Knox Abernathy hasn't had a dreamless sleep in fifteen years.Ever since an alien attack killed her father and brother, and her mother took her own life not long after, her waking and sleeping hours have been haunted by her darkest memories and thoughts. She drifts through her life in search of a restless oblivion that continues to elude her.But soon, she'll be able to return to Icarus, to the colony where she lost everything, and she knows that's the only p...

Defining Sport: Conceptions and Borderlines is not about the variations of usage of the term “sport.” It is about the concept, the range of activities in the world that we unite into one idea—sport. It is through the project of defining sport that we can come to understand these activities better, how they are similar or different, and how they relate to other human endeavors.This definitional inquiry, and the deeper appreciation and apprehension of sport that follows, is the core ...

Verve and Elliot are researchers from the Kasagi Archive on a work cycle in an uninhabited system, gathering data on its potential for future terraforming and settling. A sudden proximity alert breaks the monotony and heralds the appearance of something impossible: a black hole.As their ship is slowly pulled into the singularity, Verve and Elliot start seeing, hearing, and feeling things that can’t be real. As reality unravels around them, the researchers strive to determine three ...

After her life was turned upside down by the reappearance and subsequent death of the power-hungry vampire Michael, Eleanor Darker finds herself adrift in a world she barely understands, once that insists on moving on, forcing her to struggle to keep up. Hybrids manufactured with her blood, as well as the man who made them, are still out there—along with whoever is pulling the strings—and it seems the danger might no longer be contained to the supernatural world.

2024 marks the 100-year anniversary of the winter sports week festival celebrated in Chamonix in 1924, which is now recognized as the first Olympic Winter Games. As a globally watched quadrennial mega-event, the Winter Olympics is unique from both summer sport festivals and other winter festivals, such as the Winter X Games.This book explores the impacts, issues, and legacies of the past century of the Olympic Winter Games. Grounded in sport history, the chapters in this volume dra...

Eleanor Darker left the supernatural world behind years ago.Or, as much as she was able to, given her dad’s a vampire. But, on the cusp of graduating university and entering the “real world,” the great horror of her childhood—a power-hungry vampire named Michael—returns.And he’s after her.While the life she thought was beginning falls apart around her, Eleanor discovers the reason Michael wants her: he thinks she’s a hybrid, a natural-born vampire h...