Some borders are meant to be crossed. Others are meant to be respected. In one village, a young man must decide which is which.When the border near their isolated village suddenly opens, Unal's world expands beyond the raspberry fields and traditional ways he's always known. His heart belongs to Paknur, a brilliant young woman whose dreams of teaching English match his own educational aspirations. But tradition and modernity collide when the wealthy Abisalam return...

Booker T. Pittman (1909-1969) was a jazz saxophonist and clarinetist who played with greats like Louis Armstrong and Count Basie in the 1920s and 1930s. The maternal grandson of Booker T. Washington, Pittman was tremendously talented and ambitious like his famous grandfather. After starring in local jazz scenes as an alto saxophonist and clarinetist in Kansas City, Harlem, and Paris, in the late 1920s and mid-1930s, Pittman boarded a ship to South America and remained there until his death...

Making an important contribution to studies in Literature and Philosophy, this book reads Jorge Luis Borges philosophically, particularly in reference to his use of representation and reality. Rather than attempting to subordinate Borges to a set of philosophical constructs, to reduce Borges’ texts to mere exemplifications or illustrations of philosophical theories, the book uses Borges’s short stories to demonstrate how philosophical questions related to representation develop out of lite...

Break the Mold explains how Family Patterns and Family Karma form within the family line. This insightful book illuminates how you have in fact been born with the ability to change harmful family patterns and also, carry the obligation to do so. We have inherited some great, and not so great, things from our ancestors. It is time to recognize what needs to be cherished, eliminated, and what we need to take from there and improve. Learn to recognize a pattern as being, not your own, but par...

Will you let the leaves fall?As the sun retreats, it's time to reflect on what should stay and what should leave. This is Autumn Leaves, the second soul-stirring volume of the Poetry In Seasons series. With a poem for every day, this collection unfolds like a vibrant tapestry, exploring themes of loss, change, introspection, identity and inner resolve. Discover a refreshing perspective in these verses—an offering of encouragement and a guide for s...

Are you ready to make the big decision to take control of your blood pressure and weight, and join the Healthy Eating Lifestyle Movement?If Yes, Congratulations! You have just made one of the best decisions of your life!Imagine you could reduce your risk of diabetes, cancer, heart disease and stroke, high blood pressure, weight loss, osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease, metabolic syndrome, and increase longevity and health?One of the best motivation for people transit...

50 Risks to Take With Your Kids is an easy-to-use framework of challenges for children aged up to ten. You’ll find risks that build physical skills, social confidence and character development, plus some all-important parenting risks that will encourage you to think a little differently about raising children. This book is not about developmental KPIs, and it’s certainly not about judgement. It’s about teaching kids to recognise and assess risk before they enter those ‘risky’ teenage years...

A tour through the groundbreaking science behind the enigmatic, but crucial, brain developments of adolescence and how those translate into teenage behaviorThe brain creates every feeling, emotion, and desire we experience, and stores every one of our memories. And yet, until very recently, scientists believed our brains were fully developed from childhood on. Now, thanks to imaging technology that enables us to look inside the living human brain at all ages, we kn...

The essays collected in this volume draw unprecedented critical attention to the centrality of politics in Flann O’Brien’s art. The organising theme of Gallows humour focuses these inquiries onto key encounters between the body and the law, between death and the comic spirit in the author’s canon. These innovative analyses explore the place of biopolitics in O’Brien’s modernist experimentation and popular writing through reflections on his handling of the thematics of violence, justice, ca...

Private Jacob Murray, a twenty-six-year-old Pennsylvanian volunteer in the ranks of George Washington’s Virginia Provincial Militia, is scouting the dense, almost impassable Ohio Valley wilderness in May 1754. Together with his twin brother, Israel, and two Mingo warriors, Jacob searches for a party of French troops encroaching on British soil.Back at home, Murray’s wife, Maggie, and their four children carve out a meager existence until a group of French and Huron war parties raid...

Non-Invasive Sperm Selection for In Vitro Fertilization summarizes and discusses the relevant literature on the various advanced sperm selection methods used in modern Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART). Chapters review some of the major unresolved issues in the field, the feasibility and success of the various sperm selection methods, their safety and the effects they have on sperm quality and ART outcomes. The book makes recommendations on clinical applications and future ...

This book provides new techniques for recovering exhaust heat from gas turbines, natural gas combined cycle power plants, biomass boilers, and waste heat recovery from compost and wastewater treatment plantsThe book provides modeling for the study and comparison of combined cycle power plants with a heat recovery boiler of three pressure levels with reheating, inserting a technological improvement of solar hybridization and partial regeneration in the gas turbine. It assesses the e...