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Edgar Burroughs and Wallace Durham don’t have much in common. Edgar is a seventy-six-year-old retired blackjack dealer who runs a cigar shop near his alma mater. After two tours in the jungle and a life of running schemes and scams, all he wants to do is run his store in peace, and host an occasional back-alley poker game. Wallace, on the other hand, has always known his calling was law enforcement. He is honest, quiet, helpful, and reckless in the pursuit of truth. Politics and circumstan...

People will do anything to get out of a bad situation. In Derek Hatchett’s case, that means working for his father’s failing recovery agency so he won’t starve or worse, be without smokes. After a tour in Panama and six months working the road, Hatchett thought he was done with violence when he took over the family business, but old habits are hard to break. When his partner dies in a car accident, Hatchett assumes it’s just a bad coincidence. When a new client comes begging Hatchett to tr...

Many companies, from startups to Fortune 500 companies alike, use Node.js to build performant backend services. And engineers love Node.js for its approachable API and familiar syntax. Backed by the world's largest package repository, Node's enterprise foothold is only expected to grow.In this hands-on guide, author Thomas Hunter II proves that Node.js is just as capable as traditional enterprise platforms for building services that are observable, scalable, and resilient. Intermed...

dc Lampoon Anthology of Totally Twisted Humor Done in High Style is a collection of far-out subversive humor that will genuinely make your jaw drop and has already been banned for its outrageous content in 28 countries including the Vatican, which not only banned the book, but also attempted to crucify it.There was a time kids, when popular humor meant more than LOLcats and people getting hit in the crotch on America's Funniest Home Videos, Inside the dc Lampoon you'll find astonis...

Spotlights the challenges faced by our increasing cadre of military women when their service ends and they become civilians.Combining research with narrative, this book exposes common threads of lived experience and reviews the latest data on military women and their healthy reintegration into civilian society. Female veterans share their stories of seeking to be seen in a culture where they don't quite fit and their struggles to find community and friendship. Some...

Transparency and Apperception: Exploring the Kantian Roots of a Contemporary Debate explores the links between the idea that belief is transparent and Kant’s claims about apperception.Transparency is the idea that a person can answer questions about whether she, for instance, believes something by considering, not her own psychological states, but the objects and properties the belief is about. This marks a sharp contrast between a first-person and third-person perspective...

The definitive guide to the secret sauce of improving public and population health Nontraditional collaborations have produced some of the most sweeping, health-improving results in recent memory. But whether it's public/private, cross-discipline, or interagency, the formula for identifying these partnerships -- not to mention making them work -- remains very much in progress. The Practical Playbook II is the first resource to elucidate what works (and what doesn...

The rise of Web 2.0 has pushed the amateur to the forefront of public discourse, public policy and media scholarship. Typically non-salaried, non-specialist and untrained in media production, amateur producers are now seen as key drivers of the creative economy. But how do the activities of citizen journalists, fan fiction writers and bedroom musicians connect with longer traditions of extra-institutional media production?This edited collection provides a much-needed interdisciplin...

From New York Times bestselling author Kristen Proby comes the first installment of the Silver Springs series, Pretty Little Scars, a small-town, forbidden, forced proximity romance set in Montana!I absolutely should not be attracted to my boss.I’m living on Tucker Hendrix’s ranch for the next year as a veterinary intern. But imagine my surprise when I walk onto the property on my first day and recognize the owner.He’s the mysterious custo...

Viridian Gate Online is more than just a game . . . and now, it's Alan Campbell's whole world.Recently deceased and squishy as hell, Alan, a newly minted Illusionist, is forced to flee for his life. He needs time to deal with his loss, both in-game and IRL, but first he'll have to escape his crazy ex, the treacherous Firebrand, Thalia Daceran.On his way to safety and revenge, he'll team up with Titus, the Imperial spymaster, as well as a crew of pirates, co...

Love can make a man do terrible things.Somewhere within the Library, a clock is winding down. With Wendy safe, Alan needs to focus on paying his debt to the Plague Doctors of Wyrdtide by the end of the month. But a slip of the tongue doubles the amount, turning a hard task into an impossible one.His only option is to ask the master of assassins for work. But murder for money isn't the only thing Alan needs to worry about. The gods are upset with him, his ol...

YOUR REALITY SHATTERSThe occult world collides with the everyday. The underworld runs over. Wild "nature" smashes assumptions about "civilization." Old Worlds prey on the New. But some of the most devastating collisions occur between worlds within worlds...Horrific Scribes Presents: Worlds Collide offers 25 works about horrifying confrontations between realms by Barry Charman, Iluka Chayan, Emmie Christie, Christopher Degni, Zary Fekete, Tracy Frit...