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Pot for Profit

Cannabis Legalization, Racial Capitalism, and the Expansion of the Carceral State

by Joseph Mello ...

Series series The Cultural Lives of Law
The United States has experienced a dramatic shift in attitudes towards cannabis use from the 1970s, when only 12% of Americans said that they thought that cannabis should be legal, to today. What once had been a counterculture drug supplied for the black market by socially marginal figures like drug smugglers and hippies has become a big business, dominated by a few large corporations. Pot for ... Read more

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The United States has experienced a dramatic shift in attitudes towards cannabis use from the 1970s, when only 12% of Americans said that they thought that cannabis should be legal, to today. What once had been a counterculture drug supplied for the black market by socially marginal figures like drug smugglers and hippies has become a big business, dominated by a few large corporations. Pot for
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The Courts, the Ballot Box, and Gay Rights

How Our Governing Institutions Shape the Same-Sex Marriage Debate

by Joseph Mello ...

If the same-sex marriage debate tells us one thing, it’s that rights do not exist in a vacuum. What works for one side at the ballot box often fails in the courtroom. Conservative opponents of same-sex marriage used appeals to religious liberty and parental rights to win ballot measure campaigns, but could not duplicate this success in court. Looking at the same-sex marriage debate at the ballot ... Read more

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If the same-sex marriage debate tells us one thing, it’s that rights do not exist in a vacuum. What works for one side at the ballot box often fails in the courtroom. Conservative opponents of same-sex marriage used appeals to religious liberty and parental rights to win ballot measure campaigns, but could not duplicate this success in court. Looking at the same-sex marriage debate at the ballot
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ReasonML Quick Start Guide

Build fast and type-safe React applications that leverage the JavaScript and OCaml ecosystems

by Raphael Rafatpanah, Bruno Joseph D'mello ...

A hands on approach to learning ReasonML from the perspective of a web developer.Key FeaturesHands on learning by building a real world app shell that includes client-side routing and more.Understand Reason’s ecosystem including BuckleScript and various npm workflows.Learn how Reason differs from TypeScript and Flow, and how to use it to make refactoring less stressful.Book DescriptionReasonML, ... Read more

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A hands on approach to learning ReasonML from the perspective of a web developer.Key FeaturesHands on learning by building a real world app shell that includes client-side routing and more.Understand Reason’s ecosystem including BuckleScript and various npm workflows.Learn how Reason differs from TypeScript and Flow, and how to use it to make refactoring less stressful.Book DescriptionReasonML,
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JavaScript and JSON Essentials

Build light weight, scalable, and faster web applications with the power of JSON

by Bruno Joseph D'mello, Sai S Sriparasa ...

Use JSON for building web applications with technologies like HTML, JavaScript, Angular, Node.js, Hapi.js, Kafka, socket.io, MongoDB, Gulp.js, and handlebar.js, and others formats like GEOJSON, JSON-LD, MessagePack, and BSON.Key FeaturesUse JSON with trending technologies like Angular, Hapi.js, MongoDB, Kafka, and Socket.ioDebug, validate, and format JSON using developer toolkits, JSONLint, and ... Read more

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Use JSON for building web applications with technologies like HTML, JavaScript, Angular, Node.js, Hapi.js, Kafka, socket.io, MongoDB, Gulp.js, and handlebar.js, and others formats like GEOJSON, JSON-LD, MessagePack, and BSON.Key FeaturesUse JSON with trending technologies like Angular, Hapi.js, MongoDB, Kafka, and Socket.ioDebug, validate, and format JSON using developer toolkits, JSONLint, and
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Beyond the Gate: Stories from the World of the Dream Engine

Engine World

by E.W. Pierce, Monica Leonelle, A.T. Schubert, Jamie Maltman, Jack Worr, Stacy Claflin, John McGuire, Lisa Harvey, Blaine Moore, Jay Rosenkrantz, Rob Laman, Thomas Dattoli, Missy Morgan, Michael Hustleborn, Hal Leonard, Paul Jenny, Joseph Mello, Karl J. Leis, Cathy Pelham, Abe Cedarian, Hector Manuel Elias Oliver, Ephraim Mallery, Kayla Halleur ...

Series series Engine World
Waldron's Gate, capital of Alterra. A land powered by steam, but inspired by the power of dreams, and surrounded by the mysterious Fog.The Dream Engine explored this city. Now you are invited to go Beyond The Gate.Twenty-three authors will take you over, under, into, and beyond the Fog in this cross-genre compilation of short stories.From time travel to romance, young adult to horror, science ... Read more

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Waldron's Gate, capital of Alterra. A land powered by steam, but inspired by the power of dreams, and surrounded by the mysterious Fog.The Dream Engine explored this city. Now you are invited to go Beyond The Gate.Twenty-three authors will take you over, under, into, and beyond the Fog in this cross-genre compilation of short stories.From time travel to romance, young adult to horror, science
... Read more
Web Development with MongoDB and NodeJS

Build an interactive and full-featured web application from scratch using Node.js and MongoDB

by Mithun Satheesh, Bruno Joseph D'mello, Jason Krol ...

Key FeaturesBook DescriptionNode.js and MongoDB are quickly becoming one of the most popular tech stacks for the web. Powered by Google's V8 engine, Node.js caters to easily building fast, scalable network applications while MongoDB is the perfect fit as a scalable, high-performance, open source NoSQL database solution. Using these two technologies together, web applications can be built quickly ... Read more

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Key FeaturesBook DescriptionNode.js and MongoDB are quickly becoming one of the most popular tech stacks for the web. Powered by Google's V8 engine, Node.js caters to easily building fast, scalable network applications while MongoDB is the perfect fit as a scalable, high-performance, open source NoSQL database solution. Using these two technologies together, web applications can be built quickly
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Web Development with MongoDB and Node

Build fast web applications for handling any kind of data

by Mithun Satheesh, Bruno Joseph D'mello, Jason Krol ...

