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This is a story about a detective as opposed to a detective story. Mathew Brown aka Augustus Cervantes discovers early in life that he has some very special skills. Skills that manifest in what many consider very odd personality traits. Most notably, he claims he can find anything with a little help from a nebulous place in his mind that he calls the canvas. ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿Having built a lucrative career finding treasured missing objects for weal...

Seventeen-year-old Jayne Wu is literally battling inside her own mind against Dr. Winter Bancroft, evil neuroscientist of The Forevers. Jayne has Dr. Pincet and the Sentinels on her side-but can they really counter the Consortium and the Forevers? Spike and Rafferty are both vying for Jane's romantic attention, but who has time for men when the future of humankind is on the line? Jayne becomes the ultimate impostor, driving ever deeper into ...

At the turn of the 20th century, industrial manufacturing was expanding dramatically while factory buildings remained fire-prone relics of an earlier age. That is, until a 28-year-old civil engineer finally achieved what engineers around the world had unsuccessfully attempted. Working in his brother's basement in Detroit, Julius Kahn invented the first practical and scientific method of reinforcing concrete with steel bars, which finally made ...

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Now 16 years old, Jayne Wu is working as a fixer on Biome 3, a thoroughly inhospitable environment. Despite being alone in a cold society that is preoccupied with developing tech to escape the approaching Swarm meteor field, she is just starting to feel she can serve her world by advancing in her chosen profession. But her mysterious protector, Professor Greenway, is nowhere to be found, and the Consortium crime syndicate is plotting to abduct...

The Rocket Lab: Maurice Zucrow, Purdue University, and America's Race to Space focuses on the golden era of space exploration between 1946 and 1966, specifically the life and times of Purdue University's Dr. Maurice J. Zucrow, a pioneering teacher and researcher in aerospace engineering. Zucrow taught America's first university course in jet and rocket propulsion, wrote the field's first textbook, and established the country's first educationa...

Jayne Wu is an inexplicably lucky 13-year-old in a future Earth obsessed with its own survival. The Swarm, a meteor field billions of kilometers across, will soon smash through the solar system, destroying all life-and possibly the planet itself. The only hope for humankind's survival are the biomes: twelve asteroid-sized escape vessels constructed in orbit to travel to and colonize distant worlds with the best Earth can offer. Jayne (nickna...

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The atomic incident of 2026 was the catalyst of a worldwide movement, historically called #MeNow. Over the intervening years, the #MeNow philosophy became more proactive and morphed into #WeNow then #FeNow then finally #WOW, an acronym for World Order by Women. This was the beginning of the new age. There were several women on the brink of taking power in their respective countries. The threat of a nuclear conflict opened the floodgates for th...

The atomic incident of 2026 was the catalyst of a worldwide movement, historically called #MeNow. Over the intervening years, the #MeNow philosophy became more proactive and morphed into #WeNow then #FeNow then finally #WOW, an acronym for World Order by Women. This was the beginning of the new age. There were several women on the brink of taking power in their respective countries. The threat of a nuclear conflict opened the floodgates for th...

In Great Minds in Management Ken G. Smith and Michael A. Hitt have brought together some of the most influential and original thinkers in management. Their contributions to this volume not only outline their landmark contributions to management theory, but also reflect on the process of theory development, presenting their own personal accounts of the gestation of these theories.

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Tina was little. Being little was a good thing. She used that to get her own way. And everyone had always treated her like she was special. But things were changing and Tina needed a plan. A plan she didn't have, that is, until she met Little Trouble-a monster who helped her devise a way to become special again. But when things did not go as planned...Little Trouble invited Big Trouble. And when that did not work, Big Trouble invited Terrible ...

While working for his father at the Old Cooper Place, Billy discovers there's more to the property than just a rundown house, dilapidated garden shed, creepy cellar, and overgrown backyard.Rolling his rock-filled wheelbarrow over a small hole in the ground, it sinks into a much larger hole, crashing upon a macabre discovery that uncovers a myriad of clues pertaining to an ancient local mystery and possible treasure.But Billy wants to solve the...

One day Lily told a lie. It wasn't a big lie. It didn't hurt anyone. She thought lies that didn't hurt anyone were okay, especially if the lies helped you a little. And they did help her…at first. The little lies turn into medium lies. Medium lies turn into big lies. Big lies turn into MONSTER lies. But Lily's lies turn into real monsters with buggy eyes and big slimy teeth. They appear everywhere and taunt her. Lily cannot escape until she di...

Pandora Rao is a seventeen-year-old girl with a very special mind. She is living on one of the many orbiting asteroid biome ships preparing to travel to the stars to save mankind from extinction. She is happy and plans to become a scientist studying the flora and fauna of her home asteroid until her father surprises her on her seventeenth birthday. The surprise horrifies Pandora. So begins an adventure that takes her from her orbiting asteroi...

Bernie the Banana Slug lives under a strawberry patch, but now he is lost in the forest. He makes new friends who will help him find his way home. Look for more adventures of Bernie the Banana Slug and his friends, written & illustrated by G. Michael Smith.

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This is an account of a UN mission in the unfamiliar role of interim government - a mission dealing with critical requirements for good governance, sustainable development, and effective military and police forces.