Real Taoist power was never about escaping your life. It's about the life you already have.The old stories promise hidden mountains and secret masters. The truth is quieter — and closer. For a householder with a job, a family, bills, and a body that gets tired, the classic practices can feel like they belong to someone else's life. This book argues they belong to yours.Master Tian-Hao Chen lays out a complete ninety-day path through Taoist cultivation and practical magick, ...

A complete twelve-week path from occult curiosity to a grounded daily ceremonial magick practice - no lodge, no elaborate temple, no blind belief required.You have read the books. You have six tabs open, four conflicting systems, and no idea where to actually begin. Every source seems written for someone with a temple room, a teacher, or absolute certainty you do not have.This book is the missing first step. Western Occultism and Ceremonial Magick in 12 Weeks takes you from...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th Asian Conference on Recent Challenges in Intelligent information and Database Systems, ACIIDS 2026, held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan during April 13–15, 2026.The 81 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 431 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Deep Learning Methods and Architectures; Generative, Foundation and Large Language Model...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems, ACIIDS 2026, held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan during April 13–15, 2026.The 75 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 431 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Deep Learning Methods and Architectures; Generative, Foundation and Large Language Models; Explainable, Trustworthy and Responsible AI; Graph-Bas...

This conference is one of the most significant annual events of the China Electrotechnical Society, showcasing the latest research trends, methodologies, and experimental results in electrical, electronic, and networked energy systems. The proceedings cover a wide range of cutting-edge theories and ideas, including topics such as power systems, power electronics, smart grids, renewable energy, energy integration in transportation, advanced power technologies, and the energy internet. The a...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th China National Conference on Big Data and Social Computing, BDSC 2025, held in Kunming, China, during August 15–17, 2025.The 40 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 140 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Digital Society Construction and Governance; Modelling and Simulation of Social Systems; Internet Intelligent Algorithm Governance; Social Network and Gro...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Workshop, OMIA 2025, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2025, Daejeon, South Korea, September 27, 2025.The 17 full papers presented in this book were carefully selected and reviewed from 33 submissions.This workshop aimed to bring together scientists, clinicians, and students from multiple disciplines in the growing ophthalmic image analysis community such as electronic engineering, computer science, mathematics,...

Comprehensive resource on the fundamentals of electric machinery and variable speed drives, and their many conventional and emerging applicationsElectric Machinery and Drives: An Electromagnetics Perspective provides advanced concepts of electrical machinery with control/drives and emphasizes the necessity of integration of power electronics and control strategy when studying modern electrical machinery. The text incorporates the fundamentals of electric m...

The development of earth observation and computing technology has promoted the wide application of spatio-temporal big data and artificial intelligence. The enrichment of data and the improvement of computational performance make it possible to perform spatio-temporal analysis and computation on a larger scale. Therefore, it is necessary to study the optimization methods and application methods of high-performance geocomputing, starting from GIS architecture, in order to form a high-perfor...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems, ACIIDS 2026, held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan during April 13–15, 2026.The 75 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 431 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Deep Learning Methods and Architectures; Generative, Foundation and Large Language Models; Explainable, Trustworthy and Responsible AI; Graph-Bas...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th Asian Conference on Recent Challenges in Intelligent information and Database Systems, ACIIDS 2026, held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan during April 13–15, 2026.The 81 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 431 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Deep Learning Methods and Architectures; Generative, Foundation and Large Language Model...

This book aims to reveal the dynamic mechanism of China's economic system innovation. It measures the efficiency of China’s economic growth under the New Normal with the tools of DEA, SFA, and PCA. The book analyzes the contribution of capital, labor, and productivity to China's economic growth by Solow residual value method and the power source of China's economic development under the New Normal. In this book, it adopts the vertical integration of logical thinking, combined with the hori...