New Release Books by Angel Martinez

Honoring men and women who have made significant contributions to the cause of human rights.

Part of the "A Holiday to Remember 2017 Series"As a security officer on an interspecies ship, Growlan Raskli's experienced in heading off species-specific aberrant behaviors in order to keep the peace. But when her captain asks her to find out what's bothering their sole human crew member, Raskli's out of her depths. She hardly knows anything about humans and she's not a psych doctor.Something's definitely upset Human Jen, something to do with human holidays. The more time Raskli spends studying humans and interacting with the intriguing Human Jen, the more personal the assignment becomes. Determined to lift the dark cloud from Human Jen, Raskli will do whatever it takes--within safe parameters, of course.A Holiday to RememberFreddy MacKay - Watermelon KissesFoster Bridget Cassidy - But to Love MoreToni Griffin - Corey's Christmas BundleAngel Martinez - Safety Protocols for Human HolidaysNicole Dennis - Secrets & SilkKassandra Lea - Winter HomeJill Wexler - The Christmas Eve Craigslist KillerJayne Lockwood - New BeginningsTray Ellis - A Piece of OurselvesJ. Scott Coatsworth - I Only Want to Be With YouSiri Paulson - A New Year on Vega III

Winter in Canada can be a little tedious. The cold, the snow, the ever-darkening days, the hibernation... Finn's inability to stay awake has Diego worried sick and with Miriam visiting, he has a difficult time explaining his lover's sudden narcoleptic behavior. Finn just wants to turn into a badger and burrow until the sun returns, but he also has his reasons for wanting to escape the long sleep this year. Agonizing over the perfect gift for Diego turns him in convoluted mental circles as he struggles with the concepts of gift giving and fidelity. The perfect solution occurs to him in the middle of a snowy night, and he struggles to make it work before he turns into a permanently frozen pooka. CONTENT ADVISORY: This is a re-edited re-released title.

An amoral, power-hungry admiral kidnaps Isaac and uses him to convince Turk to become a weapon. It will take a group effort to save them.

With his career firmly established and his reputation as a successful PI growing, Hades should have the perfect life with his human lover, his faithful ferryman, his dogs and the parts of his family still speaking to him. But murder and chaos are never far away for death lords as his nephew Dionysus and his oldest friend Charon are drawn into the maelstrom. Includes:Books, Bulls, & Bacchanals: Brandywine Investigations #4Midwinter Dancing: Brandywine Investigations #4.5Pack Up the Moon: Brandywine Investigations #5 Please note: Books, Bulls & Bacchanals has been re-edited with a few story adjustments for this edition.

Skim Blood and Savage Verse Words damage more than just feelings as Carrington hunts feral books menacing the city. When a ferocious book attacks Carrington at his own birthday party, he believes it's an isolated incident. But similar books soon pop up all over town, menacing innocent people with harsh bits of poetry and blank verse that deliver damaging physical blows. It's a frustrating case with too many variables and not enough answers, and the stakes go up with each attack. With the help of his misfit squad mates at the 77th and the public library's Rare Books Department, the missing pieces decrease but not Carrington's vexations. His commanding officer rakes him over the coals at the beginning of every shift. His police partner has lost patience with what she sees as his delusional relationship choices and his inability to pick the right man in a vast field of two. City Hall demands that the books be stopped immediately. It's enough to put a nutritionally challenged vampire off his skim blood. Feral Dust Bunnies An orphaned kitten may be the only witness to romance and the impossible. Officer Alex Wolf responds to a lot of 'paranormal' calls that aren't. Exotic pet birds aren't monsters and unusual dog breeds aren't aliens. It's a good thing he likes the Animal Control officers, but he both yearns for and dreads those calls where he runs into ACO Jason Shen. Jason's scent is so delicious that Wolf has a difficult time humaning around him. Animal Control calls take a disturbing turn, though, when Wolf and his lizard-man partner, Krisk, discover the impossibly mummified bodies of rats and an unfortunate mother cat. The rescue of the cat's sole surviving kitten not only gives Wolf more time with Jason, which is both perplexing and wonderful, but also leads to dangerous discoveries. Something inconceivable stalks the city and its officers of the law. Wolf has to figure out what it is before it can attack and drain the life from the people and the kitten he loves.

