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At present, the bulk of the existing research on sex trafficking originates in the social sciences. Sex Trafficking in Postcolonial Literature adds an original perspective on this issue by examining representations of sex trafficking in postcolonial literature. This book is a sustained interdisciplinary study bridging postcolonial literature, in English and Spanish, and sex trafficking, as analyzed through literary theory, anthropology, sociol...

Brain-computer interface (BCI) technology provides a means of communication that allows individuals with severely impaired movement to communicate with assistive devices using the electroencephalogram (EEG) or other brain signals. The practicality of a BCI has been possible due to advances in multi-disciplinary areas of research related to cognitive neuroscience, brain-imaging techniques and human-computer interfaces. However, two major challe...

Understanding the importance and necessity of the role of autophagy in health and disease is vital for the studies of cancer, aging, neurodegeneration, immunology, and infectious diseases. Comprehensive and forward thinking, these books offer a valuable guide to both cellular processes while inciting researchers to explore their potentially important connections. Considering that autophagy is associated with numerous biological processes, incl...

Come to the beach with Noni - the nicest pony you could ever meet - in this purely delightful rhyming story for young children. Noni the Pony is friendly and funny. She loves going down to the beach when it's sunny. With her two very best friends Dave Dog and Coco the Cat, and the cows from next door, it's going to be a wonderful day.

Culture's cloud chamber and its millions of random vectors drive Aaron Anstett's INSOFAR AS HERETOFORE. 'Whatever scintillants' he calls them in 'One Theory, ' an exclamation that's half-prayer and half come-and-get-me bravado. The poems catch our socio-linguistic lightning flashes, at times fusing the erotic and the spiritual. This book is original and beautiful."—Michael Heller

With 8 million students in Grades 4-12 struggling to read on grade level, effective comprehension instruction is a top priority for middle and high school teachers. With a strong emphasis on teaching a wide variety of struggling readers, this concise introductory text gives educators research-based knowledge on reading comprehension and the practical instructional techniques they need to explicitly teach comprehension skills.

Ein ungewöhnlicher erotischer Roman. Der "philosophische Salon" ist eine kleine Wohnung, angemietet von drei älteren Herren, die sich dort treffen, um zu diskutieren und zu philosophieren. Elfriede, ihr Dienstmädchen, sorgt fürs leibliche Wohl. An diesem Abend ist Sex das Thema. Die Herren wollen nicht nur über Sex diskutieren, sondern ihn auch praktizieren ........

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2014, held in Sydney, NSW, Australia, in October 2014. The 41 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. Amongst others, topics covered are such as interaction and collaboration among robots, humans, and environments, robots to assist the elderly and persons with disabilitie...

The Liberal Soul offers something lacking in LDS culture. That is the presentation of a different way for Latter-day Saints to examine the question of how to be faithful disciples of Christ and good citizens. It shows public policy decision-making regarding government role as the manifestation of the "liberal soul" rather than as the libertarianism advocated by past Mormon speakers and writers such as Ezra Taft Benson, Cleon Skousen, or Vern A...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Security, Privacy, and Applied Cryptography Engineering held in Pune, India, in October 2014. The 19 papers presented together with two invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 66 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on cryptographic building blocks, mini tutorial, attacks and countermeasures, tools and methods, and secure...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th Nordic Conference on Secure IT Systems, held in Tromsø, Norway, in October 2014. The 15 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. They are organized in topical sections named: information management and data privacy, cloud, big data and virtualization security, network security and logging, attacks and defenses, and security in healthcare and...

A collection of private family letters from WWI that have lain forgotten for almost 90 years, offering a unique, first-hand glimpse into the unfolding experience of the Western Front, in British India and on the Home Front. The Slaters lived in Oxford, Gilbert had been head of Ruskin College and worked as Prof of Indian Economics in Madras during the war, his wife Violet became an increasingly vocal pacifist, and their son Owen, a schoolboy in...

This book presents a broad design purview within the framework of “pre-design, design, and post-design” by focusing on the “motive of design, ” which implies an underlying reason for the design of a product. The chapters are comprised of papers based on discussions at the “Design Research Leading Workshop” held in Nara, Japan, in 2013. This book encourages readers to enhance and expand their thinking within a widened design perspective.

Biopolymers and biodegradable plastics are finding applications in various sectors, from packaging, to medical, automotive and more. This book gives an insight into all aspects of processing, seamlessly linking the science of biopolymers to the trends in the development of fresh products.

This book explores concrete situations in which judges are faced with a legislature and an executive that consciously and systematically discard the ideals of the rule of law. It revolves around three basic questions: What happens when states become oppressive and the judiciary contributes to the oppression? How can we, from a legal point of view, evaluate the actions of judges who contribute to oppression? And, thirdly, how can we understand ...

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I would have been the first miscarriage of justice... There was this spate of cases: the Birmingham Six, Guildford Four and Cardiff Three. Each one was another nail in my coffin': Tony Stock. The story of Tony Stock is astonishing: deeply disturbing it sent out ripples of disquiet when he was sentenced to ten years for robbery at Leeds Assizes in 1970. Over the next 40 years the case went to the Court of Appeal four times and has the distin...

CSA Guide to Cloud Computing brings you the most current and comprehensive understanding of cloud security issues and deployment techniques from industry thought leaders at the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA). For many years the CSA has been at the forefront of research and analysis into the most pressing security and privacy related issues associated with cloud computing. CSA Guide to Cloud Computing provides you with a one-stop source for indu...

The series Topics in Organometallic Chemistry presents critical overviews of research results in organometallic chemistry. As our understanding of organometallic structure, properties and mechanisms increases, new ways are opened for the design of organometallic compounds and reactions tailored to the needs of such diverse areas as organic synthesis, medical research, biology and materials science. Thus the scope of coverage includes a broad r...

This book brings together the research of philosophers and social scientists. It examines those areas of scientific practice where reliance on the subjective judgment of experts and practitioners is the main source of useful knowledge to address, and, possibly, bring solutions to social problems. A common phenomenon in applications of science is that objective evidence does not point to a single answer, or solution, to a problem. Reliance on s...