Meditations on life and death from the shores of Lake Superior to the North Sea.The Desk on the Sea begins four years after American poet Jonathan Johnson spread his mother's ashes in her beloved Lake Superior and moved with his wife and young daughter into a seventeenth-century cottage on Scotland's North Sea. On an idyllic, desolate coast and in the wild Highlands, Johnson began his search for a way to live through ongoing grief and to take in the wonder...

Aliens do exist and so does magic and metahumans. People think that the world is so good, but a young boy is about to learn otherwise. Join Raven a 9-year-old boy as he travels back to the past to meet his ancestors. There Raven collects 3 artifact and 9 power crystals so that in the present Raven can activate the portal to the future. Join Raven as he goes to the ice age the dawn of the dinosaurs and the birth of Egypt itself. Our hero will meet giants, dragons, zombies, scorpions, and ev...

Landon seems to have it all together. He’s smart, funny, and an excellent basketball player with a heart the size of Texas. The only time he ever really feels off his game is when he crosses paths with a certain girl…Brittany Baker. As the school year comes to an end, he finally faces his fears by telling Brittany how he feels about her. As he gains ground with Brittany, he makes an unrealized mistake that might cost him the girl that he has worked so hard to win over.

In the labyrinthine depths of Fernando Pessoa's soul, 35 Sonnets emerge as a symphony of unrequited love, existential angst, and the elusive nature of identity. Through the eyes of his enigmatic heteronyms, Pessoa explores the complexities of human emotion, the fragility of existence, and the search for meaning in a world that often seems devoid of it. Each sonnet is a poignant tapestry of longing, despair, and the bittersweet beauty of unfulfilled desire.

In the tranquil embrace of nature, where verdant meadows meet azure skies, a solitary wanderer embarks on a poignant journey. William Cullen Bryant's "To The Fringed Gentian" is a lyrical masterpiece that captures the fleeting beauty of a delicate flower, its petals unfurling in the autumn's gentle embrace. As the wanderer contemplates the flower's ephemeral existence, he reflects on the transience of life and the enduring power of memory. With each verse, Bryant's words paint a vivid tape...

In the study of American law, originalism is primarily a theory about the meaning of the Constitution—that its meaning can only change when its words change. Originalism also appears in biblical theology as a theory on the meaning of the Bible—that its meaning is that intended by the original authors. Originalism in Theology and Law: Comparing Perspectives on the Bible and the Constitution offers a study of originalism in both the Bible and the Constitution. While there are significant con...

Designed to effectively prepare pediatric cardiology fellows and practitioners for board certification and recertification, Pediatric Cardiology Board Review, Third Edition, provides easy access to more than 1,200 board-style questions. Based on the popular Mayo Clinic Pediatric Cardiology Review course and edited by Drs. Benjamin W. Eidem, Bryan C. Cannon, Jonathan N. Johnson, Anthony C. Chang, Frank Cetta, Robert E. Shaddy, and Paul Kantor, it covers all the latest advances in the diagno...

Learn from leading experts the latest information on cardiac issues seen most often in a pediatric office. The scope of focus includes signs and symptoms, management of patients with acquired or congenital heart disease, cardiac implications of common infectious diseases, preventive cardiology strategies, and other issues that are frequently managed or evaluated by the primary care clinician.Topics include:Evaluation of the PatientCommon Signs and Symptoms

Updated and revised from cover to cover, Moss and Adams' Heart Disease in Infants, Children, and Adolescents: From Fetal Through Adult Life, 11th Edition, provides the authoritative, state-of-the-art information you need when caring for young patients with heart disease. Senior editors Drs. Daniel J. Penny and Frank Cetta lead a diverse and outstanding editorial and author team who cover all recent advances in this complex and fast-changing field. Expert perspectives from leading cardiolog...

The 50th Anniversary Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and remains prescient in the digital age by providing readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”Ploughshares showcases the work of “writers who make the shapes they want to mak...

Crack open the true legends of the Golden Age of Piracy with this vibrant new edition of A General History of the Pyrates, the book that launched Blackbeard, Anne Bonny, Bartholomew Roberts, and their infamous brethren into global consciousness. Dive into this epic history with digitally restored engravings, an expanded sea-term glossary, and the untamed language of the eighteenth century, then set sail on a journey across the oceans with the world's most notorious outlaws.This pri...

In 1748, Jonathan Edwards, inspired by a letter from Scotland, published An Humble Attempt to rally believers in united, extraordinary prayer. Fifty years later, after a period of spiritual distraction and decline, New England pastors republished the work, calling the church to take up Edward's proposal. What followed was a sixty-five year period of prayer that launched a Great Awakening.This is not just an event in our history. It is an ancient well of revival we are call...