This book examines how the fossil fuel sector converted scientific foresight into a sustained program of public distortion, not through accident or denial alone, but through coordinated relationships between corporate leadership, trade associations, front groups, and public messaging operations designed to delay climate accountability. Three mechanisms define the deception architecture. First, internal memos and strategy documents reveal that major energy companies understood for decades t...

Beneath the surface of official trade runs another current—one that has sustained empires, financed wars, and fed countless lives in the margins. Shadow Economies: How Black Markets Shape Global History uncovers the invisible systems of smuggling, barter, and illicit exchange that have shaped civilization as profoundly as legal commerce. From wartime contraband to modern cybercrime, it explores how necessity, greed, and ingenuity blur the lines between legitimacy and lawlessness. Drawing o...

Anger often arrives before the truth is ready. This book speaks to readers who shut down, snap back, explain too much, or leave conversations feeling lonelier than before. It explores anger not as failure, but as a surface emotion carrying disappointment, fear, shame, or longing. With a calm focus on nonviolent communication, emotional awareness, conflict management, and active listening, it follows the inner movement from reaction to recognition. The book looks at why criticism feels pers...

This book investigates how covert arms programs persist when states develop nuclear capabilities while publicly denying such efforts, a pattern illustrated by clandestine programs in the Middle East and South Asia. By treating hidden nuclear activity not as isolated deception but as a disruption to non-proliferation norms, the analysis examines the concealed mechanics of information flow, decision-making hierarchies, and incentive structures that allow governments to pursue weapons develop...

After twenty-five years of independence, there is little doubt that the five Central Asian states will persist as sovereign, independent states. They increasingly differ from each other, and are making their way in global politics. No longer connected only to Russia, they are now connected in important ways to Afghanistan, South Asia, China, Iran, and each other. This volume covers a wide range of issues and presents the work of emerging scholars authors well-known for their expertise in t...

The number of Asian American students in schools and colleges has soared in the last twenty-five years, and they make up one of the fastest growing segments of the student population. However, classroom material often does not include their version of the American experience. Teaching about Asian Pacific Americans was created to address this void. This resource guide provides interactive activities, assignments, and strategies for classrooms or workshops. Those new to the field of Asian Am...

Ystävyys voi löytyä mitä yllättävimmistä paikoista, jopa kahdeksan lonkeron päästä.Miljoonat lukijat hurmannut, viisas romaani kertoo menetyksestä, toivosta – ja merkillisen fiksuista olennoista.Leskeksi jäänyt Tova Sullivan viettää yönsä hiljaisessa akvaariossa mopaten lattioita ja yrittäen unohtaa murheensa. Lasin toisella puolella häntä tarkkailee Marcellus, älykäs ja omapäinen jättiläismustekala, joka näkee enemmän kuin antaa ymmärtää. Kun vuosikymmenten takainen arvoit...

Decadent poetry was a late 19th-century movement that seemingly originated with the first use of the word by Charles Baudelaire. The movement championed the idea that art should exist for its aesthetic value, unburdened by moral or social obligations. As a consequence, it challenged the strict moral codes of the Victorian era, often exploring themes associated with eroticism, forbidden desires, artificiality, the ravages of time, beauty, death, and decay which were often perceived as trans...

‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears.1 - A Rhyme a Dozen - 12 Poets, 12 Poems, 1 Topic. Lesbian Love2 - Wild Nights, Wild Nights ...

Ystävyys voi löytyä mitä yllättävimmistä paikoista, jopa kahdeksan lonkeron päästä.Miljoonat lukijat hurmannut, viisas romaani kertoo menetyksestä, toivosta – ja merkillisen fiksuista olennoista.Leskeksi jäänyt Tova Sullivan viettää yönsä hiljaisessa akvaariossa mopaten lattioita ja yrittäen unohtaa murheensa. Lasin toisella puolella häntä tarkkailee Marcellus, älykäs ja omapäinen jättiläismustekala, joka näkee enemmän kuin antaa ymmärtää. Kun vuosikymmenten takainen arvoit...