When three very different teenagers find a device that allows them to control time, they need to learn to work together or risk destroying the world as they know it.Kevin, Lisa, and Iain are not friends; in fact, they're as cut off as any jock, wallflower and nerd could be. But there are sinister forces at work, and they want what the teens have: pieces of a quantum device that controls the flow of time itself.Kevin used to be a nice guy, but the death of his father has lef...

Being a teenager is hard enough. It's nearly impossible when you also have to time travel between universes to save the world.Lisa has always been content to watch quietly from the sidelines, never really getting involved with others. Being dragged into a resistance against an organization hellbent on universal domination is not how she saw her life going.Along with Kevin and Iain, she once again finds herself time-jumping across the universe in an effort to uncover an intr...

Today, over 3,000 protected areas around the world contribute to the protection of biodiversity, peaceful relations between neighbouring countries, and the well-being of people living in and around the protected environs. Historical and geo-political constraints are disappearing in a new spirit of collaboration to address common issues confronting ecosystems, species, and communities. Managing across boundaries is seen as the only way to ensure the long-term viability of ecological systems...

It's going to take genius, teamwork, and a little bit of luck to turn back time and save the world.Iain has spent his whole life downplaying his genius just wanting to be a normal, if slightly nerdy, kid. After finding the QUINN device with Kevin and Lisa, he was the first to realize they were stuck in an infinite time loop.They're not the ones resetting time, so logic dictates there's a second device and someone is using it to prevent them from reaching their goal. They kn...

In this ground-breaking book, D. Michael Quinn masterfully reconstructs an earlier age, finding ample evidence for folk magic in nineteenth-century New England, as he does in Mormon founder Joseph Smith’s upbringing. Quinn discovers that Smith’s world was inhabited by supernatural creatures whose existence could be both symbolic and real. He explains that the Smith family’s treasure digging was not unusual for the times and is vital to understanding how early Mormons interpreted developmen...

Converts to Joseph Smith’s 1828 restoration of primitive Christianity were attracted to the non-hierarchical nature of the movement. It was precisely because there were no priests, ordinances, or dogma that people joined in such numbers. Smith intended everyone to be a prophet, and anyone who felt called was invited to minister freely without formal office.Not until seven years later did Mormons first learn that authority had been restored by angels or of the need for a hierarchy m...

D. Michael Quinn (1944–2021) was one of Mormonism’s greatest historians, though his books have profound relevance to Utah and western history as well. After completing his doctorate in history at Yale University in three years, he taught at Brigham Young University from 1976 to 1988. His treatment of difficult themes in Mormon history drew controversy, which led to resignation from his academic position and to his eventual excommunication from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint...

When Harley stars in a reality TV show, she hatches a plan to boost her viewership. By hook or by crook, she’s going to convince Batgirl to co-star! Will the caped crime fighter’s role of a lifetime lead to a ratings bonanza or a big, bad burglary bust? Find out in this action-packed chapter book for DC Super Hero and Super-Villain fans!

Leaning against the white board fences in the rolling bluegrass of central Kentucky is a man who has come to America to find his dreams...Michael Quinn—tall, muscled and enough wit and blarney to win over the strictest female disciplined himself with an iron fist.He had come to the land that reminded him of home—the green hills of Ireland.There he would find his love and fight for her against the worst the world had to throw against him.

Drawing on more than 40 years of experience conducting applied social science research and program evaluation, author Michael Quinn Patton has crafted the most comprehensive and systematic book on qualitative research and evaluation methods, inquiry frameworks, and analysis options available today. Now offering more balance between applied research and evaluation, this Fourth Edition illuminates all aspects of qualitative inquiry through new examples, stories, and cartoons...

Medieval Catholic political philosophy was born in an age of crisis, with the collapse the Roman Empire, and the ensuing vacuum created in the wake of its demise. The goal of Medieval Catholic Political Philosophy: A History of Catholic Political Philosophy: Volume I is to show the alternatives for restoration of a genuine political philosophy inspired by Catholic thought that could revive notions of citizenship, of nationhood, and of a fruitful relationship betw...

Contemporary Catholic Political Philosophy: A History of Catholic Political Philosophy: Volume III considers two distinct strands of Catholic political thought arising in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries that were made especially urgent by two extra-philosophical factors: the forced retreat of papal authority from the temporal sphere and the rising tide of political ideologies. One strand is the formulation of Catholic social thought by the papal magisterium, which was not...