When Lucia accidentally shatters a cherished gift meant for a sick girl, she is consumed with guilt and determination. In a race against time, Lucia embarks on a frantic journey through the snowy streets on Christmas Eve to replace the music box, encountering unexpected obstacles and making selfless choices along the way. Her desperate quest intertwines with the lives of a loving father and his ailing daughter, revealing the true spirit of Christmas and the power of redemption. In this hea...

The most important thing you can do is get to know yourself. Listen to yourself and follow your heart. Learn to trust yourself and how to become your own biggest advocate. Have confidence in yourself and your ability to overcome any situation. Even if right now you feel like you are alone or you feel like you are not enough, remember that you are enough. You always have been enough, and you always will be enough. Believe in yourself, work hard, be resilient, stay humble, and great things c...

The intent of this ebook project is to "establish" and "preserve" these myths and legends for future generations, written as bed-time stories, many of these "myths" and "legends" contain advanced technologies and mechanical processes that have been converted into story mode, many "modern" day items and gadgets were added to these stories so that they would be educational, user-friendly and easily relatable to children, these bed-time stories or ancient legends may be handed down to childre...

"Five talented narrators knit together the stories of five children from different countries who settle in the same Lower East Side apartment building. Listeners meet Jenny Epstein, author Weinstein's grandmother, whose Russian Jewish family lived in the building in the 1910s and whose story is sensitively told by Eva Kaminsky. Successive generations include Italian American Anna Cozzi in the 1930s, warmly depicted by Carlotta Brentan; Dominican American José Marte in the 1960s, conveyed w...

As he prepares to recite the Declaration of Independence before his eighth grade social studies class in California, the thing Francisco has feared for ten years finally happens. La migra, the immigration police, come to his classroom and pick him up for deportation to Mexico. Soon back in the United States with a "green card," Francisco struggles through adolescence, working two or three jobs a day and striving to excel at school. But he also finds time to be a typical teenager in the 195...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Applied Reconfigurable Computing. Architectures, Tools, and Applications, ARC 2025, held in Seville, Spain, during April 9–11, 2025.The 12 full papers presented in this book together with 1 short paper from the technical program were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions.ARC 2025 covers a wide range of topics, including hardware acceleration, security and fault tolerance, energy-efficie...

Intelligence-Based Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery: Artificial Intelligence and Human Cognition in Cardiovascular Medicine provides a comprehensive survey of artificial intelligence concepts and methodologies with real-life applications in cardiovascular medicine. Authored by a senior physician-data scientist, the book presents an intellectual and academic interface between the medical and data science domains. The book's content consists of basic concepts of artificial intelligence and hum...

This book introduces an indispensable tool: the carbon footprint calculator for urban planning. In the face of the escalating climate crisis, urban planning finds itself at a critical juncture. By considering the evolution of urban planning and its connections to environmental issues, the book sheds light on the urgent need to reimagine city planning within a climate-conscious framework.This book presents a meticulous assessment of future uses and activities that generate greenhous...

Today’s highly industrialized and technologically controlled global food systems dominate our lives, shaping our access and attitudes towards food and deeply influencing and defining our identities. At the same time, these food systems are profoundly and destructively impacting the health of the environment and threatening all of us, human and nonhuman, who must subsist in ecological conditions of increasing fragility and scarcity. This collection examines and exposes the myriad ways that ...

¿Y Yo También? brings together a diverse range of Latina voices to address the under-representation of Latinx voices in the #MeToo movement and discussions of sexual violence. Through scholarly analysis of literature, media, podcasting, film, art, and testimonio alongside memoir, poetry, a short play, and personal essays, the authors address varied Latina experiences of sexual assault and harassment. These authors grapple with these traumas alongside their intersectional contexts,...

How can today’s educators teach academic content to students with moderate and severe developmental disabilities—while helping all students meet Common Core State Standards? This text has answers for K-12 teachers, straight from 37 experts in special and general education. A followup to the landmark bestseller Teaching Language Arts, Math, and Science to Students with Significant Cognitive Disabilities, this important text prepares teachers to ensure more inclusion, more advanc...

The holidays are a time for wishes, magic and, of course, love. Celebrate the season with this delightful collection of Christmas tales.What better way for Connor Talbot, Earl of Redfirn, to spend the holidays than convincing Leonora Compton that the only match she needs to make is with him!The Duke of Ashton has had three years to plan for his perfect Christmas present—the Lady Eleanor Fitzsimmons as his wife. Now, all he has to do is convince the reluctant lady . . ....