When Rentt senses something wrong with his familiar, Edel, he and Lorraine leave Hathara and return to the city of Maalt. They find the city in flames, swarming with thralls.Rentt finds Edel safe beneath the orphanage. Through his familiar, our hero learns that a single vampire may be the cause of all the chaos. Matters are complicated when Rentt runs into Gold-class adventurer and vampire hunter, Nive Maris . . . who still suspects Rentt may be a vampire!W...

Dreamchaser relates stories that occurred during two years in the Soviet military and two years in a Soviet prison camp, the GULAG, as a political dissident. Written sometimes in anecdotal form, they provide a window into both the author's life and experiences in the Soviet Union and the feeling of horror for everyday existence there.The book begins with the harshness of military life, from the bizarre humor of painting living trees to suit a general's color preference to ...

This book deals with six trials, conducted by the Romanian state against Jewish key officials employed in state-owned import-export companies between 1950 and 1960. It begins with a presentation of the political realities of Romania following the Communist Party's rise to power, in particular those regarding its relationship with Romania's Jews and Gheorghiu-Dej’s policy of National Communism. Rozenberg describes the criminal procedure used in the staged economic trials follows and then ex...

Ending poverty and stabilizing climate change will be two unprecedented global achievements and two major steps toward sustainable development. But the two objectives cannot be considered in isolation: they need to be jointly tackled through an integrated strategy. This report brings together those two objectives and explores how they can more easily be achieved if considered together. It examines the potential impact of climate change and climate policies on poverty reduction. Shock Waves...

What if you're already enough?In a world obsessed with morning routines, habit tracking, and constant self-improvement, Tomer Rozenberg offers a radical alternative."1% Daily" isn't about optimizing your life, it's about occasionally remembering you're living it.Through gentle observations and practical wisdom, Rozenberg demonstrates how even the smallest moments can shift how an entire day feels.This isn't another system to master or habit to track. It's permis...

The science is unequivocal: stabilizing climate change implies bringing net carbon emissions to zero. This must be done by 2100 if we are to keep climate change anywhere near the 2oC warming that world leaders have set as the maximum acceptable limit. Decarbonizing Development: Three Steps to a Zero-Carbon Future looks at what it would take to decarbonize the world economy by 2100 in a way that is compatible with countries' broader development goals. Here is what needs to be done: -Act ear...

Rentt meets a beautiful woman in the dungeon! What’s Lorraine gonna say?!After evolving into a thrall, Rentt explores an unmapped part of the dungeon and encounters a mysterious woman. In exchange for his discretion, she gives him a treasure called the Map of Akasha, but before he can learn anything about her, she warps him out of the dungeon.However, meeting her may just be the least of his worries. On his quest to become a Mithril-class adventurer, he must first pass... t...

After Rentt, the undead adventurer, passes his Bronze-class ascension exam for the second time, Sheila becomes suspicious and uncovers his true identity. Despite playing dumb, her sincerity convinces him to tell her everything. Now a Bronze-class adventurer again, Rentt takes a special job from an orphanage for a single bronze coin. But before he can fulfill the dangerous and difficult request, he somehow gains a vampiric servant of the rodent kind. In the fourth volume of this adventure f...

From their location in the heart of Detroit, Michigan, the Weisfelds’ lab has reached out for thirty years to couples in long-term partnerships around the world. In living rooms in Detroit, London, Moscow, Beijing, and beyond, couples of all types and ages have shared their perspectives into adult romantic relationships. The Psychology of Marriage: An Evolutionary and Cross-Cultural View is a distillation of these findings, which have appeared in dozens of book chapters, journal articles, ...

'Economic losses from natural disasters totaled $92 billion in 2015.' Such statements, all too commonplace, assess the severity of disasters by no other measure than the damage inflicted on buildings, infrastructure, and agricultural production. But $1 in losses does not mean the same thing to a rich person that it does to a poor person; the gravity of a $92 billion loss depends on who experiences it. By focusing on aggregate losses—the traditional approach to disaster risk—we restrict our...

This book explores how the European Union has changed the French Parliament since 1992. It supports the view that the institutional adaptation of both assemblies to European affairs is largely superficial as it lacks a genuine involvement from members of parliament. Nevertheless, the role of backbenchers has changed in the context of European integration. New ways of behaving, thinking and representing have emerged. From specialized representatives to constituency members, from presidentia...

Invasive alien plants and animals are known for their disruption of ecosystems and threat to biodiversity. This book highlights their major impact on human health. This includes not only direct effects through contact with the species via bites, wounds and disease, but also indirect effects caused by changes induced in ecosystems by invasive species, such as more water hyacinth increasing mosquito levels and thereby the potential for malaria. Covering a wide range of case studies from diff...