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Migrants Before the Law: Contested Migration Control in Europe
Migrants Before the Law: Contested Migration Control in Europe
This book traces the practices of migration control and its contestation in the European migration regime in times of intense politicization. The collaboratively written work brings together the perspectives of state agents, NGOs, migrants with precarious legal status, and their support networks, collected through multi-sited fieldwork...
Systems Modeling: Methodologies and Tools (EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing)
Systems Modeling: Methodologies and Tools (EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing)

This book covers ideas, methods, algorithms, and tools for the in-depth study of the performance and reliability of dependable fault-tolerant systems. The chapters identify the current challenges that designers and practitioners must confront to ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of systems, with special focus on...

Crowd Behavior Simulation of Pedestrians During Evacuation Process: DEM-Based Approach (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology)
Crowd Behavior Simulation of Pedestrians During Evacuation Process: DEM-Based Approach (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology)

This book introduces the use of the distinct element method (DEM) in modeling crowd behavior and simulating evacuation processes. Focusing on the mathematical computation of the uncertain behavior of evacuees, which is switching action behavior, it subsequently reproduces the crowd evacuation process under several conjectural...

Uncertainty Quantification in Laminated Composites: A Meta-model Based Approach
Uncertainty Quantification in Laminated Composites: A Meta-model Based Approach

Over the last few decades, uncertainty quantification in composite materials and structures has gained a lot of attention from the research community as a result of industrial requirements. This book presents computationally efficient uncertainty quantification schemes following meta-model-based approaches for stochasticity in...

Wherever the Sound Takes You: Heroics and Heartbreak in Music Making
Wherever the Sound Takes You: Heroics and Heartbreak in Music Making
David Rowell is a professional journalist and an impassioned amateur musician. He’s spent decades behind a drum kit, pondering the musical relationship between equipment and emotion. In Wherever the Sound Takes You, he explores the essence of music’s meaning with a vast spectrum of players, trying to understand...
Walt Whitman Speaks: His Final Thoughts on Life, Writing, Spirituality, and the Promise of America: A Library of America Special Publication
Walt Whitman Speaks: His Final Thoughts on Life, Writing, Spirituality, and the Promise of America: A Library of America Special Publication
For the Whitman bicentennial, a delightful keepsake edition of the incomparable wisdom of America's greatest poet, distilled from his fascinating late-in-life conversations with Horace Traubel.

Toward the end of his life, Walt Whitman was visited almost daily at his home in Camden, New Jersey, by the young poet
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Questions I Am Asked About The Holocaust
Questions I Am Asked About The Holocaust

One of the few remaining living Holocaust survivors answers the questions children ask her

“There are no stupid questions, nor any forbidden ones, but there are some questions that have no answer.”

Hédi Fried was nineteen when the Nazis snatched her family from their home...

The Dynamics of Peaceful and Violent Protests in Hong Kong: The Anti-extradition Movement
The Dynamics of Peaceful and Violent Protests in Hong Kong: The Anti-extradition Movement

This book shows that Hong Kong’s protests from June to December 2019 originated from not only an attempt to extradite a Hong Kong man involved in a Taiwan murder case, but also China’s effort at extraditing corrupt mainlanders who laundered dirty money in the territory. The mixture of peaceful and violent protests was due...

God, Suffering, and the Value of Free Will
God, Suffering, and the Value of Free Will
For many of us, the question of whether or not God exists is one of the most perplexing and profound questions of our lives, and numerous philosophers and theologians have debated it for centuries. Laura Ekstrom here takes a new look at the issue of God's existence by examining it against the
reality of human suffering, bringing
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Let's Talk About Sex and Muslim Love: Essays on Intimacy and Romantic Relationships in Islam
Let's Talk About Sex and Muslim Love: Essays on Intimacy and Romantic Relationships in Islam
Sex, intimacy, and love remain taboo topics in many Muslim circles today. Some believe such intimate subjects should not be discussed at all, and others see no need for restrictions being placed on either their discussion or practice. Let’s Talk About Sex and Muslim Love is a collection of some of the most widely read essays and...
  
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