2021 FIRECRACKER AWARD FINALISTFEATURED IN PUBLISHERS WEEKLY's "STILL HERE, STILL QUEER: LBGTQ BOOKS 2020"FEATURED IN BOOK RIOT'S "INDIE PRESS ROUND-UP: 10 GREAT NEW RELEASES FOR SUMMER"Pass with Care is a testament to trans resilience, queer joy, and the power of finding freedom and adventure within a community of your own creation. Transgender writer, artist, and activist Cooper ...

Deep in various criminal empires, Davie Rhodes is a vindictive, deadly and notorious bare-knuckle legend without remorse for his victims. From a grim childhood in the Glasgow Gorbals slums, to working for The Godfather, then gunrunning for the IRA, he's a survivor. In the shadows between cities, he leaves a trail of destruction his own blood must resolve. And after causing his wife's suicide, he flees Aberdeen, abandoning son Joe to work for Jack Gallagher in Liverpool's seedy underworld.

A simple introduction to Chinese writing, pronunciation and intonation using short stories. Appropriate for beginner Chinese students of all ages.Reading basic Chinese becomes simplified in this highly attractive and unique manual designed for readers of all ages. Chinese writing, pronunciation, and vocabulary are described here in an entertaining and interesting manner to help beginners learn Chinese quickly. The author starts with simple characters and then combi...

This volume constitutes the papers of several workshops which were held in conjunction with the International Workshops of ECML PKDD 2022 on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2022, held in Grenoble, France, during September 19–23, 2022.The 73 revised full papers and 6 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 143 submissions. ECML PKDD 2022 presents the following workshops:...

This two-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the workshops which complemented the 21th Joint European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD, held in September 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference and workshops were held online.The 104 papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 180 papers submited for the workshops. This two-volume set includes the proceedings of the following workshops:Workshop on A...

'Reads like the bastard love child of Graham Norton and Mystic Meg!''Fans of Janet Evanovich will love SPIRITUAL HIGH.'“It’s not every day a midget tries to burn your flat down. Not unless you live in the rough part of Lilliput.”Gee’s dull life as a supermarket shelf stacker finally gets interesting when his best mate, Mark goes missing.Why has South London’s sexiest bad boy gone AWOL with ganglands scaries...

Go behind the scenes with an insightful look at horror filmsand the directors who create themThe Spectacle of Isolation in Horror Films: Dark Parades examines the work of several of the genre’s most influential directors and investigates how traditional themes of isolation, alienation, death, and transformation have helped build the foundation of horror cinema. Authors Carl and Diana Royer examine the techniques used by Alfred Hitchcock that place his work squarely in the horror (r...

Creating a nexus between techno-science and more fundamental disciplines, a phenomenon is emerging in our personal lives: we are beginning to preempt traditional sources for relationship formation; we are becoming more insular and more cautious in starting relationships. The media play an enormous role in our activities, encouraging us to self-advertise in newspapers and magazines, to participate vicariously through pornographic and borderline books, talk radio, and tabloid television, to ...

A comprehensive, informal overview of world history and popular culture. Popular Culture: From Cavespace to Cyberspace traces the history of people's cultures from primitive to postmodern times. Educational, informative, and absorbing, this book contains interesting facts on such figures as King Tut, Henry Ford, Bill Gates, and Madonna, linking you to the world, past and present. Popular Culture highlights important historical events such as the American, French, Russian, and Chinese Revol...

This volume constitutes the papers of several workshops which were held in conjunction with the International Workshops of ECML PKDD 2022 on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2022, held in Grenoble, France, during September 19–23, 2022.The 73 revised full papers and 6 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 143 submissions. ECML PKDD 2022 presents the following five workshops:

This two-volume set constitutes the refereed proceedings of the workshops which complemented the 21th Joint European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD, held in September 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference and workshops were held online.The 104 papers were thoroughly reviewed and selected from 180 papers submited for the workshops. This two-volume set includes the proceedings of the following workshops:Workshop on A...

In The Christ-Man Chronicles, Cooper-Gilesposits a compelling argument for both clergy and politicians, and their social issues, which should manifest and morph into models of progressive change and enlightenment.This book chronicles somewhat the search for bin Laden and Al Qaeda, the War on Terror, and the incidental attacks on Iraq in March 2003. The narrative also alludes to some reasons why there is much animosity and hatred toward America and some of ...