Chaos. Even in this rainstorm there is brightness; there is color.Rainclouds are moving on. I see a rainbow.In her debut story, the tears that stained the glass, amh takes you through a journey through poetry and prose about a woman's struggle coming to terms with her partner's hidden life and infidelity that caused destruction and disorder to her once normal life. Fighting anxiety, depression and self-worth, she finds herself making the decision th...

Three aliens. One strange road trip. A planet full of surprises.When three aliens arrive on Earth, they expect a simple mission. Instead, they discover a chaotic world filled with confusing technology, strange customs, and unpredictable humans. As they travel across the planet, they face hilarious misunderstandings, unexpected friendships, and challenges that test their ability to adapt.Alien Cable Road Trip is a lighthearted science fiction comedy adventure about first con...

From his influence on economics and governance to his pivotal role in popularising Christianity, this is a compelling exploration of the transformative reign of Constantine the Great, Roman Emperor from 306 to 337 AD.Constantine the Great (c. 272–337) was a pivotal figure in the history of both the Roman Empire and Christianity. The first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity, he eradicated Christian persecution and was influential in the religion’s spread throu...

Dissonance is the second released poetry collection by author A.H.M. Similarly to its predcessor, Poetry & Proverbs of a Manic Depressive Mess, this compilation explores themes relating to dysphoria, queer dating experiences, limerance, life beyond divorce, medical trauma, and survivor's guilt.

"Whispers of the Wild" explores ways to interact directly with plants, learn their language, and develop personal connections with nature as spiritual plant allies. This book combines traditional botanical knowledge with modern spiritual practices, providing readers with a distinctive framework for connecting with plants, one that extends beyond the garden and into the heart of the natural world. Through a combination of meditative practices, actionable steps, and specific messages from va...

Just as a prism splits white light into color, the nine Rhode Island authors in this collection break fiction into a spectrum of genres. From romance to horror, these tales cover a range of styles, themes, and experiences.Join a reluctant hero with a big heart on a dangerous quest, or navigate the cruel halls of high school with a young witch. Remember love found and lost over the course of a lifetime, or battle with dead men and addiction. Punch in at the Office to make sure the P...

As a pluralistic nation, Malaysia consists of diverse ethnic groups of people with various cultures that integrate harmonious and peaceful living in a politically stable and wonderfully rich environmental setting. Due to such unique features, people from abroad become largely attracted to this land and thus frequently arrive here as visitors and tourists. There are tremendous amounts of attractions for the visitors and tourists, and people from various backgrounds arrive to stay here tempo...

In the remote village of Silentbrook, a dark curse has haunted its inhabitants for generations. Every decade, people mysteriously disappear, leaving the villagers in fear and desperation. But four unlikely friends—Emma, Samuel, Rachel, and Ben—are determined to face the scary past and break the curse that has gripped their home for so long.As they dive into Silentbrook's history, the friends uncover forgotten tales of a tragic love story gone awry. United by courage and a thirst fo...

This book, Understanding Africa, is a compilation of a number of articles explaining the analytical stories of culture change in the African continent. A few articles of this book have been presented in draft form at an international conference held and organized by the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, International Islamic University Malaysia, in December 2015. After the conference, the department has given us the responsibility of editing this book on Africa, adding a few relate...

Originally published in 1958 this book presents a straight-forward and vivid picture of Adamawa Province in Nigeria. It discusses the varying fortunes of the territory, the life of its people, the efforts of its explorers and the achievements of the early administrators. It discusses the geography of the area as well as the political and economic conditions in the first half of the twentieth century, as well as the character and occupations of the Adamawa people.

This book offers a comprehensive examination of Islamic finance as a legal-ethical system rooted in Sharīʿah, highlighting its regulatory, ethical, and institutional dimensions. It critiques prevailing models of Islamic banking for prioritizing technical compliance over justice, accountability, and public welfare, and advances a maqāṣid-driven vision of regulation. Drawing on comparative case studies from Pakistan, Bangladesh, India, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives, the book ident...

This book presents a radically new approach to problems of evaluating and optimizing the performance of continuous-time stochastic systems. This approach is based on the use of a family of Markov processes called Piecewise-Deterministic Processes (PDPs) as a general class of stochastic system models. A PDP is a Markov process that follows deterministic trajectories between random jumps, the latter occurring either spontaneously, in a Poisson-like fashion, or when the process hits the bound...