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Love is who you innately are. Peace is what your heart and our collective hearts most desire. In 2008, Paige received the words Love Ignites Peace. They arrived unexpectedly and with life-changing impact. She has spent the last 15 years learning how to live those words in her own life. She discovered that love is a becoming, an evolutionary parallel path to loving yourself and loving others.

Through Paige's stories, you will explore your own unique life experiences, while gaining a new perspective on the universal threads of our collective human experience. You will discern how love and the destructive patterns created by not-love have influenced your relationships. Love's 6 Actions will guide you back to loving yourself and others, and create a structure to help you reflect on and recalibrate how you interact with self-love and love of others. Love Ignites Peace: Our Next Evolution will activate your personal evolutionary journey back to love as you absorb the wisdom found on every page. Love Ignites Peace is the message that transformed Paige's life, and it has the power to transform yours.

Like a spa day for your busy mind -- relax and breathe while your brain searches for words and names associated with meditation, mindfulness, and spirituality. Herbs and flowers, zen places and names, calming and beautiful imagery -- you deserve a break with healthy exercise for your brain. Includes thoughts and quotes to inspire and unwind. Adults of all ages will enjoy 430 word searches. Wonderful Mother's Day gift, hospital gift, or thinking of you gift. Or treat yourself!

Word lists include easy, moderate, and challenging searches. Keep your brain fit by and test your word-finding skills searching vertically, diagonally, forwards, and backward in pursuit of hidden words. This collection contains a fantastic variety of puzzles to satisfy beginner and expert puzzlers alike and offers a much-needed brain boost for hours of entertainment. Help improve memory and focus by completing a new find-the-word challenge every day, with a variety of unique themed word searches with this Brain Busters Word Search Book!

• OVER 400 PUZZLES & SOLUTIONS Hours of fun and entertainment to enjoy with a large variety of everyone's favorite seek and find word puzzles.
• UNIQUE CHALLENGES: Designed for the novice, intermediate, to expert these activity word search puzzles will challenge at every level.
• LAY FLAT: Spiral-bound lays flat for ease of use at home or on the go. Whether you're drinking your morning coffee, riding on the train, or relaxing on vacation this puzzle book can go with you.
• MAKES A GREAT GIFT: A perfect gift for Mother's & Father's Day, Christmas, birthdays, vacations, and more, word finds make an excellent gift for any occasion.
BRAIN BUSTERS: Part of the Brain Busters Puzzle Collection from Parragon & Cottage Door Press. Look for our other puzzle books including Smithsonian Inspiring Women Who Shaped America Word Search & Beautiful Botanicals Word Search, The Ultimate Book of Mixed Puzzles, John Deere Word Search, Large Print Word Searches, Bible Word Search, Crosswords, Picture Puzzles, and More!

Her moving prose reveals a consummate musician who is intellectually brilliant, humanely sensitive, and spiritually inquisitive. Certainly one of the most gifted pianists of this century or the last, her memoir will be a deep pleasure for lovers of memoir and music alike.

TRANSFORMATIONAL PRAYERS ARE INSPIRATIONAL TOOLS FOR GROWTH!

We live in a world that is constantly changing, and we often confront the unknown and oppositional forces as obstacles to our spiritual progress and optimal performance. The good news is that you hold in your hands a compilation of prayers and messages that will encourage your spiritual growth and endurance. These words will produce harmony, reflect strength, and remind you of God's teachings, His promises, and how they apply to your daily life.

By committing to prayer and the application of God's Word to your reality, today will redirect you to new heights of enlightenment, bring- ing you closer to inner freedom and helping you stay balanced, centered, and rooted in your faith. 

I am an educator. I am not a researcher. I am not a 'conspiracy theorist' - nor do I advocate for the 'lone nut assassin' version promoted by the Warren Commission. My purpose is to share what I have learned from eyewitnesses to various aspects of the assassination. Some in this book are researchers, some are doctors who tried to save President Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald, one is an ambulance driver, another a 17-year-old young lady in Dealey Plaza on November 22, one an automobile salesman in the plaza, one a deaf man who witnessed activity in the parking lot behind the fence separating the Grassy Knoll from the rest of Dealey Plaza.

Great outcomes await when we follow faith into the uncharted. This can only be accomplished outside the realm of comfort - that place that beckons to all of us.

Follow the journey of a man and his family as they pursue purpose by abandoning traditional safeguards to embrace the more. See how unwavering obedience in the midst of extreme adversity translates into live-altering faith.

Yeah. I failed that class. Biting the bullet, I enrolled in nursing school. I do not regret one moment of being a nurse.

