Despite the widely differing perspectives held by those who work in higher education, there is one goal upon which all educators and educational leaders agree: students should leave college stronger than they came. Now more than ever, today's students come to college with unique intellectual, emotional, relational, and spiritual challenges. They need more than appropriate curricula, programs, facilities, and resources. Educating college students well requires a concern for and commitment t...

“Innisfree is an interesting read, and a fairly accurate portrayal of human nature in extreme circumstances. Set in current times, with much of the unrest of the world today, D.M. Herrmann captures a possible future for us.”—Brian Oppermann, US Marine Corps Combat Veteran of Desert Storm/Desert ShieldFollowing a devastating event that destroyed the North American power grid, a U.S. Army veteran must protect his family as the wo...

"To See the Summer Sky was both entertaining and frightening, a wild ride."-Joseph E. Mosca, Author, Scorpion WindAs Their Star Is Their World ends, To See the Summer Sky continues the action in D.M. Herrmann's third novel of the John Henry Chronicles.Retired U.S. Army veteran, John Henry, and his family are being hunted. But can the hunted become the hunter?In Northeastern Wisconsin in a post-apocalyptic ...

"D.M. Herrmann's...John Henry Chronicles takes us to the post-apocalyptic aftermath of an electromagnetic burst... Tribalism reigns. It is every man for himself, where the bonds of family face off against the remnants of government power in a struggle for supremacy."-Charles DuPuy, Author of the EZ Kelly Mystery seriesTrying to live in peace doesn't always happen.In Fire of Death, the fourth John Henry Chronicles novel,guerilla war...

Fans of the post-apocalyptic genre will enjoy the fast-paced second installment of the John Henry Chronicles.Just as Innisfree ends, Their Star Is Their World picks up on the action. In D.M. Herrmann's second novel of the John Henry Chronicles military science fiction series, retired U.S. Army veteran, John Henry, faces another dilemma. As more people seek out his cabin in Northeastern Wisconsin and request aid, John is wary about who joins the family. As supplies...

This book provides a first course on deep learning in computational mechanics. The book starts with a short introduction to machine learning’s fundamental concepts before neural networks are explained thoroughly. It then provides an overview of current topics in physics and engineering, setting the stage for the book’s main topics: physics-informed neural networks and the deep energy method.The idea of the book is to provide the basic concepts in a mathematically sound manner and y...

Beyond New Media: Discourse and Critique in a Polymediated Age examines a host of differing positions on media in order to explore how those positions can inform one another and build a basis for future engagements with media theory, research, and practice. Herbig, Herrmann, and Tyma have brought together a number of media scholars with differing paradigmatic backgrounds to debate the relative applicability of existing theories and in doing so develop a new approach: polymediation. Each co...

Former Vice President Dick Cheney and his longtime cardiologist, Dr. Jonathan Reiner, share the story of Cheney’s thirty-five-year battle with heart disease—providing insight into the incredible medical breakthroughs that have changed cardiac care over the last four decades.For as long as he has served at the highest levels of business and government, Vice President Dick Cheney has also been one of the world’s most prominent heart patients. Now, for the first time ...

Short presentation of aspects important for the application of X-ray contrast media: Composition and properties of contrast media, handling with respect to stability, purity and sterility; applications, interaction, risks; drugs for prophylaxis and treatment of side effects.

Death and rebirth was of vital importance to early Christians in late antiquity. In late antiquity, death was all encompassing. Mortality rates were high, plague and disease in urban areas struck at will, and one lived on the knife’s edge regarding one’s health. Religion filled a crucial role in this environment, offering an option for those who sought cure and comfort. Following death, the inhumed were memorialized, providing solace to family members through sculpture, painting, and epigr...

Popular culture helps construct, define, and impact our everyday realities and must be taken seriously because popular culture is, simply, popular. Communication Perspectives on Popular Culture brings together communication experts with diverse backgrounds, from interpersonal communication, business and organizational communication, mass communication, media studies, narrative, rhetoric, gender studies, autoethnography, popular culture studies, and journalism. The contributors tackle such ...

Based on decades of research centered on the earliest known fluted-point producing groups in the North American midcontinent, Early Paleoindians in the Upper Midcontinent of North America: Lithic Procurement, Settlement Mobility, and Social Interaction brings together a broad array of case studies from the United States and Canada that offers fresh perspectives on how early populations utilized the land and its resources, how and when they settled in particular locations, and how ...