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Set in a public housing project in San Francisco, Lam's memoir explores his transformation from a teenage graffiti writer to a high school teacher working with troubled youth while navigating the secret violence in his immigrant's family's past.

In Belcolle, a village in the north of the Italian region of Lazio, four old musicians guard a special place, Villa Tornaboni, to ensure themselves an unnatural eternity. Duilia Liberati, a realtor, receives the mandate to sell the estate and reaches Belcolle with her young secretary. The peculiar symbiosis between the young man and the estate attracts the ire of the old ladies who see their slice of heaven threatened, leading them to use their peculiar powers to contain the danger. In the background, two organizations that have been fighting each other from time immemorial. In the foreground, the people living in Belcolle, many of whom have fragments of their story linked with Villa Tornaboni and its old owner. A paranormal tale with elements of crime, sprinkled with science fiction, mythology, and esoterism. A layered and complex text, that in its initial part continuously introduces characters and mysteries to later solve them one by one.

Exquisite paper flowers that never wilt!In this ebook, Japanese paper crafting expert Emiko Yamamoto reveals her secrets for making realistic blossoms, leaves and stems from inexpensive colored paper sheets. Her simple cut-curl-paste method is perfect for beginners--making it easy to create dozens of different flowers. Fabulous Paper Flowers features 43 different Asian flowers for every season, including:Spring: Wild Cherry Blossoms, White Clover, Japanese Primrose, Japanese Marigolds & Fuji Dawn VioletsSummer: Bigleaf Hydrangea, Japanese Iris, Water Lilies, Moutan Peony, Japanese Morning Glory & Evening PrimroseFall: Cosmos, Japanese Bush Clover, Cranesbill Geraniums, Japanese Maple Leaves & Gingko LeavesWinter: Heavenly Bamboo, Japanese Camellia, Snow Camellia, Pheasant's Eye, Japanese Plum & Chinese Sacred LiliesThe finished pieces look great as table settings, wearable brooches, gift toppers, in framed displays, on handmade cards and so much more. Make wedding decor on a budget, decorate for a baby shower, make a dinner party special or surprise a loved one with a handmade gift--with this book, the possibilities are endless!This complete how-to guide has descriptions of the easy-to-find materials and tools, templates that you can print and cut out, and step-by-step photos showing you how to curl and crease the pieces, then assemble them with dabs of glue.

Paper and the British Empire examines the evolution of the paper industry within British organisational frameworks and highlights the role of the Empire as a market and business-making area in a world of shrinking commerce and rising trade barriers.Drawing on a valuable range of primary sources, this book covers the period 1861–1960 and examines events from the establishment of free trade backed by the gold standard to Britain's membership of the European Free Trade Association. In the field of the paper industry, the speed and intensity of the industrialisation process around the globe have been shaped by a wide variety of variables, including the surrounding institutional framework; entrepreneurial and organisational strategies; the cost and accessibility of transport; and the availability of capital, knowledge, energy resources, and technology. The supply of papermaking raw materials has also been key and has historically been the most important determinant for geographical location and dominance. The research in this work focuses on the roles played by such variants, on the one hand, and demand characteristics on the other. In particular, it considers developments connected to a quest for Empire-grown raw materials in order to tackle the problem of the lack of indigenous raw materials and the resulting dependence on Scandinavian wood pulp imports.This text is of considerable interest to advanced students and researchers in economic history, business history, and the paper industry, and will also be useful to organisations working within the pulp and paper industries.

The field of electronic literature has a familiar catchphrase,'You can't do it on paper.'But the field has in fact never gone paperless. Reaching back to early experiments with digital writing in the mainframe era and then moving through the personal computer and Internet revolutions, this book traces the changing forms of paper on which e-lit artists have drawn, including continuous paper, documentation, disk sleeves, packaging, and even artists'books. Paper Electronic Literature attests that digital literature's old media elements have much to teach us about the cultural and physical conditions in which we compute; the creativity that new media artists have shown in their dealings with old media; and the distinctively electronic issues that confront digital artists. Moving between avant-garde works and popular ones, fiction writing and poetry generation, Richard Hughes Gibson reveals the diverse ways in which paper has served as a component within electronic literature, particularly in facilitating interactive experiences for users. This important study develops a new critical paradigm for appreciating the multifaceted material innovation that has long marked digital literature.

·Author Liza Taylor is a quilt pattern designer from New Zealand who currently lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. She owns a fabric shop and has designed more than 20 fabric patterns with more in the works.·Block patterns include a butterfly, bee, moth, hummingbird, snail, daisy, rose, tulip, baby's breath, and mushroom·Book also features a full-size sample quilt and upsizing alternatives for different size blocks.·The author's designs go far and above other designers. She captures shapes that are easily intersected with the final project.·Both foundation paper pieced blocks and English paper piecing are used to make quilts or patchwork and quilting projects like cushions, pouches, and bags. They are also both scrap-friendly quilting techniques, but foundation piecing is done by machine, and you cannot reuse the paper, English paper piecing is done by hand, and you can reuse your templates.·Paper pieced quilt blocks are quilt blocks made by stitching your fabric directly onto paper. This foundation paper piecing, or FPP, and it's especially useful when you're making small blocks, intricate angles, or when you're a quilting newbie.·Liza's approach to paper piecing makes it so appealing because she uses pretty nature-based prints so that the designs themselves aren't just nature-inspired, but the fabric magnifies the effect.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the evaluation track of the 9th China Health Information Processing Conference, CHIP 2023, held in Hangzhou, China, during October 27–29, 2023. The 15 algorithms papers and 6 overview papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 66 submissions to the conference. They were organized in topical sections as follows: CHIP-PromptCBLUE Medical Large Model Evaluation; Chinese Medical Text Few-shot Named Entity Recognition; Drug Paper Document Recognition and Entity Relation Extraction; CHIP-YIER Medical Large Model Evaluation; Medical Literature PICOS Identification; Chinese Diabetes Question Classification;

