Jenna doesn’t have time to fall apart.Between working long hours, raising her teenage sister, and keeping their lives from crashing down, she’s spent years putting herself last. Joining Savage Iron gym is supposed to be simple—a way to get stronger, earn better tips, and keep moving.Then she meets Roadkill.The massive, tattooed Savage Warriors biker is equal parts intimidating and impossible to ignore. What starts as a workout plan quickly turns int...

Thomas knows the truth! But as he unravels the reality of his father’s death, the truth turns out to be far more horrific than he could possibly have imagined. There are more things in heaven and earth…than are dreamt of in your philosophy. Flailing in the wake of so much violence, Thomas must choose his path—but what if his bloody, knife-handed guide has his own dark agenda? What if Luther is playing by his own demented rules?

Built for mobile antitank firepower, the Marder family combined the superb 7.5cm antitank gun with existing light tank chassis. Fully illustrated, this studies their design and use.The appearance of T-34 and KV tanks in 1941 forced the Wehrmacht to field a more powerful antitank gun, the 7.5cm PaK 40. Although an excellent weapon, the towed gun was heavy, awkward to employ, and vulnerable to enemy counter-fire. At the same time, many light tanks had become obsolete...

**'At last, a sensible and penetrating look at the possibility of life on Mars ... Bravo to Benner, one of the world’s most accomplished chemists, for putting the possibility of extant Martian life back on the scientific agenda'Paul Davies, author of Quantum 2.0Are we alone in the universe?**Mars has always seemed where we were likeliest to find the answer. Yet, since the Viking landers touched down in 1976, no mission has returned to the Martian surface to ...

It’s the shiftiest day of the year: Halloween! Unfortunately, Sawyer can’t decide on just one costume. Fortunately, he doesn’t have to! This sixth-grade shape-shifter uses his superpowers to change into dozens of different costumes, snagging another round of full-size candy bars with every costume switch. Until that is, Sawyer and friends come upon a real-life haunted house! Will Sawyer be a knight in shining armor or turn into a shivering scaredy-cat?

Sawyer’s not athletic, but he’s elastic! To impress a girl, this sixth-grade shape-shifter joins every team he can . . . even if it means becoming the ball! With help from his sports-star sister, Sawyer takes on football, baseball, and soccer—one transformation at a time. But after a few too many tackles, he starts to wonder: Is the pain really worth the gain?

Although modern life provides many examples of exorbitance – of wealth, growth, information, ambition, consumption, violence – preoccupation with what is 'over the top' is not new. What is it about the idea of going unreasonably beyond what is reasonable that exercises fascination? In this wide-ranging work, essayist and scholar Steven Connor reflects on the considerable and persistent force of culture's appetite for the exorbitant—a dynamic that not only survives despite the disapproval w...

**How employers can compete in a challenging labor market—by hiring differently, redesigning job quality, and rethinking their government relations strategies.From two leaders in business and workforce development with a proven track record in innovative workforce strategies.**Over the past ten years, the U.S. labor market has been buffeted, with demand shifting dramatically. At the same time, demographic trends mean that U.S. labor supply will steadily tighten into the com...

The true story behind the infamous life of Henry VIII.Henry VIII is England's most famous king. He is simultaneously the virtuous Renaissance prince gone wrong, the psychopathic, paranoid tyrant, the religious disruptor and the much-married glutton.This groundbreaking study of Henry's life examines and destroys many of the long-repeated myths about this complex monarch: he was not particularly gluttonous, not particularly prudish, and not particularly messy in his religio...

The case didn't make her a detective—it confirmed who she is.Veronica Rave is almost eighteen and certain of two things—something is wrong at the Hadley house. And anyone who could do something about it won't. So it's up to her.Set against the shimmering, uneasy optimism of 1955 Pasadena, CA, 44 Ravenswood Road follows a young Eurasian woman who soon discovers that the truth is rarely where she expects it, and finding it could cost more than she ba...

Packed with Larry Niven and Steven Barnes’s trademark excitement and science-based extrapolation, this thrilling novel introduces readers to Ice Vegas, an extraordinary city of the future powered by nuclear fusion.Carver Reeves is head of security for BALDR, the massive nuclear facility that powers half of Europe, and by extension Ice Vegas, the glittering architectural fantasia of a domed city that has grown up beside it. But before he can peacefully retire, sabot...

A dazzlingly illustrated journey into the transformative world of sacred plantsIndigenous communities have long revered certain plants and fungi as healers, storytellers, and spirit guides. This book blends the latest findings in anthropology and ethnobotany with mesmerizingly detailed confocal plant microscopy to reveal the inner lives of more than 50 culturally significant species from across the Americas. A visionary experience like no other, Sacred Plants o...