Bøker av Matthew Howard

Two Hundred is a scrapbook filled with artifacts from the author's twenties and thirties, including otherwise unpublished poems, sketches, memoirs, song lyrics, and dreams.

After the events of The Second Omnibus, Mags and her hard-rocking, space-pirate crew confront new enemies, old rivals, and the final fate of the interspecies band, Small Flowers. Permanent Crescent: The Moon is about to die, and it's all Mags' fault. Join a hell-raising space pirate and her indestructible calico cat as they confront a lunar death cult whose alien leader plans to take his revenge on humanity by destroying Earth's ancient satellite. Odonata's Revenge: Mags faces double trouble when an alien menace and an ex-mercenary converge on Ceres to end the pirate's life and steal her secret technology. Infinite Spaces: Mags and her crew discover signals emanating from the depths of the subterranean ocean on Ceres and risk their lives in uncharted waters to find the source. What they find makes Mags reconsider her role in humanity's evolution and the final fate of her universe. Farewell Tour: A band of telepathic octopuses and their interspecies friends bring a message of liberation to the solar system one last time. Mags and Patches fight to rescue them from the forces of law and order. One Last Night on Death World: On the last night of Gramma's life, Mags takes her drinking at a west-coast bar to shoot pool and have fun. Between games of billiards, they discuss the future of the solar system and reminisce about their past, revealing details about Gramma's childhood, her relationship with her piratical mother, and the development of GravGen technology. Pieces of Eight: Mags and her friends in Small Flowers return to Earth to seek a new home for the dying octopuses, but what they find is not at all what they expected. Might be unsuitable for children and other carbon-based life. Literary Titan Silver Award Winner.

This book is a minimalist design experiment consisting of one poem told in one hundred five-word sentences, at one sentence per page.

Three Years Dreaming may be the only book of its kind, a three-year memoir told entirely in dreams. Dreams follow their own logic, creating unusual narratives where the impossible becomes commonplace. The dream journal is a candid, intimate record of events that never happened. Dive into the forgotten life we live when we are not awake. Experience the unconscious. Dream. And when it ends the only way a dream really can, you will have survived the journey. Three Years Dreaming presents three chapters, each containing a year of dreams.

From cyberspace to outer space, public policy shapes our lives, our planet, and our future. The ten essays collected in Laws That Shape Our Lives examine such controversial policy measures as net neutrality, tobacco packaging, water fluoridation, same-sex marriage, and the patenting of biological & genetic material. Written in an academic style based on research and primary source documents, Laws That Shape Our Lives presents a comprehensive analysis of the history, major points of debate, and the current state of affairs of these topics and more. Laws That Shape Our Lives takes a look at public policy on the municipal, state, national, and international levels where decisions are made which affect us all. Whether you are a student of public administration or simply interested in getting a sense of the bigger picture, Laws That Shape Our Lives will provide an informative and in-depth experience of the world of public policy.

The FCC's 2015 Open Internet Order reclassified high-speed broadband Internet access as a telecommunications service subject to common carriage requirements under Title II of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. This change resulted from decades of technological convergence, litigation, and increasing popular and political pressure. The Order's service requirements and ban on paid prioritization, though contentious, paved the way for the FCC's vision of nationwide broadband. But the future of net neutrality and the 2015 Order remain uncertain. Since the Order's enactment in 2015, changes in FCC leadership have followed in the wake of the 2016 presidential election. What will happen next? This booklet is now updated with the February 2017 essay "Two Years of Net Neutrality: A Policy Analysis Follow-Up". It updates court decisions which were pending at the time of the original essay. It also reviews the litigation the FCC used to enforce the 2015 Order, and it addresses the changes in the FCC's leadership since the Order's enactment.

Consider two substances, each with a body of research confirming its toxicity to human beings. People consume one of the substances for pleasure, and the other for its supposed health benefits. The World Health Organization actively bands nations together to reduce the marketability and consumption of the former, yet promotes the latter as an effective health measure. The essays in this book examine the policies governing these two substances: tobacco and fluoride. Tobacco control policies have gained significant traction as nations around the world evaluate the success of Australia's recent laws concerning cigarette packaging. Given impetus by the World Health Organization's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, these policies have met with little public resistance, their sole opponents the companies which manufacture tobacco products. At the same time, another movement has gained traction: the opposition to adding fluoride to municipal water systems. Though the World Health Organization advocates fluoridation, a growing number of researchers and voters have called its touted benefits into question. Unlike tobacco, the efforts to eliminate fluoride have met resistance from the medical establishment. What is the future of these two substances, each known to have harmful effects on human beings and yet viewed so differently in the court of public opinion? The two essays in this book will answer that question.

Now is an important time in human history. Viral outbreaks threaten lives and make headlines. We see new diseases appear and spread across the planet. We map our genetic code. And we now share the planet with lifeforms of our own creation. A global communication system keeps us informed. But a global system of trade agreements plays a very important role we do not hear so much about. These trade agreements govern, among other things, patent protection for intellectual property. When a nation accepts a trade agreement treating medicines as intellectual property, it can find itself ill-equipped to confront public health crises like outbreaks of viruses and disease. Genetic material, too, can become protected intellectual property, although the courts of different nations disagree on just what material and how protected it might be. Once the subject of futuristic science fiction novels, the commodification and ownership of human genetic material has become our reality in the 21st century. The two essays in this booklet address the ethical concerns as well as the practical, administrative realities for the offices and courts where governments make decisions that affect all of us; our health, our genetic code, and our future.

Adonvdo Yona (Bear Spirit) Mountain: An Ancestral Awakening is the memoir of a man who received a spiritual promise when he was younger and goes on to discover his American Indian roots as the path to turn this promise into a reality. The author shares the details of his life with his rediscovered indigenous culture, as he acquires an ancient Pleistocene period American Indian site where he experiences a mystical awakening. It is an adventure story which captivates the reader and leads them to look forward to the next phase. Readers will enjoy learning about the authors spiritual life and how he was able to reconnect his ancestral past to his present and future as he studies, preserves and protects this archaeological treasure.