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Candace Chen arbeitet für einen Verlagsdienstleister am Times Square, zuständig für die Herstellung von Themenbibeln in Asien. So hingebungsvoll folgt sie ihren täglichen Routinen, dass sie erst gar nicht bemerkt, wie tödliche Pilzsporen über New York hereinbrechen, importiert mit billigen Konsumgütern.

Während das Fieber rasant um sich greift, bleibt Candace stoisch auf ihrem Posten. Anfragen wollen geschrieben, Deadlines eingehalten, Arbeitszeiten erfasst werden. Geködert von einem Bonus ihres Arbeitgebers, ist sie bald die letzte in ihrem Büro - und schließlich in ganz...

The Japanese army s brutal four-month occupation of the city of Nanking during the 1937 Sino-Japanese War is known, for good reason, as the rape of Nanking. As they slaughtered an estimated three hundred thousand people, the invading soldiers raped more than twenty thousand womensome estimates run as high as eighty thousand. Hua-ling Hu presents here the amazing untold story of the American missionary Minnie Vautrin, whose unswerving defiance of the Japanese protected ten thousand Chinese women and children and made her a legend among the Chinese people she served.

Vautrin, who came...

Human-in-the-Loop Simulations is a compilation of articles from experts in the design, development, and use of human-in-the-loop simulations.

The first section of the handbook consists of papers on fundamental concepts in human-in-the-loop simulations, such as object-oriented simulation development, interface design and development, and performance measurement. The second section includes papers from researchers who utilized HITL simulations to inform models of cognitive processes to include decision making and metacognition. The last section describes human-in-the-loop...

The message of this book is simple: the mobile phone strengthens social bonds among family and friends. With a traditional land-line telephone, we place calls to a location and ask hopefully if someone is "there"; with a mobile phone, we have instant and perpetual access to friends and family regardless of where they are. But when we are engaged in these intimate conversations with absent friends, what happens to our relationship with the people who are actually in the same room with us? In New Tech, New Ties, Rich Ling examines how the mobile telephone affects both kinds of...