Riding and herding. Those spurs that jingle-jangle-jingle. What is it about cowboys that so doggedly fires the imagination? Join the Mischief Corner authors as they give you their own unique takes on the cowboy mystique and mythos, from the American West, to Australia, to outer space. The cowboy story will never be the same... Once A Cowboy - Toni Griffin It's been six years since Jesse Howard has stepped foot on the Western Hills Cattle Station. Now that he's able, Jesse's returned. The problem is, he's not returning alone. Will Logan Kennedy, the love of his life, listen to Jesse's explanations or will Logan close the door on the future Jesse's dreamed about for so long. Accounting for the Hero - Silvia Violet Grant longs for a hero to ride up on his valiant steed and revive his failing ranch, but he hires, Miles, a man with a desperate need for a job and no ranch experience. Miles may know a lot more about bookkeeping than calf-roping, but that doesn't mean he's incapable of heroics or of capturing Grant's heart. Sock Poacher and the Shower Thief: Tall Tales of Hooper's Town 1 - Freddy MacKay One step at a time, one foot in front of the other. All things are possible when someone steps outside their door. In Namid's case, he meets the town recluse, Dusty, when he gets attacked by Dusty's porch. And that's only the beginning. BULL: Corralling Nature 1 - Mathilde Watson Shy, awkward, and overweight, Roland Paulson wasn't the kind of man who attracted a lot of amorous attention. His romantic life consisted of a series of short lived flings and one night stands with other men who were just as desperate. When propositioned by a charming cowboy with the body of a god, he expected sex. He never imagined the wild ride that would follow. From the moment Dodge Bramen set eyes on the adorable red-head he wanted him. And Dodge was a man who gets what he wants. He had no trouble luring the guy into his bed, but keeping him there was a different story. Deep kept secrets and unexpected discoveries could either strengthen their bond or break it. Fear of Frogs: Brimstone 2 - Angel Martinez While Shax recovers from a near fatality, his shipmates have been busy. He's rather proud of them taking the initiative and finding them a lucrative cargo run. His pride turns to outright horror, though, when he finds out what sort of cargo. Unfortunately, he'll soon discover that a healthy fear of frogs doesn't prevent frog-driven disasters. Time travel has never been so messy.

This book addresses the traditional perception of symptoms and whether they are physical signs of illness or symbolic and cultural forms of expression. The research presented here examines contemporary psychiatric knowledge, medical anthropology, and the fields of psychiatry/psychology to find answers regarding the interpretation of symptoms. This book also offers critical analyses of Freud, Kraepelin, Foucault, Barthes and Peirce, among others, as part of its critical framework.

A socially challenged pixie and a former playboy incubus find themselves in the center of the maelstrom as AURA struggles to find a source for the escalating violence threatening the city. The staff at AURA has had a busy summer. Between chronic understaffing, dealing with warring goblin factions and an unusual number of hazardous Events, everyone is overworked. Sinistrus the incubus, newly hired as an AURA medic, actually enjoys his busy new life of responsible employee and faithful lover to his gorgeous police sergeant, Ness the centaur. Life would be perfect, except for a niggling suspicion about a colleague. Everyone else seems to disagree, but Sin’s certain something’s not right with that pixie. Kellen, a pixie crossover, loves his job working in AURA medical, even if he is something of an outsider. His job and the friends he manages to make are happy spots in an otherwise dark and secretive life. As the rest of AURA tries to discover the root of the inexplicable rise in violence and large-scale Events, Kellen fights to preserve his own life and what dignity he has left. These two unlikely heroes must put their differences aside and navigate tragedy and ever-escalating disaster together in order to stop the sinister forces that hold Kellen in thrall.

