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A collection of short stories from the internationally bestselling author and creator of Inspector Lynley. Three of these stories were originally published under the title The Evidence Exposed. This volume contains two brand new stories, a revised version of The Evidence Exposed, and new introductions by the author to all five stories.
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International ICST Conference, TridentCom 2010, held in Berlin, Germany, in May 2010. Out of more than 100 submitted contributions the Program Committee finally selected 15 full papers, 26 practices papers, and 22 posters. They focus on topics as Internet testbeds, future Internet research, wireless sensors, media and mobility, and monitoring in large scale testbeds.
Focusing on femicide, this book provides a contemporary re-evaluation of Carol Smart’s innovative approach to the law question as first outlined in her ground-breaking book, Feminism and the Power of Law (Routledge 1989). Smart advocated turning to the legal domain not so much for demanding law reforms as construing it as a site on which to contest gender and more particularly, gendered constructions of women’s experiences. Over the last 30 to 40 years, feminist law scholars and activists have launched scathing trans-jurisdictional critiques of the operation of provocation defences in hundreds of femicide cases. The evidence unearthed by feminist scholars that these defences operate in p...
An historic account of northeastern Alameda County, California through the genealogy of three pioneer families who came to follow their dreams in the gold mines, but instead connected their lives near present day Livermore. Here they found a better life raising their families in this fertile, though dry, valley passage between the San Francisco Bay and the mountains of the Mother Lode. The photographs of those families were organized by Lillian Meyers Taylor, whose albums were passed down through her daughter, then her grand daughter, and finally her great-grand daughter who decided she could not let them go unnoticed for another generation.
This book constitutes the proceedings of the Third Future Internet Symposium, FIS, held in Berlin, Germany in September 2010.The aim of this symposium was to bring together scientists and engineers from academia and industry and from various disciplines to exchange and discuss their ideas, views, and research results towards a consolidated, converged and sustainable future internet. The 16 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics such as future internet architectures and protocols; semantic technologies; and internet of services, things and content.