If you line up several vials of blood, you cannot tell which vial was drawn from the gay male, or the Muslim, or the Republican, or the 97-year-old. What people DO have in common is love, fear, curiosity, and vulnerability. The tough, regimented lawyer can become a nervous wreck once placed in a buttless hospital gown. The chatterbox can become silent and withdrawn.

These are the stories of one nurse's encounters with people at their most vulnerable. The alcoholic who never made it home to his children, the screw swallower, the patient receiving sedation who still managed to talk- maybe a bit too much. This is real life nursing.
You have to read it to believe it.

Distinctive in its approach, this book presents each issue through the lens of a single, focused narrative, offering readers the chance to view familiar contexts from an entirely new perspective. Accompanying discussion questions challenge readers to question the motivations and consequences behind the stories, fostering a deeper understanding and empathy towards People of Color.

More than just a recounting of experiences, "Living While Black" calls on readers to ask themselves how they can make a difference. By bearing witness to these stories, it is hoped that readers will not only become aware of systemic racism's insidious presence but also feel empowered to act against it. This collection offers a vital first step towards recognizing and dismantling everyday racism.

The fifth issue of Viscose explores fashion's multifaceted retail spaces and cultures. With the evolution of shopping in the long 20th century as its focus, the issue looks at the shop as a central nexus where communities are continuously produced and re-imagined through commerce, and always in response to larger societal changes.

With a special attention to the role of fashion retail within urban spatial politics (particularly relating to gentrification and surveillance), the issue seeks out histories of projects--often developed with or by artists--that have embraced the shop as a medium of both possibility and contestation.

Viscose is an ad-free journal for genre- defying fashion thinking. Since its launch in 2021, Viscose has fostered a global community of passionate readers and researchers across the industries of art, fashion, and academia, committed to publishing exhilarating and in-depth content that won't be found anywhere else. Each issue of Viscose sees a complete re- imagining of format and layout, with a nod to histories of artist publishing and other rare books.

In this book, Swiss architect Thomas Meyer-Wieser explores the idea of the North African city that was once the heart of ancient civilization and is now the capital of modern Egypt. As well as looking at more than 300 buildings, he takes the reader on 20 walks and excursions.

- The Arab conquest: 7th to 10th centuries

- Fatimid rule: 10th to 12th centuries

- The Golden Age: 12th to 15th centuries

- Ottoman provincial city: 16th to 18th centuries

- 'Paris on the Nile' Cairo in the 19th century

- The modern metropolis: 20th to 21st centuries

More than 150 buildings and projects have been handpicked by
architect and author Sayed Ahmed to illustrate the more-than-1000-year history of this vibrant city. From Louis Kahn's world-famous Parliament Building to the modern residential high-rises of its evolving urban culture, Dhaka offers a rich tapestry of architectural heritage stretching far beyond the 200 years of British colonialism.

So, get ready to explore the best of Dhaka's architectural landscapes, such as Gulshan and Banani, which have developed a modern urban character in the past two decades. QR codes and detailed maps will help you navigate the concrete jungle of this metropolis with its populaton of 22 million. Lavishly illustrated, this guidebook is a must-read for architecture enthusiasts, travellers, and residents alike.

Obwohl sieben der neun Menschenrechtsverträge auf Ebene der Vereinten Nationen die Möglichkeit eines Staatenbeschwerdeverfahrens eröffnen, kam dieser Verfahrensart über Jahrzehnte hinweg keinerlei praktische Bedeutung zu. Im Frühjahr 2018 erreichten den CERD-Ausschuss dann jedoch gleich drei verschiedene Staatenmitteilungen. Die erstmalige Aktivierung des Verfahrens fast 50 Jahre nach Inkrafttreten des Internationalen Übereinkommens zur Beseitigung jeder Form von Rassendiskriminierung (CERD) kann dabei als eine historische Entwicklung bezeichnet werden.

Vor diesem Hintergrund bietet dieses Buch erstmals eine umfassende Auseinandersetzung mit dem Staatenbeschwerdeverfahren nach Art. 11-13 CERD und den sich daraus ergebenden völkerrechtlichen Fragen. Unter Auswertung der jüngsten Praxis des CERD-Ausschusses und der ad hoc Vergleichskommission wird die Funktionsweise des Verfahrens detailliert dargestellt, wobei immer wieder Parallelen zu den Mechanismen anderer Vertragsregime gezogen werden. Auf diese Weise soll die Arbeit auch zu dem Verständnis vergleichbarer Staatenbeschwerdeverfahren anderer Menschenrechtsverträge beitragen und zugleich die Bedeutung des Phänomens zwischenstaatlicher Streitbeilegung in Menschenrechtsfragen stärker in den Vordergrund rücken.

