This volume presents a new perspective into the Lost City of the Inca based on science and engineering. The geography, site selection, engineering infrastructure, and the city planning are described with site-specific photography and narrative. The authors provide detailed analyses of the Inca water system, drainage, agriculture, stonework, and construction methods. The background on the comprehensive technology transfer system utilized by the Inca engineers is given in terms of their cult...

Strabismus can be devastating to patients, yet often difficult to treat, even for the most seasoned veteran. Color Atlas Of Strabismus Surgery, Fifth Edition clearly and succinctly shares with the reader strategies and surgical techniques to improve the care of patients, starting with the simple basics and progressing to more complicated procedures. Updated from the successful fourth edition, the atlas is designed for resident ophthalmologists and experienced strabismologists alik...

Meet Lola Dutch, a delightfully creative girl who is bursting with grand ideas.From the best ways to serve breakfast -- an elegant feast! -- to the ideal sleeping spot -- a majestic blanket fort, of course! -- Lola is inspired all day long.Her dear companion Bear sometimes says she is just too much, but Lola is rich with imagination and originality, which even Bear will agree is AMAZING.The unstoppable Lola Dutch is about to show ...

Lola Dutch loves her friends SO much -- there's no such thing as TOO MUCH! This larger-than-life character is a just-right gift for your creative child.When Lola Dutch's friends are having a bad day, she knows just what to do to make each of them feel better:She sews cozy pajamas for Gator,constructs the perfect reading nook for Crane,and takes Pig to the park!Lola loves showing her friends how much she loves them! But there's one spec...

Artificial intelligence is everywhere—it’s in our houses and phones and cars. AI makes decisions about what we should buy, watch, and read, and it won’t be long before AI’s in our hospitals, combing through our records. Maybe soon it will even be deciding who’s innocent, and who goes to jail . . .But most of us don’t understand how AI works. We hardly know what it is.In "Is the Algorithm Plotting Against Us?", AI expert Kenneth Wenger deftly explains the complexity at AI’s he...

Sometimes, love can truly take you by surprise. This is how it was with us when we encountered a little lost rescue dog who needed a home. When she entered our lives, we began to understand the joy, love, and frustration only life with a rescue dog can bring. Then a couple years later, we invited another rescue dog into our family, changing our lives in ways we could not have imagined before.Are you a dog lover? Or are you someone just looking to better understand the many forms lo...

In "A History of Domestic Manners and Sentiments in England During the Middle Ages," Thomas Wright meticulously examines the everyday lives and social norms that characterized medieval England. This scholarly work delves into various aspects of domestic life, including household organization, gender roles, and familial relationships, revealing the complexities and contradictions of medieval sentiments. Wright employs a rigorous historical methodology, integrating primary sources such as le...

Sarah Jane and Kenneth Wright are thrilled to continue this fun series about the unstoppable Lola Dutch, a larger-than-life character perfect for fans of Olivia and Fancy Nancy.Lola Dutch is always bursting with grand plans--so of course she has many ideas for what she wants to be when she grows up!She could be a magnificent performer . . .or a daring inventor . . .or a brilliant botanist . . .there are exciting ideas all around! But Lo...

Mirroring and Attunement offers a new approach to psychoanalysis, artistic creation and religion. Viewing these activities from a broadly relational perspective, Wright proposes that each provides a medium for creative dialogue: the artist discovers himself within his self-created forms, the religious person through an internal dialogue with ‘God’, and the analysand through the inter-subjective medium of the analysis.Building on the work of Winnicott, Stern and Langer, the...

Six Steps to Successful Child Advocacy: Changing the World for Children offers an interdisciplinary approach to child advocacy, nurturing key skills through a proven six-step process that has been used to train child advocates and create social change around the world. The approach is applicable for micro-advocacy for one child, mezzo-advocacy for a community or group of children, and macro-advocacy at a regional, national, or international level. This practical text offer...

Strabismus can be devastating to patients, yet often difficult to treat, even for the most seasoned veteran. The Atlas of Strabismus Surgery, Fourth Edition clearly and succinctly shares with the reader strategies and surgical techniques to improve the care of patients, starting with the simple basics and progressing to more complicated procedures. Updated from the successful third edition, the atlas is designed for resident ophthalmologists and experienced strabismologists alike....

The vast reduction in size and power consumption of CMOS circuitry has led to a large research effort based around the vision of wireless sensor networks. The proposed networks will be comprised of thousands of small wireless nodes that operate in a multi-hop fashion, replacing long transmission distances with many low power, low cost wireless devices. The result will be the creation of an intelligent environment responding to its inhabitants and ambient conditions. Wireless devices curren...