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The Story of the Lake: A Novel
by Laura ChesterA riveting, multigenerational saga, Laura Chester's novel The Story of the Lake tells of four lake families over the course of as many decades.At the turn of the century, Nogowogotoc Lake was considered the Newport of the Midwest, where some of the most affluent families from Milwaukee and Chicago spent their summers in luxurious "cottages" at the water's edge. The Story of the Lake weaves the tale of four of these families over the course of generations. With each decade another net of history, prejudice, love and intrigue is cast over the surface of the water, creating a more and more intricate pattern.Joseph Ulrich of Kreuser Beer and his rival, "Pork Packing Prince" Walter Schraeger vie for the hand of Alicia Bosquet, flamboyant newcomer to the scene. Isabella Wells, the reclusive heiress to Milwaukee's finest department store, becomes dangerously involved with Margaret Sanger's early Planned Parenthood crusade, while her sister, Helen, tries to protest the end of Prohibition, a force too great to contend with in the beer loving city of Milwaukee.This often dark and disturbing American drama is full of gusts of lake air, filling the senses with images and traditions that have mostly slipped away. A personal retelling of family secrets as well as a reflection of the times, The Story of the Lake, is the big passionate family saga that finally gives the Midwest its due.
The Spaces Between Us
by Stacia Tolman"A girl-centered Catcher in the Rye for the 21st century. "—Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewTwo outcast best friends are desperate to survive senior year and break away from their dying factory town in Stacia Tolman's The Spaces Between Us, an unforgettable YA debut. Serena Velasco and her best (and only) friend, Melody Grimshaw, are dying to get out of Colchis. Until now they’ve both been coasting, keeping a safe distance from the bleakness of home and the banality of high school. To make things more interesting Serena fixates on communism, eager to get a rise out of their conservative small town. Her Western Civ teacher catches on and challenges her with an independent study of class and upward mobility—what creates the spaces between us. Meanwhile, Grimshaw takes on a mission of her own: to make it onto the cheerleading squad, find a job, and escape the weight of her family’s hopeless reputation.But sometimes the biggest obstacles are the ones you don’t see coming; Grimshaw’s quest for success becomes a fight for survival, and Serena’s independent study gets a little too real. With the future of their friendship and their lives on the line, the stakes have never been so high.Christy Ottaviano Books
The Warrior Code: 11 Principles to Unleash the Badass Inside of You
by Denene Millner Tee Marie HanibleFrom American Grit co-star, former Marine Gunnery Sergeant Tee Marie Hanible comes the story of how she became a warrior...and how you can do it, too.In The Warrior Code, entrepreneur, philanthropist, reality star, and retired Gunnery Sergeant Tee Marie Hanible serves up eleven principles to awaken your inner badass and thrive in the face of adversity.After surviving the death of her father, enduring foster care, and being expelled from school, Tee joined military reform school, where she began uncovering her inner warrior. As part of one of the first female classes of recruits to complete the Marine Corps Crucible and the Marine Combat Training, and as the only woman to deploy with her unit to Iraq in 2003, Tee tested her mettle and learned the key to becoming an unbreakable woman. With insightful honesty and wisdom, and set against the backdrop of Tee’s life, The Warrior Code will help you understand that things can beat us back from realizing our true potential...but the key is finding the way to realize one’s own innate strength.
Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America
by Margot CanadayA masterful history of the queer workforce in AmericaWorkplaces have traditionally been viewed as &“straight spaces&” in which queer people passed. As a result, historians have directed limited attention to the experiences of queer people on the job. Queer Career rectifies this, offering an expansive historical look at sexual minorities in the modern American workforce. Arguing that queer workers were more visible than hidden and, against the backdrop of state aggression, vulnerable to employer exploitation, Margot Canaday positions employment and fear of job loss as central to gay life in postwar America.Rather than finding that many midcentury employers tried to root out gay employees, Canaday sees an early version of &“don&’t ask / don&’t tell&”: in all kinds of work, as long as queer workers were discreet, they were valued for the lower wages they could be paid, their contingency, their perceived lack of familial ties, and the ease with which they could be pulled in and pushed out of the labor market. Across the socioeconomic spectrum, they were harbingers of post-Fordist employment regimes we now associate with precarity. While progress was not linear, by century&’s end some gay workers rejected their former discretion, and some employers eventually offered them protection unattained through law. Pushed by activists at the corporate grass roots, business emerged at the forefront of employment rights for sexual minorities. It did so, at least in part, in response to the way that queer workers aligned with, and even prefigured, the labor system of late capitalism.Queer Career shows how queer history helps us understand the recent history of capitalism and labor and rewrites our understanding of the queer past.
