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Magic, the art of a true gentleman, its secrets lost in the mists
of time. An evil man, cast from this world to the world of the dead
for using the magic of life to kill another human. A true Earth
Wand, born on All Hallows' Eve, and cut during the chimes of
midnight. Mr Slive finally has one of the great, lost Earth Wands,
and has returned to destroy those who stood against him, and take
all of the world's power for himself. Only a circle of magic has
any chance of stopping him, and only two teenagers and a cat now
stand between him and domination of mankind. For Holly, Alec and
Charlie, it is a race, between worlds to the secret caves of a lost
civilisation, and through time to ancient, haunted forests and a
strange land lost between sea and cliffs. From dragons, ghosts and
deadly shadow creatures, to magic tunnels that can trap a person
within them forever. It can only end in a confrontation between one
of the most powerful magicians who ever lived, and two children and
a cat who know they must not fail!
For eleven year old Holly, the last six weeks have been the worst
of her young life. Her mother lies in a coma following a car
accident, the doctors unable to say when, if ever, she might regain
consciousness. With Christmas just one week away, Holly's one wish
is to have her mother home with her on Christmas Day - a wish she
knows is unlikely to be fulfilled. Then, on the eve of her twelfth
birthday, her dad buys her a magician's set from a strange old man
he bumps into by accident in town. The set proves to be very
special; a spell book and a real wand, and suddenly Holly finds
that magic exists everywhere - even in the saddest moments of her
life. Under the guidance of Charlie, Holly learns to do the sort of
magic we can only dream about, with hilarious and sometimes
dangerous results! As Holly's life begins to brighten, she still
holds onto her one true wish - to have her mother home again, and
muses over the opening words in the spell book: This book is for
the use of Holly Jackson Congratulations on being chosen All is
yours until your wishes are fulfilled With Christmas fast
approaching and an evil character trying to take the wand for
himself, can Holly find it in herself to rise to the challenges
that face her and get back the one thing she wants most of all?
Using a unique analytical framework based on host-stranger
relations, this book explores the response of cities to the arrival
and settlement of labour immigrants. Comparing the local policies
of four cities - Paris, Amsterdam, Rome and Tel Aviv - Michael
Alexander charts the development of migrant policies over time and
situates them within the broader social context. Grounded in
multi-city, multi-domain empirical findings, the work provides a
fuller understanding of the interaction between cities and their
migrant populations. Filling a gap in existing literature on
migrant policy between national-level theorizing and local-level
study, the book will provide an important basis for future research
in the area.
Orchestra Expressionsa[ provides music educators at all levels with
easy-to-use, exciting tools to meet daily classroom challenges and
bring new vibrancy and depth to teaching music. The lessons were
written based on the National Standards for the Arts in Music --
not retro-fitted to the Standards. The program is music
literacy-based and satisfies reading and writing mandates in
orchestra class.
Unique Features of Orchestra Expressionsa[:
* "Four-fingers-down" start for every instrument
* Separate but simultaneous development of both hands
* Bass begins in III position developing early shifting
* Orchestra arrangements by Sandra Dackow
* Final full orchestra concert piece
"If there's one thing IÂ know, it's crazy. A lot of people
have called me crazy. Crazy Kristen! For a while there, it
was practically my name. Women all over the world get called crazy
every day. But we weren’t born crazy—we were made
crazy.â€Â Unpacking the ups and downs of Kristen’s
laugh-out-loud funny, sometimes cringe-worthy dating history,
He’s Making You Crazy will hold your hand through deep
self-reflection—while giving you that push to put on your
detective’s hat and hack your man’s email account if you need
to. From trapping your boyfriend in ridiculous lies to gathering
all your crush’s security question answers on the first date,
Kristen shares her no-holds-barred, hysterically funny, and
hard-earned advice on men, love, and modern dating. He’s
Making You Crazy will give you the motivation you need to get out
of an unhealthy relationship (the one that’s making you crazy!),
the wisdom to step up and admit when you’re the one in the wrong,
and the courage to keep your heart open through it all.
