Do you toss and turn every night, and wake up totally exhausted?Do you want to fall asleep fast and sleep better for longer?Do you want to get up every morning, feeling on top of the world, refreshed, and raring to go?10% of everyone on the planet suffers from chronic insomnia. Are you a part of this group?I know I was. And that's why I've spent years looking for ways to sleep well and live...

A warm, practical, and deeply human guide to communicating with more confidence, presence, and connection—from internationally acclaimed speaker and communication coach Vinh Giang.What if the biggest thing holding you back isn’t your talent, intelligence, or hard work—but your ability to connect?In Before We Forget How to Connect, Vinh Giang shows that communication is not a gift reserved for the naturally charismatic. It is a skill. A set of learn...

A warm, practical, and deeply human guide to communicating with more confidence, presence, and connection—from internationally acclaimed speaker and communication coach Vinh Giang.What if the biggest thing holding you back isn’t your talent, intelligence, or hard work—but your ability to connect?In Before We Forget How to Connect, Vinh Giang shows that communication is not a gift reserved for the naturally charismatic. It is a skill. A set of learn...

I guess it comes naturally to a person who likes to write to jot down thoughts that come to his mind. This book OH! MY! is a collection of poems that somehow capture those precious moments in written form. For example, a stroll along a beach of the Pacific Ocean made me feel homesick and write Confidential, the sight of a dog running after his homeless owner on a bike in Irvine, California served as background for Canine Love, a reading of a book about Yukio Mishima led me to pen Bushido, ...

'Twelve Harbours' is a tribute to the contributions of Vietnamese women across nearly seventy turbulent years of war and upheaval in the last century. Blending historical realism with semi-legendary tales once passed down through oral tradition, the book traces the lives of five central female characters as they navigate the French colonial era, the Japanese occupation, and the eventual partition of Vietnam.Through a tapestry of bittersweet, often ironic anecdotes, marked by sorrow...

What does it take to build a home after leaving one behind?Straws That Built a Nest looks back on the early years of Vietnamese refugees in Canada, when newcomers arrived with little more than memories, a language, and the hope of beginning again.Through stories both humorous and deeply personal, the book remembers those who quietly helped build a community: friends who gave their time without seeking recognition, families celebrating Tết in a Winnipeg church basem...

Keeping the Ground from Tilting is a collection of reflective essays that trace the quiet tremors of memory and exile. From the old riverbank of Bình Đông to the snow-covered streets of Canada, from the mass migration of 1954 to the first Lunar New Year in a church basement, from the scent of acetone in a nail salon to the beige telephone that once bridged two oceans-each piece captures a small yet resonant moment in the life of a displaced generation.These essays do not a...

Our Rotating UniverseBy: Ninh Vinh LoiToday, with the comfortable and convenient living we have, we feel happy with the way we are. But we may forget the time when we human beings were living in just a few hundred years ago. It’s completely different, isn’t it? With the contributions of all of the scientists around the world we have what we have now.But when we look toward the future, we foresee that we have a lot of troubles ahead. The resources of our earth are dr...

The Republic of Therapy tells the story of the global response to the HIV epidemic from the perspective of community organizers, activists, and people living with HIV in West Africa. Drawing on his experiences as a physician and anthropologist in Burkina Faso and Côte d’Ivoire, Vinh-Kim Nguyen focuses on the period between 1994, when effective antiretroviral treatments for HIV were discovered, and 2000, when the global health community acknowledged a right to treatment, making the...

Thousands of legal and non-legal words and phrases have been entered into this collection of terms used in court proceedings and other hearings focusing on criminal law and family law. Terms used by law enforcement officers in the course of their investigations are also included. In the special section under appendices, you will find many other useful terms in court cases involving alcohol and drug abuses, CSI's crime scene investigations by forensic professionals, domestic violence, DUI;s...

Autonomic computing and networking (ACN), a concept inspired by the human autonomic system, is a priority research area and a booming new paradigm in the field. Formal and Practical Aspects of Autonomic Computing and Networking: Specification, Development, and Verification outlines the characteristics, novel approaches of specification, refinement, programming and verification associated with ACN. The goal of ACN and the topics covered in this work include making networks and computers mor...

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Nature of Computation and Communication, ICTCC 2021, held in October 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually.The 17 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from 43 submissions. The papers of ICTCC 2021 cover formal methods for self-adaptive systems and discuss natural approaches and techniques for natural computing systems and their application...