The Art of Hurting Softly is a tender, poetic exploration of love, loss, and the quiet ache that lingers long after goodbye.In this deeply emotional collection, Ankit Gupta writes about the pain that doesn't scream — the kind that hums softly beneath the skin. Each fragment captures the raw beauty of heartbreak and the slow, fragile art of healing.From the one who hurt him gently to the one who taught him how to love again, every word is a reflection of the moments that bre...

Identity Security in the AI Era addresses one of the most urgent challenges in cybersecurity today: safeguarding digital identities in a world transformed by artificial intelligence. As enterprises embrace cloud technologies, automation, and data-driven systems, identity has become the new perimeter and the most common target. This book provides a practical framework for understanding how AI is reshaping identity threats and offers actionable strategies to build r...

This book captures the intellectual spirit and interdisciplinary synergy of a global forum dedicated to redefining the future of civil engineering through innovation and sustainability in the field of transportation engineering. The proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Innovations and Sustainability in Civil Engineering: Shaping Tomorrow’s Infrastructure (ISCESTI – 2025), held from May 14–16, 2025, at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Patna, present a groundbreaking ...

This book encapsulates and highlights the most recent innovations, breakthroughs, and comparisons of advanced sustainable manufacturing and material processing techniques for high-performance materials applications with a focus on sustainability and using conventional available methods.Sustainable Advanced Manufacturing and Materials Processing: Methods and Technologies addresses the various sustainable manufacturing and materials processing techniques for advanced materia...

Few things are as important as the food we eat. Conversations in Food Studies demonstrates the value of interdisciplinary research through the cross-pollination of disciplinary, epistemological, and methodological perspectives. Widely diverse essays, ranging from the meaning of milk, to the bring-your-own-wine movement, to urban household waste, are the product of collaborating teams of interdisciplinary authors. Readers are invited to engage and reflect on the theories and practi...

With the market becoming more and more competitive in every segment, time-to-market is emerging as the most important factor defining a product’s success. However, designing and prototyping a product takes a long time as each part has to be produced in small quantities at different manufacturing units. With the advent of desktop manufacturing, most of these parts can now be produced in-house, saving a lot of time