NKR1 is the first story in a web comic trilogy brought to you by Ultraromantic Comics. Set in a not so distant future that resembles a world of the not so long ago, the United States is no longer united. The federal government has collapsed under debt. A private corporation has assumed federal governance. A programme of racial purification is underway that entails a robot army. What will become of the former Republic of the United States of America?

When I looked in the mirror, I saw a fragile child whose voice was taken away; her reflection reminded me that I needed to save her. Building on this imagery, The Child in the Mirror explores the ways the events and experiences of our childhood shape all aspects of our lives, from our thought patterns to our emotions to our sense of self-worth—for better or for worse. Author Sonia P. C. Ribeiro shares the ways that changing established habits, overcoming negative thinking, and facing our f...

From Mauritius to Mexico, from Sarajevo streets to Atlantic port cities, Unmoorings traces the movements of a restless, sharp-minded woman who has lived many lives in one. These poems travel through tourism, migration, labor, digital culture, social inequality, and memory and identity. The poetry collection, the author's first, holds space for intimacy, irony, and refusal. With a keen eye for power and its quiet violences, Ribeiro captures the textures of gender, class, and disloc...

This book introduces solutions for sports scheduling problems in a variety of settings. In particular the book covers timetabling, the traveling tournament problem, carryover minimization, breaks minimization, tournament design, tournament planning, and referee assignment. A rich selection of applications to sports such as football, baseball, basketball, cricket or hockey are employed to illustrate the methods and techniques. In a step-by-step tutorial format the book describes the use of ...

This is the first book to cover GRASP (Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedures), a metaheuristic that has enjoyed wide success in practice with a broad range of applications to real-world combinatorial optimization problems. The state-of-the-art coverage and carefully crafted pedagogical style lends this book highly accessible as an introductory text not only to GRASP, but also to combinatorial optimization, greedy algorithms, local search, and path-relinking, as well as to heuristics...

Aristotle said 'you are what you repeatedly do'. Most of us have no idea that what we repeatedly do creates our lives, we think our future is shaped by big events, the decisions we make, the thoughts we have but, this book will show you that it is your daily actions that are the key. Over the last few decades neuroscientists and psychologists have discovered that there is more power in 'I do' than 'I think'. However, if an action is repeated enough times it becomes habit but habits lack th...

Learn how to build all of your favorite houses in this all-new guide for Minecraft. Houses included in this guide are a mushroom hut, a tree house, a floating house, a cobblestone and glass home, a rustic countryside house, a medieval style house, and a lighthouse!Conquer Minecraft with your very own tree house!

This book is the second volume in a set of books dealing with the evolution of technology, IT and organizational approaches and what this means for industrial equipment.The authors address this increasing complexity in two parts, focusing specifically on the field of Prognostics and Health Management (PHM). Having tackled the PHM cycle in the first volume, the purpose of this book is to tackle the other phases of PHM, including the traceability of data, information and knowledge, a...

In this standalone short story by N. K. Jemisin, author of The Fifth Season, winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel, New York City is about to go through a few changes.Like all great metropolises before it, when a city gets big enough, old enough, it must be born; but there are ancient enemies who cannot tolerate new life. Thus New York will live or die by the efforts of a reluctant midwife...and how well he can learn to sing the city's mighty song.

Explaining how graph theory and social network analysis can be applied to team sports analysis,This book presents useful approaches, models and methods that can be used to characterise the overall properties of team networks and identify the prominence of each team player.Exploring the different possible network metrics that can be utilised in sports analysis, their possible applications and variances from situation to situation, the respective chapters present an array of ...

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**NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A “boisterous and infectious debut novel” (The Guardian) about a group of friends and their immigrant families from Queens, New York—a tenderly observed, fiercely poetic love letter to a modern generation of brown girls.“An acute study of those tender moments of becoming, this is an ode to girlhood, inheritance, and the good trouble the body yields.”—Raven Leilani, author of Luster**FINALIST: The New Amer...