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A wheeze is the sound air makes when it hits the constricted trachea, the sound of meat meeting air. wheeze is a collection of poems about the ghostly possession of the body. It's desire as a force and not a lack. It's Pazuzu from The Exorcist. It's compulsive journalling. It's the reading someone else's body language as a gothic form of divination. It's the dark art of crushing, when the consuming thought of that distant other person enters y...

Emily Crocker complicates home and family in her book, Girls and Buoyant. With sensitivity and wry observation, Crocker explores old suburbs and new loves at the intersections of intimate moments and where late capitalism pokes at our lives. Girls and Buoyant is a striking debut poetry collection as Crocker presents an unflinching examination of life outside the margins of the urbanised middle class.

Beyond the CradleTo follow in the footsteps of those who have gone before, first we must find them.Dreaded hope settles over mankind as we stare into the heavens, looking for a sign we are not alone. Fearing we will find it, puzzled when we don't. Among the stars or in our own backyard, lose yourself in the wonder of these tales as we humbly posit mankind's reaction to the awesome certainty that 'they' are out there…or at least, they were…Foot...

blur by the is a collection of fractures that make not quite a whole. It is a giving of permission to the self, to exist as messily as ( i s ). These poems are a record of navigation through longing and dis [ place ] ment of the body and of place, a shattering of expectation(s) of the self and of family, often through dreams, food and eroticism. This is an attempt at freedom. blur by the is a yearning for freedom from grief, memory, and-ultima...

This Ghana, previously known as the Gold Coast, marked her sixty years of independence in 2017. Ghana has experienced several phases of governance: from parliamentary democracy to dictatorial one-party governance, military regimes to multi-party democratic governance. Since 1992, Ghana has enjoyed over twenty-five years of uninterrupted civilian rule. However, many argue that the current civilian regime requires immediate reforms to rectify ce...

This book looks at mortuary activities and some creative acts associated with them in selected communities in Africa and the diaspora. Besides death narratives and mortuary rites which are vital in maintaining the centralizing myths of communities and groups, parts of the anthology problematize the tensions and conflicts that arise in the mill of postcolonialism and how they are reflected in the politics of dying, death and after-death in some...

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Cryptology and Information Security in Latin America, LATINCRYPT 2017, held in Havana, Cuba, in September 2017.The 20 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: security protocols, public-key implementation, cryptanalysis, theory of symmetric-key cryptography...

These proceedings gather contributions presented at the 3rd International Conference of Mechatronics and Cyber-MixMechatronics/ICOMECYME, organized by the National Institute of R&D, in Mechatronics and Measurement Technique in Bucharest, Romania, on September 5th–6th, 2019. Reflecting the expansion mechatronics, it discusses topics in the newer trans-disciplinary fields, such as adaptronics, integronics, and cyber-mixmechatronics. With a ric...

This volume contains the proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on Model Order Reduction of Coupled System, held in Stuttgart, Germany, May 22-25, 2018.For the understanding and development of complex technical systems, such as the human body or mechatronic systems, an integrated, multiphysics and multidisciplinary view is essential. Many problems can be solved within one physical domain. For the simulation and optimization of the combined system,...

When worlds collide, and things are rarely what they seem, there may be no one Vi can trust.Having forsaken her crown for a chance to save her family, and the world, Vi Solaris washes up on the shores of Meru. She's wounded and barely alive. But Vi's fight for survival is only just beginning.As a princess in a foreign land, everyone is after her.The pirate queen Adela wants to sell her to the evil elfin'ra. The Twilight King wants to use her t...

When worlds collide, and things are rarely what they seem, there may be no one Vi can trust.Having forsaken her crown for a chance to save her family, and the world, Vi Solaris washes up on the shores of Meru. She's wounded and barely alive. But Vi's fight for survival is only just beginning.As a princess in a foreign land, everyone is after her.The pirate queen Adela wants to sell her to the evil elfin'ra. The Twilight King wants to use her t...

With its stark natural beauty, rich and diverse cultural heritage, famed jewels and unique Hyderabadi cuisine, the Deccan sits at the heart of the Indian peninsula. Home to some of the iconic universities and medical colleges, this cosmopolitan city now attracts students from across the world. "In the end, your legacy won't be about your success, it will be about your significance and the impact you made on every student, every day, and whethe...

Set in the soul-searing 1960s when the quest for love as the supreme panacea is stilled by assassins' bullets, this novel captures the emotional complexities of families and relationships, grief and loss, hopes and dreams, from the diverse perspectives of five interconnected lives.

Composites based on Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have exceptional physical and chemical properties and offer a great number of advanced applications in such fields as energy storage, energy conversion by catalysis, sensors for environmental applications, environment safety and industrial wastewater treatments. They also have interesting medical applications, such as encapsulation of enzymes. The present book covers design, synthesis and pre...

This two-volume set (CCIS 1045 and CCIS 1046) constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Advances in Computing and Data Sciences, ICACDS 2019, held in Ghaziabad, India, in April 2019. The 112 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 621 submissions. The papers are centered around topics like advanced computing, data sciences, distributed systems organizing principles, development frameworks and ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th Conference on Image and Graphics Technologies and Applications, IGTA 2019, held in Beijing, China in April, 2019. The 66 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 152 submissions. They provide a forum for sharing progresses in the areas of image processing technology, image analysis and understanding, computer vision and pattern recognition, big data mining, computer g...

Das Spiel ist die Haupttätigkeit des Kindes und seine wichtigste Lernquelle. Das Spiel ermöglicht einem Kind erste tiefgru¿ndige Lebenserfahrungen: Es ahmt im Spiel die Erwachsenen nach, probiert aus, wozu es schon selbst in der Lage ist, stößt an Grenzen und entwickelt wichtige Strategien, um an sein Ziel zu kommen. Fu¿r Ausdauer, Interesse, Engagement, Kommunikation und Verantwortlichkeit bietet das Spiel ein reichhaltiges Übungsfeld, wie au...

Wenn von Anfang an eine gesunde, kraftsparende, einfache und leicht zu wiederholende Schusstechnik erlernt wird, hat man viel mehr Spaß und von vorne herein ein dichteres Trefferbild. Egal ob Anfänger, Hobbyschütze, Leistungsschütze oder Trainer, ob traditionell oder modern: Mit diesem umfassenden Grundlagenbuch bekommen Bogenschützen jeden Levels und jeder Disziplin das Werkzeug an die Hand, mit dem sie selbst ihre eigenes Schießen verbesser...

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This poetry collection explores what thought and ideals sound like when alone or feeling alone when around others. It is sardonic, sad, humorous, jovial, and ironic at times but, always truthful.