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In a world where temptation is subtle and spiritual battles are often unseen, Discipleship and Spiritual Warfare draws wisdom from C. S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters to equip believers for the fight of faith. With clarity, insight, and pastoral warmth, Thiago Silva uncovers the enemy's tactics--distraction, pride, isolation, and despair--and reveals how ordinary moments become battlegrounds for the soul. But this is not a book about fear; it is a call to faithful formation. Through biblic...

This is an age where Christianity is no longer the assumed foundation of culture. Instead, secularism, relativism, and individualism shape how people think, live, and even approach faith. Many within the church have unknowingly embraced a shallow, self-focused spirituality that offers comfort without transformation. How can the church recover a robust, life-giving vision of discipleship in such a world? With a little help from C. S. Lewis, this book offers a way forward. Lewis's insights--...

From the creator of the 10th Muse comes the newest female group of unlikely heroes. Lonely high-schooler Karen Chugg just wanted a dog. Instead, she got three of the most powerful, deadliest, and hippest robot bodyguards to hit the sleepy town of westville! The good news? Karen's three robots quickly become her best friends. The bad news? Someone very high up, Oval Office high up, wants those robots back! Can an ordinary, if slightly unpopular, teen survive killer robots, super-powered sch...

“Rio in War” is an ebook that presents a stark portrait of the current reality in Rio de Janeiro, revealing a scenario that increasingly resembles a real war zone. The book analyzes a set of interconnected factors - such as urban violence, the advance of criminal factions, political corruption, the abandonment of public policies, and deep social inequality - which help to understand why Rio is experiencing such a serious and persistent crisis.The book highlights the role of the fav...

This book presents the features and advantages offered by complex networks in the machine learning domain. In the first part, an overview on complex networks and network-based machine learning is presented, offering necessary background material. In the second part, we describe in details some specific techniques based on complex networks for supervised, non-supervised, and semi-supervised learning. Particularly, a stochastic particle competition technique for both non-supervised and semi-...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th IFIP WG 13.2 International Working Conference on Human-Centered Software Engineering, HCSE 2026, held in Paderborn, Germany, during September 29–30, 2026.The 11 full papers and 4 other papers (two demos and two posters) presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 29 submissions.They are organised into the following topics: Human-Centred Design Processes for Inclusive and Complex Interactive Sy...

Karen Chugg is suddenly the most popular student in school. But she can’t shake the sneaking suspicion that her newfound popularity has more to do with her three new friends – each of whom happens to be a super-powered robot – than it does with her gluten-free cookies, big heart and winning smile. Then there’s the matter of the rogue teachers, chemical-fueled beasts, hooded assassins and clueless president, all of whom would like to tear Karen’s new robot pals apart. And if that’s not enou...

Homecoming wasn’t supposed to be like this: The teachers have become chemically boosted monsters. The football players have become something worse. And the government assassins and their killer robot only care about destroying Karen Chugg’s three robot bodyguards. It’s up to Marcia, Jan and Cindy – the high school’s newest robotic superstars — to save homecoming, and themselves, in the finale to the GEARZ mini-series.

From the creator of the 10th Muse comes the newest female group of unlikely heroes. Lonely high-schooler Karen Chugg just wanted a dog. Instead, she got three of the most powerful, deadliest, and hippest robot bodyguards to hit the sleepy town of Westville. The good news? Karen’s three robots quickly become her best friends. The bad news? Someone very high up, Oval Office high up, wants those robots back. And he won’t stop at anything. Can an ordinary, if slightly unpopular, teen survive k...

Karen Chugg just wanted to graduate high school as valedictorian. But it's not easy to study when the president of the United States sends hooded assassins to kill your three new best friends, who just happen to be deadly robot bodyguards. And how can you be expected to master calculus and physics when you've finally fallen in love, and the boy of your dreams is a killer robot with a split personality? Karen Chugg's life has just become even more complicated.

From the creator of the 10th Muse comes the newest female group of unlikey heroes. Lonely high-schooler Karen Miller just wanted a dog. Instead, she got three of the most powerful, deadliest and hippest robot bodyguards to hit the sleepy town of Westville.The good news? Karen’s three robots –quickly become her best friends. The bad news? Someone very high up, Oval Office high up, wants those robots back. And he won’t stop at anything. Can an ordinary, if slightly unpopular, teen survive ki...

This book correlates the vast genetic diversity associated with environmental samples and still underexploited potential for the development of biotechnology products. The book points out the potential of different types of environmental samples. It presents the main characteristics of microbial diversity, the main approaches used for molecular characterization of the diversity, and practical examples of application of the exploration of the microbial diversity. It presents a not-yet-explo...