Although someof these subjects may seem out of place in a work designed for every member of the family, yet they are presented in a style which cannot ofiend the most fastidious, and with a studied avoidance of all language that can possibly dis please the chaste, or disturb the delicate susceptibilities of pmons of either sex.

Ten Steps to Surviving a New Job:Don’t sleep with the client. It’ll get you fired. (Sounds easy enough.)Don’t blink when new client turns out to be former one-night stand.Don’t call same client a jerk for never texting you back.Don’t believe client when he says he really, really wanted to call.Remember, the client is always right—so you can’t junk punch him when he demands new design after new design.Ignore ac...

For a man who makes his living pleasuring women, what happens when the only pay-out worth having is love?Faith Abigail Charles has always done the right thing. So when her mother runs for mayor of New Orleans, Faith puts her law career on hold to help her win. But when tensions run high, Faith trades one kind of heat for another—in the arms of a hard-bodied stranger. He's everything a woman dreams of in a lover. So much so that her one-night stand turns into two, t...

Is the top still spinning? Was it all a dream? In the world of Christopher Nolan's four-time Academy Award-winning movie, people can share one another's dreams and alter their beliefs and thoughts. Inception is a metaphysical heist film that raises more questions than it answers: Can we know what is real? Can you be held morally responsible for what you do in dreams? What is the nature of dreams, and what do they tell us about the boundaries of "self" and "other"? Inception an...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence, PReMI 2021, held in December 2021. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held virtually.The 62 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 215 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: image processing; text, voice and video processing; bioinformatics; deep learning; medical image processing;...

Imaging of tissue blood flow (BF) distributions provides vital information for the diagnosis and therapeutic monitoring of various vascular diseases. The innovative near-infrared speckle contrast diffuse correlation tomography (scDCT) technique produces full 3D BF distributions. Many advanced features are provided over competing technologies including high sampling density, fast data acquisition, noninvasiveness, noncontact, affordability, portability, and translatability across varied sub...

The average physician and even cancer care-givers are not knowledgeable about the effects of cancer treatment on sex and reproductive life. They are even less aware of the options available for treatment of such patients. Cancer and Sexual Health fills a great need for a reference work devoted to the link between cancer and human sexuality. The volume is designed to give a comprehensive and state-of-the-art review of the sexual and reproductive consequences of cancer diagnosis and...

Alan Bancroft, ein erfolgreicher Journalist und inoffizieller Informant des MI6 und der ESI, verschwindet spurlos während seiner Recherchen über Grigori Rasputin in Sibirien. Mit der Hilfe von Larissa Chamova, einer russischen FSB-Agentin, soll Don Harris aufklären, was mit dem Verschollenen geschehen ist. Das letzte Lebenszeichen Bancrofts liefert Harris nur wenige Hinweise: Rasputin und die Höllensöhne. Die Suche führt sie in ein entlegenes Kloster nahe dem sibirischen Bergdorf Mutow. Es...