Thomas Maxwell-Brown non è un eroe. Almeno, non più. Dopo un incidente in pista, è diventato l'uomo più odiato del paddock. Non importa che non sia lui il colpevole: la stampa ha emesso la sua sentenza e i fan lo hanno condannato. Ora Thomas è costretto a indossare una maschera: quella del cinico, dell'indifferente, del bastardo. Ma nessuno conosce la verità, fino a quella sera. Fino all'incontro con Stella Baldwin. Stella è una stella - di nome e di fatto - nel mondo della pasticceria di lusso. La sua catena di negozi è celebre in tutto il mondo e il suo stile è diventato un marchio. Da quando il suo fidanzato l'ha piantata all'altare, però, anche la glassa più perfetta non riesce a coprire le crepe nel suo cuore..

The 4-volume set LNAI 13013 – 13016 constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications, ICIRA 2021, which took place in Yantai, China, during October 22-25, 2021.
The 299 papers included in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 386 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Robotics dexterous manipulation; sensors, actuators, and controllers for soft and hybrid robots; cable-driven parallel robot; human-centered wearable robotics; hybrid system modeling and human-machine interface; robot manipulation skills learning; micro_nano materials, devices, and systems for biomedical applications; actuating, sensing, control, and instrumentation for ultra-precision engineering; human-robot collaboration; robotic machining; medical robot; machine intelligence for human motion analytics; human-robot interaction for service robots; novel mechanisms, robots and applications; space robot and on-orbit service; neural learning enhanced motion planning and control for human robot interaction; medical engineering.

This book of CRIOCM 2021 (26th International Conference on Advancement of Construction Management and Real Estate) presents the latest developments in real estate and construction management around the globe. The conference was organized by the Chinese Research Institute of Construction Management (CRIOCM) working in close collaboration with Tsinghua University.

This book offers extensive information on the course of sedimentation in the Proterozoic Vindhyan Basin and the potential record of ancient life stored within the rocks. It covers topics ranging from facies analysis to sequence-building, from carbonates to siliciclastics, and mixed lithology and life records from microbial to potentially eukaryotes, along with the basin evolutionary history.

This LNCS workshop proceedings, ACCV 2018, contains carefully reviewed and selected papers from 11 workshops, each having different types or programs: Scene Understanding and Modelling (SUMO) Challenge, Learning and Inference Methods for High Performance Imaging (LIMHPI), Attention/Intention Understanding (AIU), Museum Exhibit Identification Challenge (Open MIC) for Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning, RGB-D - Sensing and Understanding via Combined Colour and Depth, Dense 3D Reconstruction for Dynamic Scenes, AI Aesthetics in Art and Media (AIAM), Robust Reading (IWRR), Artificial Intelligence for Retinal Image Analysis (AIRIA), Combining Vision and Language, Advanced Machine Vision for Real-life and Industrially Relevant Applications (AMV).

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Bio-Inspired Computing: Theories and Applications, BIC-TA 2022, held in Wuhan, China, during December 16–18, 2022.

This book discusses the impact of climate change, land use and land cover, and socio-economic dynamics on landslides in Asian countries. Scholars recently have brought about a shift in their focus regarding triggering factors for landslides, from rainfall or earthquake to claiming rapid urbanization, extreme population pressure, improper land use planning, illegal hill cutting for settlements and indiscriminate deforestation.

This book reflects the latest research trends, methods, and experimental results in the field of electrical and information technologies for rail transportation, which covers abundant state-of-the-art research theories and ideas. As a vital field of research that is highly relevant to current developments in a number of technological domains, the subjects it covered include intelligent computing, information processing, communication technology, automatic control, etc.

This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Applied Technologies, ICAT 2020, held in Quito, Ecuador, in December 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held online.

Siete mai state assillate da un tipo al bar che non vi molla nonostante i vostri palesi tentativi di incenerirlo sul posto con lo sguardo? Avete mai provato il desiderio bruciante di torturare emotivamente l'amico del vostro ragazzo che monopolizza la conversazione parlando per ore di Fantacalcio? Avete mai dovuto, semplicemente, sopportare un maschio che ha deciso di dovervi spiegare il suo punto di vista sul mondo, sulla vita, sull'universo, sull'intero scibile umano senza che nessuno gliel'abbia mai chiesto? Come far incazzare gli uomini è un manuale imprescindibile che serve a disinnescare tutte queste tipologie di maschi inopportuni. 109 massime comiche, frasi, botte (letterali) e risposte per mandare in una profonda e definitiva crisi esistenziale anche il più implacabile dei mansplainer..

Written and edited by many of the world's foremost scholars of transnational history, this Dictionary challenges readers to look at the contemporary world in a new light. Contains over 400 entries on transnational subjects such as food, migration and religion, as well as traditional topics such as nationalism and war.

Kickstart your founder journey with a clear four stage roadmap, progress tracker, and plug-and-play startup toolkit.

The indefatigable Antonio Florio, along with his associates from Cappella Neapolitana, has succeeded, with a work by Donato Ricchezza, in unearthing another major rediscovery from the Neapolitan Baroque. The labours of Florio – coupled with the ability to turn dry notes on a dusty manuscript into a sumptuous audio feast – can be no better demonstrated than with this release on Glossa of Los Santos Niños: “Oratorio di San Giusto e San Pastore”, written by a composer who was a pupil of the great Francesco Provenzale.

Composers Kurt Weill and Hanns Eisler had great success with their songs, creating an unmistakable style that has remained unique with its mixture of popular music, supreme musical sophistication and political claims. Salome Kammer is a versatile artists and an ideal advocate of this music.

Five keys to organizing successful youth sports practices, How to manage a youth sports team, Budgeting for sports etc.