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The essays in The Secret Life of Things approach it-narratives, a once popular form largely forgotten by readers and critics alike, from various theoretical and historical vantage points. While sketching the cultural biography of a neglected literary form, these wide-ranging essays both enrich and complicate the history of prose fiction in the second half of the eighteenth century.

This book offers case study of the tridimensional exploration in whole exploration cycle with comprehensive and systematic geological and geophysical studies in the Bongor Basin. Focused on the typical intensively inversed rift basin-the Bongor Basin in Chad, this book establishes petroleum geology model, accumulation model of the typical intensively inversed rift basin and ensemble exploration techniques by studying comprehensively through th...

The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the material and social foundations of the world more than any event in recent history and has highlighted and exacerbated a longstanding crisis of care. While these challenges may be freshly visible to the public, they are not new. Over the last three decades, a growing body of care scholarship has documented the inadequacy of the social organization of care around the world, and the effect of the devaluation ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the material and social foundations of the world more than any event in recent history and has highlighted and exacerbated a longstanding crisis of care. While these challenges may be freshly visible to the public, they are not new. Over the last three decades, a growing body of care scholarship has documented the inadequacy of the social organization of care around the world, and the effect of the devaluation ...

The Counterfeit Coin argues that games and related entertainment media have become almost inseparable from fantasy. In turn, these media are making fantasy itself visible in new ways. Though apparently asocial and egocentric, fantasy has become a key term in social contestations of the emerging medium. At issue is whose fantasies are catered to, who feels powerful and gets their way, and who is left out.

The Counterfeit Coin argues that games and related entertainment media have become almost inseparable from fantasy. In turn, these media are making fantasy itself visible in new ways. Though apparently asocial and egocentric, fantasy has become a key term in social contestations of the emerging medium. At issue is whose fantasies are catered to, who feels powerful and gets their way, and who is left out.

Automata Theory and Formal Languages: Concepts and Practices presents the difficult concepts of automata theory in a straightforward manner so that they can be easily grasped. The book includes diverse concepts and tools that play major roles in developing computing machines, algorithms and code. Automata theory includes numerous concepts such as finite automata, regular grammar, formal languages, context free and context sensitive grammar, pu...

Loss. Grief. Centipedes. Silence. The word "no." The word "yes." A high school poetry contest that may or may not be linked to the end of the world. The characters in this collection are under attack. A grief-baffled son hopes to save an innocent insect from a toxic genocide, a daughter struggles to accept loss while visiting a community overwhelmed by denial, a sorrow-stricken father recalls his bizarre final conversation with his only child,...

Are you having trouble getting back to normal after a frightening experience? Do you feel stuck second-guessing what you did or did not do in the moment? Do you find yourself avoiding places, people, or sensations that remind you of what happened? Problems like these may be symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The good news is that recovery is possible. This is the first self-help workbook based on cognitive processing therapy (CP...

Juliette is a great cat and an excellent friend. One day, her owner decides to follow Juliette and see what life is like for a cat. Juliette spies lots of other animals, like mice and birds. She enjoys a long nap in the sun by a brook. Eventually, the child falls asleep and wakes up to find Juliette gone! The child goes home, while Juliette is left to enjoy adventures on her own. Juliette does come home, though, just in time for bed, and curls...

Juliette is a great cat and an excellent friend. One day, her owner decides to follow Juliette and see what life is like for a cat. Juliette spies lots of other animals, like mice and birds. She enjoys a long nap in the sun by a brook. Eventually, the child falls asleep and wakes up to find Juliette gone! The child goes home, while Juliette is left to enjoy adventures on her own. Juliette does come home, though, just in time for bed, and curls...

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An exploration of the history, mythology, and evidence of those who traveled to pre-Columbian America The Americas have had native groups living there for more than 10, 000 years, but Columbus was surely not their first visitors. Uncharted covers a range of cultures who seemingly have been visiting the Americas since long before Columbus. Evidence is explored of potential Roman and Phoenician shipwrecks off the coast of South America through t...

This book presents a detailed know-how regarding sustainable management of wastes produced in municipal and industrial activities through novel state-of-the-art techniques used for the treatment of toxic industrial wastes and municipal wastewater. It deals with the management of municipal sludges and solid wastes produced from landfill sites.

Supply and Demand Management in Ride-Sourcing Markets offers a fundamental modelling framework for characterizing ride-sourcing markets by spelling out the complex relationships among the key endogenous and exogenous variables in the markets. This book establishes several economic models that can approximate matching frictions between drivers and passengers, describes the equilibrium state of ride-sourcing markets, and more. Based on these mod...

21st Century Communication, Second Edition, a four-level series, presents big ideas from TED and National Geographic Explorers to engage students in English. Each unit explores one idea from different angles to prompt students to think critically and express their own opinions, while teaching the skills needed to communicate with confidence. Through inspiring models of effective communication, students develop essential listening and speaking ...

A German twist on an Anglophone tradition, Science Fiktion provides a disturbing vision of the future from the other side of the Berlin Wall. When a young reader once asked Franz Fÿhmann if he considered his work to be science fiction, he was quick to deny it: he wanted nothing to do with the genre. As he began writing the stories that make up this volume, however, he found himself coming around to the idea of a hybrid genre‿what he calls in G...

Frank and refreshing,  Brigitte Reimann‿s collected diaries provide a candid account of life in socialist Germany.   With an upbeat tempo and amusing tone,  I Have No Regrets contains detailed accounts of the author‿s love affairs,  daily life,  writing, and reflections. Like the heroines in her stories, Reimann was impetuous and outspoken, addressing issues and sensibilities otherwise repressed in the era of the German Democratic Republic. Sh...

Die Reform des Betreuungsrechts 2023 ändert die Arbeit rechtlicher Betreuer:innen und Bevollmächtigter in zahlreichen Bereichen grundlegend. Insbesondere die Stärkung des Selbstbestimmungsrechts der Betroffenen bringt auch für die Tätigkeit der Betreuer:innen und Bevollmächtigten neue Herausforderungen mit sich. Ein zentrales Arbeitsfeld ist die gerichtliche Genehmigung von Maßnahmen: In welchen Bereichen und unter welchen Umständen ist eine G...

Dietrich Gutterer (1932-1990) schrieb in den 1970/80er Jahren höchst eigenständige, sprachanalytisch und argumentativ beeindruckende Beiträge zur Philosophie, insbesondere zur Semiotik und Sprachtheorie. Allgemeine Aspekte zur Idee der Philosophie und Anthropologie entzündeten sein Interesse, insofern der Mensch als ein sprachfähiges Wesen gilt. Rezensionen zu Klassikern der Kant-Interpretation und zeichentheoretische Überlegungen zu Positione...