Matt Pierce, high school senior, lives in a small town he dreams of leaving. He belongs nowhere save with Satya, the girl he loves, who left months ago. Just as he makes a brave choice that may give them another chance, a brutal event throws his world into a tailspin.Then three strangers enter his life: Kara, David, and their leader, Pell. They have strange abilities, and tell him he does, as well. They call themselves Reborn, for the one thing they have in common -- each has died,...

Heaven and Earth collide in this epic adventure when Sam and his guardian angelNathanael meet in a very unusual way. All is at stake in this modern tale of Faith Hope and Love. Someone very high up is watching and is preparing to send help, But will it arrive on time? Each answer brings another question as this story weaves an ending that leaves endless possibilities and possibly new beginnings?

What is jazz? How does it differ from other kinds of music? To what extent is it an important subject for thinking about aesthetic questions? Philosophy of Jazz is among the first book-length philosophical discussions devoted to jazz. Daniel Martin Feige explores the relationship between jazz and European art music, arguing that in jazz central aspects of musical practice are made explicit, aspects that remain implicit in the tradition of European art music but nevertheless inform...

The strength of Professor Varisco’s work lies in his combination of ethnographic fieldwork among highland Yemeni farmers with an extensive study of medieval Arabic manuscripts on folk astronomy and agriculture. The opening articles discuss the astronomical concept of the ’lunar stations’ in pre-Islamic Arabia and as developed in Arab astronomy and almanac lore; subsequent ones expand on the significance of this for an agricultural society, and examine a unique corpus of Yemeni agricultural...

In the heart of a small, charming village lives a group of makers who create magnificent things and have extraordinary one-on-one relationships with some real-life objects! One of those makers is Theo, an instrument maker and talented musician, who one day finishes creating a mandolin he names Mandy with the sole intention of playing a song on her strings that he has composed specifically for her.The evening Theo creates her, however, is the same night that she is connived into run...

The institutional procedures for the UN’s decision-making on issues of global peace and security, first and foremost the Security Council (SC), were conceived with the objective of enabling a swift but internationally coordinated response to irregular situations of crises. Today, however, the UN is constantly involved in situations of conflict and has expanded its range of activities.This book offers a concrete and practically applicable answer to the question of how to reform the ...

This book serves as an introductory course on mechanisms with robotics concepts for undergraduate students. New concepts are presented that support the mechanical design of robots. Basic concepts from mechanism theory are presented to provide a base for designing mechanisms in general.Part I of the book examines the introductory concepts of mechanisms theory and serves as basis for analyzing and designing mechanisms. Part II presents the analysis of four-bar linkages, including the...

This volume explores the connections between John McDowell’s philosophy and the hermeneutic tradition. The contributions not only explore the hermeneutical aspects of McDowell’s thought but also ask how this reading of McDowell can inform the hermeneutical tradition itself.John McDowell has made important contributions to debates in epistemology, metaethics, and philosophy of language, and his readings of Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, and Wittgenstein have proved widely influential. Whil...

This book is the first in English to survey indigenous knowledge of seasonal, astronomical, and agricultural information in Arab Gulf almanacs. It provides an extensive analysis of the traditional information available, based on local almanacs, Arabic texts and poetry by Gulf individuals, ethnographic interviews, and online forums. A major feature of the book is tracing the history of terms and concepts in the local seasonal knowledge of the Gulf, including an important genre about weather...

This groundbreaking work offers a first-of-its-kind overview of legal informatics, the academic discipline underlying the technological transformation and economics of the legal industry. Edited by Daniel Martin Katz, Ron Dolin, and Michael J. Bommarito, and featuring contributions from more than two dozen academic and industry experts, chapters cover the history and principles of legal informatics and background technical concepts – including natural language processing and distributed le...

A press team heads to the Brazilian Amazon to investigate its working conditions but comes across intrigue, crime and a lot of mystery.Are the legends about the place real?When one of them is terribly murdered, a desperate race for their lives, and for a story, begins.

A curriculum-based guide, Advanced Training in Anaesthesia contains everything candidates need in preparation for taking the Final FRCA exam. This book is ideal for both learning and exam revision, but it also provides a ready source of reference for situations in all specialties and sub-specialties, with knowledge which will continue to apply beyond training. Topics in applied basic science and clinical anaesthesia are presented in a systems-based format, as laid out in the sylla...