We encounter many voices in life: from friends and family, from media, from co-workers, from other artists. In a highly connected global world, where people and entities are electronically enmeshed, we filter these voices constantly to get to what we determine to be the truth. Taking inspiration from pop culture, politics, art, and social media, Martin Ott mines daily existence as the inspiration and driving force behind Underdays. Underdays is a dialogue of opposing forces: life/death, love/war, the personal/the political. Ott combines global concerns with personal ones, in conversation between poems or within them, to find meaning in his search for what drives us to love and hate each other. Within many of the poems, a second voice, expressed in italic, hints at an opposing force “under” the surface, or multiple voices in conversation with his older and younger selves—his Underdays—to chart a path forward. What results is a poetic heteroglossia expressing the richness of a complex world.

The story is about a young man named Jacob Roberts, who joins an elite military grade organization and stops a deadly biologically weaponized virus attack from General Kang, who is spreading it throughout the world. When Jacob attends High School with his best friend Dillon, they become friends with a girl named Ivy, and her best friend Avira, who has twin brothers Ari and Augustin. While Jacob is in school he also stays connected with Greta, his elderly neighbor's grandchild and first love from the United Kingdom. Jacob finishes his military training a couple of years later and joins a pilot project funded in conjunction with thee other Government's in England. Ivy falls ill before the squad's departure to focus on a Jemaah Islamiyah Group's act of violence stationed in Jakarta, Indonesia. The squad arrives and they align with a ghost agent named Zagi who helps them intervene on the JI Group's activity. The squad is led to the discovery of a weaponized virus, fronted by General Kang, whom the JI Group are trying to steal the virus from. The squad determines the virus is spread through the use of contaminated hosts, long-range migratory water fowl and kidnapped test subjects from Japan that the General has released back into society. Jacob finds the cure Kang intended to use and leaves Indonesia to report the findings back to his Headquarters. Returning to England, Jacob realizes Ivy has been infected with the virus. It becomes a race against time to save his friend and stop a potential world disaster from occurring.

Psychology of Adjustment: The Search for Meaningful Balance combines a student focus with state-of-the-art theory and research to help readers understand and adjust to life in a context of continuous change, challenge, and opportunity. Incorporating existential and third wave behavioral psychology perspectives, authors John Moritsugu, Elizabeth M. Vera, Jane Harmon Jacobs, and Melissa Kennedy emphasize the importance of meaning, mindfulness, and psychologically-informed awareness and skill. An inviting writing style, examples from broad ethnic, cultural, gender, and geographic areas, ample pedagogical support, and cutting-edge topical coverage make this a psychological adjustment text for the 21st century.

Twentieth-century China has been caught between a desire to increase its wealth and power in line with other advanced nations, which, by implication, means copying their institutions, practices and values, whilst simultaneously seeking to preserve China’s independence and historically formed identity. Over time, Chinese philosophers, writers, artists and politicians have all sought to reconcile these goals and this book shows how this search for a Chinese way penetrated even the most central, least contested area of modernity: science. Reviving Ancient Chinese Mathematics is a study of the life of one of modern China’s most admired scientific figures, the mathematician Wu Wen-Tsun. Negotiating the conflict between progress and tradition, he found a path that not only ensured his political and personal survival, but which also brought him renown as a mathematician of international status who claimed that he stood outside the dominant western tradition of mathematics. Wu Wen-Tsun’s story highlights crucial developments and contradictions in twentieth -century China, the significance of which extends far beyond the field of mathematics. On one hand lies the appeal of radical scientific modernity, "mechanisation" in all its forms, and competitiveness within the international scientific community. On the other is an anxiety to preserve national traditions and make them part of the modernisation project. Moreover, Wu’s intellectual development also reflects the complex relationship between science and Maoist ideology, because his turn to history was powered by his internalisation of certain aspects of Maoist ideology, including its utilitarian philosophy of science. This book traces how Wu managed to combine political success and international scientific eminence, a story that has wider implications for a new century of increasing Chinese activity in the sciences. As such, it will be of great interest to students and scholars of Chinese history, the history of science and the history and philosophy of mathematics.

Riley Gordon is a young woman adrift when she experiences a life-altering event. Her parents, recognizing that discipline is needed to help Riley get past what happened to her, enroll her in martial arts. As Riley turns her life around, studying martial arts becomes her center. When a mysterious stranger offers to show her what true martial arts are, she accepts his offer. After she has learned all that he can teach, she travels to Japan to continue her education at the school where he was taught. There's only one problem: the school has never accepted a woman as a student before. After convincing the school to let her in, she finds herself caught up in the ancient world of the shadow warriors, who have existed in secret for more than a thousand years. As she joins their ranks, she is sent on assignments around the world to bring justice to her clients, but not always in the way she expected or wanted. As she progresses in her skills and understanding of the arts of the shadow warrior, she reaches a level that few before have ever reached. In a world dominated by ancient traditions, will she be able to break through the male dominated hierarchy to reach her destiny so her power can finally be unleashed?

This is a story about a little boy who had dreams of catching a wild horse that the township named Lightning. The little boy dreamed of catching this horse which is a horse that no older person in town could ever catch and tame. The little boy lived and dreamed of gently getting the horse to trust him and after many adventures this horse finally came to trust Stephon. This is an awesome story with a lot of adventures. This book is for adults and Children alike.