A modern-day hunt for Viking treasure collides with Spanish conquistadors and small-town Minnesota in this delightfully zany adventure, perfect for fans of The Goonies and Holes."You’ll be turning the pages as fast as you can.”—Stuart Gibbs, New York Times-bestselling author of the Spy School seriesListen. This book is kind of hard to describe. It takes place in a small to...

There's a delicate balance between mental health and mental illness…Who are STRANGERS AMONG US?We are your fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, sons and daughters, friends and lovers. We staff your stores, cross your streets, and study in your schools, invisible among you. We are your outcasts and underdogs, and often, your unsung heroes.Nineteen science fiction and fantasy authors tackle the division between mental health and...

This book discusses the role of nuclear medicine in the diagnosis, staging, and treatment of patients with specific cancers. It presents the incidence, pathophysiologic and clinical aspects of the disease, the use of nuclear imaging in diagnosis, staging requirements, management of specific tumors, and surveillance after primary treatment of cancers. It addresses the various diagnostic/therapeutic options that are currently available or are most likely to become available in the near futur...

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction (new and classic works), articles, interviews and art.Our March 2019 issue (#150) contains:Original fiction by D.A. Xiaolin Spires ("But, Still, I Smile"), Erin K. Wagner ("When Home, No Need to Cry"), Rich Larson ("Death of an Air Salesman"), Nin Harris ("Dreams Strung like Pearls Between War and Peac...

Originally intending to produce the first comprehensive scholarly reference guide to the antecedents, practices, and theory of oral history, the editors have gone even further, creating a highly readable and useful tool for scholars, students, and the general public. Covering the vast scope of this increasingly popular field, the eminent contributors discuss almost every aspect of a field that once was the province of historians but now has become increasingly democratized and available ac...

This book provides an insight into the global practices for environmental management of military live-fire training ranges by combining scientific research with practical solutions to ensure continued training capability. The text is divided into four parts: the first provides the background information necessary to understand the scientific principles behind environmental management. The second part comprises methodologies for the environmental risk assessment of explosives and munitions,...

In this book, Yuxia Qian and Rukhsana Ahmed explore health acculturation, which they argue is a complex, multidimensional communication process involving concerted efforts from migrants, health professionals, researchers, community members, policymakers, and the media, rather than a unidimensional process synonymous with assimilation. Qian and Ahmed examine individual migrant health acculturation experiences, community-based culturally-centered health interventions, and cross-cultural heal...

Heritage preservation is a broad term that can include the protection of a wide range of human-mediated material and cultural processes ranging from specific artifacts, ancient rock art, and features of the built environment and modified landscapes. As a region of multiple independent nations and colonial territories, the Caribbean shares a common heritage at some levels, yet at the same time there are vast historical and cultural differences. Likewise, approaches to Caribbean heritage pre...

The first section of the book includes information about how tourism-related infrastructure and activities promote biological invasions, including key pathways for non-native invasive species introductions. This section provides case studies of different organisms that are known to be introduced and/or promoted by tourism in different ecosystems or regions. The second section elaborates on known and potential impacts of invasive species on tourism and recreation, including how they may aff...

The year is 2018, the world is in economic and political chaos, and the United States of America has once again been divided by Civil War. The Democratic and Republican political parties have become much more than just political parties. They now represent the struggle between capitalism and socialism. This struggle led to the eventual division of the United States of America in 2017. Republicans, Tea Party supporters, Libertarians, and some Moderate Democrats fled south and formed the Sou...

Face aliens, monsters, and more in these five short novels by five masters of military science fiction.It's a war out there . . .In these pulse-pounding tales, the best (or worst) soldiers in the galaxy are pitted against powerful aliens on distant battlefields. Never before published stories about monsters, deadly combat tech, treachery, and honor:Big Plush by Aaron Allston (a novella from the Action Figures series)—The Dollgangers, artificial peop...

YOUR FORCES AND HOW TO USE THEMSpecial EditionIncludesYOUR FORCES AND HOW TO USE THEMTHE IDEAL MADE REALHOW TO STAY WELLTHE MIND CUREByCHRISTIAN D. LARSONAboutYOUR FORCES AND HOW TO USE THEMThe Ruling Principle in Man; How we Govern the Forces We Possess; The Use of Mind in Practical Action; The Forces of the Subconscious; Training the Subconscious for Spe...