High Time Resolution Astrophysics (HTRA) is an important new window to the universe and a vital tool in understanding a range of phenomena from diverse objects and radiative processes. This importance is demonstrated in this volume with the description of a number of topics in astrophysics, including quantum optics, cataclysmic variables, pulsars, X-ray binaries and stellar pulsations to name a few. Underlining this science foundation, technological developments in both instrumentation and detectors are described. These instruments and detectors combined cover a wide range of timescales and can measure fluxes, spectra and polarisation. These advances make it possible for HTRA to make a big contribution to our understanding of the Universe in the next decade.

I have come not to bring peace, but a sword." These words of Christ echo in our current times. In recent years, a growing number of commentators have decried a lack of civility in public discourse. Considered in isolation this concern is innocent enough, but no call for civility happens in a vacuum, and there is good reason to be suspicious of civility in our current political context. Calls for civility can encourage passivity and blunt prophetic action against injustice; further, truly heinous policies can be pursued under the guise of civility. And yet civility should not be dismissed outright, especially as presented by its more nuanced defenders--when it is presented as a limited good in a pluralist society.In The End of Civility, Ryan Andrew Newson analyzes the development of the concept of "civility" as we know it in modern discourse and names some of the criteria Christians can use to judge between healthy and toxic appeals to civility. The challenge, Newson contends, is discerning when civility is called for and when its pursuit becomes vicious. Pleas for civility cannot be assessed without considering the context in which they are made. Some appeals to civility merely seek to lessen conflict, even conflict necessary in the struggle for a more just world. But when issued by people struggling for justice on the margins of society, calls for civility can name the types of conflict that might lead to liberation. One must be attentive to what counts as "civil" in the first place and who gets to make that determination. Which bodies are considered civil and "ordered," and which people are under suspicion of being "uncivil" before they ever say a word? For Christians, civility can never be an ultimate good but remains subordinate to the call to follow Christ--in particular, the Christ who is not always "civil" but who calls people to an ethic of resistance to injustice and solidarity with people who are suffering.

A tail of the fursome undead! While helping her best friend Danny film his latest horror flick, Mellie discovers a scraggly cat behind a dumpster outside the YummCo Foods factory. Mellie names the stray Bert and hides him in her room, knowing her parents won't let her keep him. But soon Bert has decapitated all her stuffed animals, and before long he is leaving the headless corpses of birds and mice as gifts for her. Danny is convinced the cat is a zombie, living on the brains of its victims. But is that what's really going on? Award-winning author Kara LaReau lets loose a fresh and sharply funny new mystery, with an irresistible touch of the macabre. Fans of creepy stories and animal lovers alike will devour this fast-moving adventure in one heady gulp.

This is quite simply the first volume of its kind dedicated to the area of high time resolution astrophysics. High time resolution astrophysics (HTRA) is an important new window on the universe and a vital tool in understanding a range of phenomena from diverse objects and radiative processes. Underlining this science foundation, technological developments in both instrumentation and detectors are described.

This self-contained astrophysics textbook for advanced undergraduates explores how stars form, what happens to them as they age, and what becomes of them when they die. Students can investigate the physical processes sustaining the energy output of stars during each stage of their evolution and which drive the progression from one stage to the next, and examine the relationship between different stages of stellar evolution and the production of the chemical elements. The textbook contains a wealth of worked examples and exercises with full solutions. Summaries, key facts and equations are clearly identified, and there are full colour illustrations throughout. Drawing on decades of experience in supported learning and independent study, this textbook is an ideal bridging text for astrophysics and physics majors looking to move on from the introductory texts. Accompanying resources to this textbook are available at: http: //www.cambridge.org/features/astrophysics

It's the night of the annual Autumn Equinox Festival, when the town gathers to float paper lanterns down the river. Legend has it that after drifting out of sight, they'll soar off to the Milky Way and turn into brilliant stars. This year, Ben and his classmates are determined to find out where those lanterns really go, and they made a pact with two simple rules: No one turns for home. No one looks back. The plan is to follow the river on their bikes for as long as it takes to learn the truth, but it isn't long before the pact is broken by all except for Ben and (much to Ben's disappointment) Nathaniel, the one kid who just doesn't seem to fit in. Together, Nathaniel and Ben will travel down a winding road full of magic, wonder, and unexpected friendship.

