It is 2058: humans are on the brink of mastering their own mortality, but they are also about to lose control of the planet they live on. Jay Hart, owner of Anima Robotics, the largest producer of android products in the world, correctly predicts that unchecked climate change is about to rob humanity of its cities and cultivated land, making most of the Earth uninhabitable. With little time to spare, he escapes with his own team to Cloud, a refuge he has built high up in the Rocky Mountain...

Mending Fences is a ten-week workbook about repairing broken or damaged relationships. Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday begins with Scripture followed by a description of how the verse(s) pertains to difficult relationships. A relevant action assignment is then given that brings the verse(s) to life. Though the lessons are short and easy to read (requiring less than ten minutes each), the rubber meets the road in the challenging action assignments, where one is called to live out biblic...

Seventeen-year-old Abigail Willows – accredited freak and outcast – has no company for prom night, hardly any friends, and to crown it all Julie wants to hook her up. But Abigail’s thoughts are with her late parents; she likes to spend her time at the cemetery. Little does she know that she has the rare gift to travel through time. When she meets the mysterious Corvus Raven, she does not anticipate what she has put into motion. An unforgettable romance with a supernatural being? Wrong! Wit...

Frugal but generous, stubborn but innovative, trusting but cautious, Nebraskans are a people who chose to live in a harsh, semiarid land, from which they coaxed abundance. They may be, writes author Dorothy Weyer Creigh, the last of their kind.Nebraskans have been tied to the land, and their history, as much as that of any state, is a story of interdependence between people and place. As the "Great Highway" to somewhere else--California and Oregon--Nebraska was mar...

This updated new edition is a practical guidebook for parents, teachers and other professionals supporting children with sensory and motor learning difficulties. It offers an understanding of developmental coordination disorder (DCD), and the impact that this can have in both home and school settings. Each chapter offers practical ‘hands-on’ strategies, activities and ideas for managing the effects of the condition as well as providing a sound medical and physiological understanding of the...

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Social Computing, CollabTech 2021, held August/September 2021. Due to VOVID-19 pandemic is was held virtually.The 5 full and 4 work-in-process papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 19 submissions. The papers focus on innovative technical, human and organizational approaches to expand collaboration support including computer science, mana...

China and East Africa: Ancient Ties and Contemporary Flows marks the culmination of a new round of archaeological and historical research on the relations between China and Africa, from the origins to the present. Africa and Asia have always been in constant contact, through land and seas. The contributors to this volume debate and present the results of their research on the very complex and intricate networks of connections that crisscrossed the Indian Ocean and surrounding lands linking...

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This open access book directs attention to the safety implications of disruptive, sustainability-driven changes in sociotechnical systems resulting from climate-change considerations in high-risk industries. It addresses not only the dismantling of currently prevalent systems and structures and the achievement of a stable future state but also the management of processes for establishing new practices in a safe and reliable manner without undue interruption of important functions and servi...

My name is Emily Stoughton. I am a witch. Ever since I came into this world, Ive wondered who I am and where witches come from. There is no more dangerous time for a witch than the 17th century, and in Salem at that. Having a troubled brother and a hateful father doesnt make things any better. But one fateful day, everything was to change. Will I be lonely forever? Or are the witches not doomed after all?

My name is Elizabeth Willows. I am a witch. Betrayed and cast out by all beings of this world, I am building my own life in Salem. But no matter how hard I try to create like-minded people for myself, I am constantly being let down. Now I take my fate into my own hands and create a world according to my own ideas. May the people who have hurt me burn!

My name is Rose Barnes. I am a witch. Ever since I can remember, everybodys thought of me as the poor, innocent girl who lost her parents. But everyone has skeletons in their closets and I too have not been spared by fate. What is good, what is evil? Isnt it our deeds that make us who we really are? But how many good deeds does it take to make up for one so horribly evil?