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This open access book will be a compilation of selected papers from the 2nd International Conference on Architecture Across Boundaries (AAB2024). The work focuses on novel integration of technology into the built environment in the areas of space syntax, digital fabrication, computational design, professional models, eco-system and urban morphology domains. The content makes valuable contributions to academic researchers and educators in the university and practitioners in the industry, wh...

2026 International Book Awards Finalist in Fiction: FantasyNational Indie Excellence Awards Finalist in Fantasy2025 Finalist in Fantasy - Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards“I’ll find you, in this world or any other.”Enter a world where time travelers are destined to love faeries—a tale of forbidden magic, prophecy, and empire.A dream-eating World Tree feeds upon the peo...

The author of the international bestseller Silk now delivers a ravishing and wildly inventive novel about friendship, genius and its discontents, and the redemptive power of narrative. Somewhere in America lives a brilliant boy named Gould, an intellectual guided missile aimed at the Nobel Prize. His only companions are an imaginary giant and an imaginary mute. Improbably—and yet with impeccable logic--he falls into the care of Shatzy Shell, a young woman whose life up til...

A young woman enters a fantastically strange family in this "luminous and alarming lesson on desire" by the international-bestselling author ( La Stampa, Italy).A young woman is promised to the scion of a noble family. While her betrothed is away traveling, she is sent to the family's villa to make her marriage preparations. There, the woman discovers that her future in-laws fear the coming of night, each and every night, and seem to never sleep. As the day...

Set in Lombardy during the Spanish occupation of the late 1620s, The Betrothed tells the story of two young lovers, Renzo and Lucia, prevented from marrying by the petty tyrant Don Rodrigo, who desires Lucia for himself. Forced to flee, they are then cruelly separated, and must face many dangers including plague, famine and imprisonment, and confront a variety of strange characters the mysterious Nun of Monza, the fiery Father Cristoforo and the sinister Unnamed' in their struggle to be re...

Welcome to Alessandro Vitale a.k.a SpicyMoustache’s world, where he’s on a determined mission to reduce waste in your kitchenEveryone wants to live more sustainably, but it's hard to know where to start. With all those small steps towards zero-waste will come to light. Through 100 step-by-step low-waste recipes, Alessandro Vitale (Spicy Moustache) shows that everyone can make small changes for a big environmental impact.Driven by a desire for a more sustain...

The ladies in London are abuzz over Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, especially Miss Sarah Moorehouse. Her imagination is fired up, so when she spies Matthew Devenport, Marquess Langston, mysteriously sneaking home in the wee hours clutching a shovel, she simply must investigate. Impelled by curiosity, the adventurous lass steals into his bedchamber—only to be caught red-handed by the impossibly handsome and totally naked nobleman.The Marquess Langston has more important things to worr...

Aesthetics: The Key Thinkers offers a comprehensive historical overview of the field of aesthetics. Eighteen specially commissioned essays introduce and explore the contributions of those philosophers who have shaped the subject, from its origins in the work of the ancient Greeks to contemporary developments in the 21st Century.The book reconstructs the history of aesthetics, clearly illustrating the most important attempts to address such crucial issues as the nature of aesthetic ...

“The first English translation in more than fifty years of Alessandro Manzoni’s masterpiece, a work of foundational Italian literature on par with the Divine Comedy and the Decameron.”—The Wall Street Journal“An exemplary historical novel” (The New Yorker) from the father of modern Italian literature, The Betrothed receives its first new English-language translation in fifty years, hailed as “a landmark literary occasion” by Jhump...

In this wickedly hilarious collection of fables, Alessandro Boffa introduces us to Viskovitz and his never-ending search for his true love, Ljuba. As he changes from a lovelorn lion to a jealous finch, from a confused dung beetle to an enlightened police dog, Viskovitz embraces his metamorphoses with wry humor and an oftentimes painful sense of self.As an ant, Viskovitz fights his way to the top where his egotism calls on the colony to create a monument to his greatness out of a pi...

October Night is determined to get her life back on track as she recovers from a severe bout of depression that saw her dealing with a spiteful, antagonistic voice in her head, all the while losing the connections with her loved ones.Lucas Wendig has a mission, though some might say an obsession. His life's goal is to hunt down otherworldly artifacts and creatures to contain the danger they pose to humanity.Both of their lives are about to collide when October encounters an...

Step into the halls of Rochester, better known as Mafia Academy, where rules are meant to be broken and blood debts are collected.Alessandro Brambilla, the future leader of the Brambilla family, is a rebel who enjoys defying authority. But there are two rules sacrosanct at Rochester - no maiming or killing and stay away from mafia princesses. He might break them both before senior year is over.Gia's father killed Alessandro's mother and she knows she's his ...