Mégane wasn't looking for a savior. She found one anyway — three meters of muscle, fangs, and white fur, answering to the name of Raoul.

Splunk is a software technology for monitoring, searching, analyzing, and visualizing machine-generated data in real time. This book, divided into three modules, is structured to help readers prepare for Splunk certification exams.The first module focuses on the Splunk Core Certified User and Power User exams. It covers Splunk installation across operating systems, license management, and user role configuration. Readers will learn the Splunk Processing Language (SPL) to create sea...

Brenda is an influencer with a taste for the gothic and a habit of chasing urban legends. When GPS coordinates pulled from the dark web lead her deep into the Orléans forest, she finds what she was looking for — and far more than she bargained for. Four forgotten mascots, stranded in an abandoned fast-food town since the collapse of a failed amusement park, have been waiting in the ruins for a very long time. Brenda isn't afraid. Maybe she should be.A dark, twisted tale blending cr...

This book offers a comprehensive collection of 33 research contributions presented at the 13th International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving (SocProS 2025): Artificial Intelligence for Viksit Bharat, held at the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Uttrakhand, India, from 24th to 26th February 2025. It focusses on the powerful interplay between advanced mathematical methods and optimization techniques. The book features research on diverse topics, such as fractional cal...

“Ishaq Jihna Di Haddi Racheya” is a collection of stories written by the renowned Punjabi writer Gurbaksh Singh Preetlari. In this collection, Preetlari has included a total of six stories. These stories mainly focus on themes of love. In this book, the author, through his magical writing style, has given a new and artistic form to these timeless love stories, taking them to great creative heights.

Queer celebration and resistance!Nicole Givens KurtzJason RoachJenn LyonsSarah J. SoverKatie FrendreisSylvie AlthoffDavid HornRand GaynorJennifer PeasleeJezza DeepPaige L. ChristieKay HanifenKevin A Davis

In the hold of a smuggling ship, a crate wakes up.Hane is Panthera — feline humanoid, seasoned smuggler, not the type to lose control. Until the day a brothel android tears out of its container and decides she's its next assignment.A reprogrammed sex-bot. A fighter on her knees. And an onboard AI that lies to get itself a body.For adult readers only.

Sera Voss and Cael Morrow were colleagues, collaborators, and — for fourteen months — something neither of them was willing to name. Then they had a fight, a spell went wrong, and now they're stuck.Every morning: the same burnt sage smell. The same box of his things on her table. The same knock on the door at nine o'clock.The same day, over and over, until they sort it out.The problem is that sorting it out requires saying the things they spent fourteen months caref...

This book offers a comprehensive collection of 35 research contributions on the transformative role of soft computing techniques such as fuzzy logic, neural networks, genetic algorithms, and hybrid methodologies in solving complex problems in healthcare. By aligning its themes with Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being), the book offers a comprehensive analysis of how these technologies are being integrated into medical diagnosis, predictive modeling, disease cla...

"One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel"-Jean-Antoninette ("Reinette") Poisson, aka Madame de Pompadour, "The Girl in the Fireplace"What a world of demons Doctor Who has presented us with over the past seven decades: from Daleks and Cybermen to Weeping Angels and the Silence, the greatest villains of the Who-niverse have achieved an iconic status all their own, cementing themselves in the minds of millions of viewers (why else would Parker Brothers h...

"Don't be alone, Doctor," Amy Pond tells the Eleventh Doctor in "The Angels Take Manhattan," and of course the irony is that in one sense the Doctor is always alone--a Gallifreyan whose regenerative powers mean he will outlast nearly everyone near and dear to him -- while at the same time he is rarely without one or more trusted companion by his side. This is a book about those companions--those fortunate few who accompany him on his journeys through space and time on--to quote the Ninth D...

Kiril Kristoff, an AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR, released his first book sequel in 2024, “Crossing Borders & Generations”: ‘One Man's Journey to Search for His Roots.’ A powerful work of historical fiction blending true-life events, immigrant resilience, and spiritual legacy, Kristoff’s latest novel has already earned multiple literary honors.He was also honored with the Literary Titan Gold Book Award for Fiction (March 2025) and has received recognition from The Indies Today Awards (2024)...