In a near-future world where memory can be rewritten like software, a covert organization called ARC uses a neural architecture known as Project Eidolon to reshape public history, suppress grief, and manufacture obedience. When their rival, VEPR, a rogue post-Soviet faction, launches a counter-offensive not by rewriting memory but by erasing emotional bonds altogether, civilization begins to collapse into cognitive entropy. Language disintegrates. Meaning fragments. And the past becomes a ...

Max Foreman has just come back from a military mission in Africa. What should have been a simple in-and-out covert operation turned into a multiple-week ordeal punctuated by a trail of bodies from Africa to Europe. Worse, Max realizes that the team was betrayed. Escaping to Spain, Max is witness to the kidnapping of Lena, a multibillionaire Russian woman, whom he falls in love with. Maxs relationship with Lena will change his life forever as she is an oligarch trying to fend off organized ...

The rewards of nanotechnology looked so promising! Yet Max Foremanthe CEO of Pessinus Industries, the corporation that created nanotechnologyis on the run. Unwittingly, he has unleashed a technological Armageddon that is being orchestrated by his largest client, US General Buzz Hamilton. The threats that he had himself identified have become the reality of an attempt to revive Hitlerian ideology. Now caught between Interpol; the banking authorities; a business partner who is no other than ...

Weaning Sense demystifies the weaning world helping you grow healthy tummies and happy babies (and mums) in no time! Packed full of delicious recipes, this book will help you feel less stressed and more informed when it comes to introducing your baby to solid food.Offering a weaning solution from expert authors based on your baby's sensory personality, this book helps you learn how to tap into your baby's cues on weaning and, using current research, gives you an easy-to-us...

Allergies are increasing at a rapid rate and the team of experts behind Allergy Sense are here to break them down for families, ensuring people have up to date, and scientifically vetted, information.A lack of easily accessible and accurate information about particular allergies can exacerbate the anxiety of discovering a new food allergy or your child’s food allergy. Protecting your health, or your child’s health while also maintaining a level of ‘normali...

The idea that the expression of radical beliefs is a predictor to future acts of political violence has been a central tenet of counter-extremism over the last two decades. Not only has this imposed a duty upon doctors, lecturers and teachers to inform on the radical beliefs of their patients and students but, as this book argues, it is also a fundamentally flawed concept. Informed by his own experience with the UK's Prevent programme while teaching in a Muslim community, Rob Faur...

Ancient temples, haunted bridges, and spectral women—discover 87 supernatural tales where Kyoto’s history and Buddhist lore entwine with restless spirits, Hungry Ghosts, and the rituals that keep them at bay.In Kyoto, ghosts are not just stories—they are neighbors, warnings, and, sometimes, protectors. This atmospheric collection gathers 87 supernatural legends from Japan’s former capital, where every street corner, shrine, and cherry tree harbors its own haunting....

Love is fundamental to the flourishing of society and nature. However, the competition of the market economy has resulted in a fractured and traumatized modern world.Revisiting philosophical developments and countercultures since the Enlightenment, this book offers a ‘loving critique’. It shows how learning to love better is the key to releasing ourselves from the alienating grip of the market.The utopian template presented draws on archaeology, the witch trials, hippies, H...

Through a highly sensitive exploration of key concepts and metaphors, Bernard Faure guides Western readers in appreciating some of the more elusive aspects of the Chinese tradition of Chan Buddhism and its outgrowth, Japanese Zen. He focuses on Chan's insistence on "immediacy"--its denial of all traditional mediations, including scripture, ritual, good works--and yet shows how these mediations have always been present in Chan. Given this apparent duplicity in its discourse, Faure reveals h...

Masterfully illuminating the timeless wisdom of the Geonim and ancientsages of Sepharad, alongside the works of Maimonides, Ḥakham Dr. José Faur’s Tora offers an unparalleled outlook on Judaism, combining ancient traditions with contemporary disciplines. The Collected Works of Hakham Dr. José Faur is a multi-volume set offering readers an opportunity to delve into his unique understanding of Tora, which was nearly washed away by the oceans of time.This first volume focuses ...

Discover "History of Art. Volume 4. Modern Art" by Élie Faure - a philosophical and poetic journey to the heart of artistic creation. In this final volume, Faure transcends eras to explore the essence of art as the vital pulse of humanity. From African idols to Venetian masterpieces, he reveals the profound connections between cultures and figurative expressions, analyzing the alternating rhythm of synthesis and analysis that drives History. From Ancient Egypt to the modern age, through Gr...

Studying the interplay between ideology and politics in Russian governance, from the former USSR to contemporary Russia, this book examines why, despite the prohibition of state ideology in the 1993 Russian Constitution, Russian hawks endured beyond the 1991 regime change and have risen to political prominence as the chief ideologues of Russia's confrontation against the West. Departing from realist and constructivist explanations of foreign policy focused on Vladimir Putin, Juliette Faure...