This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Silent Green – Prequel – How Henry Got MadBefore he became a fuse with a long memory, Henry was just a retired guy in San Jose. Tennis in the morning. Coffee with the neighbors. Newspaper ink on his fingers and a front stoop with a view.Then came the tents.The graffiti.The porch pirates.The "restorative justice" that restored nothing but chaos.Told with razor-sh...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.PREFACEThis story is fiction, but the world it depicts is not.Silent Green was born from real experiences—firsthand encounters with the societal collapse unfolding in public parks, city streets, and forgotten corners of America’s major urban centers. It is a story inspired by what we saw in San Jose’s St. James Park, San Diego’s Gaslamp District, and the once-great streets of Los Angeles...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.IntroductionSilent Green - Prequel - Before the The Broken Swan - Victoria’s Story.You’d be surprised how long someone can stay quiet if they’re trained right. If they know how to pull every muscle tight, how to stand still while the world shakes, how to pretend nothing’s wrong while everything is.Victoria was good at that.She didn’t ask to be. But when you grow up in a one-bedroom walk-u...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Crypto BombshellIn a city pulsing with neon and shadow, where every device watches and every byte can be weaponized, one man stumbled into a war he never saw coming. William Bilton was just another invisible cog, drowning under the crushing weight of debt and broken dreams. Until he met Evelyn Cross.Drawn into a world of black-market crypto heists, digital warfare, and A...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.SOMEWHERE MANA Fugitive Musician, a Murderous Past, and the Redemption He Never Saw ComingCody Steele was born to be a legend—a rockabilly outlaw with a voice like thunder and a soul full of sin. But somewhere between the neon lights of honky-tonks and the bottom of a pill bottle, his luck ran out. One bad deal. One wrong bullet. Now, he’s running—fleeing the wreckage of his life aboard a midnig...

The Oxford Handbook of Pre-Roman Italy gives a comprehensive account of the peoples who lived on the Italian peninsula during the last millennium BCE. Most people have heard of the Etruscans, but there were many other fascinating civilizations, including the Celts and the Samnites, who inhabited the region at this time. This was an age that began with the rise of urbanism, was marked by the flourishing of diverse and politically sophisticated communities, and ended with the politi...

007 is back in action! After a high-stakes rescue mission is mysteriously, violently sabotaged, Bond’s future at MI6 hangs in the balance. As he awaits his fate, James Bond is urgently contacted by an old flame and mentor: Gwendolyn Gann, formerly Agent 003, who warns Bond of an existential threat to England and the global balance of power. But before they can meet, 003 turns up dead, sending Bond on the most personal mission of his career: find Gwendolyn Gann’s killers, and expose the sha...

The coming of age of a technology first developed in the 1950s.All the money spent by the United States space program is not spent looking at the stars. NASA is composed of a vast and varied network of scientists across the academic spectrum involved in research and development programs that have wide application on planet Earth. Several of the leaders in the field of remote sensing and archaeology were recently brought together for a NASA-funded workshop in Biloxi...

*Includes contributions from the key scientists working in the area *Provides a comprehensive overview of the latest research as well as making recommendations for how best to deal with future challenges *Has a wide and varied scope – covering policy, genetic diversity and improvement, sustainable productivity enhancement, innovations and value chains

This volume represents the result of almost two decades of trans-Atlantic collaborative development of a policy research paradigm, the International Comparative Rural Policy Studies program. Over this period dozens of scientists from different disciplines but with a common interest in rural issues and policy have collaboratively studied the policies in North America, Europe, and other parts of the world.A core element of the book is the idea and practice of comparative res...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP WG 13.2/13.5 Joint Working Conferences: 6th International Conference on Human-Centered Software Engineering, HCSE 2016, and 8th International Conference on Human Error, Safety, and System Development, HESSD 2016, held in Stockholm, Sweden, in August 2016.The 11 full papers and 14 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. The papers cover various topics such as integration of software e...