ORIGINAL TRADE PAPERACK. Steve White, co-author with David Weber of the New York Times best-seller The Shiva Option, joins with Compton Crook Award Winner Charles E. Gannon to carve another notch in the Starfire adventure saga.The war with the Arduans—profoundly alien invaders who originally arrived in STL ships—is over. Most of those attackers are now probationary (and very productive) citizens of the Rim Federation.However, many among the Arduans’ warrio...

Steve White, Vietnam vet, long-time David Weber collaborator and co-author, with Weber, of the New York Times best-seller The Shiva Option, joins with Analog contributor and military SF scholar Charles E. Gannon to carve another notch in the Starfire adventure saga.An implacable foe with telepathic cohesion in battle, near-immortality, and eons-advanced engineering skills threatens to wipe humanity from the galaxy. What’s more, they’ve overcome their one weaknessn...

Affect as Cultural Critique assembles leading anthropologists, affect theorists, and artist-activist scholars to ask, what if the most constructive response to moments of ethnographic puzzlement was not the formulation of an answer but the cultivation of a feeling? What if understanding the powerful effects of discourses requires somatic rather than semiotic exercises? And where habits of academic professionalism prohibit experiencing possible worlds – what if anthropology as a di...

He's a bad guy. He's got the best supervillain banter she's ever heard. And…he really wants to take her on a date?Michaela Martin is a sidekick (without-a-lot-of-kick) in a world full of superheroes and supervillains. Standing for the good in her own quiet way, she's considered weak with a power no one wants to see her use. She's survived this long by showing up to help in the rare battles she's allowed in and never, ever saying what she really thinks. Until the da...

This is the fourth volume of Ultrasound in Medicine, the Proceedings of the Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine. Unless the Executive Board of the Institute change their mind, it may also be the last. Under these circumstances it is somewhat ironical that some of the deficiencies present in previous volumes appear to have been solved in the present volume. Notably, the Programme Committee, for the first time, exercised a stringent selection procedu...

This book aims to assist clinical teachers in the practice of clinical teaching. It assumes that clinical teachers will bring to their task a background knowledge of educational principles, experience in a clinical nursing field, knowledge of substantive nursing content, a love of teaching and a desire to share with their students the joys, tears, challenge and wonder of learning in the clinical setting. The format is designed around a set of commonly encountered problems and encourages re...

Raven Kennedy’s Gild meets Jennifer L. Armentrout’s From Blood and Ash in this dark and riveting romantasy following a bastard princess caught up in the revenge of gods, the first book in a trilogy about survival, obsession, and the quiet fury of a woman who won’t be forgotten.A marriage forged in blood. A kingdom bathed in silence. And a princess who refuses to break.When Princess Mireille is wed to a foreign king with cold eyes and colder...

Her feelings for her nemesis are her best kept secret.Marcelline has been in love with the aquatic superhero Water Wonder for years. It's no surprise. Everyone in Ocean City loves him, his sea-blue eyes, and his skintight super suit. He's the perfect hero. He always saves the day.He's also totally off limits to Marcelline because the person he's saving the day from is her.As The Sea B*tch, ocean villain extraordinaire, she trades ba...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Step into a transformative journey where ancient wisdom meets cutting-edge science to unlock the full spectrum of your latent psychic powers. In Quantum Psychic Abilities, you’ll be guided beyond the limits of conventional perception and into the quantum field where intuition, manifestation, and healing are not just possibilities—they are your birthright.This audiobook reveals the hidden potential within your consciousn...

Introducing Dialogic Pedagogy presents some of the ideas of Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin concerning dialogism in a way that will engage and inspire those studying early childhood education. By translating the growing body of dialogic scholarship into a practical application of teaching and learning with very young children, this book provides readers with alternative ways of examining, engaging and reflecting on practice in the early years to provoke new ways of understanding and en...

Don’t miss one of America’s top 100 most-loved novels, selected by PBS’s The Great American Read.This beloved book by E. B. White, author of Stuart Little and The Trumpet of the Swan, is a classic of children's literature that is "just about perfect." Illustrations in this ebook appear in vibrant full color on a full-color device and in rich black-and-white on all other devices.Some Pig. Humble. Radiant. These are the words in Charlotte's Web, high up in Zuckerman's barn. C...

How hard can it be for a shapeshifting dragon to get a job in a human-dominated society?Damn hard.In a world where humans rule and dragons serve in carefully regulated gards, one thing trumps all: rhenus, the hardest and most valuable metal in all of Terria. Rhenus is critical for dragon growth and development. For centuries, humans devised a system to restrict access to rhenus, eroding dragon strength and creating an unhealthy reliance on RAP—the ...