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Stars in the Darkness

Stores of Wisdom, Justice, and Love

by Jamie Ferguson, Blaze Ward, David H. Hendrickson, T. Thorn Coyle, Leslie Claire Walker, Brenda Carre, Rebecca M. Senese, David C Stier, DeAnna Knippling, Brigid Collins, Thea Hutcheson, Travis Heermann, Louisa Swann, Liz Pierce, Ron Collins, Bonnie Koenig, Bob Sojka ...

Stars in the Darkness is a collection of stories about why being just matters, and what the ramifications are for individuals, groups, towns, countries, or even worlds if justice is not expected, encouraged, or enforced.The stories cover a wide range, from historical fiction to fantasy to alternate realities. Every tale, whether set in ancient Egypt, in a future where only the rich can afford to ... Read more

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Stars in the Darkness is a collection of stories about why being just matters, and what the ramifications are for individuals, groups, towns, countries, or even worlds if justice is not expected, encouraged, or enforced.The stories cover a wide range, from historical fiction to fantasy to alternate realities. Every tale, whether set in ancient Egypt, in a future where only the rich can afford to
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Text, Speech, and Dialogue

27th International Conference, TSD 2024, Brno, Czech Republic, September 9–13, 2024, Proceedings, Part I

Edited by Elmar Nöth, Aleš Horák, Petr Sojka ...

Series Book 1 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
The two-volume set LNAI 15048 and 15049 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Text, Speech, and Dialogue, TSD 2024, held in Brno, Czech Republic, during September 9–13, 2024.The 50 revised full papers presented in these deadline proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 103 submissions.The papers are organized in the following topical sections ... Read more

$83.99 CAD

The two-volume set LNAI 15048 and 15049 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Text, Speech, and Dialogue, TSD 2024, held in Brno, Czech Republic, during September 9–13, 2024.The 50 revised full papers presented in these deadline proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 103 submissions.The papers are organized in the following topical sections
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Social Policy Review 37

Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, 2025

by Lee Gregory, Gerardo Javier Arriaga-Garcia, Yunyan Li, Carmen Walenta-Bergmann, Carl-Johan Sommar, Johan Nordensvärd, Katherine A. Smith, Aniela Wenham, Antonios Roumpakis, Poland Lai, Jolanta Aidukaite, Rūta Ubarevičienė, Kristina Senkuvinė, Florian Blank ...

Series series Social Policy Review
Available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Leading international experts review recent social policy developments in this latest edition of the longstanding Social Policy Review series.Available Open Access and published in association with the Social Policy Association, this edited book provides a comprehensive review of the past year’s key policy trends and most significant scholarship. ... Read more

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Available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Leading international experts review recent social policy developments in this latest edition of the longstanding Social Policy Review series.Available Open Access and published in association with the Social Policy Association, this edited book provides a comprehensive review of the past year’s key policy trends and most significant scholarship.
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Text, Speech, and Dialogue

25th International Conference, TSD 2022, Brno, Czech Republic, September 6–9, 2022, Proceedings

Edited by Petr Sojka, Aleš Horák, Ivan Kopeček, Karel Pala ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Text, Speech, and Dialogue, TSD 2022, held in Brno, Czech Republic, in September 2022.The 43 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 94 submissions. The topical sections "Text", "Speech", and "Dialogue" deal with the following issues: speech recognition; corpora and language resources; ... Read more

$64.09 CAD

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Text, Speech, and Dialogue, TSD 2022, held in Brno, Czech Republic, in September 2022.The 43 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 94 submissions. The topical sections "Text", "Speech", and "Dialogue" deal with the following issues: speech recognition; corpora and language resources;
... Read more
Heliophysics: Active Stars, their Astrospheres, and Impacts on Planetary Environments

Edited by Carolus J. Schrijver, Frances Bagenal, Jan J. Sojka ...

Heliophysics is a fast-developing scientific discipline that integrates studies of the Sun's variability, the surrounding heliosphere, and the environment and climate of planets. This volume, the fourth in the Heliophysics collection, explores what makes the conditions on Earth 'just right' to sustain life, by comparing Earth to other solar system planets, by comparing solar magnetic activity to ... Read more

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Heliophysics is a fast-developing scientific discipline that integrates studies of the Sun's variability, the surrounding heliosphere, and the environment and climate of planets. This volume, the fourth in the Heliophysics collection, explores what makes the conditions on Earth 'just right' to sustain life, by comparing Earth to other solar system planets, by comparing solar magnetic activity to
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Text, Speech, and Dialogue

27th International Conference, TSD 2024, Brno, Czech Republic, September 9–13, 2024, Proceedings, Part II

Edited by Elmar Nöth, Aleš Horák, Petr Sojka ...

