What if the greatest power wasn't strength or intelligence but persuasion?In Power of Persuasion, a gifted teenager named Kelly discovers his uncanny ability to influence others with his words. What begins as a silver-tongued skill in debates soon spirals into a deeper, more dangerous journey one that forces him to confront ethical dilemmas, emotional burdens, and the fine line between manipulation and genuine connection.As Kelly grows, he meets El...

This book compiles, discusses, and explains 126 key concepts relating to animals in sustainability in an easy-to-navigate A–Z format.Essential Concepts of Animals in Sustainability is a roadmap of concepts that trace the connections of the planet with all its inhabitants – humans, non-human animals, other organisms, and ecosystems. This book provides an interdisciplinary introduction, drawing on the social, ecological and physical sciences, to examine the place of animals as member...

In 1924, with great self-confidence, Hans Reichenbach wrote, It has become customary to reduce a controversy about the logical status of mathematics to a controversy about the logical status of the axioms. Nowadays one can hardly speak of a controversy any longer. The problem of the axioms of mathematics was solved by the discovery that they are definitions, that is, arbitrary stipulations... With just as much self-assurance, A.J. Ayer claimed that the truths of pure mathematics ...

This textbook introduces new chemical engineering students to the key subjects taught in most undergraduate Chemical Engineering degrees: Process Engineering Fundamentals, Chemical Thermodynamics, Process Fluid Flow, Process Heat Transfer, and Chemical Reaction Engineering. Rather than providing total coverage of all these topics, it explains the material in an accessible way for students new to the subject, allowing them to understand why these topics are important and to ready them for m...

Disruption now moves faster than most institutions can adapt. The leaders who make the greatest difference are the ones who recognize what others overlook, prepare while others postpone, and act while there is still time to change the outcome.Leading Before the Storm is a field guide to that discipline. Across thirty-two chapters built on documented cases - a warehouse roof that failed in a tornado, a pedestrian bridge that fell two days after a crack was reported, a crowd crush in...

**"Kitty Thomas is a one-click author for me!" -Anna Zaires, NYT Bestselling author of Twist MeShe was a bored housewife until she was taken and trained for the pleasure of the highest bidder.**Vivian Delaney’s life seems privileged on the outside, but behind closed doors she’s trapped in a gilded cage. Her loveless marriage soon drives her into the arms of a charming and seductive Russian who says all the right things and knows exactly how to touch her.But Anton is...

Two points for brushing your teeth. Ten points for keeping your room tidy. Seventy-two points for the Bioeconomic Game Design pop quiz on the ride to school in your personal FunCar. Another thirty for making every hurdle in gym class.Life is a game, unless you're not the one winning.Gabby DeCorte, top student and reality-hacker extraordinaire, has been doing whatever it takes to keep her best friend, Zaela, from falling behind in LifeGame. Zaela has gifts of artistry that a...

The microbiome of insects is intimately involved in their physiology, ecology, and evolution. This volume summarizes what is known of the microbiome of many different insect groups. For example, termites are able to digest cellulose thanks to their gut microbes. Honeybees make honey, in part, with the help of microbes. Chapters covering silkworms, termites, locusts, ticks, honeybees, and mosquitos by leading researchers are all included.

This book critically examines the development and operation of administrative justice in the UK.Every day, people have millions of interactions with government and public services. Administrative justice is concerned with the fairness of these interactions and the redress mechanisms people can use when things go wrong. Administrative justice is a large and expanding part of the legal system and of governmental activity in the United Kingdom. It inc...

Brings to light many once famous but now overlooked figures of Black musical theater history from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Black Voices on Stage collects ten diverse case studies of nineteenth-century and early twentieth-century African American singers and actors—names that have been largely left out of our general musical history books—whose lives and performances address questions of race, identity, musical expression, and audie...

The Backpack Goblins: A Story About Meltdowns, Big Feelings, and Too Much is a magical, child-centered picture book about emotional overwhelm, sensory overload, and the invisible stressors that can build up during a child's day.Ben has a backpack no one else can see. At first, it feels light. But then the Backpack Goblins arrive. Prickle packs scratchy socks. Clang packs loud sounds. Glare packs buzzy lights. Crumb packs food worries. Stomp packs hurry and rushing....

Discover a new edition of Torrance's seminal work, with an introduction by Paul D. Molnar. Written by the most significant English-speaking theologian of the twentieth century, this book demonstrates exactly the difference it makes when Jesus Christ is taken seriously as the one Mediator through whom we are not only reconciled to God, but who alone enables our knowledge of God and of salvation.An excellent introduction to Torrance's theology as a whole, this work e...