In an age of robots, QR codes and self-service, can a waiter ever be replaced? This book says no. Hotels and Restaurants are investing millions in technology, but guests do not come back for the machine. They come back for people. The Irreplaceable Waiter: Mastering The Sacred Craft of Service in The Age of Automation is not about carrying plates, but about carrying people. It reclaims the dignity of service and reveals The 5 Promises of Sacred Service which makes a waiter irreplaceable — ...

Have you ever looked at a beautiful needle-felted animal or miniature sculpture and wondered how it was made?ULTIMATE NEEDLE FELTING WITH PATTERNS is a practical, easy-to-follow guide designed to help you turn simple wool fibers into charming handmade creations—even if you are completely new to needle felting.Inside this book, you will discover how to choose and prepare wool, understand different felting needles, build strong basic shapes, combine pieces, create detailed fa...

Desert Drums: The Pueblo Indians of New Mexico, 1540-1928 By Leo Crane Before the highways came, before the tourists and the treaties and the slow erosion of a world that had endured for centuries, there was the desert. And in that desert, there were people. They built their homes from the earth itself, worshipped beneath an infinite sky, and kept their fires burning through four hundred years of conquest, colonization, and relentless pressure to disappear. Leo Crane lived among them. He s...

The Power of Darkness is a five-act drama that follows the downfall of the peasants Anísya and Nikíta as they succumb to a series of sordid temptations, from adultery and drunkenness to outright murder. Written in 1886 but suppressed by censors until 1902, the play is a realist portrayal of some of the darkest elements of Russian peasant life. Similar to some other late Tolstoy works, like Resurrection, the play's psychological exploration of human depravity is accompanied by a sharp socia...

Against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, five aristocratic families in Russia are transformed by the vagaries of life, by war, and by the intersection of their lives with each other. Hundreds of characters populate War and Peace, many of them historical persons, including Napoleon and Tsar Alexander I, and all of them come to life under Tolstoy's deft hand.War and Peace is generally considered to be Tolstoy's masterpiece, a pinnacle of Russian literature, and one of history's g...

What Is Art? is an 1897 philosophical treatise by Leo Tolstoy that lays out his philosophy of aesthetics. Rejecting notions of aesthetics that center around beauty, Tolstoy instead posits that art is defined by its role in transmitting feelings between human beings, and that its quality should be judged by whether those feelings align with a society's highest moral and religious ideals.Tolstoy makes a number of unconventional aesthetic judgments in the course of the book, dismissin...

From climate change protests in the West, to pro-democracy demonstrations in Asia, in recent years we have witnessed a global rise in offending motivated by a 'just cause'. This book argues that the conventional criminal law and sentencing frameworks where the offender is seen as malignantly motivated and punished accordingly is inappropriate here. Legislatures, courts, sentencing councils and commissions must now confront the question: should people convicted of ethically-motivated crimes...

Milo loves adventures.Tree forts. Rocket launches. Jungle races. Treasure hunts.There is just one problem —he mostly watches them happen on a screen.But when Milo’s tablet suddenly goes quiet, a yellow butterfly leads him toward something he has almost forgotten:the world outside.Soon Milo is racing paper boats, flying through space in a cardboard rocket, inventing games with his friend Aya, watching clouds drift overhead, an...

Someone is broadcasting orders in Veyra city that were never given.Field Officer First Class Alvin Leit has two jammed tram bridges, a district full of civilians heading the wrong way, and no idea who's behind it. Only that the false evacuation calls are hindering reinforcements who should be heading to the front.He has a mercenary who's barely survived a previous encounter with the cult, a relay technician who can't tell him who's transmitting, and a runner fast enough to ...

In his first book of original, never-before-seen writings, Pope Leo XIV offers readers around the world a window into the spiritual foundation that would lead him to the papacy―in his own words before his election.Before becoming Pope Leo XIV, Robert Francis Prevost had never published a book. But shortly after his election to the papacy, Leo chose these previously unpublished texts to become his first published collection of writings: Freedom Under Grace....

In his first book of original, never-before-seen writings, Pope Leo XIV offers readers around the world a window into the spiritual foundation that would lead him to the papacy.'A peace-seeking bridge builder' Guardian'One of the world’s most consequential voices on faith and politics' The Washington PostBefore becoming Pope Leo XIV, Robert Francis Prevost had never published a book. But shortly af...

In Forever Ours, New York Times bestselling author Cassia Leo breathes life into the Shattered Hearts Series, a fresh and brilliantly emotional coming of age love story.The day fifteen-year-old Claire meets sixteen-year-old Chris is like any other day. She’s been kicked out of yet another foster home. The moment she sees the piercing in his lip and the tattoos on his skin, she’s certain she won’t last long in this placement.But sh...