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Digital Media: Technological and Social Challenges of the Interactive World

Scarecrow Press, 2011

Digital media has exploded over the past quarter century, and in particular the past decade. As varieties of digital media multiply, scholars are beginning to examine its origins, organization, and preservation, which present new challenges compared to traditional media. To examine issues from multiple perspectives, experts...

Justice in Oral Health Care: Ethical & Educational Perspectives (Marquette Studies in Philosophy)

Marquette University Press, 2006

Oral health is an intrinsic part of overall health. The mouth is part of the digestive and respiratory systems; it is essential to spoken communication and facial expression; in fact, toothaches are among the most severe and hence debilitating kinds of pain that a person can suffer. The economic cost of dental disease is staggering, equaling...

Get the Girls Out

HarperCollins, 1970

I was going to write a business book – a career journal filled with clever learnings, sage advice and world-changing missions – but I was struggling, big time. By struggling, I mean I hated every word. I spent more than two years producing bursts of word count, then rereading and deleting them.

Then...

Philosophical Presentations of Raising Children: The Grammar of Upbringing

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book uses contemporary film to articulate a philosophical account of raising children. It forms part of a revaluation of the parent as a pedagogical figure, which stands in contrast to the instrumental accounts dominant in contemporary ‘parenting’ culture. Hodgson and Ramaekers use film in order to offer an...

Magic Is Dead: My Journey into the World's Most Secretive Society of Magicians

Dey Street Books, 2019

In the vein of Neil Strauss’ The Game and Joshua Foer’s Moonwalking with Einstein comes the fascinating story of one man’s colorful, mysterious, and personal journey into the world of magic, and his unlikely invitation into an underground secret society of revolutionary magicians from...

Going Back: How a Former Refugee, Now an Internationally Acclaimed Surgeon, Returned to Iraq to Change the Lives of Injured Soldiers and Civilians

Allen & Unwin, 2020

In Munjed Al Muderis's memoir Walking Free, he described his experience as a refugee fleeing Saddam Hussein's Iraq, his terrifying sea journey to Australia, and the brutal mandatory detention he faced in the remote north of Western Australia. The book also detailed his early work as a pioneering orthopedic surgeon at...

Dyke Swarms of the World: A Modern Perspective (Springer Geology)

Springer, 2018

Continuing the tradition of International Dyke Conference, this book is largely based on contributions from the IDC7 but also includes some chapters by invitation. It focuses on mafic dyke swarms and related associations: e.g. links with sills, kimberlites, syenites, carbonatites, and volcanics, discussing the following themes: (i)...

Let Them See You: The Guide for Leveraging Your Diversity at Work

Lorena Jones Books, 2019

The guide to getting hired, being promoted, and thriving professionally for the 40 million people of color in the workplace—from the CEO and cofounder of Jopwell, the leading career advancement platform for Black, Latinx, and Native American students and professionals.

Let Them See You is a...

An Invitation to Analytic Combinatorics: From One to Several Variables (Texts & Monographs in Symbolic Computation)

Springer, 2020

This book uses new mathematical tools to examine broad computability and complexity questions in enumerative combinatorics, with applications to other areas of mathematics, theoretical computer science, and physics. A focus on effective algorithms leads to the development of computer algebra software of use...

GPRS and 3G Wireless Applications: Professional Developer's Guide

John Wiley & Sons, 2001

The mobile Internet— the marriage between today’s Internet and the increasing urge for mobility— is about to take off.
Independent sources all estimate incomprehensible markets for these new services and applications. With the mobile
Internet, there is a screaming need for applications (in other words, things to do with...

Rape Investigation Handbook

Academic Press, 2004

"This book is easy to read and follows a logical progression from the initial call to the courts. Anyone involved in dealing with sexual assault cases in any capacity would benefit from having this book in their library of reference texts." - www.crimeandclues.com

An unprecedented collaborative work -- the first...

Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems: 6th International Conference, FORMATS 2008, Saint Malo, France, September 15-17, 2008, Proceedings

Springer, 2008

This volume consists of the proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Formal Modelling and Analysis of Timed Systems (FORMATS 2008). The main goal of this series of conferences is to bring together diverse communities of researchers that deal with the timing aspects of computing systems. Both fundamental and practical aspects of timed...

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