The unholy alliance between the bankrupt Soviet oligarchs and the Middle Eastern rogue nations creates ongoing worry for the US Intelligence committee. That was only until they realized the solution was in the brilliance of a woman. A catholic nun briefly and now an intelligence officer in the United States Army. This breathtakingly beautiful, tall, sexy, and curvaceous redhead known to everyone as Bernadette Casey, AKA Bernie. She's been sent to deal serious destruction to the plans of anyone who would dare to cause chaos and interrupt the peace in the United States.
Looks at the issues surrounding multimedia data hiding, covering such topics as tamper detection, copy/access control, fingerprinting, countermeasures for attacks, and digital music protection.
The digital information revolution has brought about profound changes in our society and our life. New devices and powerful software have made it possible for consumers worldwide to create, manipulate, share, and enjoy the multimedia information. Internet and wireless networks offer ubiquitous channels to deliver and to exchange multimedia information for such pur poses as remote collaboration, distant learning, and entertainment. With all these advances in multimedia coding and communication technologies over the past decade, the major hurdle for allowing much broader access of multimedia assets and deployment of multimedia services no longer lies with bandwidth-related issues, but with how to make sure that content is used for its intended purpose by its intended recipients. The core issue then be comes the development of secure management of content usage and delivery across communication networks. Data hiding and digital watermarking are promising new technologies for multimedia information protection and rights management. Secondary data can be embedded imperceptibly in digital multimedia signals for a variety of applications, including ownership protection, authentication, access con trol, and annotation. Data hiding can also be used to send side information in multimedia communication for providing additional functionalities or for enhancing performance. The extraction of the embedded data mayor may not need knowledge of the original host media data. In addition to im perceptibility, robustness against moderate processing such as compression is also an important consideration.
Tiwi Textiles: Design, Making, Process tells the story of the innovative Tiwi Design centre on Bathurst Island in northern Australia, dedicated to the production of hand-printed fabrics featuring Indigenous designs, from the 1970s to today. Written by early art coordinator Diana Wood Conroy with oral testimony from senior Tiwi artist Bede Tungutalum, who established Tiwi Design in 1969 with fellow designer Giovanni Tipungwuti, the book traces the beginnings of the centre, and its subsequent place in the Tiwi community and Australian Indigenous culture more broadly.Bringing together many voices and images, especially those of little-known older artists of Paru and Wurrumiyanga (formerly Nguiu) on the Tiwi Islands and from the Indigenous literature, Tiwi Textiles features profiles of Tiwi artists, accounts of the development of new design processes, insights into Tiwi culture and language, and personal reflections on the significance of Tiwi Design, which is still proudly operating today.'Tiwi Textiles is a unique historical document, a formidable vindication of the accomplishments of great Indigenous artists, and an account of a missing chapter in world art history. The book is a wonderful chronicle of a vital and fertile period for Tiwi practice in the emergence of contemporary Indigenous art. But it is also a charter for the future.' — Nicholas Thomas FBA FAHA Director, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge'Wood Conroy not only writes, intricately and sensitively, a vital history of Tiwi art: she also firms up the place of fibre and textiles practices in Indigenous art and leaves space for us to consider how art history can shift to become more responsive to the lived realities of Indigenous peoples and our non-Indigenous accomplices.' — Tristen Harwood, The Saturday Paper
Combining the authors’ professional experience as clinical psychologists with their personal experience of pregnancy loss, this book is a compassionate guide for anyone navigating the experience and aftermath of miscarriage. The nature of the experience of miscarriage and the associated losses lead to unique forms of trauma and grief, which are often not well understood. Chapters explore psychologically informed explanations of emotional experience then provide actionable strategies for supporting wellbeing, with topics covered including, but not limited to: Trauma and grief, and emotions that may emerge after miscarriage Relationship patterns while navigating loss Finding the words to have conversations about miscarriage Navigating healthcare systems Choosing to try to get pregnant again, and choosing to stop trying Experiencing pregnancy after miscarriage Miscarriage is not a single event, but a series of moments and encounters and experiences, some of them happening long after the pregnancy has ended. Readers will learn how to understand their emotional and psychological experiences throughout. An essential read for anyone who has experienced miscarriage, this book educates readers on the psychological impact of pregnancy loss and encourages readers to look after their mental health and wellbeing. It will also be of interest to mental health, medical and allied health professionals looking for resources to support impacted individuals.
Combining the authors’ professional experience as clinical psychologists with their personal experience of pregnancy loss, this book is a compassionate guide for anyone navigating the experience and aftermath of miscarriage. The nature of the experience of miscarriage and the associated losses lead to unique forms of trauma and grief, which are often not well understood. Chapters explore psychologically informed explanations of emotional experience then provide actionable strategies for supporting wellbeing, with topics covered including, but not limited to: Trauma and grief, and emotions that may emerge after miscarriage Relationship patterns while navigating loss Finding the words to have conversations about miscarriage Navigating healthcare systems Choosing to try to get pregnant again, and choosing to stop trying Experiencing pregnancy after miscarriage Miscarriage is not a single event, but a series of moments and encounters and experiences, some of them happening long after the pregnancy has ended. Readers will learn how to understand their emotional and psychological experiences throughout. An essential read for anyone who has experienced miscarriage, this book educates readers on the psychological impact of pregnancy loss and encourages readers to look after their mental health and wellbeing. It will also be of interest to mental health, medical and allied health professionals looking for resources to support impacted individuals.
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