Want to overcome negative feelings? Feel like you aren’t good enough? Need help dealing with stress, anger, or trauma?Have you ever been so consumed by negative and powerful emotions like anger that you thought they’d never go away?The solution to deal with these emotions is to understand how your emotions work and apply specific techniques to ensure you manage them as effectively as possible.Emotional Intelligence is the how-to manual your parents should h...

In what appears to be a long time ago, in the summer of 1990, a friend drew our attention to a manuscript anthologizing the teachings of two eminent Chinese masters of the sixteenth century. We recall reading through the text with keen interest, hoping that it would soon become widely available. •The matter then skipped our minds as we busied ourselves, in the intervening years, with editing and publishing the four-volume Pure Land Series of the Sutra Translation Committee. One thi...

Mythology is the soul of humanity's storytelling—a bridge that connects our distant past to our present, shaping how we understand the world around us. Through myths, we find not just stories, but reflections of human hope, fear, and the eternal search for meaning in landscapes that are as real as they are magical. From towering peaks that touch the sky to hidden cities lost in the sands of time, each location in mythology holds a special significance. These places are more than just setti...

The Handbook of Environment and Waste Management, Volume 2, Land and Groundwater Pollution Control, is a comprehensive compilation of topics that are at the forefront of many of the technical advances and practices in solid waste management and groundwater pollution control. These include biosolids management, landfill for solid waste disposal, landfill liners, beneficial reuse of waste products, municipal solid waste recovery and recycling and groundwater remediation.Internationally recog...

Cities in developing countries are experiencing unprecedented urban growth. Unfortunately, this is often accompanied by the negative impacts of sprawl as a result of rapid motorization such as congestion, air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, inefficient use of energy and time, and unequal accessibility. As these cities are often under severe fiscal constraints, they face great challenges in financing capital-intensive mass transit systems to reverse the course of these negative trends. De...

Cities in developing countries are experiencing unprecedented urban growth. Unfortunately, this is often accompanied by the negative impacts of sprawl as a result of rapid motorization such as congestion, air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, inefficient use of energy and time, and unequal accessibility. As these cities are often under severe fiscal constraints, they face great challenges in financing capital-intensive mass transit systems to reverse the course of these negative trends....