A thriller that explodes with taut suspense and raw emotion, The Ice Curtain pulls us into a murder mystery that is at once compelling and deeply moving. With the skill of a master storyteller, the bestselling author of Siberian Light breathes life into a haunting and unforgettable landscape, weaving a dazzlingly original story of murder, deceit...and diamonds.The Ice CurtainThe Iron Curtain is down, and Russia has become a...

There are fixed points in the world in the midst of chaos. And from time to time, people who move in the endless round dance of life must fix their eyes on something. Remember who they are and why they came into this world. One such point is Lao Tzu.

Reports From The Soul is a balm for pain, joy and an antidote for self-validation. The poetry inspires one to break through confined walls and move like liquid over mountains. It is a recipe of dreams with spicy thoughts, fusing emotions, people and time together.Reports From The Soul is filled with restorative cultural dialects once forgotten, family and magic, trials and tribulations that is connected to anywhere USA.The illustrations pai...

This is our Christmas gift to you and yours. Inside we share heart-warming stories and treats to eat. Both will warm you inside as together we follow adventures with Santa and Mrs. Claus. The stories will make you laugh and lead you back to your childhood innocence. Take a journey and enjoy this glimpse of the day-to-day life at the home of Santa and Mrs. Claus. Our mischievous elves have a special treat for you at the end of each story in Santa's Christmas Memoirs by Robin L. White.

Santa's Christmas Memoirs 2 by Robin L. White is a series of short Christmas stories featuring Santa and Mrs. Claus. The book contains heart-warming Christmas stories and Christmas recipes. The stories will make you laugh and lead you back to your childhood innocence. It's never too early for Christmas!Excerpt from Santa's Christmas Memoirs 2 by Robin L. White:"With the Christmas season over, the elves were taking it e...

For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Water taxi operators job, or to apply for a better job.What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to leave out the most important points. With this book, you'll be able to revise your application into a muc...

In 1994, Interface founder and chairman Ray Anderson set an audacious goal for his commercial carpet company: to take nothing from the earth that can't be replaced by the earth. Now, Anderson leads the way forward and challenges all of industry to share that goal, with Business Lessons from a Radical Industrialist.The Interface story is a compelling one: in 1994, making carpets was a toxic, petroleum-based process, releasi...

"America's greenest CEO" and the hero of the award-winning documentary The Corporation makes the urgent, compelling case that sustainable business pays.In 1994, Interface founder and chairman Ray Anderson set an audacious goal for his commercial carpet company: to take nothing from the earth that can't be replaced by the earth. Fifteen years later, he had cut his company's greenhouse emissions by 82%, c...

His story is now legend. In 1994, after reading The Ecology of Commerce by Paul Hawken, Ray Anderson felt a “spear in the chest.” The founder of Interface, Inc., a billion-dollar carpeting manufacturer, realized that his company was plundering the environment and he needed to steer it on a new course. Since then, Interface has cut its greenhouse gas emissions by eighty-two percent, with a goal to reach a zero environmental footprint by 2020. Thoughtful and winning, Confessions...

Porous carbon materials are at the heart of many applications, including renewable energy storage and generation, due to their superior physical properties and availability. The environmentally-friendly production of these materials is crucial for a sustainable future.This book focuses on the transformation of sustainable precursors into functional, porous carbonaceous materials via the two most significant approaches: Starbon® and Hydrothermal Carbonisation. Covering cutting-edge ...

Parisian Pauline Guyot (1805–1886), who wrote under the nom de plume Camille Lebrun, published many novels, translations, collections of tales, and articles in French magazines of her day. Yet she has largely been forgotten by contemporary literary critics and readers. Among her works is a hitherto-untranslated 1845 French novel, Amitié et dévouement, ou Trois mois à la Louisiane, or Friendship and Devotion, or Three Months in Louisiana, a moralizing, educational travelog...

The ongoing energy transition will require a number of emerging technological concepts (e.g. Power-to-X and Hydrogen Economy, etc.) which will ultimately combine renewable energy, novel chemical production/conversion processes and innovative, integrated devices/systems to produce sustainable platform molecules, fuels and materials.In this book, readers are introduced to selected concepts, challenges, steps forward and necessities relating to the technologies requi...