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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
"Contexts and Contemporary Reactions" illuminates
eighteenth-century culture with selections from conduct books for
women. Extracts from Burney s letters and journals and five
contemporary reviews are also included. "Criticism" presents a
superb selection of critical writing about the novel. The critics
include Anna Letitia Barbauld, William Hazlitt, John Wilson Croker,
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Virginia Woolf, Joyce Hemlow, Martha G.
Brown, Kenneth W. Graham, Kristina Straub, Gina Campbell, Susan
Fraiman, amd Margaret Anne Doody. A Chronology and Selected
Bibliography are included."
Always Never, George, i, Spy Cuban Missile Crisis, potential
nuclear war, nuclear safe underground cities like Burlington at
Corsham in the Cotswolds, Washington, Moscow, Beijing, Tokyo, safe
havens for the elite all around the world. George, deeply involved
with that, finds himself unexpectedly meeting those participating
in the Profumo Political scandal. This brilliant Cambridge
graduate, the high flyer of all high flyers, the cream of the
Foreign and Commonwealth Office, introduced to; but disliking, the
spy game. A world of intrigue, who can he trust? What happened? How
did George end up as the brilliant mind authority put out to grass
as far away as possible from any sphere of influence? This is the
story of George. For the reader, an old nuclear bunker closer to
you than you might imagine.
"Hello Gorgeous" was his pick-up line. Camille had fallen for it
immediately. How was she to know that Connery had been the same man
she had viewed from her workplace windows months before? She had
just begun dating and signed up with one of the free local dating
sites. Connery would become much more than just a lover to Camille.
Would he end up losing more than he anticipated? Camille was on the
road to destruction, and in the process could possibly destroy many
lives, but she never set out to destroy Connery's life. She adored
him dearly, and was appreciative of all he had done for her since
that day in June when they stowed away making love in her bedroom
on their very first encounter. Who would have known that the
entangled lives of Camille Bella and Connery Jackson would share so
much in the future and it all started with those two little words
"Hello Gorgeous."
The editors and authors dedicate this book to Bernhard Korte on the
occasion of his seventieth birthday. We, the editors, are happy
about the overwhelming feedback to our initiative to honor him with
this book and with a workshop in Bonn on November
3-7,2008.Althoughthiswouldbeareasontolookback,wewouldratherliketolook
forward and see what are the interesting research directions today.
This book is written by leading experts in combinatorial
optimization. All - pers were carefully reviewed, and eventually
twenty-three of the invited papers were accepted for this book. The
breadth of topics is typical for the eld: combinatorial
optimization builds bridges between areas like combinatorics and
graph theory, submodular functions and matroids, network ows and
connectivity, approximation algorithms and mat- matical
programming, computational geometry and polyhedral combinatorics.
All these topics are related, and they are all addressed in this
book. Combi- torial optimization is also known for its numerous
applications. To limit the scope, however, this book is not
primarily about applications, although some are mentioned at
various places. Most papers in this volume are surveys that provide
an excellent overview of an
activeresearcharea,butthisbookalsocontainsmanynewresults.Highlightingmany
of the currently most interesting research directions in
combinatorial optimization, we hope that this book constitutes a
good basis for future research in these areas.
Researching Education with Marginalised Communities brings together
two important 21st century themes. The authors consider the what,
where and why of marginalisation, that insidious phenomenon whereby
certain groups of people are deemed inferior on the basis of
factors that they cannot control. Through intensive and extensive
research the book also explores the role of education research in
enabling those involved, whether on the margin or at the centre, to
achieve comprehensive awareness of marginalisation and to combine
forces to combat the stigma of discrimination. The six groups of
marginalised learners included in the book live in Australia, the
UK, Continental Europe, Japan and Venezuela, and include mobile
circus and fairground communities; teachers of Traveller children;
pre-undergraduate university students; vocational education
students with disabilities and their teachers; environmental
lobbyists and policy makers; and retired people. All chapters
explain how researching education with marginalised communities can
be carried out effectively and ethically.
This book explores migration experiences of African families across
two generations in Britain, France and South Africa. Global
processes of African migration are investigated, and the lived
experiences of African migrants are explored in areas such as
citizenship, belonging, intergenerational transmission, work and
social mobility.
