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      • Fantasy

        Sleeping Sapphire

        by T J Gristwood

        Sleeping Sapphire is a fantasy story for adult women.  Sapphire Whittaker is no ordinary thirty something woman.  For a start her dreams have started to become reality.  Meeting the mysterious "Fox" has turned her world upside down, a world suddenly full of magic, passion, dance, drugs and danger. After moving to a new life in the countryside, she begins to realise that even the local village is not what it seems: everyone is up for a party and her name is on the door to enter a Wonderland she never knew existed.  Sapphire begins to discover that whilst sleeping and dreaming she is able to travel to new dimensions and worlds.  This magical ability to "dream travel" also becomes possible when she blows caution to the wind and tries a new kind of drug she has never experienced before.  Sapphire is changing in ways she never thought were even possible, reality and fantasy becoming a crazy mix of adventure, madness, and mayhem.  Enter her world and open your mind to the endless possibilities of dreaming.  Sleep will never seem the same again!

      • May 2022

        Customs Matters

        Strengthening Customs Administration in a Changing World

        by Augusto Azael Perez Azcarraga, Tadatsugu Matsudaira, Gilles Montagnat-Rentier, Janos Nagy, R. James Clark

        Customs administrations around the world face new challenges: an increasing volume of international trade, a revolution in new technologies, and fundamental changes in business models.This book analyzes the many changes and challenges customs administrations face and proposes ways to address these. It outlines considerations policymakers must take into account as they develop their own road map for modernization.

      • Microbiology (non-medical)
        January 2022

        Functional Foods

        Processing and Packaging

        by Tanweer Alam, Saket Kushwaha, Arun Kumar & Sahar Masud

        To provide better understanding of use, benefits, significance and impact of functional food ingredients on human health and to disseminate the recent developments in such a rapidly expanding field, this book has been compiled and edited. There are seventeen chapters in this book which not only cover many aspects of functional foods and bioactive compounds from various natural sources and its impacts, but also discuss on sources and applications of natural antioxidants, probiotics, prebiotics and synbiotics. The contributing authors are experts in their respective fields. This book will be of interest to a wide spectrum of professionals from food scientists and technologists, nutritionists, biochemists, and engineers to entrepreneurs worldwide. It will also serve as a unique reference for food scientists for the R&D departments of food companies that are working with functional foods and ingredients. Additionally, it will serve as a source of basic information for college and university students majoring in food science and technology, food processing, and engineering. Readers will obtain sound scientific knowledge about various aspects of nutraceuticals and functional foods or food ingredients, fermented functional food, various natural bioactive compounds and antioxidants.

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