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This new collection examines important US historical fiction published since 2000. Exploring historical novels by established American writers such as Philip Roth, Joyce Carol Oates, E.L. Doctorow, Chang-rae Lee, James McBride, Susan Choi, and George Saunders, the book also includes chapters on first-time novelists. Individual essays in 21st Century US Historical Fiction: Contemporary Responses to the Past tackle prominent and provocative new ...

This book offers a timely report on an emerging topic in the field of wearable assistive technology: the design and development of robotic extra fingers. After a concise review of the state of the art and a description of earlier prototypes, it discusses the authors' efforts to address issues such as portability and wearability of the devices, including strategies to reduce fatigue and to integrate the motion of the extra fingers with that of ...

Es werden zahlreiche Geschichten und Erlebnisse beschrieben. Manches ist real, anderes ist geträumt oder liegt in der Zukunft. Man sollte alles nicht so ernst nehmen, denn immer ist ein zwinkerndes Auge dabei. Einige Dinge sind recht lustig oder sie machen nachdenklich. Eine Figur von einer anderen Welt interessiert sich für die Menschen. Manches ist banal, anderes scheint wieder gefährlich zu werden. Auf jeden Fall findet alles einen nicht er...

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Thirty Dollars and a Bowl of Soup is a celebration and lamentation of womanhood, motherhood, teaching, identity, oppression and justice, loss and love, and Carla's attempt to grapple with challenges that run the gamut from Flint to fibroids with wit, humor, sensitivity, grace, and productive defiance.

This open access two-volume set LNCS 12759 and 12760 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2021, held virtually in July 2021.The 63 full papers presented together with 16 tool papers and 5 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 290 submissions. The papers were organized in the following topical sections:Part I: invited papers, AI verification, concurrency...

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This second edition of Gnat Feathers and Butterfly Wings published by ii Publishing is a collection covering a myriad of topics from jazz music to a moving tribute to loss of a loved one. Carla pours her heart into the pages of this debut poetry collection as she creates beauty in poetic form. Enjoy the journey of love, loss, pain, and joy from page to page.

Computational Biomechanics for Medicine: Solid and fluid mechanics for the benefit of patients contributions and papers from the MICCAI Computational Biomechanics for Medicine Workshop help in conjunction with Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention conference (MICCAI 2020) in Lima, Peru. The content is dedicated to research in the field of methods and applications of computational biomechanics to medical image analysis, ima...

This book is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that explores the variety of ways in which the interface between understanding the figure of Christ, the place of the cross, and the contours of lived experience, was articulated through the long nineteenth century. Collectively, the chapters respond to the theological turn in postmodern thought by asking vital questions about the way in which representations of Christ shape understanding...

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The secrets of lives not shared, not taken, not known, all can be found in the eclectic fiction of author Charles Payseur. A sentient star deals with the trauma of their binary partner having collapsed into a black hole, and gets a little inspiration from the intrepid humans that happen by, a lumberjack must weigh his own safety and comfort against the lives of the dryads whose bodies and blood could buy him the life he desires, a young man de...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology, DESRIST 2021, held in Kristiansand, Norway, in August 2021.*The 24 revised full research papers, included in the volume together with 6 short contributions and 7 prototype papers, were carefully reviewed and selected from 78 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sect...

This book introduces a simple idea: when we tell a story, we tell a story and at the same time create the world where this story takes place. Narration creates environments, spaces and, in a certain sense, gives symbolic meanings and values to the identities by which people interact in their daily experiences. Set in the multicultural and multireligious Taiwanese environment, this book describes the interactions, and above all the narrations, ...

Qi Gong ist ein Teil der Traditionellen Chinesischen Medizin (TCM) und wird heute von Millionen Menschen auf der ganzen Welt ausgeübt. Das Ziel besteht darin, die Gesundheit von Körper und Geist zu erhalten und auf diese Weise ein langes, glückliches Leben zu führen. Dies geschieht mit einer Kombination aus tradierten Bewegungen, Atemmethoden und der Kraft der Vorstellung. Mit dem Erlernen von Qi Gong kann jeder Mensch unabhängig von Alter, Vo...

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Je m'appelle Emy et j'ai dix-huit ans. C'est à peu près tout ce dont je me rappelle...J'ai atterri dans un monde à l'allure étrange où réside un homme vivant en marge de la société. Rapidement, j'apprends que j'ai une mission. L'accomplir est d'autant plus important pour moi car elle pourrait m'aider à retrouver ma mémoire. C'est ainsi que je vais entreprendre un voyage sur des terres inconnues et faire des rencontres extraordinaires que je n'...

The Global Engineers: Building a Safe and Equitable World Together, is inspired by the opportunities for engineers to contribute to global prosperity. This book presents a vision for Global Engineering, and identifies that engineers should be concerned with the unequal and unjust distribution of access to basic services, such as water, sanitation, energy, food, transportation, and shelter. As engineers, we should place an emphasis on identifyi...

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Tvillinger - Q22.11.2Første bog af en trilogi, handler om David Salomo, en århusiansk psykolog som bliver opsøgt af sin afdøde fars tvillingebror. Onkel Malek er en af Dr. Josef Mengeles tvillinger. En af dem som overlevede forsøgene i Auschwitz. Mødet udvikler sig til forfølgelse, spændende ture til historiske, vigtige steder i Århus og en rejse til Argentina, som afslører at Onkel Malek og Davids far, har en søster. En trillingesøster på kun...