This book is designed to introduce your child to the alphabet while teaching them about the wonderful animals which live on our planet!

A sex scandal of an angel that leads to a prophecy that can only be stopped by a virgin man. DIY remedy to cure one's ghostly vision that gone wrong. An old man from Recto who can forge a new soul for you if the price is right. And a priest who will try to save his town using the music of the devil. These are the stories you will find in Painting The Darkness; an anthology of dark, speculative fiction that blends the "what if" and terror underneath it all.Feast upon these fictions a...

Rely on the experts to help build strong, powerful soccer athletes.Tailoring strength and conditioning programs for soccer requires a deep understanding of the demands of the game. Preparing players to accelerate, decelerate, change direction, and turn and jump can be a challenge.Developed with the expertise of the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA), Strength Training for Soccer explains the value of resistance training for socce...

In an emotional ecosystem as complex as that of our planet, is life nothing more than survival of the fittest? Michael Hollinger based his probing work on the real-life giant tortoise named ‘Lonesome George’, and the efforts to preserve his species that threatened the livelihood of the native fishermen on the Galàpagos Islands.An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring:Jaime Alvarez as Pedro/ChicoStephanie Beatriz as Ana OrtegaDaniel Cha...

Much of antitrust law scholarship has focused on substantive legal issues - theories of harm and changing law and policy. Surprisingly, there has been very little work that is comparative, on a fundamental element that is a critical building block to effective policy - procedural fairness. Procedural fairness encompasses issues of transparency and due process. Procedural fairness has been an important issue in global antitrust for some time. The types of due process concerns raised globall...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Entertainment Computing (IFIP-ICEC 2024) which was held in Manaus, Brazil, during September 30 – October 3, 2024.The 13 full papers, 8 short papers and 17 papers of other types presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 60 submissions. The works collected in this volume discuss latest findings in the areas of Game Experience, Player Engagement and Analysis, Serious Gamepla...

Wilma Christine Guzman grew up in the country in Ancaster, Ontario. The daughter of Dutch immigrants, she is married to a Mexican-Canadian, has three children and lives in Toronto. Her poems encompass her own life experiences as well as people from historical, literary, cinematic and current times. She worked in Recreation Management in long term care for twenty-four years. Her travels in life include going to the west and east coast of Canada, taking cycling, canoe and horseback r...

The book summarizes the main results of the the project ENABLE-S3 covering the following aspects: validation and verification technology bricks (collection and selection of test scenarios, test executions envionments incl. respective models, assessment of test results), evaluation of technology bricks in selected use cases and standardization and related initiatives. ENABLE-S3 is an industry-driven EU-project and aspires to substitute todays' cost-intensive verification and validation effo...

The three-volume set LNCS 9746, 9747, and 9748 constitutes the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Design, User Experience, and Usability, DUXU 2016, held as part of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2016, in Toronto, Canada, in July 2016, jointly with 13 other thematically similar conferences. The total of 1287 papers presented at the HCII 2016 conferences were carefully reviewed and selected from 4354 submissions. These papers address th...

This book includes papers presented at the International Conference “Educational Robotics in the Maker Era – EDUROBOTICS 2020”, Online, February 2021.The contributions cover a variety of topics useful for teacher education and for designing learning by making activities for children and youth, with an emphasis on modern low-cost technologies (including block-based programming environments, Do-It-Yourself electronics, 3D printed artifacts, the use of intelligent distributed systems,...

This post-conference book constitutes selected papers of the Fifth International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications, CHIRA 2021, held virtually due to COVID 19, and Sixth International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications, CHIRA 2022, held in Valletta, Malta, in October 2022.The 8 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions for CHIRA 2021 and 37 submissions for CHIRA 2022. ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th IFIP TC 14 International Conference on Entertainment Computing, ICEC 2021, which was supposed to take place in Coimbra, Portugal, in November 2021. The 26 full papers, 13 short papers and 11 other papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 84 submissions. ICEC brings together researchers and practitioners from diverse backgrounds to discuss the multidisciplinary intersection of design, art, entertainment, interactio...