Having witnessed the brutal rape and murder of her mother, Myah Johnson is found frightened and alone in the closet of a Bronx apartment. After being adopted by her mother's only sister, she tries to live a normal life, but the nightmares are constant reminders of what happened that fatal night.Her mother's murder was never solved, so she vows to find the person responsible. But when Myah unexpectedly see a picture of the man she believes murdered her mother 12 years earlier, she devises a plan that sets into motion a series of events that she hopes will ultimately satisfy her need for justice.Overcome by the sheer desire for revenge, she keep her friends close, and her enemies even closer. But when she seeks the assistance of those close to her, she realizes that no one can be trusted. Myah knows that she can't let go of the past and what goes around comes around, but justice is nothing if she can't even score! The question remains, will Myah let it go, or will she handle it Tit 4 Tat ?

Life is not an easy thing to embrace. It is like trying to hug an elephant. There are, in our society and in any other society throughout our world, rules, parameters, and etiquette that all of us must take into consideration before we make demands. Where we happen to exist, we must, as independent human beings, adopt to clear the way to create for ourselves the opportunities needed to embrace life in the most positive and fullest way. This book is focused on each of us, as individuals, and not the entire world. It shares the authors' thinking on the four (4) important subjects that pretty much engross our personal lives each and every day. The book offers clarity of mind and reasons for understanding and benefitting from reminders on human relations, personal finance, personal health and invisible support. It will assist the reader, in a manner of speaking, to have a conversation with his/her future that can be both invigorating and challenging. Especially so when you realize that we can control what happens to us most of the time. Our future is ours to design, plan, build, and move into. It is all about positive human relations and individual self-realization.

This book examines the visual-sexual turn in social media discourses in the field of online activism with a particular focus on the extraordinary protest years of 2018–2020. Presenting a socially engaged theory of "tit-for-tat media" and including case-studies on activist movements such as the Euro-American alt-right, the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong, and revolutionary artists in China, this study reveals how visual cultures, including gendered or sexualized imagery, are utilized to influence public perception. By presenting in-depth explorations of online ethnography, interviews with activists and studies of the political histories and urban protests-environments, the volume uncovers how local artists, netizens and citizens are using media and digital imagery in contemporary activism. Covering a broad spectrum of social media content, from hyper-cute manga and cartoons to satirical pornography and sexualized hate-speech, it will be of huge interest to students and scholars of media and communication studies, political communication, sexuality and gender studies.

Life is not an easy thing to embrace. It is like trying to hug an elephant. There are, in our society and in any other society throughout our world, rules, parameters, and etiquette that all of us must take into consideration before we make demands. Where we happen to exist, we must, as independent human beings, adopt to clear the way to create for ourselves the opportunities needed to embrace life in the most positive and fullest way. This book is focused on each of us, as individuals, and not the entire world. It shares the authors’ thinking on the four (4) important subjects that pretty much engross our personal lives each and every day. The book offers clarity of mind and reasons for understanding and benefitting from reminders on human relations, personal finance, personal health and invisible support. It will assist the reader, in a manner of speaking, to have a conversation with his/her future that can be both invigorating and challenging. Especially so when you realize that we can control what happens to us most of the time. Our future is ours to design, plan, build, and move into. It is all about positive human relations and individual self-realization.

Complex Automated Negotiations are a widely studied, emerging area in the field of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. In general, automated negotiations can be complex, since there are a lot of factors that characterize such negotiations. For this book, we solicited papers on all aspects of such complex automated negotiations, which are studied in the field of Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. This book includes two parts, which are Part I: Agent-based Complex Automated Negotiations and Part II: Automated Negotiation Agents Competition. Each chapter in Part I is an extended version of ACAN 2011 papers after peer reviews by three PC members. Part II includes ANAC 2011 (The Second Automated Negotiating Agents Competition), in which automated agents who have different negotiation strategies and implemented by different developers are automatically negotiate in the several negotiation domains. ANAC is an international competition in which automated negotiation strategies, submitted by a number of universities and research institutes across the world, are evaluated in a tournament style. The purpose of the competition is to steer the research in the area of bilateral multi-issue, closed negotiation. This book includes rules, results, agents and domains descriptions for ANAC2011 submitted by organizers and finalists.

A famed political scientist's classic argument for a more cooperative world We assume that, in a world ruled by natural selection, selfishness pays. So why cooperate? In The Evolution of Cooperation, political scientist Robert Axelrod seeks to answer this question. In 1980, he organized the famed Computer Prisoners Dilemma Tournament, which sought to find the optimal strategy for survival in a particular game. Over and over, the simplest strategy, a cooperative program called Tit for Tat, shut out the competition. In other words, cooperation, not unfettered competition, turns out to be our best chance for survival. A vital book for leaders and decision makers, The Evolution of Cooperation reveals how cooperative principles help us think better about everything from military strategy, to political elections, to family dynamics.

Game Theory 101: The Complete Textbook is a no-nonsense, games-centered introduction to strategic form (matrix) and extensive form (game tree) games. From the first lesson to the last, this textbook introduces games of increasing complexity and then teaches the game theoretical tools necessary to solve them. Quick, efficient, and to the point, Game Theory 101: The Complete Textbook is perfect for introductory game theory, intermediate microeconomics, and political science.