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This 15-volume set LNCS 15031-15045 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision, PRCV 2024, held in Urumqi, China, during October 18-20, 2024. The 579 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 1526 submissions. The...

Patterns of Economic Change by State and Area: Income, Employment, and Gross Domestic Product is a special edition of Business Statistics of the United States. It presents data on personal income, employment, and gross domestic product for the United States as a whole, and...

An engrossing account of the myth and legend of George S. Patton and what his reputation illuminates about American culture and hero worshipPatton's Shadow by Nathan C. Jones, a leading authority on George S. Patton, offers a definitive account of the creation of the...

Romans 9-11 is one of the most controversial passages in Paul's corpus. Efforts to reconcile chapter 9 with chapter 11 are disparate, and the dearth of scholarly interest in the subject of wrath often perpetuates the Marcionite premise that wrath precludes mercy, a false...

An exaltation of the sublime artist, Paul Rotterdam. Painter, illustrator, and graphic artist Paul Rotterdam (b. 1939) is the Austrian member of the New York School, a group of artists whose radical approaches pushed pure abstraction to its very limits. In the late 1960s,...

A shapeshifting god, an immortality granting peach, and a woman gifted with forever.England, 1184: Anna is used to hunger and hardship. Ever since she was seventeen, when the pale shadows of her vitiligo were spotted, she has spent more than a decade struggling to...

One Pigeon Queen, two Children and one extraordinary day in a typical town, just like yours, would change all of their lives, forever.Paul Burgess is a writer, actor and drag queen (The Vegan Queens). He has written plays, short stories and poems, the latter...

Sum?rgete en un viaje intelectual hacia lo divino, cuestionando, comprendiendo y descubriendo en cada p?gina de este libro de Alberto F. Rold?n.El autor nos lleva a dialogar sobre Dios y de la mano de reconocidos fil?sofos y te?logos del siglo XX y XXI. La...

Peppy races against a giant, ever growing snowball hoping to rescue his younger brother Bellybutton from danger. Will Peppy get to his brother in time? Peppy and the Giant Snowball tells the story of a brother's courageous act of love, encouraging young readers and...

Peppy races against a giant, ever growing snowball hoping to rescue his younger brother Bellybutton from danger. Will Peppy get to his brother in time? Peppy and the Giant Snowball tells the story of a brother's courageous act of love, encouraging young readers and...

Un libro infantil (a partir de 6 a?os) que inspira a los j?venes lectores a so?ar en grande a trav?s de breves biograf?as y magn?ficas ilustraciones de mujeres que han cambiado el mundo.Cien mujeres que se atravieron a cambiar el mundo. Cien historias de...

Why, and to what extent, are states more or less likely to comply with international law? No overarching state compels compliance, and the international institutional context is thin, yet states seem largely to comply. How do we explain this behaviour? Developed through interviews with...

In response to abuse scandals and inappropriate conduct by hyper-popular Christian leaders, both in the UK and the US, Perfectly Ordinary warns against the dangers of pursuing 'spectacular' ministry and examines what gives rise to coercively controlling and manipulative Christian subcultures. Yet such cultures...

Octogenarian former sheriff Bill Gastner and Undersheriff Estelle Reyes-Guzman investigate a puzzling double murder in this twisty, page-turning instalment in the critically acclaimed Posadas County mystery series "If you haven't yet discovered these wonderful mysteries, you are in for a treat!" Anne Hillerman, New...

Maren and Locke both exist in the same world of professional golf-he's the number one player in the world while she just takes his picture.Never mind that Locke unintentionally leads the press to believe that he and Maren are dating, because when she confronts...

He is sixteen in 1964. He has friends. He has fun. He smokes unfiltered Luckies. He loses his virginity. He gets his first car and drives with abandon. He is growing up as fast as he can, if not as fast as he wants....

Updated with a new preface by Gilbert Achar, covering events since 2007 including the late-2023 renewal of military conflict between Israel and Hamas, this new edition provides readers with an essential critical perspective on the US role in the Middle East.The volatile Middle East...

In the autumn of 253, Gallienus, a thirty-five-year-old Patrician is unexpectedly appointed co-emperor by the Senate, with his father, Valerian. He is an unlikely choice with his Greek education, sardonic personality and his reputation for frequenting brothels and taverns, behavior considered scandalous by his...

How do we, as individuals, accommodate a pessimistic and misanthropic view of the world? If the human condition is impossible to ameliorate, then how should we live? How do we bring about the wellbeing and happiness we seek in the face of such overwhelming...

Amidst the chaos of fascist Italy, Emilio Bucci and Floria Savoia's journey unfolds against a backdrop of love, tragedy, and resilience. From the serene village of Agrigento, Sicily, to the vibrant streets of Hamilton, Ontario, their lives take unexpected turns, testing their endurance at...