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Across global queer activism and literature from the social sciences and humanities, the impact of empires on the regulation of sexuality and gender is an emergent theme. While there has been a considerable focus on British colonial criminal law, there is a need to investigate and compare the diverse forms of power and control adopted across the histories of European empires. In Colonialisms and Queer Politics, Sonia Corr獪, Gustavo Gomes da Costa, and Matthew Waites provide a groundbreaking comparative analysis of empires and colonialities with respect to sexuality and gender diversity. Including contributions from an international team of authors, chapters focus on eleven empires: Portuguese, Spanish, British, French, Dutch, Ottoman, Russian, Belgian, German, Italian, and United States. Starting from the fifteenth century, authors explore how colonial racial hierarchies, gender norms, and heteronormativity structured relations between colonizing and colonized societies. The chapters r

The Oxford Handbook of Ballet Pedagogy offers a comprehensive exploration of contemporary perspectives on teaching and learning ballet, emphasizing the embodied nature of dance and its role in shaping both the student sense of expression and development as an artist. The book positions ballet pedagogy as a dynamic and cross-disciplinary field that transcends traditional separation between practice and theory. It offers a holistic approach that integrates the whole body, identity, and well-being into the learning process. Through five thematic sections-focusing on the whole-dancer, embodied pedagogy, diverse teaching sites, syllabus construction, and ballet as praxis. The volume engages with critical issues such as belonging, access, rigor, syllabus, and excellence within pedagogical practices in the ballet learning space that move beyond the limitations of constructs such as race, gender, and disability. The book challenges entrenched pedagogical hierarchies, offering a vision for the

(Dyslexia-friendly)Carnegie Medal winning author Tanya Landman delivers an eerily captivating and accessible retelling of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic Gothic novel of murder and monstrosity.Evil Mr Hyde stalks London's streets, leaving a trail of destruction in his wake.Good Dr Hyde keeps protecting him.Why? Is Hyde blackmailing Jekyll for some shameful past sin? Or is something stranger and more sinister going on?Respected scientist Dr Henry Jekyll is fascinated by the human capacity for evil. But his experimentation into the darker side of his own character has horrific and dangerous results.Robert Louis Stevenson’s Gothic masterpiece continues to fascinate readers 140 years after its first publication, and it is now made accessible to an even wider audience in this compelling retelling by award-winning author Tanya Landman.Particularly suitable for readers aged 11+ with a reading age of 9.

As people get older, they become more likely to have hearing difficulties in certain situations; for example, having conversations in public settings where there is naturally more noise. This can sometimes lead to isolation, depression, or even fatigue from the effort needed to communicate with others. Clinicians and researchers often do not use standardized outcome measures for hearing interventions that reflect patients' perceptions of real-life improvements. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a committee of experts to identify a core set of outcomes and corresponding measures that researchers and clinicians should use each time they assess the effectiveness of hearing aids and other treatments in addressing hearing difficulties. The resulting report, Measuring Meaningful Outcomes for Adult Hearing Health Interventions, presents those outcomes and measures, as well as recommendations for promoting their use within the hearing health community.

Archaeological research on islands has made significant contributions to our understanding of human cultural development, with aquatic resources and maritime adaptations being increasingly recognized as having had profound effects on human evolution, worldwide dispersals, and the development of social complexity. Once thought to be marginal habitats for humans--lacking in many of the necessary dietary and raw material requirements for societies to thrive--recent research in island and coastal regions around the world has shown this to be false. In fact, the opposite appears to be true in many cases, where aquatic resources were plentiful, highly nutritious, and relatively easy to harvest. The Oxford Handbook of Island & Coastal Archaeology is the first volume to synthesize major topics in the subfield of island and coastal archaeology on a truly global scale, including methodological and theoretical advances that have positioned the subfield as central to archaeology, history, and hist

Additive manufacturing (AM), also known as three-dimensional (3D) printing, is a relatively new manufacturing technique that has gained significant industrial interest. AM is a key low-carbon manufacturing technology incorporating net-shaping whilst avoiding complex process chains. This manufacturing technique is appealing for a variety of applications, including aerospace, oil, gas, marine, automotive, biomedical, and nuclear, due to advantages such as component design freedom, component complexity, light weighting, toolless nature, part consolidation, and decreased material waste. To overcome the performance limitations and to take advantage of the alloy design opportunities provided by AM technology, a new generation of alloys suitable for AM is needed. In addition to this, optimising process parameters and microstructure evolution during AM can lead to improved mechanical, corrosion, fatigue, irradiation, and wear properties, amongst other benefits. With a view to select the best a

