Banned on Mars!A space opera comedy with satiric tone, The Voyages of Ralf owes as much to Philip K. Dick as Douglas Adams."A THRILL RIDE... COMIC BRILLIANCE," effuses Indie Reader.Readers' Favorite awarded the novel a 5-Star Seal review, calling it "AN ACTION-PACKED ADVENTURE WITH PLENTY OF LAUGHS ALONG THE WAY".From the back cover:"A great, subversive book!" - Terran Viewpoint"Load of malarkey." - New West York Times"I prefer the so...

The lunacy of the final months of World War II, as experienced by a young German soldierDistant, silent, often drunk, Walter Urban is a difficult man to have as a father. But his son—the narrator of this slim, harrowing novel—is curious about Walter's experiences during World War II, and so makes him a present of a blank notebook in which to write down his memories. Walter dies, however, leaving nothing but the barest skeleton of a story on those pages, leading his ...

Set up, maintain, and secure a small office email serverKey FeaturesCovers all the information you need to easily set up your own Linux email serverLearn how to provide web access to email, virus and spam protection, and moreThoroughly covers open source tools like PostFix, Courier, SpamAssassin, and ProcMailA step-by-step approach where the reader is taken through examples with ample screenshots and clear explanations to facilitate le...

The dakinis of Tibetan Buddhism are not gentle guides. They are fierce, untamed, and unapologetically whole – embodying aspects of the psyche we often suppress: rage, desire, wildness, grief.This audio course offers a structured practice for working with dakini energy as a path to psychological integration. Drawing on traditional Tibetan mantras and visualization techniques, you'll learn to meet the parts of yourself you've been taught to hide – not to fix them, but to reclaim them...

This book examines the political dynamics and complexities of the European Council at a time of seemingly chronic crisis and rapid political change. Providing insight into the everyday workings of this critically important EU institution, it covers: why the European Council matters; its roles and responsibilities; its impact on the EU over time, including in response to the Russian War and the COVID-19 pandemic; and the role that the European Council might play in the EU's uncertain future...

The digital world opens up a vast number of spaces such as immersive virtual reality, digital book corners, and discourses marked by hashtags. In this volume, we argue that digital spaces and textualities should play a more central role in English language teaching and learning (ELT), emphasising their multimodal and interactive nature as a means of engaging with different layers of meaning in the target language. Digital spaces function as contact zones where readers and writers communica...

What does it mean to be Australian? The answer is more complicated, more painful, and more remarkable than the sunburnt expanses and easy coastal postcards of popular imagination suggest.The Pride Series explores the identity of nations one country at a time, celebrating what makes each one unique while preserving the heritage that defines it. This volume turns to Australia: a vast island continent whose influence on the wider world has never matched its isolation, and whose story ...

The Fire-Soul by Raivo Bimšteins tells the life story of Rhyan, a young man with a magical lighter. The narrative follows his journey from high school years to adulthood and trials of working life, all while he searches for his elusive Soul-mate. Framed by a present-day storyline, the book explores powerful themes of love, betrayal, revenge, alcoholism, and the ultimate pursuit of success.

Comics and human mobility have a long history of connections. This volume explores these entanglements with a focus on both how comics represent migration and what applied uses comics have in relation to migration. The volume examines both individual works of comic art and examples of practical applications of comics from across the world.Comics are well-suited to create understanding, highlight truthful information, and engender empathy in their audiences, but are also an art form...

The notion of the highest good used to occupy a primary role in ethical theorising, but has largely disappeared from the contemporary landscape. The notion was central to both Aristotle's and Kant's ethical theories, however--a surprising observation given that their approaches to ethics are commonly conceived as being diametrically opposed. The essays in this collection provide a comprehensive treatment of the highest good in Aristotle and Kant and show that, even though there are importa...

Sustainable development will not be possible without fundamental improvements in resource productivity and energy efficiency, the adaptation of material flows into natural cycles as well as a radical change in production and consumption patterns. In essence, what is required is not only an ecological approach to product design but also new marketing and consumption patterns for products that can satisfy our needs in a more environmentally sound way.In recent years there has been growing in...

This Festschrift is dedicated to Ralf Steinmetz on the occasion of his retirement. The honoree is a full professor at the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany, where he leads the Multimedia Communications lab. He has supervised over 105 successful PhD students and remains committed to his vision of achieving “seamless adaptive multimedia communications.” He has been widely recognized for his contributions to the field, prestigious accolades include an Honorary Doctorate from RWTH A...