This book presents the first comprehensive text on construction biomaterials and bioprocesses. It details aspects of construction biotechnology, a new interdisciplinary area involving applications of environmental and industrial microbiology and biotechnology in geotechnical and civil engineering. It also critically reviews all existing and potential construction biotechnology processes.It discusses a number of topics including the biotechnological production of new construction ma...

The 77 Keys of Transurfing is a clear guide to the Reality Transurfing teachings of Vadim Zeland, organized around seventy-seven essential principles grouped into seven thematic parts. Moving from the architecture of reality through pendulums, importance, intention, goals, flow, and soul-led sovereignty, each key offers a self-contained reflection that can be read in minutes and practiced for a week. Critical where the Russian original strains credibility and respectful where its ...

Revised Edition 2024: In everyday language, 'winging it' refers to the act of attempting to achieve a goal with minimal preparation or knowledge, making it up, or figuring it out on the fly. While this approach can be valuable in some situations requiring quick reactions and fast thinking, it will more often than not result in decisions and actions that are suboptimal and not as well thought out as they should be. The phenomenon of 'winging it' is widespread in the business world leading, ...

When Tony's mother is sent to jail, he is sent to stay with a great uncle he has never met in Sierra Nevada. It is a daunting move—Tony's new world bears no semblance to his previous one. But slowly, against a remote and remarkable backdrop, the scars from Tony's troubled past begin to heal.With his Tió and a search-and-rescue dog named Gabe by his side, he learns how to track wild animals, is welcomed to the Cowboy Church, and makes new friends at the Mountain School. Most importan...

This holiday, we proudly present to you this unique collection of the greatest Christmas stories. Over 250 of them are included by your favourite authors:Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Willa Cather, Beatrix Potter, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Hans Christian Andersen, E.T.A. Hoffmann, O. Henry, Mark Twain and many more!

Favorite characters from The Cricket in Times Square star in another fun new adventure for beginning readers.Harry Cat loves the theater. One night he jumps in and lands a part in a big Broadway play. But now Tucker Mouse is home alone and misses him terribly. How will Harry find time for his friend Tucker?

Find hope even in these dark times with this rediscovered masterpiece, a companion to his international bestseller Man’s Search for Meaning.Eleven months after he was liberated from the Nazi concentration camps, Viktor E. Frankl held a series of public lectures in Vienna. The psychiatrist, who would soon become world famous, explained his central thoughts on meaning, resilience, and the importance of embracing life even in the face of great adversity....

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 book traces the history of communist Bulgaria from 1944 to 1989. A detailed narrative-cum-study of the history of a political system, it provides a chronological overview of the building of the socialist state from the ground up, its entrenchment into the peaceful routine of everyday life, its inner crises, and its gradual decline and self-destruction. The book is the definitive and the most complete guide to Bulgaria under communism and how the communist system operates on a day-to-da...

Viktor Frankl’s book, Man’s Search for Meaning, stirs generations of readers with its portrayal of life in Nazi death camps and its psychological lessons for survival. Between 1942 and 1945, Frankl moved to four different camps while his family—parents, brother, and pregnant wife failed to survive. Drawing from his own experience and the experiences of others he later treated, Frankl asserts that suffering is unavoidable but we can choose how we can cope with it, find meaning in it, and li...

This edited book provides a contemporary, critical and thought-provoking analysis of the internal and external threats to Western multilateral development finance in the twenty-first century. It draws on the expertise of scholars with a range of backgrounds providing a critical exploration of the neoliberal multilateral development aid.The contributions focus on how Western institutions have historically dominated development aid, and juxtapose this hegemony with the recent challen...

This book, LNCS 16193, constitutes the proceedings of the First International Workshop on Digital Twin for Healthcare, DT4H 2025, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2025, in Daejeon, South Korea, during September 23, 2025.The 15 full papers included in the book were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. They deal with integrating Digital Twin frameworks with conventional medical imaging and computational tools, focusing on topics such as organ- and disease-specific DT m...