After abandoning his traditional life in a deteriorating Porto Alegre, the narrator of*Hugs and Cuddles*zealously recommits himself to a man he calls “the engineer”, a childhood friend with whom he shared a pivotal sexual encounter. Many years have passed since their prepubescent wrestling; everywhere around them is a nation in decline. Representatives of the Brazilian state—everyone from government officials to the impoverished—endlessly harass passers-by...

Evade antiviruses and bypass firewalls with the most widely used penetration testing frameworksKey FeaturesGain insights into the latest antivirus evasion techniquesSet up a complete pentesting environment using Metasploit and virtual machinesDiscover a variety of tools and techniques that can be used with Kali LinuxBook DescriptionPenetration testing or ethical hacking is a legal and foolproof way to ide...

"A valuable study . . . a must-read for everybody interested in the topic of German Fallschirmjäger in the Second World War" (Volker Griesser, author of The Lions of Carentan).Rudolf Witzig entered the history books as the heroic captor of Belgium's supposedly impregnable fortress Eben Emael in May 1940—the first time that glider-borne troops were used in the war. To many people, he is also known as the commander of the battle group that ...

A lifetime of cinematic writing culminates in this breathtaking statement on film’s unique ability to move usCinema is commonly hailed as “the universal language,” but how does it communicate so effortlessly across cultural and linguistic borders? In The Eloquent Screen, influential film critic Gilberto Perez makes a capstone statement on the powerful ways in which film acts on our minds and senses.Drawing on a lifetime’s worth of viewing and re-vi...

Games. Friendship. Feelings… and an important lesson!Lucy has received a beautiful gift, a shy and nice flower that she has named Flowy. But her arrival brings an important responsibility: Lucy will have to look after Flowy! Will she be able to do it? Find out in this new story from the children´s book series Lucy´s World!Flowy aims to show the values of friendship and responsibility through a story that seeks to encourage the creativity and imagin...

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of several workshops which were held in conjunction with the MICAI 2024 International Workshops on Advances in Computational Intelligence, MICAI 2024, held in Tonantzintla, Mexico, during October 21–25, 2024.The 38 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions.The papers presented in this volume stem from the following workshops:– 17th Workshop of Hybrid Intellige...

This book constitutes the proceedings of several workshops which were held in conjunction with the MICAI 2025 International Workshops on Advances in Computational Intelligence, MICAI 2025, held in Guanajuato, Mexico, during November 3–7, 2025.The 59 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 85 submissions. The first part contains 33 papers from the 18th workshop of Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS 2025) andthe first workshop on Evolu...

Analyzes how border and immigration enforcement culminated in a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas.Honorable Mention for the American Ethnological Society Senior Book PrizeOn August 3, 2019, a far-right extremist committed a deadly mass shooting at a major shopping center in El Paso, Texas, a city on the border of the United States and Mexico. In Unsettling, Gilberto Rosas situates this devastating shooting as the latest unsettling consequence of our ...

A retired U.S. Army Master Parachutist, strategist, and military historian analyzes the actions of one German special forces group during World War II.In June 1944, Allied forces fighting desperately to establish a foothold in Normandy and then breakout of the confining bocage found themselves opposed by a bewildering array of formations of the German Wehrmacht. Among them were the newly formed German II Parachute Corps.This gripping new account examines th...

Build your defense against web attacks with Kali Linux, including command injection flaws, crypto implementation layers, and web application security holesKey Features\[\*\] Know how to set up your lab with Kali Linux\[\*\] Discover the core concepts of web penetration testing\[\*\] Get the tools and techniques you need with Kali LinuxBook DescriptionWeb Penetration Testing with Kali Linux - Third Edition shows you how to set...

This book lays out a foundation and taxonomy for Behavioral Decision Analysis, featuring representative work across various domains. Traditional research in the domain of Decision Analysis has focused on the design and application of logically consistent tools to support decision makers during the process of structuring problem complexity, modeling uncertainty, generating predictions, eliciting preferences, and, ultimately, making better decisions. Two commonly held assumptions ar...

Reliability Analysis and Asset Management of Engineering Systems explains methods that can be used to evaluate reliability and availability of complex systems, including simulation-based methods. The increasing digitization of mechanical processes driven by Industry 4.0 increases the interaction between machines and monitoring and control systems, leading to increases in system complexity. For those systems the reliability and availability analyses are increasingly challenging, as the inte...