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Working Watersheds: Water and Energy in the Lackawanna Valley
by William ConlogueA personal narrative, an examination of literary texts, and a history of the Lackawanna Valley region, Bill Conlogue’s Working Watersheds explores how water has circulated in the former anthracite capital of the world. Conlogue not only recounts water’s use in anthracite mining and textile making, but also investigates its resulting pollution. He delves into the current natural gas boom, which threatens groundwater, and concludes with hopes of environmental renewal and restoration. Offering a fresh way to think about the Anthropocene, this distinctive history of water and coal in the Lackawanna Valley discusses how both water abundance and scarcity might play out as global temperatures rise. Working Watersheds is designed to trigger debates about the nature of history, the significance of literature, and the importance of linking person, place, and planet in an era of climate change.
Monstrous Nature and Representations of Environmental Harms: A Green Cultural Criminological Perspective
by Avi Brisman Nigel SouthHow does culture influence human relationships with the environment? In Monstrous Nature and Representations of Environmental Harms, green cultural criminologists Avi Brisman and Nigel South examine stories of monsters and disasters to address how the ways we depict and think about harms to the environment dissuade us from taking care of our planet and each other. The authors use examples from popular culture, including Disney and Marvel Cinematic Universe films, to consider ideas about how the environment responds to people who cause it harm. Brisman and South identify and discuss three dominant and interrelated depictions of the relationship between humans and the environment: first, nature as monstrous or fear inducing; second, nature and the Earth (or parts of it) as abject; and third, the entanglement of nature and the apocalypse, wherein nature is contributing to the end of the world, with an end point sometimes conceptualized as one without humans. Monstrous Nature and Representations of Environmental Harms argues that such representations have material consequences. The authors make the case for challenging them so that we neither perpetuate them nor retreat into cynicism and defeatism about the future of our planet.
Advancing Immigrant Rights in Houston (PLAC: Political Lessons from American Cities)
by Shannon Gleeson Els de GraauwHouston is one of the most diverse cities in the United States and has long been a prime destination for international migrants from Latin America, Asia, and more recently, Africa. However, the city is politically mixed, organizationally underserved, and situated in a relatively anti-immigrant state. This makes Houston a challenging context for immigrant rights despite its rapidly diversifying population. In Advancing Immigrant Rights in Houston, Els de Graauw and Shannon Gleeson recount how local and multi-level contexts shape the creation, contestation, and implementation of immigrant rights policies and practices in the city. They examine the development of a city immigrant affairs office, interactions between local law enforcement and federal immigration enforcement officials, local public-private partnerships around federal immigration benefits, and collaborations between labor, immigrant rights, faith, and business leaders to combat wage theft. The case study of Houston provides a bellwether for how other U.S. cities will deal with their growing immigrant populations and underscores the importance of public-private collaborations to advance immigrant rights.
Building the Metropolis: Architecture, Construction, and Labor in New York City, 1880–1935 (Historical Studies of Urban America)
by Alexander WoodA sweeping history of New York that chronicles the construction of one of the world’s great cities. Between the 1880s and the 1930s, New York City experienced explosive growth as nearly a million buildings, dozens of bridges and tunnels, hundreds of miles of subway lines, and thousands of miles of streets were erected to meet the needs of an ever-swelling population. This landscape—jagged with skyscrapers, rattling with the sound of mass transit, alive with people—made the city world-famous. Building the Metropolis offers a revelatory look at this era of urban development by asking, “Who built New York, and how?” Focusing on the work of architects, builders, and construction workers, Alexander Wood chronicles the physical process of the city’s rapid expansion. New York’s towering buildings and busy thoroughfares aren’t just stylish or structural marvels, Wood shows, but the direct result of the many colorful personalities who worked in one of the city’s largest industries. This development boom drew on the resources of the whole community and required money, political will, creative vision, entrepreneurial drive, skilled workmanship, and hard physical labor. Wood shows this to be an even larger story as well. As cities became nodes in a regional, national, and global economy, the business of construction became an important motor of economic, political, and social development. While they held drastically different views on the course of urban growth, machine politicians, reformers, and radicals alike were all committed to city building on an epic scale. Drawing on resources that include city archives and the records of architecture firms, construction companies, and labor unions, Building the Metropolis tells the story of New York in a way that’s epic, lively, and utterly original.
