Download or read book Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked written by Catherine Orenstein and published by Basic Books (AZ). This book was released on 2003-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the intricate sexual politics, moral ambiguities, and philosophical underpinnings of the folktale, tracing its history from the court of Louis XIV to its applications in modern marketing, and showing how it has served as a measure of social and sexual mores for women. 25,000 first printing.
Download or read book Mathematical Modelling of Waves in Multi Scale Structured Media written by Alexander B. Movchan and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-11-09 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mathematical Modelling of Waves in Multi-Scale Structured Media presents novel analytical and numerical models of waves in structured elastic media, with emphasis on the asymptotic analysis of phenomena such as dynamic anisotropy, localisation, filtering and polarisation as well as on the modelling of photonic, phononic, and platonic crystals.
Download or read book The Coalition written by Bob Avis and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2007-11-29 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tuebor was the most advanced civilization in our sector of the galaxy and they willingly shared their technology with most of the civilizations they encountered during their space explorations. This led to the formation of the Hocage Alliance. The Vate decided that the Tuebor led Alliance would be an easy acquisition and started a war. However, they underestimated the resistance of the other members of the Alliance and found themselves in a vicious stalemate. The Balekian Empire engaged the Vate during their conquest of all civilizations they encountered. The Vate realized that they could not defeat the Empire, therefore, asked the Alliance to join them in an effort to defeat a enemy who eventually would consume the Alliance. After thousands of years of war, a truce was finally signed which eventually led to the formation of THE COALITION. Tueborian influence within THE COALITION began to erode and they sought help from the remnants of the genetically related colony established on Earth 66 million years ago. This led to the 12.3 light-year separation of a teenage girl and her parents. Jackie and Bob Cavish were supposedly killed in a car crash. After the initial shock of her parents deaths, Denise Cavish questions police about several incidents surrounding the accident that doesnt make sense including the unauthorized cremation of the bodies. The disappearance of Denises best friend Kim Longley seems to be unrelated to the Cavishs apparent deaths. Acting on her own, Denise follows a lead that takes her to a remote fishing cabin in Montana where she almost kills the man responsible for reuniting the family. Once together the family helps the Tueborians and THE COALITION in dealing with the Genigans and Ammonoids in Book I; the Imini, Esortians, and Reptilians in Book II; and the United Reptilian Systems, the Plasma People and the Cosmic Creature in Book III. The Genigans and especially the Reptilians tend to settle any disputes with war. The Imini are always in constant flight for survival but will fight to eat. The Esortians chase the Imini throughout the galaxy and multi- dimensions while attacking anyone who helps their foe. The Ammonoids are reluctant to share and prefer to control situations through the non-confrontational use of their technology. The Plasma People and the Cosmic Creature arewell far out. Book III concludes with the Day Of Truth and the final chance for Earth to join THE COALITION. The story gives an awesome sense of appreciation for each species own very special but trivial place in this magnificent mysterious multidimensional ever-evolving universe. They learned to face issues far greater than their own personal needs. As a group they gradually learned that they must bind together for mutual protection and prosperity. THE COALITION provides adventure, mystery, humor and a touch of love all developed by the gradual blending of characters and species. It also provides some thoughts concerning the following questions: Did you ever wonder why the Chicxulub impact was so amazingly effective in wiping out all dinosaurs on Earth? Why Earth has humanoids of various colors? Which, if any, humanoids are indigenous to Earth? Why media exposure to science fiction has dramatically increased during the past 25 years?