How do writing and literacy reshape the ways a language and its literature are imagined? If All the World Were Paper explores this question in the context of Hindi, the most widely spoken language in Southern Asia and the fourth most widely spoken language in the world today. Emerging onto the literary scene of India in the mid-fourteenth century, the vernacular of Hindi quickly acquired a place alongside “classical” languages like Sanskrit and Persian as a medium of literature and scholarship. The material and social processes through which it came to be written down and the particular form that it took—as illustrated storybooks, loose-leaf textbooks, personal notebooks, and holy scriptures—played a critical role in establishing Hindi as a language capable of transmitting poetry, erudition, and even revelation.If All the World Were Paper combines close readings of literary and scholastic works with an examination of hundreds of handwritten books from precolonial India to tell the story of Hindi literature's development and reveal the relationships among ideologies of writing, material practices, and literary genres. Tyler W. Williams forcefully argues for a new approach to the literary archive, demonstrating how the ways books were inscribed, organized, and used can tell us as much about their meaning and significance as the texts within them. This book sets out a novel program for engaging with the archive of Hindi and of South Asian languages more broadly at a moment when much of that archive faces existential threats.

This book provides complete coverage of the logical thinking, the performance of experiments, and the data analysis that is involved in the writing of a paper, as well as the actual writing of it. More specifically, it includes details about improving writing and a step-by-step guide illustrating the process of thinking, writing, and polishing the paper regardless of major. Simple examples are given to help understand the complexity of writing and pinpoint what aspects journals look for in papers. The last few chapters include common mistakes and frequently occurring problems in data analysis and writing and how to rectify them. For students from undergraduate to PhD levels and those new to publishing a paper in international journals or struggling to write one, the contents of this book are invaluable. It is also beneficial to those aiming to write and publish in English if it is not their first language.

Recycling and Deinking of Recovered Paper, Second Edition covers recent advances in recycling technologies. This second edition examines this new process, which is more eco-friendly than the virgin-papermaking process, and which uses less energy and natural resources, produces less solid waste and fewer atmospheric emissions, and helps to preserve natural resources and landfill space. In addition, the most recent information about the recycling of fibers into various grades of paper and board, the control of stickies, and the effects of recycled fiber on paper machines are also covered. Recycling technologies have been improved in recent years due to advances in pulping, flotation deinking, and cleaning/screening, resulting in the quality of paper made from secondary fibers remarkably approaching that of virgin paper.Covers all aspects of recycling technologies in great depthOffers up-to-date authoritative information and cites many mills experiences and pertinent researchExamines the use of biotech methods for deinking, refining, improving drainage, and stickies controlIncludes new case studies on paper recycling

This book brings together original, peer-reviewed research papers from the 2024 10th International Conference on E-Business and Applications, held in Singapore from February 26 to 28, 2024. The papers delve into AI-enabled business innovation, data-driven value creation, and the emerging IoT landscape, providing in-depth insights into these rapidly evolving fields. The book bridges the gap between business intelligence, artificial intelligence, and e-commerce trading technologies, offering a holistic perspective on the intersection of these disciplines. Readers can gain valuable knowledge through real-world examples, data visualization techniques, and business analytics applications, enhancing their understanding of how these concepts translate into tangible business outcomes.

There has been an exponential growth in the number of research papers published in recent decades in the field of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, making it difficult to identify the key papers that have truly changed practice in plastic surgery. This book provides readers with a concise reference source for the key papers that underpin contemporary surgical practice and covers all aspects of the specialty, with the content being helpful for both trainees and specialists to understand the scientific developments and pioneering surgeries that allow expert surgeons to practice as they currently do. By exploring the ground-breaking papers in Plastic Surgery, readers can gain insights into the evolution of the field and learn valuable lessons on how to innovate. For trainees preparing for board or exit exams, such as the FRCS (Plast), this book serves as an invaluable reference source and revision guide, providing access to key landmark studies. It presents over 50 key research studieson plastic surgery along with full analysis and additional commentaries from experts and world-renowned authority figures in Plastic Surgery. It provides a valuable perspective on why the study is important, constituting essential reading for busy professionals as well as trainees, residents and fellows, and surgeons studying for professional examinations while distilling all the literature into a compact guide on the must-know scientific articles.

This book examines how the on-paper hydropower boom impacts the safe and fair access to water and energy in emerging economies.The global hydropower boom is largely made up of small hydropower plants located in emerging economies, but a lack of funding, over-ambitious planning, and corruption have halted the production of these projects. Describing this state as the ‘on-paper'hydropower boom, this book shifts attention to the hydrosocial problems arising from hydropower projects that remain on paper. It examines how these proposed but unbuilt projects can lead to disruptions in the control and governance of water resources and increase the international dependence of emerging countries due to deep problems in their sustainable development planning and how all this can affect both ecosystems and the communities that depend on them. In doing so, it critically examines the dominant discourses on energy security and sustainable development, emphasises the extent to which the effects of global imperialism are at play, and examines the effects of international power relations in the hydrosocial context and their implications for perpetuating international relations of dependency. Further, this book provides a unique perspective on the global hydropower boom by highlighting that although the global hydropower boom largely remains on paper, it can still have a significant impact on human–water systems. Contributing to the debate on hydrosocial relationships, each chapter offers an insightful examination of the social, cultural, and political interactions that humans have with water and uses these insights to provide a nuanced understanding of the challenges and issues associated with on-paper plans.This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of water politics, water governance, political ecology, corruption and environmental economics, as well as sustainable development policymakers.

