Wucheng is a small town at the edge of the Mei Empire with a once famous Heaven’s Edge Inn that now serves more vagrants than heroes.Amongst the rabble is a rumored spy carrying a secret destined to change the fate of the nation, and two constables are on the hunt to eliminate this threat.Famed swordsman Lin Wuai and his wife, Lin Ruting, along with their ten-year old disciple want nothing more than escape from the endless turmoil in the martial world of the Rivers and Lake...

In the quiet town of Willow Brook, a wave of gruesome violence erupts, leaving a trail of terror and fear. Nurse Sandy Lee, gifted with an unsettling intuition, senses a dark presence lurking beneath the surface. Her son, Tommy, possesses an uncanny ability to feel the suffering of others, a terrifying gift that amplifies the town's growing dread.Meanwhile, Detective Dennis Harp investigates a mysterious patient, burned, shot, and run over, whose identity holds the key to unlocking...

Pure wuxia in the style of Louis Cha (Jin Yong), Gu Long, and Liang Yusheng. No time travel. No xianxia. No RPG elements. Just old school tales of the Rivers and Lakes.If you like Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon, Hero, and old school Kungfu movies, then you’d want to sit down, grab some tea, and enjoy this vast world of handsome swordsmen, beautiful maidens, and lots of treacherous villains.Ouyang Yaoyao learns the immutable law of the ma...

Ashes fall from the sky onto a barren land. Dreams have disappeared from human consciousness.Eva trusts no one and relies only on herself to survive. An encounter with a Seer who foretold death unless she sticks to a mysterious man wearing a forbidden color and a run-in with Marauders that left her for dead forced her to rethink her belief. Like fire to wood, Eva would consume this man’s good fortune and avoid further calamity. The problem is she begins to fall for him.Ains...

The concept of identity has become widespread within the social and behavioral sciences, cutting across disciplines from psychiatry and psychology to political science and sociology. Introduced more than fifty years ago, identity theory is a social psychological theory that attempts to understand person's identities, their sources in interaction and society, their processes of operation, and their consequences for interaction and society from a sociological perspective. In this fully updat...

In dairy industries throughout the world there is a desire to optimize udder health. An improved udder health will lead to improved animal welfare, improved production efficiency and a reduction of the use of antibiotics. To improve udder health, first of all, technical knowledge on issues such as treatment, milking, infectious pressure and host resistance is important. However, over the years we learned that knowledge alone is not enough: knowledge has to be used. And for knowledge to be ...

When fate brings them back together, can their love survive the secrets that tore them apart?Carter Edwards has always been a go-with-the-flow type of guy. Except when it comes to Penelope Mason: his childhood neighbor, and the only girl he's ever fallen in love with. When he finally gathers the courage to make his life-long love for Penelope known, he finds that she's already chosen a future for herself—one without him in it.Penelope Mason is a planner by ...

In Discredited, education scholars Lauren Schudde and Huriya Jabbar illuminate the successes and failures of the systems that support student transfer among postsecondary institutions. Schudde and Jabbar show how the decentralized, bureaucracy-ridden, and often confusing process undermines equity and access in higher education. They illustrate how transfer success is closely tied to how educational institutions disseminate information about credit portability, especially for verti...

Examine the reasons for the rapid growth of China’s tourism industryTourism and Hotel Development in China: From Political to Economic Success is a comprehensive guide to the development of the tourism industry in Mainland China following the end of the Cultural Revolution. Conceived as a textbook but equally valuable as a professional resource for consultants, researchers, and tourist organizations, this insightful book tracks the unique circumstances that sparked the growth of Ch...

This important publication provides, for the first time, a comprehensive review of knowledge of reproductive seasonality in teleosts. It addresses why a particular species should show such seasonality, and how environmental cues act as regulators to ensure that reproductive maturation and breeding occur at the optimum time. The book considers the ultimate factors responsible for the evolution of reproductive seasonality in fish. It reviews salient concepts of reproductive seasonality in ma...

Assurance of Sterility for Sensitive Combination Products and Materials: New Paradigms for the Next Generation of Medical Devices and Pharmaceuticals discusses the medical device industry and existing challenges regarding the exciting new world of sensitive combination products (SCPs) and their terminal sterilization. This book reassesses the current assumptions to assure the patient's best interests are met in the development of increasingly rigorous sterilization methods used to countera...

Written in the proven Secrets® question-and-answer format, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Secrets, 3rd Edition is an authoritative source for the effective and safe practice of oral and maxillofacial surgery (OMS) — and the ideal preparation tool for clinical rotations, exams, and board certification in OMS. Thoroughly revised and updated with the most current clinical information, this new edition provides dental students, OMS residents, and clinicians with practical tips, answers, and se...