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A better understanding of regime changes, and their drivers, is
vital to understanding the root causes of conflict and instability.
In doing so, national and international actors can develop
appropriate strategies to address, curb and prevent escalations of
violence when these transitions occur. This innovative book
explores the motivations and impacts of regime change and political
transition in the contemporary era. Systematically examining the
drivers, formats and long term impacts of transitions, the
contributors seek to identify patterns, commonalities, and
disjunctures between them. Bringing together leading scholars and
practitioners with longstanding relationships to the conflicts they
have covered, this book provides systematic cross-case examinations
of regime change. It examines the structural and immediate triggers
of transitions both external and internal, as well as shedding
light on the ways in which everyday life is changed by them --? for
better or worse. Providing a framework for typological and
comparative analysis, this book provides ontological and
epistemological perspectives on 14 case studies of regime change
following civil wars, secessionist conflicts, popular revolutions,
military rule and foreign intervention. This book is a vital tool
for academics and students of political science, development,
history, regional, peace and conflict studies. Reflecting on regime
change processes spanning different regions and types of
transition, The Elgar Companion to Post Conflict Transition is an
accessible way to cover key debates. Contributors include: A.-G.
Abdulai, B. Austin, R.K. Bhandari, E. Blakaj, U. Bozkurt, G.
Crawford, G. Culaj, N. Dzuverovic, C. Emery, B. Engels, G. Gabusi,
H.J. Giessmann, F. Kuhn, R. Mac Ginty, A. Mazrreku, S. Pogodda, R.
Read, S. Robins, S. Ruzza, C. Seifert, G. Tepsic, M. van Leeuwen,
A. Weber
History of full of liars. Not just little-white-telling liars, but
big-honkin', whopper-telling liars - people who can convince us
that even the most improbable, outrageous, nonsensical stories are
true. And the worst part is that we believe them. Whoppers tells
the story of history's greatest liars and the lies they told,
providing a mix of narrative profiles of super-famous liars, lies,
and/or hoaxes, as well as more obscure episodes.
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Database and Expert Systems Applications - DEXA 2018 International Workshops, BDMICS, BIOKDD, and TIR, Regensburg, Germany, September 3-6, 2018, Proceedings (Paperback, 1st ed. 2018)
Mourad Elloumi, Michael Granitzer, Abdelkader Hameurlain, Christin Seifert, Benno Stein, …
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This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the three
workshops held at the 29th International Conference on Database and
Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2018, held in Regensburg,
Germany, in September 2018: the Third International Workshop on Big
Data Management in Cloud Systems, BDMICS 2018, the 9th
International Workshop on Biological Knowledge Discovery from Data,
BIOKDD, and the 15th International Workshop on Technologies for
Information Retrieval, TIR. The 25 revised full papers were
carefully reviewed and selected from 33 submissions. The papers
discuss a range of topics including: parallel data management
systems, consistency and privacy cloud computing and graph queries,
web and domain corpora, NLP applications, social media and
personalization
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Advances in Information Retrieval - 44th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2022, Stavanger, Norway, April 10-14, 2022, Proceedings, Part II (Paperback, 1st ed. 2022)
Matthias Hagen, Suzan Verberne, Craig Macdonald, Christin Seifert, Krisztian Balog, …
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This two-volume set LNCS 13185 and 13186 constitutes the refereed
proceedings of the 44th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR
2022, held in April 2022, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 35 full
papers presented together with 11 reproducibility papers, 13 CLEF
lab descriptions papers, 12 doctoral consortium papers, 5 workshop
abstracts, and 4 tutorials abstracts were carefully reviewed and
selected from 395 submissions. Chapter "Leveraging Customer Reviews
for E-commerce Query Generation" of this book is available open
access under a CC BY 4.0 license.
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Advances in Information Retrieval - 44th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2022, Stavanger, Norway, April 10-14, 2022, Proceedings, Part I (Paperback, 1st ed. 2022)
Matthias Hagen, Suzan Verberne, Craig Macdonald, Christin Seifert, Krisztian Balog, …
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This two-volume set LNCS 13185 and 13186 constitutes the refereed
proceedings of the 44th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR
2022, held in April 2022, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The 35 full
papers presented together with 11 reproducibility papers, 13 CLEF
lab descriptions papers, 12 doctoral consortium papers, 5 workshop
abstracts, and 4 tutorials abstracts were carefully reviewed and
selected from 395 submissions.
In the latter half of the 1800s, widespread suspicion and anxiety
emerged when wives of all ages and social status were accused of
killing their husbands with poison. However, what seemed like a
massive spike in murderous wives across the United Kingdom and
United States may not have been a spike at all, but rather a poison
panic caused by hungry newspapers and mass hysteria. This work
explores the stories of several high-profile cases of women on
trial for murdering their husbands with poison. Lust, money and
power were often central to the accusations, and the sensational
news coverage set off a century-long witch hunt. No woman was safe
from suspicion during this untold chapter in the history of true
crime.
Around 2005 something surprising happened in young adult
literature: YA books became obsessed with presenting characters who
wanted to have sex but couldn't-at least not without losing
something vital to their identity. Since the publication of
Twilight, the YA market has been flooded with books that feature
naive virgins finding true love. While some YA novels do present
nuanced depictions of sex and of healthy sexual relationships, the
fiction most popular with young adult readers presents adolescent
girls as virginal sex objects waiting to be fulfilled by their love
interests. In Virginity in Young Adult Literature after Twilight,
Christine Seifert looks at an alarming trend in YA novels. Labeling
this phenomenon "abstinence porn," Seifert argues that these novels
that fetishize virginity are harmful to readers. Like pornography,
such works reduce female characters to objects whose sexual acts
are the sole expression of their identities. Chapters in this book
examine paranormal, dystopian, and contemporary romance, paying
particular attention to recurring virginity themes or tropes. The
book also provides an antidote by showing how some sex-positive
teen novels provide more empowering messages to readers. Organized
by genre, the books were selected for this study based on their
popularity with teens. Exploring how messages about virginity are
sustained and repeated from text to text, this book also calls out
key reader reactions to demonstrate how they are responding to
these messages. Featuring a list of discussion questions, Virginity
in Young Adult Literature after Twilight will be a valuable
resource for teachers, librarians, parents, and mature young adult
readers.
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