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Euro-Par 2015: Parallel Processing Workshops

Euro-Par 2015 International Workshops, Vienna, Austria, August 24-25, 2015, Revised Selected Papers

Edited by Sascha Hunold, Alexandru Costan, Domingo Giménez, Alexandru Iosup, Laura Ricci, María Engracia Gómez Requena, Vittorio Scarano, Ana Lucia Varbanescu, Stephen L. Scott, Stefan Lankes, Josef Weidendorfer, Michael Alexander ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of 12 workshops held at the 21st International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Euro-Par 2015, in Vienna, Austria, in August 2015.The 67 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 121 submissions. The volume includes papers from the following workshops: BigDataCloud: 4th Workshop ... Read more

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of 12 workshops held at the 21st International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Euro-Par 2015, in Vienna, Austria, in August 2015.The 67 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 121 submissions. The volume includes papers from the following workshops: BigDataCloud: 4th Workshop
... Read more
The Crime Data Handbook

by Ian Brunton-Smith, Tim Verlaan, Henk Elffers, Sam Langton, Stuart Thomas, Sophie Curtis-Ham, Sarah Czarnomski, Lisa Tompson, Jesús C. Aguerri, Fernando Miró-Llinares, Kirsty Bennett, Tomas Diviak, Craig Bennell, Tori Semple, Bryce Jenkins, Jack Cunliffe, Angelo Moretti, Jose Pina-Sanchez, Thiago R. Oliveira, Leticia Couto, Marta Murrià Sangenís, Cristina Sobrino Garcés, Timothy I. C. Cubitt, Mark Mills, Nico Trajtenberg, Olga Sanchez de Ribera de Castro, Carly Lighttowlers, Lucy Bryant, Olivia Horsefield, Francisco J. Castro-Toledo, Ana B. Gómez-Bellvís, Scott Keay, Jude Towers, Sara Correia-Hopkins, José María López Riba, Raquel Bartolomé Gutiérrez, Esther Fernández-Molina, Rosemary Barberet, Anthony Morgan, Alexandru Cernat, Alex Sutherland, Nicholas Lord ...

Crime research has grown substantially over the past decade, with a rise in evidence-informed approaches to criminal justice, statistics-driven decision-making and predictive analytics. The fuel that has driven this growth is data – and one of its most pressing challenges is the lack of research on the use and interpretation of data sources.This accessible, engaging book closes that gap for ... Read more

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Crime research has grown substantially over the past decade, with a rise in evidence-informed approaches to criminal justice, statistics-driven decision-making and predictive analytics. The fuel that has driven this growth is data – and one of its most pressing challenges is the lack of research on the use and interpretation of data sources.This accessible, engaging book closes that gap for
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Cognitive Psychology and Tourism

by Noel Scott, Brent Moyle, Ana Cláudia Campos, Liubov Skavronskaya, Biqiang Liu ...

Series Book 27 - Tourism Social Science Series
Compiled from 10 years of research, with chapters contributed by experts in the field, we demonstrate how tourism will benefit from applying a new paradigm found in mainstream psychology, termed here the ‘Cognitive Wave’. Tourism professionals who apply this will benefit by identifying how they apply concepts such as attention, emotion, sensations, and memory in their work, and critically ... Read more

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Compiled from 10 years of research, with chapters contributed by experts in the field, we demonstrate how tourism will benefit from applying a new paradigm found in mainstream psychology, termed here the ‘Cognitive Wave’. Tourism professionals who apply this will benefit by identifying how they apply concepts such as attention, emotion, sensations, and memory in their work, and critically
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Learn Portuguese Through Simple Food Stories

Listening Practice for Beginners and Beyond

by Fiona Mackay ...

Narrated by Teri Scott, Ana Cardoso ...

