The story of survival continues; the past is not finished with them. In the aftermath of Primm, the descendants are scattered. Alex, Dot, and Grant lead a desperate band of survivors across the desert with the Boar’s forces close behind. Nicholas and Will risk everything to find Vera, following a trail that carries them far from home and into the reach of powers preparing for war. Vera awakens among the Families, a secret world built upon blood, power, and generations of deception. As she ...

Lu and Elliot had a plan...until Ireland changed everything.If hard-of-hearing therapist Luisa Mendes knew her ears would one day fail her, she never would've chosen a listening profession. Time to pivot as an advice columnist, and make an unexpected connection to the magazine's new photographer. Too bad he also happens to be the toxic ex from one of her reader's letters.If photographer Elliot O'Bryan knew his influencer girlfriend would cheat on h...

From New York Times Bestselling author, Gesine Bullock-Prado, one of America’s most sought after baking instructors, comes a book that reveals the why and how behind the recipes she spent years perfecting and teaching.Relaxed, joyful, and authoritative, Baked in Vermont shares recipes infused with the author’s signature charm. Her students travel from around the world to attend her baking school, Sugar Glider Kitchen?covering everything from blueb...

Learn to understand and implement the latest machine learning innovations to improve your investment performanceMachine learning (ML) is changing virtually every aspect of our lives. Today, ML algorithms accomplish tasks that – until recently – only expert humans could perform. And finance is ripe for disruptive innovations that will transform how the following generations understand money and invest.In the book, readers will learn how to:Stru...

Successful investment strategies are specific implementations of general theories. An investment strategy that lacks a theoretical justification is likely to be false. Hence, an asset manager should concentrate her efforts on developing a theory rather than on backtesting potential trading rules. The purpose of this Element is to introduce machine learning (ML) tools that can help asset managers discover economic and financial theories. ML is not a black box, and it does not necessarily ov...

This financial expert's new book shows you how you can build your empire and gain financial freedom. In just over a month, readers can organize their financial lives and make progress in the investment field. Through daily challenges, Vitor Prado demonstrated his methods of financial education, which include topics such as the financial control system (60,20,20), generating extra income and investing in investments. At the end of the cycle, it is possible to restart the journey with new go...

Oceans and other wetlands cover approximately 70% of the Earth's surface and represent some of the most vital and dynamic ecosystems on the planet. These aquatic environments provide essential functions that support both planetary and human well-being - from regulating climate through carbon sequestration and influencing weather patterns, to sustaining biodiversity and supplying food and livelihoods to billions of people. They act as buffers against extreme weather events, nurseries for ma...

The book provides a comprehensive overview of current knowledge about "wattles", a large clade of over 1000 species of trees and shrubs in the genus Acacia, most of which are native to Australia. It examines the biology, ecology, evolution, and biogeography of wattles in their native ranges, including the evolutionary forces that have driven past speciation and adaptation to diverse environments, the conservation status, uses and human perceptions of these species. It considers the differe...

Your Impossible Voice #25 opens with a story of love, loneliness, and DJs in Argentina, and closes with wayward Taco Bell bandits loose in the Buckeye state. In between, it delivers new short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction exploring anaphylactic reactions to dust, languages that sound like bonfire flames, dollar-store groceries, golden molars and nectars, witchy weather apps, migraines, matricide, and so much more.Contributors include Cecilia Pavón and Jacob Steinberg, Ro...

Poetry that eloquently concentrates on the spiritual and physical lives of women.This is the first book published in English by of the work of Brazilian poet Adélia Prado. Incorporating poems published over the past fifteen years, The Alphabet in the Park is a book of passion and intelligence, wit and instinct. These are poems about human concerns, especially those of women, about living in one's body and out of it, about the physical but also the spiritual and the...

Oníric Control - A Dream Traveler s Manual The sensations experienced by a dream traveler cannot be explained in words. Becoming lucid within your own dream means accessing a limitless universe where the mind shapes reality and everything becomes possible. Scientific studies prove that lucid dreaming can be trained, allowing the dreamer to transform scenarios, overcome nightmares, and consciously explore their subconscious. Techniques such as Mnemonic Induction of Lucid Dreams (MILD), Wake...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.Taco is a deep dive into the most iconic Mexican food from the perspective of a Mexico City native. In a narrative that moves from Mexico to the United States and back, Sánchez Prado discusses the definition of the taco, the question of the tortilla and the taco shell, and the existence of the taco as a modern social touchstone that has been shaped by ...