Michele Alexandre defines sexploitation as the perpetuation of
myths and stereotypical notions regarding men and women in order to
further an agenda of oppression and subordination in certain
spheres of society. The most popular means through which this
sexploitation is achieved is through a method Alexandre coins as
sexual profiling. Alexandre argues that sexual profiling ultimately
stifles the growth of our society by creating inefficient as well
as oppressive systems, and that its eradication can help increase
the productivity as well as the morale of society. Alexandre opens
the book by exploring in detail the various ways in which normative
views of gender are constructed and perpetuated through media and
societal norms. She then focuses on the ways in which recent legal
opinions and developments contribute to perpetuate these
restrictive and oppressive norms. Finally, Alexandre outlines a
plan to help eliminate the presence of these destructive norms and
attitudes from different sectors of society.Sexploitation from the
Newsroom to the Courtroom examines how sexual profiling represses,
oppresses, and hinders various aspects of life for both genders,
and explores the ways in which the law and the community can help
eradicate the practice of sexual profiling.
Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander's The New
Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited
in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and
community-wide reads; it has been the winner of numerous prizes,
including the NAACP Image Award; and it has spent nearly 250 weeks
on the New York Times bestseller list. Most important of all, it
has spawned a whole generation of criminal justice reform activists
motivated by Michelle Alexander's unforgettable argument that 'we
have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned
it.'
Using a unique analytical framework based on host-stranger
relations, this book explores the response of cities to the arrival
and settlement of labour immigrants. Comparing the local policies
of four cities - Paris, Amsterdam, Rome and Tel Aviv - Michael
Alexander charts the development of migrant policies over time and
situates them within the broader social context. Grounded in
multi-city, multi-domain empirical findings, the work provides a
fuller understanding of the interaction between cities and their
migrant populations. Filling a gap in existing literature on
migrant policy between national-level theorizing and local-level
study, the book will provide an important basis for future research
in the area.
This book gathers all papers presented at the third edition of the
international conference "Complex Systems Design & Management
Asia" (CSD&M Asia 2018), which was held at the National
University of Singapore (NUS) on December 6-7, 2018. Mastering
complex systems requires an integrated understanding of industrial
practices as well as sophisticated theoretical techniques and
tools. This vision was the inspiration for creating an annual forum
in the Asia-Pacific region dedicated to bringing together academic
researchers & industrial actors working on architecture,
modeling & engineering of complex technical &
organizational systems. These proceedings cover the latest trends
in the emerging field of complex systems, both from an academic and
a professional perspective. Special emphasis is placed on "Smart
Transportation." The CSD&M Asia 2018 conference is organized
under the guidance of CESAM Community which is managed by the
non-profit organization CESAMES. The goal of CESAM Community is to
structure the sharing of good practices in enterprise and systems
architecture, and to certify the level of knowledge and proficiency
in this field by means of CESAM certification.
With a new afterword from the authors, the critically praised
indictment of widely embraced “alternatives to incarcerationâ€
“But what does it mean—really—to celebrate reforms that
convert your home into your prison?†—Michelle Alexander, from
the foreword Electronic monitoring. Locked-down drug treatment
centers. House arrest. Mandated psychiatric treatment. Data driven
surveillance. Extended probation. These are some of the key
alternatives held up as cost effective substitutes for jails and
prisons. But in a searing, “cogent critique†(Library Journal),
Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law reveal that many of these so-called
reforms actually weave in new strands of punishment and control,
bringing new populations who would not otherwise have been subject
to imprisonment under physical control by the state. Whether
readers are seasoned abolitionists or are newly interested in
sensible alternatives to retrograde policing and criminal justice
policies and approaches, this highly praised book offers “a
wealth of critical insights†that will help readers “tread
carefully through the dizzying terrain of a world turned upside
down†and “make sense of what should take the place of mass
incarceration†(The Brooklyn Rail). With a foreword by Michelle
Alexander, Prison by Any Other Name exposes how a kinder narrative
of reform is effectively obscuring an agenda of social control,
challenging us to question the ways we replicate the status quo
when pursuing change, and offering a bolder vision for truly
alternative justice practices.
This book contains all refereed papers that were accepted to the
first edition of the Asia-Pacific conference on « Complex Systems
Design & Management » (CSD&M Asia 2014) that took place in
Singapore from December 10 to December 12, 2014 (Website:
http://www.2014.csdm-asia.net/). These proceedings cover the most
recent trends in the emerging field of Complex Systems, both from
an academic and a professional perspective. A special focus is put
on Designing Smart cities. The CSD&M Asia 2014 conference is
organized under the guidance of the Center of Excellence on Systems
Architecture, Management, Economy and Strategy, CESAMES, non-profit
organization, address: CESAMES, 8 rue de Hanovre, 75002 Paris,
France ( Website : http://www.cesames.net/en).
