All five films in the American teen dance franchise. 'Step Up' (2006) stars Channing Tatum as Tyler Gage, a rough street kid with raw talent. When Tyler finds himself doing community service at a school for the performing arts, he meets Nora (Jenna Dewan), a beautiful and privileged classically-trained dancer who's searching for a temporary replacement for her injured dance partner. Spying Tyler's smooth moves, Nora decides to take a chance on him... In 'Step Up 2 - The Streets' (2008), Andie (Briana Evigan) is a member of an elite inner-city dance crew called the 410. When the 410 pretend to be muggers on a subway car and then stage an impromptu dance show for the somewhat bewildered passengers, Andie's guardian (Sonja Sohn) ships her off to the Maryland School of the Arts. Andie's urban street style, of course, goes against the grain of the strait-laced school... In 'Step Up 3' (2010), a group of young underground street dancers in New York - including Luke (Rick Malambri) and Natalie (Sharni Vinson) - team up with NYU students Moose (Adam G. Sevani) and Camille (Alyson Stoner) to take on the world's best hip hop dancers in the ultimate street dancing contest, an experience that will alter the course of all their lives. Finally, in 'Step Up 4 - Miami Heat' (2012), Kathryn McCormick stars as Emily, a girl from a wealthy family who arrives in Miami hoping to become a professional dancer, and soon falls for poor boy Sean (Ryan Guzman), leader of flash mob street dance crew MOB. When Emily's father, a major property developer, threatens to build on the historic neighbourhood that is the MOB's home, Emily asks Sean and his crew to use their performance mobs to protest against the planned development... Finally, 'Step Up 5 - All In' (2014) follows multiple crews from the previous four films as they battle it out in Las Vegas for the chance of securing their own show in the entertainment capital of the world.

Aquinas on Beauty explores the nature and role of beauty in the thought of Thomas Aquinas. Beginning with a standard definition of beauty provided by Aquinas, it explores each of the components of that definition. The result is a comprehensive account of Aquinas's formal view on the subject, supplemented by an exploration into Aquinas's commentary on Dionysius's Divine Names, including a comparison of his views with those of both Dionysius and those of Aquinas's mentor, Albert the Great. The book also highlights the tight connection in Aquinas's thought between aesthetics and ethics, and illustrates how Aquinas preserves what is best about aesthetic traditions preceding him, and anticipates what is best about aesthetic traditions that would follow, marrying objective and subjective aesthetic intuitions and charting a kind of via media between the common extremes.

Teen street-dancing sequel from Disney, also released in 3D. A group of young underground street dancers in New York - including Luke (Rick Malambri) and Natalie (Sharni Vinson) - team up with NYU students Moose (Adam Sevani) and Camille (Alyson Stoner) to take on the world's best hip-hop dancers in the ultimate street-dancing contest, an experience that will alter the course of all their lives.

The year 1948 had proved to be a difficult year for many farmers and families outside a small Texas town. The year would prove to be especially hard on the Bryson family. The Bryson's young sons, John & Leroy, helped to save the family farm from extreme heat and drought through the spring and summer of 1948. However, nothing could prepare the family for the winter that would follow. The winter storm was prolonged by an unexpected journey and it would become a winter of the soul.

On his eighteenth birthday, Brian Hartman takes a job at Adult World, a pornographic specialty store, and over several months before graduating high school not only receives quite an extra-curricular education, but also discovers that not all of the people in his life are who he thought they were - including his own mother. Alternately moving and profane, Adult World takes the normally sweet coming of age story and gives it a dose of sour satire to explore the elements of modern sexual and emotional relationships in a way that makes it more in line with the sensibilities of today's readers.

Rediscovery of a Forgotten People

In the early 1800s, dozens of Siouan-speaking Cheraw families, including Catawbas and Lumbees, fled war and oppression in the Carolinas and migrated to Florida, just as native Appalachicola Creeks were migrating away. Being neither Black nor White, the Cheraw descendants were persecuted by the harsh "racial" dichotomy of the Jim Crow era and almost forgot their proud heritage. Today they have rediscovered their past. This is their story.

The Authors, both descendants of the Hill family, have worked together on research projects for twenty years documenting the history, culture and identity of North Florida's Indian people.

S. Pony Hill was born in Jackson County, Florida. He holds a degree in Criminal Justice from Keiser University, Deans List, and Phi Theta Kappa Honors Society member. He was previously a contract researcher for federal acknowledgement grants through the Administration for Native Americans and several tribes including the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee in Oklahoma, the Cherokee Nation, and the Sumter Band of Cheraw Indians (SC). He specializes in southeastern Indian archival research and ethno history. He is the author of "Patriot Chiefs and Loyal Braves," available online and the recently released book "Strangers in their Own Land: South Carolinas State Indian Tribes." He currently lives with his family in San Antonio TX.

Christopher Scott Sewell was born in New Bern, North Carolina. He holds a degree in Sociology from Rogers State University in Claremore, Oklahoma. He has worked extensively as a contract researcher in the field of Southeastern populations, and has been involved in Native American rights issues for twenty years. He currently lives with his family in Bristol, Florida.

Teen street-dancing sequel from Disney, also released in 3D. A group of young underground street dancers in New York - including Luke (Rick Malambri) and Natalie (Sharni Vinson) - team up with NYU students Moose (Adam Sevani) and Camille (Alyson Stoner) to take on the world's best hip-hop dancers in the ultimate street-dancing contest, an experience that will alter the course of all their lives.

How far could our government go to disarm a nuclear Iran? 'Summoning the Darkness' explores one extreme scenario when the US Intelligence community helplessly watches as Iran acquires the last elements it needs for nuclear weapons. It's the final catalyst for desperate politicians and military zealots, willing to defy the Constitution and terrorize the nation with an unfathomable plan designed to destroy the Iranian threat. But the rogue government officials must overcome Clarke Eastbourne, a former Army sniper and now struggling Alaskan bush pilot whose dormant skill explosively awaken. Set amidst the Alaskan wilderness, Summoning the Darkness is a not-so-improbable tale of suspense, mystery, and adventure. As timely as today's news and all the more frightening because it could be a glimpse of tomorrow's headlines.