It's 1931, and children should be seen and not heard.Ten-year-old Lucy Contento can't help but be seen and heard. And she's always in trouble for it. She talks too much. She's impulsive. She writes with the wrong hand. Her parents would be mad enough knowing she routinely earns afterschool detentions. They'd be furious if they found out she's been sneaking onto the campus of the nearby Trenton Academy for the Deaf. But there, Lucy has met Florence, a lonely and profoundly deaf girl...

It’s 1931, and children should be seen and not heard.Ten-year-old Lucy Contento can’t help but be seen and heard. And she’s always in trouble for it. She talks too much. She’s impulsive. She writes with the wrong hand. Her parents would be mad enough knowing she routinely earns afterschool detentions. They’d be furious if they found out she’s been sneaking onto the campus of the nearby Trenton Academy for the Deaf. But there, Lucy has met Florence, a lonely and profoundly deaf girl...

The warning signs are obvious. Our freedoms and our nation itself are under siege. We face unprecedented circumstances. Russia and China’s expansionist ambitions pose an existential foreign military threat. At the same time, we are facing a significant internal challenge as every fissure from social media to election integrity to our national borders are being exploited.The backbone of our Republic, ensuring our American freedoms, is our military. The Calvert Task Group sounds the ...

In the years when it became clear that steelmaking on Teesside was coming to an end, Mike Guess decided to record the end of an era as 150 years of industrial history came to a close. After Sahaviriya Steel Industries had rescued the site in 2011, operations finally ceased in October 2015 and steelmaking on Teesside ended. As a member of the engineering team over this crucial period, Mike was able to record the final days of steelmaking on Teesside. Lavishly illustrated throughout with stu...

An updated edition of the classic introduction to the essential tenets of Calvinistic theology: its history and content, a biblical defense, and a guide to further study.

Scooby-Doo thinks his pal Krypto deserves a reward. What’s a better reward than a Scooby Snack? But when he goes to look for his favorite snacks, they are all gone! Scooby Snacks have been stolen all over the city! Who is snatching the tasty treats?

"A confident One Thousand and One Nights for our present . . . Furious pop entertainment—full of sex, passion, violence, and magic." — Slant magazineThis is the story of the legendary City of Women, told through the tales of those who founded it, championed it, and made it flourish. When the city of Bessa undergoes a violent coup, its lazy, laissez-faire ruler, Bokhari Al-Bokhari, is replaced by the religious ze...

Spanning the famous Homestead steel strike of 1892 through the century-long fight for a union and union democracy, Homestead Steel Mill—the Final Ten Years is a case history on the vitality of organized labor. Written by fellow worker and musician Mike Stout, the book is an insider’s portrait of the union at the U.S. Steel’s Homestead Works, specifically the workers, activists, and insurgents that made up the radically democratic Rank and File Caucus from 1977 to 1987. Developing ...

Dashing tales of heroics and everyday life abound in the second System Apocalypse short story anthology. Competing alien and human settlements clash, and a simple party planner is caught between in After Party. A New York trashman and his friend fight off loan sharks and exploit the System for gain, finding treasure among others garbage in Completely Trashed and a prisoner must decide between his humanity and humanity itself in WWMRD?With over ten stories from exciting new...

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art.Our November 2017 issue (#134)  contains: Original fiction by D.A. Xiaolin Spires ("Prasetyo Plastics"), Suzanne Walker ("Retrieval"), Mike Buckley ("Dead Heroes"), Sue Burke ("Who Won the Battle of Arsia Mons?"),  and Nicoletta Vallorani ("The Catalog of Virgins"). Repri...

In the early days of the 20th century, department store magnate JohnWanamaker famously said, "I know that half of my advertising doesn'twork. The problem is that I don't know which half." That remainedbasically true until Google transformed advertising with AdSense basedon new uses of data and analysis. The same might be said about healthcare and it's poised to go through a similar transformation as newtools, techniques, and data sources come on line. Soon we'll makepolicy and resource dec...

Im europäischen Raumbahnhof Kourou ereignet sich ein schwerer Zwischenfall: Eine Ariane-6-Rakete explodiert beim Start mitsamt ihrer Satellitenfracht. Für die ESA ein herber Rückschlag, der Fragen aufwirft. In Berlin vermutet man, dass es kein Unfall war. Deshalb wird BOA beauftragt, die Hintergründe zu klären. Anna und Nelly reisen zu den Start-Rampen im guyanischen Regenwald, wo sie vor einem Problem stehen: keine Spuren, keine Hinweise. War es technisches Versagen, ein konkurrierendes U...