In the summer heat of 1990 Karachi, a 15-year-old boy’s ordinary school life takes an unexpected turn when he notices a mysterious woman watching him from a nearby building. Her name is **Hina** — a woman with a haunting smile and a past filled with pain.Driven by curiosity and compassion, the boy discovers Hina’s heartbreaking truth: a childhood shattered by her parents’ separation, abuse from a cruel stepmother, and a life forced into darkness no child should ever know.Th...

This revealing portrait of the famously wealthy Persian Gulf city investigates the human cost of its miraculous rise to global prominence.In less than two decades, Dubai has transformed itself from an obscure territory of the United Arab Emirates into a global center for business, tourism, and luxury living. With astonishing skyscrapers and tax-free incomes, its rulers have made Dubai into a playground for the global elite while skillfully downplaying its systemic ...

Sallie was an exceptionally talented individual whose diverse skills spanned various aspects of the performing arts, including scriptwriting, stage directing, and performing. His remarkable journey in the world of performing arts commenced on December 16, 1973, when he showcased his extraordinary flair for storytelling and performance by winning a prestigious monologue contest. This early victory not only highlighted his innate talent but also set the stage for a career that would embrace ...

What began as an obscure digital experiment in 2009 has now become a global financial revolution—one that threatens to topple banks, challenge governments, and redefine the very meaning of money.

This book exposes how universities—once engines of opportunity—now entrench inequality through hollow diplomas and degrees, thereby Monetizing knowledge, perpetuating academic feudalism. A call to dismantle this obsolete creaking edifice. This book arms students, educators, and rebels with the tools to bring something new.

The genius of leadership is its humanness. This book has discussed heavily on the human side of leadership such as people involvement, leadership, ethics, honesty, integrity, trust, diversity, and ego. If we don't recognize the importance of human engagement, human communication, and human development, we will not have a business. Humanity is in a period of great upheaval. For people and organizations attempting to thrive in this tumultuous time, old mindsets and approaches no longer work....

Written by leading experts, the book covers a broad range of topics pertaining to the myriad uses of artificial intelligence in microbiology. The book explores how AI and computation can play a key role in understanding and uncovering microscopic mysteries that defy other means of microbiological study. Like other fields of life science, the impact of next generation sequencing and bioinformatics are revolutionizing microbiology. In addition, the emerging role of quantum and nanotechnology...

Recent events have shown how uncivil communication by political elites on social media can spread through networked publics and contribute to real-world disruption. To explain the upstream dynamics of these processes, this book introduces the Spiral of Political Incivility on Social Media (SPIN), a model that conceptualizes incivility as a dynamic, three-stage process: the production of norm violations by political actors, their perception shaped by platform affordances and national contex...

The financial service industry is already changing significantly as a result of four important areas of innovation; the development of artificial intelligence (AI), innovation of Blockchain (Decentralized system), the fintech revolution, and the emergence of crypto-assets.The authors examine each of these areas separately in The Global Evolution, Changing Landscape and Future of Financial Markets, assisting the reader in comprehending the context, history, and basics of th...

Artificial Intelligence and Food Science examines a range of applications from pre- and post-harvest management to food packaging and the dairy industry, providing a thorough overview of how AI is revolutionizing these industries. The initial chapters introduce the fundamentals of AI and its recent advancements, covering key areas such as Constraint Satisfaction Problems, Adversarial Search, and Statistical Learning Theory. The book then moves on to explore AI applications in pre- and post...

How the power of peers and peer culture shapes individual behavior and future successFor decades, parents across America have asked their kids, “If your friends jumped off a bridge, would you?” The answer is, “Duh, yes.” Peers, as parents well know, have a tremendous impact on who their kids are and what they will become. And even while they insist otherwise, parents know that they’re largely powerless to change this. But the effect of peers is not just a story abo...

This monograph explores the analysis and design of model-free optimal control systems based on reinforcement learning (RL) theory, presenting new methods that overcome recent challenges faced by RL. New developments in the design of sensor data efficient RL algorithms are demonstrated that not only reduce the requirement of sensors by means of output feedback, but also ensure optimality and stability guarantees. A variety of practical challenges are considered, including disturbance reject...