The story of a girl and her skeleton, who no one else seems to see. Graphic novel, full color.

From the Channel 4 comedy series of the same name, Phoenix Nights is set in a Bolton working man's club. It's third-time lucky for wheelchair-bound owner Brian Potter, as we join him at the gala opening of his new venue, The Phoenix, rising from the ashes of the ill-fated burnt-down Neptune.

"A cross between Carry On, Warrior and Everybody's Got Something, The Other Side of Yet is a powerful memoir about loss, faith, and the power of the human spirit. Starting her professional career as a producer at America's Most Wanted, Michelle Hord was no stranger to tragedy. But when the unimaginable happened in her own family, Michelle's entire life crashed down around her. As she sought out a new blueprint for how to live in this new world, The Book of Job became her anchor, with one verse in particular standing out: "Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him" Job 13:15 King James Version (KJV). For Michelle, the concept of that 'yet' became an essential part of her life--one shaped by loss, yet filled with hope. This powerful memoir takes readers on a journey about creating a life of goodness and grace in the face of loss, injustice, or hardship. Michelle isn't interested in prosecuting her marriage, dwelling on what happened to her daughter, or pointing to God as her only salvation. In the pages of The Other Side of Yet, she invites readers to share not just her story, but to draw inspiration from her strength, her will to create goodness, and her defiant faith"--

This is a detailed history of one of the most important and dramatic episodes in modern science, recounted from the novel vantage point of the dawn of the information age and its impact on representations of nature, heredity, and society. Drawing on archives, published sources, and interviews, the author situates work on the genetic code (1953-70) within the history of life science, the rise of communication technosciences (cybernetics, information theory, and computers), the intersection of molecular biology with cryptanalysis and linguistics, and the social history of postwar Europe and the United States. Kay draws out the historical specificity in the process by which the central biological problem of DNA-based protein synthesis came to be metaphorically represented as an information code and a writing technology—and consequently as a “book of life.” This molecular writing and reading is part of the cultural production of the Nuclear Age, its power amplified by the centuries-old theistic resonance of the “book of life” metaphor. Yet, as the author points out, these are just metaphors: analogies, not ontologies. Necessary and productive as they have been, they have their epistemological limitations. Deploying analyses of language, cryptology, and information theory, the author persuasively argues that, technically speaking, the genetic code is not a code, DNA is not a language, and the genome is not an information system (objections voiced by experts as early as the 1950s). Thus her historical reconstruction and analyses also serve as a critique of the new genomic biopower. Genomic textuality has become a fact of life, a metaphor literalized, she claims, as human genome projects promise new levels of control over life through the meta-level of information: control of the word (the DNA sequences) and its editing and rewriting. But the author shows how the humbling limits of these scriptural metaphors also pose a challenge to the textual and material mastery of the genomic “book of life.”

Explores the psychophysical and neurophysical determinants of cross-linguistic constraints on the shape of color lexicons.

Just when you might need it most, the universe has sent you a love letter disguised as your life. In it, you will find the answer to every pressing question you may have about who you are and why you are here. This letter has been adoringly penned to help you know, accept, and love yourself more deeply than you ever thought possible. All you have to do is hold it in your trembling hands and read it. Dear Human is a companion volume to a lesson-filled life that can only lead to the invincible truth of your radiant light. Immerse yourself in the mystery and depth of your gorgeous life like a letter you can't wait to tear open. Let your ears, mind, and heart be filled with its compelling poetry. -Kay Eck None of us navigates the human journey without dancing with both ghosts and angels. With Dear Human, Kay Eck delivers a travel guide for the road ahead filled with pragmatic doses of sacred encouragement, clear-eyed reminders, and gentle but potent medicine. It encourages the reader to view life as a love letter penned to accompany them through the labyrinth of unique lessons we each came to learn. Infused with the author's poetry, reflections, and prayers, Dear Human invites us into the confluence of miracles that is the human path, celebrating both the mundane and the magnificent. We are neither alone nor without guidance as every step takes us closer the mastery that eases the weary heart and excites the inner spark so that eventually, everything we meet feels like buried treasure.