This book contains all refereed papers that were accepted to the
second edition of the Asia-Pacific conference on " Complex Systems
Design & Management Asia" (CSD&M Asia 2016) that took place
in Singapore from February 24 to February 26, 2016 (Website:
http://www.2016.csdm-asia.net/). These proceedings cover the most
recent trends in the emerging field of Complex Systems, both from
an academic and a professional perspective. A special focus is put
on Smart Nations: Designing and Sustaining. The CSD&M Asia 2016
conference is organized under the guidance of the Singapore
division of the Center of Excellence on Systems Architecture,
Management, Economy and Strategy (CESAMES) - Legal address:
C.E.S.A.M.E.S. Singapore - 16 Raffles Quay - #38-03 Hong Leong
Building - Singapore 048581 (website : http://www.cesames.net/en -
email: [email protected]).
This book contains all refereed papers that were accepted to the
first edition of the Asia-Pacific conference on " Complex Systems
Design & Management " (CSD&M Asia 2014) that took place in
Singapore from December 10 to December 12, 2014 (Website:
http://www.2014.csdm-asia.net/). These proceedings cover the most
recent trends in the emerging field of Complex Systems, both from
an academic and a professional perspective. A special focus is put
on Designing Smart cities. The CSD&M Asia 2014 conference is
organized under the guidance of the Center of Excellence on Systems
Architecture, Management, Economy and Strategy, CESAMES, non-profit
organization, address: CESAMES, 8 rue de Hanovre, 75002 Paris,
France ( Website : http://www.cesames.net/en).
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Euro-Par 2013: Parallel Processing Workshops - BigDataCloud, DIHC, FedICI, HeteroPar, HiBB, LSDVE, MHPC, OMHI, PADABS, PROPER, Resilience, ROME, UCHPC 2013, Aachen, Germany, August 26-30, 2013. Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 2014)
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This book constitutes thoroughly refereed post-conference
proceedings of the workshops of the 19th International Conference
on Parallel Computing, Euro-Par 2013, held in Aachen, Germany in
August 2013. The 99 papers presented were carefully reviewed and
selected from 145 submissions. The papers include seven workshops
that have been co-located with Euro-Par in the previous years: -
Big Data Cloud (Second Workshop on Big Data Management in Clouds) -
Hetero Par (11th Workshop on Algorithms, Models and Tools for
Parallel Computing on Heterogeneous Platforms) - HiBB (Fourth
Workshop on High Performance Bioinformatics and Biomedicine) - OMHI
(Second Workshop on On-chip Memory Hierarchies and Interconnects) -
PROPER (Sixth Workshop on Productivity and Performance) -
Resilience (Sixth Workshop on Resiliency in High Performance
Computing with Clusters, Clouds, and Grids) - UCHPC (Sixth Workshop
on Un Conventional High Performance Computing) as well as six
newcomers: - DIHC (First Workshop on Dependability and
Interoperability in Heterogeneous Clouds) - Fed ICI (First Workshop
on Federative and Interoperable Cloud Infrastructures) - LSDVE
(First Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Virtual Environments on
Clouds and P2P) - MHPC (Workshop on Middleware for HPC and Big Data
Systems) -PADABS ( First Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Agent
Based Simulations) - ROME (First Workshop on Runtime and Operating
Systems for the Many core Era) All these workshops focus on
promotion and advancement of all aspects of parallel and
distributed computing.
A crucial indictment of widely embraced "alternatives to
incarceration" that exposes how many of these new approaches
actually widen the net of punishment and surveillance "But what
does it mean-really-to celebrate reforms that convert your home
into your prison?" -Michelle Alexander, from the foreword
Electronic monitoring. Locked-down drug treatment centers. House
arrest. Mandated psychiatric treatment. Data-driven surveillance.
Extended probation. These are some of the key alternatives held up
as cost-effective substitutes for jails and prisons. But many of
these so-called reforms actually widen the net, weaving in new
strands of punishment and control, and bringing new populations,
who would not otherwise have been subject to imprisonment, under
physical control by the state. As mainstream public opinion has
begun to turn against mass incarceration, political figures on both
sides of the spectrum are pushing for reform. But-though they're
promoted as steps to confront high rates of imprisonment-many of
these measures are transforming our homes and communities into
prisons instead. In Prison by Any Other Name, activist journalists
Maya Schenwar and Victoria Law reveal the way the kinder, gentler
narrative of reform can obscure agendas of social control and
challenge us to question the ways we replicate the status quo when
pursuing change. A foreword by Michelle Alexander situates the book
in the context of criminal justice reform conversations. Finally,
the book offers a bolder vision for truly alternative justice
practices.