Unconventional Performance Oriented Power Transformers Design Methodologies (Synthesis Lectures on Electrical Engineering)
by Amr Adly Salwa Abd-El-HafizThis book aims to offer practical and efficient methodologies to identify the main power transformer leading design variables that guarantee meeting a set of required performance specifications. Target audience are senior electrical power engineering students as well as design office engineers working in power transformers manufacturing plants.
Tourism as Memory-Making: Russian Tourism in the Shadow of Empire (Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies)
by Alena PfoserUntil recently the Russian Federation used to be one of the largest markets for outbound travel. Among Russians’ favourite destinations were cities that used to be part of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, and are now located in the independent nation-states bordering Russia. This open access book provides an empirically rich and conceptually sophisticated account of the mnemonic interactions between Russians and their neighbours in the shadow of empire and geopolitical confrontations. Based on extensive ethnographic research with tourists and tour guides in the cities of Tallinn, Kyiv, and Almaty before Russia’s full-scale war on Ukraine, it analyses the practices through which cultural memories are performed in tourism encounters, as well as the forms they take. Imperial nostalgia, the production and consumption of national pasts, and memory diplomacy are discussed as key modes of remembering in tourism. Through the case of Russian tourism, the book argues for an invigoration of research on memory and tourism, which despite the significance of tourism for the circulation of cultural memories has so far received surprisingly little attention. Bringing debates in memory, heritage and tourism studies into a dialogue, the book expands the field of study beyond museums and heritage sites and puts forward a transnational approach that acknowledges diverse and entangled modes of remembering in tourism, situates memory-making in a wider political context and reflects on its geopolitical implications.
The Handbook of Marriage in the Arab World (Gulf Studies #17)
by Md Mizanur Rahman Ahmed ArefThis open access handbook combines multiple theoretical and practical approaches for enabling a nuanced understanding of the phenomenon of marriage in the Arab world. Adopting a holistic, interdisciplinary approach, it provides a framework for the contextual and macro factors surrounding and affecting marriage in the Arab countries. It looks at the different types of marriage, whether traditional or new to the Arab world, and takes a detailed examination of the dialectic of marriage and age. It considers the dynamics surrounding delayed marriages, early marriages, celibacy, marriage costs, and age gaps between spouses. In addition, it examines marital relations vis-à-vis a diverse array of sub-topics, including marital and emotional satisfaction, and violence. It also looks at the relationship between work and marriage, and explores how ‘women’s work’ affects their family relationships and intimacy. Finally, it offers a rich analysis of two core marriage-related issues in the modern Arab world: migration and its positive/negative impacts on the institution of marriage, and marriage in the context of war and conflict, as present in several areas within the Arab region. A sociological magnum opus for social science students and researchers in areas of marriage studies, gender studies, family studies, the sociology of work, peace and conflict studies, human migration, and economics, it is also relevant to policymakers, politicians, social workers, and human rights and migration activists working in the Arab world and beyond.
Chief Design Officers at Work: Insights and Strategies from CDOs on the Frontlines of Innovation
by Jaleh AfsharMeet the creative minds shaping our world in Chief Design Officers At Work, the captivating new addition to the acclaimed At Work series from Apress. Explore the realm of design management, unveiling unique perspectives, strategies, and innovative approaches to building businesses with design in mind. Through a collection of insightful interviews, gain an illuminating glimpse into the daily lives, challenges, and triumphs of prominent design executives from various industries, spanning zero-to-one products to established brands. Each of these design experts have played a pivotal role in shaping design-driven approaches, leading to groundbreaking industry evolutions and market disruption. The remarkable stories and insights from these visionaries reveal how design-led thinking can be a powerful catalyst for driving bottom line success. From building user-centric products to creating cohesive brand experiences, these design leaders demonstrate the transformative impact design can have on business outcomes. Readers who are design practitioners, launching their own startup, revitalizing an existing product, or established executives will find invaluable lessons and inspiration within these pages. What You Will Learn How design leaders navigate complex business landscapes to craft compelling user experiences and brand strategies Valuable insights and practical advice that can elevate their own practice How to make a lasting impact in your industry as a designer Who This Book is For Whether you're a seasoned executive seeking fresh inspiration or an aspiring design practitioner eager to glean wisdom from the best in the field, Chief Design Officers at Work is an indispensable guide for anyone in the design field.
