In a near-future world where memory can be rewritten like software, a covert organization called ARC uses a neural architecture known as Project Eidolon to reshape public history, suppress grief, and manufacture obedience. When their rival, VEPR, a rogue post-Soviet faction, launches a counter-offensive not by rewriting memory but by erasing emotional bonds altogether, civilization begins to collapse into cognitive entropy. Language disintegrates. Meaning fragments. And the past becomes a ...

Max Foreman has just come back from a military mission in Africa. What should have been a simple in-and-out covert operation turned into a multiple-week ordeal punctuated by a trail of bodies from Africa to Europe. Worse, Max realizes that the team was betrayed. Escaping to Spain, Max is witness to the kidnapping of Lena, a multibillionaire Russian woman, whom he falls in love with. Maxs relationship with Lena will change his life forever as she is an oligarch trying to fend off organized ...

The rewards of nanotechnology looked so promising! Yet Max Foremanthe CEO of Pessinus Industries, the corporation that created nanotechnologyis on the run. Unwittingly, he has unleashed a technological Armageddon that is being orchestrated by his largest client, US General Buzz Hamilton. The threats that he had himself identified have become the reality of an attempt to revive Hitlerian ideology. Now caught between Interpol; the banking authorities; a business partner who is no other than ...

Allergies are increasing at a rapid rate and the team of experts behind Allergy Sense are here to break them down for families, ensuring people have up to date, and scientifically vetted, information.A lack of easily accessible and accurate information about particular allergies can exacerbate the anxiety of discovering a new food allergy or your child’s food allergy. Protecting your health, or your child’s health while also maintaining a level of ‘normali...

Ancient temples, haunted bridges, and spectral women—discover 87 supernatural tales where Kyoto’s history and Buddhist lore entwine with restless spirits, Hungry Ghosts, and the rituals that keep them at bay.In Kyoto, ghosts are not just stories—they are neighbors, warnings, and, sometimes, protectors. This atmospheric collection gathers 87 supernatural legends from Japan’s former capital, where every street corner, shrine, and cherry tree harbors its own haunting....

Weaning Sense demystifies the weaning world helping you grow healthy tummies and happy babies (and mums) in no time! Packed full of delicious recipes, this book will help you feel less stressed and more informed when it comes to introducing your baby to solid food.Offering a weaning solution from expert authors based on your baby's sensory personality, this book helps you learn how to tap into your baby's cues on weaning and, using current research, gives you an easy-to-us...

Discover "History of Art. Volume 4. Modern Art" by Élie Faure - a philosophical and poetic journey to the heart of artistic creation. In this final volume, Faure transcends eras to explore the essence of art as the vital pulse of humanity. From African idols to Venetian masterpieces, he reveals the profound connections between cultures and figurative expressions, analyzing the alternating rhythm of synthesis and analysis that drives History. From Ancient Egypt to the modern age, through Gr...

The idea that the expression of radical beliefs is a predictor to future acts of political violence has been a central tenet of counter-extremism over the last two decades. Not only has this imposed a duty upon doctors, lecturers and teachers to inform on the radical beliefs of their patients and students but, as this book argues, it is also a fundamentally flawed concept. Informed by his own experience with the UK's Prevent programme while teaching in a Muslim community, Rob Faur...

Oppdag "Kunsthistorie. Bind 4. Moderne kunst" av Élie Faure - en filosofisk og poetisk reise inn i kunstnerisk skapelse. I denne avsluttende boken overstiger Faure tidalder for å utforske kunstens essens som menneskehetens vitale puls. Fra afrikanske idoler til Venezias mesterverk avslører han dype bånd mellom kulturer og bildelige uttrykk, analyserer den vekslende rytmen av syntese og analyse som driver Historien. Fra det gamle Egypt til moderne tid, gjennom Hellas, India og Vesten, dechi...

Through a highly sensitive exploration of key concepts and metaphors, Bernard Faure guides Western readers in appreciating some of the more elusive aspects of the Chinese tradition of Chan Buddhism and its outgrowth, Japanese Zen. He focuses on Chan's insistence on "immediacy"--its denial of all traditional mediations, including scripture, ritual, good works--and yet shows how these mediations have always been present in Chan. Given this apparent duplicity in its discourse, Faure reveals h...

The aim of this book is to present the fundamental principles of energy efficiency in construction. It is aimed at professionals, as well as masters' and engineering school students working in the field of building energy.Volume 1 covers the building context and issues, the building envelope and how to improve it using innovative materials and construction techniques, ventilation and lighting.Volume 2 is devoted to heating, air conditioning, domestic hot water production an...

The first volume of Élie Faure’s series History of Art takes the listener on a breathtaking journey to the origins of human imagination. This book traces the birth of the human gaze — from the Paleolithic caves to the colossal statues of Egypt, from Assyria’s winged bulls to the sunlit temples of Greece, and ultimately to Rome, the genius of stone and roads.As a poetic storyteller and visionary historian, Faure reveals that works of art are never mere decoration, but living systems...