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Euro-Par 2012: Parallel Processing Workshops - BDMC, CGWS, HeteroPar, HiBB, OMHI, Paraphrase, PROPER, Resilience, UCHPC, VHPC, Rhodes Island, Greece, August 27-31, 2012. Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 2013 ed.)
Ioannis Caragiannis, Michael Alexander, Rosa Maria Badia, Mario Cannataro, Alexandru Costan, …
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This book constitutes thoroughly refereed post-conference
proceedings of the workshops of the 18th International Conference
on Parallel Computing, Euro-Par 2012, held in Rhodes Islands,
Greece, in August 2012. The papers of these 10 workshops BDMC,
CGWS, HeteroPar, HiBB, OMHI, Paraphrase, PROPER, UCHPC, VHPC focus
on promotion and advancement of all aspects of parallel and
distributed computing.
From the people who brought you the bestselling Confessions of a
GP. After sixteen years of high-pressure nursing, Michael Alexander
has traded in his hospital uniform for the fresh air, comfort and
routine of an International private school in the French Alps.
Bliss! But it's not long before he discovers that school nursing is
not all permission slips, sniffles and gift baskets. Disastrous
school trips; after hours dorm sleepovers; awkward sex education
classes; culture clashes; swine flu panic; and kids with six-figure
bank balances and a taste for bribery. This is nursing as you've
never seen it before. What goes on behind the gates of one of the
world's most elite boarding schools? What happens when kids from
all over the world - Russia, Africa, America, Saudi Arabia - live,
learn and grow under one roof? What happens when it's left to
school staff to teach children the facts of life, and lust?
Following on from the hugely successful Confessions of a Male
Nurse, Michael Alexander is back with more touching, shocking and
often laugh-out-loud funny tales of nursing. In Confessions of a
School Nurse, Alexander tells all on boarding school life - as a
nurse, parent, and Average Joe, he offers a unique perspective on
this strange world.
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Euro-Par 2011: Parallel Processing Workshops - CCPI, CGWS, HeteroPar, HiBB, HPCVirt, HPPC, HPSS, MDGS, ProPer, Resilience, UCHPC, VHPC, Bordeaux, France, August 29 -- September 2, 2011, Revised Selected Papers, Part I (Paperback, 2012)
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This book constitutes thoroughly refereed post-conference
proceedings of the workshops of the 17th International Conference
on Parallel Computing, Euro-Par 2011, held in Bordeaux, France, in
August 2011. The papers of these 12 workshops CCPI, CGWS,
HeteroPar, HiBB, HPCVirt, HPPC, HPSS HPCF, PROPER, CCPI, and VHPC
focus on promotion and advancement of all aspects of parallel and
distributed computing.
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Euro-Par 2011: Parallel Processing Workshops - CCPI, CGWS, HeteroPar, HiBB, HPCVirt, HPPC, HPSS, MDGS, ProPer, Resilience, UCHPC, VHPC, Bordeaux, France, August 29 -- September 2, 2011, Revised Selected Papers, Part II (Paperback, 2012)
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This book constitutes thoroughly refereed post-conference
proceedings of the workshops of the 17th International Conference
on Parallel Computing, Euro-Par 2011, held in Bordeaux, France, in
August 2011. The papers of these 12 workshops CCPI, CGWS,
HeteroPar, HiBB, HPCVirt, HPPC, HPSS HPCF, PROPER, CCPI, and VHPC
focus on promotion and advancement of all aspects of parallel and
distributed computing.
Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander's The New
Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited
in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and
community-wide reads; it has been the winner of numerous prizes,
including the NAACP Image Award; and it has spent nearly 250 weeks
on the New York Times bestseller list. Most important of all, it
has spawned a whole generation of criminal justice reform activists
motivated by Michelle Alexander's unforgettable argument that 'we
have not ended racial caste in America; we have merely redesigned
it.'
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Euro-Par 2010, Parallel Processing Workshops - HeteroPAR, HPCC, HiBB, CoreGrid, UCHPC, HPCF, PROPER, CCPI, VHPC, Iscia, Italy, August 31 - September 3, 2010, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 2011 ed.)
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This book constitutes thoroughly refereed post-conference
proceedings of the workshops of the 16th International Conference
on Parallel Computing, Euro-Par 2010, held in Ischia, Italy, in
August/September 2010. The papers of these 9 workshops HeteroPar,
HPCC, HiBB, CoreGrid, UCHPC, HPCF, PROPER, CCPI, and VHPC focus on
promotion and advancement of all aspects of parallel and
distributed computing.