內容簡介 本書對28納米多晶矽柵氧邏輯技術的嵌入式鍺矽源漏外延工藝開發及相應PMOSFET器件關鍵問題進行研究，實現高質量鍺矽源漏的外延。在此基礎上開發出一種利用離子注入技術提升源漏特性的新型工藝，能夠更好地滿足28納米低功耗(射頻)芯片量產要求。同時，本書簡要介紹了適用于未來FinFET結構的鍺矽源漏外延工藝。Abstract This book investigates the development of the embedded SiGe source/drain epitaxy process and the corresponding key issues of PMOSFETs based on 28 nm logic technology with polycrystalline Si/SiON gate structure, successfully achieving high-quality SiGe source/drain epitaxy. A novel process using ion implantation technology to improve source/drain characteristics has also been developed, which can better meet the mass production requirements of 28 nm low-power (RF) chips. This book also briefly introduces the embedded SiGe source/drain epitaxy process suitable for future FinFETs.

With the 1987 publication of Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Black American Woman Novelist Hazel Carby produced a groundbreaking cultural history of nineteenth-century African American women, and an unapologetic black feminist intervention. The work proved that literature was itself a key site for the development of cultural and political ideas that would come to dominate later thinking. The women whose lives and work are here documented, celebrated, and commemorated refused to be intimidated or silenced by a nation that sought to exploit their labor and reproductive power, and to deny their humanity. Reconstructing Womanhood proved an excoriating critique of the era's focus on "great men" in African American literary and cultural criticism that obscured the work of their female contemporaries. It revised the period of Jim Crow and Booker T. Washington, depicting a time of fervent cultural and political activity by such figures as Ida B. Wells, Anna Julia Cooper, Frances

Empire of Print offers a fresh account of evangelical power by uncovering how the American Tract Society (ATS) leveraged print media to spread its message across an expanding nation. One of the era's largest media corporations and a pillar of the benevolent empire, the ATS circulated some 5.3 billion printed pages between its founding in 1825 and the eve of the Civil War. It wasn't just the volume of materials that mattered--it was the sophisticated media infrastructure that evangelicals developed for their message to reach readers, coast to coast. Media infrastructure refers to the material assemblages that work below the surface of media content, including the format of publications, the avenues of their movement, and the circumstances surrounding their reading. As a non-coercive yet effective form of power, infrastructure shaped how, when, and why readers engaged with evangelical texts. While showing how the ATS became a formidable force in American society during the nineteenth cen

Okay, readers, now let's get in formation! Learn about the life of the perfectionist performer known as Queen Bey and how she created her flawless discography of hit records like Renaissance and Cowboy Carter.In 2003, Beyoncé went solo after being in the popular girl group Destiny's Child and began one of the most iconic, successful music careers in history. She has won thirty-two Grammy Awards and has been nominated over eighty times, making her the most-awarded person in Grammy history. Beyoncé has released eight studio albums, including Lemonade and I Am...Sasha Fierce. She puts on record-breaking world tours with fashion-forward costumes and complex choreography, as seen on the Renaissance world tour. Beyoncé's fluid voice and her incredibly wide vocal range have allowed her to create some of the most popular songs of the twenty-first century, spanning different genres like pop, R&B, country, dance, and hip-hop. This fierce singer has had the gift of music since she was a young

The Oxford Handbook of Women and International Law interrogates women's interrelationship with international law's institutions, norms, and theoretical approaches. Women have made tremendous strides in international law by contributing to its development and application; wielding power as representatives and leaders in international organizations; and serving as judges, legal experts, and leaders of non-governmental organizations pushing the law in new directions. Yet, as this Handbook demonstrates, full equality remains elusive while new threats emerge. Climate change, the rise in nationalism, and anti-gender ideology pose serious challenges to multilateral institutions and norms that protect and empower women. Featuring diverse and interdisciplinary contributions from across the globe by leading scholars, international judges, and legal practitioners, this Handbook explores the ways in which international law might meet its unmet potential for achieving gender equality for women and

