Baby whale feels too shy to poo in front of other sea creatures, but loses his fear when a wise octopus explains that his poop is vital to the ocean ecosystem. A story about how we are all part of a larger ecosystem and essential to each other's survival.

A single-volume reference for managing pediatric spine disorders and diseaseIdeal for neurosurgeons, pediatric neurosurgeons, and orthopedic surgeons, Surgery of the Pediatric Spine is a comprehensive multidisciplinary reference for the surgical management of the most frequently encountered spine problems in the pediatric patient. An overview of developmental and clinical aspects provides essential information on biomechanics, neuroimaging, preope...

This open access book is the first publication to provide a comparative framework for the study of martial culture and historical martial arts in Europe and Asia, in particular in Italy and China. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of martial studies, contributors to this volume include historians, archeologists, art historians, scholars of fencing literature, metallurgists, as well as contemporary master swordsmiths and masters-of-arms in historical martial arts. Assembling researchers f...

A video-rich guide to cutting-edge endoscopic spine surgery techniques from international expertsEndoscopic spine surgery has entered an era that is not only minimally invasive, but also intelligent, robotic, and immersive. Video Atlas of Endoscopic Spine Surgery and Procedures reflects continued growth in this field, while building on the legacy of Endoscopic Spine Procedures, first published in 2011.The new book offers a comprehensive and practic...

A mother's love letter to her son—featuring more than sixty gluten-, dairy-, soy-, casein-, and nut-free recipes. A portion of proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to autism research.This heartfelt cookbook tells the story of a mother desperate to heal and connect with her hard-to-reach, severely autistic son, Leo, through the most vital everyday activity—cooking.For many years, Erica Daniels had been out to find a successful dietary interven...

An introduction to state-of-the-art modeling and simulation approaches for social and economic determinants of population healthNew Horizons in Modeling and Simulation for Social Epidemiology and Public Health offers a comprehensive introduction to modeling and simulation that addresses the many complex research questions in social epidemiology and public health. This book highlights a variety of practical applications and illustrative examples with a focu...

In 2010, nearly 30 percent of South Koreans—a country with a Confucian tradition over 1000 years old—identify as Christian, the largest percentage of Christians in an Asian nation, aside from the Philippines. Korea also boasts of having the largest church in the world; it also has the largest Presbyterian, Methodist, and Pentecostal churches in the world. Its vibrant spirituality, devout church life, and missionary zeal are well known around the world; its number of missionaries—nearly 20,...

The three-volume set LNCS 16507, 16508 and 16509 constitutes the refereed proceedings from the 42nd Computer Graphics International Conference, CGI 2025, held in Hong Kong, China, during July 14–18, 2025.The 124 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 402 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Colors, Painting and Layout; Graphics and VR/AR; Medical Imaging and Robotics; Segmentation and U...

Winner, 2020 Peter C Rollins Prize, given by the Northeast Popular & American Culture AssociationEnables a reckoning with the legacy of the Forgotten War through literary and cinematic works of cultural memoryThough often considered “the forgotten war,” lost between the end of World War II and the start of the Cold War, the Korean War was, as Daniel Y. Kim argues, a watershed event that fundamentally reshaped both domestic concepti...

The three-volume set LNCS 16507, 16508 and 16509 constitutes the refereed proceedings from the 42nd Computer Graphics International Conference, CGI 2025, held in Hong Kong, China, during July 14–18, 2025.The 124 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 402 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Colors, Painting and Layout; Graphics and VR/AR; Medical Imaging and Robotics; Segmentation and U...

In the first six months of 2026, employers in the United States named artificial intelligence as the reason for more than a hundred thousand announced job cuts. Almost every argument about what that means takes the same shape, whether it comes from the technology companies, from governments, or from the left: establish what the machine can do, how fast it can do it, and how many jobs it will take, and the politics are supposed to follow.The Fourth International has made exactly tha...

The three-volume set LNCS 16507, 16508 and 16509 constitutes the refereed proceedings from the 42nd Computer Graphics International Conference, CGI 2025, held in Hong Kong, China, during July 14–18, 2025.The 124 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 402 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Colors, Painting and Layout; Graphics and VR/AR; Medical Imaging and Robotics; Segmentation and U...