"Crafting Firearms: A Novice's Guide to Gun Stock Carving" is your essential companion on the journey to transforming a plain firearm into a personalized work of art. Designed especially for beginners, this comprehensive guide demystifies the intricate craft of gun stock carving, making it accessible and rewarding for all enthusiasts. Inside, you'll find step-by-step instructions, expert tips, and creative techniques that enable you to breathe life into your firearm's stock. Whether you se...

"No bold act is too small to be without consequence."An Astra Militarum AnthologyThis collection of 12 short stories tells tales of the most humble soldiers of the Astra Militarum. No gene-enhanced warriors or mutant juggernauts here just brave men and women rising to the challenge of protecting humanity from all enemies within, without, and beyond.READ IT BECAUSEFew stories are as relatable and inspiring as...

"Stealing the Network: How to Own the Box is a unique book in the fiction department. It combines stories that are fictional, with technology that is real. While none of the stories have happened, there is no reason why they could not. You could argue it provides a road map for criminal hackers, but I say it does something else: it provides a glimpse into the creative minds of some of today's best hackers, and even the best hackers will tell you that the game is a mental one." – from the F...

Leverage Puppet 5 for medium to large scale enterprise deployment. Key FeaturesUse and deploy Puppet 5, irrespective the size of your organizationScaling, performance improvements, and managing multiple developer requestsTroubleshooting techniques, tips and tricks to make the most of Puppet 5Book DescriptionPuppet is a configuration management system and a language written for and by system administrators to manage a large nu...

The first two books in this series "Stealing the Network: How to Own the Box and "Stealing the Network: How to Own a Continent have become classics in the Hacker and Infosec communities because of their chillingly realistic depictions of criminal hacking techniques. In this third installment, the all-star cast of authors tackle one of the fastest growing crimes in the world: Identity Theft. Now, the criminal hackers readers have grown to both love and hate try to cover their tracks and van...

The best-selling Stealing the Network series reaches its climactic conclusion as law enforcement and organized crime form a high-tech web in an attempt to bring down the shadowy hacker-villain known as Knuth in the most technically sophisticated Stealing book yet.Stealing the Network: How to Own a Shadow is the final book in Syngress' ground breaking, best-selling, Stealing the Network series. As with previous title, How to Own a Shadow is a fictional story that demonstrates accurate, high...

AraRevenge was meant to be sweet.Instead, I've drawn the attention of a monster.I'm at his mercy.He knows my secret. But only part of it.Time is ticking, and only one of us is going to walk out of this alive.LucaAra is my stalker, but I've become obsessed.She has more curves and beauty than she has a right to.I'm going to break her.I want to cut open and figure out that brillia...

Old Testament wisdom and poetic books still speak to the soulWalking faithfully with God cannot be separated from humans' deepest emotional and spiritual needs. The ancient authors and compilers of Psalms, Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Songs consciously addressed this reality in their time. Worship and Wisdom for Formation and Flourishing introduces Bible students to these rich OT books.Cook and Meek offer guidance in understanding the Bible's wi...

Create ready-to-play 3D games with reactive environments, sound, dynamic effects, and more!Key FeaturesBuild a solid foundation for game design and game developmentUnderstand the fundamentals of 3D such as coordinates, spaces, vectors, and camerasGet to grips with essential Unity concepts including characters, scenes, terrains, objects and moreBook DescriptionThis book, written by a team of experts at Unity Technologies, foll...

Methods textbooks generally offer prescriptive advice on how to perform certain techniques, how to develop specific strategies, how to analyze your results. But, as all experienced ethnographers know, this fine-sounding advice rarely provides ample guidance in dealing with real people in real field settings. That is where this casebook differs. Selecting many key methods regularly used by anthropologists - participant observation, consensus analysis, simple surveys, scaling, freelisting an...

Well-Being as a Multidimensional Concept highlights the ways that culture and community influence concepts of wellness, the experience of well-being, and health outcomes. This book includes both theoretical conceptualizations and practice-based explorations from a multidisciplinary group of contributors, including distinguished, widely celebrated senior experts as well as emerging voices in the fields of health promotion, health research, clinical practice, community engagement, a...

Do you need to learn computer programming skills for your job or want to start it as a hobby? Is this something that is alien to you and leaves you scratching your head in confusion? Do you need something simple, like Linux, to get started?This book will provide the answers you need! Millions of us own computers for a variety of reasons. Some use them for gaming and fun while others are engaged in the serious business of making money. But many simply do not get true value from their...