This book offers a comprehensive guide to the works of Seneca the Younger (4 BCE–65 CE), the foremost rhetorician, tragedian, and philosopher of his time who had a major role in the politics and culture of the age of Emperor Nero.It provides readers with the historical, philosophical, and literary background to appreciate Seneca’s works, and advances representative critical readings of his treatises and tragedies. Chapters highlight his life, political theory, Stoicism, and dramatu...

In 1969, young Army veterinarian Dr. Frank Lux arrived in Vietnam expecting to treat a few sick dogs and keep his head down. Instead, he finds himself stationed on Hill 327 outside Da Nang, one of the most active military working-dog posts in Southeast Asia. What follows is a year that will test his skill, his courage, and his heart in ways he never imagined. Surrounded by the chaos of war, Frank discovers that his patients are no ordinary animals. The German Shepherds who stand watch with...

The books in the A Year in Dogwood Grove series are short standalones with a guaranteed HEA. Perfect for a busy schedule. You get all the romance feels and small-town shenanigans in one sitting. Read them in any order. You'll find a familiar face every time you come back and know that you're always home in Dogwood Grove.I knock on Luke's door, feeling like a complete fool.Begging your ex-husband to let you spend the night so that you don't have to sleep on the stre...

Rated "Most Popular Fiction Magazine 2024" by Chill SubsNamed Top 10 "Best Lit Mags of 2023, 2024" by Chill SubsRated "Top 50 Fiction" by SubstackDelight in intriguing, thought-provoking conversations about ethics, philosophy, and social issues! After Dinner Conversation is a monthly literary magazine publishing short fiction. Each issue features both established writers and up-and-coming authors who contri...

Domestic Violence and Abuse as a Shadow Pandemic investigates, analyses and presents statistics to assess the claim by UN WOMEN that domestic violence constituted a ‘shadow’ pandemic to the COVID-19 pandemic. The drivers of violence, mitigation strategies, and State and agency responses are discussed with data from more than 80 countries, covering North and South America, the Caribbean, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Australasia.Contributors to ...

A dark, dazzlingly original psychological thriller about a woman invited to an annual weekend getaway for the adult children of serial killers...but when one of the participants ends up dead, they begin to wonder if someone among them might be carrying on the family traditions.When Nicola Fischer’s father is arrested for the murder of five women—including her best friend—the entire world watches it unfold on To Catch a Killer, the hit true crime TV show ho...

Visual Literacy for Lawyers gives readers practical tools to shift into a mindset that treats design, structure, and language as inseparable parts of communication. It builds on the internationally recognized principles of plain language, now solidified in the ISO 24495 Plain Language Standard, and takes a deep dive into the design and structural choices that determine whether a document works for real people. This book treats clarity as a unified discipline, with words, structure, and vis...

Bioreactors for Health and Sustainability describes the basic concepts of chemical and biochemical kinetics, chemical reaction engineering, reactors design, ideal reactors, and homogeneous and heterogeneous reactors. The book brings together the most significant types of reactors that use molecular (enzymes) and cells biocatalysts for biological applications, which range from enzyme reactors, microbial reactors, plant cell culture and reactors, photobioreactors, cell reactors, reactors for...

Microsystems for Bioelectronics: Scaling and Performance Limits considers physical principles and trends in extremely scaled autonomous microsystems such as integrated intelligent sensor systems, with a focus on energy minimization. The book explores the implications of energy minimization on device and system architecture. It further details the behavior of electronic components and the further implications on system-level scaling and performance limits. In particular, fundamental scaling...

How do states decide who is or is not mentally ill? Alex V. Barnard shows that, beneath the chaotic trajectories of people with mental illness and the fragmented agencies and professionals serving them, there is an underlying order to the ways societies classify, treat, and control madness.Based on more than a year of in-depth fieldwork in France, Mental States takes readers to a public mental health clinic charged with providing care despite diminishing resources, a socia...

This book provides a comprehensive and current perspective on cancer research. It covers cancer biology through seven well-laid-out sections. Section I describes normal cell division, cellular homeostasis, and malignant cell transformation. Genetics, cancer epigenetics, cell cycle checkpoints, and growth-regulatory gene expression are covered in Section II. Section III discusses carcinogens, which cause cancer. Section IV describes molecular changes in cancer genes and signaling pathways, ...

How do you measure a life when the scale has been shattered?For Julian, the "Sterling" side of the scale was defined by the clinical coldness of North Carolina courtrooms and the sharp crack of a silver gavel. It was a world of high-contrast blue tones and charcoal shadows-prestigious, successful, and entirely hollow. But for the family at the heart of this fracture, the shift is far more visceral.As the "American Dream" is severed by a catastrophic interna...