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Queer Aging in North American Fiction
Queer Aging in North American Fiction

Exploring representations of queer aging in North American fiction, this book illuminates a rich yet previously unheeded intersection within American culture. At a time when older LGBTQ persons gradually gain visibility in gerontological studies and in the media, this work provides a critical perspective concerned with the...

Love: A New Understanding of an Ancient Emotion
Love: A New Understanding of an Ancient Emotion
What is love's real aim? Why is it so ruthlessly selective in its choice of loved ones? Why do we love at all?

In addressing these questions, Simon May develops a radically new understanding of love as the emotion we feel towards whomever or whatever we experience as grounding our life--as offering us a possibility of
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Understanding Luxury Fashion: From Emotions to Brand Building (Palgrave Advances in Luxury)
Understanding Luxury Fashion: From Emotions to Brand Building (Palgrave Advances in Luxury)

Offering an original contribution to the field of luxury and fashion studies, this edited collection takes a philosophical perspective, addressing the idea that humans need luxury. From this framework it delves deep into two particular dimensions of luxury, emotions and society, and concludes with cases of brand building in order to...

Roald Amundsen’s Sled Dogs: The Sledge Dogs Who Helped Discover the South Pole
Roald Amundsen’s Sled Dogs: The Sledge Dogs Who Helped Discover the South Pole

This book is an analytical account of how Roald Amundsen used sledge dogs to discover the South Pole in 1911, and is the first to name and identify all 116 Polar dogs who were part of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition of 1910–1912. The book traces the dogs from their origins in Greenland to Antarctica...

Applications in Engineering, Life and Social Sciences (De Gruyter Reference)
Applications in Engineering, Life and Social Sciences (De Gruyter Reference)
Fractional Calculus (FC) has originated in 1695, nearly at the same time as conventional calculus. However, FC attracted limited attention and remained a pure mathematical exercise in spite of the original contributions of important mathematicians, physicists and engineers. FC had a rapid development during the last few decades, both in...
Industrial Sensors and Controls in Communication Networks: From Wired Technologies to Cloud Computing and the Internet of Things (Computer Communications and Networks)
Industrial Sensors and Controls in Communication Networks: From Wired Technologies to Cloud Computing and the Internet of Things (Computer Communications and Networks)

This informative text/reference presents a detailed review of the state of the art in industrial sensor and control networks. The book examines a broad range of applications, along with their design objectives and technical challenges. The coverage includes fieldbus technologies, wireless communication technologies, network...

Pivotal Certified Professional Core Spring 5 Developer Exam: A Study Guide Using Spring Framework 5
Pivotal Certified Professional Core Spring 5 Developer Exam: A Study Guide Using Spring Framework 5

Pass the Pivotal Certified Professional exam for Core Spring, based on the latest Spring Framework 5, using source code examples, study summaries, and mock exams. This book now includes WebFlux, reactive programming, and more found in Spring 5. You'll find a descriptive overview of certification-related Spring modules and a...

Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country
Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country

"How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us."

On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter...

Taiwan’s Party Politics and Cross-Strait Relations in Evolution (2008–2018)
Taiwan’s Party Politics and Cross-Strait Relations in Evolution (2008–2018)

This book explores the dynamics of party politics in Taiwan and cross-Strait relations over the past decade. While power transfer from the pro-independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) back to the pro-status quo Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang, KMT) in 2008 ushered a great leap of cross-Strait relations in the following...

Death Is All around Us: Corpses, Chaos, and Public Health in Porfirian Mexico City (The Mexican Experience)
Death Is All around Us: Corpses, Chaos, and Public Health in Porfirian Mexico City (The Mexican Experience)

Late nineteenth-century Mexico was a country rife with health problems. In 1876, one out of every nineteen people died prematurely in Mexico City, a staggeringly high rate when compared to other major Western world capitals at the time, which saw more modest premature death rates of one out of fifty-two (London), one out of...

Hands-On Microservices with Rust: Build, test, and deploy scalable and reactive microservices with Rust 2018
Hands-On Microservices with Rust: Build, test, and deploy scalable and reactive microservices with Rust 2018

A comprehensive guide in developing and deploying high performance microservices with Rust

Key Features

  • Start your microservices journey and get a broader perspective on microservices development using RUST 2018,
  • Build, deploy, and test microservices using AWS
  • ...
Machine Learning with the Raspberry Pi: Experiments with Data and Computer Vision (Technology in Action)
Machine Learning with the Raspberry Pi: Experiments with Data and Computer Vision (Technology in Action)

Using the Pi Camera and a Raspberry Pi board, expand and replicate interesting machine learning (ML) experiments.  This book provides a solid overview of ML and a myriad of underlying topics to further explore. Non-technical discussions temper complex technical explanations to make the hottest and most complex topic in the...

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