The Big Sandy River Valley of Kentucky, Virginia, and West Virginia experienced a great coal boom at the end of the nineteenth century. The area attracted railroads, capital, corporations, and people. Isolated mountain communities became the sites of great mining operations, small regional commercial centers grew, and hundreds of coal company towns appeared almost overnight. Today, many of these once-vibrant coal towns are fading away, their populations a fraction of their heyday, their bu...

We would like to recommed this book to whoever wishes to look into these helping dog’s wonderful world to every educator, who would like to learn new methods that would make each lesson memorable to every needs educator, who would love to have a four-legged motivational partner, who could make the lessons more successful. To every doctor, psychologist and medical practitioner, who believes that you have to heal the...

**Harness the power of lunar magic with 13 essential practices for the modern witch—one for each New Moon of the yearFresh, fierce, and unapologetically feminist, this is both guidebook and rallying cry: an intersectional and inclusive magical praxis that resists, disrupts, and opens the door to nourishment, abundance, and transformation—for readers of Psychic Witch and The Spell Book for New Witches**In New Moon Magic,

A hands-on, beginner-friendly guide to building and programming robots with LEGO® MINDSTORMS Robot Inventor and LEGO® SPIKE Prime.You’re the new owner of a LEGO® MINDSTORMS Robot Inventor or SPIKE Prime kit. Now what? This full-color, illustrated instructional guide teaches you the basics of robotics engineering, using examples relevant to both LEGO® sets. You’ll be making remote-control vehicles, motorized grabbers, automatic ball launchers, and other exciting rob...

A guide to invocations, rituals, and histories at the intersection of magic and feminism, as informed by history's witches--and the sociopolitical culture that gave rise to them.When you start looking for witches, you find them everywhere. As seekers and practitioners reclaim and restore magic to its rightful place among powerful forces for social, personal, and political transformation, more people than ever are claiming the identity of "Witch." But our knowledge ...

Stress can have a deleterious effect on people's mental, physical, and psychological health. There is a growing body of evidence, however, that suggests animals, both as pets and therapy partners, can help mitigate people's stress levels. This book showcases a rich collection of research papers from Human-Animal Interactions. It highlights research pertaining to pets as well as animal-assisted therapy in both school and professional settings. The book also includes a scene-setting introduc...

Why modern and contemporary art—and art conservation—can’t be understood without taking account of the revolutionary impact of plasticsModern and contemporary art wouldn’t exist without the invention of plastics. From sculpture to paint, and photography to film, plastics have shaped every major medium of art. In turn, plastics have revolutionized art conservation, transforming the possibilities of preservation but also producing new challenges for conservators stru...

A beautifully illustrated look at the complex past of Princeton’s Mallorcan stairway and galleryIn preparation for the opening of the Princeton University Art Museum’s new building in 2025, one of the major works in its collection, a Mallorcan stairway and gallery dated to the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, underwent a multiyear conservation treatment. During this period, art historian Alexandra Letvin and conservator Elena Torok began to investigate its origin...

This is not just a regular diet book, but a comprehensive study on the causes of and treatments for obesity. Personally, I do not believe in dieting at all. Diets simply fail in the long run, all of them. Once the program is over, within a few months or a year, the pounds will gradually come back. In order to achieve long-lasting results, you need to completely change your lifestyle; a temporary fix is not enough. In this book, I will share with you the secret of permanent weight loss. Obe...

This book addresses key challenges and advancements in an increasingly automated transport sector, focusing on aeronautical information management and the evolving role of air traffic controllers in ensuring safe, secure, and sustainable aviation. It examines transport safety and security in highly automated environments, including the integration of smart power systems, renewable energy, artificial intelligence, and cybersecurity.Special attention is given to force health protecti...

Learn how to reclaim your energy, raise your frequency, and heal the world with forgiveness. In FORGIVENESS: Journey to a Clear Place, M. Lori Torok masterfully approaches the art of forgiveness as energy medicine, and it proves to be the spiritual-healing antidote to a "Sorry, not sorry" world.The Angels of Forgiveness directed energy healer M. Lori Torok to create a program called "The 4GiveNess Project" to help humanity learn how to forgive everybody and everything. Thi...

Take your robotics skills to the next level with this guide to mastering LEGO® MINDSTORMS Robot Inventor and LEGO® SPIKE Prime.You’ve learned the basics of LEGO® robotics with your Robot Inventor or SPIKE Prime kit, and now you’re ready for more. This full-color, illustrated guidebook to programming your robotic creations teaches you everything you need to know to level up your engineering skills, using examples relevant to both sets. In no time, you’ll be coding m...