This unique title offers highlights of milestone – or “Classic”-- papers in American oral and maxillofacial surgery, as well as an engaging biography of the authors who were pioneers of the specialty. Written by a range of current leaders in the field, this fascinating book evolved from an exploration by the volume editors of what they considered to be the landmark papers contributing to the evolution of oral and maxillofacial surgery in the United States. Beyond the landmark paper itself, the editors were interested in the paper's author as well -- their legacy and contribution to the specialty. As a result, each chapter author not only provides an informative overview and assessment of the classic paper and its impact on today's oral and maxillofacial surgeon, but also provides a captivating biography of the person behind the paper, offering a valuable synthesis that adds important context to each paper. Because The Great War (World War 1) was a landmark period in the evolution of maxillofacial surgery, the editors organized the text into three sections – pre Great War, Great War, and post Great War. A major contribution to the clinical literature, Classic Papers and Pioneers in Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery will serve many different purposes for readers: as a comprehensive reference in general, as a starting point for maxillofacial surgeons who wish to learn more about the foundations of what is performed currently, as a resource for students looking for inspiration, and for all readers interested in the history and development of surgery.

Paper has become the most common writing material worldwide in the course of a two millennia history. This study provides a magisterial synthesis of recent scholarship and original insights into the origins of papermaking and its subsequent history in imperial China, including a wide range of archaeological evidence and literary sources. The volume introduces the materials and technologies of paper production and presents the cultural history of paper in traditional China. A comprehensive survey of literary sources on the production and use of paper is undertaken starting with the ongoing debate about the origin and genesis of paper, which was fuelled by recent archaeological discoveries of paper or proto-paper from the last two centuries BCE. In addition to its having become a popular writing material produced in many different qualities for both handwriting and printing, it also served as a material for wrapping or decorating, money and numerous uses in everyday life, such as umbrellas, windows, clothing, wallpapers, curtains and kites. Precious paper contributed to the aesthetics of calligraphy and painting, catering to the taste of the educated elite and artists.

This is an open access book. The 1st International Conference on Health, Science, and Environment (ICHSE) aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers, industry representatives, postdoctoral fellows, and research scholars around the world to share their knowledge and research expertise, to discuss in the area Health, Science, and Environment as well as to create a prospective collaboration and networking on various areas. The proceedings include a selection of 17 papers from 145 papers submitted to the conference from academic institutions, universities, and industries all over the world. We thanks to our Keynote Speaker Prof. Masato Iguchi (Sakurajima Volcano Research Center, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University, Japan), Prof. Fumitaka Fujita (Osaka University, Japan), Dr. Akaraphol Watcarawipas (Mahidol University, Thailand), Dr. Ronn Goei (Carl Zeiss, Singapore), and Dr. Meezan Ardhanu Asagabaldan (Institut Teknologi Sumatera, Indonesia) for their constant support and guidance. It was also a great pleasure to work with such an excellent organizing committee for their hard work in organizing and supporting for the event. The accepted papers were subjected to strict peer-reviewing by 5 expert referees. The papers have been selected for this volume because of quality and the relevance to the topics.

Statistics is central in the biosciences, social sciences and other disciplines, yet many students often struggle to learn how to perform statistical tests, and to understand how and why statistical tests work. Although there are many approaches to teaching statistics, a common framework exists between them: starting with probability and distributions, then sampling from distribution and descriptive statistics and later introducing both simple and complex statistical tests, typically ending with regression analysis (linear models).This book proposes to reverse the way statistics is taught, by starting with the introduction of linear models. Today, many statisticians know that the one unifying principle of statistical tests is that most of them are instances of linear models. This teaching method has two advantages: all statistical tests in a course can be presented under the same unifying framework, simplifying things; second, linear models can be expressed as lines over squared paper, replacing any equation with a drawing. This book explains how and why statistics works without using a single equation, just lines and squares over grid paper. The reader will have the opportunity to work through the examples and compute sums of squares by just drawing and counting, and finally evaluating whether observed differences are statistically significant by using the tables provided. Intended for students, scientists and those with little prior knowledge of statistics, this book is for all with simple and clear examples, computations and drawings helping the reader to not only do statistical tests but also understand statistics.

Answering an unexpected call to faith in her thirties, Melody Gee contends with what saying “yes” to conversion requires of an adopted daughter of Chinese immigrants. Faced with a new framework for her place in the world, grief and doubt shadow her tentative steps toward becoming a believer. She looks for answers and consolation in her family's story of immigration trauma and cultural assimilation, in the ways their burdens and limitations made her answer-seeking both impossible and inevitable. In essays that explore the parallels between conversion and language acquisition, isolated liturgies, cultural inheritances, stalled initiations, disrupted storytelling, and adoption, Gee examines conversion's grief and hope, losses and gains, hauntings and promises. We Carry Smoke and Paper is a memoir about what we owe to those who sacrifice everything for us, and it is about the many conversions in a lifetime that turn our heads via whispers and shouts, calling us to ourselves.

The Working Papers of Hugo Grotius is the first full-length study of the handwritten documents initially used by the author of Mare Liberum (1609) and De Jure Belli ac Pacis (1625) in his day-to-day activities as a scholar, lawyer, and politician, but subsequently incorporated into his own or other archives. Martine van Ittersum reconstructs a process of transmission, dispersal, and loss that started during Grotius'lifetime and ended with the papers'auction in 1864. This is also a study of archival afterlives. Our understanding of Grotius'life and work is shaped by the conscious decisions of previous generations to retain or discard documents, frequently for the sake of individual lives and careers, family honour and/or larger political and religious ends.

