Yoshi is an exciting young adult fantasy novel about a young woman who has spent her life training to become a Sakura Ninja. On the day of her transition from tribal member to full-fledged ninja, Yoshi is forced to part ways with her best friend from training, Yakishu, who is leaving on a secret mission. Their parting is a bitter one, as Yoshi is hurt that Yakishu has kept a secret from her. Yoshi is soon sent out on her own mission to find a ninja known as the Black Dragon, and this journ...

A riveting novel that spans the Multiverse, The Immortality Gene is packed with non-stop action. When Assistant United States Attorney Colton O’Rourke is drawn into the investigation of a plane crash outside Washington, D.C. that killed all aboard, he soon discovers that the crash is anything but a normal accident. The cockpit door had been pulled off its hinges with inhuman strength and strange insectoid DNA is discovered under the fingernails of one of the crash victims. Joined in his in...

Fractography in Failure Analysis of Polymers provides a practical guide to the science of fractography and its application in the failure analysis of plastic components. In addition to a brief background on the theory of fractography, the authors discuss the various fractographic tools and techniques used to identify key fracture characteristics. Case studies are included for a wide range of polymer types, applications, and failure modes, as well as best practice guidelines enabling engine...

This picture book for young readers, rich in the details of Middle Eastern village life, tells the warm story of a bond between a father, a son, and the son's favorite camel, as well as their devotion to the Muslim faith, and the power of prayer in their daily life.Salah and his camel, Qadiim, are constant companions. They work together, eat together, and sleep together. Salah is distressed, however, because his camel always seems so sad and downcast, hanging his h...

Labor Guide to Labor Law is a comprehensive survey of labor law in the private sector, written from the labor perspective for labor relations students and for unions and their members. The text emphasizes issues of greatest importance to unions and employees. Where the law permits a union to make certain tactical choices, those choices are pointed out. Material is included on internal union matters that tend to be ignored in management texts. Bruc...

Understand the new world of crypto, so that you can take advantage of this revolutionary new financial age that is emerging! Today only, get this audio bestseller for a special price.We have come into a new world, a new age. This is the smart age, an age where many developments which were thought impossible have not only happened but also surpassed all expectations. This book gives you well researched insights from the beginning of cryptocurrency to where it is today. You will understand h...

Adventures of a Boy and a Mouse backstage in Canada's most famous theatreAspiring actor 10-year-old Adrian travels by ship across the Atlantic Ocean from England to Canada. Unbeknownst to him hiding in his luggage is a mouse he named Tiddlywinks who also wants to act. Without food, attacked by dangerous rats Tiddlywinks barely survives the trip.Against his father’s wishes Adrian secretly auditions for a part in Richard III at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival Theatre. Poor...

The book provides a dynamic, cross-sectional, multidisciplinary perspective and dialogue to illuminate the challenges humans face in their interactions with data in their individual postdigital contexts in local communities. It offers unique insights from real cases, collaborations, and projects to extend existing academic theories and frameworks, applied to human data interactions, disadvantage, and digital skills. The book takes the novel approach of establishing co-authorship between cr...

Step beyond surface-level self-improvement and explore the transformative practice of shadow work. This insightful guide invites you to examine the hidden beliefs, emotional wounds, and unconscious habits that quietly shape your thoughts, choices, and relationships. By learning to recognize and understand these overlooked parts of yourself, you can foster greater emotional balance, healthier connections, and a deeper sense of purpose. Rather than avoiding discomfort, this book encourages y...

Seven Thomas-Jacob Publishing, LLC authors bring you 15 of their short stories, excerpts, and poems. Sometimes offbeat, always captivating, the selections include historical fiction, magical realism, crime, psychological suspense, literary fiction, coming of age, and poetry for both children and adults. The works are grouped by author name, not genre, ensuring a surprise each time you turn the page.

The book presents a cross-disciplinary overview of critical issues at the intersections of biology, information, and society. Based on theories of bioinformationalism, viral modernity, the postdigital condition, and others, this book explores two inter-related questions: Which new knowledge ecologies are emerging? Which philosophies and research approaches do they require?The book argues that the 20th century focus on machinery needs to be replaced, at least partially, by a focus o...

THE EPIC FIGHT FOR INDEPENDENCE ON OUR MOON HAS BEGUN!The Lunar colony is a mining colony with only internal security capabilities. Nobody had even considered that there might soon arise a need to defend the colony from the Earth! But that day has come. Something has been uncovered on the Moon. Something important. Something . . . alien.The Lunar colonists perceive this great discovery as their own. Finders keepers and possession being nine-tenths of the la...