What was supposed to be a quick jaunt to the capital of Leonhardt has turned out to be a lot more than Mukohda bargained for! Between a royal audience, an industrial-scale butchering project, and at least one inadvertent extinction, the trip has been one headache after another. But now, finally, the serious business is all settled and Mukohda gets to kick back and enjoy himself! The capital is home to shopping, street food, and sights to see aplenty, and Mukohda has every intention to avai...

A darkly humorous coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of the Yugoslav Wars.As air-raid sirens become commonplace, children in an apartment building escape into a world of Barbie dolls, improvising scenarios that mirror the splintering social structure of 1990s Yugoslavia. Innocence clashes with the horrors of war and the allure of Western consumerism.Maša Kolanović's Underground Barbie deftly captures the power of imagination to overcome h...

The Glitch Runner When Eli boots up the world's most immersive video game, he doesn't expect to wake up inside it. Trapped in a broken world of checkpoints, loot, puzzles, and merciless bosses, Eli teams up with another player—Mara—to fight their way toward freedom.But in New Game+, the rules change. Mara is corrupted, the System itself rises to stop them, and escape demands the ultimate price.✨ A tale of friendship, glitches, and sacrifice in a world where "Gam...

My Grandfather and the Bird is a story written by a nine years old girl. The story is based on a true story. It teaches good manners of taking care of animals and rescuing them.It focuses on family love relations and how the mothers are always there for their babies even in birds lives.

High above Honolulu in the Tantalus rainforest, a high school reunion turns tragic.A Honolulu detective, an Izakaya restaurant owner, and an on-line investigative reporter team up to solve another mystery. Follow Charlie Chang, Moto Fujimoto, and Zoe Lee as they navigate Hawaii's multicultural modern landscape to uncover the connections between personal rivalries, cyber insecurity, and the opioid epidemic. A sequel to The Case of the Good Deed, these three quirky characters give us...

The Case of the Good Deed follows two investigators reminiscent of Charlie Chan and Mr. Moto, but not the same. An old Hawaiian deed from the mid-19th century is found in the wall of a historic church. The deed is to a valuable parcel in rapidly developing downtown Kakaako. A young museum researcher and a young reporter, Zoe Lee, believe it can complicate if not stop a major development. Then a suspicious and tragic death. Was it an accident? Follow Detective Charlie, Izakaya owner Moto, a...

Mindfulness and Compassion in Integrative Supervision presents an original integrative and transtheoretical approach to supervision that emphasises the importance of mindful awareness and compassion in supervision practice.Psychotherapists are taught about importance of compassion for their clients, while the role of bringing self-compassion toward themselves is often neglected. This book offers novel perspectives on mindful awareness, self-compassion, physiological synchr...

This book compiles a comprehensive collection of pioneering research that addresses the multifaceted challenges and theoretical aspects of Generative AI in creative industries. Generative AI, a groundbreaking technological development, has been carving a significant niche within the creative industries. This innovative form of AI, exemplified by models like OpenAI's ChatGPT, is not only transforming the landscape of human-like text generation but is also radically reshaping creative fields...

Artificial Intelligence applications play a crucial role in modern businesses across various industries. The Role of Artificial Intelligence Applications in Business examines key aspects of how digital technologies impact businesses, including AI-powered chatbots, self-service portals, and online customer support systems which can help enhance the overall customer experience. In addition, digital technologies enable businesses to collect and analyse vast amounts of data (big data ...

This book is a concise but well-organized introduction to nanotechnology (NT) which the upstream oil industry is now vigorously adapting to develop its own unique applications for improved oilfield operations and, oil and gas production. Its reader will learn nanotechnology fundamentals, be introduced to important NT products and applications from other industries and learn about the current state of development of various NT applications in the upstream oil industry, which include innovat...

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This book investigates the changing patterns of labour market and unemployment policies in EU member states during the period since fiscal austerity took hold in 2010 during the deepest postwar recession in Europe.Looking at the big European picture, do we see a convergence or a divergence in labour market and unemployment policy trends and outputs? Has labour market insecurity increased or decreased and can these changes be associated with the observed changes in labour market pol...