Unabridged

6 hours

Immerse yourself in Portuguese with our unique, context-driven approach to learning. This engaging audiobook is designed specifically for beginners and lower-intermediate learners who want to acquire Portuguese vocabulary and grammar naturally, without the rote memorization of traditional methods. Through a delightful collection of short, food-themed stories, you will discover the joy of language ... Read more

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Immerse yourself in Portuguese with our unique, context-driven approach to learning. This engaging audiobook is designed specifically for beginners and lower-intermediate learners who want to acquire Portuguese vocabulary and grammar naturally, without the rote memorization of traditional methods. Through a delightful collection of short, food-themed stories, you will discover the joy of language
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The Cultural Legacy of Disney

A Century of Magic

by Jamie Clark, Abigail Fine, Marley Healy, Jennessa Hester, Cariad Martin, Erin Pritchard, Jason Scott, Ana Carolina Almeida Souza, Muyang Zhang ...

Series series Studies in Disney and Culture
This book critically engages with the Walt Disney Company as a global media conglomerate as they mark their 100th year of business. It reflects on and looks forward to the past, present and future of the company and the scholarly engagement surrounding it through three key areas: Disney as a Company, Disney’s Representations, and Relating to Disney. ‘Disney as a Company’ identifies the corporate ... Read more

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This book critically engages with the Walt Disney Company as a global media conglomerate as they mark their 100th year of business. It reflects on and looks forward to the past, present and future of the company and the scholarly engagement surrounding it through three key areas: Disney as a Company, Disney’s Representations, and Relating to Disney. ‘Disney as a Company’ identifies the corporate
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The Social Protests of 2020

Visceral Responses to Police Brutality, COVID-19, and Circumscribed Sexuality

by Joyce A. Joyce, Élan R. Alford, Melba Joyce Boyd, Yvonne Fulmore, Carissa M. Harris, Everett Hoagland, Quincy Scott Jones, Ana-Maurine Lara, Wende Marshall, Ewuare Osayande0, Donna Marie Peters1, Edythe Rodriguez2, Margarita M. Castromán Soto3, Yolanda Wisher4, Walter R. Gholson III5, Gregory E. Rutledge6 ...

The Social Protests of 2020: Visceral Responses to Police Brutality, COVID-19, and Circumscribed Sexuality collects voices from various Black intellectuals — university professors, a scientist, media communication specialist, poets, a visual artist, and political activists — to illustrate how the simultaneity of high-profile political events in the summer of 2020 manifest in our consciousness at ... Read more

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The Social Protests of 2020: Visceral Responses to Police Brutality, COVID-19, and Circumscribed Sexuality collects voices from various Black intellectuals — university professors, a scientist, media communication specialist, poets, a visual artist, and political activists — to illustrate how the simultaneity of high-profile political events in the summer of 2020 manifest in our consciousness at
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Brazilian Portuguese Romance Stories For Language Learning

Bilingual romantic stories for learning Brazilian Portuguese

by Mary Rowett ...

Narrated by Teri Scott, Ana Cavalcanti ...

Unabridged

5 hours 25 min

Love stories have a universal appeal, and this audiobook uses that familiarity to make learning Brazilian Portuguese more compelling and accessible. By presenting romantic narratives in both Brazilian Portuguese and English, it allows listeners to pick up the sound, structure, and emotional tone of the language in a way that feels organic rather than instructional.Every story stands on its own as ... Read more

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Love stories have a universal appeal, and this audiobook uses that familiarity to make learning Brazilian Portuguese more compelling and accessible. By presenting romantic narratives in both Brazilian Portuguese and English, it allows listeners to pick up the sound, structure, and emotional tone of the language in a way that feels organic rather than instructional.Every story stands on its own as
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Institutional Diversity in Self-Governing Societies

The Bloomington School and Beyond

by Filippo Sabetti, Anas Malik, Ion Sterpan, Abigail Sullivan, Scott Yabiku, Abigail York, Paul Dragos Aligica, Rosolino A. Candela, Ronald J. Oakerson, Margaret M. Polski0, Karol Edward Soltan1, Michael A. Fotos III2, Dario Castiglione3, Albert Weale5 ...

