Fifteen years since the publication of its first volume, this invaluable guide to some of the most challenging aria excerpts continues with Volume II.Featuring an entirely new selection of arias, Guide to the Aria Repertoire, Volume II brings together many sources to aid the singer on their journey toward powerful, informed performances. Volume I of this guide has proven a tried-and-true resource for the developing operatic singer, with a wealth of insightful commentary f...

Emma Jenkins lives alone – a recluse in her remote home in Portland, Oregon, no longer engaged to be married. She spends her day reading books, pouring through old diaries, recalling happier times… and hallucinating twisted characters she reads about.Then Chelsea Greene comes into her life—a mysterious woman who knows far too much about Emma. The perfect stranger. But when Emma finds out something about Greene that she shouldn't, she turns to the characters in her book for guidance...

The day of planes without pilots is coming…. today's autopilot technology can already take-off, fly a pre-planned route and land with little or no human help.Pilots do provide hours of experience and an emergency backup to the flight computers, but if more accidents are caused by human error than aircraft malfunctions, it's probably only a matter of time before computers take over entirely.Two esteemed technology executives, Eric Schmidt, the Executive Chairman from Google an...

Lights in the Sky and Little Green Men presents a fresh look at UFOs and extraterrestrials. Working from a rational Christian worldview, authors Hugh Ross, Kenneth Samples, and Mark Clark initiate a search for truth to answers about extraterrestrial life, conspiracy theories, cult groups, alien encounters, and more. Utilizing extensive scientific background and knowledge of the Bible, they approach the many questions that surround this enigmatic topic, including: • Does documentation exist...

Golf is difficult enough without allowing the scorecard to ruin a perfectly good afternoon. Golf's Ultimate Guide to Respectable Cheating is an illustrated satirical field guide for recreational golfers who love the game but cannot always live with the reality of their score.Mark Goldman, Ross Greenburg, and Michael Greenburg transform the unofficial habits of friendly golf into a complete comic philosophy. Mulligans become self-issued pardons. Point of Entry provides relief from w...

Now reimagined in audio, the world of KINGDOM COME, originally published to critical acclaim by DC Comics in 1996 as a four-issue comic book series, comes alive in a dynamic production featuring a full cast, sound effects, and music.In the near-future world of KINGDOM COME, superheroes are ubiquitous, but heroism is rare. After decades as Earth's champions, the members of the Justice League have all retreated out of the public eye, replaced with a new generation of...

Welcome to Crooked, the first volume of a new anthology series from Bad Intentions Press.You'll find Teppo's retrieval job gone very, very wrong (or has it?). You'll find Eric Warren's gunrunner getting a second chance and Greg Dragon's smuggler surviving on the edge. Jessie Kwak's bodyguard dealing with a simple job that got quite complicated, Kate Sheeran Swed's unlikely bounty hunter getting her feet underneath her, and Wade Peterson's fighting bot showing its fiercely loyal hea...

Experience the cutting edge of Cybernetic Noir.Phantom Sense and Other Stories delivers a series of narratives rooted in the Analog Science Fiction and Fact tradition, where every breakthrough carries a profound human cost.In "Phantom Sense," Sgt. Kip McCorbin is a veteran of the CI-MEMS program. Equipped with a "sixth sense," Kip can perceive threats before they manifest. But he discovers that the military technology defin...

Old Mr. Smith has a story about young John Stokerson, a boy who didn't speak a single word until he was four years old. While his parents worried, John trained his clever companion—a Border Collie named Patches.When Rusty Dunan, a fugitive cattle rustler, appears at John's home, John and Patches hatch a plan. This western adventure shows how brains beat brawn. Using a series of tricks, this duo proves you don't need a gun to stand up to a cattle rustler.Readers will love th...

This book explores undergraduate education programmes in a new way. Written by those at the forefront of teaching and learning, it encourages students to delve beneath the surface of their degree subject and reveals important insights about the how, why and where next for education studies.With contributions from course leaders, tutors, current students and recent graduates, this book offers insights from nearly 60 authors based in 20 different institutions from five different coun...

Collecting Kirby: Genesis - Silver Star #1-6Silver Star is the story of Morgan Miller, the first bio-engineered superhuman. Tasked with finding 'The Others,' Silver Star put together a rag-tag family of powerful individuals in a newly post-superhuman world. Thirty years ago the king of comics, Jack Kirby, created, wrote, and drew the adventures of 'homo-geneticus' and what an all-powerful superhuman meant to war, society, and death. This story is the continuing adventures of the most power...

The word “robot” was coined a little over a century ago, but humankind has always told stories of constructed lifeforms. From the earliest myths to the latest blockbuster, stories of artificial life have always held our attention. But what do the stories we tell about the machines we make reveal about how we see ourselves?One person risks everything for one good shot. Absolution is dispensed at the push of a button. A brother and sister disagree about a strange benefactor’s true mo...