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Edgar Burroughs and Wallace Durham don’t have much in common. Edgar is a seventy-six-year-old retired blackjack dealer who runs a cigar shop near his alma mater. After two tours in the jungle and a life of running schemes and scams, all he wants to do is run his store in peace, and host an occasional back-alley poker game. Wallace, on the other hand, has always known his calling was law enforcement. He is honest, quiet, helpful, and reckless in the pursuit of truth. Politics and circumstan...

People will do anything to get out of a bad situation. In Derek Hatchett’s case, that means working for his father’s failing recovery agency so he won’t starve or worse, be without smokes. After a tour in Panama and six months working the road, Hatchett thought he was done with violence when he took over the family business, but old habits are hard to break. When his partner dies in a car accident, Hatchett assumes it’s just a bad coincidence. When a new client comes begging Hatchett to tr...

dc Lampoon Anthology of Totally Twisted Humor Done in High Style is a collection of far-out subversive humor that will genuinely make your jaw drop and has already been banned for its outrageous content in 28 countries including the Vatican, which not only banned the book, but also attempted to crucify it.There was a time kids, when popular humor meant more than LOLcats and people getting hit in the crotch on America's Funniest Home Videos, Inside the dc Lampoon you'll find astonis...

Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Rugby Book of the Year 2023 World in their Hands recounts the remarkable events that led to a group of friends from south-west London staging the inaugural Women's Rugby World Cup in 1991. The tournament was held just 13 years after teams from University College London and King's contested a match that catalysed the growth of the women's game in the UK, and the organisers overcame myriad obstacles before, during and after the World Cup. Those challenges, wh...

Many companies, from startups to Fortune 500 companies alike, use Node.js to build performant backend services. And engineers love Node.js for its approachable API and familiar syntax. Backed by the world's largest package repository, Node's enterprise foothold is only expected to grow.In this hands-on guide, author Thomas Hunter II proves that Node.js is just as capable as traditional enterprise platforms for building services that are observable, scalable, and resilient. Intermed...

The definitive guide to the secret sauce of improving public and population health Nontraditional collaborations have produced some of the most sweeping, health-improving results in recent memory. But whether it's public/private, cross-discipline, or interagency, the formula for identifying these partnerships -- not to mention making them work -- remains very much in progress. The Practical Playbook II is the first resource to elucidate what works (and what doesn...

Spotlights the challenges faced by our increasing cadre of military women when their service ends and they become civilians.Combining research with narrative, this book exposes common threads of lived experience and reviews the latest data on military women and their healthy reintegration into civilian society. Female veterans share their stories of seeking to be seen in a culture where they don't quite fit and their struggles to find community and friendship. Some...

Transparency and Apperception: Exploring the Kantian Roots of a Contemporary Debate explores the links between the idea that belief is transparent and Kant’s claims about apperception.Transparency is the idea that a person can answer questions about whether she, for instance, believes something by considering, not her own psychological states, but the objects and properties the belief is about. This marks a sharp contrast between a first-person and third-person perspective...

The rise of Web 2.0 has pushed the amateur to the forefront of public discourse, public policy and media scholarship. Typically non-salaried, non-specialist and untrained in media production, amateur producers are now seen as key drivers of the creative economy. But how do the activities of citizen journalists, fan fiction writers and bedroom musicians connect with longer traditions of extra-institutional media production?This edited collection provides a much-needed interdisciplin...

Dive into a culinary journey that spans generations with "73 Years of Family Favorite Southern Recipes." This extraordinary collection isn't just a cookbook—it's a legacy of taste, tradition, and the heartwarming stories that accompany each dish. From cherished family gatherings to everyday meals that nourish the soul, these recipes have stood the test of time, bringing joy and satisfaction to countless tables over the years. Our cookbook is more than just a collection of recipes—it is a t...

The Strength of Faith - Christian Omnibus is a profound anthology that represents a broad spectrum of Christian thought spanning nearly two millennia. This collection juxtaposes the theological rigor of early Church Fathers like St. Augustine and Athanasius of Alexandria with the philosophical inquiries of modern thinkers such as Nietzsche and David Hume. It weaves together diverse literary styles—from the mystical writings of St. Teresa of Ávila to the narrative depth of Dostoevsky and Da...

Here is the all-in-one compilation on how to harness the creative powers of your mind to achieve a life of prosperity. CONTENTS: 1. The Richest Man in Babylon (George S. Clason) 2. Think And Grow Rich (Napoleon Hill) 3. The Law of Success (Napoleon Hill) 4. As a man thinketh (James Allen) 5. The Way to Wealth (Benjamin Franklin) 6. The Master Key System (Charles F. Haanel) 7. The Game of Life and How to Play It (Florence Scovel Shinn) 8. How to Get What You Want (Wallace Wattles) 9. The Sc...