The City in the Forest, Atlanta was a spot found in the wilderness of north Georgia for the end of a railroad line. It was thought few people would stay here, because most would be passing through to somewhere else. Instead, the people remained and the town grew, growing from Terminus to Marthasville to Atlanta. The city was defined by the rail lines, and for that reason, General William T. Sherman came with the Civil War. After he left the city in ruins, Atlanta rebuilt, rising from the a...

Experience is the best teacher, and when you have had a bad experience, the truth can be healing. This book is an attempt to discover the truth and find the answers to the many problems within healthcare and social care in modern Britain. The time has come to start a new conversation about society and medicine. Millions of UK citizens are suffering with health problems, and we need to find a new solution because there are increasing numbers of individuals who cannot tolerate the detrimenta...

What if the Christian story was never about earning God’s love or escaping this world, but about Love evolving the cosmos from the inside out?Made by Love, for Love invites readers to reimagine Christianity—not as a drama of sin and obligatory appeasing sacrifice, but as a cosmic love story still unfolding.Far from cracking under the weight of an expanding universe, the gospel becomes more radiant, more necessary, and more astonishing than ever.

This unique book looks at the biology of aging from a fundamentally new perspective, one based on evolutionary theory rather than traditional concepts which emphasize molecular and cellular processes. The basis for this approach lies in the fact that natural selection, as a powerful determining force, tends to decline in importance with age. Many of the characteristics we associate with aging, the author argues, are more the result of this decline than any mechanical imperative contained w...

The purpose of this Primer is to explain the principles of Experimental Evolution. It illustrates how evolution experiments should be properly designed to examine fundamental principles of evolution and answer big questions in biology. The need for this primer has increased with the recent advances in genomics, because the functional significance of genetic variation is not easily understood without an evolutionary lens. We believe that experimental evolution can take a leading role in mee...

The conquest of aging is now within our grasp. It hasn't arrived yet, writes Michael R. Rose, but a scientific juggernaut has started rolling and is picking up speed. A long tomorrow is coming. In The Long Tomorrow, Rose offers us a delightfully written account of the modern science of aging, spiced with intriguing stories of his own career and leavened with the author's engaging sense of humor and rare ability to make contemporary research understandable to nonscientists. The boo...

The Directory of Choral-Orchestral Music is the most comprehensive index of music written for orchestra with chorus in print today.Offering performance information about choral works by more than 900 composers, the more than 3,500 entries include pertinent details such as instrumentation, languages, timings, publishers, and composer information in an easy-to-follow reference style. Users can also browse categorized appendices of works, chronological lists of composers, and an index of popu...

Mozart's remarkable life was well and richly documented in letters: his own and those concerning him written by others. This volume brings together a fascinating selection, giving us a detailed portrait of the composer's life and times.Here are letters to and from Mozart's domineering father, Leopold, the earliest of which, addressed to a friend, describes the six-year-old Mozart's accomplishments. There is also a letter sent to the Royal Society in London from one of its members d...

An insightful new work, Function, Phylogeny, and Fossils integrates two practices in paleobiology which are often separated - functional and phylogenetic analysis. The book summarizes the evidence on paleoenvironments at the most important Miocene hominoid sites and relates it to the pertinent fossil record. The contributors present the most up-to-date statements on the functional anatomy and likely behavior of the best known hominoids of this crucial period of ape and human evolu...

Are you ready for the best issue of Scattered yet?! Well, I guess it doesn't matter. Either way, you seem to be reading it right now, be it digitally or holding a paper copy in your hands. And if you aren't prepared, this one will melt you down into human slag. Metaphorically, of course. There are some tasty treats in these pages. First, we have new bizarro and cosmic horror fiction from masters of their craft Michael Allen Rose and Sam Rebelein. Next, we have a poetry/art piece from the s...

Vivien Manning, the notorious Mistress Matchmaker, is tired. Tired of the parties, tired of the lovers, tired of being her. So she decides to leave London behind once and for all and start a whole new life.But before she goes, she must tie up some loose ends, and makes a list that includes a man she's never been fully able to let go—Benedict Greystone.Benedict was broken when Vivien broke off their affair years ago. When she comes back into his life—and his bed—he isn't cer...

Hell . . . I'm in Hell. Literally.I dishonored a contract to kill the Leader of the Vampires. For love. And now I'm paying the price. Locked up tight by the Demon King and his vicious minion. The way the demon looks at me is sickening and leaves no doubt what his plans are where I'm concerned. I have to escape before it's too late.All I have to hold onto is the belief that Cassius will come for me, that he will follow me into the pits of Hell. If anyone can...