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Songs of Passing is a collection of reflective poems about the passage of life, memory, love, loss, nature, and the quiet mysteries that accompany every human journey.Rather than offering answers, these poems linger where certainty ends—among changing seasons, fading voices, forgotten places, and the enduring search for meaning. Written in a clear, contemplative voice, they invite the listener to pause, reflect, and inhabit the silence between one moment and the next.This a...

A revelatory biography of Karl Lagerfeld, introducing readers to the public and private life of the charismatic designerKarl Lagerfeld lived a very public life. He shaped the Chanel and Fendi brands for decades, and his wit and wisdom amused and informed the world. Yet despite a massively public persona, his hinterland remained unknown. What is the truth behind this larger-than-life but enigmatic figure?The journalist and fashion specialist Alfons Kaiser me...

Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.This timely book explores how the twin transitions of digitalisation and sustainability are reshaping tourism in an era of global environmental, economic, and political uncertainty. It questions whether technology alone can make tourism truly sust...

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Karl Lagerfeld—a larger-than-life fashion icon who changed the industry and a living brand—comes to life in this all–new graphic novel biography that looks at the man behind the logo“It starts with me and it ends with me.”—Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld stylized himself into a living logo and a myth of the fashion world. As a brand, his name is synonymous with luxury, and as a designer, he worked for and influenced almost every major luxury brand sin...

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This book presents various solutions modeling in the performance and behavior of advanced materials and engineering structures. In this book, famous scientists in the field of materials mechanics share their knowledge in honor of the late Professor of Mechanics Klaus-Peter Herrmann from the University of Paderborn. This book discusses in particular topics like fracture and damage mechanics, numerical mathematics and computational simulations, and mechanics and thermodynamics of advanced ma...

Organic Lasers and Organic Photonics is the first book since the early 1990s to address the physics and technology of organic dye lasers and it offers insight into the vast fields of organic lasers and their applications. A fresh perspective on the world of organic dye molecules is provided, with chapters that explore optogenetics, organic laser medicine and quantum communications. Aimed at researchers and practitioners in optics, medical research and photochemical industries, tha...

In 2018/19, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople initiated the establishment of an autocephalous (independent) Orthodox Church in Ukraine. This process was met with harsh criticism by the Russian Orthodox Church and eventually led to a split in the entire Orthodox world. The contributions to this volume examine this conflict and discuss the underlying causes for it in a broader perspective. They deal with several aspects of Orthodox theology, history, church life and culture, and sho...

Some men fake their death and disappear cleanly. Julian Whitmore was not that kind of man.Set against the gray skies and cold water of Point Roberts, Washington, in the early 1970s, this novel follows a calculated act of deception that unravels in ways its architect never anticipated. Julian Whitmore is charming, intelligent, and entirely without conscience — the kind of man who plans everything down to the last detail and believes that the dead, like the past, stay where you put t...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th International Symposium on Model Checking Software, SPIN 2021, held virtually in July 2021.The 3 full papers, 4 tool papers, and 1 case study presented together with 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 20 submissions. Topics covered include formal verification techniques for automated analysis of software; formal analysis for modeling languages, such as UML/state charts; formal specification languages,...

Glastenbury, Vermont, 1936. Three women murdered in a single month, each with the same clean cut across the throat and a different piece of themselves missing. A local constable who knows everyone in town and can't find the killer. A medical examiner who discovers something during an autopsy that frightens him enough to board a night train to Boston without telling anyone why.He never arrives.What follows is an investigation that moves on two tracks — a state detective sent...