This book is meant for laboratory workers who for one reason or another have a need to cool something down to temperatures below that of liquid nitrogen - notably to 4. 2°K and below. It does not deal with experimental techniques at low temperatures, but I have tried to bring the reader face to face with the brutishrealities of the necessary hardware. As weIl as giving information about sources of supply of equipment, I have gone into so me detail about how some of it can be made in labora...

This book is part of a two-volume set that examines prostitution and sex trafficking on a global scale, with each chapter devoted to a particular country in one of seven geo-cultural areas of the world. The 16 chapters in this volume (Volume II) are devoted to examination of the commercial sex industry (CSI) in countries within Africa, Asia, Middle East, and Oceania, while the 18 chapters comprising Volume I focus exclusively on Europe, Latin America, and North America. This volum...

Bring Gospel Hope in the Midst of DeathThe phone rings: “Pastor, can you do my mother’s funeral?” Or, “Please help us—our baby just died.” Death comes unexpectedly, giving you two to three days of time to prepare a sermon—in the midst of caring for a grieving family. This helpful book walks a pastor through the logistics of memorial services, burials, and working with funeral homes—using the four P’s: Plan, Prepare, Preach, and Perform. It shows how to magnify Chri...

Since the earliest scholarship on The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, critics have discussed how the works of J. R. R. Tolkien seem either to ignore women or to place them on unattainable pedestals. To remedy such claims that Tolkien's fiction has nothing useful or modern to say about women, Perilous and Fair focuses critical attention on views that interpret women in Tolkien's works and life as enacting essential, rather than merely supportive roles.Perilous and Fair inclu...

You don't need sprawling acreage to embrace a more self-sufficient life. Your homestead is where your home is, whether you have a concrete balcony, a small patio, or a single south-facing window. This book is your guide to tearing down the "landowners only" barrier and cultivating a productive, resilient life right where you are.The Urban Homesteader: A Guide to Self-Sufficient Living in Any Space is your trusty field guide to transforming any home into a productive oasis....

A plane carrying a Russian biochemist crashes in the Alaskan wilderness with no survivors.A code-red alert on a buried CIA file raises whispers of a now-defunct military bioweapon: Project Snowcap.A dying billionaire is willing to cross any ethical line to find a cure.The world’s leading CRISPR virologist, Doctor Elijah Vance, hovers on the edge of a breakthrough that will alter humanity at its most fundamental level.And in a remote village in Mexico, an unk...

Jane Crofts, author, teacher and advocate of universal data literacy, presents a children's picture book about The Key to success in the digital economy; data literacy.With its gentle simplicity, Guardians of The Key takes us on a journey through time as the ability to read and write began to spread throughout the world. We find ourselves on a quest to find, and share, The Key that will unlock powers and possibilities we can not yet fathom.With its message of equity and acc...

This collection of papers presented at the Mythopoeic Society's 2025 online conference focuses on intersectional feminist approaches to women and gender in fantasy, science fiction, speculative fiction, and other mythopoeic work. The conference honored the first anthology on women and Tolkien, Perilous and Fair: Women in the Works and Life of J.R.R. Tolkien (2015), edited by Janet Brennan Croft and Leslie A. Donovan

A woman with a rare genetic illness must uncover her connection to a terrorist group before their next attack in this exciting new bio-thriller from the author of Disease X.Lucas Grafton has spent the last ten years hunting the Conclave, a secret organization who took everything from him, including his very identity. Now he has a lead—an imminent terrorist attack on London—code-named “Descartes”. But he can’t connect the dots until a seemingly innocent wom...

Mole is a mole who is afflicted with a parasite, and he's close to losing his position as bass player for the Fresh Kickers, the most popular musical group in the world of the Great Green Lake. His body is ballooning, and something must change...or else.Three raccoons are making their way to the trading post in the Dark Island Terminal, inside an enormous sunken tree hollowed out by generations of resident animals in the lake world. They manage to survive a blizzard high in the Phi...

Murray Dae, the Chief Officer of Leaks, is two days from his retirement when the biggest leak of his career—and the history of the Great Green Lake—strikes the Half Lake Inn. The Pon Pon flower shop has four terrifying leaks, caused by a family of Wood Fish..Murray and his staff race toward the impending catastrophe in the Leaks Agency's submarine, the Onyx,, taking a dangerous shortcut through the Valley of Bones, guarded by the colossal turtle Baugmaus. Will they outrun the leaping levia...

Immanuel Kant's The Critique of Pure Reason: Base Plan for Transcendental Philosophy outlines an architectonic program for delimiting human cognition. Through the Transcendental Aesthetic and Analytic, he argues that space and time are forms of intuition and that the categories ground synthetic a priori knowledge, culminating in the transcendental deduction. The Transcendental Dialectic unravels reason's illusions—paralogisms of the soul, antinomies of the world, and the ideal of God—situa...