This book delves into the complex interplay between temperature regimes and rural landscapes, with a focused exploration of a small-scale river basin. It highlights the significance of microclimatic variations in rural areas, which are often overshadowed by urban heat studies.The book meticulously examines the factors contributing to temperature fluctuations in these landscapes, including land use patterns, water bodies, and vegetative cover, providing a wide-ranging understanding ...

An alternate Earth trapped in a perpetual Iron Age.An alien ship on the way to destroy all cities.One war band with the will to resist.Whenever the Lesser Race called humanity dares to build cities, an alien apocalypse descends from the skies. It has happened before, leaving only the legends of toppled empires to tell the tale.Unaware of the threat, the once nomadic Scythians have settled and built a capital. Arixa, leader of a war band called...

Human cloning.Technology evolves faster than we do.The law shields us from our worst temptations.But the opportunity is there, dangling just out of reach—perfection and ascension… or delusion and destruction.In this collection of clone-themed stories, ten of today’s top speculative fiction writers explore our morality, our built-in societal restraints, and reflect upon our state of grace.Similar is not necessarily the same.“CLONES: The Antholog...

“It is an interesting biological fact that all of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears.We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea--whether it is to sail or to watch it--we are going back from whence we came.”- John F. KennedyUnderwater cities, lost civilizations, crops, climate change, and dead zones.In this collection of o...

The Adventures of Jacktopus: In Search of HomeAn Action-Packed, Humorous Middle-Grade Adventure About Courage, Friendship, and Finding Where You BelongLooking for a laugh-out-loud adventure that sparks imagination, celebrates individuality, and keeps young readers turning the pages?The Adventures of Jacktopus: In Search of Home is a thrilling underwater journey about an octopus who desperately wants something his k...

Shayna waits in a hotel bar for her husband Tom to arrive, or rather Callaghan. They are playing a game, but the rules change when Sita arrives. Powerful, sexy and dominating, she's in town to perform some successful mergers. Tom arrives late to find his wife already heated up under the skillful hands of Sita. She invites him to join them as she disappears under the table. Champagne for Three is the first in a series of Novellas about couples eager to share their passion with another perso...

Written specifically for finance managers, Excel for the CFO explains the best features of Excel that allow for the automation of regular processes and help reduce the processing time spent on analytics. The book explores the entire gamut of finance-related functions and is focused on practical approaches to using Excel—including Pivot Tables, Goal Seek, Scenario Builder, and VBA—in problem solving to deliver quality results. Using case studies across all types of organizations to...

A Texas teenager finds a world beyond her abusive family: "Lynch can tell a story deep as a wound… Read this one."—Jeanette Winterson, New York Times-bestselling author of Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?Aggie is fifteen-year-old girl, a "sub" from a "sub" family, one of Texas's downtrodden. Her father and brother remind her of that status, week in, week out. She has only the vaguest notion that there is something wrong with the abuse she en...

Overcoming I.N.S.E.C.U.R.I.T.Y. is a transformative guide within the esteemed Live Life Lovely Book Series, providing invaluable tools and inspiring narratives that will help you navigate life's challenges with resilience and joy. The book stands as a powerful testament to the author's commitment to empowering others on their journey to self-discovery, offering essential insights to conquer inner doubts and thrive. Through poignant stories and practical advice, readers are guided towards e...

Barbarian born. Legion trained.Hostage. Symbol. Target.Matthi the Goth has spent six years inside a frontier military garrison, held hostage by the same Roman legions that saved him from an innocent boyhood mistake and the savage justice of the Angel of Death.He trains alongside highborn sons of the empire and sees his future within their ranks, but he is not a Roman citizen. He's called a savage--the teenage son of the only man who...

A ghost cannot tie a knot. A ghost cannot calibrate a voltage. But in the village of Jakpur, the dead are doing exactly that.Thirty years ago, the wealthy Chatterjee family buried a dark secret in the red earth. Now, their heirs are dying in impossible, "supernatural" accidents. The villagers fear a curse, but Inspector Sagar Mondal sees a blueprint.At every crime scene, Sagar finds a pattern: leverage, fulcrums, and chemical reactions. He ...

It took exactly 100 years from when communities in Paradise consistently sold hundreds of thousands of pounds of surplus food to British caravans, to when those same communities were fed cornmeal (animal feed) to keep them from starvation. Having broken the systems, the same institutions that claimed to be developing frontier markets were quietly running the oldest play in the colonial handbook: price the asset below its value, then buy it at the discount.Frontier Madness begins wit...