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How, given the chance, would you market planet Earth as the ultimate tourist destination?Fysh Reynolds, 25-year-old MBA grad and internet superstar, must answer this question when his part-time job playing Ronald McDonald at kids' birthday parties thrusts him into an unexpected position of power.Whe... More

SC15: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis Nov 15, 2015-Nov 20, 2015 Austin, USA. You can view more information about this proceeding and all of ACM#65533;s other published conference proceedings from the ACM Digital Library: http://www. acm.... More

Dieses Buch will unser Steuerrecht an seine Wurzeln zurückführen, zu einem einfachen, gerechten und für jeden Bürger verständlichen System. Ausgehend von den gegenwärtigen Unzulänglichkeiten erläutert der Autor Schritt für Schritt seine revolutionäre Alternative, die Einführung des Obolus: eine einz... More

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 5th International Workshop, PMBS 2014 in New Orleans, LA, USA in November  2014. The 12 full and 2 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions. The papers cover topics on performance... More

This book examines the intersections between children, education and geography. With a particular focus on children’s geographies and geographies of education, the book draws upon cutting-edge research to consider how geographical education can be enhanced through increased engagement with these fie... More

This book presents the fundamentals and advances in the field of data visualization and knowledge engineering, supported by case studies and practical examples. Data visualization and engineering has been instrumental in the development of many data-driven products and processes. As such the book pr... More

This book is intended to provide a compilation of the state-of-the-art numerical methods for nonlinear fluid-structure interaction using the moving boundary Lagrangian-Eulerian formulation. Single and two-phase viscous incompressible fluid flows are considered with the increasing complexity of struc... More

A giant of American humor makes his Penguin Classics debut with "probably the best book in the world" (Neil Gaiman, from the Introduction), in a stunning Deluxe Edition featuring the original, full-color illustrations The hands of all thirteen clocks stand still in the gloomy castle on a lonely hil... More

How can we support children’s and young people’s mental wellbeing in a digital age? Through a series of informative and thought-provoking case studies, this book explores how to enable children and young people to stay safe, happy and mentally healthy at a time when so much of their lives are spent... More