Behind Closed CurtainsSome doors are locked. Some secrets are hidden. And some people are watching.Julian Vance built The Obsidian, the world's most advanced luxury smart tower—a fortress of glass, steel, and artificial intelligence designed to keep its residents safe. From his isolated penthouse command center, Julian monitors every system, every sensor, and every digital footprint inside the building.Control is everything....

From U.S.-Mexico border walls to Flint's poisoned pipes, there is a new urgency to the politics of infrastructure. Roads, electricity lines, water pipes, and oil installations promise to distribute the resources necessary for everyday life. Yet an attention to their ongoing processes also reveals how infrastructures are made with fragile and often violent relations among people, materials, and institutions. While infrastructures promise modernity and development, their breakdowns and absen...

Daniel Frost wakes up to a life that doesn't belong to him.Haunted by impossible memories, mysterious messages, and a daughter he cannot remember, Daniel begins to uncover a truth that challenges everything he knows about identity and reality.As fragments of forgotten timelines collide, he is drawn into a dangerous mystery that spans parallel worlds and hidden experiments. With time running out, Daniel must decide which version of his life is truly his—and what he is willin...

"Integrated thoughts" is a Anthology of Six Amazing Writers who worked hard in their life for getting published as a writer. In this book they have shared their thoughts as a short story,poetry,shayari,etc ways. All these collections will checked by Compiler and tried to make this book plagiarism free.

This “authoritative [and] important” (The New York Times Book Review) “biography” of America’s framing document explores topics ranging from presidential power and freedom of speech to birthright citizenship and beyond, explaining not only what the Constitution says but also why the Constitution says it.“Elegantly written, thorough but concise, and consistently enlightening . . . an indispensable reference.”—Scott Turow, The Washington Post Boo...

From a preeminent constitutional scholar, a “highly engaging and thought-provoking” (Wall Street Journal) exploration of the unwritten rules that inform the American ConstitutionDespite its venerated place atop American law and politics, our written Constitution does not enumerate all of the rules and rights, principles and procedures that actually govern modern America. As esteemed legal scholar Akhil Reed Amar explains, the solution to many constitutiona...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the BPM Forum from the International Conference on Business Process Management, BPM 2017, held in Barcelona, Spain, September 2017.The BPM Forum hosts innovative research which has a high potential of stimulating discussions. The papers selected for the forum are expected to showcase fresh ideas from exciting and emerging topics in BPM, even if they are not yet as mature as the regular papers at the conference.The volume contains 11 ...

One of The Atlantic's Great American NovelsWinner of the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award"Gorgeously tender at its core…beautiful, heartstopping… Family Life really blazes." —Sonali Deraniyagala, New York Times Book ReviewHailed as a "supreme storyteller" ( Philadelphia Inquirer) for his "cunning, dismaying and beautifully conceived" fiction ( New York Times), Akhil Sharma is posse...

This fascinating book delves into the transformative role that blockchain technology could play in the security and integrity of patient data within the healthcare sector.In an era where data breaches and privacy concerns loom large, blockchain has emerged as a potential solution to these challenges, offering a route to streamline healthcare processes, manage data and improve patient outcomes. The book begins by providing a comprehensive overview of its underlying principles, inclu...

Written by leading global experts in the field, Principles of Neonatology provides those on the NICU team with clinically focused, evidence-based guidance in an easy-to-access format. Chapters cover the key topics of greatest and most frequent concern to clinicians treating newborns, delivering current, data-driven management and treatment advice in a single source relevant to the seasoned practitioner, fellow, or trainee. - A highly templated format makes it easy to find exactly the infor...

During your life you will make many important financial decisions. Their success will be significantly affected by the state of the economy and financial markets when you make them.Imagine if you had a guide to the future to help you anticipate periods of boom and bust and make decisions accordingly: when to invest and take risk, and when to sell or take measures to preserve your wealth.The Secret Wealth Advantage is that guide.To make better investment dec...

A Life of Adventure and Delight delivers eight masterful stories from dazzlingly original and critically acclaimed author Akhil Sharma.Hailed as a storyteller whose fiction is "a glowing work of art" ( Wall Street Journal), Akhil Sharma is possessed of a narrative voice "as hypnotic as those found in the pages of Dostoyevsky" ( The Nation). In A Life of Adventure and Delight, Sharma delivers eight masterful stories that focus on ...