This volume has been written in honour of Professor Annelou van Gijn in order to celebrate her distinguished career as an archaeologist and, above all, as an expert in the study of material culture. Annelou started her research with the use-wear analysis of prehistoric flint from the Netherlands, and she extended her interests in every possible direction: time, space, materials and technologies. This volume has been compiled to reflect the broad oeuvre of her work. It focuses on the biographies of a wide range of artefact types made from an equally wide range of materials from Mesolithic and Neolithic Europe, but also glimpses beyond into other periods and geographic regions. The papers focus on different aspects of artefact biographies including raw material acquisition, artefact production, use, and discard, and even the afterlife of objects in our modern society. The objects in question include quotidian tools such as querns and harvesting tools, adhesives that held objects together, and elaborate objects such as maceheads, jewellery, and flint superblades. Whatever the subject of Annelou's individual publications, at the heart of all of her work is the love of objects and the stories that they have to tell us. The stories in this bundle are a testament of her contagious enthusiasm.

This book presents the manufacture and development of products from a novel material formulation as a bio-based paper material using 3D printing for engineering purposes. The approach is to optimize the material behavior and the manufacturing process to achieve a high level of quality and accuracy. A wide range of formulations are investigated to select homogeneous pastes with high 3D printing potential for best outcomes. This is accomplished through customization and optimization under the control of rheological behavior and printing parameters. Mechanical characterization is investigated to identify the adhesion and other properties of the paste formulation. Potential applications for the built environment in façade construction are presented, which match the material properties and benefit the most from the complexity offered by additive manufacturing technology. The content State of Art Printing Configuration and Performance Quality & Accuracy Assessment Material & Mechanical Behavior 3D Models as a Case Study

•More than 500 SAQs are compiled based on 52 previous years'examination papers. •Answers are written by emergency medicine experts. •Answers are supported by tables, flowcharts, and figures which will be helpful in time management. •References are given at the end of each question with chapter and page number. •Students can immediately refer to the answers in the textbook and read in detail. •Recommended for Emergency Medicine Trainees, preparing for Postgraduate Exit Examination.

This book includes extended versions of selected research works that were presented at the 14th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems, and Applications (IISA2023), Volos, Greece, 10–12 July 2024 (https://www.easyacademia.org/iisa2023) along with additional relevant papers by invited authors. Information is widely available and accessible but frequently leads to information overload and overexposure and the effort for coding, storing, hiding, securing, transmitting, and retrieving it may be excessive. Intelligence, inspired by biological and other paradigms, is required to manage information and extract knowledge from it. Information and multimedia systems, with an increasing level of intelligence, are being developed that incorporate these advances. As a result, new technologies, protocols, and novel applications are emerging. In turn, the novel applications lead to the collection of new information, and the “Information à Intelligence à Systems à Applications” circle is repeated at ever higher levels. These works cover a broad spectrum of topics from both novelties in theory and advanced methodologies as well as novel applications in energy, agriculture, medicine, forensics, healthcare, education, tourism, inspection, traffic, and software engineering. Targeted towards academicians, researchers, practitioners, and students in computer science and artificial intelligence, this work is also accessible to individuals from other disciplines interested in the cutting-edge developments of information, intelligence, systems, and applications. An extensive list of bibliographic references at the end of each chapter guides the readers to probe deeper into the application areas of interest to them.

Get the Summary of Tina Brown's The Palace Papers in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.'The Palace Papers'by Tina Brown delves into the British royal family's transition into the 21st century, marked by a shift away from the charisma of Princess Diana to a focus on the Crown and its direct successors. The book explores the monarchy's challenges, including the impact of popular figures like Diana and the media's role in shaping public perception. Brown examines the complex relationships within the royal family, such as Princess Margaret's adherence to duty over personal desires, and the Queen's steadfast maintenance of the monarchy's mystique...

The Wimsey Papers are a series of articles by Dorothy L. Sayers published between November 1939 and January 1940 in The Spectator. They had the form of letters exchanged by members of the Wimsey Family and other characters familiar to readers from the Lord Peter Wimsey detective novels, but were in fact intended to convey Sayers'opinions and commentaries on various aspects of public life in the early months of the Second World War, such as black-out, evacuation, rationing and the need of the public to take personal responsibility rather than wait for the government to guide them. The subjects range from very practical and detailed advice on such issues as how pedestrians can avoid being hit by cars in black-out to quite Utopian and far-reaching schemes for the post-war reconstruction of Britain.

This book contains previous years'MD (Pediatrics) and DCH question papers with authentic and simplified answers; which will help pediatric students in preparing for their theory examinations. The answers have been extracted from various standard textbooks and articles. It includes newer updates; diagrams; and flowcharts; which will be useful to the students.

This book takes a long-term approach, spanning from the end of the 16th to the end of the 19th centuries, to explore how men and women in Italy, France, and Spain collected, displayed, and passed down various types of papers.The contributors share a core interest in the relationship between social actors and their paper heritage. The collectors, who come from diverse cultural, social, and gender backgrounds, provide insights into the reasons and processes behind the accumulation, valorisation, and transmission of their paper heritage. Unlike most studies on collecting, this book shifts the focus away from collections and institutions to the owners of the collected objects and their desires for their accumulated papers. This volume covers three centuries and provides insights into the aspirations of collectors and the fate of their papers after transmission. It takes place against the backdrop of major social, political, and cultural changes affecting the Italian peninsula, the Spanish monarchy, and France. The cultural interests and the collector networks often extended beyond Europe, as noted by many of the essays in this volume.Paper Heritage in Italy, France, Spain and Beyond (16th to 19th Centuries) will interest scholars and students of Early Modern and Modern European History across various fields, including social and cultural history, intellectual history, gender history, history of collecting and patronage.

