Drawing from a career of almost fifty years, Daniel Mark Epstein’s collection of new and selected poems forms a lyrical autobiography of its author as a poet and a man. Dawn to Twilight examines universal themes such as love and aging, happiness and despair, each of which Epstein approaches differently throughout the decades of his writing career. These poems encapsulate the evolution of Epstein’s work, with the passage of time itself forming a crucial theme as the author grows from studen...

Shatter industry assumptions and accelerate startup growth by reasoning from absolute fundamental truths. Perfect for your focused morning commute, this high-energy guide equips ambitious founders and product builders to stop copying yesterday's best practices. Instead of drowning in opinion-based debates, you will learn to dismantle constraints and construct revolutionary solutions from the ground up.Whether you are strategizing during deep work sessions or navigating the chaotic ...

If You Could Read My Voice is a compilation of the best pieces from Mark Daniel Curley's nighttime AM radio show, SportstatiC, from the year 1998. This compilation was originally written and printed, in a very limited but unpublished run, in early 1999. The content has been preserved in its original state for this e-book, from Preface to Table of Contents to Main Text to Index. This was Mark Daniel Curley's first crack at professional writing, and his subsequent newspaper columns, book, an...

Electronic skin (e-skin) is an emerging technology that can be applied in the fields of medical prosthetics and robotics: e-skin provides the sense of touch to mechanical systems. This book bridges the gap between existing e-skin technologies and the remarkable capabilities of human tactile perception. It presents end-to-end design strategies for next-generation fully-integrated e-skin systems that mirror essential properties of human skin, such as being multi-modal, multi-scale, and perfo...

For over a century, Yellowstone National Park has been a monument to wildness in America. But long before flames swept through Yellowstone in 1988, that wildness had come under fire from encroachments that were making the park one of our nation’s most commodified pieces of real estate.For as long as they’ve existed, parks like Yellowstone have been the scene of some of the most intensive commercial activity in the American West. Selling Yellowstone recounts the story of such activi...

Wealth Wisdom for Everyone provides a practical and easy to read introduction to the management of family income, expenditure and investment. As a part of the Raffles Wealth and Legacy Series of books, and as a guidebook for an introductory course by the same name on the Raffles Legacy and Leadership e-learning site (www.raffleslegacylearning.com), Wealth Wisdom provides a simple and clear description of how to manage family finances — fr...

The first publication of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s private, intimate diaries, providing “a candid self-portrait of the ‘bad girl of American letters’” (Kirkus Reviews)“Endlessly intriguing and illuminating. The publication of Edna St. Vincent Millay's diaries is a major literary event, providing astonishing insight into the great poet’s art and life.”—Chloe Honum, author of The Tulip-FlameThe English autho...

Jan Ullrich: The Best There Never Was is the first biography of Jan Ullrich, arguably the most naturally talented cyclist of his generation, and also one of the most controversial champions of the Tour de France.In 1997, Jan Ullrich announced himself to the world by obliterating his rivals in the first mountain stage of the Tour de France. So awesome was his display that it sent shockwaves throughout the world of cycling and invited headlines such as L...

French philosophy is an internationally celebrated national philosophical tradition, and this Oxford Handbook offers a comprehensive approach to its history since 1800. The Handbook features essays written by renowned international specialists, illuminating key movements and positions, themes and thinkers in nineteenth-, twentieth- and even twenty-first-century French philosophy. The volume takes into account developments in recent historical scholarship by broadening the notion of Modern ...

From Woke to AwakeIn a world that never stops talking, clarity has quietly become harder to find.Thoughts form quickly.Opinions are expected instantly.And somewhere in the noise, the ability to think deeply—independently—begins to fade.From Woke to Awake is not a political argument. It is a thoughtful, balanced exploration of how modern culture shapes the way we think, respond, and communicate.Without extremes or division, this book takes a cl...

The Science of Reading Human Face celebrates the 2nd World Congress on Facial Expression of Emotion (2nd WCFEE), held at University Fernando Pessoa in October 2024. Framed by the theme “Brain and Emotion – Face Connects People,” the volume compiles speeches, keynote lectures, and peer-reviewed papers from world-renowned experts including A. Freitas-Magalhães, António Damásio, Joseph LeDoux, Daniel Goleman, Martin Seligman, Joan-Pere Barret, Dacher Keltner, and Lisa Feldman Barrett. The con...

'Highly enjoyable' – Ancestors'A fascinating recreation of the Tower as the life-and-death blood of the nation' – Oxford TimesServing as both a palace and a prison, the Tower of London has been at the centre of more intrigue, terror and crucial turning points in history than any other site in England. Diehl and Donnelly take us behind the grim, grey walls which circumscribe England's grea...