‘I would get out of the car at every shopping centre and want to ask the stranger walking by with their trolley: “Why are you still shopping? Someone I love has died.”’ – Dela GwalaDeath is a fact of life, but the experience of grief is unique to each of us. This timely collection brings together a range of voices to offer reflections on death and dying, from individual losses to large scale catastrophes.Karin Schimke revisits her troubled ...

Since life is filled with tasks, challenges, circumstances, and opportunities, you need the Spirit of God for a clear direction. Don't just do business as usual, God has given you the ability to win in every area of your life. You are God's workmanship, don't get caught chasing the wind, you were meant to soar, and the Spirit of God can make you do that effortlessly. It's time to be Spirit led! Let the Holy Spirit help you navigate through life. In this Devotional, you will learn how to re...

Don’t Allow Unforgiveness to hold you back from what God has in store for YOU! The bible says, “But the more they afflicted them, the more they multiplied and grew” (Exodus 1:12). The harder the oppression, the greater the blessing. Get ready for MAJOR BREAKTHROUGHS! I AM YOU is an arsenal filled with line-by-line precepts on the know-how to confront and overcome the issue of unforgiveness. God has downloaded spiritual truths to disarm the weapon of unforgiveness formed to use YOU against ...

Have you ever imagined what life would be like if you decided to live courageously?I mean no fears, no insecurities, no doubt, no intimidations, but courageous with total confidence in God. Knowing that no one has the power to take anything away from you unless God allows it. Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to trust God.Prophetess Dalieh has provided the tools and step-by-step application that you can utilize and apply to your life to gen...

This monograph presents the work of the authors in metrical theory of continued fractions in the last two decades. The monograph cuts a particular path through this extensive theory and describes the theory in its current form for three families of continued fractions, namely, θ-continued fractions, N-continued fractions, and generalized Rényi continued fractions. The book systematically lays out the required preliminaries, making the book easy to read. This monograph pro...

From the height of ‘New Imperialism’ until the Second World War, three generations of heroes of the British and French empires in Africa were selected, manufactured and packaged for consumption by a metropolitan public eager to discover new horizons and to find comfort in the concept of a ‘civilising mission’. This book looks at imperial heroism by examining the legends of a dozen major colonial figures on both sides of the Channel, revisiting the familiar stories of Livingstone, Gordon an...

This collection of poetry was born in the quiet ache of memory and the loud silence of solitude. Its author—a resilient soul shaped by both beauty and heartbreak—began writing as a way to survive.Their journey through three years at university was a delicate balancing act: pursuing their studies while navigating the shadows of depression. Behind their quiet strength lay the deep wounds of childhood, most notably the shattering impact of their parents' divorce,which unravelle...

Just like in the squatter camp in Atteridgeville, there was no electricity in our new home. But here it was very different: it was safe. Only years later I figured out why the crime rate was so low in our village: there was nothing to steal.Born in Chains is a first-hand account of living in abject poverty in South Africa. Clinton Chauke was born in 1994 into a Vatsonga household and has faced all the challenges of growing up at the edges of society: first in rural Limpopo...

Decolonising Europe? Popular Responses to the End of Empire offers a new paradigm to understand decolonisation in Europe by showing how it was fundamentally a fluid process of fluxes and refluxes involving not only transfers of populations, ideas, and sociocultural practices across continents but also complex intra-European dynamics at a time of political convergence following the Treaty of Rome. Decolonisation was neither a process of sudden, rapid changes to European cultures nor one of ...

The eight-volume set comprising LNCS volumes 9905-9912 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2016, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in October 2016.The 415 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 1480 submissions. The papers cover all aspects of computer vision and pattern recognition such as 3D computer vision; computational photography, sensing and display; face and gesture; low-level vision and ...

How does our colonial past echo through today's global politics? How have former empire-builders sought vindication or atonement, and formerly colonized states reversal or retribution? This groundbreaking book presents a panoramic view of attitudes to empires past and present, seen not only through the hard politics of international power structures but also through the nuances of memory, historiography and national and minority cultural identities. Bringing together leading historians, po...

The eight-volume set comprising LNCS volumes 9905-9912 constitutes therefereed proceedings of the 14th European Conference on ComputerVision, ECCV 2016, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in October 2016.The 415 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selectedfrom 1480 submissions. The papers cover all aspects of computer visionand pattern recognition such as 3D computer vision; computationalphotography, sensing and display; fac...