A contemporary age-gap romance featuring forbidden attraction and the fake engagement trope with a messy, modern twist—for fans of Elsie Silver and Tessa Bailey.Next month, Sloane Holbrook is marrying her best friend. Last night, she slept with his father.It was an accident though—and her engagement to Rob Murphy is completely fake. The plan was to get married and keep up appearances just long enough for Rob to obtain his inheritance. Rob isn’t out to his f...

On the historic occasion of the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 2007, the leaders of the ten-member countries signed the ASEAN Charter. This is an important milestone for the regional group as the Charter will make ASEAN stronger, more united and more effective. The Charter embodies the ASEAN community's purposes and principles, organs and decision-making process; a new legal personality; a system for the settlement of disputes; and...

Reconnaissance Without Blind SpotsMilitary Scouting, Surveillance, Sensors, Human Intelligence, Analysis, Reporting, and Counter-ReconnaissanceBy Manalo DuboisA map can be accurate and still be wrong for today.A satellite image can be sharp and already be stale.A trusted human source can tell the truth about what they saw and still be wrong about what it means.That is the central problem of reconnaissance: the world keeps moving while people a...

The Stress MarginA Practical System for Managing Pressure, Protecting Recovery, and Preventing BurnoutBy Manalo DuboisYou can have a normal workday and still feel completely used up by 6 p.m.Nothing catastrophic happened. The deadlines were ordinary. The meetings were ordinary. Yet your shoulders are tight, your attention is gone, and the evening you meant to enjoy has turned into two hours of scrolling, half-finished chores, and one last email answered from ...

The Information Resilience Field GuidePractical Defensive Cybersecurity, Verification, Incident Response, and Narrative DefenseClearer judgment starts here.A practical, human-centered guide for people who need to recognize information threats, verify what matters, and respond without feeding panic.Written for team leads, small organizations, civic groups, and thoughtful readers who need usable defensive habits, The Information Resilience Field Guide replaces v...

Counterintelligence at WorkA Practical Guide to Espionage Detection, Insider Risk, Operational Security, Cyber Defense, and Incident ResponseBy Manalo DuboisA sensitive file rarely walks out the door wearing a black hat.It leaves through ordinary work: a contractor with access nobody reviewed, an old vendor account, a shared folder that never expired, a conference conversation that reveals one detail too many, a calendar that quietly advertises a confidential...

Deeper learning, dialogic learning, and critical thinking are essential capabilities in the 21st-century environments we now operate. Apart from being important in themselves, they are also crucial in enabling the acquisition of many other 21st-century skills/capabilities such as problem solving, collaborative learning, innovation, information and media literacy, and so on. However, the majority of teachers in schools and instructors in higher education are inadequately prepared for the ta...

Close Quarters, Clear ExitA Civilian Guide to Self-Protection in Hallways, Stairwells, Elevators, Vehicles, and Crowded RoomsMost self-defense advice quietly assumes you have room.Room to step back. Room to reset. Room to see what is coming. Room to choose a stance and think through your next move.Real life is often less polite.A tense encounter may unfold in a stairwell, a bus aisle, an elevator, a restaurant entrance, a narrow hallway, or beside a c...

The Field Care ChainA Practical Guide to Tactical Combat Casualty Care, MARCH Assessment, Hemorrhage Control, Evacuation, and HandoffBy Manalo DuboisTrauma care under pressure is rarely lost because someone forgot that bleeding matters. It is lost in the gaps: the wound that was never reassessed after movement, the change in breathing nobody said out loud, the tourniquet time that vanished during handoff, the casualty who became cold while everyone focused on the dra...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams, Diagrams 2024, held in Münster, Germany, during September 27–October 1, 2024.The 17 full papers, 19 short papers and 11 papers of other types included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 69 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Keynote Talks; Analysis of Diagrams; Euler and Venn Diagrams; Diagrams in Logic; Diag...

Keeping in mind that interracial and interethnic marriages have increased steadily for the past forty years, this book offers guiding principles for dealing pastorally with the challenge of making sacramental unions culturally and generationally relevant for today's church.

RAVES ABOUT THE BOOK ONE ACCORD AN INSPIRATIONAL BOOK OF BIBLE PROMISES BY PROFESSIONAL EDUCATORSONE ACCORD is practical but steeped on spiritual strength that should keep us going penned by Ronald Jay Blassingame Ph.D., Terrence Vaughn, Cristina Manalo Vaughn and Felipe Cofreros holds us in accord to loop up when the going gets rough and tough. Amidst the cares and vicissitudes of earthly life, we need a book that reminds us to transcend what is here and now. We need a book that s...