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Locating, Classifying and Countering Agile Land Vehicles
With Applications to Command Architectures
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
This book examines real-time target tracking and identification algorithms with a focus on tracking an agile target. The authors look at several problems in which the tradeoff of accuracy and confidence must be made. These issues are explored within the context of specific tracking scenarios chosen...
Thinking Sideways
Short Stories Both Real and Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2015
The short stories in this book are a mixture of both fact and fiction. Some are based upon my real-life experiences with a touch of fantasy mixed in to add some flavor. Some come solely from my hyperactive imagination. It's up to you, the reader, to separate reality from the world of make-believe. Does it really matter?
by Ulrich Storz, Martin Quodbach, Scott D. Marty
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
SpringerBriefs in Biotech Patents presents timely reports on intellectual properties (IP) issues and patent aspects in the field of biotechnology. This volume focus on particular aspects of the US patent law, which can have tremendous differences compared to the European law. This includes questions...
Carnal Alchemy
Sado-Magical Techniques for Pleasure, Pain, and Self-Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
BDSM sexuality as a powerful tool for self-transformation and the realization of magical and spiritual aims
• Details how to combine the 6 major types of S&M stimulation with sexual stimulation for magical and transformative purposes
• Explores sado-magical workings from both submissive...
by Paulina Alberto, Eddie Chambers, Monica Dominguez Torres
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
The African Americas insists on the transcendent interconnectedness of histories, stories, and cultural and disciplinary expression, and the centrality of the Middle Passage in connecting Harlem and Brooklyn to Havana, Kingston, and Rio de Janeiro. The collection's framework urges the reader to consider...
North America
The Historical Geography of a Changing Continent
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
This classic text retains the superb scholarship of the first edition in a thoroughly revised and accessibly written new edition. With both new and updated essays by distinguished American and Canadian authors, the book provides a comprehensive historical overview of the formation and growth of North...
Inequality
Social Class and Its Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
This book offers an up-to-date portrait of the realities of social class and its consequences in the United States today, focusing on the increasing inequality gap; the shrinking middle class; the myth and realities of social mobility; the consequences of class for work, health care, education, the...
by Richard E. Bailey Ph. D.
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
Understanding Self and Others in the Postmodern World is unlike most books directed at giving people insight into themselves in that it is addressed to those who want to think about their lives, relationships with others, and how Western culture has arrived at the Postmodern World. This book examines...
by Paul E. Engle, Randall D. Engle
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2009
For:•Individual use•Group trainingIncludes instrumentalist survey and worship planning checklistWorship is a slice of eternity that Christians can participate in on earth, and nothing can facilitate our experience of worship like music. This wise, concise guidebook will help you harness your God-given...
The State of the Parties
The Changing Role of Contemporary American Parties
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
The State of the Parties brings readers up to date on party action in election years and in between. This essential party primer includes: new chapters on polarization between and within the parties in the aftermath of the 2012 election, demographic changes to America’s political parties and the...
All the White Folks
A History of a People
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
All The White Folks is a historical- biography of a family of African/ European descent who through hard work, education and diligence rose above the stereotypical depictions of people of color by the media- past and present.
Let It Shine!
The Emergence of African American Catholic Worship
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Let It Shine! probes the distinctive contribution of black Catholics to the life of the American church, and to the unfolding of lived Christianity in the United States. This important book explores the powerful spiritual renaissance that has marked African American life and selfunderstanding over...
Real Sister
Stereotypes, Respectability, and Black Women in Reality TV
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
From The Real Housewives of Atlanta to Flavor of Love, reality shows with predominantly black casts have often been criticized for their negative representation of African American women as loud, angry, and violent. Yet even as these programs appear to be rehashing old stereotypes of black women,...
by AJ Fyler, Rhiannon Rhys-Jones, Aila Alvina Boyd
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
Kintsugi is the Japanese art of using gold (and other precious metals) to repair broken pottery. The ritual is complex, intentional, and contemplative. Upon completion, the once-broken vessels are made whole. They are stronger and possess a different type of beauty than before.
Kintsugi is...