Educational Theories and Techniques for Genetic Counselors provides an overview of central aspects of effective education by and for genetic counselors, beginning with insights from the general and genetic counseling education literature and moving through a survey of the structure and function of genetic counselor education in North America. In the opening two sections, Bonnie Baty and Claire Davis take a critical look at genetic counseling graduate programs, the contextual factors that shape the way education is offered, recruitment, admissions, and student support practices, the instructional framework and its components and teaching techniques, as well as intentional efforts to integrate these, the evaluative procedures for student learning, and processes of ongoing program evolution. The third section covers the continuous and increasingly self-directed learning that genetic counselors employ throughout their careers to sustain and expand their competence. The book concludes by co

The Oxford Handbook of American Film History offers a series of newly-commissioned chapters on the current intellectual and topical diversity of the study of American film history. It provides a thorough look at the complex history of American cinema, and showcases a variety of historiographic practices and methods. Within each of the five chronological sections, readers will find discourse on technology, reception, exemplary films and filmmakers, the culture of celebrity, and industry policy, procedure, and regulation -- on political economy, textual representation (form, style, diversity), scientific/technological innovation, and the cultural (and subcultural) resonance of movies with their time and place. The Oxford Handbook of American Film explores the delicate and imperfect balance between art and commerce, between entertainment and commercial enterprise. Approaching the history of American film from a dialectical perspective that allows for a close look at not only the importa

擾擾紅塵，靈山何處尋？空山，雲集，當下即是幸福。空，不是沒有，而是一切都存在；空，才能包容一切，擁有一切。因為空山，所以海會雲集；因為涵容一切，身心已然豐足！攝影取景於莊嚴清淨的法鼓山世界佛教教育園區，以四季景致、清雅建築與自然山水為主題，展現不同的靜謐風光。一邊使用桌曆，也能提醒自己放慢腳步，安定自在。‧ 收錄聖嚴法師法語精選(中英對照) ‧ 實用標記佛菩薩聖誕、六齋日及農曆‧ 附2026、2027完整年曆【聖嚴法師法語摘錄】正確的生涯規畫應該從內在的反省做起，規畫整個生命的品質，找到人生的平衡點，這才是圓滿的人生規畫。Proper career planning begins with inner reflection—considering the quality of life and seeking balance. Only then does it become a well-rounded life plan.真誠的心或是充滿喜悅的心，就像是能量一樣，能在無形中散布出去，只要有歡喜、欣賞、包容、讚歎的心，這種意識、心意，周遭的人都可以感受得到。A sincere and joyful heart is like an energy that spreads invisibly. When it is filled with joy, appreciation, tolerance, and admiration, those around us can feel it. 只要一個人心清淨，見到的世界就是清淨的；如有更多的人心清淨，便能使得這個世界、人間成為淨土。If one’s mind is pure, the world one sees becomes pure; and if more people’s minds are pure, the world can become a pure land.

This book is an exercise workbook matching the fourth edition of Engineering Drawing(EnglishChinese Bilingual Edition) published by China Machine Press with Rong Cheng and Lin Hu as chief editors. This book has the same format as its counterpart textbook, and adopts the format of EnglishChinese bilingual comparison, aiming to create favorable conditions for bilingual teaching. In the aspect of content, this book contains lots of exercises for freehand drawing and exercises related to practical application of engineering, aiming to help students to master the knowledge and skills related to this course through training, which is of great importance in cultivating students′ comprehensive analytical ability and design innovation ability.This book has 10 chapters and includes basic knowledge of drawing, basic knowledge of orthogonal projection, solids and their intersections, composite sol

A compelling new portrait of one of the ancient world滻 most famous and consequential figures By any measure, Julius Caesar is one of the most significant and well-known figures in ancient Roman history. Self-identified as a "popular" politician, he advocated for effective government to better the lives of the average Roman; however, he believed this government could not be based upon the existing democracy, which he regarded as corrupt and inefficient. It could only be through his personal management and the massive organization he built to overthrow the government that he could ensure the prosperity of all Romans. Through a careful analysis of the ancient sources, including Caesar's own writings, David Potter offers us a stunning and original portrait of the general and statesman's character and methods. He shows Caesar as a highly organized manager with an extraordinary ability to adjust to circumstances while maintaining a steady equivalent of an ancient media presence that attracte

Why should there be an intermediary between god and humanity? Brunner's thorough and provocative analysis establishes Jesus Christ as the Mediator between God and Man, analysing the necessity and challenge of this divine mediator. Central to the Christian faith and Brunner's reputation as a great modern theologian, his vigorous theological discussion considers the Jesus Christ who confronts humanity with the knowledge that they must act. Re-examining the deity and humanity of Christ, the God-Man, and deepening the readers' understanding of the Incarnation and the Atonement, Brunner rescues these essential theological concepts from misunderstanding. Drawing his argument to its conclusion, Brunner contends that only in Jesus Christ can we know ourselves as we really are; only in Jesus Christ can God be known as he really is.

