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He spent his money ... on horses, liquor, and women ... on private railroad cars, servants, and stables. First he spent what he had, and then he started in on the fortune he hadn't inherited yet.... More

Towards the front of the truck Drogo saw an opening in the side, formed by a panel. Priscilla Fairehild was lying down somewhere inside, holding the panel open with one hand and waving at him with the other. Drogo made a sort of rude dive for the opening and clambered through it. When he managed to ... More

A man tries to join World War II, after wasting his youth.... More

Beadleston Preece was gloomy. Here was a night for lovers and gardens and gay philandering. A night with visions of magnificent ladies clad in clinging gossamer, a night that hinted of seductively furnished boudoirs.... More

Four aces and the joker shone whitely on the green cloth. "You cheated!" the drunken man said to Crockett. "You're a dirty cardsharp!" Crockett stood up. The look in his eyes was frightening. "Go home," he said. "I've taken all I'm going to take from you tonight." He spoke softly, but the voice had ... More

Scholar, horseman, professor at a rich girl's college, author of books on military history, Dr. Enos Barney has reached 43, a confirmed bachelor. But he meets a young student in his class, who begins to make him want to LIVE adventurously. Add to the mix a working replica of a 19th century cannon w... More

THE HORSE IN THE GRAY FLANNEL SUIT is a wacky, warm story of a father's attempt to win the love and respect of his teenage daughter, who has eyes only for a horse. Freddie Bolton is a charming, harassed, suburban ad executive playing—and losing —Madison Avenue's favorite sport of living beyond his i... More

Written during the Depression, this book is a humorous and acid-etched look at the people of that time. A wealthy socialite adopts one of the "forgotten men", a homeless person, and introduces him to her family as their new butler. All kinds of consequences ensue and, by the end of the book, nothi... More

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. For the first half of the twentieth century, no American industry boasted a more motley and prolific trade press than the movie business—a cutthroat landscape that set the stage for battle by ink. In 1930, Marti... More

Hollywood Vault is the story of how the business of film libraries emerged and evolved, spanning the silent era to the sale of feature libraries to television. Eric Hoyt argues that film libraries became valuable not because of the introduction of new technologies but because of the emergence and gr... More

A cybersecurity expert and former FBI "ghost" tells the thrilling story of how he helped take down notorious FBI mole Robert Hanssen, the first Russian cyber spy.Eric O'Neill was only twenty-six when he was tapped for the case of a lifetime: a one-on-one undercover investigation of the FBI's top tar... More

Isn't table layout something web designers want to avoid? Yes, but rather than use tables for layout, this book is about the ways that tables themselves are laid out by CSS, a process more complicated than it appears. This concise guide takes you on a deep dive into the concepts necessary for unders... More

The compensating construct of resiliency, itself, has not been compared to the problem of loss of relevancy. Therefore, there is an open corridor for the enlightened therapist, career coach, or mentor to appropriately guide a troubled person with targeted challenges to transform themselves into a ne... More

Descriptions of new varieties of European languages in postcolonial contexts have focused exceedingly on system-based indigenisation and variation. This volume-while further illustrating processes and instantiations of indigenisation at this level-incorporates investigations of sociolinguistic and ... More

Justice, Sustainability, and Security not only enhances our knowledge of these issues, but it teases out our moral dimensions and offer prescriptions for how governments and global actors might craft their policies to better consider their effects on the global human condition.... More

Seven-year-old Louis Armstrong was too poor to buy a real horn. He didn’t even go to school. To help his mother pay the rent, Louis had a job. Every day he rode a junk wagon through the streets of New Orleans, playing his tin horn and collecting stuff people didn’t want. Then one day the junk wa... More

When you're working with CSS and need a quick answer, CSS Pocket Reference delivers. This handy, concise book provides all of the essential information you need to implement CSS on the fly. Ideal for intermediate to advanced web designers and developers, the 4th edition is revised and updated for CS... More

Exactly how does the "cascade" in Cascading Style Sheets work? This concise guide demonstrates the power and simplicity of CSS selectors for applying style rules to different web page elements. You'll learn how your page's presentation depends on a multitude of style rules and the complex ways they ... More

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a powerful tool that transforms the presentation of a document or a collection of documents, and it's spread to nearly every corner of the Web--as well as many non-web environments. In this free introduction to Cascade Style Sheets, you'll learn how CSS makes it possi... More

Nearly everything you do with CSS involves units for determining the look and formatting of your web page elements. With this concise guide, you'll learn how to work with an array of units--including measurements and keywords--that help you define color, text, distance between elements, location of ... More

<p>The third edition of the <em>CSS Pocket Reference</em> has been completely revised and updated to reflect the latest Cascading Style Sheet specifications in CSS 2.1. This indispensable little reference covers the most essential information that web designers and developers need to implement CSS e... More

CSS: The Definitive Guide, 3rd Edition, provides you with a comprehensive guide to CSS implementation, along with a thorough review of all aspects of CSS 2.1. Updated to cover Internet Explorer 7, Microsoft's vastly improved browser, this new edition includes content on positioning, lists and genera... More

One advantage of using CSS3 is that you can apply colors and backgrounds to any element in a web document, create your own gradients, and even apply multiple backgrounds to the same element. This practical guide shows you many ways to use colors, backgrounds, and gradients to achieve some pretty awe... More

Present information in stunning new ways by transforming CSS elements in two- and three-dimensional space. Whether you're rotating a photo, doing some interesting perspective tricks, or creating an interface that lets you reveal information on an element's backside, this practical guide shows you ho... More

While flowing text around images is certainly nothing new, with CSS you can float any element, from images to paragraphs to lists. In this practical guide, author Eric Meyer reveals some interesting--and surprising--ways to use CSS floats in your web design, including the latest capability to flow c... More