The moon of Jupiter named Trojan was discovered in 2025, and explored by Earth astronauts shortly thereafter, as it appeared to represent a threat for an alien power. As United Nations Space Administration (UNSA) sets out to make international, perhaps interplanetary, claims over this alien phenomenon, they realize the moon is hollow, and harbors some sinister concern for the survival of Earth.Two sets of explorers, one convicts sent from Nefra to set up gravitational transportation...

In 2025, a new moon of Jupiter suddenly appeared. Circling in the same orbit as Ganymede, Jupiter's formerly largest moon, the hollow metal structure quickly attracted attention. Made of rare alloy and spinning like a top, it was explored and claimed under United Nations Space Administration. Military and government quickly surmised that the purpose was as a beachhead for an alien force, but when they went there, all they found were two Nefra convicts inside.Frightened into world wi...

Your Impossible Voice #25 opens with a story of love, loneliness, and DJs in Argentina, and closes with wayward Taco Bell bandits loose in the Buckeye state. In between, it delivers new short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction exploring anaphylactic reactions to dust, languages that sound like bonfire flames, dollar-store groceries, golden molars and nectars, witchy weather apps, migraines, matricide, and so much more.Contributors include Cecilia Pavón and Jacob Steinberg, Ro...

Described as “a photographic discovery of the century”, this eBook based on the documentary of the same name uncovers the remarkable story of Lance Corporal George Hackney, the British soldier who took his camera to fight in the battlefields of the Western Front during World War I. Read how his wartime experiences fuelled an unlikely moral quest that was to change his life forever.

The year is 1689, and John Gyles, a young eleven year old boy of an English family farm near Pemaquid Harbor in New England, is captured by Indians (North American aboriginals) and remains with them in captivity for the next five years. In this story we relive his experiences through those years within the background of the War of the Grand Alliance (1689 to 1697) between France and England, fought in Europe and in North America.The author has gone to great lengths to ensure histori...

Holacracy is a revolutionary management system that redefines management and turns everyone into a leader.Holacracy distributes authority and decision-making throughout an organization, and defines people not by hierarchy and titles, but by roles. Holacracy creates organizations that are fast, agile, and that succeed by pursuing their purpose, not following a dated and artificial plan.This isn't anarchy – it's quite the opposite. When you start to follow Hola...

Henry George (1839–1897) rose to fame as a social reformer and economist amid the industrial and intellectual turbulence of the late nineteenth century. His best-selling Progress and Poverty (1879) captures the ravages of privileged monopolies and the woes of industrialization in a language of eloquent indignation. His reform agenda resonates as powerfully today as it did in the Gilded Age, and his impassioned prose and compelling thought inspired such diverse figures as Leo Tolstoy, John ...

A classic memoir of prison breaks and adventure – a bestselling phenomenon of the 1960sCondemned for a murder he had not committed, Henri Charrière (nicknamed Papillon) was sent to the penal colony of French Guiana. Forty-two days after his arrival he made his first break, travelling a thousand gruelling miles in an open boat. Recaptured, he went into solitary confinement and was sent eventually to Devil’s Island, a hell-hole of disease and brutality. No one had ever escaped from t...

Hidden for centuries, the Holy Grail was tucked away to protect it from a shadowy power known as the Organization. But the secret is shattered one winter day when a Jack Russell Terrier named Mrs. Henry takes a sip from a stranger's battered cup...Suddenly armed with the ability to speak and a host of supernatural powers, Mrs. Henry and her best friend Mark are thrust into a high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse.Their unlikely ticket to freedom? A guitar-slinging musician named...

An essential guide for networking professionals responsible for implementing Wi-Fi 7Join wireless networking experts Jerome Henry, Brian Hart, Binita Gupta, and Malcolm Smith on this deep dive into Wi-Fi 7 and 802.11be. The authors explore how to design and optimize your network to fully leverage Wi-Fi 7's new capabilities.You will learn in detail the inner workings of Wi-Fi 7 improvements like rTWT, puncturing, triggered uplink access, and SCS QC. You will...

Those who Saved South CarolinaIn May 1780, Charlestown surrendered to the British army, and an ominous, dark cloud descended over the spirit of independence in South Carolina. More than five thousand Patriots of the Continental army and militias conceded their arms and declared an oath as true and faithful subjects to His Majesty, the king of Great Britain, or otherwise faced prison or exile. That left the volunteers of the state’s militia as the best line of defense for the state....

An exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mind.What should we do, or leave undone, in a day or a lifetime? How much messiness should we accept? What balance of the new and familiar is the most fulfilling? These may seem like uniquely human quandaries, but they are not. Computers, like us, confront limited space and time, so computer scientists have...