Love & Profanity features more than forty brief, brilliant, and unforgettable true stories from writers both renowned and on the rise. Discover strange and surprising scenes of people coming of age amidst the everyday intensity of teenage life. Witness transformative moments arising from the mundane. Behold the young adult in full splendor and horror, bursting with love and profanity.

Your Impossible Voice #25 opens with a story of love, loneliness, and DJs in Argentina, and closes with wayward Taco Bell bandits loose in the Buckeye state. In between, it delivers new short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction exploring anaphylactic reactions to dust, languages that sound like bonfire flames, dollar-store groceries, golden molars and nectars, witchy weather apps, migraines, matricide, and so much more.Contributors include Cecilia Pavón and Jacob Steinberg, Ro...

A New Year’s Eve gala turns into a nightmare when a failed magician-turned-maciac unleashes his horrible genetic experiments on innocent partygoers. Black Hood is on the scene, but he’s unarmed—and there’s a hostage involved! Nate must think on his feet, or a lot of innocent people won’t live to see the new year...

The mysterious Dr. Harvey is on trial for his creation of a ‘safe hallucinogen’—but how safe could it be if he’s already spent six years in prison for it? How does Black Hood’s story tie into this odd case? He can’t afford to let his guard down now—the mafia are on his trail, and they’ve got new allies...

Nate Cray’s mother is in critical condition and Dr. Harvey has escaped custody! Nate must make a difficult choice—to stay by his ailing mother’s side or to stop Harvey’s insane plans. But Dr. Harvey is not all he seems to be and has some lethal tricks up his sleeve...

Finally—we learn the history behind the Black Hood itself! Is there any truth to the claims Nate has made about its power? There must be, or The Web wouldn’t have snuck into Nate’s house…

Black Hood is locked in battle with a wave of slime—but it seems to be more than that! Will he be able to stop Pirate Blue at the same time? Maybe if the newly-born Fox lends his help…

This illuminating volume explores the often-overlooked relationship between college student activism and well-being, drawing on a multi-phase study that explores college students’ perspectives on how their activism impacts their well-being.Based on a study of 119 US college students, the authors share their findings through a constructivist, qualitative lens, revealing three key themes: The link between student activism and students’ identities, the non-negotiable time costs of act...

Based on a comprehensive study review by leading urban planning researchers, this investigative document demonstrates how urban development is both a key contributor to climate change and an essential factor in combating it—by reducing vehicle greenhouse gas emissions.

This book contributes to blockchain applications in food supply chain management from both theoretical and practical perspectives. By using the case study research method, it empirically investigates why and how food companies implement blockchain technology. Moreover, it proposes a conceptual framework based on the case findings and extant literature.The book provides empirical evidence to verify academic findings such as critical success factors and barriers. Furthermore, it iden...

This is the first comprehensive study by the world’s leading scholars about the political logic of the U.S.-China trade war that started during the Trump administration. The book is divided into three parts. The first part looks at changed leadership styles of the two countries in the last few years. It also examines the liberal international order since World War II in which the trade war emerged. It then explores the theoretical perspectives from both the United States and China that are...

High definition video requires substantial compression in order to be transmitted or stored economically. Advances in video coding standards from MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 to H.264/AVC have provided ever increasing coding efficiency, at the expense of great computational complexity which can only be delivered through massively parallel processing.This book will present VLSI architectural design and chip implementation for high definition H.264/AVC video encoding, using a state-of-the-...