In the glittering high-stakes world of Chicago’s elite, Mackenzie “Mack” Carter is a survivor. After her ex-boyfriend stole her startup and left her with nothing but debt and a bruised heart, she has rebuilt her life brick by brick as a PR strategist for LuxeVerve. She is done with risks. She is done with trusting charming men.Until a champagne-fueled mistake after her best friend's wedding changes everything.Stumbling into the wrong penthouse at The Ainsworth, Mack finds h...

In the glittering high-stakes world of Chicago's elite, Mackenzie "Mack" Carter is a survivor. After her ex-boyfriend stole her startup and left her with nothing but debt and a bruised heart, she has rebuilt her life brick by brick as a PR strategist for LuxeVerve. She is done with risks. She is done with trusting charming men.Until a champagne-fueled mistake after her best friend's wedding changes everything.Stumbling into the wrong penthouse at The Ainsworth, Mack finds h...

The Art of Communication: Mastering the Secrets of a Lasting Courtship in a Digital World is a comprehensive guide to strengthening communication skills in relationships. In a world where technology has drastically changed the way people interact, this book delves into the importance of effective communication and the challenges posed by digital communication. The book provides practical tips and techniques for improving communication, building trust and intimacy, and navigating conflict a...

Make mealtimes healthier and more mindful with beautiful, balanced bento boxes.A carefully assembled bento box can bring joy to even the most stressful day. Learn the craft of bento, eat well, and save money with this introduction to the Japanese style of boxed lunch. With a mix of Japanese, Chinese, and fusion bentos, there are recipes to appeal to every palate. Prepare one of 30 bento box meals, or mix and match over 60 different recipes to create your own bento ...

This book investigates sequences and series with a clear and focused approach, presenting key theoretical concepts alongside a diverse range of examples and proposed problems, complete with solutions. It is designed to be largely self-contained, offering formal proofs when they enhance understanding. Solutions are provided separately, encouraging students to develop their problem-solving skills.Chapters 1 and 2 focus on sequences and numerical series, drawing primarily on knowledge...

She was the price of peace. Now, she is the architect of war.Princess Hannah of Oakhaven has a mind made for calculus and a heart hardened by iron. For years, she has watched her landlocked kingdom wither under a brutal blockade, her people starving while the mines run dry. When her father, King Jacob, announces he has brokered a treaty to lift the siege, Hannah is relieved—until she learns the cost.Her.Sold into an arranged marriage with the enemy to secur...

This book’s aim is to rescue from oblivion the work of a forgotten founder of developmental psychology: Austrian psychologist Heinz Werner. Based on the Orthogenetic Principle, Werner created a structuralist-systemic way of understanding organismic development as genetic processes always leading parts of a system to increasing levels of differentiation and hierarchical integration in relation to the whole system. This made him one of the pioneers of developmental sciences along with figure...

This book examines the effect of economic power on a state’s strategic autonomy.Strategic autonomy is a fundamental condition for the availability of strategic options in the interaction of states. This book provides the first clear operational definition of the concept and offers an analysis of the relevance of the national economy to strategic autonomy. The main sources of economic power – size of the economy, position in trade and technological networks, savings, wealth, and fin...

This book is a visual guide to the territorial dynamics operating within a territory. The reading of such dynamics is fundamental in understanding the role of food in cities. This atlas provides a refreshing approach to the study of the city and of its territory, expanded from the perspective of the food system. This book illustrates the impacts of urban planning options on the function of the contemporary Food System of the Lisbon Region, while disclosing its associated urban form solutio...

The Jesuit educational tradition has existed for more than 450 years, and today, there are more than 150 Jesuit primary and secondary schools in North and Latin America. Jesuit Education at the Crossroads tackles the lack of research on these schools by bringing together scattered studies and asking experts on the issues about the current challenges for Jesuit education. The landscape pictured by this collection of essays suggests that Jesuit primary and secondary education is at ...

This book provides guidelines for evaluating the contribution of Spiritism to health. It is based on conferences presented in six European countries in October 2002 on the following themes: Principles of Spiritist Medicine and Bioethics, Perispirit, The Reincarnation Process, and Human Cloning. This book emphasizes the integral being: Spirit-matter, the complexity of subtle bodies, new concepts of health and illnesses, anamnesis and pathogenesis, and the integration of Spirituality into me...

This book makes available in English the work of one of the most important Brazilian philosophers and intellectuals of the twentieth century. First published in 2004, Error, Illusion, Madness is an original contribution to the debate about the nature and role of the subject and its forms of expression. In a context where the category of the subject was being at once dismissed by structuralist and post-structuralist thinkers and sidelined by the intersubjective turn of critical theory, Bent...