Brigands M.C.: Book 11 (CHERUB #11)
by Robert MuchamoreEvery CHERUB agent comes from somewhere. Dante Scott still has nightmares about the death of his family, brutally murdered by a biker gang. Dante is given the chance to become a member of CHERUB, a trained professional with one essential advantage: adults never suspect that children are spying on them. But when Dante joins James and Lauren Adams on a mission to infiltrate Brigands Motorcycle Club, he's ready to use everything he's learned to get revenge on the people who killed his family ...For official purposes, these children do not exist.
Hybrid Models for Coupling Deductive and Inductive Reasoning: Third International Workshop, HYDRA 2024, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, October 20, 2024, Revised Selected Papers (Communications in Computer and Information Science #2492)
by Francesco Calimeri Giorgio Terracina Pierangela Bruno Francesco CauteruccioThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Hybrid Models for Coupling Deductive and Inductive Reasoning, HYDRA 2024, held in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, on October 20, 2024. The 6 full papers and 1 invited talk included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 7 submissions.The International Workshop on Hybrid Models for Coupling Deductive andInductive Reasoning (HYDRA) was designed as a forum for researchers to explore the exciting possibilities at the intersection of deductive and inductive reasoning.
Placing the Future (Knowledge and Space #20)
by Johannes Glückler Matthias Garschagen Robert PanitzThis open access book offers a fresh perspective on the uncertainties of the future that humanity faces. Leading scholars from the fields of future studies, planning, geography, history, sociology, design, and the humanities sensitize for the intricate role of geography in building knowledge to anticipate probable, to imagine alternative, and to enact desirable futures. Part I, knowing the future, explores strategies for anticipating possible futures, such as foresight methods, scenarios, and guiding images. This section underscores the importance of cultivating future consciousness to confront societal denial of looming threats like environmental crises. Part II, envisioning the future, delves into various ways societies imagine their futures, exploring topics like the future of food, post-growth economies, extra-terrestrial futures, and even human self-extinction to reveal how futurist scenarios can inform decision making and proactive planning. Part III, enacting the future, focuses on the performative aspects of futuring. The authors in this section examine practices—such as designing, performing, advising, and governing—that are aimed at transforming desired futures into present realities. As part of a series on the interdisciplinary nexus between knowledge and space, this book is an essential resource for researchers, policy makers, planners, students, and practitioners in the fields of sustainability, future studies, regional development, and governance.
Decolonizing African Politics: Bridging the Contours of Debate (Advances in African Economic, Social and Political Development)
by Michael AmoahThis book serves as a unique contribution to the curriculum decolonizing agenda currently trending in universities. It approaches Politics and International Relations from the postcolonial and decolonial perspectives with empirical rebuttals to existing imperial and neocolonial false narratives. It examines key concepts and topics which regularly feature when teaching or discussing Africa at universities, such as: nationhood and nationalisms; neo-patrimonialism; arbitrary borders and tribes; françafrique; superpower relations; relationships with China & Russia; South-South cooperation and collaborations; foreign interventions; global justice; global governance and reform of the UN Security Council. This book explores the etymologies of these concepts or topics and their terminological application to Africa while bringing fresh perspectives to the debate. It appeals to scholars and students of African politics and international relations, and functions as a graduate and advanced under-graduate pedagogical tool.
Mycotoxins in Feedstuffs
by Martin WeidenbörnerThe third edition features a re-organization into multiple sections including: Mycotoxin Contamination in Feedstuffs for Farm Animals; Mycotoxin Contamination in Feedstuffs for Pets; Further Mycotoxins and Microbial Metabolites in Feedstuffs; Tables of Mycotoxins in Feedstuffs; Feedstuffs for Farm Animals and their Mycotoxins; Feedstuffs for Pets and their Mycotoxins; Mycotoxin Contamination of Feedstuffs in Conventional and Organic Farming; and Geographical Occurrence of Mycotoxins in Feedstuffs.
