One morning, Emma wakes up feeling excited about a very special dream. She flies up high through the clouds and comes to a beautiful land called heaven where she has all sorts of adventures. Is this just a dream, or is there something magical about her journey?

“I had a dream about heaven!” exclaimed Priyanka.Running up to her mom one morning, four-year-old Priyanka nonchalantly mentioned that Jesus had taken her and her two-year-old sister Deepika to heaven during the previous night. In the days that followed, the sisters amazed their parents with their vivid descriptions of what they saw and experienced in heaven and hell over the course of several visits there. Within the constraints of their limited preschool vocabulary, the girls described d...

This audiobook narrated by Landon Woodson reveals what you need to know about AI—and how to defend yourself against bogus AI claims and productsComes with a bonus track featuring an illuminating discussion by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash KapoorIncludes a new preface and epilogue by the authorsConfused about AI and worried about what it means for your future and the future of the world? You're not alone. AI is everywhere—and few things are surrounded by ...

THE POWER OF LOVE is an award-winning chronicle of the soul's quest. Dr. Fran Grace, a professor of religion, narrates her life journey and describes her personal encounters with some of the century's most memorable spiritual figures. Reviewers say it "is a masterpiece," "splendid and moving narrative," "reveals love in its many facets," "feeds the heart and soul," "awakens the mind." At age 15, the author had a mystical experience that nearly shattered her. She joined a fundamentalist sec...

The corrupt director was put in jail with his allied conspirators, and the new director appointed was the perfect choice for the job. Simran and Radhika with the others resumed their duty in school, but troubles still lurked around the corner. Solved problems started coming undone, and new enemies appeared from the shadows of a familiar one. Investigations began in the agency. The top fifty receive their first mission, and suspicions arise afterward. On top of this, tensions within the tea...

Author-artist Manjula Padmanabhan returns with ten stories: five new, five old, some dark, some funny, all edgy. A vampire visits New Delhi, a space traveller returns to her ancestral home, a character from an ancient epic is transported into the future... To each story Padmanabhan brings an unexpected twist, a touch of satire, a whiff of cynicism, a delicious undercurrent of dark humour. Drawing on her earlier, highly acclaimed anthology, Hot Death Cold Soup, and adding new stories to it,...

Arvinder’s book is a compilation of stories, of and from Sikh immigrant women who have created a new life in the USA. They have undergone life‐altering events, learned a new way of life, compromised, and adjusted to make a home for themselves and their families. With a lifetime of experiences between them, these women bring to life challenges uniquely faced by women as they seek respect and equality from their peers and families. The stories are of resilience and faith, of joy and redempti...

In this captivating exploration of our volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous(VUCA) world, the author reveals the hidden forces shaping our lives and offers aroadmap to navigate the chaos with confidence. Drawing from a rich tapestry ofreal-world examples, expert insights, and personal anecdotes, this book introducesthe reader to the powerful VIGUC framework—Vision, Gratitude, Inspiration,Upskilling, and Collaboration—unveiling the keys to not just s...

Covering all aspects of gravitation in a contemporary style, this advanced textbook is ideal for graduate students and researchers in all areas of theoretical physics. The 'Foundation' section develops the formalism in six chapters, and uses it in the next four chapters to discuss four key applications - spherical spacetimes, black holes, gravitational waves and cosmology. The six chapters in the 'Frontier' section describe cosmological perturbation theory, quantum fields in curved spaceti...

Bringing a practitioner's view to big data analytics, this work examines the drivers behind big data, postulates a set of use cases, identifies sets of solution components, and recommends various implementation approaches. This work also addresses and thoroughly answers key questions on this emerging topic, including What is big data and how is it being used? How can strategic plans for big data analytics be generated? and How does big data change analytics architecture? ...

**From two of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in AI, what you need to know about AI—and how to defend yourself against bogus AI claims and productsConfused about AI and worried about what it means for your future and the future of the world? You’re not alone. AI is everywhere—and few things are surrounded by so much hype, misinformation, and misunderstanding. In AI Snake Oil, computer scientists Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor cut through the confus...

Arya is a handsome, shrewd, witty and an intelligent police officer. He fears no one and loves the Indian Penal Laws as much as he loves his life. He has a very daunting past – in Delhi and Ghaziabad, where he was accused of mass murders. But later, all the cases were dropped due to lack of evidence. Still, he had to spend eight gruelling months in a mental asylum. Arya is brought to Chennai and commissioned to CB CID. He cleverly solves two complicated white collar murders – as if...