Vassily Belikov, composer and pampered son of privilege, suffered neurological damage in the accident that killed his father. Resentful of being treated as an invalid, he lives as a recluse, dependent on his mother. That changes the day she brings home a new husband with two sons of his own. When deep-space pirates capture Vassily's mother, he's left to the mercy of his cruel, amoral stepfather. Fighting addiction and his physical shortcomings, he's forced to seek out the criminal mastermind Baba Yaga for a crucial piece of equipment. While she agrees to deal with him if he beats his Exoticus addiction, paranoia and mysterious intentions infuse her household. Drawn to her fierce, suspicious youngest son, certain his actions are all carefully observed, Vassily must find the courage to face both his fears and his desires if he expects to survive.

A murderer haunts the city, turning the unwary to stone. Between hunting this evil and corralling new arrivals, Flax struggles to guard both his life and his heart. Quinn and Valerian have come through the trials of facing an undead lich queen and the perils of falling in love. Now they work to restore AURA to its previous strength and efficiency while navigating their new life with each other. Fortunately, they're not in this alone. Kai Hiltas has taken over as the head of the research department at AURA and has become everyone's favourite workaholic, everyone except his lover Tenzin, who has had enough of his late nights and broken promises. As Kai tries to salvage his relationship, he finds a teacher for Quinn, who also happens to be one of Valerian's new officers, Flax Wolfheart, a sexy elf with trouble written all over him. Flax has motives beyond simply teaching Quinn to control his magic. He's trying to recover from his own losses and failures, but he has a plan. The two newest elvish crossovers, Ash and Sage, are sizzling hot and might even like him. With them as backup as he tracks a deadly stone mage and figures out how to teach Quinn, Flax sees his chance to impress Val and snag a place by his captain's side. On the hunt for both danger and redemption, Flax's pursuit leads him ultimately down trails he never expected.

How can they come back victorious from a mission where nobody before them ever returns? Three Southvenian soldiers, their vehicle, and a paella pan, just a tiny speck in the vast and unfriendly region of Skorpikus.

Since the publication of the bestselling first edition, many advances have been made in exploratory data analysis (EDA). Covering innovative approaches for dimensionality reduction, clustering, and visualization, Exploratory Data Analysis with MATLAB®, Second Edition uses numerous examples and applications to show how the methods are used in practice. New to the Second Edition Discussions of nonnegative matrix factorization, linear discriminant analysis, curvilinear component analysis, independent component analysis, and smoothing splines An expanded set of methods for estimating the intrinsic dimensionality of a data set Several clustering methods, including probabilistic latent semantic analysis and spectral-based clustering Additional visualization methods, such as a rangefinder boxplot, scatterplots with marginal histograms, biplots, and a new method called Andrews’ images Instructions on a free MATLAB GUI toolbox for EDA Like its predecessor, this edition continues to focus on using EDA methods, rather than theoretical aspects. The MATLAB codes for the examples, EDA toolboxes, data sets, and color versions of all figures are available for download at http://pi-sigma.info

Demons and Angels have been among us for thousands of years, in many cultures and in many forms. What happens when you set the Mischief Corner authors loose on the vague prompt "Write a story about angels or demons?" The poor unsuspecting world is about to find out. From Toni Griffin - Archie's Accidental Kidnapping: Hounds of Hell 1 Hellhounds are tasked with a very important job. Tracking down and killing Nephilim, half human, half angels. They are the absolute worse society has to offer and as such need to be eliminated. As Adze and his pack of hounds hunt the latest lowlife he meets Archie, his heart mate, something he never thought would happen to him. Now all Adze has to do is explain to his very human mate about the world he's just been dragged into, kicking and screaming. Sounds easy right? Not so much. From Freddy MacKay - Internment As Tadashi's life spirals out of control, townsmen threaten the one place he cannot leave. Terrible things happen and Tadashi hides away on his mountain taking care of the one place he knows he is safe and people are safe from him. But the world has a way of interrupting life in the form of one tiny little girl and her uncle. From Angel Martinez - Hell for the Company: Brimstone #1 Shax, the Demon Prince of Thieves, has reconciled himself to exile. He has a grand time careening around the galaxy as a high-end, intergalactic purloiner of pretties. Everything's going just fine, thank you very much. All right, fine, the anti-gravity cows are a bit problematic and some of his buyers are bad for his health, but he manages until he comes across an injured angel in a psychedelic alien jungle.

