If you don't do it yourself, you certainly know someone who is forever putting a foot into his or her mouth. This person has raised the tasteless, thoughtless, tactless, or otherwise terrifically awful remark into an art form. If there is a wrong place, a wrong time, or a wrong person to whom to say anything, they're on the spot and on the ready. And though we can joke about it (at the right time, of course), careless speech is no laughing matter. Words really can hurt-not only the person ...

In “Paris Perfect”, Book 1, our heroine’s life seemed a dream. She had left Texas to move to Paris, her soul place, after the suicide of her fiancé and the death of her adored mother. She met the man of her dreams and adopted a protégé, talented young artist, Madeleine Junot. Abandoned at 5, she was working as a prostitute. In a happy set of circumstances, Punkin and Madeleine discovered that Jean Aumont, Punkin’s lover, is the father Madeleine never knew. Jean and Punkin marry in a lavish...

This book LNCS15828 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Joint Conference on Theoretical Computer Science-Frontier of Algorithmic Wisdom (IJTCS-FAW 2025), consisting of the 19th International Conference on Frontier of Algorithmic Wisdom (FAW) and the 6th International Joint Conference on Theoretical Computer Science (IJTCS), held in Paris, France, during June 30–July 2, 2025.The 28 full papers and 2 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 63...

In burnished, driving prose, John Keegan chronicles the 1944 invasion of Normandy, from D-day to the liberation of Paris. At the same time, he furthers his exploration of the "role which warfare and its institutions play in social life" by showing how each of the six armies, while resembling one another in purpose and authority, is a mirror of its own nation's values. Each army is shown at successive stages of the invasion in a battle sequence testing them to the utmost: the Americans in t...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 46th International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Concurrency, PETRI NETS 2025, held in Paris, France, during June 22–27, 2025.The 21 full papers and 1 short paper included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. They deal with topics such as composition and synthesis; workflow nets; process mining; model checking; communication & concurrency; timed and stochastic Petri nets; etc. Th...

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 19th International Conference on Formalizing Natural Languages: Applications to Natural Language Processing and Digital Humanities, NooJ 2025, held in Paris, France, during June 11–13, 2025.The 17 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions. These papers were organized under the following topical sections: Lexical and Morphological Resources; Syntactic and Semantic Resources and ...

Immunointervention in Autoimmune Diseases is a collection of papers presented at the 1988 International Meeting by the same title, held in Paris, France. This text contains 21 chapters and begins with surveys of the role of antigen in autoimmune responses and the moving boundaries between physiology and pathology of immunity. The succeeding chapters deal with the regulation, immunosuppressive therapy, infections, and immunointervention of autoimmune disorders. These topics are followed by ...

The present book contains the proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Continuum Models and Discrete Systems (CMDS14) held in Paris in June 2023. It contains 21 contributions that cover a broad range of topics in the wide field of mechanics and physics of heterogeneous media for discrete and continuous systems, from image analysis to models of random structures and to homogenization. The sessions in the CMDS conference series cover, in particular, the modeling of complex heteroge...

This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 9th European MOOCs Stakeholders Summit, EMOOCs 2025, which took place in Paris, France, during June 30-July 2, 2025.The 20 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 79 submissions. They deal with the ongoing transformation and critical challenges in online education — particularly in the context of artificial intelligence (AI) and sustainable lifelong learning.

Gathering selected, revised and extended contributions from the conference ‘Forecasting and Risk Management for Renewable Energy FOREWER’, which took place in Paris in June 2017, this book focuses on the applications of statistics to the risk management and forecasting problems arising in the renewable energy industry. The different contributions explore all aspects of the energy production chain: forecasting and probabilistic modelling of renewable resources, including probabilistic forec...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2018, held in Paris, France, in June 2018.The 18 full papers, 26 short papers, and 9 poster papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 99 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis in Social Media; Semantics-Based Models and Applications; Neural Network...