An irresistible, juicy contemporary novel based on the TikTok phenomenon #BamaRushTok--about four sorority sisters brought back to the top-tier house they ruled at the University of Alabama, when secrets they'd thought long buried threaten to resurface.Four sorority sisters. Each with dark secrets. They must stop the unexpected opening of a time capsule created as part of a sorority rush ritual that was supposed to hold their deepest secrets buried forever...Five years after they thought they'd said goodbye forever, a group of sorority sisters find themselves back at the University of Alabama for Rush Week. Some return to rekindle their friendships, and others to keep long silent secrets from being exhumed. Unbeknownst to them at the time, the infamous "Spill Book" they wrote confessions in as a trust (hazing) exercise over the years was placed into a time capsule--now it's been stolen, and the anonymous thief is threatening to expose them all on Bid Day.Rush Week is a juicy, wild, dra

Sabrena's father has always claimed their family is descended from the legendary sailor Sinbad. But when the sea calls Sabrena to a whole new world, she'll have to fight to claim her own story. From the author of the acclaimed A Bit of Earth, this reimagining of the classic characters from One Thousand and One Nights is perfect for fans of The Last Mapmaker and Ma鎙naland.Any other story would begin with "once upon a time." But Sabrena's story is different. "Fulfilling all my worst fears," her mother says, "you were born by the sea." And it's true that the sea has always seemed to call to Sabrena. Her father reminds her that they are, of course, descended from the legendary sailor Sinbad. So it's basically qadr--fate--that Sabrena has an affinity toward the sea.Even so, Sabrena has had a truly ordinary life: trying to be an exemplary daughter, meeting all of her parents' high expectations. Despite, maybe, wanting something more interesting for herself. At least she can escape into the f

Chinese Labor Law- Statutes, Cases and CommentaryThis book systematically introduces the provisions of the Labor Law, the Labor Contract Law, and the corresponding regulations and implementation rules with regard to the primary legal issues in China’s workplace from six aspects (including overview of the Chinese legal system of employment, establishment and termination of labor relationship, labor standards, social insurance and laborer benefits, collective contracts and democratic management, labor dispute resolution), alongside nearly a hundred typical cases aimed at having readers better understand the legal practice. This book as a whole is practical, and there is not much academic discussion on a specific labor-related legal issue or a legal theory. For readers who are new to China’s labor laws, this book is a suitable tool for them to preliminarily comprehend the legal environment

What if listening could be your child’s greatest superpower?Imagine your little one mastering focus, communication, and empathy—just by enjoying a fun and colorful story! Whether you're a parent, teacher, or homeschooler, Listening Is My Superpower is the perfect kids book to teach active listening, manners, discipline, and following rules and instructions in a way kids truly understand.Meet Lucas, a curious and energetic boy who discovers that listening isn’t just about hearing—it’s a real superpower that helps him succeed in school, team sports, taking care of a pet, and more. When he learns the secret of the “Listening Star,” Lucas begins to focus better, follow directions, and connect with others through kindness and teamwork.With vibrant illustrations, fun rhymes, and relatable moments, this picture book helps kids ages 4–8 build essential life skills through engaging storytelling—and makes learning feel like play!✅ Why Parents & Educators Love This Book:Relatable & Intera

本書共9章, 涵蓋了機器學習的基本內容, 主要包括概述、離散變量與分類、連續變量與線性回歸、維數災難與降維、K均值聚類、生成模型與貝葉斯分類器、自監督與大語言模型、環境監督與強化學習、綜合實驗等。

本書共分為12章, 內容包括緒論、數字圖像處理基礎、圖像基礎性運算、圖像的正交變換、圖像增強、圖像復原、圖像的數學形態學處理、彩色圖像處理、圖像分割、圖像描述與分析、特徵檢測與匹配, 以及圖像編碼, 涵蓋了數字圖像處理的核心內容。