When ancient relics awaken and a forgotten demon returns, Icelander and Plasma are thrust into a war between mortals and gods. As the Heart of Frost grants unimaginable power, a divine council moves to stop him. With the world on the brink, Icelander must choose—his humanity… or ascension.

Luis R. Rivera traces the origins, context, and transformative history of a Latinx Protestant movement from the margins that changed the landscape of American theological education in the 1970s. Rivera's careful research and comprehensive analysis identifies and defines the emergence of the Protestant Latinx Academic Movement, or PLAM, a groundswell of activism that catalyzed new ideas, programs, and ways of educating for ministry across the geographic and denominational landscape from the...

Audible Ancestors provides a new understanding of music performance and the inheritance of Indigenous epistemologies and methodologies in Greater Mexico.By examining the audibility of Indigenous ancestry in the negotiation of Mexican subjectivities through danza performance, author Luis Chávez-González amplifies muted Caxcan Indigeneity rooted in the sounds of Regional Mexican music through tamborazo-Zacatecano, a drum-centered style originating from north...

This book began as a series of articles - written not just for pilots, but for anyone who has ever looked up at the sky and felt the pull of something extraordinary.If Only grew from a desire to spark conversation - among pilots in briefing rooms, students in ground school, and anyone who has ever approached an aviator with a question, wide-eyed at the beauty and mystery of flight.From a white-knuckle first night flight with a chief pilot watching every move, to helicopter ...

Poppy Leathers has two work lives. The job everyone knows she has: manager to an art influencer extraordinaire. The other job: assistant to Brooklyn' s premier artisanal hitman. Two different worlds, all the same crap. Undervalued and constantly taken for granted, Poppy reaches her breaking point when her art boss decides he' s desperate to adopt a baby— by any means necessary— and her hitman boss has fallen into an ennui that has left him ready to retire— a major health hazard for anyone ...

This book addresses the integrated optimization of heat and water networks in industrial systems, with a focus on advancing sustainability, resource efficiency, and process performance. It brings together state-of-the-art methodologies and practical strategies for designing, retrofitting, and managing thermal and water subsystems across diverse industrial contexts. Recognizing that heat and water are often treated in isolation despite their interdependencies, the book adopts a unified syst...

This book is a bifurcated journey through fifteen years of the architecture practice OODA, designed as a "dream state" inner dialogue between Some Kind of Romance and Any Kind of Existence: mirrored reflections of past and future projects that reflects the practice's work and exploring path from Porto to the world. Read together, these two parts are less about buildings than about a way of being in the world, offering an open narrative where architecture is presented as if in a chronicle, ...

The post-colonial birth, life, and death of the collective consciousness known as the Animal.Middle-aged streamer twins in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, are the first human beings to successfully connect—sharing their consciousness across 34 translucent cables. In that moment, the Animal is born, an intracerebral force that quickly grows to encompass anthills of synaptically entwined bodies, a floating library kitchen redolent of rice and beans far above the Mississippi ri...

Apocalyptic predictions that AI will eliminate millions of jobs have caused widespread fear. When people hear that AI can write, code, and diagnose, they often jump to a scary conclusion: If machines can think, human work is doomed. Messy Jobs argues that this gloomy belief gets the economics of work wrong.Economists Luis Garicano, Jin Li, and Yanhui Wu offer a new framework for thinking about AI and work. They show why some roles will disappear, why others will be reshape...

This book is a pioneering work that examines cultural diversity policies in Argentina, Brazil, and Peru over the past 15 years. The book offers a critical analysis of the rationalities and concepts underpinning these policies, exposing their inherent contradictions and the social forces that have both supported and resisted their implementation. By highlighting the struggles of marginalized groups in their pursuit of social, economic, and political equality, it reveals the deep intersectio...

Machine Learning (ML) is a broad term for software that can spot patterns in data and make decisions without being explicitly programmed for each task. ML algorithms power the search and recommendation systems, business workflows, and software security systems you use every day—including AI tools like ChatGPT. This unique book brings the core ideas of ML to life with vivid examples, engaging exercises, and crisp illustrations. There’s no jargon or complex academic theory. All you need is b...

One of the bloodiest and longest lasting revolutionary movements in Latin America described in graphic form.Rupay, in Quechua, means ardor, fire. On May 17th, 1980, the Shining Path, a Maoist group in Peru, burned the electoral records in a small town in the Ayacucho region to ignite the revolution that would set all of Peru aflame. This graphic novel retells the events relating to the start of the conflict, between 1980 and 1984, and the political violenc...