Challenging Images of Women and the Media: Reinventing Women’s Lives, edited by Theresa Carilli and Jane Campbell, collects fifteen articles addressing the status of women through an examination of depictions of women in the media. This in-depth study shows how mixed messages from the media muddle attempts at breaking the “glass screen,” causing women to constantly question their role in global culture. With cake ads followed by diet commercials, the media’s depiction of women is both conf...

A complete guide to understanding, designing, and deploying Layer 2 VPN technologies and pseudowire emulation applicationsEvaluate market drivers for Layer 2 VPNsUnderstand the architectural frame-work and choices for Layer 2 VPNs, including AToM and L2TPv3Grasp the essentials of Layer 2 LAN and WAN technologiesExamine the theoretical and operational details of MPLS and LDP as they pertain to AToMUnderstand the theoretical and operation...

An introduction to how life has colonized and shaped the Earth, turning it into the habitable planet of todayExploring the geological basis for life on Earth, Introduction to Geobiology systematically examines the interaction between the geosphere and the biosphere, including its evolutionary history.In this didactically written text, readers will learn about the various modes of interaction between living and inorganic environments, emphasizing th...

+++ Mit wunderschönen Innenillustrationen +++Die beliebte New Adult Fantasy aus China über eine gefährliche Reise in die Vergangenheit und eine Liebe, die die Welt zerstören könnte …Um die Welt vor dem bösen Dämonengott Tantai Jin zu retten, reist Li Susu, die Tochter des Oberhaupts der Hengyang-Schule, 500 Jahre in die Vergangenheit. Ihre Aufgabe ist es, den sterblichen Tantai Jin zu finden und ihn daran zu hindern, dem Bösen anheimzufalle...

+++ Mit wunderschönen Innenillustrationen +++»Ich bin von Anfang an gekommen, um Euch zu töten.«Ein neues Kapitel für den Dämonengott und die ZeitreisendeBand 4 der erfolgreichen Webnovel aus China über das tragische Schicksal zweier LiebenderNach dem tragischen Tod von Xiao Lin hat Tantai Jin nicht nur das Xia-Reich unter seine Kontrolle gebracht, auch seine Jugendliebe Ye Bingchang wohnt unter demselben Dach wie er. Doch ge...

+++ Mit wunderschönen Innenillustrationen +++»Ich bin von Anfang an gekommen, um Euch zu töten.«Ein neues Kapitel für den Dämonengott und die ZeitreisendeBand 3 der erfolgreichen Webnovel aus China über das tragische Schicksal zweier LiebenderNach dem tragischen Tod von Xiao Lin hat Tantai Jin nicht nur das Xia-Reich unter seine Kontrolle gebracht, auch seine Jugendliebe Ye Bingchang wohnt unter demselben Dach wie er. Doch ge...

+++ Mit wunderschönen Innenillustrationen +++Das Ende der Welt ist nur einen Kuss entfernt …Die Buchvorlage von Teng Luo Wei Zhi zur Serie »Till the End of the Moon«:Band 2 der erfolgreichen Webnovel aus China, in der sich Li Susu und Tantai Jin bedrohlich näherkommen ...Knapp drei Monate ist es her, dass Li Susu im Körper von Ye Xiwu in der Ödnisschlucht erfahren hat, dass ihr noch noch drei Jahre b...

6G Key TechnologiesAn accessible and integrated roadmap to the technologies enabling 6G developmentIn 6G Key Technologies: A Comprehensive Guide, two internationally well-recognized experts deliver a thoroughly original and comprehensive exploration of the technologies enabling and contributing to the development of 6G. The book presents the vision of 6G by reviewing the evolution of communications technologies toward 6G and examin...

An authoritative guide to the latest developments for the design of low-cost smart antennasTraditional smart antenna systems are costly, consume great amounts of power and are bulky size. Low-cost Smart Antennas offers a guide to designing smart antenna systems that are low cost, low power, and compact in size and can be applied to satellite communications, radar and mobile communications. The authors — noted experts on the topic — provide introductions to...

This book highlights the fundamentals and practical methods of metamaterials-based optical and radio frequency sensing. Combined with engineering practices, the book illustrates in detail wide frequency electromagnetic signal cloaking and the detection behavior of metasurfaces, including the structure of metasurfaces, electric-controlled behaviors, layout design and fabrication methods, and related experiment results. This book is expected to inspire the research and development of new opt...

Since the reform and opening-up in the late 1970s, Wenzhou City of China's Zhejiang Province has witnessed large-scale institutional change and rapid economic development. This book studies the institutional change and economic development in Wenzhou since China's reform and opening-up. It concludes that the most important characteristic of Wenzhou model is that the city is the first to promote industrialization and urbanization by privatization and marketization in Zhejiang. As privatizat...

The development of earth observation and computing technology has promoted the wide application of spatio-temporal big data and artificial intelligence. The enrichment of data and the improvement of computational performance make it possible to perform spatio-temporal analysis and computation on a larger scale. Therefore, it is necessary to study the optimization methods and application methods of high-performance geocomputing, starting from GIS architecture, in order to form a high-perfor...