Advanced Imaging for Examining, Monitoring and Analysing Cultural Heritage Artefacts: Cultural Heritage Analysis for New Generations offers a multidisciplinaryexploration of how innovative imaging techniques can contribute to the understanding and monitoring the evolution of heritage materials over time. This book takes cultural heritage digitisation to a new level by exploring digital datasets for deeper analysis and interpretation to develop methodologies for the assessme...

Jeon Kai was born to lead — a True Blood Alpha with unmatched power, yet cursed with an aching emptiness. For years, he ruled with strength but lived without purpose, haunted by the silence of a missing bond. Until fate brought him Vorn — mysterious, scarred, and carrying a storm of secrets.What begins as a clash of dominance turns into a slow, devastating unraveling of walls. Their bond is more than destined — it's sacred, fierce, and forged in pain. But loving V won't be easy.

This book is a navigational guide for women who aspire to rise. The book's essence is simple: to use proven, practical tactics from women who have succeeded to develop lessons and strategies that others can use to navigate and create success in their lives, businesses, and careers.Success is deeply contextual. As such, learning from those who have successfully navigated certain contextual dynamics provides a robust and informed starting point and boosts the chances of succeeding be...

Learn how to assess and treat body dysmorphic disorder (BDD)Presents the best treatment practicesInstructions for novel and advanced treatment strategiesTips for improving client engagementIllustrated with case studiesPrintable tools for clinical useMore about the bookThis volume provides a user-friendly, evidence-based guide to the diagnosis, phenomenology, etiology, and treatmen...

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This series of fifteen books - The Food Service Professional Guide TO Series from the editors of the Food Service Professional magazine are the best and most comprehensive books for serious food service operators available today.These step-by-step guides on a specific management subject range from finding a great site for your new restaurant to how to train your wait staff and literally everything in between. They are easy and fast-to-read, easy to understand and will take the myst...

Sony Labou Tansi's surreal portrait of a despised and incompetent regime is a biting, burlesque fable, incisive in its description of postcolonial life.History has been silenced in this modern African state: only the voices of the dead cry out for justice. It is a cry answered by Estina Bronzario, the Woman of Bronze, determined to act against the political and moral corruption of male-dominated society.Murders escalate, crowds ebb and flow, and the years r...

Set in a fictitious African nation, this novel by the distinguished writer Sony Labou Tansi takes aim at the corruption, degeneracy, violence, and repression of political life in Africa. At the heart of The Shameful State is the story of Colonel Martillimi Lopez, the nation's president, whose eccentricity and whims epitomize the "shameful situation in which humanity has elected to live." Lopez stages a series of grotesque and barbaric events while his nation falls apart. Unable to resist t...

A digital tome that authentically recreates Atreus' journal as seen in God of War, with expanded lore written in collaboration with game director Cory Barlog!The hit game is brought to life in a tangible and exciting new way as readers are invited to plumb the lore of God of War through the eyes of Kratos' son, Atreus. This digital volume chronicles Atreus and Kratos' journey through the fabled Nine Realms, from the Wildwoods of Midgard to the mou...

It is a new beginning for Kratos. Living as a man, outside the shadow of the gods, he seeks solitude in the unfamiliar lands of Norse mythology. With new purpose and his son at his side, Kratos must fight for survival as powerful forces threaten to disrupt the new life he has created.An intimate chronicle of the years-long odyssey to bring Kratos and Atreus's beautiful and brutal world to life.Step into Midgard and explore beyond, as Dark Horse Books and Sa...

When vulnerable populations are rendered socially invisible, decisions about which cases are amplified and which are neglected reveal deeper hierarchies of value.Reshaping True Crime Stories from the Global Margins: Voicing the Less Dead draws on criminal cases, news coverage, and media analysis from around the world to examine the thousands of missing and murdered individuals from marginalized communities whose stories often go untold. Contributors invite ...

In Crip Colony, Sony Coráñez Bolton examines the racial politics of disability, mestizaje, and sexuality in the Philippines. Drawing on literature, poetry, colonial records, political essays, travel narratives, and visual culture, Coráñez Bolton traces how disability politics colluded with notions of Philippine mestizaje. He demonstrates that Filipino mestizo writers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries used mestizaje as a racial ideology of ability that marked Ind...