This book is a concise and faithful summary of David Wallace-Wells’s The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming, a sobering examination of the potential consequences of unchecked climate change. It explores how rising global temperatures could intensify extreme weather events, sea level rise, food and water shortages, mass migration, and widespread ecosystem collapse if current trends continue.The summary highlights the book’s central argument that climate change is not a distant ...

In a realm of cultivation and holy bloodlines, he rejects struggle and ambition alike. While saintesses and chosen ones chase him in the name of fate, he quietly harvests rewards without making promises or sacrifices.What seems like laziness becomes a terrifying advantage. As sects fall and legends are rewritten, the world learns that the most dangerous path to power is the one that costs nothing at all.

The Golden Girls: Tales from the Lanai is an accessible collection that explores the cultural, industrial, and historical impact of that beloved American sitcom. Edited by Taylor Cole Miller and Alfred L. Martin, Jr., this anthology brings together a diverse range of voices that model different media studies approaches to researching and critically analyzing television texts. The Golden Girls reclaims the production history and development of the show, opens new conversat...

On Andrew Owens's tenth birthday, he discovers he is a Fire elemental. He is then brought to the elemental realm called the Everglades by Evan Hawke, a member of the Hierarchy, a group of six elementals whose job is to protect the Everglades. He befriends Chris Peters and Emma Winters, who were born in the Everglades.The three attend school, where they learn about the history of the Everglades, the dangers of the relics and creatures throughout the lands, and the powers of the four...

This book provides clinical medicine readers with a detailed explanation of statistical concepts using non-technical terms. This allows clinicians and others without specialist statistical knowledge to understand the medical literature where such concepts are used. Many examples from the medical literature are used to exemplify how these concepts are used in practice.Current books written for clinicians fall into two broad categories. Simple texts that are not designed to cover man...

The Death of Death in the Death of Christ is a polemical work, designed to show, among other things, that the doctrine of universal redemption is unscriptural and destructive to the gospel. Those who see no need for doctrinal exactness and have no time for theological debates which show up divisions between evangelicals may well regret its reappearance. Some may find the very sound of Owen’s thesis so shocking that they will refuse to read his book at all. It is to those who share...

Infinite in Finite develops the inimitable style of The Multiverse, the author's first collection (2018), praised as showing 'some of the best technical skills of any living poet', the work of 'one who is not afraid of big subjects, whose enthusiastic gaze is directed outward with energy and gladness'. Then Auden and the Romantics lighted his way. To those influences are now added the challenges of a Modernist style, drawing on Marianne Moore, T.S. Eliot and Delmore Schwartz. In the long s...

Sport has long been a stage where identity is contested, visibility is earned, and social change takes root.In Boston, the Black athletic body has historically challenged the city's self image as a beacon of liberalism. Boston's Black Athletes: Identity, Performance, and Activism interprets this contested history through the lives and experiences of African American athletes who used their talent as a vehicle for social justice. Editors Robert Cvornyek and ...

“We fell in love with Jesus. Then we had to decide what to do with God.” In Transcending Mysteries: Who Is God, and What Does He Want from Us? Andrew Greer and Ginny Owens take readers on a journey to answer the question: is the God of the Old Testament the same God we relate to and worship today?As the most definitive written revelation of who God is, Scripture has always been vital to the stories of the Christian faith. The Old Testament has proved espec...

The first issue of Curiosities, a new steampunk oriented short fiction anthology magazine. Nine stories of adventurous trains, dangerous books, victorian bee girls, killer machines, Lovecraftian horrors, and more.The stories:The Mark V Eleganté by Nelson StanleyBright and Falling, Line An Avenging Angel by Shane HalbachPatron of the Arts by Tricia OwnsApproximations That Gradually Approach The Truth by David M. HoenigHoneyed Ton...

In the global North the commoditization of creativity and knowledge under the banner of a creative economy is being posed as the post-industrial answer to dependency on labour and natural resources. Not only does it promise a more stable and sustainable future, but an economy focused on intellectual property is more environmentally friendly, so it is suggested.Contested Powers argues that the fixes being offered by this model are bluffs; development as witnessed in Latin A...

”Niin kaunis että tekee kipeää.” New York TimesYli kymmenen miljoonaa myytyä kirjaa!Yli 100 viikkoa New York Timesin bestseller-listalla!Sydäntä särkevä kasvutarina, murhamysteeri ja lumoava kertomus luonnon kauneudesta.Kun pohjoiscarolinalaiselta suolta löytyy kylän oman kultapojan ruumis, epäilykset kääntyvät Kya Clarkiin, joka asuu marskimaan reunalla. Kouluja käymätön juopon tytär, köyhää valkoista roskasakkia – vai jotain aivan muuta? Kya on oppinut sel...