So much of what we know of clean water, clean air, and now a stable climate rests on how fossil fuels first disrupted them. Negative Ecologies is a bold reappraisal of the outsized role fossil fuels have played in making the environment visible, factual, and politically operable in North America. Following stories of hydrocarbon harm that lay the groundwork for environmental science and policy, this book brings into clear focus the dialectic between the negative ecologies of fossi...

Are you working hard, paying the price everyday but life seems to happen? Do you want to get off the couch and really make your life happen?These three simple principles seem so complicated, but, in reality, they are quite simple.It is hard to understand our purpose in life because we are often too afraid to do something new, different, and exciting...and then fail.In the beginning of David’s heart-racing story, he shared the hope and success that he experienced afte...

Published for the Private Planning Association of Canada as part of the Canada in the Atlantic Economy series, this book covers impact of trade liberalization on Canadian agriculture, prospects for trade liberalization in agriculture, as well as trade liberalization and the Canadian pulp and paper industry and trade liberalization and the Canadian furniture industry.

Despite an impressive body of poems, novels, short stories, and literary criticism; high praise for his writing by French and Swiss critics; and a collection of honours that includes the prestigious Prix Goncourt, awarded for his novel L’Ogre in 1973, Jacques Chessex is relatively unknown outside France and Switzerland. With this book, David J. Bond provides the first comprehensive study of his work in any language—a study that reveals Chessex’s deep ambivalence towards his Calvin...

Are you working hard, paying the price everyday but life seems to happen? Do you want to get off the couch and really make your life happen?These three simple principles seem so complicated, but, in reality, they are quite simple.It is hard to understand our purpose in life because we are often too afraid to do something new, different, and exciting...and then fail.In the beginning of David’s heart-racing story, he shared the hope and success that he experienced aft...

An historic landmark work, depicting war as it is and soon will be-the shape of war to come.Featuring new short novels by:Larry Bond, who explores the wild frontier of space warfare, where American forces fight a tenacious enemy which threatens every free nation on Earth.Dale Brown, taking us into the seldom-seen world of the military review board, and shows us how the future career of an EB-52 Megafortress pilot can depend on a man he...

Over the past several decades, applications permeated by advances in digital signal processing have undergone unprecedented growth in capabilities. The editors and authors of High Performance Embedded Computing Handbook: A Systems Perspective have been significant contributors to this field, and the principles and techniques presented in the handbook are reinforced by examples drawn from their work.The chapters cover system components found in today’s HPEC systems by addressing des...

Thailand 1996. The Year of The Rat. Pete, a young travel writer, wanders into a Bangkok go-go bar and meets the love of his life. Joy is the girl of his dreams, young, stunningly pretty, and one of the Zombie Bar's top earning pole dancers. What follows is a roller-coaster ride of sex, drugs and deception, as Pete discovers that his very own private dancer is not all that she claims to be. And that far from being the girl of his dreams, Joy is his own personal nightmare.

In the wake of recent upheavals across the Arab world, a simplistic media portrayal of the region as essentially homogenous has given way to a new though equally shallow portrayal, casting it as deeply divided along ethnic, linguistic, and religious lines. The essays gathered in Minorities and the Modern Arab World seek to challenge this representation with a nuanced exploration of the ways in which ethnic, religious, and linguistic commitments have intersected to create "minority...

Most customer service operations have it wrong. They gauge their effectiveness and productivity based on the number of customer calls or contacts they handle. But do your customers really want a “relationship” with your company’s customer service department, or do they simply want to purchase your products or services so they can put them to use?In this groundbreaking book, Bill Price and David Jaffe offer a game-changing approach, showing how managers are taking the wrong path and...

In Algorithmic Trading, here is just a fraction of what you will discover:● A simple and detailed explanation of how algorithmic trading works● The exact steps you need to take in developing and executing a trading algorithm● Where to get a consistent stream of trading ideas, and why you won’t use most of them● How you can do algorithmic trading without having to learn to code● Why you should do this step first befo...

This book highlights current research into virtual tutoring software and presents a case study of the design and application of a social tutor for children with autism. Best practice guidelines for developing software-based educational interventions are discussed, with a major emphasis on facilitating the generalisation of skills to contexts outside of the software itself, and on maintaining these skills over time.Further, the book presents the software solution Thinking Head White...