Smart Cities: A System-of-Systems Perspective explores System-of-Systems Engineering (SoSE) in smart cities. Sections address how analytics and innovative technologies can transform urban environments, equipping readers with the knowledge to optimize city operations, enhance public services, and promote sustainable urban growth. The book begins with the foundational concepts of SoSE and key principles of smart cities, exploring emergent behavior and interoperability. It then examines the i...

A National Book Award Finalist, this remarkable graphic novel is about growing up in a refugee camp, as told by a former Somali refugee to the Newbery Honor-winning creator of Roller Girl.Omar and his younger brother, Hassan, have spent most of their lives in Dadaab, a refugee camp in Kenya. Life is hard there: never enough food, achingly dull, and without access to the medical care Omar knows his nonverbal brother needs. So when Omar has the opportunity t...

Are you tired of feeling stuck, distracted, and out of control?Breaking Free is a bold and honest guide designed specifically for teens who want to overcome porn addiction and take their life back. This book doesn't judge—it understands. And more importantly, it gives you a clear, step-by-step path to change.Inside this book, you'll discover how porn affects your brain, your confidence, and your future—and what you can do to break free from it. You...

Breaking the Screen is a practical guide for young men who want to regain control of their habits, focus, and discipline in the digital age. In a world where online distractions are everywhere, many people struggle with habits that affect their motivation, confidence, and daily productivity. This book offers a clear and supportive path toward porn addiction recovery, digital addiction recovery, and stronger self-discipline.If you are searching for ...

For fans of The Devil Wears Prada and The Bold Type comes a smart, modern story about the shifting media landscape and one Middle Eastern–American writer finding her place in it.How far would you go to keep the job a hundred other girls are ready to take?Noora’s life is a little off track. She’s an aspiring writer and amateur blogger in New York―which is a nice way of saying that she tutors rich Upper East Side ki...

"Juicy, silly, delightful, hilarious, hot, heartfelt—all the things romance readers love best." —Elle magazineNAMED A BEST BOOK by Goodreads, Elle Magazine, Bustle, Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, and many more!From Cosmopolitan's Cosmo Reads imprint comes a love letter to romance readers that is in turns chaotic, sexy, and addictively joyful.Joonie has two great loves. Writing fanfic about her favorite...

In the present article, the author Dr. phil. Milena Rampoldi intro-duces some parallels as well as differences between two great works of world literature: the Divine Comedy of the Florentine poet Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) on the one hand and the Letter of Forgiveness of the Abbasid poet Abi 'Ala al-Ma'arri (973-1057) on the other. In this context, she also explains the philosophical foundations of this comparison. For Dr. Rampoldi, the topic of these parallelisms and/or differences is o...

My road to love in the shade of the Qur'an began in Ramadan 2025 to find a poetic expression of Qur'anic love and tension between the sexes, their togetherness and the absence of a perfect unity in a continuous dialectic between closeness and distance on a philosophical and mystical journey. The first poems of the collection were about fateful, mystical symbols, emotions and spiritual perceptions in a philosophical dream world full of illusions. This 4th volume is the point of arrival. The...

Stars—they're just like us! Except much, much worse.Rose Aslani is mid-bikini wax when her phone lights up with a notification: Famed scam artist Poppy Hastings will be released from prison today.It's been two years since Rose—a first-generation Middle Eastern American, functional trainwreck, and reporter for online journal The Shred—wrote the investigative article that exposed Poppy as a socialite grifter. Normally, one of her articles going vira...

For fans of Ashley Poston and The Love of My Afterlife comes a clever and swoony novel about an aspiring New York lifestyle influencer who gets trapped in her own "day in the life" video, with only a mysterious stranger to help her break out.Get ready with me… to break out of the algorithmLaia Grace is the New York City lifestyle influencer… or at least, she's determined to be. After leaving her past behind to pursue her dreams, f...

"Haunting" stories about crimes that are "often submerged in the greater tragedy of a beautiful city constantly torn within and without by violence" ( Publishers Weekly).Beirut is a city both urban and rural, a city of violence and forgiveness, memory and forgetfulness, war and peace. This short story collection, rich with moody suspense, brings this Middle Eastern city and its troubled history to vivid life—revealing the vast maze of the city that can't b...

When Iman Mersal stumbles upon a great – yet forgotten – novel written by Enayat al-Zayyat, a young woman who killed herself in 1963, four years before her book was published, Mersal begins to research the writer. She tracks down Enayat's best friend, who had been Egypt's biggest movie star at the time; she is given access to Enayat's diaries. Mersal can't accept, as has been widely speculated since Enayat's death, that a publisher's rejection was the main reason for Enayat's suicide. From...