Beth Summers is a reporter for The Jasper Messenger, and she has just uncovered the biggest story since the creation of mankind: that aliens exist and they’re on Earth. The aliens are here to conquer the planet and enslave mankind for their own twisted purpose. They are abducting humans, and the city of Jasper is infested with four-feet-tall, grey, skinny aliens, and ones who were cloned to look like humans. On the outskirts of Jasper is Ruffs Dog Food factory, but instead of making “Chunks and Gravy” dog food, the aliens in the city hidden beneath the factory, are making a new recipe, “Humans and Gravy.” Before Beth can alert the world to the invaders’ twisted purpose, she is framed for murder by them. Now, Beth and her boyfriend must go deep into the hidden city, capture an alien, and prove to the world that aliens do exist.
Jake Marlow is a soldier of fortune, a gambler and a loner. He’s never gotten close to anyone, or made friends, but that all changes one night when he is shanghaied. Jake promises a dying man, Charlie Reams, that he will save his daughter, Lori, and her ranch. Bob Crates is a hard man driven by greed, who has plans to establish an outlaw kingdom. He’s already wiped out one ranch under the pretense of a cattle war. Crates is a handsome man, gifted with a silver tongue. The townspeople like him and those who don’t, fear him. There’s one ranch he needs to make him a wealthy man; the L-C, Lori Reams ranch. He also wants the gold that is hidden on it, but there is one person standing in his way; Jake Marlow. Now Crates wants something more than the gold. Crates wants Jake dead.
Beth Summers is a reporter for The Jasper Messenger, and she has just uncovered the biggest story since the creation of mankind: that aliens exist and they’re on Earth. The aliens are here to conquer the planet and enslave mankind for their own twisted purpose. They are abducting humans, and the city of Jasper is infested with four-feet-tall, grey, skinny aliens, and ones who were cloned to look like humans. On the outskirts of Jasper is Ruffs Dog Food factory, but instead of making “Chunks and Gravy” dog food, the aliens in the city hidden beneath the factory, are making a new recipe, “Humans and Gravy.” Before Beth can alert the world to the invaders’ twisted purpose, she is framed for murder by them. Now, Beth and her boyfriend must go deep into the hidden city, capture an alien, and prove to the world that aliens do exist.
Jake Marlow is a soldier of fortune, a gambler and a loner. He’s never gotten close to anyone, or made friends, but that all changes one night when he is shanghaied. Jake promises a dying man, Charlie Reams, that he will save his daughter, Lori, and her ranch. Bob Crates is a hard man driven by greed, who has plans to establish an outlaw kingdom. He’s already wiped out one ranch under the pretense of a cattle war. Crates is a handsome man, gifted with a silver tongue. The townspeople like him and those who don’t, fear him. There’s one ranch he needs to make him a wealthy man; the L-C, Lori Reams ranch. He also wants the gold that is hidden on it, but there is one person standing in his way; Jake Marlow. Now Crates wants something more than the gold. Crates wants Jake dead.
“An illuminating portrait of Baltimore in the aftermath of the April 2015 death of Freddie Gray . . . Readers will be enthralled by this propulsive account.”—Publishers Weekly LONGLISTED FOR THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY LIBRARY JOURNAL From the New York Times bestselling author of The Other Wes Moore, a kaleidoscopic account of five days in the life of a city on the edge, told through eight characters on the front lines of the uprising that overtook Baltimore and riveted the world When Freddie Gray was arrested for possessing an “illegal knife” in April 2015, he was, by eyewitness accounts that video evidence later confirmed, treated “roughly” as police loaded him into a vehicle. By the end of his trip in the police van, Gray was in a coma from which he would never recover. In the wake of a long history of police abuse in Baltimore, this killing felt like the final straw—it led to a week of protests, then five days described alternately as a riot or an uprising that set the entire city on edge and caught the nation's attention. Wes Moore is a Rhodes Scholar, bestselling author, decorated combat veteran, former White House fellow, and CEO of Robin Hood, one of the largest anti-poverty nonprofits in the nation. While attending Gray’s funeral, he saw every stratum of the city come together: grieving mothers, members of the city’s wealthy elite, activists, and the long-suffering citizens of Baltimore—all looking to comfort one another, but also looking for answers. He knew that when they left the church, these factions would spread out to their own corners, but that the answers they were all looking for could be found only in the city as a whole. Moore—along with journalist Erica Green—tells the story of the Baltimore uprising both through his own observations and through the eyes of other Baltimoreans: Partee, a conflicted black captain of the Baltimore Police Department; Jenny, a young white public defender who’s drawn into the violent center of the uprising herself; Tawanda, a young black woman who’d spent a lonely year protesting the killing of her own brother by police; and John Angelos, scion of the city’s most powerful family and executive vice president of the Baltimore Orioles, who had to make choices of conscience he’d never before confronted. Each shifting point of view contributes to an engrossing, cacophonous account of one of the most consequential moments in our recent history, which is also an essential cri de coeur about the deeper causes of the violence and the small seeds of hope planted in its aftermath.
Several decades of psychometric research have led to the development of sophisticated models for multidimensional test data, and in recent years, multidimensional item response theory (MIRT) has become a burgeoning topic in psychological and educational measurement. Considered a cutting-edge statistical technique, the methodology underlying MIRT can be complex, and therefore doesn’t receive much attention in introductory IRT courses. However author Wes Bonifay shows how MIRT can be understood and applied by anyone with a firm grounding in unidimensional IRT modeling. His volume includes practical examples and illustrations, along with numerous figures and diagrams. Multidimensional Item Response Theory includes snippets of R code interspersed throughout the text (with the complete R code included on an accompanying website) to guide readers in exploring MIRT models, estimating the model parameters, generating plots, and implementing the various procedures and applications discussed throughout the book.
Celebrated film director Frank Capra was a central architect of the "feel good" movie genre now known as populism, which celebrates people, families, second chances, and other traditional American icons such as small town or pastoral life and baseball. Capra developed his own brand of populism by interweaving traditional values of the genre with a younger, more vulnerable hero starting with Mr. Deeds Goes to Town in 1936. The result, Capraesque populism, has had a significant influence on American pop culture in general and forms a small but important subgenre of baseball movie. This book examines eight of these Capraesque baseball films, starting with the all-important Pride of the Yankees (1942), which one admiring critic has called "Mr. Deeds Goes to Yankee Stadium." An introduction provides an overview of baseball and populism. Individual chapters are devoted to the populist legacy from Will Rogers (Capra's mentor) to Capra, The Pride of the Yankees, The Stratton Story, Angels in the Outfield, The Natural, Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, Frequency and The Rookie.
WhatÕs happened to KayaÕs magic arm? What strange lands have her adventures taken her to, and where is her brother Jin? Glimpse KayaÕs future in this shocking standalone story! Featuring a backup story by rising star JUNI BA.
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