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Though nearly a dozen years had passed they hadn’t gotten back to Verdura. They supposed they never would. But life had moved on for Joshua, Marie, Amanda and Steven. For one thing, they were all married with at least one kid; and those kids were almost as old as they had been the first time they were in Verdura. They had lives, though––truth to tell––lives not as exciting as their times in Verdura had been. Sometimes they struggled to find meaning in the mundane after the momentous events in which they had participated. Things had moved on in Verdura, as well. Centuries, in fact. It had become dark. Almost all the time. And very few of the friends they had known as children remain...
This book tells how people got to Verdura. They came from earth; multiple times, places, races, languages, worldviews. But enemies awaited them. They must make it work or Verdura will become a dead planet. This is how they do it.
Dalat was the proud, stubborn prince of Denispri, a kingdom suddenly thrown into chaos. The Lord of Verdura had to take him out of his world entirely so he could become someone able to rule rightly.
From North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East; from the 14th and 3rd centuries B.C., from the 10th, 16th, 18th and 19th centuries A.D.; spouses, enemies, friends, strangers – twelve of them are rescued from certain death on earth to become the first families of Verdura. Joshua and Marie Duncan are sent ahead to find each couple as they enter Verdura; to lead them to where they will begin their new lives together. But people have their own ideas, their own desires. Sometimes they work for the common good. Sometimes they work against one another And they mess up. You see, sometimes commands are for a reason. Sometimes there are enemies. Sometimes people need to listen. And if they don’t, they often can’t undo the consequences. They lack the power, the knowledge, the means, to undo the evil they’ve caused. Someone else must undo it. But can it be undone? By whom? At what cost? Will Verdura end before it begins?
Kentucky. Now it's 1838. Steven and Amanda have not been able to get back into Verdura for two years, no matter what they've done. They don't know if promises made there have come true or if something terrible has happened. But things have changed in Kentucky. Amanda's grown older and her father wants her to marry a young man who's a cruel bully. Daddy thinks she'll change him. Huh! She wants nothing to do with him. But her father's insistent. Plus, Amanda has no idea what's happened to Joshua and Marie. Letters from them stopped coming some time ago.And then there's that peculiar 'amusement' someone is putting on in downtown Glasgow, a weird phenomenon hyped by a creepy mustachioed tinker who doesn't have any pots or pans to sell.Join Joshua, Marie, Amanda and Steven in their second Verduran adventure. Yeah. This one could also be fatal. Or worse.
Socio-Genetics seeks to understand both the genetic and environmental contributions to individual variations in behavior. Behaviors, like all complex traits, involve multiple genes, a reality that complicates the search for genetic contributions. As with much other research in genetics, studies of genes and behavior require analysis of families and populations for comparison of those who have the trait in question with those who do not. The result commonly is a statement of "heritability," a statistical construct that estimates the amount of variation in a population that is attributable to genetic factors. The explanatory power of heritability figures is limited, however, applying only to t...
Kentucky, 1836. Joshua and Marie were only going to tour Mammoth Cave. Amanda and Steven were only going for a picnic in the cave. But the way out didn't lead out. It led in. In to another world where they were desperately needed to save the lives of dozens of women and children. But it wasn't what they thought. It wasn't against an army. The army only wanted them to fight... something else. Something worse. Something worse than their worst nightmares. Will they defeat it? Can it even be defeated? Will the rocks cry out to help them? And where is that glowing bird, the one they saw killed, the one who lit up the sky not long after? The only one who can get them back home. Will he come? Join Joshua, Marie, Amanda and Steven in their first Verduran adventure. Or maybe their last adventure. Anywhere.
This is the definitive, gold-standard text on sepsis and multiple-organ dysfunction. It is comprehensive and thoroughly referenced: the one text in which all current knowledge on this important topic is brought together. The book is written by a team of international contributors, overseen by an internationally acclaimed editorial team.