Hundreds of thousands of years in the future, in the distant war-torn galaxy known as Kaveeria, John Archer was created to be the Galactic Union's perfect soldier. Meticulously crafted to safeguard thousands of worlds from the wrath of a sinister alien race known as the Advent, John emerged from the secret laboratories and rose above the battlefields as a beacon of hope to a galaxy rapidly falling into darkness. But after the tragic and unanticipated outcome of his final mission against th...

Author Frank Viola gives readers language for all they knew was missing in their modern church experience. He believes that many of today's congregations have shifted from God's original intent for the church. As a prominent leader of the house church movement, Frank is at the forefront of a revolution sweeping through the body of Christ. A change that is challenging the spiritual status quo and redefining the very nature of church. A movement inspired by the divine design for authenticity...

The legendary members of the Jensen family gather together at the Sugarloaf Ranch for one Christmas homecoming they'll never forget—if they live through it...Smoke Jensen looks forward to spending a quiet holiday with the family. But an unexpected arrival from south of the border has him reaching for his guns, defending his land—and risking everything he loves...Sally Jensen strikes up a friendship with a lovely Mexican woman—who turns out to be married to the mysterious st...

Become a confident leader and use data, experience, and intuition to drive your decisionsAgile decision making is imperative as you lead in a data-driven world. Amid streams of data and countless meetings, we make hasty decisions, slow decisions, and often no decisions. Uniquely bridging theory and practice, Decisions Over Decimals breaks this pattern by uniting data intelligence with human judgment to get to action — a sharp approach the authors refer to ...

Agile decision making is imperative as you lead in a data-driven world. Amid streams of data and countless meetings, we make hasty decisions, slow decisions, and often no decisions. Uniquely bridging theory and practice, Decision over Decimals breaks this pattern by uniting data intelligence with human judgment to get to action—a sharp approach the authors refer to as Quantitative Intuition (QI). QI raises the power of thinking beyond big data without neglecting it and chasing the...

Vivian Kingsley has earned her reputation the hard way—through blood, loss, and survival on the front lines of a galaxy at war with the Advent. When she's unexpectedly pulled from active deployment on the war-torn world of Mimdune and reassigned to a classified military installation on the desert planet Jeptarr, she arrives expecting answers—only to find something far more complicated.Kept under the watchful eyes of the Union military lies an ancient relic: a mysterious weapon that...

Captain Jorm Velemn has made a career out of keeping his head down, hauling cargo across the galaxy, and staying far away from the Galactic Union he turned his back on so many years ago. But when he accepts what seems like another routine transport contract with a payout too large for him to refuse, Jorm unwittingly becomes the centerpiece of a covert prisoner transfer that the Union has gone to extraordinary lengths to keep secret.The mission unravels when hostile forces attack, a...

This fourth volume in the comprehensive series "fills a gap in the existing narrative" of WWII's Mediterranean air war ( Journal of Military History).The fourth volume in this momentous series commences with the attacks on the Italian island fortress of Pantellaria, which led to its surrender and occupation achieved almost by air attack alone. The account continues with the ultimately successful, but at times very hard fought, invasions of Sicily and south...

On the remote world, known as Omorphia, chaos reigns. The ground trembles, volcanoes are unleashing unimaginable fury, and the once-steady sky is now a canvas of turmoil. Nature herself is on the brink of taking her last breath, and desperate struggles for survival are unfolding.Amidst the upheaval, two nations with ancient grudges are on the verge of a mighty clash. The tech savvy Akomians know that time is slipping through their fingers like sand. Hungry for answers, they risk wa...

The first comprehensive, multi-specialty text on ultrasound guidance in interventional procedures, this book uses the authors' extensive clinical experience to provide a full overview of modern interventional ultrasound. For all practitioners, whether new to the procedures or already using them, Interventional Ultrasound offers expert advice and solutions to commonly encountered questions and problems.Special Features:Provides a complete approach to intervent...

The first comprehensive, multi-specialty text on ultrasound guidance in interventional procedures, this book uses the authors' extensive clinical experience to provide a full overview of modern interventional ultrasound. For all practitioners, whether new to the procedures or already using them, Interventional Ultrasound offers expert advice and solutions to commonly encountered questions and problems.Special Features:Provides a complete approach to intervent...

Congenital Heart Disease and Neurodevelopment: Understanding and Improving Outcomes brings together the work of leading researchers from the U.K., Europe, and the U.S. to provide a comprehensive examination of the causes, risks, and neurodevelopmental and psychological outcomes in children with congenital heart disease. The book includes longitudinal studies which have tracked outcomes from birth through late childhood and explores the emergent phenotype and etiologies, risk, and protectiv...