This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2011, held in Derby, UK, in July 2011. The 18 full papers and 4 short papers presented together with 12 workshop papers were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The volume also contains 3 invited talks. ICCS focuses on the useful representation and analysis of conceptual knowledge with research and business applications. It advances the theory and practice in connecting the user's conceptual approach to problem solving with the formal structures that computer applications need to bring their productivity to bear. Conceptual structures (CS) represent a family of approaches that builds on the successes of artificial intelligence, business intelligence, computational linguistics, conceptual modelling, information and Web technologies, user modelling, and knowledge management. Two of the workshops contained in this volume cover CS and knowledge discovery in under-traversed domains and in task specific information retrieval. The third addresses CD in learning, teaching and assessment.

On October 28th 1890 the great wall of the Barsdon Dam gave way, and the Eagle Star reservoir buried the small Arizona town of Jackson Hope under forty feet of water. Men, women and children perished in the devastating flood, nobody survived. For over a hundred years the town lay forgotten at the bottom of a vast lake, but it has been a particularly harsh summer in Arizona, and the town is starting to emerge. Experts will come and survey the land, hoping to prospect for a bright and lucrative new project, but they will get more than they bargained for. Bit by bit they will uncover the truth behind the disaster which wiped a small farming community off the map, and as they do they will learn with devastating consequencies that some secrets should stay buried forever.

A surreal fiction. Postmodern, Fantasy. Simon Sheeran's short novel is the story of Tom, who wakes up on the belly of a "fearsome Thing" which compels him to feed it. After feeding it Tom falls asleep and has a dream involving an ancient mansion, an old gardener, an unusual group of youths in an abandoned town in a beautiful valley, a bear, a dwarf, and many other things.

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The new house had all the trappings of any other stately home; countless bedrooms, acres of garden, lavish reception room, a dead body, slowly de-composing in the shade of the potting shed. What if you woke one day to find you were re-living your past? Would you do it all the same again? Or would you change the things you didn't like? Even if it hurt the ones you were supposed to love. Even if it put them in mortal danger. Really, what would you do? A cat that barks like a dog, a pretty novel trick at first, but when things become a little more serious the fun soon wears off; like when human beings are turning into hamsters and city skylines are disappearing, and pillars of soot are towering up into the blood red inferno that was once the sky. Their love was unrivalled, dramatic, passionate, all-encompassing and divine. Nothing could spoil it, that is apart from the masked killer who haunts their dreams and threatens to turn all they love to ash and bones. Four stories. Four shocking twists in the tale. One dangerous mind. Simon Andrew Stubbs Bodies

Lisa Hart-Williams Beautiful, intelligent, talented, devious, manipulative, dangerous The stunning and determined lead singer of Tinseltown, currently the biggest pop sensation in Europe. Their albums consistently hit the top spot; their shows sell out in minutes. Charles 'Sonny' Corolla Passionate, driven, obsessive, twisted, racist, psychopathic The singer and guitarist of unsigned small town rock act The Luton Explosions. They can't afford a demo; venues refuse to book them to perform. In a twist of fate their lives will clash, as Sonny's hatred of the manufactured music scene spirals out of control. Lisa Hart-Williams will stop at nothing to become the biggest pop star in the world. Sonny Corolla will stop at nothing to stop her. Passion, lust, hatred, vengeance, despair; just some of the whirlwind emotions that fuel the fires of....

"Making Japanese Citizens "is an expansive history of the activists, intellectuals, and movements that played a crucial role in shaping civil society and civic thought throughout the broad sweep of Japan's postwar period. Weaving his analysis around the concept of "shimin" (citizen), Simon Avenell traces the development of a new vision of citizenship based on political participation, self-reliance, popular nationalism, and commitment to daily life. He traces civic activism through six phases: the cultural associations of the 1940s and 1950s, the massive U.S.-Japan Security Treaty protests of 1960, the anti-Vietnam War movement, the antipollution and antidevelopment protests of the 1960s and 1970s, movements for local government reform and the rise of new civic groups from the mid-1970s. This rich portrayal of activists and their ideas illuminates questions of democracy, citizenship, and political participation both in contemporary Japan and in other industrialized nations more generally.