When a mysterious comet enters our solar system, software developer JC begins dreaming of strange symbols and coded messages.Recognizing them as programming code, he integrates the symbols into Genesis 11 Software, a revolutionary translation system being built for the Babylon Corporation.As the software decodes ancient texts, a hidden history of evil suppression spanning throughout the ages is revealed.Together with his girlfriend, JC sets out on an adventure from ...

Grounded in psychology research but with a practical focus on organizational behavior issues, Group Dynamics for Teams, Seventh Edition helps readers understand and participate in teams more effectively in day-to-day work. Best-selling authors Daniel Levi and David A. Askay thoroughly examine basic group dynamics concepts, such as goals, norms, cooperation, and communication, as well as review the main challenges that teams face, such as conflict, decision making,...

Guest edited by Dr. Daniel Levi, this issue of Interventional Cardiology Clinics will cover several key areas of interest related to Congenital Heart Disease Intervention. This issue is one of four selected each year by our series Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Matthew Price of Scripps Translational Science Center. Articles in this issue include, but are not limited to: Current Transcatheter Approaches for the Treatment of Aortic Coarctation in Children and Adults, Biodegradable Stents for Congenita...

Does the Septuagint have authority for the church today?Numerous scholars have explored what the Septuagint is and its history and uses, but less scholarship has engaged with the ways it exercises authority within the Christian tradition. In the first multicontributor volume of its kind, biblical scholars Greg Lanier and Will Ross bring together experts from a variety of disciplines to explore the nature of the Septuagint's authority over the ages.Discover ...

Prisoner of War - 12 Civil War Memoirs offers a compelling exploration of the human experience during one of America's most tumultuous periods. This anthology presents a rich tapestry of perspectives, capturing the sheer diversity of emotional, psychological, and physical challenges faced by Civil War soldiers. The memoirs vary from heart-wrenching personal narratives and prideful accounts of escapes, to meticulous recounting of daily struggles in captivity, providing readers with an immer...

A Change of Heart is a detailed account of the revolutionary Framingham Heart study — which, over the years, has provided conclusive evidence that cardiovascular disease is largely the result of measurable and modifiable risk factors. First begun in 1948, not long after Franklin Delano Roosevelt succumbed to a massive stroke, the study of over 5,000 citizens of Framingham, Massachusetts, changed the course of medical history. The lessons learned in Framingham allow each of us to c...

In 1835, a merchant named Gabriel Disosway marveled at a great fire enveloping New York, commenting on how it "spread more and more vividly from the fiery arena, rendering every object, far and wide, minutely discernible—the lower bay and its Islands, with the shores of Long Island and New Jersey." The fire Disosway witnessed devastated a large swath of lower Manhattan, clearing roughly the same number of acres as the World Trade Center bombing.Manhattan Phoenix explores t...

A World of Private Higher Education is the definitive treatment of a sector accounting for a third of the world's 200 million higher education enrolment--yet remaining largely unknown even to scholars of higher education and widely mis-characterized when it is considered by stakeholders or the general public. Beyond the eye-popping numbers, several inter-related thematic findings regarding the Private and the Public underscore the subject matter's importance. First, private-public...

Pragmatist thought is central to sociology. However, sociologists typically encounter pragmatism indirectly, as a philosophy of science or as an influence on canonical social scientists, rather than as a vital source of theory, research questions, and methodological reflection in sociology today.In The New Pragmatist Sociology, Neil Gross, Isaac Ariail Reed, and Christopher Winship assemble a range of sociologists to address essential ideas in the field and their historica...

Pragmatist thought is central to sociology. However, sociologists typically encounter pragmatism indirectly, as a philosophy of science or as an influence on canonical social scientists, rather than as a vital source of theory, research questions, and methodological reflection in sociology today.In The New Pragmatist Sociology, Neil Gross, Isaac Ariail Reed, and Christopher Winship assemble a range of sociologists to address essential ideas in the field and their historica...

Shows vividly how the Great Fire of 1835, which nearly leveled Manhattan also created the ashes from which the city was reborn. On a freezing December night almost two centuries ago, a fire erupted in lower Manhattan. The city's inhabitants, though accustomed to blazes in a town with so many wooden structures, a spotty water supply, and a decentralized fire department, looked on in horror at the scale of this one. Philip Hone, a former mayor of New York, wrote in his diary...

This edited collection takes a structured and systematic approach to exploring the policymaking and policy impacts that shape private higher education (PHE) across the globe.Although the rapid PHE expansion to a third of total global enrollment has owed much to a lack of initial government regulation, continued expansion (along with occasional stagnation or decline) results from complex interplays between private initiatives and public policy. Each affects the other in demonstrable...