Eric Meyer

If you're a web designer or app developer interested in sophisticated page styling, improved accessibility, and less time and effort expended, this book is for you. This revised fifth edition provides a comprehensive guide to CSS implementation along with a thorough review of the latest CSS specifications. Authors Eric Meyer and Estelle Weyl show you how to improve user experience, speed development, avoid potential bugs, and add life and depth to your applications through layout, transitions and animations, borders, backgrounds, text properties, and many other tools and techniques. We read the specs so you don't have to! This guide covers: Selectors, specificity, and the cascade, including information on the new cascade layers New and old CSS values and units, including CSS variables and ways to size based on viewports Details on font technology and ways to use any available font variants Text styling, from basic decoration to changing the entire writing mode Padding, borders, outlines, and margins, now discussed in terms of the new block- and inline-direction layout paradigm used by modern browsers Colors, backgrounds, and gradients, including the conic gradients Accessible data tables Flexible box and grid layout systems, including new subgrid capabilities 2D and 3D transforms, transitions, and animation Filters, blending, clipping, and masking Media, feature, and container queries

The Korean Peninsula, a warzone divided between North and South. An uneasy peace has reigned since the truce of 1953, yet the communists see no reason to give up their efforts to conquer and seize the rich assets of the south. Lieutenant Kyle Nolan's Team Bravo are on a training mission in the South when they uncover a North Korean tunnel, a clandestine route beneath the heavily guarded border. In the blink of an eye everything changes. The politicians and generals say a fresh invasion is impossible. But when the SEALs encounter the enemy, they are in no doubt the communists are preparing to invade. The deal breaker is when a senior South Korean intelligence officer with vital and detailed knowledge of the border defenses is kidnapped.Nolan and his team refuse to wait for the inevitable war to break out and do the unthinkable. A rescue mission across the border, four men and a South Korean NCO, pitting their skills against an army of almost three million men and women under arms. SEAL Team Bravo: Black Ops - Korean Carnage is a page-turning epic which tells the story of tough, violent men waging a desperate battle against an overwhelming horde of fanatical North Koreans. The environment is the snow covered mountains between the two Koreas, a harsh, hostile region, fighting an enemy who is no less harsh or hostile. A full-length novel by the bestselling author of many Spec Ops books. These include the popular SEAL Team Bravo stories, Heroes of Afghanistan, Raider, Echo Six, and Devil's Guard titles.

A new insurgency is brewing on the Afghan-Pakistan border. General Ishaq Khan, known as the 'Hammer of God, ' is the architect of this new terror. During a bloody battle, Khan kidnaps a group of journalists following Congresswoman Barbara Adams. Her work was to highlight injustices against women, yet now Adams and her party have become the victims. The Bin Laden raid on Abbottabad has left diplomatic ties shattered, making an official rescue mission impossible. The Congresswoman's husband turns to former Navy SEAL for help. Rafe Stoner is a drunk loner with little to live for. His refusal is brief and to the point. Until he discovers General Ishaq Khan, beloved leader of the Haqqani insurgency, has made the biggest mistake of his life. He has given Stoner a reason to live. A reason to fight.He agrees to take on the mission with his best friend Grigory Blum. They are about to enter the gates of hell as they pit their skills and weapons against the might of the Haqqani. What began as a rescue becomes a desperate fight for survival. At the end, one question remains. Who will live, and who will die?Heroes of Afghanistan: Hammer of God is an incredible story of tough, violent men in a tough, violent land. This is the latest title by the bestselling author of many SpecOps series. These include the popular SEAL Team Bravo stories, Heroes of Afghanistan, Raider, Echo Six, and Devil's Guard titles

Former Navy Seal Rafe Stoner is about to hit rock bottom as he mourns the death of his fianc e to a roadside bomb. Descending into a gambling and alcohol fueled oblivion, he is about to lose it all. When a woman arrives seeking her husband, a doctor kidnapped by insurgents, she calls on him to use his unique skills to rescue him from a Taliban stronghold. He refuses to take it on, until he learns of a rumor that his former fianc e, Madeleine Charpentier, may still be alive. A prisoner with that name lives in the same insurgent hellhole where they are holding the doctor. It could be her, and now things have changed. Once again he picks up his guns to venture into bandit country. Ranged against him is the might of the Taliban, allied to a corrupt and vicious senior Afghan cop. But Stoner is not a man to duck a challenge, and besides, he must find Madeleine. From the start he becomes embroiled in a maelstrom of vicious, brutal battles. Outnumbered, outgunned, wounded and badly beaten, life or death ceases to have any meaning. His sole objective is to find out the truth about his former fianc e. A truth that is more than worth dying for.Heroes of Afghanistan: Onslaught is an incredible story of tough, violent men in a tough, violent land. This is the latest title by the bestselling author of many SpecOps series. These include the popular SEAL Team Bravo stories, Heroes of Afghanistan, Raider, Echo Six, and Devil's Guard titles.

