A variety of short stories written by these amazing science fiction authors: Mike Rusetsky, L.A. Selby, John Grover, Billy Todd, L.N. Hunter, Arindam Kalita, Albert N Katz, S. E. Forsberg. Jake Russell, Kari Kilgore, Jezza Deep, Diana Parrilla, Kay Hanifen, Christopher R. Muscato, and Thomas Lanthripp

E.S. Turner's first book, published in 1948, is a wholly original, richly researched and uncommonly insightful study of a somewhat disreputable genre: the 'Boys' Weekly' papers commonly known as 'penny dreadfuls.''A classic of its kind... [Turner] ploughed through back numbers of the old blood-and-thunder adventure magazines specialising in cliffhanger serials; the young hero would be left hanging over a cliff in a totally impossible situation, which would be easily resolved in the...

I wrote this story and drawing with my son Todd in mind, but disguised him as Billy because he had broken an item in the house and didn't tell me about it until I found it. I told him he can always come to me and tell me the truth right away, and he won't get in trouble. At the time I wrote this story, it was 1979, and my son was six years old. This is why I wrote this story about the two rabbits, using Billy as Todd, and naming another rabbit Bobby.As you read the story, Billy get...

Fatherhood is one of life's greatest adventures. From the moment their children are born, dads everywhere embark on a lifelong journey that guarantees joy, struggle, heartache, and glory with every step. Full of truth and wisdom, the stories of fatherhood must be preserved and passed on. Fathering Stories, Volume 1 is an anthology of such stories from members of the Fathering Together community. In these pages, you will discover harrowing tales from new fathers about birth and beyond, hone...

GitOps and Kubernetes teaches you how to use Git and the GitOps methodology to manage a Kubernetes cluster.SummaryGitOps and Kubernetes introduces a radical idea—managing your infrastructure with the same Git pull requests you use to manage your codebase. In this in-depth tutorial, you’ll learn to operate infrastructures based on powerful-but-complex technologies such as Kubernetes with the same Git version control tools most developers use...

Written by two specialists with over twenty-five years of experience in the field, this valuable text presents a wide range of topics within the growing field of nonequilibrium molecular dynamics (NEMD). It introduces theories which are fundamental to the field - namely, nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and nonequilibrium thermodynamics - and provides state-of-the-art algorithms and advice for designing reliable NEMD code, as well as examining applications for both atomic and molecular...

From the bestselling author of Route 66 comes this long-awaited biography of one of America's most legendary folk heroes.Award-winning historian Michael Wallis has spent several years re-creating the rich, anecdotal saga of Billy the Kid (1859-1881), a deeply mythologized young man who became a legend in his own time and yet remains an enigma to this day. With the Gilded Age in full swing and the Industrial Revolution reshaping the American landscape, "the Kid," who was gu...

Explore Visual Basic 2012 and .NET 4.5 with this fully updated resourceAfter a quick review of the of introductory topics of Visual Basic 2012 and .NET 4.5, this book moves quickly into advanced topics such as data access with ADO.NET, security, ASP.NET web programming with Visual Basic, Windows workflow, and threading. You'll explore the essential Visual Basic 2012 functions you need, including .NET features such as LINQ, WCF, and more. Plus, you'll examine except...

Billy Ray Cyrus is an award-winning country music legend whose “Achy Breaky Heart” propelled his debut album, “Some Gave All,” to the top of the charts for a record-breaking seventeen weeks. He’s also father of Miley Cyrus, one of Hollywood’s most successful young stars, who grew up on stage and on screen, most famously as the lead on the Disney Channel’s “Hannah Montana,” where Billy Ray Cyrus played her father. But sometimes the truth is even better than fiction. Now, for the first time,...

Understanding how you think now and the problems that arise from it are the keys to changing negative thoughts. Then, use strategies to change these thoughts or reduce their impact.

Aligned with the Association for Positive Behavior Support’s Standards of Practice, this graduate-level text is an authoritative PBS primer for professionals preparing for work in educational and community-based settings. More than 60 leading scholars present the critical skills and knowledge professionals need to translate the principles and science of PBS into person-centered interventions that improve lives. Covering a broad range of ages, disabilities, and settings, this comprehensiv...

Seventy percent of the oil America uses each year goes to transportation. That means that the national oil addiction and all its consequences, from climate change to disastrous spills to dependence on foreign markets, can be greatly reduced by changing the way we move. In Transport Beyond Oil, leading experts in transportation, planning, development, and policy show how to achieve this fundamental shift.The authors demonstrate that smarter development and land-use decision...