Unmasking fraudsters and fakes of all kinds brings its own rewards - and no end of trouble.Gloria, in Orange County California, is a soccer-mad college graduate, but her skill on the pitch is not matched by success in relationships. Beautiful, kind, and independent-minded, she finds the guys she meets controlling, while online all she attracts are scammers and 'catfish'. Nor is life with her parents any easier. Her mother, Maria, a former TV actress, is locked in a depression and w...

Traditional stories from the northern Colombian coast, in both English and Spanish.These twenty-one animal tales from the Colombian Caribbean coast represent a sampling of the traditional stories that are told during all-night funerary wakes. The tales are told in the semi-sacred space of the patio (backyard) of homes as part of the funerary ritual that includes other aesthetic and expressive practices such as jokes, song games, board games, and prayer. In this volu...

The authors of Run Like a Mother share a collection of inspiring and insightful stories from women who discovered their own power through running.Every mother runner has a tale to tell. A story about how she discovered the fierce and confident athlete inside her. Maybe it's about setting a seemingly impossible goal—and then exceeding it. Maybe it's about finding friends who are also allies, cheerleaders, and reality checks. Or maybe it's j...

"[A] firsthand account by one who measured up to the demands of danger and hardships and lived to write about it . . . Invaluable . . . Well documented." — Library JournalAs a teenager in the 1950s, John Holmes Jenkins set to work on collecting and editing his great-great-grandfather's writings about his experiences on the Texas frontier. John Holland Jenkins joined General Sam Houston's army at age thirteen after losing his stepfather at the Alamo. In add...

This two volume set, LNAI 16748 and 16749, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2026, held in Ottawa, ON, Canada, during July 7–10, 2026.Bringing together cutting-edge research from a global community of scholars and practitioners, the proceedings reflect a competitive selection process, with 30 full papers, 21 short papers, and 82 poster and demo papers selected from 236 submissions spanning 53 count...

If you're an sound system junkie then you'll love this easy to read book. The auto sound system handbook teaches everything you want to know.

Young People, Alcohol, and Risk theorises the social, cultural and economic shifts that have underpinned significant declines in young people’s drinking in high- income countries.Since the early 2000s, alcohol use among young people has declined significantly in most high- income countries. Situated within a theoretical framework of ‘social generations’ and ‘risk’, this book explores the key interrelated factors that have cumulatively shifted the social and cultural positi...

This two volume set, LNAI 16748 and 16749, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, AIME 2026, held in Ottawa, ON, Canada, during July 7–10, 2026.Bringing together cutting-edge research from a global community of scholars and practitioners, the proceedings reflect a competitive selection process, with 30 full papers, 21 short papers, and 82 poster and demo papers selected from 236 submissions spanning 53 count...

This book is a collection of essays chronicling the remarkable life of a Canadian author, born in London in 1931. It covers his school and university days, a professional career as a chemical scientist, and his lifelong love of travel, particularly by bicycle, camper van, and sailing. These essays offer insights into the joys and challenges of a life filled with adventure, discovery, and personal growth, inviting readers to share in the author's diverse experiences and reflections.

First published in 1930, Palestine To-day and Tomorrow provides a comprehensive overview of John Haynes Holmes’s experiences in Palestine. Chapter one is a running account, written on the spot, of his experiences in Palestine. Chapter two presents a brief statement of the facts and forces in Jewish history culminating in Zionism, is intended primarily for readers who may not be familiar with them. Chapter three is intended to be a careful and rather elaborate presentation of the difficulti...

The establishment of the United Nations system at the conclusion of the Second World War was followed by a period of disillusion in the late 40s about the prospects for world order. With the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950 there came a regrouping of forces and revised calculations of what was possible. The first volume of The Shaping of the Peace described Canadian attitudes and policies towards international institutions as the Second World War ended. This volume is concerned ...

When Mackenzie King went to the San Francisco Conference he told the Commons that Canada had played its part in winning the war and it was now its duty to play a part in 'the shaping of peace.' This is a history and analysis of Canadian participation in the peace settlement and in the establishment of the United Nations and other international institutions, written by a man who was in the Department of External Affairs at the time. Although the book records the principal events, its emphas...