This book highlights the remarkable importance of special functions, operational calculus, and variational methods. A considerable portion of the book is dedicated to second-order partial differential equations, as they offer mathematical models of various phenomena in physics and engineering.The book provides students and researchers with essential help on key mathematical topics, which are applied to a range of practical problems. These topics were chosen because, after teaching ...

This book offers engineering students an introduction to the theory of partial differential equations and then guiding them through the modern problems in this subject.Divided into two parts, in the first part readers already well-acquainted with problems from the theory of differential and integral equations gain insights into the classical notions and problems, including differential operators, characteristic surfaces, Levi functions, Green’s function, and Green’s formulas. Reade...

Different, therefore bullied? We are all different — even in our appearance. Our uniqueness should be celebrated.Little boy Leo, the main character, is very short and has a cleft lip. That's why the children from his village, including his cousin, ridicule him — up until Leo's good heart and brevity win him a friend and silence the bullies.This story is a powerful reminder that children with physical differences are strong and resilient, and they, as we all do, thrive among g...

Nadia's Shoes is a children's picture book about a friendship that started at the fence of a hospital. Nadia was on one side of the fence. She was in the hospital yard in a wheelchair. Her parents died in an air attack and Nadia was the only one to survive. Her dream was to walk again. Zoya was on the other side of the fence. She was begging on the sidewalk just outside the hospital doors. She had no relatives. Her dream was to buy a pair of shoes for the coming winter. The two girls becom...

Alastair has found the perfect partner in husband, Steven. Together they've built a successful life, had a beautiful child, and still behave like newlyweds long since the day he carried her over the threshold.But all of that changes in an instant thanks to a thoughtless deed that has lifelong repercussions.With secrets bubbling to the surface, the pair find their American dream life suddenly in jeopardy, and neither one of them are willing to let go at any cost.

As a new president takes office in 2021, America is deeply divided politically and socially, while the economy seems precariously balanced on increasingly shaky legs. Doom and gloom is the predominant sentiment in America. It has become widely accepted within the investment, political, and media sectors that America is on the decline and that China will drive the global agenda in the 21st century. To which I say, not so fast. This book carefully examines the trends and actual hard data fro...

Remembering and forgetting can be conscious or unconscious acts, which can heal or harm.Bernard Marin’s life has been rich in experience and intriguing characters, and he comes from a tradition where remembering, and perhaps forgetting, can be life-changing. With an eye for detail and a generous heart, Bernard brings you the stories that have moved him, filtered through a lively imagination and remade as fiction.

Whether you just want to create a neutral, ""business"" partnership with the ""other woman"" in your life—or actually, gulp, become friends—they show you how to reach your goal through ten powerful steps.

How does a Greek goddess burst forth into today's reality?Imagine having an intimate relationship with the keeper of the crossroads, with inspiration itself, with the mystery.Shards of a Broken Mystery: Restoring Hekate and Our Divine Feminine Soul records the real-time unfolding of the relationship between the author and an ancient Titan Greek goddess, Hekate: denigrated, discarded, and all but forgotten during the rise of the patriarchy in millennia past. The work could b...

Warren Bentley knows there's something special about Ariana Leighton from the moment the feisty little minx puts him in his place. Being the CEO of a multi-million-dollar company, he's used to women throwing themselves at him. Yet Ari seems immune to his charm.But Warren always gets what he wants... and he wants Ariana.Nothing will stand in his way. Not even the fact that she's one of his employees.Ariana Leighton had her life all planned out until some devastating n...

Get a look into the mind of Cheech Marin–one half of the renowned Cheech and Chong comedic duo–and follow through the highs and lows of his personal and professional lives.An unborn baby with a fatal heart defect . . . a skier submerged for an hour in a frozen Norwegian lake . . . a comatose brain surgery patient whom doctors have declared a "vegetable."The long-awaited memoir from a counterculture legend. Cheech Marin came of age at an interesting time in ...

Taoism and the use of the five elemental forces of nature for healing, says Gilles Marin, are esoteric, understandable only through daily experience with a knowledgeable mentor. Marin’s 25 years of clinical practice teaching the ancient Taoist method of Chi Nei Tsang, which uses hands-on techniques and Taoist meditations to help clients heal, uniquely qualifies him for the task. Five Elements, Six Conditions shows how simple and practical the ancient Taoist healing principles are ...