Use the two popular web development stacks, Node.js and MongoDB, to build full-featured web applicationsKey Features1. Learn the new ECMAScript along with Node 8 and MongoDB to make your application more effective.2. Get the up-to-date information required to launch your first application prototype using the latest versions of Node.js and MongoDB.3. A practical guide with clear instructions to ... Read more

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Use the two popular web development stacks, Node.js and MongoDB, to build full-featured web applicationsKey Features1. Learn the new ECMAScript along with Node 8 and MongoDB to make your application more effective.2. Get the up-to-date information required to launch your first application prototype using the latest versions of Node.js and MongoDB.3. A practical guide with clear instructions to
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Something Wicked This Way Comes

by Ray Bradbury, Ray Bradbury, Mark Vander Berg, Jerry Robbins, Chris Snyder, Jeffrey Gage, Nancy Curran Willis, the Colonial Radio Theatre on the Air ...

Narrated by a full cast, J. T. Turner, Anastas Varinos0, Matthew Scott Robertson1, Daniel R. Gelinas2, Teresa Goding3, Diane Capen4, Marcia Friedman5, Lincoln Clark6, Diane Lind7, Shonna McEachern8, Alyssa Mello9, Tom Berry0, Rik Pierce1, Joseph Zamparelli2 ...

Series Audiobook 2 - The Green Town Series
Unabridged

1 hour 58 min

“By the pricking of my thumbs … something wicked this way comes.”Ray Bradbury has dramatized his literary classic, Something Wicked This Way Comes, into this first-class audio drama, produced by the Colonial Radio Theatre on the Air, complete with a full cast, sound effects, and original music."Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show" comes to Greentown, Illinois, one week before Halloween. Two ... Read more

$14.95 USD

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“By the pricking of my thumbs … something wicked this way comes.”Ray Bradbury has dramatized his literary classic, Something Wicked This Way Comes, into this first-class audio drama, produced by the Colonial Radio Theatre on the Air, complete with a full cast, sound effects, and original music."Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show" comes to Greentown, Illinois, one week before Halloween. Two
... Read more

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Seeds of the Soul

a fantasy short story: prequel to Witches of Etlantium

by Thea Atkinson ...

Series series Witches of Etlantium
Sometimes to save a world, you must destroy it.The witches of Etlantium are charged with keeping the children of Liliah safe, but when an oracle accuses the ruler of seeking to destroy his own city through civil war, there is only one witch brave enough to do what must be done.Readers of Water Witch will find this background story full of historical intrigue, enchantment, and old world mythology ... Read more

$0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Sometimes to save a world, you must destroy it.The witches of Etlantium are charged with keeping the children of Liliah safe, but when an oracle accuses the ruler of seeking to destroy his own city through civil war, there is only one witch brave enough to do what must be done.Readers of Water Witch will find this background story full of historical intrigue, enchantment, and old world mythology
... Read more
Sian's Solution

A Family Blood Ties Series Prequel

by Dale Mayer ...

Series series Family Blood Ties
Sometimes the depths of love can only be understood when lost...Scientist and vampire Sian Tallant loves a human doctor – a relationship that's taboo in the world she comes from. She knows she has to break both of their hearts by leaving him forever…before he finds out the truth about her dark heritage.Unwittingly, Taz follows her into vampire territory, where he's captured and learns that the ... Read more

$3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

Sometimes the depths of love can only be understood when lost...Scientist and vampire Sian Tallant loves a human doctor – a relationship that's taboo in the world she comes from. She knows she has to break both of their hearts by leaving him forever…before he finds out the truth about her dark heritage.Unwittingly, Taz follows her into vampire territory, where he's captured and learns that the
... Read more
Quarantined Planet

by John Allen Pace ...

Food doesn't grow easily on New Earth. Much of it arrives on massive supply ships and when one goes missing, the planet’s few thousand inhabitants are in grave peril. Chloe Meeks, a beautiful and gentle soul longing for a human utopia, is a rookie space pilot who doubts her abilities. Putting those insecurities aside, she joins her stern British captain Gordon and Nix, a wise-cracking young man ... Read more

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Food doesn't grow easily on New Earth. Much of it arrives on massive supply ships and when one goes missing, the planet’s few thousand inhabitants are in grave peril. Chloe Meeks, a beautiful and gentle soul longing for a human utopia, is a rookie space pilot who doubts her abilities. Putting those insecurities aside, she joins her stern British captain Gordon and Nix, a wise-cracking young man
... Read more
Steampunk Six Pack

Six classic steampunks

by Jonathan Swift, Edgar Allan Poe, Grant Allen ...

“The future isn’t what it used to be.”The term steampunk describes the use of Victorian (steam-powered) technology in a futuristic setting. The aesthetic appears in contemporary imaginary fiction to suggest what might have been, extrapolating nineteenth-century ideas into far-flung alternative futures. But when the genre first appeared there was nothing nostalgic about the visions of where ... Read more

$2.99 USD

“The future isn’t what it used to be.”The term steampunk describes the use of Victorian (steam-powered) technology in a futuristic setting. The aesthetic appears in contemporary imaginary fiction to suggest what might have been, extrapolating nineteenth-century ideas into far-flung alternative futures. But when the genre first appeared there was nothing nostalgic about the visions of where
... Read more

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