Mark Bird has always wanted to connect his brain to the internet, and when the chance comes he jumps at the chance but soon realizes that his "always-on" connectivity is much more trouble then its worth.

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Prepare yourself for the digital age with "The Hacker's Guide to Digital Safety." This comprehensive guide unveils the secrets of online privacy and security, empowering you to navigate the treacherous waters of surveillance and data tracking. Discover how to safeguard your online identity, protect your devices from cyberattacks, and maintain anonymity in an increasingly connected world.Dive into a captivating journey that explores the ...

How did Americans imagine the Civil War before it happened? The most anticipated event of the nineteenth century appeared in novels, prophecies, dreams, diaries, speeches, and newspapers decades before the first shots at Fort Sumter. People forecasted a frontier filibuster, an economic clash between free and slave labor, a race war, a revolution, a war for liberation, and Armageddon. Reading their premonitions reveals how several factors, including race, religion, age, gender, region, and ...

Isis Sadler is a women who has faced many obstacles in life, the death of her parents at an early age, her mean spirited grand parents. Numerous chances for romance had somehow slipped between her fingers....life at this point seemed rather bleak.So when the chance to go to mars arrived, Isis saw this as an opportunity for change, a chance for a new life....Even if it was 55 million kilometres away from earth...the farther away, the better.But the red planet could be ...

Childlike in nature, Kero Mayes is an antisocial teenage man/child with savant-like tendencies, and he is about to be uprooted from his comfort zone and forced out into the world. During a string of unfortunate events, Kero abruptly meets a mysterious young girl named Xuoy and her not-so-little dog, Kibbble, and they bring with them a strange new power for Kero to wrap his mind around. With his newly granted abilities and a pinch of his own intuition, Kero makes new ends and frienemies whi...

The Queen of Mystery takes readers deep into San Francisco’s Castro District during the mid-1980s, a time of glittering nightlife shadowed by danger and loss.UltraSheen, the radiant drag performer and beloved community icon, finds herself at the center of a storm when a series of shocking murders shakes the queer community. As Casey Johnson, the cab driver turned reluctant investigator, navigates a world of smoky clubs, back-alley secrets, and underground drag shows, he uncovers th...

Anton Splendor loses his left leg in a car accident, but along with losing his leg he also loses his drive..ambition and zest for life.But when he meets Michelle and starts dating her at behest of his friend Larry, everything changes!Until the day that he meets the man that caused his accident...can he learn to forgive and move on with his life?

Queen of the Mission transports readers to San Francisco’s Mission District in 1984, where a community of drag performers, cab drivers, and lovers fight to keep their dreams alive against a backdrop of prejudice, murder, and the looming AIDS crisis.At the heart of the story is UltraSheen—the dazzling star of a new drag revue—whose rise to fame collides with the twisted schemes of Dr. Lindstrom, a deranged academic obsessed with punishing queer culture. As Casey Johnson, th...

In the Civil War era, Americans nearly unanimously accepted that humans battled in a cosmic contest between good and evil and that God was directing history toward its end. The concept of God's Providence and of millennialism -- Christian anticipations of the end of the world -- dominated religious thought in the nineteenth century. During the tumultuous years immediately prior to, during, and after the war, these ideas took on a greater importance as Americans struggled with the unprecede...

Warning: this book may cause you to rethink your default typeface settings.Back to Font uncovers the secrets and lives behind 16 of the most famous typefaces. It answers all sorts of questions you might never have thought to ask before. Like: who were their 'parents' and where were they 'born'? What's pretty and interesting about them, and what isn't? How are the typefaces used (and abused), and where can you find them 'in the wild'? Most importantly, these...

The Last Days of the Barbary Coast plunges readers into the gritty, intoxicating world of San Francisco in the early 1980s—a city teetering between freedom and destruction. Through the eyes of Casey Johnson, a cab driver turned reluctant chronicler, we witness a community alive with drag shows, drugs, danger, and desire.From the glitz of UltraSheen, the city’s dazzling drag queen star, to the sinister presence of the RedHair Killer, the novel explores the undercurrents of a culture...

Martial Culture, Silver Screen analyzes war movies, one of the most popular genres in American cinema, for what they reveal about the narratives and ideologies that shape U.S. national identity. Edited by Matthew Christopher Hulbert and Matthew E. Stanley, this volume explores the extent to which the motion picture industry, particularly Hollywood, has played an outsized role in the construction and evolution of American self-definition.Moving chronologically, eleven essay...