When children go missing, the government hires locator Damien to work with sparker Blaze Emerson whom people fear due to his violent temper.

A huge bear at the door, a handsome, naked stranger in the snow, magic fish, enchanted beards—and Rowan thought his life was odd before. Content with the quiet isolation of their lake house, Snowden and Rowan Hadley survive on summer jobs and winter hunting, unable to move on since their parents died. Their peace is shattered by a strange, human-acclimated bear who insists on following Rowan like a giant hunting dog and again by the discovery of a naked, surly stranger in the snow. Both bear and man lead the Hadley brothers into a strange, surreal world where sorcery and RPG software intertwine. Curses and magical traps lie in wait around every turn. Rowan and Snowden will need to adjust their view of how the world works, and quickly, if they want to live through rescuing their enchanted princes.

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) is especially interesting among aircraft due its holonomic constraints, in other words, UAV can be capable of moving on 6-Degrees of freedom resulting in the possibility of landing and taking off vertically using their rotors to translate on Z-axis without moving on X-axis, unlike fixed-wing planes. Position and orientation estimation has been the focus of much research in recent decades. Onboard sensors widely utilized for such tasks include, but not limited, IMU, GPS, and a camera. In addition, since UAVs can operate in areas where the GPS isn't always available [ab], a vision sensor can be an important element of any autonomous system, and because of its adaptability a lot of information can be collected from only image frames to help with scene interpretation, navigation and pose estimation. Due to the incapability of monocular vision to perceive depth using a single image frame without any extra knowledge of the captured image, research has recently been done to estimate pose using multiple camera arrangements that rely on stereo disparity principle[ac][ad], which refers to the pixel location discrepancy when comparing object on overlapped images captured by different cameras, where object triangulation can be done since the distance between lenses is a well-known parameter, while other studies focus on compute disparity between image sequences using monocular vision[ae] and how disparity evolves in time. Because both techniques increase processing costs due to the complexity of image comparison, another branch of monocular vision research the use of cues on the captured image, that is, a reference point which dimensions were previously measured, as results a ratio between pixels and world units can be obtained and then target depth and distance estimation can be computed by comparison. Cues are not limited to knowing reference size; it is also possible to know cues geometry or even have numerous cues arranged on a well-known pattern or geometry, and use such fact to estimate target position and orientation. Furthermore, in environments where orientation and position play a crucial role, such as UAV landing, where it is expected that the UAV knows at all moment its position regarding the landing area, which, could or not has a constrained axis, that is, a 6 degrees of freedom landing area where translation and rotation is possible, there exist the need to develop reliable estimation methods that use sensors that are available to the UAV. For that reason, this thesis addresses the difficulty of computing the UAV relative height and absolute orientation of an Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) due to sea state 6 conditions, based primarily on a single image capture of n beacons, that is signal lights, arranged as a circular pattern around the center of the USV's deck, being image captured by a camera mounted on the UAV, which is hovering above the USV. The final objective is to be able to accurately estimate the dynamic state of the USV so that the UAV can land on the USV autonomously in up to sea state 6 conditions. This scenario is similar to landing on a dynamic terrestrial target, but with the added challenge of the sea's motion causing continuous USV translation and orientation.

Hi! If you like art, drawing, illustration or portraits, in this book you'll find these things. As an independent artist I have been able to create since end of 2020 a portraits series with a dip pen and ink that I want to share with all of you. In this book you will find a set of prints for framing. If you want to purchase this book, you should know: You will have a set of 9 illustrations in dip pen and ink ready to frame. Each illustration has two copies, one to hang at home and keep the other perfectly bound. The 9 illustrations are in A4 size ( 21 x 29'7 cm ), so you can use a standard frame for them. By purchasing this book, you will be supporting an independent artist. The realization of the portraits is available in https://youtube.com/canaldibujo website Frame is not included.