Download or read book Paradigms for Virtualization Based Host Security written by Tal Simeon Garfinkel and published by Stanford University. This book was released on 2010 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtualization has been one of the most potent forces reshaping the landscape of systems software in the last 10 years and has become ubiquitous in the realm of enterprise compute infrastructure and in the emerging field of cloud computing. This presents a variety of new opportunities when designing host based security architectures. We present several paradigms for enhancing host security leveraging the new capabilities afforded by virtualization. First, we present a virtualization based approach to trusted computing. This allows multiple virtual hosts with different assurance levels to run concurrently on the same platform using a novel "open box" and "closed box" model that allows the virtualized platform to present the best properties of traditional open and closed platforms on a single physical platform. Next, we present virtual machine introspection, an approach to enhancing the attack resistance intrusion detection and prevention systems by moving them "out of the box" i.e. out of the virtual host they are monitoring and into a seperate protection domain where they can inspect the host they are monitoring from a more protected vantage point. Finally, we present overshadow data protection, an approach for providing a last line of defense for application data even if the guest OS running an application has been compromised. We accomplish this by presenting two views of virtual memory, an encrypted view to the operating system and a plain text view to the application the owning that memory. This approach more generally illustrates the mechanisms necessary to introduce new orthogonal protection mechanisms into a Guest Operating system from the virtualization layer while maintaining backwards compatibility with existing operating systems and applications.
Download or read book Selected Topics In Photonic Crystals And Metamaterials written by Antonello Andreone and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2011-06-08 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on a research field that has emerged in the last decade as one of the most promising and rapidly advancing. The interest towards photonic crystals and metamaterials and their strategic importance are evident in the steadily growing rate of topical publications, the recent creation of topical journals, conferences and workshops promoted by several scientific societies, the research efforts at international level, and the number of proposed novel applications based on them.The various contributions, by renowned scientists from academia and industry, address wide-ranging topics, including aspects pertaining to modeling, phenomenologies, experiments, technologies and applications.
Download or read book Advances in Information and Communication written by Kohei Arai and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-03-01 with total page 927 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gathers the proceedings of the eighth Future of Information and Computing Conference, which was held successfully in virtual mode. It received a total of 369 paper submissions from renowned and budding scholars, academics, and distinguished members of the industry. The topics fanned across various fields involving computing, Internet of Things, data science, and artificial intelligence. Learned scholars from all walks of life assembled under one roof to share their unique, original, and breakthrough researches and paved a new technological path for the world. Many of the studies seek to change the face of the world itself. Their innovative thinking indeed aims to solve several gruesome problems in the field of communication, data science, ambient intelligence, networking, computing, security, and privacy. The authors have strived to render valuable pieces of study in this edition and hope to acquire enthusiastic support from the readers.
Download or read book Surface Electromagnetics written by Fan Yang and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides systematic coverage of the theory, physics, functional designs, and engineering applications of advanced electromagnetic surfaces.
Download or read book Mathematical and Statistical Methods for Multistatic Imaging written by Habib Ammari and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-11-29 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers recent mathematical, numerical, and statistical approaches for multistatic imaging of targets with waves at single or multiple frequencies. The waves can be acoustic, elastic or electromagnetic. They are generated by point sources on a transmitter array and measured on a receiver array. An important problem in multistatic imaging is to quantify and understand the trade-offs between data size, computational complexity, signal-to-noise ratio, and resolution. Another fundamental problem is to have a shape representation well suited to solving target imaging problems from multistatic data. In this book the trade-off between resolution and stability when the data are noisy is addressed. Efficient imaging algorithms are provided and their resolution and stability with respect to noise in the measurements analyzed. It also shows that high-order polarization tensors provide an accurate representation of the target. Moreover, a dictionary-matching technique based on new invariants for the generalized polarization tensors is introduced. Matlab codes for the main algorithms described in this book are provided. Numerical illustrations using these codes in order to highlight the performance and show the limitations of numerical approaches for multistatic imaging are presented.
Download or read book The Bone Prophet written by Selena I. R. Drake and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-03-19 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the mysterious Shadow-Fire Cross suddenly returns after weeks of laying low, AEON Agent Cybil "Jinx" Starr knows that sometimes a good girl has to be bad. And keeping his secret could make her wind up in AEON's prison - or worse: dead. But that's the least of her problems. Between a peculiar bombing, profound murders, and winning lottery tickets, AEON is left chasing their tails. The pressure is on Jinx and her still-developing psychic powers to find the connection to the crimes. No matter how hard she tries, the vicious killer always seems to be one step ahead. How can Jinx possibly hope to out-prophet the Prophet?