Series Book 2 - Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
The two-volume set LNAI 15048 and 15049 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Text, Speech, and Dialogue, TSD 2024, held in Brno, Czech Republic, during September 9–13, 2024.The 50 revised full papers presented in these deadline proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 103 submissions.The papers are organized in the following topical sections ... Read more

$96.99 CAD

The two-volume set LNAI 15048 and 15049 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Text, Speech, and Dialogue, TSD 2024, held in Brno, Czech Republic, during September 9–13, 2024.The 50 revised full papers presented in these deadline proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from 103 submissions.The papers are organized in the following topical sections
... Read more
Social Policy Review 36

Analysis and Debate in Social Policy, 2024

Edited by Bozena Sojka, Stephan Köppe, Andrea Parma, Ruggero Cefalo ...

Series series Social Policy Review
Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Experts from across the globe review leading social policy scholarship in this new volume in the Social Policy Review series.Specialists explore local and multi-level trends in social policy including government responses to the cost-of-living crisis in the UK and decentralisation in primary health care in Thailand. They also review policy ... Read more

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Available Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.Experts from across the globe review leading social policy scholarship in this new volume in the Social Policy Review series.Specialists explore local and multi-level trends in social policy including government responses to the cost-of-living crisis in the UK and decentralisation in primary health care in Thailand. They also review policy
... Read more
Cultural Change in East-Central European and Eurasian Spaces

Post-1989 Revisions and Re-imaginings

Edited by Susan C. Pearce, Eugenia Sojka ...

This book weaves together research on cultural change in Central Europe and Eurasia: notably, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine. Examining massive cultural shifts in erstwhile state-communist nations since 1989, the authors analyze how the region is moving in both freeing and restrictive directions. They map out these directions in such arenas as LGBTQ protest ... Read more

$153.69 CAD

This book weaves together research on cultural change in Central Europe and Eurasia: notably, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine. Examining massive cultural shifts in erstwhile state-communist nations since 1989, the authors analyze how the region is moving in both freeing and restrictive directions. They map out these directions in such arenas as LGBTQ protest
... Read more
Text, Speech, and Dialogue

23rd International Conference, TSD 2020, Brno, Czech Republic, September 8–11, 2020, Proceedings

Edited by Petr Sojka, Ivan Kopeček, Karel Pala, Aleš Horák ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Text, Speech, and Dialogue, TSD 2020, held in Brno, Czech Republic, in September 2020.*The 54 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 110 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named text, speech, and dialogue. The book also contains 3 invited talks.* The conference ... Read more

$115.29 CAD

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Text, Speech, and Dialogue, TSD 2020, held in Brno, Czech Republic, in September 2020.*The 54 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 110 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named text, speech, and dialogue. The book also contains 3 invited talks.* The conference
... Read more
Text, Speech, and Dialogue

21st International Conference, TSD 2018, Brno, Czech Republic, September 11-14, 2018, Proceedings

Edited by Petr Sojka, Aleš Horák, Ivan Kopeček, Karel Pala ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Text, Speech, and Dialogue, TSD 2018, held in Brno, Czech Republic, in September 2018. The 56 regular papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. They focus on topics such as corpora and language resources, speech recognition, tagging, classification and parsing of text and speech, ... Read more

$64.09 CAD

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Text, Speech, and Dialogue, TSD 2018, held in Brno, Czech Republic, in September 2018. The 56 regular papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. They focus on topics such as corpora and language resources, speech recognition, tagging, classification and parsing of text and speech,
... Read more
Text, Speech, and Dialogue

19th International Conference, TSD 2016, Brno , Czech Republic, September 12-16, 2016, Proceedings

Edited by Petr Sojka, Aleš Horák, Ivan Kopeček, Karel Pala ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Text, Speech, and Dialogue, TSD 2016, held in Brno, CzechRepublic, in September 2016.The 62 papers presented together with 3 abstracts of invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 127 submissions. They focus on topics such as corpora and language resources; speech recognition; tagging, ... Read more

$64.09 CAD

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Text, Speech, and Dialogue, TSD 2016, held in Brno, CzechRepublic, in September 2016.The 62 papers presented together with 3 abstracts of invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 127 submissions. They focus on topics such as corpora and language resources; speech recognition; tagging,
... Read more
The Ecology and Management of Wetlands

Volume 1: Ecology of Wetlands

by Donal D. Hook, W. H. McKee Jr, H. K. Smith, James Gregory, V. G. Burrell Jr, M. Richard DeVoe, R. E. Sojka, Stephen Gilbert, Roger Banks, L. H. Stolzy, Chris Brooks, Thomas D. Matthews, T. H. Shear ...

This book contains the proceedings of a symposium held at the College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, USA, 16-20 June 1986. The seed for this symposium arose from a group of physiologists , soU scientists and biochemists that met in Leningrad, USSR in July 1975 at the 12th Botanical Conference in a Session organized by Professor B.B. Vartepetian. This group and others later conspired to ... Read more

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This book contains the proceedings of a symposium held at the College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, USA, 16-20 June 1986. The seed for this symposium arose from a group of physiologists , soU scientists and biochemists that met in Leningrad, USSR in July 1975 at the 12th Botanical Conference in a Session organized by Professor B.B. Vartepetian. This group and others later conspired to
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