Leave the sensible shoes and the backpacks behind: this isn’t your grandmother’s guide book. Naughty New York is the first guide written for ladies by ladies that helps you plan a sexy getaway with your man, a weekend on the town with your best friends, or a daring solo adventure on your own in the bustling metropolis. Like all good city guides, it includes the best hotels, shopping, culture, restaurants, and bars. But with Naughty New York you’ll also discover racy lingerie boutiques, fem...

Oscar and George, two teddy bears, have been sitting on the shelf collecting dust for far too long. Imagine their delight when a young boy moves into the house, and imagine the young boy's surprise when those bears become two of his very best friends.

What better way to celebrate the Golden Age of the Sandwich than with the Big New York Sandwich Book. A gorgeous collection of more than 99 delicious sandwich recipes from a "who's who" of talented chefs, such as Dan Barber, Daniel Boulud, Jean-Georges Vongherichten, Mario Batali, and beloved restaurants in New York City, it is a virtual map -- in sandwiches -- of New York's diversity. From the classic deli-style sandwich to the exotic haute sandwiches, there is a sandwich for eve...

Ikujiro Nonaka est devenu le nouveau Peter Drucker de la gestion, tant son œuvre depuis vingt ans, participe d’une manière fondamentale au développement de la théorie et des pratiques en gestion. Nonaka et al. (2000) légitiment leur trajectoire de recherche en mobilisant deux idées fortes de Peter Drucker (1993, p. 183) : a) les entreprises ont aujourd’hui un impératif d’innovation, b) nous avons besoin d’une nouvelle théorie de la firme qui soit à même de rendre compte de cette c...

By examining the changing political economy in China through detailed studies of the peasantry, workers, middle classes, and the dominant class, this volume reveals the Communist Party of China’s (CCP’s) impact on social change in China between 1978 and 2021.This book explores in depth the CCP’s programme of reform and openness that had a dramatic impact on China’s socio-economic trajectory following the death of Mao Zedong and the end of the Cultural Revolution. It also goes on to...

This is one of the first technical overviews of autonomous vehicles written for a general computing and engineering audience. Students will find a comprehensive overview of the entire autonomous technology stack and practitioners will find many practical techniques.Throughout the book, the authors share their practical experiences designing autonomous vehicle systems. These systems are complex, consisting of three major subsystems: (1) algorithms for localization, ...

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Handmade Horror Stories, Second EditionFrom quiet horrors to chilling nightmares, this anthology gives new meaning to being creative.Fine Art, Creative Trades, and Arts & Crafts seep into these poems and tales.Foreword by Suzanne Craig-WhytockPoetry by Carolyn Clink, and Lisa TimpfStories by: Miranda Dahlin, Michelle Tang, Mary Rajotte, Tiffany Michelle Brown, Fiona M Jones,C.M. Saunders, Stephen McQuiggan, Ali Seay, ...

This volume presents the results of the excavations conducted by the University of Copenhagen at Pontecagnano (Prop. Avallone), located some 8 km southeast of Salerno in the northern part (the Ager Picentinus) of the Sele Plain in Campania. The excavations revealed a part of the residential zone of the ancient town with two main phases of occupation, the first belonging to the late Classical/early Hellenistic period (second half of 4th to early 3rd century BC) and the second to the late Re...

Hip Hop Africa explores a new generation of Africans who are not only consumers of global musical currents, but also active and creative participants. Eric Charry and an international group of contributors look carefully at youth culture and the explosion of hip hop in Africa, the embrace of other contemporary genres, including reggae, ragga, and gospel music, and the continued vitality of drumming. Covering Senegal, Mali, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, and South A...

Whilst crop models have made significant progress in recent years, different models still diverge and struggle to predict the complex effects of genetic, environmental and management (G x E x M) variables in optimising crop production in the face of climate change.Current crop models: State-of-the-art and future developments provides a comprehensive overview of the major crop models and the ways they address these challenges. The book explores the development of major crop...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th IFIP WG 10.3 International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing, NPC 2019, held in Hohhot, China, in August 2019.The 22 full and 11 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 107 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: graph computing; NOC and networks; neural networks; big data and cloud; HPC; emerging topics; memory and file system.