Dire au revoir ne fut pas ce qu’il pensait que ce serait...Il y a quinze ans, l’amant et âme soeur de Timothy Rush, Basho Sakai, fut assassiné lors d’un voyage à Tokyo avec sa famille. Le coeur de Timothy n’a jamais cessé de battre pour l’homme qui fut son premier et dernier amour, comparant tous les autres à Basho, le poète sensible et sublime qui avait volé son coeur. Finalement, toujours en deuil et sans espoir, Timothy se rend de Londres à Tokyo afin de dire un dernier adieu. P...

Ying Yang is a haunting dive into the quiet chaos of a mind unraveling.Told through the fragmented lens of a single character, this short story explores the delicate balance between light and shadow - sanity and collapse.Inside a seemingly ordinary life lies a storm: of emotion, memory, and silence too loud to ignore.Poetic and piercing, Ying Yang is a raw meditation on mental illness, identity, and what it means to survive when your greatest battle is within...

Given a tip for a galactic hot spot, complete with dance floor and attached takeaway, Brick and Spiritwind head towards Fluffy McCoy's with a smile and a chat up-line beneath each sleeve; unfortunately, They's drunken memory tells their ship to go to Huffy LeRoy's by mistake: a bus depot with a dilapidated pub, hanging on for sanity and rare custom.Determined to have fun wherever they are, Brick and Spiritwind pull up a chair at Bozo and Schmuk's booth, two beasts of defiant size w...

As a backdrop of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (2016-2030), the United Nations pointed out that more than 6 million children still died before the age of five by 2015. At least 1.8 billion people across the world still consumed fecally contaminated drinking water and 2.4 million lacked access to basic sanitation services such as toilets or latrines, while nearly 1,000 children died every day of preventable water and sanitation-related diarrhoeal diseases. Rural areas fare far wo...

The aim of health protection is to prevent and manage outbreaks of communicable and environmental diseases, and to make us better at responding to emergencies and disasters. This includes working with diseases and injuries from environmental hazard exposures and climate change. Essentials for Health Protection: Four Key Components is a guide to the reality of the field, and a discussion of how we can improve our present and future. Based on public health theories and illustrated b...

This book provides a theoretical framework and related technical skills for investigating climate change and its public health consequences and responses with a focus on urban settings, and in particular Hong Kong, a subtropical metropolis in Asia.Specifically, the book examines the impact of climate change on health in terms of mortality, hospital admissions and help-seeking, as well as key response strategies of adaptation and mitigation. Many existing books tend to consider the ...

Disaster Public Health and Older People introduces professionals, students and fieldworkers to the science and art of promoting health and well-being among older people in the context of humanitarian emergencies, with a particular focus on low- and middle-income country settings.Older people face specific vulnerabilities in physical, mental and social well-being during disasters. They are likely to experience socio-economic marginalisation, isolation, inaccessible informat...

This is a story about a man who is favored by the gods and is given a gift for all humanity.

A story of good versus evil and how four friends would soon have their lives change dramatically. How the bond of their love for each other would be there greatest strength. Some lives would be lost and some changed forever. An unknown visitor lands on the planet Ying Yang beaten and barley alive. When later on the people of the planet Ying Yang would soon turn on one of their own, that would lead to the death and betrayal of the people. Sometimes for things to begin, things must end. Then...

Luna and Leona Dark are sisters who love supernatual beings and stories. One day the sisters stumble upon the supernatural world and discover that vampires, werewolves, ghouls, and every other creature imaginable exist. Shortly after the two join the magical world and eventually they uncover a dangerous betrayal within their new world and their long awaited destiny. The Dark sisters uncover romance, danger, self discovery, and new friendships a long the way of their epic journey. Please en...

This book provides insights into China’s energy consumption and pollution as well as its energy saving policies. It explores energy saving ways and argues for an energy consumption revolution, which includes technologies to improve transportation resource efficiency, modification of existing transportation infrastructure and structure.This book uses various analytical models to study the relationships within the transportation system. It also includes comparative analysis of China,...

Understand a new set of tools for incorporating additive manufacturing into designAdditive Manufacturing, also known as 3D printing, is a method for building three-dimensional objects by layering materials. It has revolutionized every area of the manufacturing industry, permitting the rapid and precise fabrication of complex objects constructed of heterogeneous materials and with varied applications. The race is now on for design principles and technologies to keep...