Additional illustrations by Andrew Huerta and J.K. Woodward.
A pre-apocalyptic tale, "Everlast" follows Derek Everlast, a man whose destiny in life is guiding others to a place of rebirth for mankind called Haven. Following an instinct called the Nudge, bestowed on him by a higher power, Derek is guided to the next chosen human destined to survive, a little girl named Melissa. In a harrowing adventure, he must deliver her safely to Haven before the End of Days. Everlast tells a story of choice, love, friendship, and, most of all, survival. Will you be chosen?

Graduate to the next level of your software development career, learning the tools you need to successfully manage the complexity of modern software systems. Whether you are a developer at a small software company, or one of many developers at a large enterprise, your success directly correlates to the ability of your development team to rapidly respond to change. What makes this task challenging in today's world, is that the technical challenges we as developers strive to overcome are becoming increasingly more complex. We have to consider many more options when it comes to things like requirements, solution hosting, support, pace of change, and generally with less time and warning. A good developer knows that it is critical to manage every aspect of software development from soup to nuts, and understands that when details and decisions are left to chance, outcomes can be negatively impacted. Poor planning can result in increased errors, substandard quality, budget and schedule overruns, and result in the ultimate business failure, dissatisfied customers, and stakeholders. This book will help you put on the lenses of a software engineer. You will come away with an understanding of how to view the entire spectrum of the software development process, learn valuable concepts, and apply these principles through meaningful examples, case studies, and source code. What You Will Learn Move beyond being a programmer to being a professional software engineer Spend more time doing software development; minimize time spent dealing with ineffective or inadequate processes Reduce errors in judgment and provide predictable outcomes, while still maintaining agility and responsiveness using Lean and Agile practices Know the steps you can take to ensure a shared understanding among stakeholders Discover tools to validate user experience early and often to minimize costly re-work Develop software designs and architectures that enable long-term business agility Implement patterns and processes that result in "falling into the pit of success" instead of into the "pit of failure" Adopt processes and patterns that will result in pervasive "institutionalized" quality Understand the necessity of redefining the essential role of technical leadership to ensure team maturity and growth Who This Book Is For Software developers and team leaders who have struggled to implement design and development best practices due to lack of team resources, in-depth knowledge, or experience, and want a book designed to provide the confidence and foundational skills needed to achieve success

Greening the Children of God uncovers the theological roots of the growing ethical imperative to reconnect children to their natural environment. In their different traditions, theologians, environmental educators and psychologists all affirm that knowing their place in the natural environment helps a child develop an intersubjective 'ecological' identity that nurtures virtues of mutuality and care. During the Scientific Revolution this ethical harmony was threatened as science and moral theology began to adopt different epistemological methods, something the Anglican priest and poet Thomas Traherne was all too aware of. Traherne insisted that education should promote a child's attention to the moral dimensions woven into 'the tapestry of creation', and professed that play, wonder, and a sensory relationship to diverse creatures play a pedagogical role in a child's moral formation. Greening the Children of God establishes the contemporary significance of Traherne's moral theory in conversation with child psychologists, educators, philosophers, and theologians who know that cultivating a place-based relationship to the local ecology helps children perceive creation's deep mutuality and develop a moral identity in the image of a caring Creator.

'Immoderation' is a set of three cult-phenomenon Chad Michael Ward fantasy and conceptual art books - a collection of images that fit together in a morbid jigsaw puzzle of wires, women and manbeasts to form a symbolic cyberotic tale of love, redemption and death.

Gabe Fletcher moved to the Town of Selah in northern Vermont to help revive a beloved but aging family-run ski resort. But mostly he is trying to find a girl he barely met on Spring Break five years ago. Yes, Gabe is certain it's all about the girl. After the ski area founder dies, Selah has a record-breaking season of sales and snow. This draws the attention of Winter Resort Inc. (WRI) which unveils plans to buy Selah Mountain and modernize it. Gabe has the opportunity to make his career skyrocket and many in town are excited by the promise of new terrain and increased prosperity. But his new friends fear that WRI will ruin everything that makes Selah unique and wonderful. Gabe finds the girl but discovers that the key to loving her is to understand something much deeper about himself and the community that he now calls home. More than just a classic underdog story, LIFT is a heartwarming and comedic struggle of egocentric and sociocentric characters trying to define their world.