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Devoted nobleman Karl White serves the Faith of Kallikratés through his role as the Commander of the Holy Blades. A loyal soldier of the gods, he protects their flock within the land of Ardana, no matter how questionable his actions are. One day, the Holy Blades’ investigation into the infamous Blackthorn Guild takes an unexpected turn. A vigilante has taken arms against the fearsome brigands, capturing the hearts of many people and undermining the Holy Blades’ purpose. Determined to learn about the so-called hero, Commander White comes face-to-face with his dark past, steeped in a myriad of secrets.
The land of Ardana avoids destruction, thanks to the heroic efforts of Mara Ashwood and her friends. For the first time in thousands of years, her home is now free from the tyranny of a false goddess. A referendum has been cast, sealing the Faith of Kallikratés’ fate. As a new year dawns, the last undying continues her search on lifting her curse. Her hope now lies in Ardana’s alliance with Thoron, which has faced over a millennium of isolation. However, Kallikratés refuses to go down without a fight. Many followers remain, seeking to make life difficult for the huntress while clinging onto whatever power they have left. An unlikely foe has risen to challenge Mara with the potential to revitalize the crumbling theocratic order. But she will not face this new threat alone. Friends, both old and new, shall help the last undying as her actions draw the attention of whole nations.
Mara had some misfortunes in life. However, she never expected to be afflicted with a curse, where every death brings her back as an undead creature. Entering a world she has no memory of, Mara will be pulled along on a series of events to face the unavoidable and encounter monsters she never knew existed. While searching for her lost memories and a way to lift her curse, Mara learns about an omen of the world’s end. A prophecy looms over the land of Ardana, foretelling the return of a great and terrible beast. And one by one, the seven seals that kept the Dark One imprisoned shall fail.
After learning the circumstances behind her curse, Mara’s journey takes a drastic turn. Now she seeks revenge against those responsible, putting her at odds with Commander White of the Holy Blades. For breaking most of the seven seals, Mara has now become the Cursed Herald. But in her darkest moments, she will find strength from family and friends alike. On this quest for truth and revenge, Mara shall know her purpose in a grand conspiracy, including the truth behind the Faith of Kallikratés’ prophecy.
Now going into its third much-expanded edition, the highly praised Nutritional Health: Strategies for Disease Prevention has been brought fully up to date to include all the new thinking and discoveries that have the greatest capacity to improve human health and nutritional advancement. About half the new edition will be revised and updated from the second edition while the other half will consist of major revisions of previous chapters or new subjects. Like the two previous editions the book will consist of general reviews on various topics in nutrition, especially those of much current interest. The authors provide extensive, in-depth chapters covering the most important aspects of the complex interactions between diet, its nutrient components, and their impacts on disease states, and on those health conditions that increase the risk of chronic dieases. Up to date and comprehensive, Nutritional Health: Strategies for Disease Prevention, Third Edition offers physicians, dietitians, and nutritionists a practical, data-driven, integrated resource to help evaluate the critical role of nutrition.
The Naturalists wrote from a «scientific» point of view, and no science had more currency in society in the late nineteenth century than Darwin's theory of evolution. Until now, this motif in Guy de Maupassant has escaped critical attention. Maupassant's Fiction and the Darwinian View of Life examines evolutionary theory in the literature in a way accessible to students of literature and science alike. It first explains the theoretical basis and Maupassant's affinity for it, then studies one short story, «La Ficelle», in its entirety, proposing a new and interesting interpretation based on evidence read through a Darwinian lens.The remaining chapters organize a lively Darwinian reading of Maupassant according to topics such as natural selection, heredity, and materialism. The book shows that Darwinism and the economic variety of Social Darwinism figure significantly in Maupassant's fiction. It is a must for students and teachers of Naturalism and Darwinism across the liberal arts.
The Frozen Section Library series provides concise, user-friendly, site specific handbooks that are well illustrated and highlight the pitfalls, artifacts and differential diagnosis issues that arise in the hurried frozen section scenario. Frozen Section Library: Liver, Extrahepatic Biliary Tree and Gallbladder provides a convenient reference for use during intraoperative consultation. The volume addresses commonly encountered challenges, such as the diagnosis of primary and secondary hepatic neoplasms and assessment of gross abnormalities of the gallbladder. The assessment of frozen section biopsies for liver transplantation, a challenging and increasingly encountered situation, is detailed in the form of histologic criteria that should be reported. Emphasis is placed on the differential diagnoses of gross and microscopic findings with attention to potential pitfalls and artifacts encountered on frozen section. gross and microscopic images are provided as well as user-friendly tables for quick reference.
Once considered the largest and most extensive source of biographies in the English language, The Universal Dictionary of Biography and Mythology contains information on nearly every historical figure, notable name, and important subject of mythology from throughout the world prior to the 20th century. Spanning all fields of human effort-from literature and the arts to philosophy and science-and touching on topics from multiple areas of mythological study, including Norse, Greek, and Roman, this extraordinary reference guide continues to be one of the most thorough and accurate collections of biographical data ever created. Combining mythological and biographical entries into a single, compr...