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...

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 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...

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...

In their Pulitzer Prize–winning books, Doris Kearns Goodwin and James M. McPherson argue that Abraham Lincoln became a master strategist during his presidency. But even before he became president, Lincoln was adept at recognizing and exploiting strategic opportunities. In How Lincoln Won, Darin DeWitt and Thomas Schwartz show that Lincoln’s strategy of division and conquest, cleverly designed and artfully executed over two years, not only secured his victory in America’s most cons...

Escape to the Hundred Halls — the complete collection!Step inside the world's only modern magical university with all fifteen short stories and novelettes from the Hundred Halls universe, collected together for the first time. From demon summonings gone wrong and internships you'll never forget, to hauntings, curses, contests with brutal histories, and secrets buried deep in the Salazar Files — this bundle takes you through every corner of the Halls, from first yea...

For staff and students across higher education, we know that intersecting identities, legacies, cultures, and challenges shape opportunities to participate, stay, and succeed. Yet, institutions continue to treat inequalities in isolation, exacerbating the widening gaps through which marginalised communities continue to fall.Bringing together leading international scholars and practitioners, this pioneering volume situates the role of intersectionality in policy and practice through...

STOP THAT CHEWING! is a groundbreaking, practical guide for anyone whose life is disrupted by everyday sounds. When chewing, tapping, breathing, or clicking sparks instant anger, disgust, or panic, you are not "too sensitive"-you are experiencing misophonia.Drawing on psychology, neuroscience, and decades of clinical insight, this book explains why ordinary noises can feel unbearable and, more importantly, what you can do about it.Blending compassion with clear strategy, ST...

This book argues that the European Coal and Steel Community in 1951 solved the historic French-German conflict over control of the coal deposits of the Ruhr valley. The product of a political bargain among the United States, France, and Germany, the treaty of Paris introduced radical new rules into the European order. For the first time in European history, cartels and powerful anti-competitive concentrations of economic power were banned.The volume ties the problem of ensuring sec...

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...

What if reading poetry could change you—not just what you think, but how you move through the world?For forty years, Thomas Gardner led students through this transformative act—not analyzing poems from a distance but reperforming them from the inside. Walking together through Elizabeth Bishop's broken beaches, Robert Frost's snowy woods, and Emily Dickinson's rooms of possibility, they discovered that getting lost is how we are found. That acknowledging fragility o...

Now in its second edition, this book offers an accessible reference and strategy for the practical application of cross- cultural competence (3C) for leaders operating across complex operational environments, including the armed forces and government.Developing Cross-Cultural Competence for Leaders takes readers from ideational understanding to operational practice, challenging them to learn to navigate cultural complexity as a leadership requirement. The authors invite re...