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Narrating Death
Drawing on literary and visual texts spanning from the twelfth century to the present, this volume of essays explores what happens when narratives try to push the boundaries of …
Destination Marketing and Management
Most tourism activities take place at a destination, and destination serves as a fundamental unit of analysis in any modelling of the tourism system. However, destination marketing …
Rainforest Medicine
Chronicling the practices, legends, and wisdom of the vanishing traditions of the upper Amazon, this book reveals the area’s indigenous peoples’ approach to living in harmony with …
Daoism and Ecology
Until now, no single work has been devoted to both a scholarly understanding of the complexities of the Daoist tradition and a critical exploration of its contribution to recent …
Advances in Visual Computing
It is with greatpleasure that we present the proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC 2009), which was held in Las Vegas, Nevada. ISVC o?ers a …
Hypoxia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico
Since 1985, scientists have been documenting a hypoxic zone in the Gulf of Mexico each year. The hypoxic zone, an area of low dissolved oxygen that cannot s- port marine life, …
Wacky Races
So you think you know what it means to be an elite athlete? When did you last see an olympian marathon runner dose themselves with rat poison to enhance their vigor?When nothing …
Potential Flows of Viscous and Viscoelastic Liquids
This book illustrates how potential flows enter into the general theory of motions of viscous and viscoelastic fluids. Traditionally, the theory of potential flow is presented as a …
Quantitative Psychology Research
These research articles from the 79th Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society (IMPS) cover timely quantitative psychology topics, including new methods in item response theory, …
Just Hierarchy
A trenchant defense of hierarchy in different spheres of our lives, from the personal to the politicalAll complex and large-scale societies are organized along certain hierarchies, …
Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
This volume contains the papers presented at the Sixth International Conference on Energy Minimization Methods on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (EMMCVPR 2007), held at …
Advances in Machine Learning and Cybernetics
Machine learning and cybernetics play an important role in many modern electronic, computer and communications systems. Automated processing of information by these systems …