Download or read book Transformation Electromagnetics and Metamaterials written by Douglas H. Werner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transformation electromagnetics is a systematic design technique for optical and electromagnetic devices that enables novel wave-material interaction properties. The associated metamaterials technology for designing and realizing optical and electromagnetic devices can control the behavior of light and electromagnetic waves in ways that have not been conventionally possible. The technique is credited with numerous novel device designs, most notably the invisibility cloaks, perfect lenses and a host of other remarkable devices. Transformation Electromagnetics and Metamaterials: Fundamental Principles and Applications presents a comprehensive treatment of the rapidly growing area of transformation electromagnetics and related metamaterial technology with contributions on the subject provided by a collection of leading experts from around the world. On the theoretical side, the following questions will be addressed: “Where does transformation electromagnetics come from?,” “What are the general material properties for different classes of coordinate transformations?,” “What are the limitations and challenges of device realizations?,” and “What theoretical tools are available to make the coordinate transformation-based designs more amenable to fabrication using currently available techniques?” The comprehensive theoretical treatment will be complemented by device designs and/or realizations in various frequency regimes and applications including acoustic, radio frequency, terahertz, infrared, and the visible spectrum. The applications encompass invisibility cloaks, gradient-index lenses in the microwave and optical regimes, negative-index superlenses for sub-wavelength resolution focusing, flat lenses that produce highly collimated beams from an embedded antenna or optical source, beam concentrators, polarization rotators and splitters, perfect electromagnetic absorbers, and many others. This book will serve as the authoritative reference for students and researchers alike to the fast-evolving and exciting research area of transformation electromagnetics/optics, its application to the design of revolutionary new devices, and their associated metamaterial realizations.
Download or read book Acoustic Metamaterials written by Richard V. Craster and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the book: This book is the first comprehensive review on acoustic metamaterials; novel materials which can manipulate sound waves in surprising ways, which include collimation, focusing, cloaking, sonic screening and extraordinary transmission. It covers both experimental and theoretical aspects of acoustic and elastic waves propagating in structured composites, with a focus on effective properties associated with negative refraction, lensing and cloaking. Most related books in the field address electromagnetic metamaterials and focus on numerical methods, and little (or no) experimental section. Each chapter will be authored by an acknowledged expert, amongst the topics covered will be experimental results on non-destructive imaging, cloaking by surface water waves, flexural waves in thin plates. Applications in medical ultrasound imaging and modeling of metamaterials will be emphasized too. The book can serve as a reference for researchers who wish to build a solid foundation of wave propagation in this class of novel materials.
Download or read book Mutual Defence of Nations written by Oscar Frederick Maclagan and published by Letchworth, [Eng.] : Garden City Press. This book was released on 1916 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Homecoming written by William Hyde and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-05-17 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story is about the children of Altonan and Stephanie Arkonan, Altonan the Third, and Sara Elizabeth. After bringing them up on the Wyoming ranch where Stephanie grew up, the Lord of the Earth decides he's had enough of the constant turmoil produced by the denizens of that planet, and convinces his wife to move to Novu Ang Heloca, the place where the remnants of his own people are flourishing. Unfortunately, trouble followed him and he and his whole family have to solve a few interstellar incidents. Altonan and Stephanie allow their offspring to take the reins as they try to ease into retirement.
