Beginning around the turn of the 20th century, people flocked to boom towns like Greenbackville and Franklin City on Virginia's remote Chincoteague Bay to cash in on the lucrative oyster trade. Most eventually settled for simple rural lives, living a cash and barter economy, commuting on foot or by boat, always closely tied to the tide and water. From mystery in the marsh to jealous lovers, these accounts of life on the Bay are filled with work boats, crab pots, and saltwater.

A science fiction adventure with a sense of humor that will leave you fantasizing about technology and dreaming of cyborgs. A mix of cybernetics, viruses and love in a post-apocalyptic future that is not so different from the present day. The scariest part? Finding out how much of the science is real. “Burns is a natural storyteller. She happens to cast her vision into the far future, giving us a science fiction tale that lures us from book to book to book. You won’t stop reading till she ...

In this fanciful new sci-fi novel, you meet Catherine Newton, a mousy-but-neat English teacher assigned to a small desert mining town in Colorado, one of those conclaves that sprung up after the war of 2020 had decimated all the major cities in the US. Catherine is doing well here … maybe. She has a handsome boyfriend. A protective dog. A concerned principal. A silver-level student in her homeroom class. Fellow teachers not to be trusted. So why was she having these strange nightmares -- a...

How do you become a cyborg? Simple: tragedy. Lose a limb, lose an eye or two… and have an evil brother. Dr. Daniel Jahren never meant to become what he did, but his brother Cliff sure did. Suffering from Muscular Dystrophy his whole life, Cliff Jahren endeavored to transcend his body when he realized he couldn’t repair it. He needs the help of his reluctant brother Daniel, a neurosurgeon, to create the most state of the art prosthetics ever imagined. But Daniel is too busy trying to have a...

A small town English teacher, Catherine Newton, is asked to travel to post-apocalyptic LA in order to find something that will save the world. In this thrilling adventure she meets many fantastic characters, including a dwarf warlord who rides on Komodo dragons and an anarchist gang led by a man named Cybersausage. She struggles with who to trust, and who to love, as she both loses and finds herself. Will she succeed in saving the world? Will a giant rat pop out and eat someone? You'll hav...

Return to the streets and alleys of Victorian London, where the game is afoot once again! The Great Detective, Mr. Sherlock Holmes, and his steadfast companion Dr. Watson are back for ten new cases, spanning the length of the quintessential detective's illustrious career. Beginning while Holmes was still a green investigator in Montague Street, this collection encompasses the 1880s and the 1890s, up to the dawn of the new century. Walk with Holmes as he puzzles over the problem of a drunke...

The breadth of shared intellectual debts and interests in the work of Edith Stein and Max Scheler demand that they be placed in conversation.This volume brings together philosophers and theologians to explore the convergences and divergences in Stein and Scheler's respective work. Both thinkers were early practitioners of the phenomenological method, drew from and reflected on theological resources in their philosophical explorations, and maintained a lifelong inte...

Empathy (Einfühlung)—as a crucial concept for understanding ourselves, others, and communities—was a central topic of interest in the first half of the twentieth century amongst philosophers and in the emerging sciences of psychology and sociology. Edith Stein’s dissertation and inaugural publication, On the Problem of Empathy, introduces her unique take on empathy, embodiment, phenomenology, and intersubjectivity. Her immersion in phenomenology and her intimate familiari...

Data-Driven, Nonparametric, Adaptive Control Theory introduces a novel approach to the control of deterministic, nonlinear ordinary differential equations affected by uncertainties. The methods proposed enforce satisfactory trajectory tracking despite functional uncertainties in the plant model. The book employs the properties of reproducing kernel Hilbert (native) spaces to characterize both the functional space of uncertainties and the controller's performance. Classical control...

If you enjoyed Thomas A. Burns, Jr.'s immensely successful volume of canonical Sherlock Holmes stories, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: Ten Steps from Baker Street, you'll be looking for more from him. Wait no longer! Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson: A Peek into Dr. Watson's Dispatch Box contains nine new tales spanning Holmes's career from his early days in Montague Street to his working retirement on the Sussex Downs. Embark on another extraordinary journey with England's most iconic duo,...

Rapid, inexpensive, and easy-to-deploy, near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy can be used to analyze samples of virtually any composition, origin, and condition. The Handbook of Near Infrared Analysis, Fourth Edition, explores the factors necessary to perform accurate and time- and cost-effective analyses across a growing spectrum of disciplines.This updated and expanded edition incorporates the latest advances in instrumentation, computerization, chemometrics applied to NIR sp...

The poetry within this book was derived from the hopes, dreams, and opinions of the poet who so madly scribbles on the minds of society.