AUTOMATED VEHICLES AND MaaSA topical overview of the issues facing automated driving systems and Mobility as a Service, identifies the obstacles to implementation and offers potential solutionsAdvances in cooperative and automated vehicle (CAV) technologies, cultural and socio-economic shifts, measures to combat climate change, social pressures to reduce road deaths and injuries, and changing attitudes toward self-driving cars, are creating...

In the middle of the 1970s, West Coast pastor John Preechet accepts a call to a church in Pleasanttown, N.C. The challenges he faces will test both his faith and that of his new congregation.Pastor John learns to navigate clashes of culture and race relations while trying to help the church heal wounds from its former pastor's sins.He'll need the love and support of his family and fellow pastors, as well as a lot of prayer, to get him and the church through.

This book brings together selected texts by a longstanding disabled political activist. The aim of the book is to enable its readers to gain insights into theoretical, political, social, and personal issues Bob has explored along with others. From how disabled people are viewed and treated, through to revealing some of the consequences of facing disablism, the book challenges our thinking. The importance of this short book is that it captures the political struggle by disabled people over ...

Systems Concepts in Action: A Practitioner's Toolkit explores the application of systems ideas to investigate, evaluate, and intervene in complex and messy situations. The text serves as a field guide, with each chapter representing a method for describing and analyzing; learning about; or changing and managing a challenge or set of problems.The book is the first to cover in detail such a wide range of methods from so many different parts of the systems field. The book's I...

To read Cuddlewick is nothing less than a subtle but glorious mantra for a way of life. The main theme continues to be the intersection between humans and the natural world, a true voice for children and adults, alike. It invites anyone looking to detach themselves from their own reality and explore what life is like in the characters' shoes. Set on the outskirts of a small village, where a pastoral way of living and community spirit are still in evidence. It is gentle, charming, almost wi...

Cousins Hudson, Colt, Jackson, Griffin, and Jude are helping Pop Pop with some duties out on the property. The goats need their yearly vaccinations and tagging. But nothing out on the property is ever uninteresting. Snakes and dark forests are only precursors to what Jack Jack faces. While the other four cousins and Pop Pop are herding up the goats for vaccinations, Jack Jack pursues a lost kid only to find himself up against one of the more dangerous predators on the ranch. Jack Jack is d...

This issue of Tales from the Canyons of the Damned consists of three sharp, suspenseful, thought provoking short stories - from two of todays top speculative fiction writers.In the first story TESLA performs an experiment to prove he can provide electric WI FI to the world. In the BLUE ORB we learn the result of that century old Shoreham test.Then a BONUS story from Bob Williams.Looking to get in out of a brutally cold night. Enter the club "SMOKE." What he discovers ...

The book written in free style includes poems and short stories and reflects the authors experiences as he worked as an engineering consultant/manager in London, Jamaica and the USA over a period of fifty years. The book is not about engineering, but rather about people, events and circumstances observed and or experienced as he navigated his way through diverse places and situations over that period of time. The writings include romantic, cultural, sociological and political subjects. Eac...

In the quirky town of Coaldale, Pennsylvania, Bob—a lovable loner with a penchant for quiet evenings and his trusty dog Ali—finds his uneventful life turned upside down when a zombie apocalypse sweeps the globe. But this isn't your typical horror story; it's a tale of love, laughter, and the undead.As the world crumbles, Bob discovers an unlikely love interest in Jane, a vibrant young woman who, unfortunately, turns into a zombie right after their first romantic encounter. Bob and ...

John Newton, Charles Simeon, and William Wilberforce suffered lifelong opposition and endured for the causes of gospel truth, missionary zeal, and political justice. They found, in solid doctrine and humble joy, the tough roots for habitual tenderness in response to their adversaries—without doctrinal or moral flinching. They are examples of remarkable grace.In the third book of the Swans Are Not Silent series, bestselling author John Piper looks at the lives of these three great m...

This is the life story of Father Bob Maguire - a rare behind-the-scenes look at the much-loved 'people's priest'. The enigmatic champion of the down-and-out was shaped by a lonely childhood in poor circumstances, an early priesthood that collided with the upheaval of Vatican 11 and working with the army during the Vietnam War. This is a lively portrait of the man behind the resilient social activist and popular media performer who refuses to be defeated by enforced retirement from the pari...

"One of the more readable, insightful and entertaining celebrity autobiographies in recent memory—a tragicomedy that could be turned into its own movie." — Chicago Sun-TimesThere is—and could only ever be—one Billy Bob Thornton: actor, musician, Academy Award-winning screenwriter, and accidental Hollywood badass. In The Billy Bob Tapes, he leads us into his Cave Full of Ghosts, spinning colorful tales of his modest (to say the least) Southern upbri...