A magical-realist adventure following two boys on a daring night-time quest, perfect for fans of quirky graphic novels.Winner of the 2019 Booklist Editor's Choice, Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year, and Parents Magazine Best Children's Books of the Year.On the night of the annual Autumn Equinox Festival, the town gathers to float paper lanterns down the river. Legend says they'll soar off to the Milky Way and turn into brilliant stars, but could that be...

Radical Friendship explores the contours of communal discernment as a practice that is especially relevant to Christians seeking radical democratic alternatives to the predominance of political liberalism. Communal discernment is shown to be capable of generating conscientious participation in grassroots politics; additionally, this practice enables Christians to enjoy reciprocal, discerning relationships with people who hold convictions complete different from one’s own. Indeed, ...

Beginning with her award-winning book Theology in the Age of Scientific Reasoning (1990), Nancey Murphy has used philosophy of science as a way into, and catalyst for, fresh thinking in cosmology, divine action, epistemology, cognitive neuroscience, theological anthropology, philosophy of mind, and Christian virtue ethics. The essays in this book, written by her students and colleagues, creatively honor Murphy by extending a number of her core insights within their respective disciplines. ...

Drop The Fat Act & Live Lean y dietitian Ryan Andrews, offers a no holds barred, straight-forward reality check that offers the key to change. Instead of feel-good weight loss programs, Andrews uses truthful humor to explain how people sabotage being healthy and hinder their own goals. Fattitudes are routines, dietary choices, and belief systemsoften favored by overweight individualsthat add more body fat, less muscle, and more risk for disease. These are the rules for how to get fat and s...

The Circular Advantage: How Artificial Intelligence and Reuse are Redefining Profitability and SustainabilityBy Justin Andrews & Ryan AndrewsForeward by : Andrie KlimanovIn today's rapidly shifting economic and environmental landscape, The Circular Advantage offers a visionary yet practical guide for how businesses can thrive by embracing the power of artificial intelligence and the circular economy. Drawing on decades of experience in sustainabilit...

Turn Manufacturing Data into a Scalable Competitive AdvantageFactories create massive amounts of data from IoT sensors, MES, SCADA, quality systems, supply chain, maintenance, and others. Yet most organizations can't turn it into decisions fast enough. The result is reactive firefighting and AI pilots that stall.The Unified Manufacturing Data Architecture (UMDA) is a practical framework built for industry, not adapted from IT. It shows you ...

When a family buys a house in a struggling town for just one dollar, they’re hoping to start over — but have they traded one set of problems for another?Twelve-year-old Lowen Grover, a budding comic-book artist, is still reeling from the shooting death of his friend Abe when he stumbles across an article about a former mill town giving away homes for just one dollar. It not only seems like the perfect escape from Flintlock and all of the awful memories associated w...

Could Bert really be a zombie cat? Two friends put their brains together to find out in a wry new mystery series.While helping her best friend, Danny, film his latest horror flick, Mellie discovers a scraggly cat behind a dumpster outside the YummCo Foods factory. Mellie names the stray Bert and hides him in her room, knowing her parents won’t let her keep him. But soon Bert has decapitated all her stuffed animals, and before long he is leaving the headless corpses...

What if sex, gender, and sexuality were designed to tell a much greater story than we could ever imagine? What if we had a part to play in that story? With gentle compassion and steadfast truth, Ryan Andrew Smith explores what the Bible says about sex, gender, marriage, and sexuality in a way that will appeal to Christians and non-Christians alike. A great resource for individuals, groups, and churches, Trust the Circle also presents ways that Christians can engage our sexually evolving cu...

What if you had to choose between the person you loved, and the world that made your love possible? VDare’s first work of fiction wrestles with the conflict between the head and the heart, the choice between what feels good – and what is right. Author Ryan Andrews presents the wrenching tragedy of a man who learns what’s most important in life from a woman named Prudence – but comes to see his relationship as threatening everything he’s come to treasure. It’s a story about love, loyalty, a...

A second meaty serving of the ZomBert Chronicles offers a suspenseful treat for animal lovers and fans of spooky mysteries.ZomBert is back in book two of a wry new mystery series by award-winning creators Kara LaReau and Ryan Andrews. A stray cat who escaped the YummCo Laboratories on the outskirts of Lambert, Bert has now been officially adopted by nine-year-old Mellie Gore. He spends his days dozing in Mellie’s room and his nights hunting . . . and devouring fres...

Confederate monuments figure prominently as epicenters of social conflict. These stone and metal constructs resonate with the tensions of modern America, giving concrete definition to the ideologies that divide us. Confederate monuments alone did not generate these feelings of aggravation, but they are far from innocent. Rather than serving as neutral objects of public remembrance, Confederate monuments articulate a narration of the past that forms the basis for a normative vision of the f...