Mighty Baal: Essays in Honor of Mark S. Smith is the first edited collection devoted to the study of the ancient Near Eastern god Baal. Although the Bible depicts Baal as powerless, the combined archaeological, iconographic, and literary evidence makes it clear that Baal was worshipped throughout the Levant as a god whose powers rivalled any deity. Mighty Baal brings together eleven essays written by scholars working in North America, Europe, and Israel. Essays in part one focus on the main collection of Ugaritic tablets describing Baal's exploits, the Baal Cycle. Essays in part two treat Baal's relationships to other deities. Together, the essays offer a rich portrait of Baal and his cult from a variety of methodological perspectives. The Harvard Semitic Studies series publishes volumes from the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East. Other series offered by Brill that publish volumes from the Museum include Studies in the Archaeology and History of the Levant and Harvard Semitic Monographs, https://hmane.harvard.edu/publications.

• There has been growing attention in research and practice to support the lives and experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ+) children and youth. • Few books focus on LGBTQ+ issues in the school context of Asian cultures and societies • Gathers experiences, insights, and evidence from nine Asian countries, who have researched or practiced LGBTQ+ issues in the school context • Helps contribute to further improvements in supporting LGBTQ+ children and adolescents

Artificial Intelligence for the Internet of Everything considers the foundations, metrics and applications of IoE systems. It covers whether devices and IoE systems should speak only to each other, to humans or to both. Further, the book explores how IoE systems affect targeted audiences (researchers, machines, robots, users) and society, as well as future ecosystems. It examines the meaning, value and effect that IoT has had and may have on ordinary life, in business, on the battlefield, and with the rise of intelligent and autonomous systems. Based on an artificial intelligence (AI) perspective, this book addresses how IoE affects sensing, perception, cognition and behavior. Each chapter addresses practical, measurement, theoretical and research questions about how these "things" may affect individuals, teams, society or each other. Of particular focus is what may happen when these "things" begin to reason, communicate and act autonomously on their own, whether independently or interdependently with other "things".

Steven Russell has developed a unique approach to discovering and realizing your vision that is applicable for everyone. Plan 2 Succeed is a powerful process for visualizing change and developing your future. This book includes real-life examples and interactive exercises to utilize when planning for success. The process of Plan 2 Succeed helps you to execute the tasks necessary to succeed and discover what it takes to realize your vision. We define success as the achievement of something that turns out as planned. In this book, you will be able to realize your vision by determining who you are, what you want to do, how you want to go about living your life, and ultimately who you want to be. You have been able to acquire a wealth of knowledge, experience, and skills to help you understand your vision. Armed with this information you will learn how to execute your plan and succeed by breaking down long-term objectives into short-term objectives into smaller tasks to realize your vision.

In this book, beginners will learn the best way to use a mushroom kit, as well as how to maintain the sterile procedures and controlled environment that cultivation requires. Novices and the more experienced will learn how to create grain spawn or sawdust spawn and how to use liquid cultures and fruiting chambers. Advanced readers will gain a thorough knowledge of how to work with large-scale grain spawn, agar, bag cultures, bulk substrates, and large fruiting chambers to produce mushrooms consistently and in greater quantity.

Adapted by Stephen Russell, The Firework-Maker's Daughter, is award winning children's writer Philip Pullman's brilliant and inspiring story about Lila, who dreams of becoming a firework-maker just like her father. Her hopes are dashed when her father tells her it is no job for a girl. Setting out in secret for Mount Merapi in search of the elusive royal sulphur, Lila faces pirates and supernatural creatures until Chulak arrives to help her with Hamlet the elephant. And soon she must return to save her imprisoned father with a firework display that must rival the best on earth Fun for all the family, and fizzing with drama and magic, The Firework-Maker's Daughter opened at Birmingham Stage in November 2010. Adapted for the stage in a colourful and musical manner. Catchy tunes, impressive costumes and subtle yet effective special effects make for a fun family day out and highlights include the stunning costume of talking white elephant Hamlet and the beautifully crafted puppets used to help tell the tale.- Amy Burns, The Stage

