Like most young people her age in interwar Prague, Coral Loew is having to overcome the trauma of the past and confront her inner demons. But unlike most, for her, the demon is real…

Dynamite's Smash Red Sonja mini-series from creators Frank Cho, Doug Murray and Homs is collected in one deluxe hardcover!Savage Red Sonja: Queen of the Frozen Wastes delivers and action packed story and incredibly art as Sonja battles the beautiful and deadly Ice Queen and her army of Yeti warriors! This collection features all four issues of the series, a complete cover gallery featuring Frank Cho's incredible covers and more!

When osseointegration was first introduced by Brånemark as a therapy for the replacement of the natural dentition, it was accepted as an appropriate and predictable solution for young and middle-aged edentulous patients. No one anticipated the positive results and high level of acceptability that this therapy would bring about. The decision regarding whether to save a tooth or insert an implant is one that the implant clinician makes based on previous experience, recently approved therapeu...

Featuring issues 25-29 of the Red Sonja series, along with a complete cover gallery!Based on the Heroine created by Robert E. HowardMonth in and month out, readers are captivated with the adventures of the beautiful Red Sonja and her cast of allies and villains! Now, writer Michael Avon Oeming sets the stage for the next exciting series of events as Sonja bring the battle back to Hyboria to face the growing power of Kulan Gath!New allies are revealed, old allies lost and villains abound as...

A lyrical exploration of motherhood, work, and survival against the backdrop of homelessness and environmental anxiety.Sasha Hom's Sidework tells the story of a homeless Korean adoptee and mother of four navigating life as a waitress in California. Amidst rock stars and tourists, she grapples with motherhood, suicide, environmental degradation, and the search for belonging.This thought-provoking novella marries the mystic with the mundane, tackling...

A personal and poignant account of Mary Katherine Hom-Smith’s relationship with her grandmother during the end stages of life, When Grandma Looked at the Moon traces through its narrative the process of grief and healing for a close-knit family of faith and the friends who came alongside them. Woven throughout this season are the travels and unusual circumstances of the author, who found herself on her own internal journey of exploring aspects of Christian practice—particularly in...

This digital collection includes issues 19-24 and also includes a complete cover gallery!Red Sonja is secure at last as queen of the tiny nation of Sogaria. Rebel princes, greedy emperors, fiendish intrigues she's bested them all. But a new danger is rising up from the depths of the Earth itself. Thulsa Doom, Sonja's hated nemesis, has been rotting in the stygian darkness and nursing his enmity for the flame-haired queen since Sonja cast him down there many years ago. Set, Thulsa's evil go...

A Practical Operating System for Leadership, Innovation, and Problem-SolvingMost organizations don't struggle because they lack talent.They struggle because they lack a disciplined system for discovering better solutions.Leaders move quickly. Teams execute. Meetings happen. Initiatives launch.But too often:The wrong problem gets solved.Resources are committed too early.Ideas are filtered through opinion inst...

During the 1851 Great Exhibition in London, two women's lives become irrevocably intertwined when they both fall victim to a nefarious underground fraternity of ex-soldiers from England's upper crust who have sworn their lives to defending the British Empire—as well as their own decadent lifestyles. In this first volume, young rebel Jennifer Winterfield and the mysterious Kitamakura from Japan forge an unlikely alliance along with Jennifer's doctor uncle and a street urchin named Pickles. ...

Since the publication of the first edition of this book 20 years ago, the landscape of implant dentistry has changed dramatically. Both the industry and patient demand have expanded exponentially, leaving the clinician with many decisions to make (and often as many questions to ask) regarding patient selection, surgical timing and techniques, implant types, and restorative approaches. This volume brings together the knowledge of the foremost leaders in implant dentistry, covering all aspec...

As a boy, Ken Hom lived hand-to-mouth in the slums of Chicago's Chinatown. Today, he is one of the most celebrated TV chefs of all time, the man who showed the British how to cook Asian food and introduced the nation to the wok.This is the story of that remarkable journey.Aged just eight months when his father died, Ken was raised by his mother in an atmosphere of punishing poverty. But no matter how little they had, they ate well. Life would change when, at the age of elev...

Assyria—the missing link in the superpower oppressor type in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament—still suffers from modern scholarly neglect. The Characterization of an Empire aims to alleviate this neglect while also elucidating the historical biblical books that convey characterizations of Assyrians. The narratological insights gained throughout this study contribute to biblical literary studies at rigorous, detailed, sometimes deep, and sometimes complex levels. Thus, this book offe...