The growth in the amount of data collected and generated has
exploded in recent times with the widespread automation of various
day-to-day activities, advances in high-level scienti?c and
engineering research and the development of e?cient data collection
tools. This has given rise to the need for automa-
callyanalyzingthedatainordertoextractknowledgefromit, therebymaking
the data potentially more useful. Knowledge discovery and data
mining (KDD) is the process of identifying valid, novel,
potentially useful and ultimately understandable patterns from
massive data repositories. It is a multi-disciplinary topic,
drawing from s- eral ?elds including expert systems, machine
learning, intelligent databases, knowledge acquisition, case-based
reasoning, pattern recognition and stat- tics. Many data mining
systems have typically evolved around well-organized database
systems (e.g., relational databases) containing relevant
information. But, more and more, one ?nds relevant information
hidden in unstructured text and in other complex forms. Mining in
the domains of the world-wide web, bioinformatics, geoscienti?c
data, and spatial and temporal applications comprise some
illustrative examples in this regard. Discovery of knowledge, or
potentially useful patterns, from such complex data often requires
the - plication of advanced techniques that are better able to
exploit the nature and representation of the data. Such advanced
methods include, among o- ers, graph-based and tree-based
approaches to relational learning, sequence mining, link-based
classi?cation, Bayesian networks, hidden Markov models, neural
networks, kernel-based methods, evolutionary algorithms, rough sets
and fuzzy logic, and hybrid systems. Many of these methods are
developed in the following chapters
This book explores the mental and literary awakening that many
working-class women in the United States experienced when they left
the home and began to work in factories early in the nineteenth
century. Cook also examines many of the literary productions from
this group of women ranging from their first New England magazine
of belles lettres, The Lowell Offering, to Emma Goldman's
periodical, Mother Earth; from Lucy Larcom's epic poem of women
factory workers, An Idyl of Work, to Theresa Malkiel's fictional
account of sweatshop workers in New York, The Diary of a Shirtwaist
Striker. Working women's avid interests in books and writing
evolved in the context of an American romanticism that encouraged
ideals of self-reliance that were not formulated with factory girls
in mind. Their efforts to pursue a life of the mind while engaged
in arduous bodily labour also coincided with the emergence of
middle-class women writers from private and domestic lives into the
literary marketplace. However, while middle-class women risked
forfeiting their status as ladies by trying to earn money by
becoming writers, factory women were accused of selling out their
class credentials by trying to be literary. Cook traces the
romantic literariness of several generations of working-class women
in their own writing and the broader literary responses of those
who shared some, though by no means all, of their interests. The
most significant literary interaction, however, is with
middle-class women writers. Some of these, like Margaret Fuller,
envisioned ideals of female self-development that inspired, without
always including, working women. Others, like novelists Davis,
Phelps, Alcott, and Scudder, created compassionate fictions of
their economic and social inequities but balked at promoting their
artistic and intellectual equality.
This book is an account of the history and continuation of plague
as a potent metaphor since the disease ceased to be an epidemic
threat in Western Europe, engaging with twentieth-century critiques
of fascism, anti-Semitic rhetoric, the Oedipal legacy of
psychoanalysis and its reception, and film spectatorship and the
zombie genre.
Preventing Prison Violence introduces the idea of ‘prison
ecologies’ – a multi-layered perspective to understanding
prison violence as a ‘product’ of human, environment (social
and physical), systemic, and societal influences – and how an
ecological approach is helpful to prevention efforts. Interpersonal
violence is a global concern and a significant cause of death
around the world. In prisons, the human, financial, and health
burden of violence presents a significant social issue – as well
as a ‘wicked problem’ that does not permit of simplistic
solutions. Recent innovations in data capture means that questions
about violence, gang-affiliations, and prisons that could not be
answered previously can now be explored. The central theme of this
book is that prisons are ‘ecologies’ – spaces where people,
resources, and the built environment are interrelated – and that
violence is a product of a complex of interpersonal and
environmental factors that increase the likelihood of assault –
but also provide opportunities for solutions. Drawing on
psychology, geography, indigenous knowledge, gang culture, and
predictive modelling, this book expands beyond the conventional
individual-focused ‘assessment-intervention-prevention’
approach to research in this field, towards a holistic and
ecological way of thinking that recognises individual,
organisational, and cultural factors, as well as the role of the
physical environment itself in the facilitation and prohibition of
aggression. Providing a comprehensive resource for those who are
interested in making prisons safer; firmly based in contemporary
research and theory, Preventing Prison Violence will be of great
interest to students and scholars of Penology, Violence and
Forensic Psychology, as well as to professionals working in
criminal justice settings.
This book presents recent developments is the field of human
aspects in Ambient Intelligence. This field, and the associated
workshop series, addresses multidisciplinary aspects of AmI with
human-directed disciplines such as psychology, social science,
neuroscience and biomedical sciences. The aim of the workshop
series is to get researchers together from these human-directed
disciplines or working on cross connections of AmI with these
disciplines. The focus is on the use of knowledge from these
disciplines in AmI applications, in order to support humans in
their daily living in medical, psychological and social respects.
The book plays important role to get modellers in the
psychological, neurological, social or biomedical disciplines
interested in AmI as a high-potential application area for their
models. From the other side, the book may make researchers in
Computer Science and Artificial and Ambient Intelligence more aware
of the possibilities to incorporate more substantial knowledge from
the psychological, neurological, social and biomedical disciplines
in AmI architectures and applications.
Survivor Criminology: A Radical Act of Hope is a trauma-informed
approach to the study of crime and justice that stems from the
lived experiences of crime survivors. The chapters within this
volume explore our authors' who have each had close personal
encounters with violence and death, as well as institutionalized
oppressions based on racism, heterosexism, sexism, and poverty. As
scholars, professors, practitioners, and students in the field,
these lived experiences with crime and criminal justice have shaped
their research, teaching, and advocacy work. Their voices represent
experiences that are intersectional, mult-igenerational, global,
trauma-informed and resiliency focused. They are deliberately and
decidedly anti-racist, and their experiences acknowledge the harm
that has resulted from institutionalized and structural trauma.
Most importantly, their stories are grounded in their lived
experiences. This volume offers survivor criminology as a radical
act of hope. Our hope comes from the belief that a trauma-centered
approach to crime, justice, and healing provides the opportunity
for criminology to expand its theoretical and methodological roots.
We see this work as transformative for the discipline - for
students, scholars, members of the community, and policy-makers.
This book presents models and statistical methods for the
analysis of recurrent event data. The authors provide broad,
detailed coverage of the major approaches to analysis, while
emphasizing the modeling assumptions that they are based on. More
general intensity-based models are also considered, as well as
simpler models that focus on rate or mean functions. Parametric,
nonparametric and semiparametric methodologies are all covered,
with procedures for estimation, testing and model checking.
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