The work of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom represents a distinctive contribution to the study of political economy, public policy and administration, collective action, and governance theory. Efforts to present a comprehensive overview of the Bloomington School that grew around the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis (now renamed the Ostrom Workshop), which they founded more than 40 years ... Read more

$136.79 CAD

The work of Elinor and Vincent Ostrom represents a distinctive contribution to the study of political economy, public policy and administration, collective action, and governance theory. Efforts to present a comprehensive overview of the Bloomington School that grew around the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis (now renamed the Ostrom Workshop), which they founded more than 40 years
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The Frasers-Clay

by Ana Leigh ...

Narrated by Scott Shina ...

Series series Frasers
Unabridged

9 hours 35 min

A Romantic Times award-winning author, Ana Leigh writes Western romances that are USA Today best-sellers. The Frasers: Clay is first in an exciting series that follows four Southern brothers in the aftermath of the Civil War. Lovely widow Rebecca Elliot needs a husband in order to join a wagon train west. Desperate, she chooses handsome Clay Fraser as her target. Now wedded, the two strongheaded ... Read more

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A Romantic Times award-winning author, Ana Leigh writes Western romances that are USA Today best-sellers. The Frasers: Clay is first in an exciting series that follows four Southern brothers in the aftermath of the Civil War. Lovely widow Rebecca Elliot needs a husband in order to join a wagon train west. Desperate, she chooses handsome Clay Fraser as her target. Now wedded, the two strongheaded
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The Shadow of Words

by Ana Blandiana ...

Translated by Paul Scott Derrick ...

Ana Blandiana is one of Romania’s foremost poets, a leading dissident before the fall of Communism, and now one of her country’s strongest candidates for the Nobel Prize. A prominent opponent of the Ceaușescu regime, Blandiana became known for her daring, outspoken poems as well as for her courageous defence of ethical values. Over the years, her works have become the symbol of a moral ... Read more

$25.59 CAD

Ana Blandiana is one of Romania’s foremost poets, a leading dissident before the fall of Communism, and now one of her country’s strongest candidates for the Nobel Prize. A prominent opponent of the Ceaușescu regime, Blandiana became known for her daring, outspoken poems as well as for her courageous defence of ethical values. Over the years, her works have become the symbol of a moral
... Read more
The Sun of Hereafter • Ebb of the Senses

by Ana Blandiana ...

Translated by Paul Scott Derrick, Viorica Patea ...

Ana Blandiana is one of Romania’s foremost poets, a leading dissident before the fall of Communism, and now her country’s strongest candidate for the Nobel Prize. A prominent opponent of the Ceausescu regime, Blandiana became known for her daring, outspoken poems as well as for her courageous defence of ethical values. Over the years, her works have become the symbol of an ethical consciousness ... Read more

$13.59 CAD

Ana Blandiana is one of Romania’s foremost poets, a leading dissident before the fall of Communism, and now her country’s strongest candidate for the Nobel Prize. A prominent opponent of the Ceausescu regime, Blandiana became known for her daring, outspoken poems as well as for her courageous defence of ethical values. Over the years, her works have become the symbol of an ethical consciousness
... Read more
Five Books

by Ana Blandiana ...

Translated by Paul Scott Derrick, Viorica Patea ...

Ana Blandiana is one of Romania’s foremost poets, a leading dissident before the fall of Communism. Over the years, her poetry became symbolic of an ethical consciousness that refuses to be silenced by a totalitarian governments. This new translation combines five of her collections, three of protest poems from the 1980s followed by her two collections of love poetry. The poems of Predator Star ... Read more

$17.59 CAD

Ana Blandiana is one of Romania’s foremost poets, a leading dissident before the fall of Communism. Over the years, her poetry became symbolic of an ethical consciousness that refuses to be silenced by a totalitarian governments. This new translation combines five of her collections, three of protest poems from the 1980s followed by her two collections of love poetry. The poems of Predator Star
... Read more

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