Mark Klein: 14 books
The Reputation Society
How Online Opinions Are Reshaping the Offline World
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Experts discuss the benefits and risks of online reputation systems.
In making decisions, we often seek advice. Online, we check Amazon recommendations, eBay vendors' histories, TripAdvisor ratings, and even our elected representatives' voting records. These online reputation systems serve...
by Raj Rajkumar, Dionisio de Niz, Mark Klein
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2016
Learn the State of the Art in Embedded Systems and Embrace the Internet of Things
The next generation of mission-critical and embedded systems will be “cyber physical”: They will demand the precisely synchronized and seamless integration of complex sets of computational algorithms...
by Mark Klein
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Ken, an eighteen year old boy who has never spent a night away from home, accepts a job as a lifeguard in a Catskill Mountain, Borscht Belt , resort. The area has changed from a summer getaway for Eastern European Jews, to a "leave-your-inhibitions-at-home contemporary resort." ....
The Cthulhu Mythos MEGAPACK ®
40 Modern and Classic Lovecraftian Stories
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
This volume assembles no less than 40 stories set in H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos. Ranging from Lovecraft's own tales (including classics such as the novel At the Mountains of Madness, "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," and "The Colour Out of Space") to works by his friends and contemporaries...
Llewellyn's Complete Book of Mindful Living
Awareness & Meditation Practices for Living in the Present Moment
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Enhance your awareness, achieve higher focus and happiness, and improve all levels of your health with the supportive practices in this guide to mindful living. Featuring over twenty-five leading meditation and mindfulness experts, Llewellyn's Complete Book of Mindful Living shows you how to boost...
Mark Twain in Bayern
Erzählungen, Reiseberichte, Briefe
Language: German
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Ein halbes Jahr seines Lebens hat Mark Twain - damals schon der weltberühmte Autor von Bestsellern wie »Die Arglosen im Ausland« (1869) oder »Die Abenteuer des Tom Sawyer« (1876) - in Bayern verbracht und sich dort pudelwohl gefühlt. Im Winter 1878/79 lebt er mit seiner Familie in München,...
Beyond Same-Sex Marriage
Perspectives on Marital Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Although the debate over same-sex marriage in the United States has ended, no one seems to know what lies on the horizon. The conversation about what marriage could be like in the future is no longer confined to academics. In his dissent in Obergefell, Chief Justice Roberts linked the constitutionally-mandated...
by William S. Cohen, Janet Langhart Cohen, Enola Gay Aird
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2009
Race and racism have played a divisive and defining role throughout much of America's history. Slavery, Jim Crow laws, segregation, and Ku Klux Klan terrorism have inflicted deep psychic wounds, social disparities, and economic disadvantages that have diminished the promise of equal rights and opportunities...
by Lisa Fetchko, Laurie Baker, Piyali Bhattacharya
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
The Winter 2015-16 issue of Ploughshares. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Two out of each year's three issues are guest-edited by prominent writers who explore different personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles, with the Winter issue staff-edited.
The...
by Stephen Broadberry, Alexander Klein, Mark Overton
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
This is a definitive new account of Britain's economic evolution from a backwater of Europe in 1270 to the hub of the global economy in 1870. A team of leading economic historians reconstruct Britain's national accounts for the first time right back into the thirteenth century to show what really...
Cities Called Athens
Studies Honoring John McK. Camp II
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
The fourteen essays in this volume share new and evolving knowledge, theories, and observations about the city of Athens or the region of Attica. The contents include essays on topography, architecture, religion and cult, sculpture, ceramic studies, iconography, epigraphy, trade, and drama. This volume...
Energy Sprawl Solutions
Balancing Global Developmand Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Over the next several decades, as human populations grow, the demand for energy will soar. But renewable energy sources have a large energy sprawl—the amount of land needed to produce energy—which can threaten biodiversity. In Energy Sprawl Solutions, scientists Joseph M. Kiesecker and David Naugle...
99 erotische S/M-Fantasien
Von Zart bis Hart
Language: German
Release Date: January 22, 2016
In diesen 99 Storys dreht sich alles um das bizarre Phänomen Lustschmerz, den bittersüßen Genuss der erotischen Qual, die ihre Anhänger auf so einzigartige Weise befriedigen kann und unendliche Lustmöglichkeiten bietet. Denn wenn's um fantasievolle, tabulose, "verbotene" Praktiken geht,...
Deine Schmerzen - Unsere Lust
25 Kurzgeschichten von Lust & Pein
Language: German
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Sie sind dabei, wenn dunkles Leder auf helle Haut trifft, versaute Dehnungsspiele für qualvollen Genuss sorgen und geheimnisvolle Kapuzenmänner ihre Sex-Sklavin mit bizarren Ritualen aufgeilen! Wenn glühend rote Striemen auf devoten Hintern leuchten und sich panische Angst in berauschende Geilheit...