famed habitat, The City of Clouds, she reluctantly accepts it.Upon arrival, she is greeted by the massive, beautiful gas giant Bellona, and all the glamour and prospects of expansion for the famous...

Holden Hosenheim is a Division 4 Agent, working under the Shio Branch. His job is to protect the Great Society of the Aarde Union and the Connected City, Shio, from the Revivalists, a narco-funded rebel group that produces and sells a memory enhancing drugs called N-Light. It's a hard job that he is content with.But when an extraction mission goes wrong and Holden's team is wiped out, he and his contact are stranded in Revivalist territory. They seek aid from a comforter who claims...

The adventure continues for Jayson Hopper, Lexia Hartwick, and Derrick Marlow in their fight against the Mama Bear Syndicate and her Fixers, Mortimer Walters and Claribel Belle Blair. Tensions flare and chaotic fights between the two groups leave the town in ruins. Neither side is willing to yield.And now there's a new player on the field. The ever watchful Trafford Augustine and his mysterious employer want Jayson's group to apprehend Mama Bear's cooker, Ramsey Prosper. In exchang...

When a scientific team is sent to continue work studying the aurora in Antiarctica they find an aabandoned base camp and no remains of the team before them they were sent to join. As the days continue and darkness fills the sky the begin to discover strange and disturbing findings. As the night engulfs the team they begin to understand the fate of the crew that left, with time agains them they must try to escape the evil that learks in the darkness just beyond thier small staion that has n...

This book is about how electronics, computing, and telecommunications have profoundly changed our lives – the way we work, live, and play. It covers a myriad of topics from the invention of the fundamental devices, and integrated circuits, through radio and television, to computers, mobile telephones and GPS. Today our lives are ruled by electronics as they control the home and computers dominate the workspace. We walk around with mobile phones and communicate by email. Electronics didn’t ...

Prices have increased 25% in the last five years, the billionaire class is growing, and the United States of America is ruled by oligarchs. Enraged by the misplaced priorities of their elected and appointed representatives, Americans are beginning to push back against policies that serve the ultra-wealthy above working class individuals. Strike 120 concisely summarizes the underlying problems with modern American democracy, the failures resulting from a system of governance catering to the...

The restored, unbowdlerized text of Raspe’s slapstick travel epic featuring the classic illustrations from Strang & Clark (1895)No one has journeyed to as many foreign lands as Baron von Munchausen. Nor, when it comes time to fire a cannon, will you find anyone more accurate. The comfort of courtly life is as natural to him as the harshest polar desert. On the subject of politics and science he has no equal. And all discussion of the moon must start and stop with t...

History of Byzantine Empire: 5 Essential History Books gathers five major historical treatments of Byzantium into a capacious survey of an empire positioned between Roman inheritance, Greek culture, Christian institutions, and the political worlds of Europe and the Near East. Its range extends from narrative chronicle and military history to constitutional analysis and studies of imperial decline, crusading encounter, and Ottoman expansion. Read together, the selections illuminate enduring...

The works of German thinker Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel represent the apex of German classical philosophy. It was Hegel who pounded out the dialectical methodology that shaped the doctrine of idealism into a fully formed and deeply thought-out philosophical system. For many philosophical contemporaries, the name Hegel is synonymous with the word philosopher. Friedrich Nietzsche once boldly stated that "Hegel is taste," and, speaking of Hegel, the thinker Vladimir Solovyov remarked: "of a...

After narrowly escaping relocation with the assistance of unexpected help, Nesschter Norkit, formerly known as Holden Hosenheim, is in the custody of Revivalist allies. However, with Xajil on his trail and Ara captured, and Shio on the brink of collapse, Nesschter makes the call to go into the fire.He will do whatever it takes to save Ara. Including confronting the consequences of his past actions.(Part 1B)

The adventure continues for Jayson Hopper, Lexia Hartwick, and Derrick Marlow in their fight against the Mama Bear Syndicate and her Fixers, Mortimer Walters and Claribel Belle Blair. Tensions flare and chaotic fights between the two groups leave the town in ruins. Neither side is willing to yield.And now there's a new player on the field. The ever watchful Trafford Augustine and his mysterious employer want Jayson's group to apprehend Mama Bear's cooker, Ramsey Prosper. In exchang...