Many developing countries are recognising that the traditional 'take–make–dispose' model of growth is no longer sustainable. This element explores that turning point and examines how the circular economy can offer a better path. A circular economy focuses on using resources for longer, reducing waste, and reusing or recycling materials. It offers a way to grow that can generate income, protect nature, and include more people in development. The element traces how circular economy ideas hav...

Sam built his magic from nothing. Now it may cost him everything.At Superb Prep East, a prestigious school where gifted students cultivate personal magic, Sam is determined to win the Superb Battle League championship and launch his career as an arena legend.But as the competition builds, he's haunted by his brother's disappearance, tangled up in messy queer romances and heated rivalries, and pressured to keep his evolving identity frozen in time.To claim the title,...

**One of Lambda Literary's Most Anticipated Books of the MonthOne of PopSugar's Best New YA Books Released in SeptemberChoose your path forward in this mystical interactive YA about the powers of friendship, self-discovery, and tarot.**It's the summer before college and four best friends—Amelia, Chase, Cleo, and Logan—are on the first leg of their road trip inspired by the unique tarot deck that Amelia inherited from her grandmother. However, their trip full of visit...

Do you want to learn how to draw manga characters from scratch? Then look no further! Aimed specifically at beginners, this book includes examples from the main genres of manga characters and will teach you how to draw different characters in distinct poses. Starting with simple exercises and gradually getting more complicated, there are sections covering Kodomo (child), Shonen (teenage boy), Shojo (teenage girl) and Seinen (youth) characters to practise.To help you along the way, ...

In the constant flow of time, there is a moment that is always with us, but that is often elusive to us: the present. This fleeting moment, this "now" that is always here but that we can never retain, is the focus of this essay on the ethics and aesthetics of the present.Our experience of the world is inevitably anchored in the present moment, but the nature of this "now" is profoundly paradoxical. How can we conceive of an instant that is both eternal and ephemeral? How can we mak...

This book contains papers from the First International Workshop on Oral and Dental Image Analysis, ODIN 2025, the ToothFairy3: Fast Multi-class Segmentation in CBCT Volumes Challenge, and the Semi-supervised Teeth Segmentation and Registration, STSR 2025 Challenge, which took place in conjunction with MICCAI 2025 in Daejeon, South Korea, during September 2025.ODIN 2025 received 13 submissions, out of which 9 papers were accepted for publication; ToothFairy3 had 18 final submissions,...

Ready Player One meets Heartstopper in this “fun, fast, and fabulous read” (M. K. England) as a myth-loving video game player competing in a tournament with his gamer friends and handsome crush discovers there isn't a cheat code to life—or love.In the real world, Keegan Thomas is a gay, eighteen-year-old mythology nerd with undiagnosed chronic pain. But in the myth-inspired, online video game world of Pantheonic, he is the glorious and powerful K....

Nara, a teenager, awakens from a dream to discover that time itself is fragile. An accidental journey forty years into the past alters a pivotal event, fracturing her present. Her life becomes suspended between two realities: one familiar, the other a haunting tapestry of memory, dream, or perhaps, destiny.Along her path, ancestral voices unveil forgotten secrets, animals speak, and an artificial intelligence offers glimpses of divergent futures. Yet, it is her own...

The "Philosophical Dialogues with my Friend Pi" are an intellectual experiment, with which the author wanted to carry out an incursion into the field of artificial intelligence, to try to elucidate what the current limits of this technology are, and find out to what extent point a machine can emulate one of the most outstanding characteristics of the human condition: the ability to reason from a philosophical point of view.Throughout these pages, therefore, the reader will find a g...

A rebellious and provocative take on what it means to be different, offering a way forward for anyone who wants to blaze their own path, from psychologist Sergi Rufi.Do you feel like an outsider? Like a weirdo who doesn’t fit in with what society considers “normal”? Have people ever told you you’re too sensitive or too clever? If so, this book is for you. Psychologist Sergi Rufi provides you with tools to start living your life authentically, without blaming or sha...

A policeman about to retire. A series of corpses that pile up and challenge his ability in what must be his last case. The appearance of an unknown twin. The discovery of the true origins. More and more corpses, along with a paid vacation in Melilla. And, as a final dessert, the reunion with loved ones and the end of loneliness. Can you ask for more in a detective novel?

Gina, the Giraffe Who Wanted to Be Free" is a children's story intended for ages 4 to 10, which tells the story of a giraffe who has lived in an animal conservation park since she was born.There, she receives all the care she needs, but even so, Gina is not happy because she lacks freedom.But one day, the opportunity to escape arises, and Gina is not going to miss it, so she embarks on a journey full of adventures, during which she will meet new friends and learn to value l...