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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 23rd European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2014, which took place in Grenoble, France, in April 2014, as part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2014. The 27 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 109 submissions. In addition, the book contains two invited talks. The contributions are organized in topical sections named: t...

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The debut full-length poetry collection from Brian Foley, The Constitution boldly disrupts and troubles the beliefs we take for granted about ourselves and the rights we hold as true. While investigating ideas of home, love, morality, and loss, the poems also reflect back upon themselves, offering "amendments, ” that question and rethink the poems that precede them. Taken together, the poems of The Constitution reveal the instability and flux ...

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French philosopher Gilles Deleuze was vehemently opposed to the idea of the transcendental, yet still found value in religion - in its ability to secrete atheism. This book brings Deleuze studies into dialogue with the bio-cultural sciences of religion, which are transforming debates about the value of atheism in the academy and the public sphere.

This book traces an entire history of pity, as an emotion and as an element in the arts, engaging as it does so with a wealth of theoretical ideas including Freud, Derrida, Levinas and others.

What is a thing? What is an object? Tristan Garcia decisively overturns 100 years of Heideggerian orthodoxy about the supposedly derivative nature of objects to put forward a new theory of ontology that gives us deep insights into the world and our place in it.

Defends and transforms naturalism and materialism to show how culture itself is formed by nature. Bryant endorses a pan-ecological theory of being, arguing that societies are ecosystems that can only be understood by considering nonhuman material agencies such as rivers and mountain ranges alongside signifying agencies such as discourses, narratives and ideologies.

The War on Gold is a definitive study of the past, present, and future of the metal that Keynesian economists and political schemers have denounced as a barbarous relic.The war on gold began several centuries ago, when politicians discovered they could print limitless amounts of paper currency for a small fraction of the cost of using gold as money. It has accelerated in recent years...as the U.S. acquired paper debt, deficits, which led to do...

This volume provides an important update to our current understanding of politics and the internet in a variety of new contexts, both geographically and institutionally. The subject of e-democracy has morphed over the years from speculative and optimistic accounts of a future heightened direct citizen involvement in political decision-making and an increasingly withered state apparatus, to more prosaic investigations of party and governmental ...

Dieses Buch, so versichtert die Autorin "soll nur das geben, was der Titel "Dein Leben - Deine Wahl" besagt: Wie du dich entscheidest, so wird sich dein Leben gestalten. Wenn jemand krank wird, nimmt er Arznei. Jeder einzelne von uns ist ein Glied der kranken Gattung Mensch, und wir leben in einer äußerst ungesunden Umgebung - der Gesellschaft. Es gibt Gesetze, die wir >innere Hygiene< nennen können und die, wenn sie beachtet werden, uns helfe...

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In order to put years of heartache and abuse behind her, Ren learned to bury the past deep down inside herself and focus on one thing, raising her daughter Sophia. As the years passed, she found peace in the daily routine of her job and becomes content with being a mom. On the night of her daughter's wedding, Ren takes a risk and strays from the predictable world she has set up for herself when her longtime friend Jackson rekindles a loving pr...

What If The Cross Changed Everything? Looks at The Book of Revelation from a radically different perspective--its original audience. Those people who lived in the first century under Roman rule, with strong ties to Jewish tradition. It is from this ancient perspective that Revelation becomes a source of joy and empowerment. John's first readers knew the identity of The Beast, and the meaning of 666. It's time the 21st Century Church knew too. ...

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Winner of an eLit Award for publishing excellence, "Slowing Down in a Speedstressed World" fulfills two clear purposes: It describes the essential contribution that living at a more balanced pace will make to readers' - and their loved ones' - health and happiness. Then, the short, clear chapters provide the skills needed to slow down in the midst of our "hurry up!" culture. Filled with the wisdom of many interviewees and of its author (a psyc...

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India Lake's soul mate just might be Benjamin Swan, the mysterious photographer taking pictures of her beloved swans at Turtle Pond. But Benjamin harbors secrets and when a shadowy lumber company threatens Turtle Pond, India doesn't know who to trust. With grit and determination (and a little help from her friends), India stands up for the wild in this soaring tale of friendship and hope in a crusade to save the land India loves.