In the final weeks of his US Navy SEAL tour in Afghanistan, Lieutenant Rafe Stoner leads his unit in a desperate mission to rescue the daughter of a diplomat, an aid worker kidnapped and held for ransom. The girl is found raped, tortured and murdered. Soon after, he leaves the Navy. In his new life he launches a colorful career as the part owner of the brothel, and in his spare time, a gun for hire. His best friend is Greg Blum, who works a remote farm outside Jalalabad with his pretty wife Faria, his three adopted children and a Marine-trained dog named Archer. The Blum family enjoy an uneventful life. Until someone attempts to wipe out the entire family in a vicious blaze of gunfire. The trail to the killer leads to Russia. And to an assassin known as the Widowmaker. To an impossible and bitter fight to defend the family he regards as his own. A fight that will leave a long trail of corpses along the way. Black-Ops: Heroes of Afghanistan -Widowmaker is by the bestselling author of many Special Ops novels. These include the popular SEAL Team Bravo stories, the Special Operations: Grant series, Echo Six, and a number of Devil's Guard titles.

Iran, a nation ruled by the Ayatollahs, fanatics who yearn to possess nuclear weapons. Their latest act of madness is the construction of a nuclear weapons plant in the north of the country. To avoid nuclear war, it must be destroyed without suspicion falling on America. The solution, to send in a unit of elite Navy SEALs led by Master Chief Tony Chase, from the US Navy Littoral Support Ship USS Springfield.Parachuted into the country, they are not without allies. The Kurds, a warrior race waging an uncompromising war to regain their homeland, offer their help to attack the impregnable underground installation. Yet Chase's team hit trouble the moment their boots are on the ground. A brutal Islamic Revolutionary Guard presence, and a traitor giving away their plans mean their mission is doomed to fail from the start. Yet failure is not a word the SEALs recognize. Without any expectation of survival, they fight their way through to the explosive finish.SEAL Strike: Nuclear Storm is the third short novel in the SEAL Strike series. Nuclear Storm is a collaboration between Todd McLeod and Eric Meyer, the bestselling author of more than fifty war novels.

Cartel 'gun for hire' Diego Rivera arrives in Lewes, a peaceful small town, and everything changes. Known as The Gunman for his brutal, methodical skill with a pistol, Diego is unstoppable. Diego went out of control when a gunshot wound to his head drove him crazy. Now he is more powerful, more deadly than ever. The Sheriff of Lewes is former Marine Kaz Walker, widowed when his wife died in a drive by shooting. Sheriff Walker pits the skills he acquired in the military against the crazed killer in a desperate attempt to put a stop to the murderous rampage in his town. Not everyone agrees with his tactics, and it costs Kaz his job. He also comes close to losing his life, yet he refuses to give up the pursuit. When he uncovers an astonishing secret, the stakes become much higher, and the fight becomes intensely personal. He chases his prey across the Mexican border, only to start a war with the Mexican cartel boss who employs The Gunman. A war he knows he cannot win, yet he will do what it takes to get justice. No matter what.'The Gunman from Guadalez' is a hard-bitten crime thriller by the popular author Eric Meyer.Reviews for The Gunman from GuadalezIf you like good action books you will love this one Eric Meyer is one of my favorite authors.Keeps the pages turning, there is no lull in the action in this book, I also liked the one liner humor, a military thing

Noah Cage is a cybernetic supersoldier, a war hero and a man on his fifth and final life. He's a Lifer, an enhanced warrior. Repaired, rebuilt and improved after four lifetimes of soldiering. With each death comes further modification and enhancement, although at the loss of yet another piece of his dwindling humanity. Cage is thrust into the debacle of the Third Martian War. One that sees every man in his unit killed, including his best friend Rob Romero. After long years of imprisonment, he returns home to Earth, but it is not what it once was. The planet is slowly decaying after decades of mismanagement and corruption. He wants nothing more than to speak with Rose Romero, the widow of his best friend. Instead, he receives a hostile welcome and quickly falls foul of the law.It is the beginning of a long, gruelling chase that takes him and Rose Romero back to Mars. A planet filled with memories of old battles, and the graveyard of so many soldiers from Earth. Noah finds himself thrust into the middle of a conspiracy between two great powers. Hunted by soldiers from Earth, and by the Martian corporate militias, he is close to the end. Until he encounters the Mars resistance. Men and women who want nothing more than their freedom and the means to exist on the hostile and barren world. It is the beginning of the fightback. Although sometimes, even five lives is not enough.Last Life is the first book in the brand new military science fiction series set in the warring colonies of the Solar System. The series is a collaboration between acclaimed science fiction author Michael G. Thomas and bestselling military fiction author Eric Meyer.