Jak-Inhibitors in Dermatology
by Ayşe Serap Karadağ Ümit TürsenThis book covers the clinical usage of JAK inhibitors, which target Janus kinases and have shown promising results in the treatment of various dermatologic conditions, including atopic dermatitis, psoriasis, vitiligo, connective tissue disorders, autoimmune bullous diseases and alopecia areata. It is likely that JAK inhibitors will continue to play an important role in the management of these conditions, with clinical trials ongoing to assess their safety and efficacy in the treatment of other dermatologic disorders, such as vitiligo and hidradenitis suppurativa. However, it is important to note that JAK inhibitors can have potential side effects, including increased risk of infections, anemia and thrombosis. Therefore, careful monitoring of patients receiving JAK inhibitors is necessary to ensure their safety.Jak Inhibitors in Dermatology represents a treatise on this novel topic and discusses that while JAK inhibitors have shown great promise in the treatment of various dermatologic conditions, further research and monitoring is necessary to fully understand their potential benefits and risks. This book is therefore of great interest for all dermatologists as a first step to understanding this novel treatment.
Energy, entropy, creativity: What drives and slows economic growth
by Reiner Kümmel Dietmar Lindenberger Niko PaechThis book helps to understand the importance of thermodynamics for economics, the environment and society. It argues for the integration of the first two laws of thermodynamics into textbook economics. In doing so, systemic similarities in thermodynamics and the theory of economic growth lead to the use of similar mathematical methods that allow industrial economies to be described realistically. From this, the authors propose tools for solving social and environmental problems. The book is aimed at all those interested in interdisciplinary research on the development problems of the economy and society and who want to understand what drives their upheavals. The authors of the book have been dealing with these development problems for a long time: the theoretical physicist Reiner Kümmel from the University of Würzburg, the physicist and economist Dietmar Lindenberger from the University of Cologne and the Energy Economics Institute at this university, and the economist Niko Paech from the University of Siegen. "It is my pleasure to recommend this book to readers. It is driven by the idea of exploring the physical limits of human economic activity using thermodynamics, one of the most universal physical theories we have." Comment on the original German edition by Dieter Meschede, Professor of Physics, University of Bonn
The Forgiveness Journal: A Guided Journey to Forgiving What You Can't Forget (A Devotional Companion with Journaling Prompts to the #1 New York Times Bestseller)
by Lysa TerKeurstYou deserve to stop suffering through what other people have done to you.Discover the life-changing message of forgiveness in this lovely full-color journal, written by Lysa TerKeurst, complete with personal photographs and interactive content. Lysa will guide you as you engage with questions about what forgiveness is, process through what it isn't, and understand how to deal with difficult relationships.Throughout her life, Lysa has experienced seasons of total devastation that left her wondering, Will I ever recover from this? But in the face of hurt that felt impossible to move past, Lysa has found journaling to be a life-giving way to help let go of bitterness, process resentments, and live in the freedom of forgiving others. Now she is passionate about coming alongside you on your own journey of forgiveness, whether your deepest pain comes from years ago or is still happening today.In this unique companion resource to her #1 New York Times Bestseller Forgiving What You Can't Forget, Lysa shares:Honest reflections where she wrestles with forgiving those who hurt her the mostPowerful readings about forgiveness and healingEncouraging quotes from Forgiving What You Can't ForgetKey Bible verses related to the topic of each chapterJournaling prompts for personal processing, along with space to writeShort prayers to get you started in giving your hurt over to God With beautiful color photographs of significant places where Lysa has worked through her own healing, The Forgiveness Journal is the invitation to freedom your soul needs. As Lysa writes, "Forgiveness is possible. And it is good. Your heart is much too beautiful of a place for unhealed pain. Your soul is much too deserving of new possibilities to stay stuck here. Start taking steps today on your unexpected, miraculous pathway to healing, using The Forgiveness Journal.Look for additional inspirational books and audio products from Lysa TerKeurst:I'll Start Again MondaySeeing Beautiful AgainForgiving What You Can't ForgetIt's Not Supposed to Be This WayEmbraced
