For decades, conventional medicine has pigeonholed uric acid as the singular culprit behind gout-a simple waste product of high living and purine overload. The Great Uric Acid Debacle shatters this outdated paradigm. Written not from the detached perspective of a clinical textbook, but from the deeply personal trenches of lived experience, this book explores the hidden reality of systemic metabolic crises.Despite never being diagnosed with gout, Rev. C. D. Smith's body tol...

Figuring the Contemporary in US Popular Cinema, 1967-2022: Genre, History, Event explores how popular film offers us frameworks through which to historicize the present and to imagine alternative futures in the opacity of the contemporary moment.This book offers an original way to interpret the contemporary as form, presenting the idea of contemporaneity as historical concept and not simply as "period" in the temporal sense. It explores how we might histor...

As the last Holocaust survivors bear witness in an age of deepfakes, avatars, and artificial intelligence (AI), the authenticity of witness is at stake as never before. Holocaust XR examines immersive and extended reality (XR) technologies through the lens of testimonial methodology, ethics, representation, and authenticity.Written by a principal architect of the field of immersive testimony—Dimensions in Testimony, The Last Goodbye, IWalk—this v...

Sam and Dex find a tic-tac ufo partially buried in the woods and must battle the government and alien entitites to save their lives and possibly the existence of mankind.

Joe Daily, a lifelong Vanderbilt fan, wants nothing more than his team to win the National Championship. He meets Allistair Appel who promises to make him the best player to ever play the game. But he may have to sell his soul to seal the deal. The Devil and Joe Daily was written in 2015 and takes you on a journey through the four team playoff and the national championship game to find out if Joe Daily, now Joey Goodman, can outwit the devil.

Leopold Harvey is a quirky college student in 1984 coerced into playing the most popular game on campus: The Assassin Game. When Leo's victims begin actually dying, the list of suspects is long. Leo is at the top of that list.

When world class runner Scott Teller find himself mysteriously in 1936, he realizes if he can qualify for the Olympics and win a gold medal, he may have a chance to avert the Holocaust. After meeting fellow Olympian Anna Marie Rogers, he must choose whether to lose his life and Anna Marie or save millions of lives and change the course of history.

This book offers an analysis of the United States’ conventional military buildup during the final decade of the Cold War.Departing from a historiography largely focused on strategic arms and summit diplomacy, the work examines how the modernization of non-nuclear forces formed an integral part of Ronald Reagan’s broader Cold War strategy. It shows that the revitalization of conventional forces was not ancillary to diplomacy but a central pillar of a policy that sought to negotiate ...

She signed a contract to pretend she loved him.She never planned to mean it.Vera Morozova does not believe in billionaires. She believes in documentation. As one of the sharpest antiquities attorneys in America, she has spent four years building an airtight legal case around a Byzantine imperial artifact worth millions — a case that could finally clear her grandmother's name after thirty-five years of deliberate erasure.Then Nikolai Sorokin walks into a Manhattan auc...

The book describes, in careful and full detail, the challenges that minority or people of color, especially African Americans encountered while growing up and starting their careers in the American South during the decades of the 1950s and 60s and again, quite often throughout their lives and careers well into the 1970s, 80s, 90s and further into the 2000s. Challenges that thwarted their efforts in trying to seek or achieve some semblance of the American dream afforded " ordinary" American...

In a world torn by hatred, hope becomes the greatest act of defiance as the lives of three men are forever connected through a series of unforeseen events. Hungry, rejected, and weighed down by responsibility, a young missionary, Elder Gordon, vows to trust God’s hand in the foreign streets of Germany a year before the start of World War I. Violin shop owner, Joseph treasures his family’s Munich shop, but Kristallnacht shatters more than glass. As tension erupts in the streets, Joseph batt...

Your circuit works on the breadboard. Now learn the concepts that turn it into a board ready for production.You've built the circuit. It works on your breadboard. Now what?For most makers and electronics enthusiasts, that's where the journey ends. Technical reference manuals assume you already know PCB fundamentals. Software tutorials show you which menu to click. Neither one teaches the underlying concepts: what a via is and why you need it, how layers wor...