Eddie Hawkins is part of a four-man crew, the cupola gunner on a Humvee in Afghanistan. His job, firing the .50 caliber Browning. His mission, to protect his buddies and kill the enemy. He's also the newest and youngest member of the team. The guy they won't listen to, even when he's saying something important. Why listen to the kid who can't shoot straight? At least that's what they keep telling him. Until the day he sees something so vital he forces them to listen and they have to take notice. Eddie saves countless Coalition lives, and nothing will ever be the same again.Hawkin' Heroes: Baptism of Fire is the first short novel in the Hawkins' Heroes series. Baptism of Fire is a collaboration between Todd McCleod and Eric Meyer, the bestselling author of more than fifty war novels.

The battle for survival inside a stricken America continues with a desperate flight to escape the clutches of a brutal organization. Omega, the dark menace that threatens to enslave every freedom-loving man and woman.Faced with insurmountable obstacles, weakened by famine and disease, how much can a man take before he bows to the inevitable?Shot at, doused with flaming gasoline, beaten and starved, every fighting man has a limit. Oz Porter has yet to reach that limit.The pioneers who made the USA traversed the Oregon Trail. Can their descendants make the same journey, in the face of much worse odds?They are heading for a community rebuilding itself on the West Coast. A journey of over three thousand miles across hostile territory, yet Oz Porter is determined to overcome the odds and get them through. In front of them lie a host of unforeseen enemies, and close behind is the old enemy, Omega.Trapped in a no man's land, with enemies front and back, could anything be worse?An innocent woman is accused of being a witch, an affront to God's laws. Angry men and women demand summary justice. And a swift execution. The witch must burn. Can Porter stop this injustice and prevent a repeat of Salem?Forever Free: Fortress USA is the ninth short novel in the Forever Free series. A chronicle of the vicious aftermath of the breakdown of American society.

What caused the disaster?In order to survive, and return their lives to normality, they must find what caused the disaster, and discover a solution. A way to get the power on, water running in the pipes and the telephones ringing. A distant fortified complex, once the headquarters of NSA, promises to provide answers. Fort Meade in Maryland, known as The Citadel. Impossible to breach, yet somehow, they must get inside. When the government falls, who governs the nation?The problems in reaching it are immense. Their adversaries are everywhere, roaming the countryside, searching for victims and loot. Omega, who laid claim to the task of maintaining law and order as a shallow pretext for theft and murder. Raiders, the cannibals who prey on human flesh. And inside The Citadel, the unknown dangers of those men who claim to be the legitimate successors of Congress, the Senate and even the President himself.Forever Free Part IV - Citadel is the fourth in an ongoing Forever Free series of short novels that chronicle the vicious aftermath of the breakdown of American society.

Can one man uncover the truth?Life in Copperville is hard for the survivors of the apocalyptic disaster, and Oz Porter, a prepper and former Marine sniper, fights to provide food for his family. The frequent raids that threaten the town demand constant vigilance, and the struggle becomes a bloody battle of attrition. Until everything changes.Is there anything a man will not do for his family?Porter leads the defense of the town, until his young daughter falls sick. He learns of an emergency underground facility two hundred miles away, across a hostile region filled with danger. Forbidden to leave the town, he and his wife Eleanor ignore the order and embark on a grueling journey to find a cure for their daughter.Forever Free Pt III - Beyond Good and Evil, is the third in an ongoing Free series of short novels that chronicle the vicious aftermath of the breakdown of society. And one man's fight to keep his family safe.

Who can put a price on survival?Porter and his family have found refuge in the Appalachians, far from the mayhem and murder that grips the region. But food has become ever scarcer in post-disaster North America, and when Porter's step brother comes begging for help, he has no choice but to venture dangerously into a city under the brutal control of the Omega organization.How far would you go to protect your family?His stepbrothers, the twins, bear the family name Porter. It is not a tie of blood, but he is still family, and one of them has been sentenced to death at an Omega facility. Escape is an impossibility unless someone is willing to help. Porter must fight for his family, for food and above all, for their freedom.