Remember Us: American Sacrifice, Dutch Freedom, and A Forever Promise Forged in World War II
by Robert M. EdselNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER&“An intimate, moving look at the war that extracts deep meaning from the carnage and loss.&” – Publishers WeeklyWhat happens when you lose your freedom and the people who eventually get it back for you are no longer alive to thank? Remember Us, by Robert Edsel—#1 New York Times bestselling author of The Monuments Men—begins in the pre-dawn hours of Hitler&’s invasion of Western Europe on May 10, 1940, when his forces rolled into the small rural province of Limburg in the Netherlands shattering more than 100 years of peace. Their freedom gone, the Dutch lived through four-and-a-half years of occupation until American forces reached Limburg in September 1944, the last portion of Western Europe liberated by the Allies before their advance on Nazi Germany slammed to a halt.Like The Monuments Men, Remember Us is an ensemble piece that follows twelve main characters over a six-year span, zeroing in on ordinary people including Frieda van Schäik, a teenager who falls in love with an American soldier; Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cole, the first member of the 101st Airborne to receive the Medal of Honor; and Sergeant Jeff Wiggins of the 960th Quartermaster Service Company, who escaped the poverty and racism of Alabama for yet another indignity—digging graves.Drawing on never-before-seen letters, diaries, and other historical records, Edsel shows the painful price of freedom, on the battlefields and inside American homes. In this rich, dramatic, and suspenseful story, he captures both the horrors of war and the transcendent power of gratitude, showing the extraordinary measures the Dutch have taken to thank their liberators. Remember Us is exactly the book we need—a reminder that grief is universal, that humanity knows no national or racial boundaries, and that we all want to be remembered, somehow, someway, by somebody.
Computer Vision – ECCV 2024 Workshops: Milan, Italy, September 29–October 4, 2024, Proceedings, Part XIV (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #15636)
by Tatiana Tommasi Alessio Del Bue Cristian Canton Jordi Pont-TusetThe multi-volume set LNCS 15623 until LNCS 15646 constitutes the proceedings of the workshops that were held in conjunction with the 18th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2024, which took place in Milan, Italy, during September 29–October 4, 2024. These LNCS volumes contain 574 accepted papers from 53 of the 73 workshops. The list of workshops and distribution of the workshop papers in the LNCS volumes can be found in the preface that is freely accessible online.
Schizoanalysis and Schizodrama: Clinic and Politics
by Domenico Uhng HurThis book presents theoretical and methodological contributions to the development of mental health interventions that combine clinical and political approaches based on schizoanalysis and schizodrama. It seeks to make the transition from the philosophy of schizoanalysis to the applied field of intervention of a clinic-politics with strong inspiration from schizodrama. Created in the early 1970s by the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze in partnership with French psychoanalyst Félix Guattari, schizoanalysis is a philosophical approach that departs from the psychoanalytic inquiry of desire and affection as the main drivers of the processes of subjectivation to create a Philosophy of Difference that aims at mapping and contributing to the emergence of different forms of subjectivity not submitted to traditional forms of psychic and social coercion. Inspired by this innovative theoretical approach, the Argentinian psychiatrist Gregorio Baremblitt developed an original kind of schizoanalysis in Latin America called schizodrama, which aims at creating intervention devices, both clinical and political, to operationalize schizoanalysis&’ philosophical concepts. Building upon the contributions of schizodrama, this book seeks to contribute to operationalize the &“migration&” of schizoanalysis to the fields of psychology and social intervention. Schizoanalysis and Schizodrama: Clinic and Politics will be of interest to mental health professionals – such as psychologists, psychiatrists and clinical social workers – as well as to researchers in the human, social and health sciences interested in learning about this new theoretical field and its various modes of clinical-political intervention. This is a revised edition of a book originally published in Brazilian Portuguese. The original manuscript was written in Brazilian Portuguese and translated into English with the help of artificial intelligence. A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content.
