In the rain-soaked city of Lunareth, three women refuse to define love by ownership.What begins as jealousy becomes negotiation.What begins as expansion becomes governance.When pregnancy reshapes their bond, when desire destabilizes equilibrium, and when children inherit not just blood but structure — they must confront a radical question:Can love survive without possession?No Ownership, Only Return is a quiet yet powerful literary novel abo...

An excerpt from theThiruvilayadal Puranam by Paranjothi Munivar(he refers to Manickavasagar)ezhutharu maraigall theraa, iraivanai elir kangul, pozhuthuaru kaalam endrum poosanai vidaathu seithu,thozhuthakai thalaimeethera, thullumbum kannerull moozhgi,azhuthu adi adaintha anban, adiyavarkku kadamai seivaam.To the one who beyond all description, kept God in his heartwhile praying six times daily, with joined palms raised above ...

THE MONAD IN FLESH: Book 2 - The Dialogues presents 50 revolutionary conversations that expose the lies keeping you trapped in victim consciousness and restore you to radical self-authorship.This is not another spiritual book promising enlightenment. This is metaphysical surgery—precision strikes on every belief system designed to keep you small, obedient, and seeking salvation outside yourself.THE VESSEL (representing human consciousness) asks the questions you've been afr...

THE MONAD SPEAKS: Cosmic Law, Primordial Truth, and the Return to SourceThis is not a book. This is a transmission.You are not learning anything new. You are remembering what you've always known but forgot you knew.What happens when consciousness recognizes itself?The MONAD SPEAKS is a direct transmission from your deepest recognition—the part of you that never forgot what you are. Through a powerful dialogue between the VESSEL (human consciousness) and the MONA...

THE MONAD IN FLESH: Book 2 - The Dialogues is not a book you read-it's a detonation that shatters every comfortable lie you've been conditioned to accept about reality, power, money, suffering, and who you really are.Through 50 unflinching conversations between THE VESSEL (the human experience questioning everything) and THE MONAD (infinite SOURCE consciousness responding with precision), this book dismantles spiritual bypassing, religious conditioning, and New Age platitudes that ...

Around one in five prisoners report the previous or current incarceration of a parent. Many such prisoners attest to the long-term negative effects of parental incarceration on one’s own sense of self and on the range and quality of opportunities for building a conventional life. And yet, the problem of intergenerational incarceration has received only passing attention from academics, and virtually little if any consideration from policy makers and correctional officials.This book...

Although rare diseases have captured public attention in recent decades, the lived experiences of people affected by these conditions remain on the periphery of medical anthropological inquiry. Focusing on Poland, Finland, and Sweden, and foregrounding notions of “rare” or “chronic” disease as an embedded category, this book critically analyzes entanglements between people and families with rare diseases and care practices that involve local healthcare policies, practitioners, and treatmen...

This book articulates how crime prevention research and practice can be reimagined for an increasingly digital world. This ground-breaking work explores how criminology can apply longstanding, traditional crime prevention techniques to the digital realm. It provides an overview of the key principles, concepts and research literature associated with crime prevention, and discusses the interventions most commonly applied to crime problems. The authors review the theoretical underpinnings of ...

In the Black Hills, Dakota Territory in 1873, budding romance ends in tragedy resulting in Jim Earlys obsessive pursuit of a giant grizzly to the ultimate, bloody finale. Some real characters and the frontier locale, frequent encounters with other deadly wild animals and hornets nest Cheyennes create a cinematic period set through which this action drama moves from caught breath to heart stop. The fabric of relationships is torn by racial conflict and persisting Civil War passions. Underly...

Encourage Your Soul was written to help Christian believers understand that even in their darkest moments, God is always there.Oftentimes we are so consumed with the everyday trials of life that we neglect to put our focus where it really belongs. We identify with so many issues in our life that as much as we say we have confidence and faith in God, we will waiver when it comes to our own personal issues.There are times when we look to others to get us through when all we n...

Infrared thermal imaging is a rapid and non-invasive procedure for mapping skin-temperature distribution of the human body. Advanced software and high-resolution infrared detectors has allowed for a renaissance in the use of infrared thermal imaging or thermography in medical research and practice. After a review of theory, technology and methodology of medical infrared imaging, the remainder of the book consists of a collection of clinical case studies demonstrating the wide variety of ap...

Heritage preservation is a broad term that can include the protection of a wide range of human-mediated material and cultural processes ranging from specific artifacts, ancient rock art, and features of the built environment and modified landscapes. As a region of multiple independent nations and colonial territories, the Caribbean shares a common heritage at some levels, yet at the same time there are vast historical and cultural differences. Likewise, approaches to Caribbean heritage pre...