One woman's truth vs. a tycoon's ambition. In a world of steam and iron, who will survive the collision?The year is 1910. Spain is a nation caught between two eras—the fading world of ancient traditions and the roaring arrival of the industrial revolution. For Isabella Moretti, a sharp-witted writer with a passion for justice, her family's sprawling vineyard is more than just land; it is her soul. But beneath the fertile soil of the Moretti estate lies a se...

Behind stone walls and whispered plots, a hidden heritage threatens to upend an empire.When Rosaline, a quiet woman bound to a humble existence, discovers the truth of her royal bloodline, she is thrust into a court dominated by danger and deceit. At the center of this world stands William, a ruthless and unyielding king whose commands shape the fate of nations.As external enemies march toward the kingdom and betrayal festers from w...

A missing heiress. A corrupt town. A retired detective forced back into the line of fire.Former Portland Homicide Detective Marcus Vance wanted only one thing: solitude. Settling into a secluded timber cabin in the Oregon mountains, he thought he had left behind a career defined by institutional decay and violence.That peace shatters when a local waitress reports the violent abduction of Chloe Sterling—a twenty-four-year-old eco-act...

Your imagination is no longer just a story.In the heart of modern Berlin, a city haunted by its own history, author Stefan Richter discovers the "Sovereign Nib"—a centuries-old pen with the terrifying power to manifest ink into reality. At first, it's a miracle. His failing career is revived, and his visions take shape. But perfection comes with a price.When Stefan's most gruesome fictional antagonist, The Paper Man, begins a killing spree across the city, the line between ...

What happens when the technology designed to connect the world becomes its ultimate cage?In The Future Paradox, brothers Adam and Henry Hoffman are haunted by their parents' radical legacy: "Project Chimera." What began as a revolutionary attempt to merge human biology with artificial intelligence has evolved into the "Nexus"—a living, global algorithm that has turned civilization into a singular, processed unit.When the Seattle con...

What if freedom could be forged in fire?In 18th-century Barbados, Kwasi was born into slavery—but he was never meant to remain in chains.With Amara by his side, he leads a desperate rebellion into the mountains, where a small group of freedom fighters must survive the British Empire and build a nation of their own.But winning a war is only the beginning.As Kwasi turns iron into weapo...

In the rain-slicked streets of Seattle, cyber-security consultant Aiden Reed lives a life dictated by logic and code. But his world is shattered when he receives a cryptic, high-level encrypted message from a man who has been dead for three years: his best friend and brilliant tech innovator, Sebastian.Sebastian didn't just die in a car accident. He was the first subject of "The Mapping"—a radical and dangerous experiment to upload human consciousness into ...

Advanced Computing Solutions for Healthcare explores the transformative integration of advanced computing technologies into healthcare systems, emphasizing innovation in patient care, diagnostics, and health monitoring. Spanning 22 chapters, it covers topics such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, IoT, data science, and wearable technologies. The book bridges theoretical concepts and practical applications, featuring neuromorphic computing, IoT for healthcare, AI-driven diagnost...

Understand Microsoft's dramatically updated new release of its premier toolset for business intelligenceThe first major update to Microsoft's state-of-the-art, complex toolset for business intelligence (BI) in years is now available and what better way to master it than with this detailed book from key members of the product's development team? If you're a database or data warehouse developer, this is the expert resource you need to build full-scale, multi-dimensio...

This book provides an introduction to the techniques and procedures of soil reinforcement. The various reinforcement materials in use today (particularly geosynthetics) are discussed and their properties evaluated for different reinforcement functions. The design principles underlying various reinforcement techniques are analysed and illustrated with examples. Construction of roads, flyovers, embankments and dams, facilities on soft soil deposits, etc., involve soil reinforcement technique...

This book covers the fundamental as well as the advanced aspects of using cyclodextrins effectively for the selective sensing of analytes, designing sensory systems using cyclodextrins, and the mechanisms of cyclodextrins-based sensors. It ultimately provides a holistic and collective understanding on the various chemosensory systems based on cyclodextrins, which will help readers in designing and developing new sensors. This book serves as an invaluable single-point reference material for...

Sonochemical Synthesis of Natural Products and Heterocycles of Pharmaceutical Importance: Strategy Towards a Sustainable Society comprehensively summarizes sonochemistry and ultrasound and their applicability to synthetic organic chemistry. Chapters demonstrate the application of sonochemistry to synthesizing molecules of natural origin, organic compounds containing N-heterocycles, O-heterocycles, and S-heterocycles, and the total synthesis and semisynthesis of bioactive compounds under ul...