Bio-Based Building Materials - Proceedings of ICBBM 2025: Volume 1 (RILEM Bookseries #60)
by Jonathan Page Sofiane Amziane Romildo Dias Toledo Filho M'hamed Yassin Rajiv da GloriaThis book gathers peer-reviewed contributions presented at the 6th International Conference on Bio-Based Building Materials (ICBBM), held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on June 17-20, 2025. Focusing on bio-based building materials (3BM) as well as their applications in sustainable building constructions, the contributions highlight the latest findings in this fast-growing field, addressing topics such as natural fibres- and aggregates, ramped earth, innovative hybrid composites based on bio-based ingredients, novel sustainable binders, energy efficiency aspects- and life cycle analysis of these materials.
Congress on Research, Development and Innovation in Renewable Energies: Selected Papers from CIDiER 2024 (Green Energy and Technology)
by Mayken Espinoza-Andaluz Jordy Santana-Villamar Brayan Ordóñez-Saca Carlos Vallejo-Cervantes Luis Rodríguez-ÁlavaRenewable Energy Research, Development, and Innovation: Selected Papers from CIDiER 2024 presents international collaborations that foster ideas and dialogue around solutions to climate change through research and development that leads to clean energy innovation via renewable energies. The book includes chapters based on selected papers from the 2024 Congress on Research, Development, and Innovation in Renewable Energies (CIDiER 2024) that cover theoretical and applied research that will strengthen the implementation of renewable energy projects between universities, research centers, and private companies in Latin America. Presents leading-edge research on advancing renewable energy; Promotes research and innovation with a focus on Latin America; Covers biomass, hydraulic, hydrogen, tidal, solar, and wind energy.
Data Science and Applications: Proceedings of ICDSA 2024, Volume 4 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #1266)
by Amir H. Gandomi Mukesh Saraswat Rajendra Prasad Yadav Satyasai Jagannath NandaThis book gathers outstanding papers presented at the 5th International Conference on Data Science and Applications (ICDSA 2024), organized by Soft Computing Research Society (SCRS) and Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, India, from July 17 to 19, 2024. The book is divided into four volumes, and it covers theoretical and empirical developments in various areas of big data analytics, big data technologies, decision tree learning, wireless communication, wireless sensor networking, bioinformatics and systems, artificial neural networks, deep learning, genetic algorithms, data mining, fuzzy logic, optimization algorithms, image processing, computational intelligence in civil engineering, and creative computing.
New Frontiers for EU Investment Policy: External and Internal Dimensions (European Yearbook of International Economic Law)
by August Reinisch Marc BungenbergWith the entry into force of the Treaty of Lisbon in 2009, the EU became a global actor in the field of foreign direct investment. Since then, the field of EU investment policy has been gradually shaped by numerous political changes, judgments and opinions delivered by the Court of Justice of the EU, as well as lively scholarly debate. Today, a clear division between the “internal” and “external” dimensions of EU investment policy has emerged, which constitutes the general topic of this book. Within these dimensions, additional – and sometimes contradictory – facets of the EU’s multi-layered approach to investment protection can be identified. On the one hand, EU investment policy is shifting toward a decentral approach when it comes to substantive standards of investment protection. On the other hand, the EU is following a multilateral approach with regard to procedural innovations in investor-State dispute settlement.In this EYIEL Special Issue, leading experts in the field discuss the latest developments with regard to the above-mentioned dimensions and facets, which reflect new trends and challenges for EU investment policy. Among others, the book discusses the EU’s participation in the reform process for the international investment regime, the emergence of central planning and decentral implementation of EU investment policy, the feasibility of an intra-EU investment court, the protection and enforcement of investment standards under EU law, and the suitability of mediation as an alternative to intra-EU investment arbitration.
