Description：When Sophie Bennett is kidnapped, the man who should come for her first does the unthinkable—Adrian Bennett, her longtime fiancé, assumes she's lying and leaves her to her fate.That single night destroys everything Sophie has spent years believing in. Humiliated, heartbroken, and finally forced to see Adrian for who he is, she stops chasing the love that has only ever wounded her. But walking away from him doesn't lead to peace. It leads her straight into the or...

Focusing on “human-in-the-loop” and “human-on-the-loop” mechanisms, cognitive intelligent interaction, and the practical modeling, implementation, and application of limited human intervention in modern aerial systems, this book explores cooperative decision-making technologies between manned and unmanned aerial vehicles.It systematically discusses two primary approaches to cooperative decision-making mechanisms: limited human intervention and cognitive intelligent interaction. The...

This book explores the transformative power of critical literacy in fostering youth engagement through university-community partnerships. It is based on a six-year study by The Literacy and Community Initiative (LCI) at North Carolina State University.This book examines the potential, possibilities, and challenges of using critical literacy in university-community partnerships to amplify youth voices. Through the LCI program, youth in four community-based organizations completed a ...

Ferienerlebnisse eines Pennälers in den späten Fünfzigerjahren in England: Statt am Sprachkurs einer renommierten Sprachschule in Cambridge teilzunehmen, entschied er jeden Tag aufs Neue, wozu sich dieser Tag am besten eigne - und entdeckte eine neue, eine aufregend mondäne Welt. Eine heftig erlebte Verliebtheit verstärkte noch sein Triumpfgefühl, bis ein heilsamer Albtraum ihm deutlich machte, wo er hingehörte und wo er auch sein wollte.

"A story about suppression, humiliation, vindication, and, ultimately, triumph." — New York Times Book ReviewFrom the bestselling author of Colors of the Mountain—an engrossing, gloriously written coming-of-age saga that picks up where that book left off—in Beijing during China's Cultural RevolutionIn this "equally beguiling sequel to his acclaimed memoir" ( Kirkus Reviews), teenager Da Chen takes his first train ...

Die Lehre davon, dass jeder Mensch ein Krafttier besitzt, das einen unterstützt und begleitet und hilfreich durch die Stürme des Lebens führt, ist eine weitverbreitete und akzeptierte Tatsache - zumindest in einigen Kreisen. Um was es sich allerdings bei den Krafttieren tatsächlich handelt, wo sie ihren Ursprung haben, was sie bedeuten und wie man ihnen begegnet, versuchen wir in diesem Büchlein herauszufinden. Dabei wird auch ein kurzer kritischer Blick auf den Krafttierglauben der heutig...

Inspired by the Book of Changes: An Operating System for the Ambitious ManThe modern world is a chaos of noise. It demands your attention and feeds on your anxiety, pulling you in a thousand directions until the core of who you are is completely lost.For the ambitious man, this presents a unique danger. You have the engine. You have the drive. But without a compass, speed is just a faster way to get lost.The ancient I Ching taught that mastery comes from understandi...

Over the last fifty years, tourism has become firmly established as a development option around the world. Commensurate with this, the study of tourism's developmental role has also expanded significantly. There now exists a broad understanding of the policies and processes, opportunities and challenges that apply to tourism's potential contributions to development. As the tourism environment now faces numerous challenges and transformations, it is timely to reflect on contemporary underst...

This book introduces a robust H∞ physics-generated AI-driven filter and controller, along with a nonlinear Luenberger observer model and a state estimation error dynamic model, to effectively address HJIEs for robust H∞ state estimation (filtering) and reference trajectory tracking control in nonlinear stochastic systems. Additionally, it presents a method for training deep neural networks (DNNs) using these models, alongside a physics-generated AI-driven observer-based reference tracking ...

Imagine dating the internet's boyfriend in this illustrated homage to the always charming and often enigmatic Keanu Reeves. This full-color hardcover contains biographical information as well as illustrated quotes straight from the unicorn-of-a-man himself.Keanu Reeves insists he's "just a normal guy" despite being one of the most recognizable (and most excellent) faces in Hollywood. Apparently, Keanu's humility knows no bounds--just like our love for him....

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the physical properties of foods and the cutting-edge technologies employed to measure them. Delving into key topics such as optical, thermal, acoustic, rheological, and textural properties, it provides a detailed examination of principles, measurement methods, and applications in food quality evaluation. While it discusses advanced technologies such as near-infrared spectroscopy, computer vision, spectral imaging, acoustic resonance analysis,...

An epic of the century long spiritual growth of an Eastern man, a romantic magical realism story.Since ancient times, there has been an idiom in the East called “Wishing One’s Son To Become A Loong”—Chinese dragon, outstandingly successful, respected and accomplished.The protagonist, a naive and ignorant young boy Wang Yalong is in a difficult environment, but due to the awakening of national genes, his lonely heart gives birth to hope from despair and pursues the ultimate ...