Guardians don't get a choice between dreams and duty. When something terrible stirs...duty calls.With the help of her best friend Jackie and Uncle Irshad, her only remaining family, Ibby has rebuilt a normal life after the chaos of the year before when she discovered she was Inconquo––a metal-shaping, iron-slinging guardian.But a normal life is too much to ask for someone wielding the power Ibby has.When a secret society with sinister intentions ret...

Human movement variability can be defined as the typical variations that are present in motor performance and are observed across multiple repetitions of a task. This variability is inherent within all biological systems. It can also be observed easily as it is almost impossible for an individual, even an elite performer, to perform two identical actions of the same task. Nonlinear Analysis for Human Movement Variability, Second edition presents a different approach to studying hu...

Every family has history, but hers might be the end of the world as we know it…Ibukun “Ibby” Bashir is Inconquo, an inheritor of ancient power and with it an unending duty to stand against the darkness. She can bend and shape metal to her will, but she is still only human, she feels and bleeds. A fragile guardian, still she stands.Uncovered after thousands of years, the dark foundations that make her who and what she is begin to rise again. The progenitor, ...

The first issue of Rainy Weather Days offers poetry and prose about being yourself, connecting with your inner child, and what it means to grow and age.

On May 19, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced the appointment of Arthur Morgan (1878–1975), a water-control engineer and college president from Ohio, as the chairman of the newly created Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). With the eyes of the nation focused on the reform and recovery promised by the New Deal, Morgan remained in the national spotlight for much of the 1930s, as his visionary plans for the TVA drew both support and criticism. In this thoughtful biography, Aaron D....

There is more than one of you.Julian thought he was losing his memory.Then objects began moving when no one was looking. Conversations changed halfway through. Shared moments returned with details no one could agree on. What begins as stress and doubt becomes something far worse when Julian realizes that every attempt to measure what is happening only makes it worse.Reality is not stable.And Julian may be the reason.As the world arou...

In Lost in Transition: Removing, Resettling, and Renewing Appalachia, Aaron D. Purcell presents a thematic and chronological exploration of twentieth-century removal and resettlement projects across southern Appalachia. The book shares complex stories of loss and recollection that have grown and evolved over time.This edited volume contains seven case studies of public land removal actions in Virginia, Kentucky, the Carolinas, and Tennessee from the 1930s through the 1960s...

William S. Newton (1823–1882) served the Union primarily as an assistant surgeon with the 91st Ohio Volunteer Infantry, but also spent a few months as acting surgeon with the 2nd Virginia Cavalry (US). Toward the end of the war, he was promoted to surgeon for the 193rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Newton’s units fought in the Appalachian Highlands, mostly in Virginia and West Virginia. He treated wounded soldiers after significant battles including Opequon and Cedar Creek. In May 1864, followi...

"A Blueprint for Future Entrepreneurs"-Daymond John, Shark Tank Investor"Innovating Through Extreme Uncertainty"-Ash Maurya, Lean Canvas CreatorAccording to Steve Jobs, “Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.” The rise of digital technology in business has made this statement truer now more than ever. Today, businesses can be created, marketed, and ready to interact with customers in the blink of an eye, with nothing more than an internet ...

A powerful artifact, a secret society, an ancient evil. Can Ibby embrace her destiny as Inconquo guardian before an ages-old demon is unleashed on London?Ibby’s parents gave up everything for a chance at a better life. So, after a terrible accident leaves her alone in London, Ibby works her internship at the British Museum and goes to her classes to make them proud.But when Ibby finds a strange artifact and encounters a mysterious professor in the bowels of the mus...

On a visit to Dragon’s Keep, young princes Edward and William discover that their father, the king, has a baby dragon in captivity. After seeing the dragon, the two decide that the creature needs to be with its family and not a captive.But in order for the two princes to free the dragon, they need a plan. Their father is not evil, but they think he’s made a mistake and want to right his wrong. If they can get past the guards and the king, there’s still a forest filled with wolves standing ...

Conley calls into question the outdated historical methodologies in use in Christian social ethics and outlines the consequences stemming from them. By adopting the postmodern post-structuralist position of historian Elizabeth A. Clark, Conley calls ethicists to learn to read for the gaps, silences, and aporias existent in historical texts as well as in the histories represented by them.The book calls ethicists to a critical self-reflexive historiography. This self-criticism allows...