At 03:47 Zulu, the Russian president's biometrics cease.CIA operative Elias Thorne completes his mission and walks out of the dacha. Clean. Professional. Done. He has no idea what he just activated.Somewhere in the North Atlantic, five disguised cargo ships wake up. An autonomous nuclear system — designed to fire without human authorization if the president died — is now counting down. The only way to stop it is a biometric deactivation sequence spoken in person, aboard the...

Food safety hazards are increasingly being recognized as a major public health problem worldwide, yet among developing countries, there is limited understanding of the wider-ranging socio-economic costs of unsafe food and the benefits of remedial or preventative measures. This limited evidence base has led many countries to underinvest in food safety, or invest inefficiently in reaction to serious outbreaks of foodborne illness, other food scares, or trade interruptions. For many countries...

How far would you go for the ones you love?Unfolding across ten extraordinary years, DAHLIA tells the spellbinding story of Jack and Dahlia Donner-and the startling transformation of two people pushed beyond the brink of devotion.Jack Donner is a young man adrift when he first meets his future wife. Immediately, he is struck by her charm, boldness, and almost unsettling beauty. With her, he believes he can escape the shadows of his past and...

Headstrong explores the experiences of women porters, called kayayei, in Accra, Ghana. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork, anthropologist Laurian R. Bowles shows how kayayei navigate precarity, bringing into sharp relief how racialization, rooted in histories of colonialism and enslavement, undergirds capital accumulation in Ghana.Bowles’s ethnographic storytelling follows these women through their work as human transporters at Ghanaian markets. In creative...

Headstrong explores the experiences of women porters, called kayayei, in Accra, Ghana. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork, anthropologist Laurian R. Bowles shows how kayayei navigate precarity, bringing into sharp relief how racialization, rooted in histories of colonialism and enslavement, undergirds capital accumulation in Ghana.Bowles’s ethnographic storytelling follows these women through their work as human transporters at Ghanaian markets. In creative...

If we want our students to be prepared for a life involved with artificial intelligence, global awareness, cultural understanding, racial, religious and lifestyle diversity, and changing economic and political realities, then we have to change what we are doing in our schools from pre-school to graduate school. We can no longer wait for large-scale reforms to develop, because those reforms will only occur due to some kind of tragedy. If schools are going to reform proactively, educators in...

Highly entertaining, at times totally believable, at times to be taken with a grain of salt, this book leaps above the fantastic into a realism that brings together literature, science and quirky visual arts. Poet, composer and novelist Laurian Taler makes the character Adam Onkey communicate several essential truths. It is a social, sci-fi allegory in which a wondrous chimp tells it, or better, writes it as it is. Four main motives that inte...

Find here a second collection of almost 100 lyrics for the songs by Laurian Taler, with a multitude of topics, ranging from environment, climate change, to hunger for love and actual hunger.

Our common interest in surgery of the vertebral artery was born in 1976, when as residents in the same hospital, we attended an attempt by two senior surgeons to treat an aneurysm of the vertebral artery at the C 3 level. Long discussions had preceded this unsuccessful trial, to decide if surgery was indicated and to choose the surgical route. Finally a direct lateral approach was performed, but access was difficult and correct treatment was impossible, resulting in only partial reduction ...

Over 100 lyrics from the songs by Laurian Taler, where you will encounter all the concerns and fulfilments generated by love and other feelings that appear in interpersonal relationships.

One Earth - The Musical is an educational , environmental tool based on science curriculum and behaviour modification geared toward students of all ages to prepare and perform in school concerts.