The Art of Hurting Softly is a tender, poetic exploration of love, loss, and the quiet ache that lingers long after goodbye.In this deeply emotional collection, Ankit Gupta writes about the pain that doesn't scream — the kind that hums softly beneath the skin. Each fragment captures the raw beauty of heartbreak and the slow, fragile art of healing.From the one who hurt him gently to the one who taught him how to love again, every word is a reflection of the moments that bre...

Identity Security in the AI Era addresses one of the most urgent challenges in cybersecurity today: safeguarding digital identities in a world transformed by artificial intelligence. As enterprises embrace cloud technologies, automation, and data-driven systems, identity has become the new perimeter and the most common target. This book provides a practical framework for understanding how AI is reshaping identity threats and offers actionable strategies to build r...

In an era defined by cloud computing, AI disruption, and evolving cyber threats, traditional security models are no longer enough. Foundations of Modern Information Security delivers a vendor-neutral, real-world guide to designing and maintaining secure systems that stand up to today’s—and tomorrow’s—challenges.This book bridges the gap between legacy infosec thinking and modern enterprise realities. Covering everything from Zero Trust Architecture and post-quantum cryptog...

This book captures the intellectual spirit and interdisciplinary synergy of a global forum dedicated to redefining the future of civil engineering through innovation and sustainability in the field of transportation engineering. The proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Innovations and Sustainability in Civil Engineering: Shaping Tomorrow’s Infrastructure (ISCESTI – 2025), held from May 14–16, 2025, at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Patna, present a groundbreaking ...

This book encapsulates and highlights the most recent innovations, breakthroughs, and comparisons of advanced sustainable manufacturing and material processing techniques for high-performance materials applications with a focus on sustainability and using conventional available methods.Sustainable Advanced Manufacturing and Materials Processing: Methods and Technologies addresses the various sustainable manufacturing and materials processing techniques for advanced materia...

With the market becoming more and more competitive in every segment, time-to-market is emerging as the most important factor defining a product’s success. However, designing and prototyping a product takes a long time as each part has to be produced in small quantities at different manufacturing units. With the advent of desktop manufacturing, most of these parts can now be produced in-house, saving a lot of time

Few things are as important as the food we eat. Conversations in Food Studies demonstrates the value of interdisciplinary research through the cross-pollination of disciplinary, epistemological, and methodological perspectives. Widely diverse essays, ranging from the meaning of milk, to the bring-your-own-wine movement, to urban household waste, are the product of collaborating teams of interdisciplinary authors. Readers are invited to engage and reflect on the theories and practi...

How to convert colour images to black and white using Photoshop, how to use Photoshop's duotone, processing a black and white image, simulate processes such as split toning, sepia toning, lith printing, selenium toning.

Globetrotting or Global Citizenship? explores the broad range of international experiential learning options available to Canadian students, as well as the opportunities and the ethical dilemmas that come with them. Combining practical advice with critical examinations of international experiential learning, this essay collection is designed to help the reader to move beyond photo-ops and travel opportunities and towards striving for a deeper global citizenship.Globetr...

An introduction to close up photography of flowers, insects and other subjects with macro and close up lenses plus learning to see the parts that make up the whole of the landscape.

Media matters. From encouraging charitable donations and delivering public health messages to promoting democratic participation and state accountability, the media can play a crucial role in development. Yet the influence of the media is not always welcome. It can also be used as a mechanism of surveillance and control or to disseminate hate speech and propaganda.How then should we respond to the growing importance of the media - including journalism, radio, television, community ...

International development interventions often fail because development experts assume that our world is linear and straightforward when in reality it is complex, highly dynamic and unpredictable. Things rarely happen in the way that they were planned. The dominance of logical planning models in international development therefore needs to be challenged and replaced by a complexity-based understanding of how change happens. Navigating Complexity in International Development describes three ...