Mechanics of Composite Structures
by Christian MittelstedtThis book includes a detailed introduction to the mechanics of composite structures, i.e. thin-walled laminated structures as they are frequently used in lightweight construction and design. The book is subdivided into five parts. Starting from the basics of linear elasticity in part I, part II is devoted to the mechanics of composite laminates as relevant for the further course of this book and as employed in industrial practice. Part III deals with the buckling and postbuckling behaviour of unstiffened and stiffened thin-walled laminated structures and presents closed-form analytical and semi-analytical approaches for the stability analysis of such structures. Part IV includes some advanced topics such as free-edge effects and laminated shells before part V concludes with the analysis of laminated beam structures. This book is intended for students at universities, but also for engineers in practice and researchers in engineering science.
Peacebuilding and Memory in the Philippines: Transgenerational Resilience (Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies)
by Primitivo III RagandangThis book critically examines community resilience within peace and conflict studies. By focusing on the complexities of resilience in the ayóm-ayómic political order in the Philippines, it shows how memories, experiences and intergenerational dialogue shape resilience strategies across time and space. Through theoretical analysis and case studies, the book challenges conventional understandings of resilience by highlighting its complex intersections with agency, resistance, and political survival. It delves into the role of resource scarcity, trauma, and shifting socio-political landscapes in shaping resilience strategies, offering a nuanced perspective beyond its often-romanticized portrayal. By bridging theoretical debates with real-world insights, it provides a fresh framework for understanding resilience as both a political and social process. This book is an essential resource for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers engaged in peacebuilding, governance, and conflict transformation.
Sustainable Development Research in Materials and Renewable Energy Engineering: Advancements of Science and Technology (Green Energy and Technology)
by Kibret Mequanint Muluken Zegeye Getie Molla Asmare Alemu Getinet Yenealem Ashebir Muluken Temesgen TigabuThis book presents current research, recent advances, and emerging technologies on sustainable development issues, engineering materials, and energy technology advancements, particularly in developing countries. It covers various methods, including numerical and experiment analysis. The coverage of materials includes advancements in construction materials and materials processing; biodegradable and bio-inspired materials; functional materials and their behavior; thermal and strength analysis of different materials, materials for energy storage, conversion, and transmission; composites and fibers. Studies on renewable and green energy systems and sources include energy storage; energy-saving technology; energy-efficient technologies; green energy systems; waste heat recovery; energy conversion systems; energy policies economics, and emerging technologies related to energy transformation. The state-of-the-art solar application areas covered include solar thermal systems, solar PV investigations, and solar applications for drying, cooling, and solar collectors. The book provides researchers, engineers, industry professionals, graduate students, and practitioners with state-of-the-art research on engineering materials, material science, sustainable energy engineering, and energy technology in developing economies.
Internet Modeling with Julia: Models, Algorithms and Programs
by Ulrich HofmannThe book combines internet modeling with the new programming language Julia. It demonstrates Julia's suitability for modeling established internet models and research-oriented topics such as car-to-infrastructure communication and black-box models for load predictions with neural networks. After studying the book and gaining inspiration for further independent analyses, the reader will be able to tackle even more complex modeling tasks in research and development using Julia.
The Life and Creative Works of Paulo Coelho: A Psychobiography from a Positive Psychology Perspective
by Claude-Helene MayerThis book assesses the life and success of the writer Paulo Coelho, one of the most fascinating and contemporary writers in the world, through new lenses. It applies a positive psychology perspective and contributes to using innovative theories in psychobiographical studies. This study explores the development of holistic wellness (HWM) and faith development (FDT) throughout the writer's life. It presents radical changes in spirituality, self-direction, love and faith across the life span. Further, it analyses the development of Coelho’s relationship with God and the creation of meaningfulness through his belief and writing. This study contributes to a new era of psychobiographical works within the positive psychology framework.
Computational Data and Social Networks: 13th International Conference, CSoNet 2024, Bangkok, Thailand, December 16–18, 2024, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #15417)
by Thepchai Supnithi Bo Li Janos Kertesz Akkharawoot TakhomThis book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computational Data and Social Networks, CSoNet 2024, held in Bangkok, Thailand, during December 16–18, 2024. The 18 full papers and 17 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 50 submissions. These papers deal with various aspects of computational data and social networks, focusing on large-scale network computing, data network analysis, mining,security and privacy, optimization, and learning.