Inner Speech is an increasingly relevant object of study in psychology research. In recent decades, interest in the study of inner language has even transcended the psychological sciences and has become an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary study phenomenon. Philosophers, anthropologists, psychologists, educators, and neuroscientists have joined efforts to learn more about this everyday experience inherent in human nature. Specifically, in psychology, the study of Inner Speech has been taken up by cognitive psychologists, cultural psychologists, developmental psychologists, clinical psychologists, and educational psychologists who have ventured into the study of this intimate experience of'talking to ourselves'in silence. This book is a compilation of work on Inner Speech that has been carried out by the research team of the Cognition & Culture Laboratory (C&C Lab) of the Institute of SocioEmotional Well-being (IBEM) of the Faculty of Psychology of the Universidad del Desarrollo, Chile, for more than a decade. Throughout this book, readers will be able to approach the phenomenon of Inner Speech both at a theoretical-conceptual level and will also be able to learn about some strategies for its empirical exploration. It's worth mentioning that the works presented in this book constitute only a personal collection of theoretical elaborations and methodological approaches to Inner speech, and not the full spectrum of currently existing research on Inner Speech. The objective of this compilation of articles is to position our line of research and present, in an organized manner, the evolution of our exploration of the phenomenon to the international research program on Inner Speech. More than closing a stage, our mission is to show the progress that we have developed for more than a decade regarding the study of Inner Speech, hoping in this way to open new questions, dialogues and methodological challenges in the international academic community.

Introduction, par Feriel Kandil 1. Avant-propos. Économie et religion. L'économie entre sécularisation et sacralisation, par Patrick Mardellat PARTIE I. SACRIFICES RELIGIEUX OU SACRIFICES ÉCONOMIQUES 2. Du sacrifice religieux au sacrifice économique : une invisible continuité?, par François Dermange 3. Et la profanation du bon ordre engendrera la ruine de la communauté des hommes / Boisguilbert, la prophétie de malheur et la crise économique comme expiation, par Jean-Daniel Boyer 4. Réputation sectaire et freinage ouvrier. Remarques sur la communauté chez Max Weber (1904-1908), par Paul Slama 5. Vous avez dit excédent : donnez-le ou sacrificiez-le. À propos de Georges Bataille, par Ramón Tortajada PARTIE II. PROFANATIONS ET RÉSISTANCES 6. Accumulation du capital et humanité profanée. Luxemburg, Robinson, Arendt, par Marlyse Pouchol 7. Sacrifice, destruction créatrice et cycles du capitalisme : la (dé)-raison sacrificielle de l'économie, par Patrick Mardellat 8. Marchandisation, économie du don et risques extrêmes, par Alain Renaut 9. Le pouvoir de subversion du don, par Feriel Kandil

This book has been conceptualized keeping in mind that the postgraduate trainees not only need a good guide for their examinations, but also they will step out into the real world of medical practice as consultant surgeons. The purpose of the book is not to spoon feed the readers with answers to all questions but to provide clues and information so that the students can perceive the concepts and produce their own answers.

Sommaire 1. Gabriel Bonnot de Mably et le droit naturel moderne : un essai de réévaluation, par Jean Dellemotte et Julie Ferrand 2. Les avant-courriers de l'entrepreneur innovateur à l'époque du capitalisme mercantiliste : faits et théories, par Domenico Catalano 3. De l'homo oeconomicus à l'homo sympathicus : les apports de la sympathie smithienne à la compréhension des comportements prosociaux, par Vanessa Michel 4. La'valeur nouvellement créée'de Marx et la valeur ajoutée de la comptabilité nationale, par Pierre Le Masne 5. Keynes et les « fondements ricardiens du marxisme », par Nicolas Piluso et Edouard Cottin-Euziol 6. Monétiser ou ne pas monétiser la dette publique… Est-ce vraiment la question? Une perspective postkeynésienne néo-chartaliste, par Jonas Grangeray 7. La mise à distance du « darwinisme social » de Spencer par Hayek, par Vincent Ortiz Recensions 8. Un nouvel éclairage théologico-politique sur les communs. Note de lecture de l'ouvrage Composer un monde commun, de Gaël Giraud, par Hervé Defalvard 9. A History of Ecological Economic Thought, Marco P. Vianna Franco et Antoine Missemer, par Jérôme Deyris

This aviation/travel journal is an account of the author's experiences in 59 years of travelling the globe. His half-Scottish roots may have something to do with his yearning for a desire to visit a number of cold-weather countries that many of us might stay away from, but might like to read about! There are some tropical visits and temperate ones too, but the latest tally has been 21 landings or take-offs within the Arctic Circle, and photos included in the book show Greenland, Iceland, Faroes, Svalbard (sometimes called Spitzbergen), The Falklands and Antarctica amongst others, but there are some in warmer temperature zones! Over those years of travel 124 separate trips have been made involving over 450 different flights. In the early years, many were propeller aircraft and then later jet transport but over that period 64 different types have been flown, and each is supported in the book by brief technical notes and a photo. The author's work in airline operations and then later in the travel agency sector allowed him the opportunity to extensively travel the world and see these sights. Later in retirement, the travel bug has continued. Interspersed into the timeline of the book is the author's autobiography of his time spent in the three countries he has lived in during his working life.