Im Rahmen dieses Buchs wird eine neue optimierungsbasierte Reglerentwurfsmethode für Systeme mit Stellgrößen- sowie Stellratenbeschränkungen entwickelt. Als Optimierungsaufgaben werden beispielsweise die schnelle Regelung, die Maximierung des Stabilitätsbereiches oder die Reduktion von Oszillationen behandelt. Neben den optimierten Regelparametern liefert die Methodik einen Stabilitätsbeweis für den geschlossenen Regelkreis unter Berücksichtigung der Stellgrößen- und Stellratenbeschränkungen. Dazu werden basierend auf der Stabilitätstheorie von Ljapunow lineare Matrixungleichungen formuliert, welche durch eine iterative Vorgehensweise gelöst werden. Dies verringert die Konservativität der Ergebnisse bezüglich bestehender Verfahren und führt zur Einhaltung verschärfter Gütekriterien. Zudem entsteht durch die neue Methode ein Rahmenwerk für den generischen Entwurf verschiedener praxisrelevanter Reglerstrukturen. Unter anderem können dadurch sowohl beobachterbasierte Zustandsrückführungen und PID-Regler als auch Anti-Windup-Strukturen parametriert werden.

Vertriebsprognosen oder "Forecasts" sind das Handwerkszeug jeder Verkaufsorganisation. Doch lediglich der so genannte "rollierende Forecast" ist verbreitet. Andere Forecast-Methoden sind in Unternehmen nur rudimentär entwickelt, sodass Potenziale ungenutzt bleiben. In diesem Buch erfahren Vertriebsmanager und -controller, wie sie verlässliche Forecasts erstellen, um darauf die Vertriebs- und Unternehmensplanung aufzubauen. ​

This book presents a design research on the basalt fiber, a natural mineral material with important characteristics, and investigates the material's properties, production techniques, and most common uses, while also delving into aspects yet to be improved. The work presents a part of original research in between art and design, in which concepts, prototypes, and ideas are proposed, aimed at the enhancement of basalt fiber also from an esthetic point of view and not only from a performance one. By working on its perceived qualities and creative and formal potential, it is possible to support and extend the use of this material in many areas of design, including product, exhibit, cultural industries, and fashion. Considering that environmental regulations are increasingly stringent, the use of basalt fiber may in some cases be more advantageous than other popular technical fibers, both because of its own performance characteristics and specifically because of its inherent sustainability.

This Book develops a novel and innovative methodological framework for operationalising Henri Lefebvre's work for empirical research on the U.S. city. Building on ethnographic research on Chicago's South Side, Tilman Schwarze explores the current situation of urbanisation and urban life in the U.S. city through a critical reading and application of Lefebvre's writings on space, everyday life, the urban, the state, and difference. Focusing on territorial stigmatisation, public housing transformation, and urban redevelopment, this book makes an important contribution to critical urban scholarship, foregrounding the relevance and applicability of Henri Lefebvre's work for geographical and sociological research on urban politics and everyday life.

This book examines how Lampedusa, Italy's southernmost island, has become a transnational symbol representing migration to Europe from the Global South. It analyses how three very different associations have used the name "Lampedusa" as a means of restoring a sense of subjectivity or agency to migrants themselves. Jacopo Colombini argues that the work of the Archivio delle Memorie Migranti (Rome), the self-organised refugee group Lampedusa in Hamburg, and the Lampedusa-based Collettivo Askavusa offers an alternative to the stereotypical, often racially connoted, public discussion of migrant presence in Italy and Europe. He also demonstrates, however, that the marginalisation of migrant and refugee voices in the public discourse is also partially and unavoidably reproduced in the cultural projects that wish to restore their agency.

This book discusses the phenomenon of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), in the context of the Indian law enforcement and criminal justice system. It helps readers understand the complexities involved in these types of online crimes, and the perspectives of various stakeholders involved in the investigation and justice process.

Representing a unique analysis of the surge of child sexual abuse material on the internet during COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, this book discusses cybercrime and societal behavior patterns. With practical remedial steps to control and preclude online child sexual abuse, this volume will be of interest to law enforcement, researchers, and child protection advocates in India and other developing digital economies.

This open access book inspires young entrepreneurs to embark on the journey toward the future of work through actionable entrepreneurship, especially focusing on South Africa. Its insights and tools extend beyond borders, suiting the Global South and emerging markets.

Using systemic action learning, the author guides readers in developing both internal and external aspects of youth entrepreneurship.

The book illustrates external aspects through the SHAPE model (Shifting Hope Activating Potential Entrepreneurship) and YES network (Youth Entrepreneur Support). These models offer an ecosystem strategy for young entrepreneurs.

