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While living in West Africa in the 1970s, John Chernoff recorded the stories of "Hawa," a spirited and brilliant but uneducated woman whose insistence on being respected and treated fairly propelled her, ironically, into a life of marginality and luck as an "ashawo," or bar girl. Rejecting traditional marriage options and cut off from family support, she is like many women in Africa who come to depend on the help they receive from one another, from boyfriends, and from the men they meet in bars and nightclubs. Refusing to see herself as a victim, Hawa embraces the freedom her lifestyle permits and seeks the broadest experience available to her. In Exchange Is Not Robbery and its predecessor,...
Much has been written and structures have been erected to commemorate the lives lost in the Holocaust. This book will focus upon what “living” has meant for those who survived. Through a series of case studies based upon carefully selected films, the ongoing impact of the traumas suffered by first- and second-generation survivors are carefully examined. Almost without exception, these films were either written, directed, or starred in a lead role a first- or second-generation survivor and, therefore, present an informed representation of what these people continue to experience. Film has come to be the most successful means of delivering the message of the Holocaust. Elie Wiesel said that the worst of alternatives would be that the message of the Holocaust would be delivered with “nothing changed.” Hopefully, the message delivered by this book and its case studies will make some small contribution toward a realization of its title, Never Again!
This four-part novel follows the lives and adventures of three teenage boys, from Victoria, Australia, to the seat of government in Whitehall, England, during eleven turbulent months. In Storm Ridge, we meet 14-year-old Wesley, his best friend, Graham, and their worst enemy, Scott. A class hiking trip turns to disaster as Wesley, Graham and Scott are trapped on a snow-capped mountain with nine others and forced to lay aside their differences for a chance at survival. Months later, on a camping trip with Wesley's cousins, the three experience a terrifying game of cat-and-mouse with violent drug traffickers, in Paddle Hard. Emily, an exchange student from England, becomes the kidnapping target...
1916 – Gerard Le Caillec, a French intelligence officer with the Foreign Intelligence Section is trying to rescue his moribund career. In a calculated move he applies, and is selected, for an assignment his superior warns could become a career enhancing proposition or quite possibly the end of his career. It is April 1916 and Le Caillec is sailing to New York City to take over the position of overseas resident officer. His mission hatched in Paris is to set in motion a sabotage operation, the destruction of armament warehouses on a Hoboken, New Jersey pier. Set against a portrait of prewar New York City, WWI is raging in Europe but America is still neutral. The spymasters in the French cap...
Three sexy billionaires are about to steal your heart… Meet the Durand brothers… A trio of gorgeous billionaires who are dead set against getting married. But when these bad boy brothers get into an embarrassing barroom brawl, their grandfather insists they each atone by completing a community project. Which introduces them to three single, beautiful, intelligent woman… In The Billionaire’s Fake Engagement, Phillippe finds himself in a pickle when Violet Shaw, a gorgeous artist he’s assisting, blurts out they’re engaged during a press event. And it’s not long before this adorable paint-spattered woman colors his world in ways he never expected… In The Billionaire’s Pregnant...
In love and art, beauty is in the eye of the beholder… For bad boy billionaire Philippe Durand, love is like mixing oil and water… It just makes a mess. But after Philippe and his brothers get into an embarrassing bar brawl, his grandfather demands all three complete a community service task or lose their inheritance… Philippe is assigned to help stage a local art exhibition by the gorgeous, if endearingly awkward, American artist Violet Shaw. And it’s not long before this paint-spattered woman colors his world in ways he never expected. And suddenly, messy doesn’t seem so bad… Violet isn’t sure about her talent as an artist, but she knows without a doubt that Philippe Durand is the most gorgeous man she’s ever met. Which is why every time she’s with him, she can’t quite stop herself from saying things she shouldn’t. Such as during her first press conference for the art exhibit, when she accidentally blurts that she and Philippe are engaged! Thank goodness Philippe covers for her, and immediately confirms their relationship. But it’s more than just attraction for Violet; she’s fallen head over heels for a man whose biggest fear is falling in love...
Young widow Annabel Chalfont, Countess of Fellbridge, has two small sons to raise, a mountain of her late husband’s debts to pay off, and a secret: she’s a shadow-shaper, able to manipulate shadow as anyone else might clay. She and six other high-born ladies with equally extraordinary abilities defend England against supernatural crime—but the world knows them only as the Lady Patronesses of Almack’s, Regency London’s most exclusive social venue. This volume includes the fourth, fifth, and sixth installments of the series: The Cursed Canvases: Who is magically vandalizing the pictures at the Royal Exhibition? When art becomes artillery, the Ladies take notice. Turmoil on the Thames: When the King’s birthday celebration at Eton is crashed by uninvited guests who threaten to eat the students, it’s a good thing that the Ladies of Almack’s are at hand... An Event at Epsom: A horse is a horse, of course—or is it? Annabel and the Ladies must attend the races at Epsom to investigate a very unusual steed.
This book constitutes the proceedings of the First IAPR International Conference on Discrete Geometry and Mathematical Morphology, DGMM 2021, which was held during May 24-27, 2021, in Uppsala, Sweden. The conference was created by joining the International Conference on Discrete Geometry for computer Imagery, DGCI, with the International Symposium on Mathematical Morphology, ISMM. The 36 papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 59 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: applications in image processing, computer vision, and pattern recognition; discrete and combinatorial topology; discrete geometry - models, transforms, visualization; discrete tomography and inverse problems; hierarchical and graph-based models, analysis and segmentation; learning-based approaches to mathematical morphology; multivariate and PDE-based mathematical morphology, morphological filtering. The book also contains 3 invited keynote papers.
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Reproducible Research in Pattern Recognition, RRPR 2022, held in Montreal, Canada, in August 2022. The 5 revised full papers presented together with 4 short papers, were carefully reviewed and selected from 9 submissions. The papers were organized into three main categories