Every city guards a secret beneath its own foundations — and Cimmeria's has slept for centuries.Selyra Durness is an architect, trained to read buildings the way one reads a face: every crack, every shift in the ground tells a story. When a simple structural fissure leads her to investigate the city's oldest foundations, she uncovers something no engineering manual ever anticipated — an ancient evil carved into stone, dormant, but not dead.As the tremors grow stronger and a...

Providing a comprehensive exploration of China–Angola relations from 2003 to 2025, this book unpacks historical Sino–Angolan relations and contemporary evolutions in their relationship.China has played a pivotal role in Angola's reconstruction since the Angolan Civil War. Using archival documents and interviews, the author explores China's contribution to Angola's development and its contradictions with particular interest in the p...

Powerful stories of migrants' experiences reveal the painful consequences of public policyVoices of the Border documents testimonios—first-person narratives—of migration, deportation, and asylum-seeking in and around Nogales, a city of a quarter-million inhabitants on Mexico's northern border. In this updated and expanded edition, individuals recount life on the move to find work, flee violence, or reunite with family, as well as the effects of U....

The food business is a world of its own. Talent is abundant. Structure sustains when margins are tight, the dinner rush hits, and the next opportunity arrives faster than expected. As a business expands, so do its reach, influence, and responsibility. Lasting success comes through the strength, discipline, and resilience required to maintain what is created and to keep building with clarity.The Food Business Blueprint is a practical guide to starting, structuring, ...

This book discusses climate change and responses to its risks-mitigation, adaptation, and geoengineering–within an increasingly ideological and geopolitically charged climate debate. It provides a detailed analysis of the scientific basis, feasibility, governance, costs, uncertainties, and risks associated with different forms of geoengineering, particularly Solar Radiation Modification (SRM). Although climate change is very unlikely to cause “civilizational collapse” or “global collapse”,...

In this touching picture book about the importance of kindness and lending a hand, a young boy gathers his community to take care of a loved one, perfect for fans of The Last Stop on Market Street.Mamá Elena always knows just what to do when someone needs help. Whether it’s by cooking a delicious meal or simply by lending an ear, she keeps her community together. And because of her warmth, her home is young Manuel’s favorite.But when Mamá Elena suf...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly changing education, yet many educators have been left with more questions than answers. They are encouraged to explore AI while being warned about its risks. They are told to prepare students for the future but are often left wondering how to integrate AI as an enhancement-not a replacement-for meaningful teaching and learning.Rather than focusing on trends, tools, or collections of prompts, Real Learning with Artificial Intelligence...

Inspired by local Scottish folklore, In Your Heart a Devil is a gothic tale of love and alienation, full of loneliness, yearning, and the unholiest of unions. For years bonfires have been lit by superstitious villagers in the town of S - , intended to ward off the spirit of the man who was once their Laird. His widow still watches from the window of the big empty house on the hill. Isabel has heard the rumours about her husband, but only she knows what went on behind closed doors. Because ...

Ana Silva left the film industry the way you leave a fire: fast, scorched, and swearing never to go back.Then Cooper shows up.He's a celebrated director now–the kind of man who fills a room without trying–and he needs her to produce Somewhere, Sometime, the passion project she convinced him to pursue a decade ago.But returning to Toronto means facing everything she left behind: the anxiety she's never outrun, the habit of shrinking herself into whatever sha...

Level up from writing code that works to writing code that scales and avoid performance and production issues like a proKey FeaturesIdentify and fix common Node.js anti-patterns before they impact productionAvoid performance bottlenecks by understanding Node.js internalsApply proven patterns to write clean, maintainable, and scalable Node.js codeBook DescriptionNode.js makes it easy to get started, but just as easy to get thi...

Binge Eating Disorder (BED) is a serious eating disorder characterized by recurrent episodes of consuming large quantities of food, often quickly and to the point of discomfort. These episodes are marked by a lack of control over eating during the binge and are often followed by feelings of guilt, shame, and distress. Unlike other eating disorders, such as bulimia nervosa, individuals with BED do not regularly engage in compensatory behaviors like purging. BED affects people of all ages, g...

Synopsis: Eva Vance is a Portuguese cryptographer living in isolation until her twin brother dies in a suspicious accident in Copenhagen. An automatic message reveals an algorithm capable of predicting global failures that could bring down the entire internet in just 72 hours. Hunted by private security and Interpol, Eva must decode physical clues hidden in Scandinavian museums before the clock hits zero. A high-stakes techno-thriller where ancient Nordic ...