Being the only survivor of the terrorist attack in the Niger-Delta, Lieutenant Theodore Diogu returns to military camp only to face threats from his superiors who make accusations against him. But he is not tried according to law, rather assigned to a mission he might not return.Saving the President from a terrorist attack, Theodore is welcomed to the government house. A night with the President, he is acquainted with classified information beyond his pay grade, which makes him a t...

Dancing ballet makes Rose feel fulfilled. Her greatest joy is that she is travelling to the city to teach a crew of dancers her style, and it is rumoured all over her school that by the time she returns home, she will be one of the most famous girls in the country. What Rose does not approve of is that her parents assigned her an old military man to be her bodyguard. She thinks the journey will be full of fun if she's allowed to go with her best friend.After the accident on her way...

On the outskirt of Oma Kingdom, a powerful woman is found at a riverbank living in solitude. Kings, gladiators, and heroes rise to ask her hand in marriage, but she will marry only the man who is able to defeat her in a battle arena. The paragon of beauty becomes the bane of conquerors until she meets a man of her match who comes from a small village in Greece to propose to her. Ure is astonished to discover that her new lover is a childhood friend, a titan called Omanze.The prince...

Merck is the oldest pharmaceutical-chemical company in the world. It developed into a global corporation from a Darmstadt pharmacy that Jacob Friedrich Merck received the pharmacist’s license for in 1668. This book tells the 350-year history of the company for the first time in its entirety and on the basis of all the available sources, as well as the newest research in business history. For a long time, family-owned companies were regarded as a dying breed. The future seemed to belong to ...

The book is the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computational Engineering (ICCE 2024), Darmstadt, Germany, 30th September to 2nd October, 2024. Computational Engineering is a modern and ultidisciplinary science for computer based modeling, simulation, analysis and optimization of complex engineering applications and natural phenomena. The book contains an overview of selected approaches from numerics and optimization of Partial Differential Equations as well as uncertain...

Knock-out recipes for award-winning, Philadelphia-style pizzas, wings, shakes, and more, from Down North, the pizzeria owned and operated exclusively by formerly incarcerated people, featuring poignant stories from its employees.A PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST COOKBOOK OF THE YEARCreated and launched by Philly born-and-bred entrepreneur Muhammad Abdul-Hadi, the mission of Down North Pizza is to reduce recidivism rates in North Philly and ...

Effective and healthy remedies produced by infusing water with appealing crystalline energies are carefully described in this informative manual. The first part covers aspects of preparation, featuring deceptively simple processes such as the boiling method, the water vapor method, and the test tube method--all of which can be easily mastered by crystal healing enthusiasts. After outlining the correct methods to use and listing poisonous crystals as a safety precaution, the book examines m...

Intelligence allows people to understand events and to shape their surrounding environment. This book delves deeper into the theories and applications of intelligence, showing it is a multifaceted concept —defined and explained differently by prestigious experts of various disciplines in their own research. The book provides interdisciplinary connections of intelligence as it relates to a variety of clearly outlined subject areas, and should lead to a deep understanding of the phenomenon a...

Although published in 1986, Demand the Impossible was written from inside the oppositional political culture of the 1970s. Reading works by Joanna Russ, Ursula K. Le Guin, Marge Piercy, and Samuel R. Delany as indicative texts in the intertext of utopian science fiction, Tom Moylan originated the concept of the «critical utopia» as both a periodizing and conceptual tool for capturing the creative and critical capabilities of the utopian imagination and utopian agency. This Ralahin...

There is hardly a field of science or engineering that does not have some interest in light scattering by small particles. For example, this subject is important to climatology because the energy budget for the Earth's atmosphere is strongly affected by scattering of solar radiation by cloud and aerosol particles, and the whole discipline of remote sensing relies largely on analyzing the parameters of radiation scattered by aerosols, clouds, and precipitation. The scattering of light by sp...

XXL-XS represents the emerging discipline of ecological design by assembling a wide range of innovators with diverse interests. Geo-engineering, synthetic biology, construction site co-robotics, low-energy fabrication, up-cycling waste, minimally invasive design, living materials, and molecular self-assembly are just a few of the important advances explored in the book. At one extreme are massive public works, at the other, micro to nano-sized interventions that can have equally profound i...

At the end of the 1970s, when signs of destabilization of forests became visible in Eu rope on a large scale, it soon became obvious that the syndrome called "forest de cline" was caused by a network of interrelated factors of abiotic and biotic origin. All attempts to explain the wide-spread syndrome by a single cause, and there were many of them, failed or can only be regarded as a single mosaic stone in the network of caus es behind the phenomenon. Forest ecosystems are highly complex n...