The book introduces original models for youth entrepreneur internal and external domains, offering substantive insights. The SHAPE Lab delivers comprehensive toolkits for youth entrepreneurship development.

This open access book inspires young entrepreneurs to embark on the journey toward the future of work through actionable entrepreneurship, especially focusing on South Africa. Its insights and tools extend beyond borders, suiting the Global South and emerging markets.

Using systemic action learning, the author guides readers in developing both internal and external aspects of youth entrepreneurship.

The book illustrates external aspects through the SHAPE model (Shifting Hope Activating Potential Entrepreneurship) and YES network (Youth Entrepreneur Support). These models offer an ecosystem strategy for young entrepreneurs.

The book introduces original models for youth entrepreneur internal and external domains, offering substantive insights. The SHAPE Lab delivers comprehensive toolkits for youth entrepreneurship development.

This open access book provides an overview of the progress in landslide research and technology and is part of a book series of the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL). The book provides a common platform for the publication of recent progress in landslide research and technology for practical applications and the benefit for the society contributing to the Kyoto Landslide Commitment 2020, which is expected to continue up to 2030 and even beyond to globally promote the understanding and reduction of landslide disaster risk, as well as to address the 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goals.

This open access book provides an overview of the progress in landslide research and technology and is part of a book series of the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL). The book provides a common platform for the publication of recent progress in landslide research and technology for practical applications and the benefit for the society contributing to the Kyoto Landslide Commitment 2020, which is expected to continue up to 2030 and even beyond to globally promote the understanding and reduction of landslide disaster risk, as well as to address the 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goals.

This textbook introductes formal languages and automata theory for upper-level undergraduate or beginning graduate students. While it contains the traditional mathematical development usually employed in computational theory courses, it is also quite different from many of them. Machines, grammars, and algorithms developed as part of a constructive proof are intended to be rendered as programs.

The book is divided into four parts that build on each other. Part I reviews fundamental concepts. It introduces programming in FSM and reviews program design. In addition, it reviews essential mathematical background on sets, relations, and reasoning about infinite sets. Part II starts the study of formal languages and automata theory in earnest with regular languages. It first introduces regular expressions and shows how they are used to write programs that generate words in a regular language. Given that regular expressions generate words, it is only natural to ask how a machine can recognize words in a regular language. This leads to the study of deterministic and nondeterministic finite-state machines. Part III starts the exploration of languages that are not regular with context-free languages. It begins with context-free grammars and pushdown automata to generate and recognize context-free languages, and it ends with a discussion of deterministic pushdown automata and illustrates why these automatons are fundamentally different from nondeterministic pushdown automata. Part IV eventually explores languages that are not context-free, known as context-sensitive languages. It starts by discussing the most powerful automaton known to mankind: the Turing machine. It then moves to grammars for context-sensitive languages, and their equivalence with Turing machines is explored. The book ends with a brief chapter introducing complexity theory and explores the question of determining if a solution to a problem is practical.

This book contains the best papers accepted for presentation at the 3rd Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG-3). The book is divided into three parts to distinguish research studies from the fields of (1) geological and geotechnical engineering, (2) geomechanical studies based on numerical and analytical methods, and (3) geo-informatics and remote sensing. The content of these papers provides new scientific knowledge for further understanding on landslides, new stabilization techniques, importance of geophysics for engineering geology investigations as well as new empirical approaches for easily predicting some physical and hydrogeomechanical properties of geomaterials. It also sheds the light on usage of different remote sensing technologies, mapping techniques in a geographic information systems environment along with some advanced signal processing, and deep learning approaches. The book is of interest to all researchers, practitioners, and students in the fields of geological and mining engineering, geotechnical engineering, hydrogeomechanics, engineering geology, geotechnologies, groundwater and natural hazards, and analyses of some emerging earth processes and environmental variabilities.

This book is based on the papers accepted for presentation during the 3rd Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences (CAJG-3). The book is of interest to all researchers in the fields of geomorphology, sedimentology, and geochemistry. Papers in the field of geomorphology deal with topics related to fault slip and incision rates, soil science, landslides and debris flows, coastal processes, and geoarcheology and geoheritage. Papers in the field of sedimentology cover research studies in stratigraphy and environmental, tectonic, and diagenetic processes, together with studies focusing on the evolutionary, biostratigraphic, and paleo-environmental significance of paleontology. This section also contains papers on marine geosciences, from molecular proxies related to climate to geophysical surveys. The third set of papers focuses on studies related to geochemistry that are focused on sedimentary geochemistry and mineralogical characterization, magmatic and metamorphic processes and products, and the origin and exploration of mineral deposits. This book resumes the current situation related to the abovementioned topics mainly in the Mediterranean realm and its surroundings. The book is of interest to all researchers, practitioners, and students in the fields of geomorphology, sedimentology, and geochemistry.

