Alma: 236 books

The life Anghara knows has ended; everyone she loved is dead or doomed. And now she must flee far from her home or die at the hands of her half-brother Sif. A defenseless child is adrift in an unfamiliar world, pursued by the minions of a false king whose brutality knows no bounds. But Anghara has...

What happens when two very different witches are promised the same first-born child in payment for services rendered...? And then fall in love?

Thea is now at the Ivy League school, Amford, but she senses something isn’t quite right. It has put her in a bad mood – and soon she learns what it is. Something has gone terribly wrong. Thea and other mages sense it – magic is slowly draining away from the world.Faced with Lackmagic,...

There is a story behind every word. There is a word behind every story. Some concepts require a single word in other languages but paragraphs to explain in English. There are times when it is impossible to have a direct translation of something, to understand an idea at once simple...

There is in Roumania a group of mountains named the Bucegi-group. Among these the two peaks of Jipi tower aloft, close together, as though gazing defiantly at one another, and between them the Urlatoare, or “roaring stream,” dashes down, a cloud-like waterfall, into the valley below, and storms onward...

Liz has retreated to the mountains from the furore created by her latest book. Her husband Gareth is driving to visit her but is shaken when a woman runs into the path of his car—the consequences for all three adults are far-reaching.

This book provides a decentralized approach for the identification and control of robotics systems. It also presents recent research in decentralized neural control and includes applications to robotics. Decentralized control is free from difficulties due to complexity in design, debugging, data gathering...

Martha, la mejor amiga de Amalia, va a mudarse muy lejos. Y Amalia se siente triste y enojada. Sin embargo, aunque la vida parece injusta, las sabias palabras cariñosas de su abuelita la ayudan a sentirse un poco mejor. Amalia disfruta el tiempo que comparte con su abuela: cocinando, escuchando cuentos...

Un acercamiento a la poesía que sorprenderá a los más pequeños. Un acercamiento a la poesía que sorprenderá a los más pequeños. Dentro de este juguetero los niños encontrarán un oso que es un almohadón cariñoso, un caballo de juguete que busca a un jinete, una muñeca que...

Including narratives of practice across diverse Australian settings, Engaging with Educational Change fills a gap in the current educational change literature. Building on the experience of the authors and their colleagues, this book illustrates the power of practitioner inquiry to facilitate positive,...

El libro que el lector tiene en sus manos es una invitación para reflexionar sobre los conceptos de análisis y evaluación de políticas públicas, así como su relación y posibles tensiones. Esta propuesta responde a la necesidad de explorar los alcances y límites de una relación que todavía...

The book offers an insight on artificial neural networks for giving a robot a high level of autonomous tasks, such as navigation, cost mapping, object recognition, intelligent control of ground and aerial robots, and clustering, with real-time implementations. The reader will learn various methodologies...

Academic Libraries and Toxic Leadership examines a phenomenon that has yet to be seriously explored. While other so-called feminized professions, such as nursing, have been studied for their tendency to create toxic leadership environments, thus far academic librarianship has not. This book...

Karlien wil nie vir grond met die ryk buurman trou nie. En hoe vertrou sy haar eksverloofde as hy onverwags terugkeer en alles wil regmaak? Kan sy verhoed dat afkeer aan 'n man ongemerk liefde word?