This story takes place in today's world where an alien spaceship is pursued by another alien race and a battle ensues. The fleeing ship winds up in our sector of the universe needing extensive repairs and our industrial complex to repair their problems. Beyond the mechanical repairs required, the crew will not be able to return to their home without facing further encounters which require them to enlist additional crew members from Earth to help man their spaceship safely to their home planet.

In recent years, the field of pediatric cardiology has undergone rapid change, resulting in earlier diagnoses and improved long-term outcomes for many patients. Nadas' Pediatric Cardiology, 3rd Edition, offers an easy-to-understand, practical, and team-based approach to this complex field, addressing the current needs of pediatric cardiologists, surgeons, fellows, and other members of the pediatric cardiology team. It thoroughly covers all diagnostic and management aspects of both acquired and congenital heart disease, providing a strong foundation and an actionable approach to care of the pediatric cardiology patient and family. Provides comprehensive coverage of the foundational and practical aspects of care for complex heart problems in children, covering both therapy and surgery from basic information through complex, team-based clinical applications.  Includes new chapters on cardiomyopathies, structural heart disease, interventional procedures, genetics, electrophysiology, and imaging.  Discusses the latest information on diagnosis and treatment of congenital heart disease, including in the fetus and young adult.  Covers current drugs used in pediatric heart conditions and surgical therapy.  Shares the knowledge and expertise of editors and authors at Boston Children's Hospital, one of the world's largest and most highly rated pediatric cardiology and congenital heart surgery institutions, using a team-based approach.  Covers the full spectrum of care, including anesthesia, the ICU, and nursing considerations.  An eBook version is included with purchase. The eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud.  Features 7 new chapters including Sedation and Anesthesia; Cardiac Transplantation and Tissue Engineering; and Clinical Research.

"Exceptionally absorbing and thrilling. ... Masterful." -Nature A "magnificent" (Scientific American), genre-defying narrative of the most ambitious science project ever conceived: NASA's deep space mission to Europa, the Jovian moon where might swim the first known alien life in our solar system In the spirit of Tom Wolfe and John McPhee, The Mission is an exuberant master class of creative nonfiction that reveals how a motley, determined few expanded the horizon of human achievement. When scientists discovered the first ocean beyond Earth, they had two big questions: "Is it habitable?" and "How do we get there?" To answer the first, they had to solve the second, and so began a vivacious team's twenty-year odyssey to mount a mission to Europa, the ocean moon of Jupiter. Standing in their way: NASA, fanatically consumed with landing robots on Mars; the White House, which never saw a science budget it couldn't cut; Congress, fixated on going to the moon or Mars-anywhere, really, to give astronauts something to do; rivals in academia, who wanted instead to go to Saturn; and even Jupiter itself, which guards Europa in a pulsing, rippling radi ation belt-a halo of death whose conditions are like those that follow a detonated thermonuclear bomb. The Mission is the Homeric, never-before-told story of modern space exploration, and a magnificent portrait of the inner lives of scientists who study the solar system's mysterious outer planets. David W. Brown chronicles the remarkable saga of how Europa was won, and what it takes to get things done-both down here, and up there.

For the past several decades, studies on the internal workings of the evangelical church have reflected a movement away from solid theological teaching from the pulpit. As a result, the church has produced a generation of believers that have become progressively ignorant of the Bible and Christian doctrines. Grounded: Anchoring the Evangelical Sermon in Theological Doctrine calls pastors back to their primary task of feeding the sheep. Author and pastor, David Brown, examines twenty passages and builds an interpretation based upon historical, literary and grammatical methodologies, then provides a sermon outline for each passage. Both pastors and Sunday school teachers alike will find this book helpful in preparing sermons and teaching outlines that are anchored in theological doctrine.

This story takes place in today's world where an alien spaceship is pursued by another alien race and a battle ensues. The fleeing ship winds up in our sector of the universe needing extensive repairs and our industrial complex to repair their problems. Beyond the mechanical repairs required, the crew will not be able to return to their home without facing further encounters which require them to enlist additional crew members from Earth to help man their spaceship safely to their home planet.