**Researcher and lecturer Carl Lorenz Cervantes explores the timeless wisdom, ancestral worldviews, and spiritual tools of Filipino psychology and culture—and offers Indigenous ways of knowing for all readers, Filipino and non-Filipino alike.Drawing from folklore, language, ethnography, and personal story, Sikodiwa is a mind-opening exploration for readers of Braiding Sweetgrass and Fresh Banana Leaves**Ang hindi marunong lumingon sa pinanggal...

Looking for a textbook to help master electrochemistry? Interested in expanding your knowledge of the new technologies integrating electrochemistry? Don’t want to be discouraged by overbearing mathematical derivations? Look no further!Based on comprehensive course lecture notes, this textbook offers an in-depth exploration of the conceptual understanding of electrochemistry, spanning the equivalent of thirteen weeks of lectures. Designed for students with a fundamental understandin...

Flexible Visual Systems is the design manual for contemporary visual identities. It teaches you how to design flexible systems that are adjustable to any aesthetic or project. On these 320 pages are 10 years of research and 20 years of groundbreaking design experience summed up and detailed with step by step examples.

Composed in the early thirteenth century, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival is the re-creation and completion of the story left unfinished by its initiator Chrétien de Troyes. It follows Parzival from his boyhood and career as a knight in the court of King Arthur to his ultimate achievement as King of the Temple of the Grail, which Wolfram describes as a life-giving Stone. As a knight serving the German nobility in the imperial Hohenstauffen period, the author was uniquely placed to descri...

German poet Wolfram von Eschenbach's romance story "Parzival" tells the whirlwind tale of a young man's life as a knight in search for the Holy Grail. It follows the Medieval heroic story of Parzival (Percival in the English texts) as he tries to balance his desire for love with his quest for the Grail. At first, Parzival is childish and ignorant, and his bad choices prohibit him from obtaining the Grail. Only through purging his soul through a number of trials and hardships is Parzival sa...

Put a shapeshifting demon hunter in charge of policing paranormals.That's a great idea.When Dexx Colt followed Paige Whiskey to Oregon and then helped her set up the Red Star Division, he had no idea she'd abandon him--to other responsibilities, mind you--and leave him in charge. He's a demon hunter. He breaks rules. He doesn't enforce them.But when bodies start appearing and all the evidence points to his team, he has a decision to make.Ste...

In a world where jobs are continually being outsourced to machines and algorithms, the question of how best to educate the next generation becomes more important with every year. Stephen Wolfram, author of A New Kind of Science and Idea Makers and creator of Wolfram|Alpha, says the answer is computational thinking. Wolfram defines computational thinking as "formulating things with enough clarity that one can tell a computer how to do them." Computational thinking provides...

Award-winning and bestselling illustrator Albert Lorenz's picture book The Exceptionally, Extraordinarily Ordinary First Day of School is the funny story of one boy's creative solution to being nervous attending a new school."Often hilarious . . . A dizzying amount of text and art on each spread—no shortage of fodder for readers whose tastes gravitate toward the strange and surreal." — Publishers WeeklyOn the first day bac...

What if the most powerful way to protect your wealth wasn't louder, flashier, or riskier-but quieter, smarter, and legally invisible?This groundbreaking guide reveals the hidden architecture of financial privacy, asset protection planning, and offshore banking strategies-not through gimmicks or loopholes, but through timeless, legally sound structures used by the world's most discreetly wealthy individuals. Whether you're building a future-proof legacy, navigating international thr...

Make progress where it matters most. You hit every deadline at work but stall on personal ambitions. Fitness plans fade, side hustles languish, and family time feels squeezed. If this is your story, you're not alone—and you can fix this! In Dreams and Deadlines, Wolfram Hedrich and Sebastian Voss adapt Objectives and Key Results (OKRs), the system that built Google and LinkedIn, into Personal OKRs (POKR). This battle-tested method helps you focus, make steady progress, and thrive in health...

Desserts are an irresistible treat that can be the perfect way to finish off any meal. Whether it's a light fruity dish on a summers evening, or a hearty pudding on a cold winters night everybody has their own perfect sweet dish. This book contains classic recipes from around the world, divided into chapters covering Ice Cream and Iced Desserts; Cold Puddings; Pies, Tarts and Cheesecakes; Cakes, Gateaux and Pastries; Fruit Desserts; and Hot Puddings. Try such temptations as Boston Banoffee...

A soaring intellectual narrative starring the radical, brilliant, and provocative philosophers Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, and Ayn Rand by the critically acclaimed author of Time of the Magicians, Wolfram EilenbergerThe period from 1933 to 1943 was one of the darkest and most chaotic in human history, as the Second World War unfolded with unthinkable cruelty. It was also a crucial decade in the dramatic, intersecting lives of some of hi...