For two decades, Understanding Clinical Papers has been helping students and professionals understand the research that supports evidence-based practice. Now in its fourth edition, this popular introductory textbook covers every major aspect of reading and evaluating clinical research literature, from identifying the aims and objectives of a paper to analysing the data with different multivariable methods. Numerous excerpts from actual clinical research papers make learning real and immediate, supported by a unique visual approach that reinforces key points and connects examples with the chapter material. The fourth edition includes extensively revised content throughout, including four brand-new chapters covering qualitative studies, Poisson regression, studies of complex interventions, and research using previously collected data. New and updated material discusses the difference between clinical and statistical significance, the consequences of multiple testing and methods of correction, how topic guides are used to explore and explain participants'experiences, standardised guidelines for writing trials and reviews, and much more. Offering clear explanations of important research-related topics, this reader-friendly resource: Offers a clear, concise, and accessible approach to learning how to read and analyse clinical research literature Features new coverage of qualitative research, including descriptive studies, sampling and populations, and identifying, summarising, and measuring qualitative characteristics Provides new material on missing data, sub-group analysis, feasibility and pilot studies, cluster randomised trials, and adaptive trial designs Includes new tables, abstracts, and excerpts from recent clinical research literature Understanding Clinical Papers is essential reading for all healthcare professionals and students, particularly those involved in clinical work and medical research, as well as general readers wanting to improve their understanding of research literature.

Perfect for fans of To All the Boys I've Loved Before and The Kissing Booth, this teen romance is about a girl who follows a trail of paper hearts from her mystery admirer and learns that sometimes love can find you in mysterious ways. Ella's life was picture perfect. She had a circle of close friends, a jam-packed social life, and an amazing boyfriend. But then something completely unexpected happened: a car accident after a Valentine's Day dance. When Ella woke up in the hospital, she couldn't remember the accident... or anything about the weeks before it, including the reason she broke up with her boyfriend. Now, a year later, she begins receiving paper hearts from a mysterious admirer who seems to have the answers she craves. Ella is intrigued. The hearts contain clues to help Ella remember her life before... and take her on a journey she never imagined. Following the paper hearts is the most spontaneous thing Ella has ever done... but will she find love?Underlined is a line of totally addictive romance, thriller, and horror titles coming to you fast and furious each month. Enjoy everything you want to read the way you want to read it.

Transform paper into unique keepsakes with hands-on crafts for kids 8-12 With a little cutting, folding, and gluing, kids can turn paper into cool gadgets, games, and accessories—like a Starry Night Globe, a Tiny Ticket Suitcase, a Fleecy Alpaca, and more. Creative Paper Crafts shows them how with 35 templates included right inside the book, so all they have to do is cut them out and get crafting! With detailed instructions and step-by-step photos, kids will create their own impressive paper treasures in no time. Tips and tricks—This book sets kids up for success with a quick introduction to preparing their workspace, choosing materials, and paper crafting terms like'scoring'and'quilling.'No special tools required—Kids just need some basic household items like paper, scissors, glue, and pencils to complete these projects. For all skill levels—Kids can try out simple crafts like the Archipelago Bookmarks and the Uplifting Envelopes Card, or more difficult crafts like a Scaled-Down Crown and a Book Nook Alley. Help kids have a blast learning new skills with this book of awesome paper crafts.

Collection of the best scholarly essays from the 2020 Southeastern Renaissance Conference plus essays submitted directly to the journal. Topics run from the epic to influence studies to the perennial problem of love and beyond.Renaissance Papers 2020 features essays from the conference held virtually at Mercer University, as well as essays submitted directly to the journal. The volume opens with an essay that discusses the'ultimate story,'the epic, and argues, pointing to the Henriad and The Faerie Queen, that some of the most ambitious remain unfinished; an essay on'just war'and Henry V follows, suggesting why such epic inconclusion may not be such a bad thing. A trio of influence studies investigate post-Marian virginity, Miltonic environmentalism, and cross-dressing knights. Three essays then interrogate the perennial problem of love: in popular ballads, in Hero and Leander, and in The Rape of Lucrece. An essay argues counterintuitively for Amelia Lanyer and Margaret Cavendish as exemplars of the Cavalier Ideal of the Bonum Vitae; it is followed by an equally provocative reconsideration of the role of Claudio D'Arezzo's rhetorical works for Sicilian national identity. The last essay analyzes the formal signatures of three sixteenth-century queens and how they sought to represent themselves on the public stage.

Dieses Buch wird die Erinnerung an den Krieg in Afghanistan für immer verändern. Die bahnbrechenden Enthüllungen des Washington Post-Reporters und dreimaligen Pulitzer-Preisfinalisten Craig Whitlock zeigen eindrücklich, wie drei aufeinanderfolgende Präsidenten - Bush, Obama, Trump - und ihre militärischen Befehlshaber die weltweite Öffentlichkeit konsequent über Amerikas längsten Kriegseinsatz belogen. 20 Jahre nach 9/11 offenbart sich die zweck- und planlose Mission, deren absehbares Scheitern viel zu lange bewusst verborgen wurde: Die Afghanistan Papers sind ein schockierender Bericht, der auch die Rückeroberung Afghanistans durch die Taliban vorwegnahm. Whitlock liefert Dokumente und eine längst überfällige Abrechnung über all das, was schiefgelaufen ist. Wie einst die Pentagon Papers die öffentliche Wahrnehmung des Vietnamkriegs veränderten, enthalten die Afghanistan Papers erschütternde Enthüllungen von mehr als 1.000 Personen, die wussten, dass die US-Regierung die Fakten vor Ort verzerrt darstellte und manchmal sogar erfand - von Führungskräften im Weißen Haus und Pentagon bis hin zu Ortskräften und Soldaten an der Front in Afghanistan. Sie geben offen zu, dass die Strategie der US-Regierung ein Desaster und es ein kolossaler Fehlschlag war, einen afghanischen Staat nach westlichen Standards aufbauen zu wollen. In seinem Nachwort für die deutsche Ausgabe geht Craig Whitlock auch auf die Rolle Deutschlands in diesem Drama ein. Wer dieses Buch gelesen hat, wird die Militärmission in Afghanistan mit anderen Augen sehen. »Rasant und lebendig... randvoll mit erzählenden Zitaten.« New York Times »Beeindruckend dokumentiert... Nach dieser maßgeblichen Darstellung war der Afghanistankrieg ein kolossaler Fehlschlag, der schon vor Jahren hätte beendet werden sollen.« Kirkus-Review »Rigoros detailliert, ein herzzerreißender Blick darauf, wie Amerikas Führer beschlossen haben, ihre Fehler zu begraben und den Krieg treiben zu lassen.« Publishers WeeklyCraig Whitlock, geboren 1968,schreibt als investigativer Journalist für die Washington Post. Seit 2001 berichtet er als Auslandskorrespondent, Pentagon-Reporter und Spezialist für nationale Sicherheit über den globalen Krieg gegen den Terrorismus. 2019 erhielt er für seine Berichterstattung über den Krieg in Afghanistan den George Polk Award for Military Reporting, den Scripps Howard Award for Investigative Reporting, den Investigative Reporters and Editors Freedom of Information Award sowie den Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award für internationale Berichterstattung. Whitlock hat aus mehr als 60 Ländern - darunter Deutschland - berichtet und war dreimaliger Finalist für den Pulitzer-Preis. Er lebt in Silver Spring, Maryland.

