Thomas Young's exploration of the eye begins as a careful inquiry into how vision adapts to distance, but quickly widens into a sweeping study of optics, anatomy, and the mathematics of light. He revisits earlier theories of accommodation, argues that the crystalline lens changes shape, and sets out to explain vision by moving from general principles to exact calculations, experiments, and comparisons with other senses, especially hearing. The result is a rigorous portrait of the eye as bo...

A shocking exposé of life inside Bolivia's infamous San Pedro Prison, uncovered by an intrepid young backpacker turned accidental inmate.Rusty Young was backpacking in South America when he heard about Thomas McFadden, a convicted English drug trafficker who ran tours inside Bolivia's notorious San Pedro prison. Intrigued, the young Australian journalist went to La Paz and joined one of Thomas's illegal tours. They formed an instant friendship and then became partn...

Smart business leaders and managers know that companies with excellent processes get better results. Yet, most companies fail to follow a proven process or system for marketing on the Internet. Winning the Website War introduces business leaders to a Four-Step Process for getting results from their web marketing efforts. Discover how a company website and the Internet can drive success or failure when it comes to increasing sales, getting more leads, and retaining customers and clients.

Since the industrial revolution, automation has transformed our global economy and the way we work. Early forms of automation took the form of machines meant to replace humans who performed repetitive, manual labor on the assembly line or in agriculture. Blue collar jobs have since been on the edge of obsolescence as automation became more and more advanced.We now live in an information economy world running on advanced computing systems... and we are now in the midst of a new wave...

A great danger is about to befall Vastria. Can Violet, and the ones closest to her, survive the woman in red, and the implications of their arrival? The answer lies in a certain academic girl on her way to the world leader’s meeting in the snowy tundra of Puregloss.Will the world stand together to face this danger or let its historical sins undo it?Sequel to Those With Virtue Dream For Better Nights.

Since its discovery in 1857 in a room of the Pedagogium, a one-time imperial palace turned page school on the Palatine Hill in Rome, the Alexamenos Graffito has been one of the most widely known inscriptions attributed to early Roman attitudes toward Christianity. A sensation after its discovery, the Graffito was described by an international host of nineteenth-century writers and scholars; these descriptions of the Graffito's environment and the host of Latin and Greek graffiti served as ...

This edited collection is the first volume to consider potential new insights afforded by the Russo-Ukrainian War that could be salient for Western defence officials and planners. The contributors reflect on what are likely to be important issues that need to be addressed in order to ensure that Western armed forces are capable of deterring Russia. Closely examining how the war is being fought throughout the battlespace, the chapters avoid falling into the trap of making determinative stat...

This book states that the proceedings gathers selected papers from 7th International Conference on Civil Engineering and Architecture (ICCEA 2024), which was held in Da Nang, Vietnam on December 7-9, 2024. The conference is the premier forum for the presentation of new advances and research results in the fields of theoretical, experimental, and practical civil engineering and architecture. And this proceedings from the conference mainly discusses architectural design and project managemen...

This book states that the proceedings gathers selected papers from 7th International Conference on Civil Engineering and Architecture (ICCEA 2024), which was held in Da Nang, Vietnam on December 7-9, 2024. The conference is the premier forum for the presentation of new advances and research results in the fields of theoretical, experimental, and practical civil engineering and architecture. And this proceedings from the conference mainly discusses architectural design and project managemen...

Introduction to Ethics of Emerging Technologies offers a set of lecture and seminar course materials for teaching ethics of emerging technologies. It covers the field in a comprehensive and accessible manner, emphasizing storytelling and examples, practical approaches and tools, and interactive assignments. The book addresses historical and current discourses, both academic and practical, related to the ethics of emerging technologies. This includes a basic introduction to normati...

A tantalizing eternal dream for many is about to come to fruition by way of Shadowstar’s doing. Violet Diamond and the others in her group face ever increasing dangers and public ridicule in stopping a devastating world event. To wake someone up from their best dream to continue a bad day in attempts to overcome it might make a certain small-town tailor seen as the villain. A moral choice whose outcome has deep implications.

After the events of Pandora Black and witnessing the lives of the original individuals bearing the Stones of Virtue, Violet Diamond and others alongside her encounter unfortunate circumstances that spiral out of control. Sometimes living is a bad dream with a craving for a better one. The small-town tailor knows all too well that desire for good dreams when one is awake.