Biologically Inspired Techniques in Many Criteria Decision-Making: Proceedings of BITMDM 2024 (Learning and Analytics in Intelligent Systems #45)
by Satchidananda Dehuri Margarita Favorskaya Sujata Dash Ruppa K. Thulasiram Rohen H. SinghThis book includes selected high-quality research papers presented at 3rd International Conference on Biologically Inspired Techniques in Many Criteria Decision Making (BITMDM 2024) organized by School of Engineering and Technology, Nagaland University, Dimapur, India on 6th and 7th December 2024. This book presents the recent advances in techniques which are biologically inspired and their usage in the field of single and many criteria decision making. Further, the topics covered in this book are divided into different sections like: i) healthcare and biomedical applications, ii) security, fraud detection, and cybersecurity, iii) intelligent systems and decision support, iv) agriculture and environment, v) image processing and multi-media analysis, and vi) emerging technologies and applications.
Longevity: Energiepotenziale optimal einsetzen
by Gert von KunhardtWir werden älter und haben theoretisch mehr Möglichkeiten, unser Leben zu verlängern und zu verbessern. Die Praxis sieht oft anders aus. Wir investieren Unsummen für die Verbesserung unserer Gesundheit, obwohl wir Vieles selbst in der Hand haben. Dennoch werden immer mehr Menschen krank. Wir probieren dies und das und sterben entweder völlig unerwartet, oder lange krank oder vergessen im Pflegeheim. Was sind die wesentlichen Stellschrauben, die helfen, fit zu bleiben und ein erfülltes Leben zu führen? Dieses leicht verständliche Werk geht auf unterhaltsame und humorvolle Weise der Frage nach, weshalb wir oftmals nicht so alt werden wie es möglich wäre und veranschaulicht, welche Rolle die genetische Disposition und der Lebensstil mit Faktoren wie Stress, Bildung, Ernährung, Bewegung und Sport spielen. Dabei werden auch psychologische, psychosoziale und sozialökonomisch-gesellschaftliche Faktoren und deren Auswirkung auf die Gesundheit und Lebenserwartung aufschlussreich dargestellt. Der Leser erhält am Ende wertvolle Hinweise und Tipps wie es möglich wird länger, gesünder und zufriedener zu leben. Komplett überarbeitete Neuauflage.
Managing Major, Critical, and Public Order Incidents in Canadian Policing (SpringerBriefs in Criminology)
by Laura Huey Lorna Ferguson Judith P. AndersenThis brief examines Canadian police incident command response teams&’ process of decision-making during major, critical, and public order events. It explores the different factors that influence how police Incident Commanders (ICs) approach their work, and demystifies this work and how it is organized and operationalized. The chapters in this book detail: • The basics of how incident command is structured in Canada. • How incident command models in Canada relate to those in other countries. • Overviews of the training and responsibilities for different incident command types. • First-hand accounts of how ICs approach their work and feel about the decisions they have to make. This book is ideal for practitioners and policymakers who are interested in how this mode of policing works. It is also suitable for policing students in upper-level criminology and criminal justice courses curious about this potential line of work.
Multi-disciplinary Trends in Artificial Intelligence: 17th International Conference, MIWAI 2024, Pattaya, Thailand, November 11–15, 2024, Proceedings, Part II (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #15432)
by Chattrakul Sombattheera Jun Pang Paul WengThe two-volume set LNAI 15431 and 15432 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Multi-disciplinary Trends in Artificial Intelligence, MIWAI 2024, held in Pattaya, Thailand, during November 11–15, 2024. The 68 full papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 147 submissions. The papers focus on various topics in AI and its applications, such as deep learning, machine learning, computer vision, pattern recognition, and natural language processing.
Herder-Farmer Conflicts in Africa: Perspectives and Lessons for Sustainable Peacebuilding
by J. Shola OmotolaThis book seeks to deepen empirical understandings of herder–farmer conflicts in Africa from the perspective of peacebuilding. Thus, the focus of the book is on the manifestations, causes, consequences and management of these conflicts (responses) by both state and non-state actors and lessons for sustainable peacebuilding. By adopting a comparative approach spanning five countries (Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Nigeria, Sudan and Togo), our study seeks not only to fill the gap, but also expand the frontier of knowledge on the subject, exploring important cross-cutting issues such as human rights, rule of law, gender and youth. The interconnections between these conflicts and security, safety and development at all levels underscore the urgency and pertinence of this study.
Soldier Boy: A Novel
by Keely HuttonAn unforgettable novel based on the life of Ricky Richard Anywar, who at age fourteen was forced to fight as a soldier in the guerrilla army of notorious Ugandan warlord Joseph KonySoldier Boy begins with the story of Ricky Richard Anywar, abducted in 1989 to fight with Joseph Kony's rebel army in the Ugandan civil war (one of Africa's longest running conflicts). Ricky is trained, armed, and forced to fight government soldiers alongside his brutal kidnappers, but never stops dreaming of escape. The story continues twenty years later, with a fictionalized character named Samuel, a boy deathly afraid of trusting anyone ever again. Samuel is representative of the thousands of child soldiers Ricky eventually helped rehabilitate as founder of the internationally acclaimed charity Friends of Orphans. Working closely with Ricky himself, debut author Keely Hutton has written an eye-opening book about a boy’s unbreakable spirit and indomitable courage in the face of unimaginable horror.This title has Common Core connections.
