Rain is soothing.Coffee is comforting.Routine is everything.On a quiet, rain-soaked afternoon, a man enjoys the small pleasures of life—warm stew, thoughtful reflection, and the peace of being alone. He dislikes modern media, avoids unnecessary relationships, and finds beauty in simplicity.But simplicity can hide disturbing rituals.I Love the Rain is a disturbing psychological horror short story that lingers long after the final drop falls.TW...

Rain is soothing.Coffee is comforting.Routine is everything.On a quiet, rain-soaked afternoon, a man enjoys the small pleasures of life—warm stew, thoughtful reflection, and the peace of being alone. He dislikes modern media, avoids unnecessary relationships, and finds beauty in simplicity.But simplicity can hide disturbing rituals.I Love the Rain is a disturbing psychological horror short story that lingers long after the final drop falls.

Rain is soothing.Coffee is comforting.Routine is everything.On a quiet, rain-soaked afternoon, a man enjoys the small pleasures of life—warm stew, thoughtful reflection, and the peace of being alone. He dislikes modern media, avoids unnecessary relationships, and finds beauty in simplicity.But simplicity can hide disturbing rituals.I Love the Rain is a disturbing psychological horror short story that lingers long after the final drop falls.

A journey from “brainfulness” to mindfulness, from self-control to self-regulation, and from indifference to compassionMindfulness meditation is an increasingly popular form of an ancient and powerful technique for reducing stress, elevating one’s mental state, and improving the practitioner’s overall quality of life. Award-winning author and mindfulness meditation teacher Joseph Emet now takes you down a step-by-step path to integrate this potent form of meditation into your daily...

Expand your knowledge of computer vision by building amazing projects with OpenCV Key FeaturesBook DescriptionComputer vision is becoming accessible to a large audience of software developers who can leverage mature libraries such as OpenCV. However, as they move beyond their first experiments in computer vision, developers may struggle to ensure that their solutions are sufficiently well optimized, well trained, robust, and adaptive in real-world cond...

Physics World's 'Book of the Year' for 2016An Entertaining and Enlightening Guide to the Who, What, and Why of String Theory, now also available in an updated reflowable electronic format compatible with mobile devices and e-readers.During the last 50 years, numerous physicists have tried to unravel the secrets of string theory. Yet why do these scientists work on a theory lacking experimental confirmation?Why String Theory? provides the answer, offering a highly re...

With the advent of charter schools in the United States, the face of public education has changed in this country. From its early beginning in Minnesota to its exponential growth inCalifornia the charter school movement has generated much controversy. It has been praised for its accomplishments, and criticized for its creaming of students.Over 130,000 students attend nearly 250 charter schools in the city of Los Angeles. Thisbook presents an in-depth look at seventeen...

Medical Instruments and Devices: Principles and Practices originates from the medical instruments and devices section of The Biomedical Engineering Handbook, Fourth Edition. Top experts in the field provide material that spans this wide field. The text examines how biopotential amplifiers help regulate the quality and content of measured signals. It includes instruments and devices that span a range of physiological systems and the physiological scale: molecular, ...

This book represents the collected thinking of a few people who have had strong personal connections to Dr. Song Nai Rhee. Because the integration of faith and learning is a core value held by Dr. Rhee, the various authors have written essays on this topic in honor of his life and work. Such a book is typically referred to as a Festschrift, a celebratory writing given for a special person. Dr. Rhee's robust career at Northwest Christian College/University is celebrated by the essays brough...

A practical, point-of-care companion for the wards—backed by Harrison’s trusted expertiseHarrison's Guide to Inpatient Medicine: Common Internal Medicine Diseases and Workups bridges the gap between dense medical school textbooks and quick-reference pocket guides, providing a structure to help medical students, interns, and residents navigate the transition from the classroom to the bedside with practical inpatient protocols for the wards...

Celebrates and illuminates the legacy of one of America’s most innovative and consequential 20th century novelistsIn 2002, following the posthumous publication of William Gaddis’s collected nonfiction and his final novel and Jonathan Franzen’s lengthy attack on him in The New Yorker, a number of partisan articles appeared in support of Gaddis’s legacy. In a review in The London Review of Books, critic Hal Foster suggested a reason for disparate responses t...

Spanning time and space from late Victorian Britain and Ireland to postwar America and Latin America, Late Imperial Culture maps crucial regions in the terrain of imperial cultural practices including theater, film, photography, fiction, autobiography, and body art. The forms reviewed in this lively collection range from those which accept and reproduce empire's dominant self-images to scathing critiques of the oppressions that colonialism has visited upon its subjects and the pri...