A'yen's Legacy Volumes 1-3


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Save 35% over buying individually! Three complete novels, over 300,000 words! Lokmane slave A'yen Mesu has lost everything. Except his name. Yet he refuses to be treated like the slave he is. When his new owner, Dr. Farran Hart, finds his people's lost homeworld, he'll do anything to make sure it's not taken away again. Even if it costs him his heart. After a year exploring the lost planet Lok'ma, A'yen and Fae return to her home planet and join the fight to emancipate the Lokmane. Unexpected allies join them, and their enemies kidnap A'yen in a last-ditch effort to prevent emancipation. Separated by lights years, A'yen and Fae must fight for the right to live in freedom. No matter the cost. Once emancipation comes, A'yen keeps fighting to overcome prejudice and create a home where all Lokmane are welcome--regardless of background and life. His enemies attack those closest to him, so he fights back with the only weapon he has: truth. It's the only chance of saving his bodyguard, Da'Ro. Happily ever after can't happen if Ro is dead. Join A'yen and Fae as they fall deeper in love, find secrets humanity buried, and discover the power of love in all its forms. This set includes the first three novels in the A'yen's Legacy futuristic romance series. If you want an epic romance focused on a wounded hero who refuses to give up, this is the series you're looking for.










Advances in Intelligent Systems and Applications - Volume 1


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The field of Intelligent Systems and Applications has expanded enormously during the last two decades. Theoretical and practical results in this area are growing rapidly due to many successful applications and new theories derived from many diverse problems. This book is dedicated to the Intelligent Systems and Applications in many different aspects. In particular, this book is to provide highlights of the current research in Intelligent Systems and Applications. It consists of research papers in the following specific topics: l Graph Theory and Algorithms l Interconnection Networks and Combinatorial Algorithms l Artificial Intelligence and Fuzzy Systems l Database, Data Mining, and Information Retrieval l Information Literacy, e-Learning, and Social Media l Computer Networks and Web Service/Technologies l Wireless Sensor Networks l Wireless Network Protocols l Wireless Data Processing This book provides a reference to theoretical problems as well as practical solutions and applications for the state-of-the-art results in Intelligent Systems and Applications on the aforementioned topics. In particular, both the academic community (graduate students, post-doctors and faculties) in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, and Applied Mathematics; and the industrial community (engineers, engineering managers, programmers, research lab staffs and managers, security managers) will find this book interesting.




International Negotiation in China and India


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Negotiation is an important managerial skill. The ability to negotiate across cultures becomes even more challenging due to differences in institutional practices. This book explores how the institutional environment in India and China shapes their negotiating behaviour.




Salt and Light, Volume 1


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Salt and Light presents the life stories of outstanding Chinese Christians who, as early modernizers, promoted China's nation building and moral progress in the early twentieth century. Lively anecdotes and photographs highlight the strong character of ten pioneers in the modern professions of education, medicine, journalism, and diplomacy. These professionals were motivated by faith to introduce practical social reforms and build up China's civil society. They modeled and promoted virtues essential to social progress during the "golden age" of Chinese Protestantism. Their stories touch on themes important in today's global era: patterns of cooperation between foreign and Chinese partners, the contributions to China of Western-educated professionals, Christianity's role in furthering East-West understanding and exchanges, and the transnational nature of modern Chinese Christianity. The editors and authors articulate the importance of recovering China's Christian heritage as part of world Christianity.




Chinese Pottery and Porcelain: Vol. 1. Pottery and Early Wares


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"Chinese Pottery and Porcelain: Vol. 1. Pottery and Early Wares" by R. L. Hobson is an academic compilation and commentary on Chinese pottery. Chinese pottery has been a complicated and intricate artwork since its inception, and people have always been interested in how it's evolved over the years. This book allows some insight into the process as well as sharing some prime examples of it.




Softly Say Goodbye


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The dream of a pride and a mate isn't supposed to cost him everything. Snow leopard shifter Blair Kincade has spent a lifetime using football to fill the gaping hole in his soul. Being an alpha without a pride sucks. As does being lied to about it his entire life by none other than the one he should've been able to trust: his adopted father. Meeting a visiting Russian snow leopard turns into finding the last survivors of his destroyed pride. And the possibility of a mate bond with a woman strong enough to stand by him. Ballerina Oksana Bukovskaya has come to Colorado with one goal in mind: to save her adopted father, who's slowly losing his memory. There have been one too many attempts on his life, and she's not leaving until he's safe in the Boulder pride lands. Falling for an alpha she thought dead is an unexpected complication. Uncovering the pieces of what happened to their pride reveals Ares's fingerprints all over a slaughter no one remembers. Plus he's sent one of his assassins after the only man who could've stopped it. Finding the answers--and the killer--is the only way Blair can protect his pride. There's just one problem. It might cost him his mate. cat shifters, shifter hero, snow leopard shifter, fated mates, gods and goddesses




Computational Intelligence in Data Mining - Volume 3


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The contributed volume aims to explicate and address the difficulties and challenges for the seamless integration of two core disciplines of computer science, i.e., computational intelligence and data mining. Data Mining aims at the automatic discovery of underlying non-trivial knowledge from datasets by applying intelligent analysis techniques. The interest in this research area has experienced a considerable growth in the last years due to two key factors: (a) knowledge hidden in organizations’ databases can be exploited to improve strategic and managerial decision-making; (b) the large volume of data managed by organizations makes it impossible to carry out a manual analysis. The book addresses different methods and techniques of integration for enhancing the overall goal of data mining. The book helps to disseminate the knowledge about some innovative, active research directions in the field of data mining, machine and computational intelligence, along with some current issues and applications of related topics.




Frontier Computing on Industrial Applications Volume 1


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This book gathers the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Frontier Computing, held in Tokyo, on July 10–13, 2023, and provides comprehensive coverage of the latest advances and trends in information technology, science, and engineering. It addresses a number of broad themes, including communication networks, business intelligence and knowledge management, Web intelligence, and related fields that inspire the development of information technology. The respective contributions cover a wide range of topics: database and data mining, networking and communications, Web and Internet of things, embedded systems, soft computing, social network analysis, security and privacy, optical communication, and ubiquitous/pervasive computing. Many of the papers outline promising future research directions, and the book benefits students, researchers, and professionals alike. Further, it offers a useful reference guide for newcomers to the field.