The empty rocking chair rocked; danced its way to the creaking sound of the wood "up under," as southerners would say it, each time the moon was full of blue. Blue, the color of mystical, as it sounds, yet mentally molded into the navy blue skies. There stood ghostly Braema from the rocking chair. Invisible to the 'outside world'. Now a young woman. A mirror image of her once grandmother and with powers far beyond the blood of her grandmother; and mystical bees to kill time. The time o...

Psychiatrist Kenny Lawson is in for a surprise when he receives a call from his time-traveling Great Aunt Delilah! Delilah is in 1955 with a main who reports witnessing an evil spirit dissolve a human being. At his great aunt's request, Kenny time-travels from 2019 Philadelphia back to 1955 Charleston to help Delilah solve this mystery. After interviewing the witness, and using his own previous experiences with spirits, Kenny has reason to believe the killer is Lucas Mobley—who died in 191...

The mournful, tragicomic tune of wanderlust undercut by the longing for a home seemingly lost“Have I settled down yet?” The question rings eternal across all ten stories in this highly anticipated debut collection of comics fiction by New Yorker and New York Times contributor Michael D. Kennedy.A series of individuals leave the West Indies and attempt to find their footing in the damp dinge of England’s counties. A child on his da...

Now in its fourth edition, The Global Positioning System and GIS arrives at a critical moment of transition— a time when new methods for collecting position and attribute data are reshaping how information is integrated into Geographic Information Systems (GIS).This edition is uniquely structured to reflect this shift: each chapter is divided into two sections— one covering “Newer Technology,” including the latest advances in hardware, software, and cloud- based data colle...

This second edition serves as a foundational guide to plastics thermoforming, covering the essential topics of the industry today. The authors take a process application approach to the topic, rather than focusing on theory. The book explains materials and processes, as well as part and tool design. This second edition includes thorough discussion of green plastics within an expanded chapter on environmental issues. The authors also cover quality control, which is critical to any operation...

Dementia is a topic of enormous medical, legal and ethical importance with considerable human and economic cost. Its importance grows with the change in demographics of the aging population and that people with dementia receive care in a wide range of settings. The legal and ethical problems raised in treating patients with dementia are diverse and complex and are dealt with by many practitioners on a daily basis. This book is a 'how-to' guide to understanding how the law applies to people...

Are you worried about keeping your remote employees engaged and motivated without sacrificing productivity or your bottom line? In "HR Remotely: How to Motivate a Remote Workforce," HR professional Michael Kennedy provides practical strategies for creating a thriving remote team in the digital age.In today's world, remote work is becoming increasingly popular. With the rise of the digital age, companies are no longer confined to a physical office space. But with th...

This edited collection brings together leading academics, researchers, and police personnel to provide a comprehensive body of literature that informs Australian police education, training, research, policy, and practice. There is a strong history and growth in police education, both in Australia and globally. Recognising and reflecting on the Australian and New Zealand Policing Advisory Agency (ANZPAA) education and training framework, the range of chapters within the book address a range...

From 1961 to 1965 Irish foreign policy embarked on new directions. Under Taoiseach Sean Lemass Ireland sought membership of the EEC, a process which stalled temporarily in 1963 when French President Charles de Gaulle vetoed Britain's application for EEC membership and Ireland's application, along with applications of Denmark and Norway, was halted a result. Away from Europe the first half of the 1960s saw Irish diplomats at the United Nations develop Ireland's position as an independent-mi...

The sixth volume of Documents on Irish Foreign Policy delivers a fascinating account of neutral Ireland during the war years. Volume VI demonstrates in gripping detail how Irish diplomats maintained neutrality despite Prime Minister Winston Churchill's attempt to lure Ireland to join the war in winter 1939. It sheds light on the security crisis of 1940, when both a Nazi and a British invasion were feared. Volume VI publishes, for the first time, complete transcripts of the British-Irish de...

DIFP XI covers five critical years in Irish foreign policy when, at the height of the Cold War, Ireland played a central role between East and West at the United Nations General Assembly on issues ranging from nuclear disarmament to apartheid to the admission of Communist China. Significantly, it also covers the years that Irish Defence Forces personnel first participated in peacekeeping missions with the United Nations. The volume pays particular attention to the reaction of Iveagh House ...

At the code level, discrete-time chaotic systems can be used to generate spreading codes for DS-SS systems. At the signal level, continuous-time chaotic systems can be used to generate wideband carriers for digital modulation schemes. The potential of chaos engineering is now recognized worldwide, with research groups actively pursuing the exploitation of chaotic phenomena in cryptography, spread spectrum communications, electromagnetic interference reduction, and many other applications. ...