Wang Yang, a memoir follows the touching and equally gripping story of Ryan Andrew Peters, a young man of Indian and African origin who grew up in Apartheid South Africa. When he decides to move to China in search of an adventurous new life and a chance to get away from his alcohol and drug fused days in London, he gets way more than he ever bargained for Ryan finds himself spiraling out of control once again as he slips into another destructive lifestyle. More traumatic events unravel around him everyday, such as an earthquake that kills over 70,000 people, leaving him to wonder what the meaning of life really is. As Ryan starts singing in a local bar, he meets a wonderful guitarist he falls head over heels in love with. It won't be easy, but it will be an adventure to remember Follow Ryan Andrew Peters as he barrels through a life of pain, adventure, love and whimsical hope. It's a travel memoir that readers will be clinging to until the very last hypnotizing page

James Wm. McClendon, Jr. was the most important "baptist" theologian of the twentieth century. McClendon crafted a systematic theology that refused to succumb to the pressures of individualism, grew out of the immediacy of preaching the text, and lamented the stunted public witness of a fractured Protestant ecclesiology.

This two-volume set mixes previously unpublished and published lectures and essays with rare and little known works to form a representative collection of the essential themes of McClendon's work. The first volume focuses on the philosophical and theological shifts leading to McClendon's articulation of the baptist vision. The second volume specifically elucidates the more philosophical themes that informed McClendon's work, including ways in which these themes had immediate theological import. Taken together, the set provides the most comprehensive presentation of McClendon's work now available, revealing the sustained and systematic character of his vision over the course of his life. These two volumes will provide scholars, preachers, and students with McClendon's radical, narrative, and connective theology.

What if you had to choose between the person you loved, and the world that made your love possible? VDare's first work of fiction wrestles with the conflict between the head and the heart, the choice between what feels good - and what is right. Author Ryan Andrews presents the wrenching tragedy of a man who learns what's most important in life from a woman named Prudence - but comes to see his relationship as threatening everything he's come to treasure. It's a story about love, loyalty, and the meaning of identity -- and once you experience it, you'll never be able to forget.

Are you ready to jump face-first off a cliff or into a river, then march for miles, blow up a bridge, and engage in hand-to-hand combat with the enemy, all in a day's work? If you're nodding your head "yes," then you might be tough enough to attend the Sapper Leader Course, one of the most demanding training courses the United States Army has to offer. In Grit, Guts, and C4, author Ryan Voznick provides a raw, insider look at how he survived the grueling twenty-eight-day training combat engineer course for select leaders. Voznick's book not only describes the struggles of being under intense stress but also acts as an expose of this lesser-known military course held by the US Army Engineer School at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. Written three months after his 2008 graduation, Voznick unabashedly encourages-and possibly, discourages-readers considering this extreme military experience. He explains how, as an ROTC officer cadet, he prepares, only to find himself unprepared, ultimately going on to surmount the school's intense mental and physical challenges. Through both personal reflections and training foibles, Voznick takes readers deep inside the experience. He details helicopter dives, eighty-pound-ruck runs, and tactical door explosions with an unapologetic, defiant, third-digit salute to, as he puts it, getting his ass kicked by Sapper School instructors. It is his inner dialogue-the "never give up or give in" attitude instilled in members of the US armed forces-that inspires him to ignore his bloodied palms, fatigued muscles, and starved stomach to get through this ultimate test of human endurance. By chronicling his mistakes as well as his triumphs, Voznick inspires anyone facing fear, weakness, failure, or displacement to persevere-as he did-through seemingly insurmountable odds.

Bob Shannon... ...is enjoying a peaceful, simple life of early semi-retirement on a small island off the coast of Maine... ...until he is drawn to Long Beach, California to look into the apparent drowning of an old friend... his first love... Teresa Sanders... ...and is immediately embroiled in a web of intrigue and danger that may take all his half-forgotten Special Forces skills and instincts to survive... ...within an ever decreasing timeframe... ...for himself...as well as Teresa...