Best Selling Books by Ryan Kelly

Florence the Data Scientist and Her Magical Bookmobile is a picture book for young readers that explores and explains one of today''s most important and fastest-growing professions: data science! How can recording and analyzing data for patterns help make predictions about the future? Join Beatrice as she finds out. Beatrice loves four different things: reading, science, dragons, and swings! When a mysterious bookmobile drives down her street, the driver Florence knows exactly what books will delight all the kids in the neighborhood. But how?! Beatrice watches the scene throughout the day to record and analyze each of her friend''s responses to Florence''s same questions. Is Florence a psychic? Or is there a logical pattern at play? Can Beatrice ensure she answers to get the outcome she craves? Florence the Data Scientist helps young readers (and their parents!) understand the amazing predictive power of recording and analyzing trends and data.

The Untold Story of the Brave Men Who Endured the Greatest Survival Story of World War II. Inspired by a true Story. Philippines, 1942. Lance Corporal Melvin Sheya may be a Golden Gloves champion, a motorcycle dirt track racer and pool shark, but when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor and then shift their attack to the Philippines, he is just another US Marine trying to survive the merciless onslaught. Part of the largest surrender of US forces ever -- more than 70,000, he is thrust head first into a fight for his life. The deadly situations that will shape his destiny and transform him into a warrior come at an unrelenting pace. Enslaved as a POW, Mel must use all of his wit and will to stay alive and help save the rest of the prisoners from brutal fates.

When biblical studies adopted the language of intertextuality, it began using it in conjunction with other vocabulary--inner-biblical exegesis and interpretation, echoes, allusion--all of which it uses to signify when a biblical text refers to another text that appears elsewhere in Bible. This study examines the way such academic language is shaped by and shapes the assumptions of biblical scholarship. It examines the nature of linguistic signs and applies the insights of this examination to evaluating the language of reference in the study of the Hebrew Bible. The study concludes that the lanquage and theory of literary allusion is the best suited for enriching the academic discourse on the relationship of referential texts in the Hebrew Bible. It discusses methodological criteria for detecting allusion informed by a theoretically developed understanding of literary allusion.

The notion that "what was meant" is relevant to interpreting "what was said" is a truism for most people, but a scandal for most aesthetic, literary, and rhetorical scholars. Despite many critical purges of over the decades, however, the repressed term "intention" has returned in the form of debates about human subjectivity, agency, and voice. The likely reason for this persistence is that the connection between utterer''s meaning and utterance meaning cannot be severed without doing away with the prospect of human communication. The challenge for rhetorical critics, therefore, is to find a way to articulate the proper role of intention in interpretation. This analysis makes use of a healthy scholarly debate that has been sustained by literary and aesthetic critics so as to formulate an answer for rhetorical theory. By dividing the question of intention and by reconfiguring positions known as Hypothetical Intentionalism and Modest Actual Intentionalism, a perspective from which a critic may interrogate the question of intention is offered. Rather than contend that critics must always look to the author''s intention, this perspective holds that investigating the author''s intention is permissible and respectable as a critical option.