You already know Kara and Dante-just not by these names.In every age, they've been called gods, demons, monsters.Long ago, Dante broke time to save Kara, rewriting reality itself. It worked-but left fractures.Now, a virus older than memory is seeping through the cracks. It infects not the body, but resonance: thought, time, and truth. Ghosts vanish. Timelines flicker. The world begins to unravel.Dante may be the key to its return and Kara is...

The Adventure Begins is the first book in Ariane Delorme’s fantasy Night Hunters Series. They follow Night Hunter Jason Bowel and others through obstacles that include dragons, robbers, and traitors. In The Adventure Begins: Night Hunter Jason Bowel is in trouble. His job is to protect Alton from dangerous creatures and dark forces. But the nineteen-year-old man takes certain risks to show the commander he won’t be pushed around. The older and more experienced hunter uses his flaws against...

Who taught you about sports nutrition when you were young? Likely your parents fed you every day and you ate what they thought you needed. Determining what to eat when faced with extremely busy lives and not having the time to plan can be a daunting task. The easy way out is sometimes necessary ... but not always healthy. Nutrition has been ranked by some experts as making up as much as 60% of the scale in importance towards getting real results from training with exercise making up 30% an...

The German residential building sector plays a crucial role in achieving net greenhouse gas neutrality by 2045. However, current renovation rates remain insufficient to meet climate targets. To improve the efficiency of the sector’s transformation, transformation pathways can be utilized, providing plans that specify renovation actions, timings, and locations. Despite their potential, existing literature lacks holistic and exact optimization frameworks for determining such pathways.

In the aftermath of defeating the darkest of forces, the Night Hunters must face another challenge. It is believed that the Orb of Anaira absorbed many soldiers who have vanished. James Williams did this. Some despise him for it. Despite everything spiralling out of control, is it possible for him to gain new allies?

There is something rotting in Harrisville.It's 1944 and Veronica works so she can afford to eat. Maybe one day she will save enough to own the home her family is living in, but for now, she doesn't have time for fanciful thoughts, or much else. She doesn't have time for the fire whispering to her, the ghosts trying to talk to her and the son of her boss, who can't stop staring at her. She definitely doesn't have time to think about Lazlo, the handsome blac...

Rahere, a humble young boy in 12th century England; not a good time to be an orphan. And yet he is in the right place at the right time. Raised and inspired by kindly monks, they arrange for him to be mentored musically by the country's finest. He learns well, playing at the court of King William Rufus. Incurring the Kings wrath, Rahere disappears mysteriously one night. After years, he is found. Have the torture and beatings in Rochester Castle, reduced his resolve to create g...

Art historian Eleanor Pearson DeLorme and her erudite coauthor, Charles Pearson DeLorme, lead us through a virtual gallery of great paintings by masters of Western art: from Rubens and Brueghels Garden of Eden to Signorellis Testament and Death of Moses. They tell two stories: that of the great story of Gods redemption and that of the lives and times of the masters who labored to portray Gods story, which is, at the same time, our own.

Three young girls wander into an enchanted forest at meet a fairy woman, who is bored with her perfect, immortal life. She convinces them to turn her into a human and decides to become a prince because boys have more fun. His/her new existence exploring the surrounding kingdoms is fast and adventurous from the get-go. What unfolds in an interesting story of problems solved by a woman's mind in the luxury of a man's body. 'The Enchanted Island of Yew' (1903) was written by L. Frank Baum, th...

The postwar years in the UK saw the development of numerous artificial playgrounds intended to compensate children for increasing urbanization and a lack of wild places to play. Many of these sites employed playleaders, whose job was to use play to instill social behavioral norms on children, using games with rules and organized activities. From the early 1970s, that approach began to be replaced by playwork, a nondirective way of working. Playwork marked a rejection of the adult-focused p...

Based on decades of research centered on the earliest known fluted-point producing groups in the North American midcontinent, Early Paleoindians in the Upper Midcontinent of North America: Lithic Procurement, Settlement Mobility, and Social Interaction brings together a broad array of case studies from the United States and Canada that offers fresh perspectives on how early populations utilized the land and its resources, how and when they settled in particular locations, and how ...

For a long time the morphologic diagnosis of diseases of the pancreas - which is the most hidden organ of the abdomen - by means of radiologic methods was inade quate. Diagnostic radiology of pancreatic diseases has been revolutionized by new cross-sectional methods such as computed tomography with volume CT scanning, further progress in ultrasonography in the form of color duplex Doppler, and magnetic resonance imaging. Therefore we had the idea of publishing an up-to-date treatise on rad...