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What if the hardest moments of your life were not obstacles… but invitations to transformation?Pain. Loss. Fear. Uncertainty.Most people spend their lives trying to escape them — trying to control life before life controls them.But what if freedom begins the moment you stop resisting what life is trying to teach you?In Hazard*:* The Illusion of C...

This books targets not only the specialists, but anyone interested in understanding the philosophy behind the financial analysis. Written in a language accesible to everyone, the book offers more than 50 examples and case studies inspired from reality, based on the personal experience of the author.The Author takes the opportunity to describe uncompromisingly not only the financial banking activity, but also entreprenorial behavioral patterns, in order to educate and develop the Re...

A centaur seeks illicit surgery in an alien bodily modification club. Two medieval monks react to their transformation and demonic pregnancy in very different ways. A resourceful trans teen destroys sports bigots through the power of pluckiness...and abundant body horror. A stellar cathedral crosses galaxies to dump the corpse of God into a star before the mission devolves into a panoply of psychedelic orgies. A doxxed teen falls victim to violent assault and dishes out some harrowing retr...

Romantasy has taken over our book loving-world and there are dragons among us like never before from Game of Thrones to Fourth Wing.But dragons have been present across almost all human culture: from the classic fire-breathing and princess-coveting dragons of Western Europe to the wise and noble dragons of East Asia to the great monstrous lizards of Greek mythology to the feathered serpents of South America.In this anthology, the authors explore the more erotic side of drag...

Bicycle Utopias investigates the future of urban mobilities and post-car societies, arguing that the bicycle can become the nexus around which most human movement will revolve. Drawing on literature on post-car futures (Urry 2007; Dennis and Urry 2009), transition theory (Geels et al. 2012) and utopian studies (Levitas 2010, 2013), this book imagines a slow bicycle system as a necessary means to achieving more sustainable mobility futures.The imagination of a slow bicycle ...

This volume, which brings together a selection of papers presented at an international conference marking the bicentennial of the 1821 uprising in Wallachia and the Etairia movement in Moldavia, is situated at the intersection of established and emerging historiographical trends. The events triggered by the uprising led by Tudor Vladimirescu and the Etairia movement — traditionally associated with the concept of revolution, but more recently interpreted as a secessionist movement of the Ba...

This volume critically investigates how art historians writing about Central and Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries engaged with periodization.At the heart of much of their writing lay the ideological project of nation-building. Hence discourses around periodization – such as the mythicizing of certain periods, the invention of historical continuity and the assertion of national specificity – contributed strongly to identity construction. Central to...

This book presents a series of revised papers selected from the Second MICCAI Student Board Workshop, EMERGE 2025, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2025, Daejeon, South Korea, September 23, 2025, Proceedings.The 13 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 19 submissions. These papers were organized in the following topical sections: Foundation Models and Generalization in Medical AI; Representation Learning for Detection and Diagnosis; Signals, Bi...

This book includes both well-known scholars and young researchers from prestigious European universities and their case studies express an international appeal by investigating subjects of great interest even today. The volume Communicators, Audiences, and Strategies: Past Experiences and Contemporary Perspectives represents a helpful instrument for both students and scholars across disciplines, such as political science, history, sociology and communication sciences. The seven case studie...

Following the 100th anniversary of Pashukanis’ General Theory of Law and Marxism (1924), this volume aims to breathe new life into the main category of Pashukanian legacy, the concept of legal form.This book offers new, deeper and more general, ways in which the concept of legal form can be used to push forward Marxist – post-Marxist or hauntingly Marxist – legal theory. Accordingly, this book does not pledge allegiance to reconstructing and reconsidering the official inte...

Combining insights from comparative legal theory, jurisprudence and legal history, this collection examines the legal and constitutional identity of Central and Eastern Europe.Although the various countries of Central and Eastern Europe have often compared themselves to the West, the failure of these countries to engage with one another has resulted in a whole spectrum of legal identities remaining hidden. This book takes up a comparison of such identities within the region of Cent...

This volume is a collection of papers on emerging concepts, significant insights, and novel approaches on information systems development (ISD). It examines and investigates up-and-coming trends in ISD in general, emphasizing benefits and risks of Artificial Intelligence in the development and operation of Information Systems. The book draws on invited papers selected from the proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Information Systems Development hosted by Babeș-Bolyai Univers...