Through a constructivist approach, this book views the era of the American Civil War as a transnational phenomenon, emphasizing its role in shaping national identities and historical memory worldwide.Extending identity narratives across time, contributors from Brazil, Canada, France, Mexico, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States analyze a wide range of primary sources, including diplomatic correspondence, periodicals, memoirs, intellectual writings, fict...

A young Russian man, engaged to be married, encounters his former love in a German spa town and is soon enmeshed in a torturous romantic tangle in this graceful, politically tinged love story by a Russian literary great.Ivan Turgenev's fifth novel, Smoke, caused a furor when it was published in 1867. Tolstoy claimed that his fellow writer loved only fornication, not his country; the poet Tiutchev that he was polluting "the smoke of the fatherland, sweet an...

This book provides an understanding of the significant applications of IoT technologies in renewable energy. It explores their integration with various renewable energy sources, including solar, wind, bioenergy, piezoelectric materials, and solutions addressing water shortage challenges, highlighting advancements and practical implementations in each area. A comparative analysis of recent techniques is presented to evaluate the efficiency of IoT‑based renewable energy systems. This book al...

Part II: The Great Purge (Chapters 9–17)The immune response escalates. Cities collapse, reclaimed by forests, oceans, and emergent human-plant hybrids. Marcus and Sarah traverse collapsing zones, meeting resistance and embracers among fragmented survivor groups. Earth's AI and biotic systems converge, forming a unified, sentient network. Old satellites morph into orbiting sentinels, guardians of planetary law. Sarah discovers a secret lab where Earth's evolutionary...

Ivan Bunin was considered by many to be the heir of the literary tradition established by Tolstoy and Chekov - a realist writer with an achingly beautiful, brocaded style. The Life of Arseniev was written over twelve years; a part-translation was put out by Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press in 1933, but Bunin continued working on the novel until 1952. This is the first English translation of Bunin’s magnum opus as he truly envisioned it.We follow Alexei Arseniev, ...

A girl’s girl influencer gets a serious reality check when she discovers she’s fallen for her best friend’s boyfriend in this forbidden friends-to-lovers romance.Sofia Mendoza has had enough. She’s done watching male co-workers steal credit for her talent, and now she’s going to do something about it. No one knows she’s the brains behind a popular video series highlighting and celebrating women in history who’ve been erased from their own inventions and discoveries...

What is 'Central Europe'? Where do its borders lie? Does it even exist? Attempts to define it usually yield more questions than answers. But perhaps the wrong questions are being asked.Luka Ivan Jukic disentangles the enigma of Central Europe through its birth, death, and rebirth. Today, Poland, Croatia, and even Ukraine proudly align themselves with it, and so with Western civilization. But the term originally described an unrecognizably different world—one formed in the eighteent...

What if consciousness came first?Not as an idea inside the brain. Not as a side effect of matter. But as the field in which matter, life, identity, and the soul appear.The Physics of Consciousness explores one of the deep questions a human being can ask:Who am I, really?Are you only a body moving through time—or the awareness in which body, thought, memory, and the world itself are known?Ivan Antic presents ...

//. ARCHIVE UNLOCKEDWelcome back, agent.The breadcrumbs you've followed across the collection and through classified terrestrial archives have always pointed in one direction: forward. You’ve read the corporate PR, deciphered the leaked memos, and explored the shadows, but now your clearance has reached the absolute limit. It is time to step directly into the core of the machine.FAILTECH Legacy compiles the final set of decrypted fi...

An account of the formation of the Belgium Comète Line, and the assistance given by the Comète Line to an Australian Airman shot down in World War 2 over Germany on 7 August 1942. After evading German forces, he made his way into Belgium, where a Belgian farmer hid him. He eventually became No. 34 on the Comète Line escape route to Spain.

At first glance, quantum mechanics and behavioural science may appear to belong to entirely separate domains—one rooted in subatomic particles and mathematical formalisms, the other in human thoughts, decisions and emotions. However, recent research reveals a surprising and powerful connection between them. This book investigates that connection through quantum models of cognition and decision-making, illustrating how principles from quantum theory can help us understand ambiguity, bias an...