Viaggio ad Arturo dello scozzese David Lindsay è uno dei più importanti romanzi del fantastico del Novecento. Pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1920, influenzò autori del calibro di C.S. Lewis e J.R.R. Tolkien. La vicenda del protagonista, Maskull, che dopo un viaggio interstellare approda sul pianeta Tormance, si rivela come una delle più bizzarre e immaginifiche quest, un itenerarium non solo fisico, ma soprattutto spirituale, un caleidoscopio di esperienze, tra cui la prima testimonianza in letteratura del terzo sesso, con personaggi non-binari e l'impiego di pronomi dedicati. "Uno dei più grandi libri del XX secolo." (Colin Wilson) "Pochi romanzi inglesi sono stati così originali e, al contempo, influenti come Viaggio ad Arturo di David Lindsay." (Michael Moorocok) "Con Viaggio ad Arturo David Lindsay deve essere considerato non una semplice affascinante eccezione, un brillante anticonformista, ma un degno e meritevole erede del manto sciamanico della tradizione visionaria e apocalittica britannica." (Alan Moore) "David Lindsay è uno scrittore incredibile! Viaggio ad Arturo è un capolavoro! Un'opera straordinaria... davvero splendida." (Clive Barker)

"This collection of essays explores current developments in privacy law, including reform of data protection laws, privacy and the media, social control and surveillance, privacy and the Internet, and privacy and the courts. It places these developments into a broader international context, with a particular focus on the European Union, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. Adopting a comparative approach, it creates an important resource for understanding international trends in the reform of privacy and data protection laws across a variety of contexts. Written by internationally recognised experts, Emerging Challenges in Privacy Law: Comparative Perspectives provides an accessible introduction to contemporary legal and policy debates in privacy and data protection law. It is essential reading for academics, policy makers and practitioners interested in current challenges facing privacy and data protection law in Europe and in the common law world"--

Margie Walsh è una madre single della periferia di Boston alle prese con i mille problemi della vita quotidiana: le rate dell'auto, i conti del dentista, la figlia Joyce, che richiede tempo e attenzioni. Quando perde il lavoro come cassiera a causa dei continui ritardi, non le resta che rivolgersi a un vecchio compagno di scuola, Mike, che negli anni ha perso di vista ma che è convinta possa darle una mano. Se Margie è una donna sull'orlo della disperazione, pronta a tutto, Mike è invece un affermato dottore che vive in una bella casa, con una bella moglie, e che si gode una tranquilla vita di successi. Due caratteri diversi, due contesti opposti. E faranno nascere sviluppi e rivelazioni imprevedibili. "Good people" è la storia della lotta di una donna tenace in un'America che sembra concedere infinite opportunità di carriera, ma in cui superare gli steccati sociali è una sfida forse troppo ardua. David Linsday-Abaire, Premio Pulitzer per il teatro nel 2007, racconta gli affanni e le speranze di Margie in modo divertente e provocatorio, tratteggiando personaggi che sembrano usciti da una canzone di Bruce Springsteen o dai libri di John Steinbeck. Dal cuore dell'America più violenta e pura.

The second edition of Children's Testimony is a fully up-to-date resource for practitioners and researchers working in forensic contexts and concerned with children's ability to provide reliable testimony about abuse.

• Written for both practitioners and researchers working in forensic contexts, including investigative interviewers, police officers, lawyers, judges, expert witnesses, and social workers
• Explores a range of issues involved with children's testimony and their ability to provide reliable testimony about experienced or witnessed events, including abuse
• Avoids jargon and highly technical language
• Includes a comprehensive range of contributions from an international group of practitioners and researchers to ensure topicality and relevance

Telling people about research is just as important as doing it. But many researchers, who, in all other respects, are competent scientists, are afraid of writing. They are wary of the unwritten rules, the unspoken dogma and the inexplicably complex style, all of which seem to pervade conventional thinking about scientific writing.

This book has been written to expose these phantoms as largely smoke and mirrors, and replace them with principles that make communicating research easier and encourage researchers to write confidently. It presents a way of thinking about writing that emulates the way good scientists think about research.

It concentrates on the structure of articles, rather than simply on grammar and syntax. So, it is an ideal reference for researchers preparing articles for scientific journals, posters, conference presentations, reviews and popular articles; for students preparing theses; and for researchers whose first language is not English.

Scientific Writing = Thinking in Words expounds principles that produce scientific articles in a wide range of disciplines that are focused, concise and, best of all, easy to write and read. As one senior scientist observed, “This book not only made me a better writer; it made me a better scientist”.

