She had been raised to fight, but one decision will threaten the only life she knows. Alexa is a warrior and she is destined to be one of the leaders in the village. Her life is full of training while she watches the skies for the threat of dragons. When the dragons attack, wiping out most of the elders, Alexa swears that she is going to end the long-running feud once and for all. She makes a plan but her best-friend isn't going to let her face it alone. With Zen at her side, Alexa discovers that life outside the village is very different. The closer they get to the mountains, the more they learn about the dragons and the burden they carry. Despite all this, Alexa is steadfast in one thing: the dragons must die. Alexa soon has to face the unimaginable and risk breaking her heart to save them all.

Can Jeremy Heston get away with murder? After leaving his mark on American history, Jeremy carries his experiment into the courtroom. What looks like an easy win for the district attorney, turns into an uphill battle. Behind the scenes, an unknown person intervenes in multiple ways and attempts to rattle the jury in Jeremy’s favor. Living in the solitude of prison, Jeremy grapples with his personal state of mind. As the odds stack up against him, the fate of his experiment–and life–are left in the hands of strangers. The Burden is the second installment of the Insanity Series. Take a dive into the mind of a madman. Can you keep up with his lunacy?

Frank is a reformed alcoholic. He lives at home with his mother, Elisabeth – at least, he did until she went into a nursing home suffering from dementia. He is devoted to her and conversely hates his estranged father, Geoffrey. So when elder sister Pat calls to tell him Dad is dying and wants to meet him, Frank is forced to face up to his demons. But what are they? And how did he acquire them? Every family has its secrets and Frank's is no exception. As much as he tries to forget, something happened a long time ago that has coloured his life ever since - and he can't live in peace until he confronts it. Seen from the perspective of four separate family members, The Burden examines an individual's contrasting relationships and the different emotions they inspire.

A medical history of Accra that accounts for plural medical traditions and multiple notions of health and healing.

Religion has always been a focal element in the long and tortured history of American ideas about race. In The Burden of Black Religion, Curtis Evans traces ideas about African American religion from the antebellum period to the middle of the twentieth century. Central to the story, he argues, was the deep-rooted notion that blacks were somehow "naturally" religious. At first, this assumed natural impulse toward religion served as a signal trait of black people's humanity -- potentially their unique contribution to American culture. Abolitionists seized on this point, linking black religion to the black capacity for freedom. Soon, however, these first halting steps toward a multiracial democracy were reversed. As Americans began to value reason, rationality, and science over religious piety, the idea of an innate black religiosity was used to justify preserving the inequalities of the status quo. Later, social scientists -- both black and white -- sought to reverse the damage caused by these racist ideas and in the process proved that blacks were in fact fully capable of incorporation into white American culture. This important work reveals how interpretations of black religion played a crucial role in shaping broader views of African Americans and had real consequences in their lives. In the process, Evans offers an intellectual and cultural history of race in a crucial period of American history.

Examines the results of the Supreme Court's 1954 decision on desegregation on the five school districts that participated in the Brown v. Board of Education case, and argues that the Court erred in moving beyond a policy of desegregation to one of integration.

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) causes seasonal epidemics during the winter and wet seasons, particularly in young children. Although there is one drug available for prophylaxis, palivizumab, it is indicated for high-risk children only. Therefore a vaccine is urgently needed. This book provides an overview of RSV and discusses its incidence and presentation in different populations, including preterm infants and children with congenital heart disease. It also discusses future strategies for RSV prophylaxis and developments in and barriers to creating a viable vaccine.

This book is a memoir of the author's active service in the United States Marine Corps. It recounts his decision to enlist, boot camp, service in North China, recall in 1950, commissioning, adventures in Hollywood, combat service in Korea, and his homecoming. The author reveals he was not your typical hard-charging Marine. The book tells stories of many heroes, and a few cowards. It recounts some terrifying experiences, some hilarious episodes, and graphically illustrates how the superlative history of the Corps imposes a burden on every individual Marine to measure up.

This poetry collection was created through different phases of my life, which were permeated by love and loss. This book opens a new chapter in my life.

By presenting discussions on professional development, and emphasizing the challenges and triumphs experienced by Black professors across disciplines, this book provides advice for junior Black scholars on how to navigate academe and tackle the challenges that Black scholars often face.