Welcome to Pink Houses: a Poetry Collection!The pages of Pink Houses are infused with magic, rhyme, meter and poetic messages through the muses of Light Workers and Archangels. This is a nostalgic story of growing up in the Heartland of Iowa from childhood to teacher, wife, mom, poet and medium. Vibrant colorful artwork and photographs bring the imagery to life! Pink Houses is written for women, children and people everywhere who have experienced something ...

Tracing the genre through fiction, visual art, film and videogames from the 1980s to the present, this book offers a comprehensive exploration of the intersection between neo-Victorianism, urban spaces and Steampunk. Characterised by its interplay between past and present and its anachronistic retro-speculation, Neo-Victorian-infused Steampunk remixes modern collective memory to produce a re-imagined vision of Victorian London. Investigating how Steampunk's re-calibrated L...

This book brings together articles on the overarching theme of how the environment shapes the immune system.The immune system is commonly assumed to respond to harmful pathogens such as bacteria and viruses. However, harmless bacteria, chemicals, stress, normal food and other factors can also trigger, shape or interfere with the immune system, often producing adverse effects. Yet, it is also becoming increasingly accepted that some of these interactions are physiological and necess...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Code-Based Cryptography, CBCrypto 2023, held in Lyon, France, during April 22–23, 2023.The 8 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 28 submissions. The conference offers a wide range of many important aspects of code-based cryptography such as cryptanalysis of existing schemes, the proposal of new cryptographic systems and protocols as well as improved decodin...

This book addresses key challenges facing global political communication at a time in which transformations in political practice, media ecology and cultural expectations both threaten traditional democratic norms and point to potential new ways of enacting political democracy. Drawing upon the outstanding theoretical insights of Jay Blumler to our understanding of the norms and practices of political communication, but also critically interrogating and updating them where appropriate, the...

The studies in this volume conceptualize populism as a type of political communication and investigate it comparatively, focusing on (a) politicians’ and journalists’ perceptions, (b) media coverage, and (c) effects on citizens.This book presents findings from several large-scale internationally comparative empirical studies, funded by the European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research (COST), focusing on communication and the media within the context of pop...

A Global Overview of International Tax Disputes on DTCThis book is a unique publication that gives a global overview of international tax disputes on double tax conventions and thereby fills a gap in the area of tax treaty case law. It covers the forty-one most important tax treaty cases which were decided around the world in 2018. The systematic structure of each chapter allows for the easy and efficient study and comparison of the various methods adopted for appl...

A Study of the problems of the early history of the Franciscan ORder by one of the most important scholars of the ORder, this book seeks to contribute to a stronger historical understanding of the work of St. Francis byu looking into the debates and theories surrounding the formation of the Order, and the transformation of the "original ideals of St. Francis."

The authors emphasize that an economy's competitiveness relies on purposive and intermeshed measures at the meta-, macro-, meso-, and micro- level and a multidimensional guidance concept consisting of competition, dialogue and shared decision-making which integrates the key groups of actors.

Treating her search for a husband as a research project, socially inept Dr. Wanda Walling creates a marriage matrix listing the qualities she wants in a husband. All candidates will be evaluated by how many boxes are ticked off. Then Wanda meets handsome Detective Jack Pendleton, who excites and delights her but doesn't meet any of her requirements, and he has a phobia about marriage. Jack is enthralled by Wanda and wants her any way he can get her. Even though he is appalled that she is h...

Axel Honneth’s theory of recognition comes from a theoretical paradigm attached to Western deliberative democracy. Honneth does not interpret recognition from the perspective of gender equality and how a woman may be recognized in non democratic and non Western societies. If one interprets the theory of recognition with a focus on the situation of women, it is possible to identify that legal recognition plays a fundamental role. It is relevant, then, to propose forms of struggling for the ...

Depression, confusion, and desperation sap the energy we need to address the challenges of life; Dr. Esser shows how we can uncap a well of energy and vitality to overcome problems and turn our lives around. Optimistic and easy to read, this book gives practical new insights into how to get the best out of living and how to cope with the worst.