Fire to Rebirth: Poems from the Breaking and Becomingby E PillayWhat happens when your life cracks open — and instead of collapsing, you catch fire?In this fierce and unflinchingly honest poetry collection, E Pillay writes from the wreckage of a psychotic break, a fractured marriage, and a lifetime of buried trauma. Fire to Rebirth is not about tidy healing. It’s about falling apart and writing your way through it.These poems explore the heartbreak of being u...

BOUND BY STEELPower has a price.Obedience is paid in blood.A serial killer is hunting professionals— women who live by authority and control. Each victim is found bound to a steel pole with cable ties, marked by a single engraved warning:FALSE ORDERLieutenant Tino knows this isn’t random. The killings are calculated, psychological, and deeply personal. With his partner Anna and forensic psychologist Dr. Lissy, he follows a trail that leads far beyond...

Get up to speed with various penetration testing techniques and resolve security threats of varying complexityKey FeaturesEnhance your penetration testing skills to tackle security threatsLearn to gather information, find vulnerabilities, and exploit enterprise defensesNavigate secured systems with the most up-to-date version of Kali Linux (2019.1) and Metasploit (5.0.0)Book DescriptionSending information via the internet is ...

This book constitutes the referred proceedings of the 26th European Conference on Evolutionary Computation in Combinatorial Optimization, EvoCOP 2026, held as part of EvoStar 2026, in Toulouse, France, during April 8-10, 2026.The 10 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions.The 10 accepted papers cover a variety of topics, ranging from fitness landscape analysis, over adaptive methods, heuristics for real-world and NP-hard p...

This book addresses the environmental, social, and economic challenges that corporations in emerging economies face, focusing on sustainability marketing as a paradigm-shifting approach. Drawing from cases across several emerging economies, including South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, and Turkey, it examines how organisations can create long-term societal value through sustainable practices.Reflecting the increasing pressure for organisations to adopt sustainability practices, the need ...

This Handbook addresses the role of the criminal-legal system in projecting and enforcing racial injustice across the globe. It consists of high-profile contributions that expose structural relations, global colonial and imperial histories, class oppression, and ongoing hegemonic domination that generate racial injustices and are embedded in criminalization and law enforcement. The Handbook considers racist ideologies and their origins, racist institutions, procedures, and practices, and t...

This open access book assesses how the Covid-19 pandemic caught higher education systems throughout the world by surprise. It maps out the responses of higher education institutions to the challenges and strategic opportunities brought about by the pandemic, and examines the effects such responses may have. Bringing together scholars and case studies from Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas, the book is both comparative and global in nature. It also brings together researchers from a var...

Harness your mind’s innate tendency to wander, stall, rest, and unfocus and become more productive—in the boardroom, living room, or classroom.Named one of Coastal Living’s Best Books for the Beach This SummerTo finish tasks and achieve goals, most people believe that more focus is the solution. We rely on to-do lists, calendar reminders, noise-blocking headphones, and sometimes medication to help us concentrate—even thoug...

No one should be held back by an accent, not when there is an effective and systematic way to help. Change Your Accent: English Pronunciation for Success is an easy-to-follow and effective method for non-native English speakers who have a good command of English, but who are missing out on professional, educational and social opportunities because of their spoken English. “Change Your Accent” provides a step-by-step approach to accent reduction which includes self-testing, analysi...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th Southern African Conference on Artificial Intelligence Research, SACAIR 2025, held in Cape Town, South Africa, during December 1–5, 2025.The 36 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 150 submissions.The papers are organized into the following topical sections: Algorithmic and Data Driven AI; Socio-technical and Human-Centred AI; and Responsible and Ethical AI.

This CCIS post conference volume constitutes the proceedings of First Global Conference on Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, AAIDS 2024, in London, UK, April 2024.The 30 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 147 submissions. They were focused on topical sections as follows: Advanced Computing and Statistics; Data Science and Hybrid AI Systems.

E shares a deeply personal account of her experiences with trauma, the reactions to her disclosures, and her diagnosis of Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder. She invites readers on a turbulent yet hopeful journey through her recovery. Her unique writing style, characterized by minimal punctuation, allows readers to interpret and experience each poem in their own way. With a powerful ability to evoke strong emotions, her poems come with a trigger warning.