After two decades, data processing has finally, and probably forever, found its niche among civil engineering and construction (CEC) professionnals, through word processors, digitizing tables, management software, and increasingly via drawing software and computer-aided design (CAD), recently, robots have even started invading work sites. What are the main trends of CAD and robotics in the field of architecture and civil enginee ring? What type of R&D effort do university and industrial la...

Fintan Doherty's 1950s childhood in Glenbay, Donegal, is filled with two things: tales of America told by a plethora of 'returned Yanks' and the silent sadness after his mother's death.Soon as he becomes an adult, he leaves for the States – via Europe – and never stands still again. His journey way out west to Ohio and back up to Boston brings Fintan to an eclectic and diverse array of jobs, rented rooms, landscapes, acquaintances, friends and lovers, each one either confirming or ...

Come from the Shadows is not about the Afghanistan we may think we know. It is not about the country depicted in urgent dispatches from embedded reporters; it isn't about the country evoked by anti-war protestors or the one that figures in heated political controversies over the treatment of prisoners. Instead, this is a book about the Afghanistan that lies "outside the wire," far from the Taliban's grim desert strongholds. The country we visit with award-winning ...

Wallington village in Hampshire lies adjacent to the town of Fareham, but its rich history and heritage goes back millennia. Despite encroaching development, the heart of the village remains strong, with its large water meadow and the picturesque river that snakes through it, past two ancient village pubs and a host of historical cottages and listed buildings.In Wallington: History of a Hampshire Village author and local historian Danny Glavin has unearthed a wealth of information,...

The Telephone Box Twins know exactly what they are going to do with their newly found fame.The winners of the latest series of X Factor don't want to date a succession of lingerie models, or be snapped by the paparazzi leaving night clubs in the early hours, or even have a Christmas number one. They want just one simple thing… to find the women who cruelly abandoned them 25 years ago.They intend to use the media to get what they want. What they don't realize is that the med...

Cash is an unemployed romantic. Skye is a successful DJ with a volcanic personality. Jefferson is the hedonistic heir to a massive fortune. Kinsley is an optimistic, workaholic social media manager. These four twenty-somethings choose to spend the summer together in the occasionally opulent and frequently overindulgent Hamptons. The group gallivants around Montauk, Sagaponack, East Hampton, Southampton, and Sag Harbor, slowly coming to grips with post-college life and adulthood in the area...

The sequel to Ruiner is a political epic fantasy that shows us what it takes to win.In this second book of the Tellers series, Kell, a proud, misfit teller, trained to project elaborate creatures of glowing storylight, returns to her people empty-handed and bereft of memories. The sacred pulsar stones that have guided navigators across the desert since time immemorial have been seized in Imperial Soogway’s relentless pursuit of resources, and her mission t...

A political fantasy where storytelling is combat magic and disparate forces unite against exploitation and environmental destruction.War and physical violence are obsolete. Now tellers compete with stories, both for glory and survival. But a story lost in combat is lost forever, and with it, a piece of the teller.Kell is a ritual lorist, trained to navigate the desert by way of the ancient pulsar stones. When the imperial city of Soogway begins mining these...

A political fantasy where storytelling is combat magic and disparate forces unite against exploitation and environmental destruction.War and physical violence are obsolete. Now tellers compete with stories, both for glory and survival. But a story lost in combat is lost forever, and with it, a piece of the teller.Kell is a ritual lorist, trained to navigate the desert by way of the ancient pulsar stones. When the imperial city of Soogway begins mining these...

A variety of games spanning the entire history of Barnsley Football Club, from its origins as Barnsley St Peters to the present-day. Over 50 matches are included, from 4,600 fixtures. They include 2 FA Cup FInals, Semi-FInals, recent cup triumphs against Liverpool at Anfield and Chelsea at Oakwell, the recent new Wembley experience and the last play-off at the Millennium Stadium. Also included is the historic game against Bradford City after which Barnsley obtained promotion to the Premier...

As a special class of e-learning systems, intelligent tutoring systems support and improve the learning and teaching of domain-specific knowledge, respecting learner individuality as in traditional one-to-one tutoring. Intelligent Tutoring Systems in E-Learning Environments: Design, Implementation, and Evaluation presents the e-learning community with innovative research concerning the background of intelligent tutoring systems in the new educational era. This scholarly reference provides ...

"Together, the writers sound a sobering warning: the American government is an iron fist in a velvet glove whose purpose remains preserving the status quo and enriching the rich."- Publishers WeeklyWhat happens when the techniques of counterinsurgency, developed to squash small skirmishes and guerrilla wars on the border of Empire, blend into the state's apparatus for domestic policing? In Life During Wartime, fifteen authors and activists reflect on the American ...