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This well written book is filled with the wildlife adventures and experiences of Pat Valkenburg during his 49 years as a biologist/pilot in Alaska. It documents numerous interesting stories and facts about Alaskan wildlife, the importance of field work, and various contacts with backcountry residents. I highly recommend this book for hunters, naturalists, and others interested in wildlife management. I share Pat's strong opinions on the high v...

This book addresses the hot topic in audiovisual translation (AVT) of video game localization through the unique perspective of dubbing, an area which has so far received relatively little scholarly focus. The author analyses the main characteristics of video game localization within the context of English-Spanish dubbing, and emphasizes the implications for research and localization as a professional practice. The book will appeal to translat...

This book offers critical insights into the China-led Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) from an EU perspective. It analyzes the political, cultural, and diplomatic effectiveness of Xi's efforts to expand socio-cultural ties and build new trade corridors between Europe and the Far East, and sheds light on the lasting success and influence of China-led economic programs.The book is divided into three parts. The first part provides an overview of th...

What do these people have in common?The CEO of a major global medical imaging firm, who, when informed of the death of a child on a machine made by the company, went for a two-hour walk instead of immediately calling an emergency staff meeting and lawyering up.A successful Silicon Valley founder who shunned the proven venture capital route for fundraising and chose the far easier and less stressful (and less used) crowd-funding path for his fo...

Home is where the heart is: the heart finds the right home for the body and mind. If you do not fit no matter how hard you try, you need to move on, while there is still some dignity left in you. Dignity means not to be a slave to anyone, man or God. We live on this Earth, and the right place will become available to accommodate one. The place will be the one that one is comfortable in both in mind and body, where one has a chance to progress....

This two-volume set of IFIP AICT 617 and 618 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP WG 8.6 International Working Conference "Re-imagining Diffusion and Adoption of Information Technology and Systems: A Continuing Conversation" on Transfer and Diffusion of IT, TDIT 2020, held in Tiruchirappalli, India, in December 2020.The 86 revised full papers and 36 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 224 submissions. T...

¿A few decades ago, management thinking started to embrace the idea of purpose. The first edition of this book marked an important step in this trajectory, it drew attention to the need for managers to relate the concepts of 'purpose' and 'missions' to strategy, culture and leadership. In the years since, purpose and missions have become business imperatives - not only in terms of remaining competitive but as core in the attempts to have a sus...

Emil Marriot (Emilie Mataja): Der geistliche Tod. Erzählung aus dem katholischen PriesterstandeErstdruck: Wien, Engel, 1884. Hier nach der 10. Auflage, G. Grote'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1907. Emil Marriot ist das Pseudonym von Emilie Mataja (1855-1938).Neuausgabe.Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth.Berlin 2021.Der Text dieser Ausgabe wurde behutsam an die neue deutsche Rechtschreibung angepasst.Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas Schultz-Overhage unt...

Learn how to take control of your habits and learn the necessary steps for overcoming the bad habits that are holding you back.!!This book will teach you the benefits of positive thinking, how it affects the mind, and how it can be combined with healthy habits to live a long and enriching lifestyle. You'll learn scientifically proven methods of positive thinking, the inner workings of the mind, and how positive thinking can help you manage pro...

Vengeance is sworn against geologist Tomos Morgan by a criminally powerful businessman, following a tragic accident in the Arabian desert. With his life in mortal danger, Tomos flees to West Africa. There, deep in the savanna, he befriends Monique, a young woman recently released from the army and now promised in marriage to her tribal king. When Monique is tracked down by her despotic ex-CO who is waging his own vendetta against her father, a...

Caitlin Johnson's Delta offers her readers a vision, at once both poetic and scientific, that serves to encourage and echo forward our calling to pay close attention to the world nearest us and the people with whom we surround ourselves. The collection offers a poetics of place, putting landscape, memory, and nature in conversation with ideas about war, history, chemistry (both scientific and romantic), and the canon. Her poems capture loss an...

WE MAKE THE WORLD MAGAZINE (WMWM) is a seasonal creative literary and arts based magazine made by and for kids. This magazine was born from the belief that each and everyone of us has the power to make our world through our perceptions, thoughts, and actions. We hope our articles, creative writing, recipes, poetry, jokes, drawings and photography entertain, educate, and inspire! This issue, "Letting Go", was created in Fall 2021.

Christian Author Paschal SukambiNo More HateNo More Hate by Paschal Sukambi is an incredible book that speaks of Christ's love. The Christians today overlook the vital purpose of our mission of faith is love. We teach about faith, and hope but forget to demonstrate and practice love.The book covers different angles of love but begins with revealing that knowing and comprehending love goes together with knowing and comprehending God, and follow...

¿The Calorie Deficit is here to teach you how to lose weight and keep it off by adopting a few easy dietary adjustments. With Janet's easy-to-understand infographics and meal inspiration, you'll learn why restrictive diets always fail, forget all the dieting fallacies that are pulling you down, and start doing what you need to do to achieve results.

In this modern retelling of the Aesop's fable, the country mouse and the city mouse each gain a new appreciation not only for their own familiar neighborhood, but for those surroundings that are different from their own. Artist Ann Hogue's amazing watercolors illuminate the beauty of both settings. This book follows two mice, one from the country, one from the city. Each thinks their home is the most beautiful place. First they visit the count...

The Ill-Phabet was created by Dr. Melvyn and Marilyn Wolk. It is a natural outgrowth of Dr. Wolk's caring for children's medical needs and trying to make their wellness care fun, and illness a little less "scary."With verse written in "Seussical" style and fun artwork, The Ill-Phabet is an interactive coloring and activity book for children of all ages.Dr. Wolk, along with Carol and Albert Mueller, established the Ronald McDonald House of Scra...

This book is devoted to the numerical analysis of compressible fluids in the spirit of the celebrated Lax equivalence theorem. The text is aimed at graduate students in mathematics and fluid dynamics, researchers in applied mathematics, numerical analysis and scientific computing, and engineers and physicists.The book contains original theoretical material based on a new approach to generalized solutions (dissipative or measure-valued solution...

Economists broadly define financial asset price bubbles as episodes in which prices rise with notable rapidity and depart from historically established asset valuation multiples and relationships. Financial economists have for decades attempted to study and interpret bubbles through the prisms of rational expectations, efficient markets, equilibrium, arbitrage, and capital asset pricing models, but they have not made much if any progress towar...

This book provides a detailed yet succinct overview of sustainable finance, with a specific focus on its origins, its policy focus and the practitioner dimension. With fossil fuel companies still attracting investment and subsidy across the world, the book describes how we can reverse these incentives, using the power of finance to tackle the climate and ecological crises. The world of finance is moving beyond the era of ethical investment and...

We live in the days prophesied long ago by Jesus and given to the Apostle John, the writer of Revelation. Earthquakes, famine, death, disease, sexual immorality, and other prophecies are being fulfilled as we draw closer to Jesus' second coming. The spiritual alarms are sounding all around us as God is beckoning humanity to hear His voice and receive Him. It is ever so urgent for Christians to be students of the Word of God, for only through p...