Just before her 13th birthday, Natalia's mother sends the troubled teen to live with her ex-husband, disgraced astrophysicist Dr. Anton Yakushev. What initially seemed like a good idea soon becomes problematic because Anton spends his time in his basement laboratory seemingly obsessed with turning science fiction to fact.Meanwhile Joe Painted Sun has to cope with a new foster family, new school and fitting in with his recently knocked-out tooth. Joe acts cool so that no one uncover...

Ruth Clarkson-Smythe has vanished! To solve the mystery, Dr. Yakushev needs help from Natalia, Joe and Alejandro, plus his resourceful new girlfriend, an offbeat octogenarian, and the secret visitors in his laboratory.Despite their efforts, problems arise to thwart them at every turn. Equipped with a new mobile time machine and the assistance of a miraculous substance called Zarulium, Yakushev and his team inadvertently explore the self-consistency and parallel universe theories, t...

Natalia, Joe, and Alejandro continue their search for Ruth, aided by the reformed Mantis. Complications occur afterwards when slight changes to the time continuum cause problems with memory loss and an altered sequence of events.Dissatisfied that her Bermuda excursion did not include time for fun in the sun, Natalia convinces Joe to include himself in her next travel plans for the Mobile Time Machine, or 'Motimac' – as Joe has dubbed it. All does not go to plan while the pair of te...

Following Dr. Ferengson, Lady Ruth and her ensemble, Alejandro, and the assassin, code-named Mantis, through the cracked opening within the Nazca mining site, Dr. Y, Natalia and Joe, experience several surprises.A caper ensues within the mountain, with as many twists as the strange place has questions one would ask regarding its very existence. Why would anyone build such a structure, with wide corridors and high ceilings? What is going on in here? Who else is down here? Will they ...

The eighteenth Tarot card is the Moon, and those who raise their arms to her know she offers Mercy and Severity in equal measure. This is the great river at night, where wolves howl and all doors are open. All futures are possible, and every truth is elusive. This is the source and passion of Eighteen: Stories of Mischief & Mayhem. These twenty-four stories from voices—old and new—celebrate the inevitability of fate, the horror of prophecy, and the shivering delight of not knowing...

A real secret code hidden in human DNA has two scientists running for their lives in this thriller that's Michael Crichton meets Dan Brown."Be prepared! The Genesis Code will make you question the fundamentals of mankind's past. Cutting-edge science and lost history collide in a thrilling tour de force. A debut not to be missed." —James Rollins, New York Times– bestsell...

A new scientific framework for enabling all people to thrive across their full life course.Why do some people thrive while others languish? And what would it take to change that? In Thriving, Christopher Forrest and Neal Halfon argue that the answer lies not in individual effort nor biology alone, but in the relationships between people and the ecosystems humans create, inhabit, and transform together.Written by two physician-scientists with over s...

During the National Hockey League lockout in early 2005, Toronto-based sports journalist David Timmins has little to write about until baseball player Jose Canseco releases his book on steroid abuse, and Timmins boss sends him on a steroid scandal of his own to spring training in Florida. He receives a romantic surprise on the plane ride; absorbs a career shock on the Ides of March; requires his sisters New York condo couch for a night; spends Easter in a rural Ontario town he has never be...

Don't just see the sights—get to know the people.Peru's distinctive Spanish and indigenous cultures that first encountered each other five hundred years ago have progressively integrated. However, the ongoing process of mixing raises questions about the nature of Peruvian identity, and Peruvian society remains economically and culturally divided.Culture Smart! Peru introduces you to the changing realities of modern Peru. It describes conte...

A kaleidoscopic collection celebrating rainbows in nature, perfect for Poetry Month and Earth Month.What do Yellowstone’s Grand Prismatic Spring, Peru’s Vinicunca mountain, the star Betelgeuse, and a drop of water have in common? Rainbows! In this iridescent collection, Joyce Sidman, Nikki Grimes, Janet Wong, and seventeen other poets explore bursts of color across nature. Each selection explores a new rainbow—and not just the ones in the sky. In haiku, free verse...

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This handbook synthesizes and analyzes the growing knowledge base on life course health development (LCHD) from the prenatal period through emerging adulthood, with implications for clinical practice and public health. It presents LCHD as an innovative field with a sound theoretical framework for understanding wellness and disease from a lifespan perspective, replacing previous medical, biopsychosocial, and early genomic models of ...

They built a time machine to fix the past, but never imagined it would break their future.Marcy and Connor's first journey through time was a triumph: they saved a life and righted a terrible wrong. Soon, they turned their sights to rewriting entire chapters of human history.What began as a crusade to eliminate evil becomes a spiral of unintended consequences, as each return to the present reveals a world further away from the one they once knew. As time fractures, they rac...