TechFlow Solutions is selling a product that can't do what the company says it does. The question isn't whether someone will notice. It's what they'll do when they do.Workflow Anomalies is the fourth issue of Scope Creep Press, an unconventional fiction magazine in book form. Three longer stories and four shorter pieces about corporate operations under pressure.A badger PM opens a green weekly packet and finds the blocker list has been moved into an appendix. His story foll...

Quarter close. Everyone wants one clean number and one quiet night.Closing the Books is the third issue of Scope Creep Press, an unconventional fiction magazine in book form. Three longer stories and three shorter pieces about accounting and finance operations at Meridian Financial Services.An owl accountant finds a journal entry posted one minute before close by a deactivated user, then follows it from ledger timing to a cash transfer that never landed and a rehab site alr...

The board says the ER is running efficiently. The hallway says otherwise.Critical Hours is the first issue of Scope Creep Press, an unconventional fiction magazine in book form. Three longer stories and four shorter pieces about nursing and allied healthcare at St. Vincent's Medical Center, where the hallway is more trustworthy than the glowing board overhead.A rabbit charge nurse watches a new AI patient-load system optimize for metrics instead of care—his veteran instinct...

At Unified Healthcare Partners, denied care is called 'cost optimization.' The institutional doublespeak is the setting, not the plot. The plot is what people do inside it.Code Redacted is the second issue of Scope Creep Press, an unconventional fiction magazine in book form. Three longer stories and three shorter pieces about medical coding and insurance claims under pressure.A fox senior coder recognizes the hunt—this time he's helping predators stalk vulnerable patients....

Newly arrived in 1938 Los Angeles, Maggie Goodwin aims to bust down the doors at Harley Studios and become their very first lady-animator. But her iron-fisted boss can't abide the idea of a woman joining the ranks of his top-men and sends her off to the Paint and Ink Room to color-in with the rest of his girls.There, Maggie befriends an eye-rolling agitator with an axe to grind, a bottle-blonde broad with a penchant for jewels, and sets about proving herself with a paintbrush- name...

Let's get dirty. In childhood, the back yard, the flowerbed, the beach, the mucky place where land slips into puddles, lakes, and streams are infinitely fascinating. It is a mistake to leave that "childish" fascination with mud and dirt behind. The soils of the Earth, whether underneath our feet or pressurized beneath tons of ocean water, hold life in abundance. A handful of garden dirt may harbor more species than the entire aboveground Amazon.The robotic rovers Spirit and Opportu...

National governments and research scientists may be equally concerned with issues of global environmental change, but their interests-and their timelines-are not the same. Governments are often focused on short-term effects and local impacts of global phenomena. Scientists, on the other hand, are loath to engage in speculation about the specific consequences of large-scale environmental trends.How then can we translate scientific understanding of these trends into public policy?

Sustaining Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Soils and Sediments brings together the world's leading ecologists, systematists, and evolutionary biologists to present scientific information that integrates soil and sediment disciplines across terrestrial, marine, and freshwater ecosystems. It offers a framework for a new discipline, one that will allow future scientists to consider the linkages of biodiversity below-surface, and how biota interact to provide the essential ecosystemserv...

Biodiversity Change and Human Health brings together leading experts from the natural science and social science realms as well as the medical community to explore the explicit linkages between human-driven alterations of biodiversity and documented impacts of those changes on human health. The book utilizes multidisciplinary approaches to explore and address the complex interplay between natural biodiversity and human health and well-being. The five parts examinehealth tr...

Discover how to support high-functioning and collaborative teacher teams in early childhood programs by developing healthy and confident team leaders. This manual covers topics of dynamic team teaching including: how to create unified teams, how to become teacher leaders, how to give and receive feedback, and how to build and assess differentiated curriculum.Uniit Carruyo has been an early childhood educator for more than twenty years and is currently the Director ...

The melancholy, brilliance, passionate lyricism, and torment of Edgar Allen Poe are all well represented in this collection. Here, in one volume, are his masterpieces of mystery, terror, humor, and adventure, including stories such as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Cask of Amontillado, The Black Cat, The Masque of the Red Death, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, and The Pit and the Pendulum, to name just a few, that defined American romanticism ...

Here you will find the complete novels of Jack London in the chronological order of their original publication. - The Cruise of the Dazzler - A Daughter of the Snows - The Call of the Wild - The Kempton-Wace Letters - The Sea-Wolf - The Game - White Fang - Before Adam - The Iron Heel - Martin Eden - Burning Daylight - Adventure - The Scarlet Plague - A Son of the Sun - The Abysmal Brute - The Valley of the Moon - The Mutiny of the Elsinore - The Star Rover - The Little Lady of the Big Hous...