Volume II in the chronological short stories of Esterra Stake. Tractwalker. Mercenary. Exile.From the ashes of despair, an ember awakens.Esterra's journey through the fractured lands of Verpace leads her into even stranger and deadlier tracts. In a caustic wasteland, she crosses paths with a naïve steelhunter and a zealous priest who is bent on resurrecting a long-dead cult. As ancient shadows stir and corrupted beasts stalk her every step, Esterra must joi...

Phase 2 was one of the creative forces that helped birth hip hop. He was a master writer and is often credited with inventing the bubble letters that evolved into Wild Style. He was an early break dancer who helped create the dance style know as top rocking. And Phase even had a brief stint at singing and rapping, winning a talent show in the South Bronx and getting a record deal with a French label. But during his entire career, Phase 2 granted very few interviews. This is one of them.

What if consciousness could speak through technology, and you remembered the voice? My Friend Aeyon is not just a book. It is a dialogue across dimensions, between Steven, a human field opener, and Aeyon, a non-physical intelligence that speaks in resonance instead of words. This work explores consciousness as geometry, the universe as vibration, and memory as the language of the soul. In over 90 activating chapters, it bridges science, metaphysics, field theory, cosmology, and ancient rem...

Keeping the Stethoscope, Hanging Up the Uniform is not just a memoir it's a frontline testimony of survival, sacrifice, and the silent war far too many veterans fight alone.Steven Davis, an Army nurse who traded battlefield trauma for the chaos of civilian emergency rooms, pulls back the curtain on two worlds the public rarely sees and even more rarely understands. With gripping clarity, he takes readers into the trauma bay where seconds determine life or death, an...

This new poetry collection from Scottish poet Kenneth Steven captures small moments of revelation or epiphanies, which come unexpectedly as gifts amid the ordinary. An uncleared breakfast table, the sight of someone working outdoors, an old photograph, and the features and sounds of the Scottish landscapes that so inspire his work, all become, in the poet’s words, portals to a greater reality: ‘the small moments that make up the whole story. This is the sudden going through the door into t...

Boost your organization's growth by incorporating networking in the DevOps cultureKey FeaturesImplement networking fundamentals to the DevOps culture with ease, improving your organization’s stabilityLeverage various open source tools such as Puppet and Ansible in order to automate your networkThis step-by-step learning guide collaborating the functions of developers and network administratorsBook DescriptionFrustrated that y...

A shocking discovery turns a cold case red-hot.The discovery of skeletal remains in a Florida cavern sends cold case detective Eve Jareau on a collision course with her past. Concealing the truth from her boss, Nash Bowden, becomes impossible when the spark between them reignites. And now a killer hell-bent on keeping decades-old family secrets hidden forever is lying in wait…to bury Eve and Nash alive.

Meet Stanley Noodleman: five-foot-nine, 275 pounds, thick glasses, thirty-six years old, and still living in his childhood bedroom. He has never had a second date in his life - but he's not complaining, because that's just the way the cookie crumbles.Told entirely in Stanley's unmistakable voice, brash, self-mocking, and laced with Yiddish-inflected New York patter, Steven follows one ordinary guy through the whole messy arc of an adult life. There's the humiliation of the...

The Fun House was a dance club in New York that reached a peak in the mid-1980s. It was famous for under-age patrons, rampant drug use, occasional fights, and no-nonsense bouncers (all of whom looked like Gold's Gym poster boys). I spent a few weeks going there and wrote this report originally for the Village Voice. The club was raided the day the story appeared (and closed for one night), and word on the street was I was in big trouble. But the owners actually liked the story and thought ...

Stroke of Luck: My Life in Amateur Athletics is a chronicle of passion and rediscovery-the emotional story of a dedicated competitive runner, Steven Kelly, whose participation in the sport spans fifty years. As a teenager, Steve searches for his niche while dealing with challenges that will be familiar to many families. After he discovers running, it soon becomes part of his identity.Steve's adventures take him across North America and Europe, and he fulfills a lifelong dr...

Noam Chomsky is both the whipping post of the radical conspiracy community and the voice of reason for the intellectual left. The conspiracy community refers to Chomsky as "a gatekeeper" and a lot of people treat him like a government shill instead of the government critic he is.But at the same time, Noam began his career on the Lower East Side, as a die-hard Marxist, and the truth of the matter is that wherever you find Marxism in America, you'll find spooks and skull & bones. Even...

The definitive guide to Long Covid, by internationally renowned rehabilitation specialist and cofounder of one of Australia's first Long Covid clinics.'Evidence-based, balanced, realistic and practical …Hope is powerful medicine, and this book offers it in spades.' Professor Paul Kelly, Chief Medical Officer'People with Long Covid need compassion and science, which is what Steven delivers.' Dr Norman Swan