Download or read book Pawsitively Betrayed written by Melissa Erin Jackson and published by Ringtail Press . This book was released on 2021-01-10 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy the fifth and final book in this completed series of five lighthearted, fast-paced, twisty paranormal cozy mysteries today Enemies wear many faces. The Here and Meow Festival has finally arrived! Amber Blackwood and her fellow festival committee members still have plenty to do before the celebration of all things feline begins. Even though Amber’s witchy past keeps interfering, she knows the show must go on. Edgehill’s livelihood depends on the festival’s success. When two incidents involving her malfunctioning products cause her to shutter the doors of her curiosity shop, The Quirky Whisker, only days before the busiest season of the year, Amber thinks things can’t get any worse. An investigation into the incidents reveals sabotage is to blame—sabotage that only could have been carried out by a fellow witch. Things just officially got worse. With Edgehill overrun by tourists, any unfamiliar face could be a member of the nefarious Penhallow witch family. Though her parents’ grimoires are hidden in a remote location overlaid with protective spells, Amber fears that won’t be enough to deter the desperate and cursed clan from trying to get their hands on a legendary time-travel spell. As the opening ceremony of the Here and Meow approaches, Amber contends with a nosy lawyer, mysterious government officials, and a charismatic superstar. Through it all, Amber senses the Penhallows have something planned—something big. With her new circle of close confidants by her side, Amber must find a way to thwart the Penhallow family’s scheme before it’s too late. If she can’t, the Here and Meow will be ruined … and Edgehill could be wiped off the map. ----- KEYWORDS: paranormal cozy mystery series, paranormal cozy mystery, paranormal cozy books, paranormal cozy authors, cozy paranormal authors, witch cozy mystery, witch cozy mystery series, cozy witch books, cozy witch, best witch cozy mysteries, cozy mysteries, cozy mystery series, cozy mystery books, cat fiction books, cat fiction, cat fiction series, witch series books, cozy mystery, paranormal cozy mystery, paranormal mystery, cozy witch mystery, cat mystery, cozy murder mysteries, cozy murder mystery, witches, small town mystery, small town murder mystery, quirky town
Download or read book Socrates Buddha Confucius Jesus written by Karl Jaspers and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1962 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A part of Jaspers's planned universal history of philosophy, focusing on the four paradigmatic individuals who have exerted a historical influence of incomparable scope and depth. Edited by Hannah Arendt; Index. Translated by Ralph Manheim.
Download or read book Aria Heavenly Creatures One Shot written by Brian Holguin and published by Image Comics. This book was released on 2021-02-17 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lady Kildare, expatriate princess of Faerie, is living a life of aristocratic decadence among Victorian London's social elite. One night, while slumming among the city's notorious underbelly, Kildare and her companions come across an illicit underground sideshow boasting "Creation's Most Wondrous and Perverse Curiosities." The centerpiece of this bizarre menagerie? A genuine angel held in captivity! This sets the stage for an unlikely alliance and the beginning of an unforgettable tale of mystery, adventure, and retribution. PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED IN 2000 UNDER A DIFFERENT TITLE.
Download or read book Superhumans from the Past written by Jaime Mera and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steve and four superhumans he never met before in his life assemble in the middle of a deserted island. The five superhumans meet in a time of turmoil during the Cold War and dawn of the South American revolution, but they're propelled to the future where they learn that the past is not set in stone. On top of it, everyone is way out of their comfort zone as they find out they're no longer on Earth, but on a planet called Arlos. Time travel is a thing many do not believe possible, but if you could go back in time, why would you? To change the past is a paradox which even superheroes seem not to escape from except that this time it's not a paradox for the five superhumans, known as the Five Ghosts. They are not from the future or present, and their time traveling present is our future. Steve, known as Stargazer, leads this band of brothers to find a way back home by saving Queen Cassandra and stopping Korvax from obtaining time traveling powers and disrupting the order of the universe. Steve has to fight against his own team as they learn to deal with the weird situation and their own assertive personalities. Steve grew up watching the stars with his unique superhuman vision, but seeing the Sun as a very small white dot from another galaxy stirs him into action as a leader and hero. Queen Cassandra is near death, but the Five Ghosts fight through an army of demonic aliens to revive her from a parallax prison chamber. The time comes when the Five Ghosts see the opportunity to return home, but what they return to is not the same world they learned to appreciate. Earth is in danger, and they're the only ones who can change history, or should it be said, the future? Stargazer, Ghost, Rat Bastard, Spot, and Master find themselves in the middle of a worldwide plot to assassinate leaders and superhumans. Their only advantage in stopping the onslaught is no one knows them.