This collection of essays by a leading authority on Suetonius, one of our most significant historical sources for the early Roman Empire, provides an in-depth examination of his works, whose literary value has in the past been overlooked.Although Suetonius is well known for his Lives of emperors such as Caligula and Nero, he is rarely studied in his own right, aside from grammatical or textual commentaries. This is the first volume by an expert on the author to make him accessible to a wider audience, looking at his biographies not only of emperors but also poets, and discovering new contemporary evidence for Jesus from one of Suetonius'first-century sources. Other writers discussed include Homer, Sophocles, Catullus, Virgil, Horace, Curtius Rufus, Josephus, Plutarch, Pliny the Younger, Tacitus, Juvenal, and Cassius Dio. The book contains thirty-two papers in all, eleven of which are new, which examine Suetonius'neglected historical value and literary skills, and offer textual conjectures on both the Illustrious Men and Lives of the Caesars. It also has a new introduction and represents over a dozen years of research on an essential Latin source for Roman history.Collected Papers on Suetonius provides an invaluable resource for students and researchers working on Suetonius. It also has broader significance for anyone studying Roman imperial history and culture, Latin literature, and classical historiography.

When the famed 18th century astrologer, John Partridge, publicly discredited the Christian church, Jonathan Swift developed an immense distaste for the man. Feeling insulted and malicious, Swift decided to celebrate his favorite holiday, All Fools Day, more commonly known as April Fools, while also appeasing his self-appointed feud with Partridge. Under the disguise of a pseudonym, Swift published The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers as a series of three letters. The first letter, titled Predictions for the Year 1708 started with a criticism of the cultural impact astrology had on their society. Eventually, the narrative shifts to list predictions including political uprisings, the birth of children, weather patterns, battle outcomes, and most importantly, the death of notable figures, including John Partridge. To accompany this letter, Swift next published The Accomplishments of the First of Mr. Bickerstaff's Predictions, which was written from the perspective of a government employee who supported and confirmed the validity of Bickerstaff's predictions. This section also included an elegy for John Partridge, furthering the claim that the man was dead. These papers gained immense popularity, and convinced the public that these predictions were legitimate. This caused quite the disturbance for Partridge, who was often waken by the sound of people crying outside his home, mourning his death. After Partridge published a paper to deny the rumors that he was dead, Swift responded with the final part of The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers, pondering the philosophical definition of death to convince his audience that Partridge was dead once more. Though it began as a prank, Swift's The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers transformed into a life-altering work that employed careful prose and satire so supreme that it went unnoticed by many. Following its popularity in 1708 and 1709, The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers further inspired celebrated authors such as Richard Steele, Benjamin Franklin, and H.P. Lovecraft. This edition of The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers by Jonathan Swift features a new, eye-catching cover design and is printed in a readable font, making it both accessible and modern. Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book. With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

Rock, Paper, Scissors is a collection of creative, fun, sense-stimulating things you can do with very simple materials: stones, paper and scissors.From land art to science experiments, with a pinch of geology, and a sprinkling of magic, these easy-but-inspiring and thrifty activities will keep your family occupied all year round.Rock, Paper, Scissors is packed with activities to do indoors and outdoors, in the city, at the beach, in the countryside – wherever you might be. Perfect for parents who are keen to turn walks and day trips into exciting experiences, this activity book will have universal appeal for families who want to reduce their screen time and encourage kids to conjure up adventures from almost nothing both indoors and out.

The papers collected in this volume deal mainly with ancient Greek or Roman philosophy. They range chronologically from the 5th century BC to the 6th century AD, and in them the evidence is fully presented and discussed. They are concerned mainly with the Presocratics, Plato, Aristotle, the Early Academy, the Platonic and Aristotelian traditions, especially as represented by Neoplatonism. In addition, there are a few more general articles. The first deals with the saying'Amicus Plato sed magis amica veritas'and studies the different forms of this proverb from the time of Plato and Aristotle to Cervantes in the 17th century. Another one discusses the rather complex transmission of Plato's alleged epitaph. A third one deals in detail with an incomplete but interesting allegorical interpretation of Heliodorus'Aethiopica.

What's your destiny? Johnny Rocket knows the answer to that question. A wannabe rock star with a head full of dreams but empty of talent, Johnny believes that his band ‘Paper Monkey'are destined for greatness despite certain things standing in their way, such as a total lack of musical ability. When Johnny has a chance meeting with a student all the way from Peru, he thinks the stars are aligning and fate is finally pushing him towards greatness. However, Johnny isn't the only one chasing the stars and he and his overly tight trousers soon get caught up in an adventure thousands of years in the making!