Hi! If you like art, drawing, illustration or portraits, in this book you'll find these things. As an independent artist I have been able to create since end of 2020 a portraits series with a dip pen and ink that I want to share with all of you. In this book you will find a set of prints for framing. If you want to purchase this book, you should know: You will have a set of 9 illustrations in dip pen and ink ready to frame. Each illustration has two copies, one to hang at home and keep the other perfectly bound. The 9 illustrations are in A4 size ( 21 x 29'7 cm ), so you can use a standard frame for them. By purchasing this book, you will be supporting an independent artist. The realization of the portraits is available in https://youtube.com/canaldibujo website Frame is not included.

Hi! If you like art, drawing, illustration or portraits, in this book you'll find these things. As an independent artist I have been able to create since end of 2020 a portraits series with a dip pen and ink that I want to share with all of you. In this book you will find a set of prints for framing. If you want to purchase this book, you should know: You will have a set of 9 illustrations in dip pen and ink ready to frame. Each illustration has two copies, one to hang at home and keep the other perfectly bound. The 9 illustrations are in A4 size ( 21 x 29'7 cm ), so you can use a standard frame for them. By purchasing this book, you will be supporting an independent artist. The realization of the portraits is available in https://youtube.com/canaldibujo website Frame is not included.

Hi! If you like art, drawing, illustration or portraits, in this book you'll find these things. As an independent artist I have been able to create since end of 2020 a portraits series with a dip pen and ink that I want to share with all of you. In this book you will find a set of prints for framing. If you want to purchase this book, you should know: You will have a set of 9 illustrations in dip pen and ink ready to frame. Each illustration has two copies, one to hang at home and keep the other perfectly bound. The 9 illustrations are in A4 size ( 21 x 29'7 cm ), so you can use a standard frame for them. By purchasing this book, you will be supporting an independent artist. The realization of the portraits is available in https://youtube.com/canaldibujo website Frame is not included.

Brave paladin. Royal princess. Fierce dragon. Simple. Being all three at once? Way too complicated.Paladin Snillek's mother was human and ruled a planet. That's about the extent of her knowledge since they didn't see each other much. When her mom dies in a freak accident, her father tells Snillek she's inherited the title, and she has to learn how to pass as the mostly human Princess Siel for a planet she never thought about much. The dresses alone are horrifying and the courtiers aggravating.​In a moment of frustrated rage, Snillek's princess persona slips and frightened palace staff misinterpret what they see. Now Paladin Snillek has been called upon to rescue Princess Siel...from herself.Gruyere wants desperately to journey into the wilds of Tarribotia, but it's too dangerous to go alone and so far, everyone's laughed at her for suggesting it. When she spots a Dzedek paladin sulking in a tavern, she offers her services, hoping to pass herself off as a rogue guide.Two women with secrets and possibly opposing goals head out into the hinterlands of a planet neither one of them knows well. They might both make it back by Winterfest if nothing eats them first.This book contains one out-of-her-element paladin, the perils of academia, deadly cake, and unconventional dragons.

It's the perfect Solstice present, even if it's slightly illegal.Chief Engineer Shandi Leavenworth has been crushing on Major Tyra Sur ever since she joined station staff, though the laconic customs officer doesn't give up personal information easily. A few scraps of information leads Shandi to the perfect Solstice present, until of course everything goes horribly wrong.Major Sur took the job on Onwa Station for the stability, the quiet, and out of a need to be useful. It's been all of those things up until the woman she's been quietly flirting with at the bar puts in a desperate call for help. There's no question they need to save the station, but Tyra's not so sure about saving their budding relationship.

Fantasy mixed with scientific facts, battles, demons and gore. All great fundamentals to have you on the edge of your seat.