A Mystery for Thoreau
by Kin PlattSixteen-year-old Oliver Puckle, news gatherer for the Concord Freeman in the summer of 1846, has his work cut out for him when word arrives of a gruesome murder at Walden Pond. It seems the only citizen who is not a suspect is the poetphilosopher Henry David Thoreau, who spent the night locked in the local jail for refusing to pay his poll tax. As Oliver leads the charge to unravel the mystery, he has much to learn from his colorful neighbors – among them Ralph Waldo Emerson and a feisty teenage Louisa May Alcott – but unexpectedly it is the recluse Thoreau himself who provides particular help to the investigation. This posthumously published novel, set in the famously literary town of Concord, Massachusetts, is rich with intrigue and witty detail and features a foreword by the author's son.
Jesus Was a Liberal: Reclaiming Christianity for All
by Scotty McLennanFor the millions of people who identify as liberal Christians. In McLennan's bold call to reclaim ownership of Christianity, he advocates a sense of religion based not on doctrinal readings of scripture but on the humanity behind Christ's teachings. He addresses such topics as intelligent design, abortion, same sex marriage, war. torture and much, much more. As he says in the Preface, "We liberal Christians know in our hearts that there is much more to life than seems to meet the rational eye of atheists; yet we find it hard to support supernatural claims about religion that fly in the face of scientific evidence."
Parallax: And Selected Poems
by Sinéad MorrisseyA T. S. Eliot Prize–winning collection from one of Ireland's major contemporary poetsPARALLAX: (Astron.) Apparent displacement, or difference in the apparent position, of an object, caused by actual change (or difference) of position of the point of observation. (OED)In Parallax Sinéad Morrissey documents what is caught, and what is lost, when houses and cityscapes, servants and saboteurs ("the different people who lived in sepia"), are arrested in time by photography (or poetry), subjected to the authority of a particular perspective. Assured and disquieting, Morrissey's poems explore the paradoxes in what is seen, read, and misread in the surfaces of the presented world.
Being Berlusconi: The Rise & Fall from Cosa Nostra to Bunga Bunga
by Michael DayPeople from all walks of life are appalled and fascinated in equal measure by the stratospheric political career of the tycoon and three-time Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.Michael Day provides an in depth look at the life and crimes of the shameless media mogul until his nine lives ran out and he faced definitive conviction which signaled his irreversible decline. He tells the story of a bright and ambitious man from a lower-middle class family who shook off his humble origins and rose to become rich and powerful beyond most people's dreams—a multi-billionaire whose Mediaset company remains one of Europe's largest television and cinema conglomerates. Along the way, amid the election victories, business triumphs, and womanizing, he became bogged down by his hubris, egotism, sexual obsessions, as well as his flagrant disregard for the law.And yet how and why did Italy and Italians put up with him for so long?With the 78-year-old's legal woes ongoing, including further trials for bribery, after a recent nine-month community service stint, Being Berlusconi: The Rise and Fall from Cosa Nostra to Bunga Bunga is well-timed to mark the final chapters of a notorious—and astonishing—life and career.
The Inquisitor: A Novel
by Mark Allen SmithA spectacularly original thriller about a professional torturer who has a strict code, a mysterious past, and a dangerous conviction that he can save the life of an innocent childGeiger has a gift: he knows a lie the instant he hears it. And in his business—called "information retrieval" by its practitioners—that gift is invaluable, because truth is the hottest thing on the market.Geiger's clients count on him to extract the truth from even the most reluctant subjects. Unlike most of his competitors, Geiger rarely sheds blood, but he does use a variety of techniques—some physical, many psychological—to push his subjects to a point where pain takes a backseat to fear. Because only then will they finally stop lying.One of Geiger's rules is that he never works with children. So when his partner, former journalist Harry Boddicker, unwittingly brings in a client who demands that Geiger interrogate a twelve-year-old boy, Geiger responds instinctively. He rescues the boy from his captor, removes him to the safety of his New York City loft, and promises to protect him from further harm. But if Geiger and Harry cannot quickly discover why the client is so desperate to learn the boy's secret, they themselves will become the victims of an utterly ruthless adversary. Mesmerizing and heart-in-your-throat compelling, The Inquisitor is a completely unique thriller that introduces both an unforgettable protagonist and a major new talent in Mark Allen Smith.
