The World of Athoria


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The World of Athoria: Essence of the Wild. Immerse yourself deeper into the vast world, growing characters and expanding the lore and myths of the world. The daughter of a fantasy writer found herself in love with the stories and imagination and ability to create by her father's inspirations. But like most stories, nothing stays good forever. Sarah found herself running from her world, trying to escape a pain that she had succumbed to, and then she found herself falling into an abyss. Only to be awoken in a world familiar to her yet new. Her body was different, and her memory was all but gone. Glimpses of two lives, living in a vast world full of dark terrors, war, and tragedy. but even so, with darkness rising, there is always light to meet it. there is always a spark of hope that shines like a star within the essence. Siarathen is awoken in a haze and encounters a young man who goes by the name Forrest Andor. The situation Siarathen found herself in quickly escalated, and she found herself running from pig-like creatures called the Hogwraths. Siarathen accompanied Forrest to the city of Falgor, known in the world as the city of the kings. Journey with Siarathen as she traverses through the vast lands of Athoria and meets new companions along the way. Engage in a story of discovery, love, family and imagination. Embracing the memory of the things we hold close to our heart and discover the essence of the wild.




Tales of Athoria


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A Collection of tales set within the fantasy world of Athoria. The festival of the Fairies and the choosing of the guardians begin with And in the Darkness it comes. Lord Shen and his Lady Sherrin celebrate with Barkorith and Athoria an event known as the gifting of the fairies, a festival that is once in a lifetime. But that was all interrupted when a man dressed in black arrived out of the darkness—a warning of something to come. Moni and Terrin watch on as they see flames dancing in the distance and heading through the forest of the Darkwoods of the Ancients, on their way towards the Circle of the Giants. Moni feels something within call to her. A sensation saying that something was wrong with the essence. Princess Allorah sneaks out of the Hidden city of Thrackin to see the world beyond the walls of the Saranayan mountains. Just beyond the whimpering hallow, she meets the Elve she thinks is the one for her, Prince N'amori of Northheim. He tells her of his plans for the future, but Allorah is hesitant.




Dawn of the Crimson War


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300 Years Before the Great War So began the Dawn of the Crimson War and the tale of the birth of the Stormking, the growth of his House and the fall of the Arkonnian King. The great war in the skies that befell the once elegant cities. Living in peace until the single Crimson Bolt struck the tallest tower at the hidden location known as Storms Pyre, and thus began to change the world as they knew it. This is a tale of the past of the rise of the Stormking and the fall of the Skies…




Tales


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Critical Infrastructures, Key Resources, Key Assets


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In the face of increasing failures, comments attributed to Albert Einstein loom large: “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” There is a pervasive feeling that any attempt to make sense of the current terrain of complex systems must involve thinking outside the box and originating unconventional approaches that integrate organizational, managerial, social, political, cultural, and human aspects and their interactions. This textbook offers research-based models and tools for diagnosing and predicting the behavior of complex techno-socio-economic systems in the domain of critical infrastructures, key resources, key assets and the open bazaar of space, undersea, and below-ground systems. These models exemplify emblematic models in physics, within which the critical infrastructures, as well as society itself and its paraphernalia, share the profile of many-body systems featuring cooperative phenomena and phase transitions – the latter usually felt as disruptive occurrences. The book and its models focus on the analytics of real-life-business actors, including policy-makers, financiers and insurers, industry managers, and emergency responders.




The Congressional Globe


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Critical Space Infrastructures


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This book introduces readers to the topical area of CSI: critical space infrastructure, which is defined as an emerging domain of systems-of-systems encompassing hardware, workforce, environment, facilities, business and organizational entities. Further, it includes unmanned air systems, satellites, rockets, space probes, and orbital stations, and involves multi-directional interactions essential for maintenance of vital societal functions (i.e., health, safety, economic and social well-being), the loss or disruption of which would have significant impact on virtually any nation. The topics covered include the main elements of CSI, CSI taxonomy, effects of CSI on other infrastructure systems, establishing quantitative and qualitative parameters, global and national effects of CSI failure, cascading disruptive phenomena, chilling effects in various fields, CSI protection, deliberate threats to space systems (e.g., electromagnetic pulse attacks), space governance, and a path forward for CSI research. Modern society is highly dependent on the continuous operation of critical infrastructure systems for the supply of crucial goods and services including, among others, the power supply, drinking water supply, and transportation systems; yet space systems – which are critical enablers for several commercial, scientific and military applications – are rarely discussed. This book addresses this gap.




Business America


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Includes articles on international business opportunities.




Bridging Science and Heritage in the Balkans: Studies in Archaeometry and Cultural Heritage Restoration and Conservation


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In a period when the study of archaeological remains is enriched through new methods derived from the natural sciences and when there is general agreement on the need for more investment in the study, restoration and conservation of the tangible cultural heritage, this book presents contributions to these fields from South-Eastern Europe.




Bioluminescence


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