This important book chronicles the fascinating life of American folk singer, Rick Norcross, whose career began in 1963 in tiny East Hardwick, Vermont, at the annual Tulip Festival. A natural performer and gifted songwriter, Rick has toured extensively, sharing the bill with Paul Simon, Diz Disley, Al Stewart, Doc Watson, Brad Paisley, Terri Clark, Jason Aldean, and others. During the 1970's Rick was the entertainment editor at the Tampa Times, interviewing and photographing the world's most famous musicians. His rare candid photos of Elvis are some of the most striking ever taken. Returning to Burlington, Vermont, Rick founded the long-running Green Mountain Chew Chew Food and Music Festival, and formed Rick and the Ramblers, Vermont's premier western swing band. Riding My Guitar is filled with extraordinary stories from Rick's life- often humorous, sometimes heartbreaking - but always steeped in his love of Vermont's iconic history.

Shelby and Lizzie always loved each other. A storm of life tosses their hope in different directions-drugs, abuse, loss. Hope is stronger than the torrent, and life is fairer than its misdirection-because Shelby and Lizzie always loved each other.

A pregnant Chilean boy finds an unlikely path from village scorn to life as a brilliant astronomer. His love for Beverly, a young surgeon from Tucson, Arizona, becomes more radiant and enlightening than the vastness of space.

Set on the rocky and at times unforgiving coast of Maine, Stephen Russell Payne's emotionally powerful debut novel, Cliff Walking, shares a poignant tale of loss and love that weaves together the lives of three desperate people who struggle mightily to find a way to save each other. Kate Johnson is a recovering addict from California, married to a cunning, cruel man named Leland Johnson. When she gathers the strength to escape her hellish life, she leaves with her bright, artistic twelve-year-old son, Stringer, crossing Canada as stowaways on a freight train. They eventually find their way to Winter's Cove, a provincial town on the coast of Maine. Francis Monroe is a famous Maine seascape artist whose wife died windsurfing on the bay in front of their bungalow the year before, after losing her battle with breast cancer. Emotionally paralyzed since her death, Francis has been haunted both by her loss and his subsequent inability to paint. When Stringer appears at Francis's bungalow, the meeting triggers events that dramatically alter the course of their lives. Thrust into a life-threatening altercation, Stringer is forced to take action, and ends up facing felony charges. As Stringer and his loved ones do battle with the local sheriff and the politically aspiring state's attorney, the citizens of Winter's Cove have to navigate their own deep-seated prejudices, their beliefs about family and community, and the painful necessity to reexamine justice in their town. An intimate, probing novel that mines the healing power of hope that can grow out of shared desperation, Cliff Walking is a captivating love story that carries readers on an intense, thought-provoking journey. Both fast-paced and complex, this novel is nearly impossible to put down.

Steven Russell has developed a unique approach to discovering and realizing your vision that is applicable for everyone. Plan 2 Succeed is a powerful process for visualizing change and developing your future. This book includes real-life examples and interactive exercises to utilize when planning for success. The process of Plan 2 Succeed helps you to execute the tasks necessary to succeed and discover what it takes to realize your vision. We define success as the achievement of something that turns out as planned. In this book, you will be able to realize your vision by determining who you are, what you want to do, how you want to go about living your life, and ultimately who you want to be. You have been able to acquire a wealth of knowledge, experience, and skills to help you understand your vision. Armed with this information you will learn how to execute your plan and succeed by breaking down long-term objectives into short-term objectives into smaller tasks to realize your vision.

What attracts an angel? Churches, Mosques, Temples...How about a serial killer? Adrienne Tylar is a detective who knows. Life breaks her to fit in a puzzle of misshapen friends. Man's honest and dishonest best and worst flickers, A Rerun Fading.