A holiday task. A rookie mistake. An epic race across the island... to find the greatest weapon on earth.The Fire Demon is an all-new location thriller set in Gran Canaria. Follow the characters as they stroll, run, climb, hike, cycle, drive, dive, swim, sail, and fly over our beautiful island.The intense spy plot will keep you hooked as it builds to an explosive, emotional ending.You will visit more than 20 locations and travel in excess of 200 miles start...

Lee Jay is a Baby Boomer who was born into a conservative family in a small town and raised as one of Jehovah's Witnesses. Yet from a young age, Jay knew that he was male inside even though he was female on the outside and was being raised to conform to a traditional version of femininity. Jay grew up in the 1960s and came of age in the 1970s, in an era when homosexuality was generally considered to be a mental illness and the word "transgender" did not exist. After moving to the city as a...

Are you a parent who wants to be a part of their child’s sport journey, no matter how far they go? Do you sometimes feel just as frustrated as your young athlete with the debrief during the journey home after the game? Perhaps you struggle to find the right words to say — or sometimes not to say — to your child, so have resorted to saying nothing at all.Dr Jay-Lee Nair has the answers. This book will help you learn how best to support and talk to your child not just before...

This book is exploration into the forefront of digital evolution, presenting a compelling array of real-world case studies that underscore the transformative impact of emerging processes and services on asset management. The book goes beyond theoretical frameworks, offering a dynamic narrative that reveals how organizations across industries are strategically integrating cutting-edge technologies into their asset management practices.With a keen focus on innovation, the book examin...

"Katabasis" is the Greek word for the journey to the underworld. After the death of Eurydice, Orpheus descends into hell and confronts the agony and suffering of life. When he glimmers at the hope of seeing Eurydice, he ascends and tries to find meaning in living onward - only to come face to face with fate.Orpheus is a philosophical-poem on the cycle of grief and joy, death and living.

Our hero is a light novelist living in his mother's basement. Upon his death, he is given the opportunity to be reborn into a new, fantastical world.Will he be reborn with wit and strength? Will he go on heart-pounding adventures and get the girl, and save the world and be rewarded in a medal ceremony?Or maybe he will just be reborn as himself.If ever one is looking for a book on living in the best of all possible worlds and tending to our own garden, that book is V...

This book introduces readers to spatiotemporal analytics that are extended from spatial statistics. Spatiotemporal analytics help analysts to quantitatively recognize and evaluate the spatial patterns and their temporal trends of a set of geographic events or objects. Spatiotemporal analyses are very important in geography, environmental sciences, economy, and many other domains. Spatiotemporal Analytics explains in very simple terms the concepts of spatiotemporal data and...

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Engineering Asset Management 2010 represents state-of-the art trends and developments in the emerging field of engineering asset management as presented at the Fifth World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM).The proceedings of the WCEAM 2010 is an excellent reference for practitioners, researchers and students in the multidisciplinary field of asset management, covering topics such as:Asset condition monitoring and intelligent maintenanceAsset d...

This text represents state-of-the-art trends and developments in the emerging field of engineering asset management as presented at the Sixth World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM) held in Cincinnati, OH, USA from October 3-5, 2011The Proceedings of the WCEAM 2011 is an excellent reference for practitioners, researchers and students in the multidisciplinary field of asset management, covering topics such as: Asset condition monitoring and intelligent maintenance; As...

In the event of a disaster or public health emergency, individual agencies and hospitals cannot always effectively act alone. In order to provide a collaborative, comprehensive system of planning and response a Healthcare Emergency Response Coalition (HERC) is needed. This book introduces the concept of a HERC and demonstrates why and how a HERC is among the most effective tools for health emergency response and preparedness. Establishing a Healthcare Emergency Response Coalition ...

This book introduces Industrial AI in multiple dimensions. Industrial AI is a systematic discipline which focuses on developing, validating and deploying various machine learning algorithms for industrial applications with sustainable performance. Combined with the state-of-the-art sensing, communication and big data analytics platforms, a systematic Industrial AI methodology will allow integration of physical systems with computational models. The concept of Industrial AI is in infancy st...