Her name is Zandra, she is an Immortal. Ihon Iraes finds himself falling—or at least, intrigued. But while in this magical place called the Haven, Ihon discovers time passes differently. While only a day has passed within the Realm, a century blinked by out in the world.Leaving the Immortal behind, he returns to Scotland, only to find his native country on the verge of war.By chance, it seems, the knight meets the famed William Wallace—an upstart rebel in the words of his e...

The death of the old and familiar brings the new path of a life-altering revelation. When his wife is murdered, Ihon Iraes is forced to find his destiny in the world of men. His revelation is a new form he takes on accident the night he finds her body. What is this monstrous creature that he has become?Hunting down the killer, he discovers he is not alone. He's part of an ancient Race of creatures that walk like men with the heads and pelts of enormous wolves.The Wolf-Born ...

The death of the old and familiar brings the new path of a life-altering revelation. When his wife is murdered, Ihon Iraes is forced to find his destiny in the world of men. His revelation is a new form he takes on accident the night he finds her body. What is this monstrous creature that he has become?Hunting down the killer, he discovers he is not alone. He's part of an ancient Race of creatures that walk like men with the heads and pelts of enormous wolves.The Wolf-Born ...

Can Ihon Iraes survive the growing heaviness on his heart? He's already lost so many human loves, he wonders if his kind-the Wolf-Born-are right in their prejudice against the "lesser race."But how can he not love humans? When returning home to Iraes Valley, Ihon discovers the descendents of his Desi have spent the past few decades remodeling the Iraes House.Time passes, Ihon moves southward into England, finding friends instead of enemies in this new century.Ihon t...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 53rd Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop, AIPR 2025, held in Washington, DC, USA, during October 13–14, 2025.The 41 papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. They focus on Imagery-Related challenges in Generative AI and Large Language Models, highlighting the accelerating impact of generative technologies on imagery, video, and multimodal reasoning.

Interpretations of Canada's emerging identity have been largely based on a relatively small corpus of literary writing and landscape paintings, overlooking the influence of the British and American travel writers who published hundreds of books and articles that did much to fix the image of Canada in the popular imagination.In Fashioning the Canadian Landscape, J.I. Little examines how Canada, much like the United States, came to be identified with its natural landscape. L...

'In a short life he accomplished much, and to the roll of great names in the history of his particular studies added his own.' So is described one of the greatest figures of the twentieth century, yet Alan Turing's name was not widely recognised until his contribution to the breaking of the German Enigma code became public in the 1970s. The story of Turing's life fascinates and in the years since his suicide, Turing's reputation has only grown, as his contributions to logic, mathematics, c...

Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs) operate at high temperatures allowing more fuel flexibility and also useful heat output and so increase total efficiency, but does give some interesting engineering challenges. Solid Oxide Fuels Cells: Facts and Figures provides clear and accurate data for a selection of SOFC topics from the specific details of Ni cermet anodes, chemical expansion in materials, and the measuring and modelling of mechanical stresses, to the broader scope of the histor...

“Deep time” is a term which attempts to capture temporal scales far beyond human comprehension. These are stretches of time epitomised by geological and cosmic scale processes, vast enough to make the entirety of human existence appear as little more than a footnote. The past few years have seen a boom in texts dedicated to the study of deep time, extending across a broad range of disciplines which fall markedly outside of its geological roots. These studies are unified by two ideas in par...

This anthology comic series is based on Halo Wars 2, the real-time strategy video game from 343 Industries, which features the new ruthless villain in the Halo franchise, Atriox, whose defiance of the alien collective known as the Covenant is unmatched. Atriox, the legendary Brute who questioned the Great Journey and the will of the Prophets as he watched his comrades die for their cause. Atriox, who created the faction known across the universe as the Banished!

There is a growing body of research on cover crops as a key tool in regenerative agriculture, including their multifunctional role in making agricultural systems more resilient in the face of climate change.Cover crops for sustainable soil management provides a comprehensive review of the varied roles of cover crops in promoting soil health, how best to deploy them, as well as optimising use of different classes of cover crops in promoting soil health. The book also discus...

Easter Island is one of the world's great mysteries. Why did nobody live there when the island was discovered? Where did the giant statues come from? And why are the waters around the island —the mysterious Agassis Triangle — devoid of life?