Tristan M Smith

Imagine, surveyors have made a discovery hidden beneath eons of Martian dust. Now, you follow Tristan Smith as the Alliance sends their military to claim it for themselves. However, they’ve overlooked one possibility. This is the first of six books about Tristan's adventures in space as the Alliance...

This book is a compilation of my poems. These poems represent my ideas, my philosophies, my memories, as well as my aspirations. Above all else, they represent me. I chose to write the title as "TalentisAlive" because it is a pseudonym that I have been identified as. So, in the most vain sense, I na...

Full-color throughout. Free full-color, foldout map. Completely updated every year. Our local authors blend late-breaking developments, including the best new restaurants in Paris and Lyon, with tips for visiting France's most enduring attractions, such as Notre-Dame, Mont-St-Michel, Loire Valley c...

Houston’s firefighting service began in 1838 with the founding of Protection Fire Company No. 1. As the city of Houston grew throughout the early and mid-19th century, volunteer companies formed and grew along with it. By 1895, city leaders decided to form the Houston Fire Department as a city depar...

From a writer whom Thomas Keneally calls "one of the great figures on the cusp of the millennium" comes a novel that conjures an entire world that suggests our own, but tilted on its axis—a world whose most powerful country, Voorstand, dominates its neighbors with ruthless espionage and its mesmeriz...

Do we rely on different senses now than the ones we relied on in the past? How have our senses affected history? How have the senses themselves changed? What role have the senses played in the ways we discriminate? Exploring illuminating examples from antiquity to the twenty-first century, this live...