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This book presents the emerging regime of zero refractive index photonics, involving metamaterials that exhibit effectively zero refractive index. Metamaterials are artificial structures whose optical properties can be tailored at will. With metamaterials, intriguing and spellbinding phenomena like negative refraction and electromagnetic cloaking could be realized, which otherwise seem unnatural or straight out of science fiction. Zero index m...

Acht Glockenschläge' ist eine Sammlung von acht Kurzgeschichten von Maurice Leblanc, die durch eine Rahmenhandlung miteinander verbunden sind. Arsène Lupin tritt unter dem Namen Prinz Serge Renine auf. In dieser Verkleidung setzt er alles daran, acht Rätsel zu lösen, die von großer gesellschaftlicher Bedeutung sind. Gewitzt wie immer, arbeitet er zum Teil mit der Polizei zusammen und führt sie gleichzeitig an der Nase herum. Natürlich spielt a...

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In Under Blood Moons, J. J. Partridge pulls back the curtain on the drama of parole board hearings and unpopular decisions. Under Blood Moons introduces a not-to-be-forgotten hero, the raffish Jake Fournier. As a former boozer and opiate abuser who still suffers migraines and PTSD resulting from the loss of an arm in the Iraq War and the death of his pregnant wife at the hands of a hit-and-run driver, he makes an improbable parole board member...

In Under Blood Moons, J. J. Partridge pulls back the curtain on the drama of parole board hearings and unpopular decisions. Under Blood Moons introduces a not-to-be-forgotten hero, the raffish Jake Fournier. As a former boozer and opiate abuser who still suffers migraines and PTSD resulting from the loss of an arm in the Iraq War and the death of his pregnant wife at the hands of a hit-and-run driver, he makes an improbable parole board member...

This book reimagines educational leadership on behalf of all students. Functional educational leadership-action and agency for reliability-is the theme shared with educators. To thwart the disconnections caused by standardized accountability, function of educational leadership is offered as a tool to construct reliable teaching and learning.

This book combines perspectives from psychology, spiritual education and digital teaching pedagogies in a transnational framework to discuss the Education in Human Values Program (EHV) for child development, with a focus on silent sitting, mindfulness, meditation and story-telling as tools in the classroom. Through positive guidance in the early stages of child development using EHV tools, teachers will be better equipped to handle disciplinar...

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Menstruation, Sex, Geburt sowie die erschütternden Alltagserfahrungen von People of Color in den USA - all dies thematisiert Wanda Coleman in ihrer Lyrik. Sie war eine der profiliertesten Poetinnen aus Los Angeles, die mit scharfer Zunge Rassismus, Armut und Hass in den USA anprangerte und sich ihre poetische und finanzielle Unabhängigkeit erkämpfte. Als Terrance Hayes zum ersten Mal mit Wanda Coleman auf einer Bühne stand, war er wie betört u...

This book presents the proceedings of the Conference on Computer Science, Electronics and Industrial Engineering (CSEI 2020), held in Ambato in October 2020, with participants from 15 countries and guest speakers from Chile, Colombia, France, Japan, Spain, Portugal, and USA. It discusses topics such as the use of metaheuristic for non-deterministic problem solutions, software architectures for supporting e-government initiatives, and the use o...

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SHE LIVED. SHE DIED. SHE AWAKENED. AN INCREDIBLE AFTERLIFE TRUE STORY!Imagine losing your senses one by one without any explanation? Imagine stepping into a new world of energy, light and vibration after your heart stops beating?Imagine meeting your guardian angels as they invite you to travel and see the world through them?GET READY TO STEP INTO DAWN's EXTRAORDINARY PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL LIFE IN UNVEILED:Conscious Living Teacher, Best-Sellin...

Die deutsche Banking- und Finance-Szene sieht sich unablässig neuen Herausforderungen gegenüber und ist einem ständigen Wandel unterworfen. Um diesem Wandel gerecht zu werden, zeigen Innovationsexperten aus Wissenschaft und Praxis in diesem Buch neue strategische, organisatorische, kulturelle und methodische Problemlösungen für die Bankbranche auf. Diese Lösungen sind zum Teil bankenspezifisch, zum Teil wurden sie aus anderen Branchen auf den ...

In "Tradition and the Individual Talent, " T. S. Eliot wrote that the "historical sense, which is a sense of the timeless as well as of the temporal and the timeless and of the temporal together, is what makes a writer traditional. And it is at the same time what makes a writer more acutely conscious of his place in time, of his own contemporaneity."In this poetry collection, Philip J. Kowalski inserts himself into history and tradition yet em...

Where the Far East meets the Wild West, Falling Into The Light reflects the collision of world cultures during the 19th century.When a young Dalai Lama encounters a deeply hurt soul in his congregation, he begins to doubt his abilities as a spiritual leader, and must travel across the world as a disguised layman to experience human endeavors on the American frontier. Only then could he return home as an enlightened spiritual warrior and the tr...

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This book illustrates the importance and significance of bioinformatics in the field of agriculture. It first introduces the basic concepts of bioinformatics, such as homologous sequence and gene function analyses, determination of protein structures, and discusses machine learning applications for an in-depth understanding of the desired genes and proteins based on commonly used bioinformatics software and tools, e.g. BLAST, molecular modelli...

Die angewandte Spieltheorie im Einkauf hat sich in vielen Unternehmen zu einem wichtigen Instrument entwickelt, um in Verhandlungen systematisch Erfolge zu erzielen. Der zentrale Baustein spieltheoretisch optimierter Vergaben sind Einkaufsauktionen. Ein Grundwissen über Auktionen und Spieltheorie ist deshalb insbesondere für Einkäufer von Bedeutung. Dieses Buch beschreibt sehr anschaulich viele hilfreiche Methoden sowie deren Anwendung in der...

Dieses essential beschäftigt sich mit der Implementierung einer konstruktiven Konfliktkultur. Im Fokus stehen die Konfliktwahrnehmung, die Konfliktfähigkeit und die Sichtweise auf Konflikte. Es wird dazu eingeladen, Konflikte funktional zu betrachten und für die Organisations- und Unternehmensentwicklung konstruktiv zu nutzen. Letztlich wird die Bedeutung der Konfliktmentalität im Rahmen des Change-Managements herausgearbeitet und mögliche Bed...

This book unpacks two decades of Nigeria's National Assembly spanning 4th-8th legislative sessions. It focuses on the core areas of legislative functions - lawmaking, appropriation, oversight and representation - in examining the achievements, challenges and prospects of the legislature. This is particularly important because Nigeria being the most populous country in Africa is a crucial bastion of democratic governance in the region. Therefor...