The Art of Hurting Softly is a tender, poetic exploration of love, loss, and the quiet ache that lingers long after goodbye.In this deeply emotional collection, Ankit Gupta writes about the pain that doesn't scream — the kind that hums softly beneath the skin. Each fragment captures the raw beauty of heartbreak and the slow, fragile art of healing.From the one who hurt him gently to the one who taught him how to love again, every word is a reflection of the moments that bre...

Identity Security in the AI Era addresses one of the most urgent challenges in cybersecurity today: safeguarding digital identities in a world transformed by artificial intelligence. As enterprises embrace cloud technologies, automation, and data-driven systems, identity has become the new perimeter and the most common target. This book provides a practical framework for understanding how AI is reshaping identity threats and offers actionable strategies to build r...

This book captures the intellectual spirit and interdisciplinary synergy of a global forum dedicated to redefining the future of civil engineering through innovation and sustainability in the field of transportation engineering. The proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Innovations and Sustainability in Civil Engineering: Shaping Tomorrow’s Infrastructure (ISCESTI – 2025), held from May 14–16, 2025, at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Patna, present a groundbreaking ...

In an era defined by cloud computing, AI disruption, and evolving cyber threats, traditional security models are no longer enough. Foundations of Modern Information Security delivers a vendor-neutral, real-world guide to designing and maintaining secure systems that stand up to today’s—and tomorrow’s—challenges.This book bridges the gap between legacy infosec thinking and modern enterprise realities. Covering everything from Zero Trust Architecture and post-quantum cryptog...

This book encapsulates and highlights the most recent innovations, breakthroughs, and comparisons of advanced sustainable manufacturing and material processing techniques for high-performance materials applications with a focus on sustainability and using conventional available methods.Sustainable Advanced Manufacturing and Materials Processing: Methods and Technologies addresses the various sustainable manufacturing and materials processing techniques for advanced materia...

Few things are as important as the food we eat. Conversations in Food Studies demonstrates the value of interdisciplinary research through the cross-pollination of disciplinary, epistemological, and methodological perspectives. Widely diverse essays, ranging from the meaning of milk, to the bring-your-own-wine movement, to urban household waste, are the product of collaborating teams of interdisciplinary authors. Readers are invited to engage and reflect on the theories and practi...

Globetrotting or Global Citizenship? explores the broad range of international experiential learning options available to Canadian students, as well as the opportunities and the ethical dilemmas that come with them. Combining practical advice with critical examinations of international experiential learning, this essay collection is designed to help the reader to move beyond photo-ops and travel opportunities and towards striving for a deeper global citizenship.Globetr...

Media matters. From encouraging charitable donations and delivering public health messages to promoting democratic participation and state accountability, the media can play a crucial role in development. Yet the influence of the media is not always welcome. It can also be used as a mechanism of surveillance and control or to disseminate hate speech and propaganda.How then should we respond to the growing importance of the media - including journalism, radio, television, community ...

International development interventions often fail because development experts assume that our world is linear and straightforward when in reality it is complex, highly dynamic and unpredictable. Things rarely happen in the way that they were planned. The dominance of logical planning models in international development therefore needs to be challenged and replaced by a complexity-based understanding of how change happens. Navigating Complexity in International Development describes three ...

Over the past few decades, there has been a growing concern about the social and environmental risks which have come along with the progress achieved through a variety of mutually intertwined modernization processes. In recent years these concerns are transformed into a widely-shared sense of urgency, partly due to events such as the various pandemics threatening livestock, and increasing awareness of the risks and realities of climate change, and the energy and food crises. This sense of ...

This is a practical, bold, no-holds barred look at challenges facing educational leaders and the university programs that prepare them through mid-century. It examines key continuities and discontinuities of current times for school, education, and society. Both practice and preparation occur in contested social space, the implications of which are explored in a post industrial, digital age.The stark warning signs of the conflict roiling educational leadership includes the re-segregation a...

It is widely recognised that the foreign aid system - which today involves every country in the world - is in need of drastic change. But there are conflicting opinions as to what is needed. Some call for dramatic increases in resources, to meet long-overdue commitments, and to scale up what is already being done around the world. Others point to the flaws in aid, and bang the drum for cutting it altogether - and argue that the fate of poor and vulnerable people be best placed in the hands...