Leading researchers synthesize scattered experimental data to help develop an intimate understanding of how cytokines and chemokines are involved in the pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases. The many chapters offer critical reviews the basic mechanisms controlling cytokine induction and regulation, as well as the resulting production of proinflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines, the former of which induces organ-specific autoimmune diseases. From the vantage of these insights, they address the role of cytokines in a wide variety of autoimmune diseases, uvetis, encephalomyelitis, multiple sclerosis, human type 1 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, SLE, and myasthenia gravis. Authoritative and state-of-the-art, Cytokines and Autoimmune Disease highlights the enormous therapeutic potential of cytokine modulation in the treatment of autoimmune disease.

Web applications are used every day by millions of users, which is why they are one of the most popular vectors for attackers. Obfuscation of code has allowed hackers to take one attack and create hundreds-if not millions-of variants that can evade your security measures. Web Application Obfuscation takes a look at common Web infrastructure and security controls from an attacker's perspective, allowing the reader to understand the shortcomings of their security systems. Find out how an attacker would bypass different types of security controls, how these very security controls introduce new types of vulnerabilities, and how to avoid common pitfalls in order to strengthen your defenses.

• Looks at security tools like IDS/IPS that are often the only defense in protecting sensitive data and assets
• Evaluates Web application vulnerabilties from the attacker's perspective and explains how these very systems introduce new types of vulnerabilities
• Teaches how to secure your data, including info on browser quirks, new attacks and syntax tricks to add to your defenses against XSS, SQL injection, and more

Features 18 piano/vocal selections from this Broadway hit that won both Tony and Drama Desk awards. Includes a plot synopsis, four pages of sensational color photos, and these tunes: The Ballad of Farquaad * Big Bright Beautiful World * Build a Wall * Don't Let Me Go * Donkey Pot Pie * Finale (This Is Our Story) * Freak Flag * I Know It's Today * I Think I Got You Beat * Make a Move * More to the Story * Morning Person * Story of My Life * This Is How a Dream Comes True * Travel Song * What's Up, Duloc? * When Words Fail * Who I'd Be.

Stephen King's unparalleled imagination is in full force in this collection of four unabridged short stories originally found in the classic, Nightmares & Dreamscapes. An all-star cast of readers bring to life these timeless stories from the darkest places.

A pair of metal teeth in a convenience store may prove to be more than a novelty in Chattery Teeth. In My Pretty Pony, an elderly man on his deathbed warns his young grandson against the dangers of letting time slip away. A music exec learns that his dream job may lead him to a dark and murderous past in Sneakers. And in Dedication, a maid working in a hotel uses black magic in the hopes of benefitting her unborn son.

Kathy Bates, Jerry Garcia, Daniel Cronenberg and Lindsay Crouse lend their voices to this haunting collection of classic stories that no Stephen King fan should be without.

A comprehensive update on parasitology for the small animal practitioner! Topics will include fleas and ticks; mites and lice; giardia and tritrichomonas; toxoplasma gondii and intestinal coccidia; babesia, cytoxzoan, and hepatozoan; heartworms; intestinal nematodes; flukes and tapeworms; lungworms and other extraintestinal nematodes, and much more!

From zines you can fold in a minute to luxurious leather journals and sumptuous sketchbooks, How to Make Books will walk you through the easy basics of bookmaking. Whether you’re a writer, a scrapbooker, a political activist, or a postcard collector, let book artist Esther K. Smith be your guide as you discover your inner bookbinder. Using foolproof illustrations and step-by-step instructions, Smith reveals her time-tested techniques in a fun, easy-to-understand way.

Barely 25 upon his appointment to the Department of the Interior in 1933, Cohen quickly began helping to draft the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 and chaired a committee charged with assisting tribes in organizing their governments in the Indian New Deal. He produced his "Basic Memorandum on Drafting of Tribal Constitutions," a practical guide, late in 1934; it promoted self-rule and urged the tribes to preserve ancient traditions that gave wisdom to those drafting constitutions for Indian nations. Cohen's memorandum sank into obscurity until his papers were released in the 1980s and editor Wilkins (American Indian Studies, U. of Minnesota) provides historical and social contexts along with able annotations for this significant but long neglected document. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

For the next generation of players and downloaders, a provocative scenario from a music industry think tank. From the Music Research Institute at Berklee College of Music comes a manifesto for the ongoing music revolution. Today, the record companies may be hurting but the music-making business is booming, using non-traditional digital methods and distribution models. This book explains why we got where we are and where we are heading. For the iPod, downloading market, this book will explain new ways of discovering music, new ways of acquiring it and how technology trends will make music "flow like water," benefiting the people who love music and make music.