Every human culture has evolved religious practices. Clearly, there is something inherent in humanity about religiosity: it must fulfill certain needs that evolved with us as our modern brains developed.ATHEOPAGANISM explores how the evolution of proceeding brain systems contributed to the belief systems, value sets and religious practices that characterize cultures all over the world. And then it implements this understanding of the nature of religion in a science-consistent relig...

A MUST READ FOR LANDLORDS, TAX ADVISORS AND ACCOUNTANTSThis eBook was created as a result of a groundbreaking presentation given by Mark Alexander of Property118 and Mark Smith of Cotswolds Barristers to a packed property meet at Baker Street, London in April 2017.This is our most comprehensive eBook to date.Whether you own just one or hundreds of rental properties we promise this eBook will educate and inspire you to structure your business for optimal tax efficien...

This well-established text brings together in one volume current research and information on the selection and use of aggregates in concrete. It gives an overview of aggregate sources, production, and availability, followed by a detailed treatment of their physical, mechanical, and chemical properties. This crucial background is then applied to the use of aggregates in both plastic and hardened concrete, and in the overall mix design, with emphasis on the influence of aggregates on concret...

"In a city isolated from the rest of the world following the third global war, a young inventor is approached by a time traveling android from the future who tells him it is his destiny to save the city from destruction. As they perform maintenance around the city, preventing catastrophes before they happen, he discovers that his destiny is not at all what he thought it would be-but does he even have a choice?"Adhara's Sonder is a classic tale of fate and destiny vs. perso...

All pupils at Stoneyridge School have Review sessions. The students don’t enjoy them, but understand they are used to improve their well-being and are simply a part of school life.Zane Sampson is one of these students who has learnt to live with Reviews; however, after discovering that the school is secretly using these sessions to mark its students either as Eligible or Ineligible, Zane begins to question whether Stoneyridge is being entirely honest with its pupils.Zane gr...

The book is about an unlikely friendship between Chilly, a bear cub and Quackers, a young duck and how they came to be acquainted. Through adventures together, they learned helpfulness and trust in spite of being from different species. The lesson gained from their story is universal regardless of your age or whether you are a bear or a duck!Mark Alexander was raised in metropolitan Washington D.C. Inspired/ encouraged by his mother Lois Allison Alexander with her love of literatur...

The book is about an unlikely friendship between Chilly, a bear cub and Quackers, a young duck and how they came to be acquainted. Through adventures together, they learned helpfulness and trust in spite of being from different species. The lesson gained from their story is universal regardless of your age or whether you are a bear or a duck!Mark Alexander is an actor and writer, originally from the Washington D.C. metropolitan area, he enjoys music, language and travel, and raisin...

The book is about an unlikely friendship between Chilly, a bear cub and Quackers, a young duck and how they came to be acquainted. Through adventures together, they learned helpfulness and trust in spite of being from different species. The lesson gained from their story is universal regardless of your age or whether you are a bear or a duck!Mark Alexander is an actor and writer, originally from the Washington D.C. metropolitan area, he enjoys music, language and travel, and raisin...

This book gathers contributions presented at the 7th International Conference on Concrete Repair, Rehabilitation and Retrofitting (ICCRRR), held in Cape Town, South Africa, on November 4–6, 2024. The conference aims at sharing knowledge and experience on current developments in concrete technology, durability design and service life management, condition assessment of concrete structures, and concrete repair, rehabilitation and retrofitting. The contributions, which were selected through a...

Do you also have the impression that Germany has been underperforming for some time now and that the government's performance is increasingly failing to meet our own expectations? Then you've come to the right place. This book focuses on selected areas of government dysfunction, in particular migration, internal security, legal absurdities, and excessive government spending, which only the government itself can fix. It also looks at old and new reasons for the decline in the government's v...

This book addresses the need to resolve the ITZ's influence on engineering and durability characteristics of cementious composites, identifies the systems and properties that are affected by it, and quantifies these effects in order to prepare the base for engineering design tools. This volume presents the proceedings of the Second International RI

Marine Concrete Structures: Design, Durability and Performance comprehensively examines structures located in, under, or in close proximity to the sea. A major emphasis of the book is on the long-term performance of marine concrete structures that not only represent major infrastructure investment and provision, but are also required to operate with minimal maintenance. Chapters review the design, specification, construction, and operation of marine concrete structures, and examine their p...