What if history was just that, (His-story )? What if your life was nothing more than a fabrication, a programmed lie? These aren't the questions normally pondered by a child. Unfortunately for ten year old Lyra, she has no other choice. A single night, a unquenchable curiosity and a shooting star would change her life forecer, finding herself asking what's real.In this dark whimsical tale, Lyra with the assistance of a conscious alien drone named Omni, must embark on a journey to o...

The diaries of a mother who is willing to do anything to get her baby girls soul back. Rayne must put her morals aside and jotney through hell itself and craft a Demonic Cortex (flesh of her enemies) to survive the atrocities that come her way. You've heard the phrase Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, what about a mother's?

"Short Disturbances" is a thought-provoking and deeply moving story of one young woman's journey to find her place in the world. Sophia is a young girl who has always felt isolated from the rest of the world, struggling to connect with others and often feeling misunderstood. Determined to find her place in the world and to be understood by others, she spends countless hours reading, learning, and growing, always searching for ways to better connect with those around her. As she grows older...

"Short Disturbances 2" is a science fiction story that follows the story of Samantha, a successful businesswoman who discovers a groundbreaking tablet device that allows her to connect with her younger self and receive valuable guidance and counsel. At first, Samantha is excited about the opportunity to communicate across the years and make better decisions, but as she continues to use the device, strange things begin to happen. People from her past disappear and events change in inexplica...

The Geology, Ecology, and Human History of the San Luis Valley explores the rich landscapes and diverse social histories of the San Luis Valley, an impressive mountain valley spanning over 9,000 square miles that crosses the border of south-central Colorado and north-central New Mexico and includes many cultural traditions. Twenty-six expert scholars and educators—including geologists, geographers, biologists, ecologists, linguists, historians, sociologists, and consultants—uncove...

Enrique Dussel's writings span the theology of liberation, critiques of discourse ethics, evaluations of Marx, Levinas, Habermas, and others, but most importantly, the development of a philosophy written from the underside of Eurocentric modernist teleologies, an ethics of the impoverished, and the articulation of a unique Latin American theoretical perspective. This anthology of original articles by U.S. philosophers elucidating Dussel's thought, offers critical analyses from a variety of...

Ancient Maya Commerce presents nearly two decades of multidisciplinary research at Chunchucmil, Yucatan, Mexico—a thriving Classic period Maya center organized around commercial exchange rather than agriculture. An urban center without a king and unable to sustain agrarian independence, Chunchucmil is a rare example of a Maya city in which economics, not political rituals, served as the engine of growth. Trade was the raison d’être of the city itself.Using a variety of evi...

Do you want fries with your hellfire? Sadao Maou, the Devil King, has finally been promoted to store manager! And who should move in next door to his fortress (actually a tiny studio apartment in a dingy walk-up) but a lovely kimono-wearing lass. But the former devil-crushing hero Emi Yusa is none too pleased with this turn of events, to say nothing of high schooler Chiho Sasaki, who's still nursing a terrible crush on the Devil King. Meanwhile a Sentucky Fried Chicken has opened up right ...

War is coming. The Lady of Battles will have it no other way.Lillian and Gregory fear the demi-goddess is already moving her pawns and dark knights into place, preparing for the first strike. Earth must be ready, but first Lillian needs to ensure that the uneasy alliance between the Fae and the human military does not fail. Every ally is needed if earth is to have any hope of surviving the coming war.As fate draws friends and enemies closer together, one ne...

Local Histories/Global Designs is an extended argument about the "coloniality" of power by one of the most innovative Latin American and Latino scholars. In a shrinking world where sharp dichotomies, such as East/West and developing/developed, blur and shift, Walter Mignolo points to the inadequacy of current practices in the social sciences and area studies. He explores the crucial notion of "colonial difference" in the study of the modern colonial world and traces the emergence ...

Cloud of Nibelheim is an Ex-SOLDIER 1st Class, now a mercenary willing to do any dirty job, if the price is right. Goaded on by his childhood friend he ends up joining an eco-terrorist organization called Avalanche, who are fighting for the very life of the planet. As they fight the monolithic mega-corporation known as Shinra Inc., Cloud's past and Avalanche's struggles intertwine, and the reluctant mercenary finds motivation to fight to save the planet from a different threat and settle t...

Scientists not so long ago unanimously believed that people first walked to the New World from northeast Asia across the Bering land bridge at the end of the Ice Age 11,000 years ago. But in the last ten years, new tools applied to old bones have yielded evidence that tells an entirely different story.In Bones, Elaine Dewar records the ferocious struggle in the scientific world to reshape our views of prehistory. She traveled from the Mackenzie River valley in northern Can...