Paper dolls might seem the height of simplicity--quaint but simple toys, nothing more. But through the centuries paper figures have reflected religious and political beliefs, notions of woman­hood, motherhood and family, the dictates of fashion, approaches to education, individual self-image and self-esteem, and ideas about death. This book examines paper dolls and their symbolism--from icons made by priests in ancient China to printable Kim Kardashians on the Internet--to show how these ephemeral objects have an enduring and sometimes surprising presence in history and culture.

With paper circuits, you can add lights, sounds, and more to paper crafts such as greeting cards. With this book, students learn the art of innovation through detailed explanations and hands-on activities built to foster creativity and problem solving. Fun, engaging text introduces readers to new ideas and builds on maker-related concepts they may already know. Additional tools, including a glossary and an index, help students learn new vocabulary and locate information.

A sweeping, richly detailed history that tells the fascinating story of how paper—the simple Chinese invention of two thousand years ago—wrapped itself around our world, humankind's most momentous ideas imprinted on its surface. The emergence of paper in the imperial court of Han China brought about a revolution in the transmission of knowledge and ideas, allowing religions, philosophies and propaganda to spread with ever greater ease. The first writing surface sufficiently cheap, portable and printable for books, pamphlets and journals to be mass-produced and distributed widely, paper opened the way for an unprecedented, ongoing dialogue between individuals and between communities across continents, oceans and time. The Paper Trail explores how the new substance was used to solidify social and political systems that influenced China even into our own time. We see how paper made possible the spread of the then new religions of Buddhism and Manichaeism into Japan, Korea and Vietnam... how it enabled theologians, scientists and artists to build the vast and signally intellectual empire of the Abbasid Caliphate and embed the Koran in popular culture... how paper was carried along the Silk Road by merchants and missionaries, finally reaching Europe in the late thirteenth century... and how, once established in Europe, along with the printing press, paper played an essential role in the three great foundations of Western modernity: the Renaissance, the Reformation and the Scientific Revolution. Here is a dramatic, comprehensively researched, vividly written story populated by holy men and scholars, warriors and poets, rulers and ordinary men and women—an essential story brilliantly told in this luminous work of history.

An undercover operative heads to the island paradise of Tahiti to prevent a nuclear nightmare in this novel by “the John D. MacDonald of espionage fiction” (Larry McMurtry, The New York Times). Freelance agent Joe Gall is supposedly monitoring French atomic testing near the Pacific island of Tahiti. But that's just a cover. His real assignment: disrupt the budding relationship between De Gaulle and the Red Chinese. The plan is to kidnap one of the leading French scientists, sabotage the test—and prevent annihilation... “I admire Philip Atlee's writing tremendously.” —Raymond Chandler

In this book, the author pays tribute to Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866), a mathematician with revolutionary ideas, whose work on the theory of integration, the Fourier transform, the hypergeometric differential equation, etc. contributed immensely to mathematical physics. The text concentrates in particular on Riemann's only work on prime numbers, including ideas – new at the time – such as analytical continuation into the complex plane and the product formula for entire functions. A detailed analysis of the zeros of the Riemann zeta-function is presented. The impact of Riemann's ideas on regularizing infinite values in field theory is also emphasized. This revised and enhanced new edition contains three new chapters, two on the application of Riemann's zeta-function regularization to obtain the partition function of a Bose (Fermi) oscillator and one on the zeta-function regularization in quantum electrodynamics. Appendix A2 has been re-written to make the calculations more transparent. A summary of Euler-Riemann formulae completes the book.

Un cant a l'esperança, a la companyonia i a la força que ens donen els ideals en el marc repressiu de la postguerra espanyola. Quan Jeroni es deplaça fins a la Vila Joiosa per acomiadar per sempre el besavi Tomàs, el retrobament familiar l'empeny a estirar el fil del seu avantpassat. La història ens trasllada aleshores al present del Tomàs, un republicà que va conèixer Capa al camp de batalla i que, després de la desfeta republicana, va ser empresonat a la presó d'Alacant, on va coincidir amb el poeta Miguel Hernández. La narració acaba d'encaixar, com un caleidoscopi, gràcies a la veu de la Roser, filla del Tomàs, que parla d'aquella situació de repressió des de la infantesa i ens anuncia el desenllaç.

Discover and fall in love with the ancient art of marbling paint in this modern guide! With more than 30 different patterns to create and a step-by-step interactive workbook to encourage practice, you'll start with the “Big 4” foundational patterns - stone, get-gal, non-pareil, and chevron - and continue on to more advanced designs and patterns. Eventually, you'll know how to transfer your designs onto fabric, wood, and porcelain for home décor, stationery, apparel, ceramics, accessories, and more! With guidance from Heather Fletcher, a professional artist who has traveled the world studying these distinctive methods and learning from the world's leading marbling masters, you'll also gain an understanding of the history of this reemerging artform.

Winner of the 2022 Ewell L. Newman Book Award from the American Historical Print Collectors Society In the immediate aftermath of the Revolutionary War, only the wealthiest Americans could afford to enjoy illustrated books and prints. But, by the end of the next century, it was commonplace for publishers to load their books with reproductions of fine art and beautiful new commissions from amateur and professional artists. Georgia Brady Barnhill, an expert on the visual culture of this period, explains the costs and risks that publishers faced as they brought about the transition from a sparse visual culture to a rich one. Establishing new practices and investing in new technologies to enhance works of fiction and poetry, bookmakers worked closely with skilled draftsmen, engravers, and printers to reach an increasingly literate and discriminating American middle class. Barnhill argues that while scholars have largely overlooked the efforts of early American illustrators, the works of art that they produced impacted readers'understandings of the texts they encountered, and greatly enriched the nation's cultural life.