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Euro-Par 2009, Parallel Processing - Workshops - HPPC, HeteroPar, PROPER, ROIA, UNICORE, VHPC, Delft, The Netherlands, August 25-28, 2009, Workshops (Paperback, 2010 ed.)
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Euro-Par is an annual series of international conferences dedicated
to the p- motion and advancement of all aspects of parallel and
distributed computing. th Euro-Par 2009 was the 15 edition in this
conference series. Througout the years, the Euro-Par conferences
have always attracted high-quality submissions and have become one
of the established conferences in the area of parallel and
distributed processing. Built upon the success of the annual
conferences and in order to accommodate the needs of special
interest groups (among the conf- ence participants), starting from
2006, a series of workshopsin conjunction with the Euro-Par main
conference have been organized. This was the ?fth year in which
workshops were organized within the Euro-Par conference format. The
workshops focus on advanced specialized topics in parallel and d-
tributed computing. These topics re?ect new scienti?c and
technological dev- opments. While the community for such new and
speci?c developments is still small and the topics have yet to
become mature, the Euro-Par conference o?ers a platform in the form
of a workshop to exchange ideas and discuss cooperation
opportunities. The workshops in the past four years have been very
successful. The number
ofworkshopproposalsandthenumberof?nallyacceptedworkshopshavegra-
ally increasedsince 2006.In 2008, nine workshopswereorganizedin
conjunction with the main Euro-Par conference. In 2009, there were
again nine workshop
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Euro-Par 2007 Workshops: Parallel Processing - HPPC 2007, UNICORE Summit 2007, and VHPC 2007, Rennes, France, August 28-31, 2007, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 2008 ed.)
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Parallelanddistributedprocessing,
althoughwithinthefocusofcomputerscience researchforalongtime,
isgainingmoreandmoreimportanceinawidespectrum of applications.
These proceedings aim to demonstrate the use of parallel and
distributed processing concepts in di?erent application ?elds, and
attempt to spark interest in novel research directions to advance
the embracing model of high-performance computing research in
general. The objective of these workshops is to speci?cally address
researchers c- ing from university, industry and governmental
research organizations and application-oriented companies, in order
to close the gap between purely s- enti?c research and the
applicability of the research ideas to real-life problems. Euro-Par
is an annual series of international conferences dedicated to the
promotionandadvancementofallaspectsofparallelanddistributedcomputing.
The 2007 event was the 13th issue of the conference. Euro-Par has
for a long time been eager to attract colocated events sharing the
same goal of promoting the development of parallel and distributed
computing, both as an industrial technique and an academic
discipline, extending the frontier of both the state of the art and
the state of the practice. Since 2006, Euro-Par o?ers
researchersthe chance to colocate advanced technical workshops
back-to-back with the main conference. This is for a mutual bene?t:
the workshops can take advantage of all technical and social
facilities which are set up for the conference, so that the
organizational tasks are kept to a minimal level; the conference
can rely on
workshopstoexperimentwithspeci?careasofresearchwhicharenotyetmature
enough, or too speci?c, to lead to an o?cial, full-?edged topic at
the conferenc
Collects the Latest Research Involving the Application of Process
Algebra to Computing Exploring state-of-the-art applications,
Process Algebra for Parallel and Distributed Processing shows how
one formal method of reasoning-process algebra-has become a
powerful tool for solving design and implementation challenges of
concurrent systems. Parallel ProgrammingDivided into three parts,
the book begins by parallelizing an algorithm for the Cell
Broadband Engine processor of IBM, Sony, and Toshiba. It also
develops a runtime environment that can be ported to different
parallel platforms and describes the formal model of action
systems. Distributed SystemsThe next part presents a process
algebra (mCRL2) that targets distributed applications, looks at how
to turn prose descriptions into unambiguous specifications, extends
pi-calculus to create a service-oriented mobility abstract machine,
and introduces the Channel Ambient Machine for mobile applications.
Embedded SystemsThe final section combines state-based Z with the
event-based process algebra CSP in a formal methodology called
Circus. It also develops a pair of process algebras (PARS) to
address the problem of scheduling in real-time embedded systems and
emphasizes the reuse of concurrent artifacts across different
hardware platforms. Highlighting recent research work, this volume
addresses multicore programming problems and the evolution of the
growing body of concurrency-enabled languages. It proposes
solutions to the problems of designing and implementing today's
concurrency-constrained multicore processor and cloud
architectures.
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