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Der Wehwehchen-Atlas ist ein Bilderbuch für Erwachsene, ein gezeichnetes Selfie-Desaster. Es geht um Körperkontrolle und PlusquamPerfektionismis, Zeitgeistblödsinn und Eitelkeit - kurz: um den allgegenwärtigen Schönheits- und Selbstoptimierungswahn.

Il mitico codice Ghisi, un antico manoscritto autografo del "Milione" di Marco Polo che si riteneva perduto, è stato ritrovato nel comparto segreto di un antico palazzo veneziano nel 2014. Da quel libro mancano alcune pagine, nelle quali è da settecento anni custodito i segreto di un leggendario "tesoro" che il celebre veneziano avrebbe portato con sé dal suo lungo viaggio in Asia. Il professor John Jefferson Taylor della Harvard University, s...

Nuclear Receptors focuses on the structural analysis of nuclear receptors from the initial work using isolated protein domains to the more recent exciting developments investigating the conformational shape of full-length receptor complexes. The book also reviews the structure of key nuclear receptor co-regulatory proteins. The aim is to bring together, for the first time, a comprehensive review of nuclear receptor structure and the importance...

Crowdfunding is becoming an increasingly popular method to finance projects of every kind and scale. This contributed volume is one of the earliest books presenting scientific and research-based perspectives of crowdfunding, its development, and future. The European Crowdfunding Network (ECN) and its scientific work group, together with FGF e.V., invited both researchers and practitioners to contribute to this first state-of-the-art edited vol...

This book makes good background reading for much of modern magnetospheric physics. Its origin was a Festspiel for Professor Jim Dungey, former professor in the Physics Department at Imperial College on the occasion of his 90th birthday, 30 January 2013. Remarkably, although he retired 30 years ago, his pioneering and, often, maverick work in the 50’s through to the 70’s on solar terrestrial physics is probably more widely appreciated today tha...

This book provides novel perspectives on the ethical justifiability of assisted dying. Seeking to go beyond traditional debates on topics such as the value of human life and questions surrounding intention and causation, this volume promises to shift the terrain of the ethical debates about assisted dying. It reconsiders the role of patient autonomy and paternalistic reasons as well as the part proposed for medical professionals and clinical e...

This work covers legume crop origins and evolution, genetic resources, breeding achievements, specific goals and techniques, including the potential and actual integration of new technologies. The vast amount of knowledge collected in this volume should not only serve researchers, but breeders and academics as well. The text provides plant breeders with new scientific information,  and familiarizes molecular biologists with the peculiarities o...

This book presents the theory of soft matter to students at the advanced undergraduate or beginning graduate level. It provides a basic introduction to theoretical physics as applied to soft matter, explaining the concepts of symmetry, broken symmetry, and order parameters, phases and phase transitions, mean-field theory, and the mathematics of variational calculus and tensors. It is written in an informal, conversational style, which is acces...

This work describes theoretical and experimental advances towards the realization of a hybrid quantum processor in which the collective degrees of freedom of an ensemble of spins in a crystal are used as a multi-qubit register for superconducting qubits. A memory protocol made of write, read and reset operations is first presented, followed by the demonstration of building blocks of its implementation with NV center spins in diamond. Qubit sta...

The book details a few of the novel methods developed in the last few years for studying various aspects of nonlinear wave systems. The introductory chapter provides a general overview, thematically linking the objects described in the book. Two chapters are devoted to wave systems possessing resonances with linear frequencies (Chapter 2) and with nonlinear frequencies (Chapter 3).In the next two chapters modulation instability in the KdV-type...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Scalable Uncertainty Management, SUM 2015, held in Québec City, QC, Canada, in September 2015. The 25 regular papers and 3 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 submissions. The call for papers for SUM 2015 solicited submissions in all areas of managing and reasoning with substantial and complex kinds of uncertain, incomplete or inconsiste...

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A decade in the making, the long-awaited "dead tree" edition in a concise, concentrated $14.95 paperback. What Fresh Hell? brings together 10 years of blogging on war and peace, politics and society in the Obama and Bush-Cheney years, infrastructure-on-life-support, and the environment in a time of extreme weather. The New Orleans-dedicated, New York-based blog Levees Not War was founded in 2005 after Hurricane Katrina, and now serves up liber...

Doctor Dakota Remington resigns as Coroner at Clarin General Hospital in Los Angeles, California. After becoming a victim of a violent crime, Dakota finds that she is unable to detach herself from the prostitutes who lay on her autopsy table, all of them victims of a cunning and calculating predator stalking the seedy back streets of Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles. Dakota makes plans to move to the Bay area after the attack, leaving behind n...

Often, teenagers feel they are alone when going through being bullied by other individuals. This book was written to get them to understand that many adults go through being bullied as well. However, there are legal ways to handle all types of bullying instead of killing themselves or anyone else. It is imperative that they inform an adult when bullying acts are being done towards them. Both teenagers and adults go through some type of bullyin...

Born in Philadelphia's Walnut Street Theater in 1849, George Berrell died in 1933, after a life he often described as one of growing up with the country. His travels of self-discovery and those of his life on the stage are illustrative of a nation moving from travel on foot and horseback to that of automobiles and Boeings first major airliner, the 247. Berrell saw it all and performed on stages in early Deadwood to St. Louis and Chicago and al...

4ink7 is an international literary journal of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Each issue is titled after a piece iin the collection. Rather than a temporal journal, each issue is treated as a book and printed as a hardcover edition.

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On the campus of the California College of Arts and Sciences, a prestigious private college, four female students have been murdered, shot with a small caliber round, their nude bodies found next to their cars, their clothes folded neatly nearby. Strange symbols are carved into each victim's chest. The police are investigating but not making much progress. When the college president asks crime consultant, Dr. Aaron Archer, to investigate, Aaro...

Master efficient parallel programming to build powerful applications using PythonKey FeaturesDesign and implement efficient parallel softwareMaster new programming techniques to address and solve complex programming problemsExplore the world of parallel programming with this book, which is a go-to resource for different kinds of parallel computing tasks in Python, using examples and topics covered in great depthBook DescriptionThis book will t...