Resilienz in Supply Chains: Effektive Strategien und Methoden für robuste und agile Lieferketten
by Michael HuthEreignisse wie die Corona-Pandemie, die Blockade des Suezkanals und der Krieg in der Ukraine haben in den letzten Jahren wesentlich dazu beigetragen, dass die Themen Resilienz und Risikomanagement weiter an Bedeutung gewinnen. Die Resilienz von Supply Chains beschreibt die Fähigkeit, schnell und flexibel auf Störungen zu reagieren, um so schnell wie möglich wieder den Ausgangszustand einer funktionierenden Lieferkette zu erreichen. Dieses Buch stellt praxiserprobte Methoden und Instrumente vor, mit denen Risiken identifiziert und bewertet werden können. Es beschreibt effektive Strategien und Maßnahmen, um die Resilienz in Supply Chains nachhaltig zu erhöhen. Zahlreiche Beispiele schaffen zudem ein Bewusstsein für die Bandbreite der Supply-Chain-Risiken, gegen die Resilienz aufgebaut werden sollte.
Pattern Recognition: 27th International Conference, ICPR 2024, Kolkata, India, December 1–5, 2024, Proceedings, Part XXVI (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #15326)
by Rama Chellappa Subhasis Chaudhuri Cheng-Lin Liu Umapada Pal Apostolos Antonacopoulos Saumik BhattacharyaThe multi-volume set of LNCS books with volume numbers 15301-15333 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2024, held in Kolkata, India, during December 1–5, 2024. The 963 papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 2106 submissions. They deal with topics such as Pattern Recognition; Artificial Intelligence; Machine Learning; Computer Vision; Robot Vision; Machine Vision; Image Processing; Speech Processing; Signal Processing; Video Processing; Biometrics; Human-Computer Interaction (HCI); Document Analysis; Document Recognition; Biomedical Imaging; Bioinformatics.
Industrial Work Cultures: Impact on Productivity
by Kiran GolwalkarThis book addresses technical issues and human factors mainly from the mechanical, chemical, electrical, metallurgical and civil engineering fields as these make significant contribution to the economy and progress of a nation. It discusses factors that assist development of efficient, ideal work cultures and their influence on the productivity. It addresses undesirable traits in the working personnel which can cause deviations from good working practices. Suggestions are given for encouraging better performance and corrective actions for improvement of unsatisfactory working.
Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing, and Graphics: Proceedings of the 8th National Conference, NCVPRIPG 2023 (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering #1218)
by Anoop M. Namboodiri Santanu Chaudhury Anand Mishra Dinesh Babu Jayagopi Neelam Sinha Rajendra NagarThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th National Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing, and Graphics, NCVPRIPG 2023. The papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and organized in topical sections on vision and geometry, learning and vision, image processing and document analysis, and detection and recognition.
The Anti-Cancer Food and Supplement Guide (Healthy Home Library)
by Deborah YostThe Anti-Cancer Food and Supplement Guide: How to Protect Yourself and Enhance Your Health provides the most comprehensive, up-to-date information you need to help prevent and treat cancer—naturally and nutritionally.• A-to-Z listings of anti-cancer foods, vitamins, and supplements• How to remove toxins in your home and workplace to create a "risk-free" environment• How to incorporate healthier foods and supplements into your daily diet• Delicious, family-friendly recipes, meal plans, and nutritional guidelines• Life-saving advice on genetic risk factors, early detection, diagnosis, and treatment• The latest medical studies supporting the importance of certain foods and supplements in fighting cancer
Devil's Night: A Mystery (Kat Campbell series)
by Todd RitterTwo things Perry Hollow Police Chief Kat Campbell never thought she would do again: Enter a burning building, and lay eyes on Henry Goll, the man who was trapped inside with her the last time she was in one. So Kat's on high alert when, barely a year after the dust settled around the Grim Reaper killings, both happen on the same day.She's jolted awake at 1a.m. by a desperate phone call telling her Perry Hollow's one and only museum—home to all the town's historical artifacts—has been set on fire. Arriving at the scene, Kat catches just a glimpse of Henry's face among the crowd before she's rushed into the charred building, only to find the museum curator dead…bludgeoned, not burned. Kat has lived through some tense moments and seen some gruesome crimes, but the next twenty-four hours will be the most dangerous of her life as she and Henry seek out a killer and the motivation behind these terrifying crimes.Todd Ritter returns to the beloved town of Perry Hollow, Pennsylvania with Devil's Night, his most poignant, cleverly plotted novel yet.