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Multimedia watermarking is a key ingredient for integrity verification, transaction tracking, copyright protection, authentication, copy control, and forgery detection. This book provides an extensive survey from the fundamentals to cutting-edge digital watermarking techniques. One of the crucial aspects of multimedia security is the ability to detect forged/tampered regions from the multimedia object. In this book, we emphasized how tampering...

This book is part of a 2 volume book series that provides current, state-of-the-art knowledge, fundamentals of electrochemistry, design strategies, and future challenges in carbon-based materials for electrochemical energy production and storage devices. The key goals for nanocarbons based electrochemical devices are to provide safe operation, sustainability, high energy and power density, long working life, and reduced cost. This book describ...

A fascinating exploration of what it means to be human in the light of eight burning questions raised by science - including AI, aliens, gene editing, the science of immortality, animal personhood, the treatment of mental health, mass vaccination and unborn children.

Early historic Scotland - from the fifth to the tenth century AD - was home to a variety of diverse peoples and cultures, all competing for land and supremacy. Yet by the eleventh century it had become a single, unified kingdom, known as Alba, under a stable and successful monarchy. How did this happen, and when?

In this bedtime story, twins Flor and Roberto wonder how they can possibly go on an adventure at the same time as they go to sleep. Big brother Luis guides them in an exercise through their bodies, from the top of their heads to the tips of their toes. Following the gentle inhale and exhale of their breath, Flor and Roberto find love and calm inside and all around them as they drift off to sleep. Bonus content provides direction for mapping yo...

Dance Anatomy, Third Edition, is a visually stunning presentation of more than 100 dance, movement, and performance exercises to promote correct alignment, improved body placement, proper breathing, and management of common injuries.

Bring your pharmacology review to life with more than 100 colorful flashcards! Mosby¿s Pharmacology Memory NoteCards: Visual, Mnemonic, & Memory Aids for Nurses, 7th Edition uses cartoons, humor, and concise summaries to make studying easier and more fun. These unique cards may be used as either a spiral-bound notebook or detached for use as individual flashcards, so they are perfect for studying while on the go. Created by nursing educators J...

Russia's Maria Stepanova is a poet, novelist, essayist, journalist and the author of ten poetry collections and three books of essays. Her book-length poem Holy Winter 20/21, written in a frenzy during the pandemic, speaks of winter and war, of banishment and exile, of social isolation and existential abandonment.

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In this long awaited second collection, Matthew Hollis evokes the landscape, language and ecology of the isles of Britain and Ireland to explore how our most intimate moments have resonance in the wider cycle of life. What emerges is a moving meditation on time and the transformative phases of nature.

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Jane Hirshfield is a visionary American writer whose poems ask nothing less than what it is to be human. Both sensual meditations and passionate investigations of our shared and borrowed lives, they reveal complex truths in language luminous and precise. The Asking supersedes her earlier retrospective, Each Happiness Ringed by Lions (2005).

Schon immer ist Italien das Sehnsuchtsland der Deutschen und Inspiration für zahlreiche Künstler und Schriftsteller gewesen. In den 1950er Jahren, als das Auto breiten Bevölkerungsschichten zu einer erschwinglichen Mobilität verhalf, begann der Massentourismus, und Italien war das beliebteste ausländische Reiseziel. Im August 1953 reihte sich in den schier endlosen Strom von gen Süden fahrenden PKWs ein VW-Käfer ein, in dem vier schwitzende Fr...

This book is a follow-up to 'Values and Valuing in Mathematics Education: Scanning and Scoping the Territory' (2019, Springer). This book adds a critical emphasis on practice and fosters thinking concerning positive mathematical well-being, engagement, teacher noticing, and values alignment among a range of critical notions that intersect with values and valuing. Values and valuing play a key role in many aspects of education, such as assessme...

In diesem Open-Access-Buch wird erstmals mithilfe einer qualitativen Studie in den fünf größten japanischen Communitys Deutschlands - Düsseldorf, München, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main, Hamburg - das Migrations- und Eingliederungsverhalten dauerhaft ansässiger Japanerinnen und Japaner in Deutschland untersucht. Die Zahlen belegen, dass es sich bei den japanischen Migrantinnen und Migranten um eine kleine Gruppe handelt. Dennoch übt sie einen präge...

A brilliant analysis of identity politics by world-renowned thinker Olivier Roy.

Three friends have murdered their high school classmate. Ten years later, a PI, working for the victim's family, has them in her sights. But are there more victims to be avenged?

Clare Pollard's first book for children revisits Arthurian legends in a thrilling tale of adventure and mystery. *The Untameables* turns traditional folklore on its head and forces us to think about how legends are written and whose stories get told.

Gefeuert, pleite, mit einem Bein in der Obdachlosigkeit - ich bin offiziell verzweifelt genug, um auf die Stellenanzeige für einen dubios klingenden Barkeeperjob zu antworten. Die Gäste in diesem Pub sind irgendwie ... speziell, und meine Probeschicht geht vom ersten Moment an den Bach runter. Doch statt mich hochkant rauszuschmeißen, bieten sie mir den Job an. Wie sich herausstellt, ist der Pub eine Gilde. Und die drei attraktiven Typen, di...

This book explains the basic ideas behind several variants of ant colony optimization (ACO) and shows how they may be used in real-world settings like manufacturing, engineering design, and health care. Marco Dorigo proposed ACO for the first time, and it has been used to solve a variety of optimization problems. This book presents the latest developments of ACO.