Poul Anderson was one of the seminal figures of 20th century science fiction. Named a Grand Master by the SFWA in 1997, he produced an enormous body of stand-alone novels (Brain Wave, Tau Zero) and series fiction (Time Patrol, the Dominic Flandry books) and was equally at home in the fields of heroic fantasy and hard SF. He was a meticulous craftsman and a gifted storyteller, and the impact of his finest work continues, undiminished, to this day.Here is a rousing,...

Healthcare providers in any setting face potential liability risks and legal challenges every day. All healthcare providers face issues such as developing strategies to mitigate those risks and creating proactive policies to reduce liability and provide better care for patients. This text presents an overview of legal issues, principles, and case law specific to athletic training and sports medicine.Legal Issues in Sports Medicine provides an overview of legal issues and c...

Greg J. Gardner brings to life the darkest terror attack America has every faced, when a small enclave of Islamic extremists works to bring about the collapse of the American ideal. Gripping, engrossing, and graphic without being grotesque, the story follows a small but well-trained group of terrorists who attack busy shopping centers and grocery stores during the height of holiday shopping and the busiest day of the year, Black Friday. From the bloody front line to the CNN news desk and f...

Administrative Topics in Athletic Training: Concepts to Practice, Second Edition continues to be a dynamic text that addresses important administrative issues, practices, and procedures, as well as fundamental concepts, strategies, and techniques related to the management of all aspects of an athletic training health care delivery system. Uniquely, this text balances theory and application around management, administration, and leadership for the athletic trainer ...

Poul Anderson was one of the seminal figures of twentieth-century science fiction. Named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America in 1997, he produced an enormous body of standalone novels and series fiction and was equally at home in the fields of heroic fantasy and hard SF. He was a meticulous craftsman and a gifted storyteller, and the impact of his finest work continues, undiminished, to this day.Multiverse: Exploring Poul Anderson's Worlds is a rousing...

These are the first stories of humanities fight against the life destroying Berserker machines. Programmed to destroy all life, the Berserkers threaten the very universe. Only one form of life, humanity, is uniquely qualified to take on the machines.Meet Berserker hunter extraordinaire Johann Karlsen and his evil brother Felipe Nogara and other gallant fighters of the killer machines.Not satisfied with efforts to destroy all life in present time, the Berserkers devise a way...

The conclusion to the classic Skyway series by the award-winning author of Castle Perilous.Jake McGraw, independent space trucker, has been shanghaied. He and his crew, fresh off their adventures in Starrigger and Red Limit Freeway, are plucked off the Skyway by a creature of unknown power. Now on an alien planet where most of the rules of the regular universe do not seem to apply, Jake confronts the builders of the Skyway once and for all...

With an introduction by best-selling military science fiction author David Drake and selected by editor David Afsharirad from the top short story markets in the field, here are the most thrilling, pulse-pounding, and thought-provoking stories of the past year. Stories of future military men and women, space opera on a grand scale, and edge-of-your-seat adventure tales in the pulp tradition, from giants of the genre to brilliant up-and-comers.Plus, you be the judge! INTERAC...

Bestselling science fiction author Stephen Baxter was inspired to write the Jones & Bennet stories, set when he was growing up in the 1960s, by real events. The Paradox Conspiracies contains two novellas, “Project Hades” and “Project Herakles, previously collected only in a limited edition hardcover.Stephen Baxter is the pre-eminent sf writer of his generation. Published around the world, he has also won major awards in the US, UK, Germany and Japan. Born in 1957, he has degrees fr...

Long ago, in a distant part of the galaxy, two alien races met—and fought a war of mutual extinction. The sole legacy of that war was the weapon that ended it: the death machines, the BERSERKERS. Guided by self-aware computers more intelligent than any human, these world-sized battle craft carved a swath of death through the galaxy—until they arrived at the outskirts of the fledgling Empire of Man.These are the stories of the frail creatures who must meet this monstrous and implacab...

Return to the eon-spanning and universe-crossing conflict between humanity and the unknowable alien Xeelee in this selection of uncollected and unpublished stories, newly edited and placed in chronological reading order.From tales charting the earliest days of man's adventure to the stars to stories of Old Earth, four billion years in the future, the range and startling imagination of Baxter is always on display. As humanity rises and falls, ebbs and flows, one thing is always need...

A Nebula Award–winning novella by the New York Times– bestselling author, "one of the grand contemporary masters of SF" (Brian Aldiss).Humans have been engaged in a long war against an advanced alien race, the Senexi. But the possibility for peace may finally exist, thanks to a young girl who learns of the enemy's larger role and humanity's opportunity to evolve, in this award-winning story by the author of Darwin's R...