This is the first comprehensive book on Trotter-Kato approximations of stochastic differential equations (SDEs) in infinite dimensions and applications. This research monograph brings together the varied literature on this topic since 1985 when such a study was initiated. The author provides a clear and systematic introduction to the theory of Trotter-Kato approximations of SDEs and also presents its applications to practical topics such as stochastic stability and stochastic optimal control. The theory assimilated here is developed slowly and methodically in digestive pieces.

The book begins with a motivational chapter introducing several different models that highlight the importance of the theory on abstract SDEs that will be considered in the subsequent chapters. The author next presents the necessary mathematical background and then leads the reader into the main discussion of the monograph, namely, the Trotter-Kato approximations of many classes of SDEs in Hilbert spaces, Trotter-Kato approximations of SDEs in UMD Banach spaces and some of their applications. The monograph also contains many illustrative examples on stochastic partial differential equations and one in finance as an application of the Trotter-Kato formula. The key steps are included in all proofs which will help the reader to get a real insight into the theory of Trotter-Kato approximations and their use.

This book is intended for researchers and graduate students in mathematics specializing in probability theory. It will also be useful to numerical analysts, engineers, physicists and practitioners who are interested in applying the theory of stochastic evolution equations. Since the approach is based mainly in semigroup theory, it is accessible to a wider audience including non-specialists in stochastic processes.

This book provides an in-depth review of knowledge of the corpus callosum, called white matter or terra incognita, with emphasis on anatomical, embryological, diagnostics, and surgical features. It includes very informative chapters from leaders in the field, organized into six main groups: first, the embryology, neuroanatomy, and morphometry of the corpus callosum, and animal studies related to it; secondly, neurophysiological aspects, callosal disconnection and the split brain; thirdly, neuropathology, including clinical disorders such as dementia, Tourette syndrome, and schizophrenia; fourthly, surgical procedures including partial and complete callosotomy and commissurotomy; fifthly, cognitive neuroscience; and sixthly, other features of the corpus callosum, including its medicolegal aspects and statistical shape analysis. This comprehensive reference book will be an ideal source for neuroscientists at all levels, from graduate students to researchers in specific disciplines studying this region including neuroanatomists, embryologists, neurosurgeons, neurologists, neuroradiologists and pediatricians, who seek both basic and more advanced information regarding the distinctive anatomical, physiological and pathological features of the human corpus callosum. ​

This concise textbook introduces calculus students to power series through an informal and captivating narrative that avoids formal proofs but emphasizes understanding the fundamental ideas. Power series--and infinite series in general--are a fundamental tool of pure and applied mathematics. The problems focus on ideas, applications, and creative thinking instead of being repetitive and procedural.

The book is intended as a supplementary textbook for calculus courses; lecturers and instructors will find innovative and engaging ways to teach this topic. The informal and conversational tone make the book useful to any student seeking to understand this essential aspect of analysis.

The history of ID, then, is synonymous with the history of design. The larger impact of our fourth and current era is yet to be determined, but this book acts as a blueprint for where design might go next.
Design is a catalyst. We cannot speculate, create, and implement on our own. For too long, designers have lived with the misguided belief that only we can do what we do -- the false idea that, somehow, designers are unique. In this current phase, ID is powering a new generation of design leaders willing to release the hubris and openly embrace collaboration. In the spirit of collaboration and dialogue, this book assembles six conversations with ID faculty about the issues facing contemporary design and how ID is thinking through them as a community.

Esta es una Biblia única que incluye devocionales honestos que reflejan los deseos, preocupaciones y necesidades que enfrentan las parejas de hoy. Con temas como la comunicación, el sexo, el dinero, los miedos, las metas familiares, los hijos y el perdón tratados por los queridos Daniel y Shari Calveti que ya han ayudado a muchísimas parejas a lo largo de los años, esta es una Biblia que facilitará el diálogo entre esposos alrededor de la palabra de Dios y colaborará con espacio de oración y paz para que los matrimonios sean renovados y fortalecidos.

This is a unique Bible that includes honest devotionals that reflect the desires, concerns and needs facing today's couples. With topics such as communication, sex, money, fears, family goals, children and forgiveness addressed by the beloved Daniel and Shari Calveti who have helped so many couples over the years, this is a Bible that will facilitate dialogue between spouses around the word of God and provide a space for prayer and peace for marriages to be renewed and strengthened.