Accidentally killing a faerie king is a royal pain All Bell Vossen wants is a normal twenty-first birthday filled with nachos, margaritas, and her favorite rock music. Instead, on a dark, lonely highway, she hits a faerie with her car–and finds out there’s a royal bounty on her head. Now she’s...

When foreign powers attack civilians, other countries face an impossible dilemma. Two courses of action emerge: either to retaliate against an abusive government on behalf of its victims, or to remain spectators. Either course offers its own perils: the former, lost lives and resources without certa...

This remarkable book has endured as a true masterpiece of mathematical exposition. There are few mathematics books that are still so widely read and continue to have so much to offer―even after more than half a century has passed! The book is overflowing with mathematical ideas, which are always e...

Riverdale meets The Queen’s Gambit in this fun, twisty thriller by an Edgar Award-winning author, featuring a deliciously dysfunctional family with dark secrets and shifting alliances. Fourteen-year-old chess whiz Ruby Vossen tries to keep to herself. She refuses to be a pawn in her wealthy f...

This coloring book offers more than just pictures of red foxes . Each illustration's back reveals a fascinating fact , ensuring coloring time is both creative and educational. Enjoy discovering surprising details while keeping your pages clean and free of ink stains. 50 unique images : Contains 50...

For system administrators, programmers, and end users, shell command or carefully crafted shell script can save you time and effort, or facilitate consistency and repeatability for a variety of common tasks. This cookbook provides more than 300 practical recipes for using bash , the popular Unix sh...

They buried a man. A god of vengeance will have his revenge. Evian Darrow, a brilliant and respected starfreighter first mate, had it all: a promising career, the trust of his comrades, and a future of boundless potential. But a devastating betrayal shatters his world. Framed by the very men he call...

They buried a man. A god of vengeance will have his revenge. Evian Darrow, a brilliant and respected starfreighter first mate, had it all: a promising career, the trust of his comrades, and a future of boundless potential. But a devastating betrayal shatters his world. Framed by the very men he call...

Feminism in Play focuses on women as they are depicted in video games, as participants in games culture, and as contributors to the games industry. This volume showcases women’s resistance to the norms of games culture, as well as women’s play and creative practices both in and around the games...

"A good book! It's a nice overview of wiki editing and administration, with pointers to handy extensions and further online documentation." -Brion Vibber, Chief Technical Officer, Wikimedia Foundation "This book is filled with practical knowledge based on experience. It's not just spouting some ...

In Zeiten fortschreitender medizinischer Entwicklung ist es notwendig, dass die Kranken- und Gesundheitspflege ihren festen Platz als Leistungserbringer in der Patientenbehandlung verorten kann. Dafür ist es erforderlich Zusammenhänge zwischen wiederkehrenden Pflegeleistungen innerhalb eines Fallv...

Libertarians often bill their theory as an alternative to both the traditional Left and Right. The Routledge Handbook of Libertarianism helps readers fully examine this alternative without preaching it to them, exploring the contours of libertarian (sometimes also called classical liberal ) think...

Remarkable advances have been made in recent years in the science and technology of thin film processes for deposition and etching. It is the purpose of this book to bring together tutorial reviews of selected filmdeposition and etching processes from a process viewpoint. Emphasis is placed on the p...

Conceptually, a database consists of objects and relationships. Object Relationship Notation (ORN) is a simple notation that more precisely defines relationships by combining UML multiplicities with uniquely defined referential actions. This book shows how ORN can be used in UML class diagrams and ...

This guidebook provides detailed information for growers on production issues, plant nutrition, economics, pest and weed control, management of olive wastes, the conversion process, and organic certification and registration. Using this manual you'll learn about orchard site selection considerations...

Remarkable advances have been made in recent years in the science and technology of thin film processes for deposition and etching. It is the purpose of this book to bring together tutorial reviews of selected filmdeposition and etching processes from a process viewpoint. Emphasis is placed on the p...

In this book, Mathias Weske details the complete business process lifecycle from process modeling to process enactment and process evaluation. After starting with the general foundations and abstractions in business process management, he introduces process modeling languages and process choreograph...

Never before had the garden to fulfil so many demands as it does today. It is a refuge from digitalised life and acts as a bridge to nature. As a man-made place where plants grow, it is cultivated and untamable at the same time. While for centuries the gardener's ambition was to control and subjugat...