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When her son is shot by drug peddlers, Rita Webb Smith decides to bring his would-be murderers to justice and rebuild her neighborhood. The Woman Who Took Back Her Streets is her inspiring and harrowing story.
A highly accessible reference offering a broad range of topics and insights on large scale network-centric distributed systems Evolving from the fields of high-performance computing and networking, large scale network-centric distributed systems continues to grow as one of the most important topics in computing and communication and many interdisciplinary areas. Dealing with both wired and wireless networks, this book focuses on the design and performance issues of such systems. Large Scale Network-Centric Distributed Systems provides in-depth coverage ranging from ground-level hardware issues (such as buffer organization, router delay, and flow control) to the high-level issues immediately ...
This book is intended to benefit different segments of target audience—right from under-graduate and post-graduate students and teachers of Mechanical Engineering, in Universities and Engineering Colleges across India, practicing professionals, Design Engineers and Engineering Consultants working in Industries and Consulting organizations. All the above aspects have together made this book unique in several aspects. From a Mechanical Engineering Student’s angle, this book covers the syllabus prescribed by Indian Universities extensively, with theory, practical applications of the theory, illustrated with several worked out examples and problems, along with ‘chapter wise review question...
How could the world be a better place if each of us used our unique talents to make others happy? Ben loves to draw. Drawing makes him happy, and he uses his drawing talent to also make others around him happy. One day, he has an idea: what if he started a Happiness Club? To become a member of the club, all a child has to do is use their own unique talents to make another member of the club happy. In this uplifting, diverse, and beautifully illustrated book, children will learn how the exponential power of love, respect, and friendship can be harnessed to make the world a happier place for all.
In this colorful and vivid book with real images, children will learn the name and pronunciation of 38 common foods and drinks in Spanish. Audio pronunciation by a native speaker of Spanish is available right from the book for each word, making this a great book especially for parents who may not speak the language themselves but would like their children to learn good pronunciation. Simply scan the QR code with the free Linguacious app to hear the word. Children can also develop early language skills in Spanish by playing games with the book to practice reading, writing, listening, and speaking.
Peasant Rebellion in a Slave Society identifies the immediate and remote reasons for the Balaiada revolt in Maranhão, Brazil, analyzing the special characteristics of the region that favored the development of a relatively independent peasantry within and around the cotton, rice, cassava, and cattle estates. The book explores the demography of Maranhão and patterns of land ownership and documents the rapid degradation of the environment by plantation‐based export agriculture. The analysis of various types of coerced and free labor, the oligopolistic structure of the colonial economy, and the key determinants of class and status contextualizes the conflict potential in Maranhão during th...
This book features a collection of high-quality research papers presented at the International Conference on Tourism, Technology and Systems (ICOTTS 2022), held at University of Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile, from 3 to 5 November 2022. The book is divided into two volumes, and it covers the areas of technology in tourism and the tourist experience, generations and technology in tourism, digital marketing applied to tourism and travel, mobile technologies applied to sustainable tourism, information technologies in tourism, digital transformation of tourism business, e-tourism and tourism 2.0, big data and management for travel and tourism, geotagging and tourist mobility, smart destinations, robotics in tourism, and information systems and technologies.