When the connection began, it felt less like a meeting and more like a collision-a ripple in the fabric of existence that hinted at lifetimes of separation and reunion. For Thomas, a man known to the public as a chronicler of the strange and the supernatural, the bond with Marianne was his greatest mystery. It was a tether woven of cosmic necessity, synchronicity, and an attraction that seemed to defy the limits of geography. But as the narrative of their shared life deepened, the ethereal...

Cat Williamson, is a gifted young woman who possesses unique empathic abilities which she discovers are linked to strange activity in her brain. As her empathic powers & her relationship with boyfriend Nate grow, she is dogged by investigative reporter Lori Madison, who is determined to learn Cat's secrets to boost her own career. Tensions build as Cat & Nate work with local policeman, Sergeant Diamond, using her abilities to help locate & rescue two young children kidnapped by their non-c...

With AI upending work and life, the founders of Axios and bestselling authors of Smart Brevity offer a one-stop survival guide to dramatically improving your life, work, and happiness.Toxic complexity clogs our meetings, inboxes, calendars—even in our daily habits. We can do so much more, but first we need to do less.Simplify shows you how. It's a step-by-step playbook for spending mos...

Working Title: The Women of Bombay HarbourSetting: Bombay (present-day Mumbai), 1942–1946Genre: Historical Drama • Family • War • Romance • Resistance • SuspenseThe story would use wartime Bombay as its own distinctive world: crowded mills, the docks, Marine Drive, Crawford Market, hospitals, railway stations, underground political networks, and the tension created by World War II and the I...

The book posits that though individual "ideas" are essential building blocks of human progress, these ideas coalesce into rigid, unquestionable "ideologies" and become problematic. The book traces the genesis of ideology back to early human history, suggesting it arose as a way to manage and safe-keep a surplus of undeveloped ideas. Also, it enabled them to navigate a world with the existing limited capacity for practical application or venturing. Over time, these ideological frameworks, o...

Motion is the only law Una understands.Since walking out of the Stadium she has kept going west, across a Montreal that survives by staying still. Villages that have taught themselves to make no sound at all. A weather station still tracking storms that stopped being storms. A toll gate on the old highway where the wind is wired to report you.They call the thing they are hiding from the Pressure. It reaches into minds, into machines, into the air, and corrects whatever drif...

A corrupt system. A city in meltdown. A rogue cop, bent on revenge. Who will deliver justice?Blood on the Streets is the first in the London Large crime thriller series, featuring the exploits of Detective Inspector Harry ‘H’ Hawkins, an old-school London copper with over thirty years of besting villains under his belt. When a bloody international gang war threatens to rip the metropolis apart, ‘London’s top copper’ finds himself under siege as never before.

Motion is the only law Una understands.Since walking out of the Stadium she has kept going west, across a Montreal that survives by staying still. Villages that have taught themselves to make no sound at all. A weather station still tracking storms that stopped being storms. A toll gate on the old highway where the wind is wired to report you.They call the thing they are hiding from the Pressure. It reaches into minds, into machines, into the air, and corrects whatever drif...

***Multi-scale and Multi-physics Simulation of Fracture and Fatigue***presents a comprehensive exploration of theoretical and computational methods used in the analysis of fracture and fatigue in materials, effectively bridging length and time scales. It explores both fundamental concepts of fracture mechanics and cutting-edge multi-scale computational modeling.By focusing on methods to predict material properties, including fracture toughness, based on nanoscale interactions up to...

This book presents a comprehensive overview of urban economic development in the Global South, a region experiencing rapid urbanisation. Anchored by INHAF, it brings together perspectives from public administration, urban planning, economics, geography, and social work to present an interdisciplinary social science approach to urban economic development. Drawing on empirical evidence, case studies, and policy discourses from across the world, the book explores key drivers and challenges co...

In Close Your Eyes, The New York Times bestselling duo Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen are back with a suspenseful novel about a once-blind woman with a talent for tracking serial killersThe FBI doesn't usually consult with music therapists to solve their cases. But Kendra Michael's astonishing powers of observation and analysis have made her a favorite of law enforcement agencies all across the country. Blind for the first twenty years of her life, she car...

This book examines how citizenship operates in the contested borderlands between India, Nepal, Myanmar, and Bangladesh, revealing a complex reality that defies conventional nation-state frameworks. By focusing on these reportedly porous regions where state authority proves inconsistent, the collection uncovers how cross-border mobility, intimacies, and connections generate anxieties and conflicts that acquire unique intensity in these liminal spaces. Rather than accepting citizenship as a ...