Albert Chamberlin was hitchhiking home while in college when a man told him about his life’s problems and frustrations. The man’s mother died in childbirth and his father and brothers blamed him. He was not considered family. He did hard, dirty tasks, with no thanks, and left home as soon as he finished high school. His difficult life continued for many years. But the man had finally achieved his long-term objectives, and he had to tell someone about it. The author was there to listen ... and learn. After leaving home at age sixteen, the man became a seaman on a tramp steamer, fought and was wounded in France during World War I, and then returned to the United States and became a carpenter. He built a house and then married. His wife was arrested for prostitution. He divorced her and gave her the house, which he considered contaminated. After all that, however, he had arrived at a new place—one in which all his dreams had come true. It came to the author: His life was the exact opposite of this tale. By combining the two narratives, the story of the anonymous one emerged.

Albert Chamberlin was hitchhiking home while in college when a man told him about his life's problems and frustrations. The man's mother died in childbirth and his father and brothers blamed him. He was not considered family. He did hard, dirty tasks, with no thanks, and left home as soon as he finished high school. His difficult life continued for many years. But the man had finally achieved his long-term objectives, and he had to tell someone about it. The author was there to listen ... and learn. After leaving home at age sixteen, the man became a seaman on a tramp steamer, fought and was wounded in France during World War I, and then returned to the United States and became a carpenter. He built a house and then married. His wife was arrested for prostitution. He divorced her and gave her the house, which he considered contaminated. After all that, however, he had arrived at a new place-one in which all his dreams had come true. It came to the author: His life was the exact opposite of this tale. By combining the two narratives, the story of the anonymous one emerged.

This book, first published in 1982, was the first translation of the Chinese classic Yü-t-‘ai hsin-yung – the unique anthology of love poems, compiled in AD 545. This traces the development of love poetry from the second century BC to its full flowering in the fifth and sixth centuries AD. Dr Birrell’s incisive introductory essay provides a concise survey of the historical and literary setting to the poems and explains the conventions governing courtly love poetry. In particular, the reader’s attention is drawn to the many and varied artistic uses of imagery in the poems. Major poets are noted for their artistic achievement and for their contribution to the development of the genre. Dr Birrell also supplies a valuable section of notes on the poems to guide the reader through unfamiliar historical events, legends, anecdotes and famous places and people, and there is a similar section of notes on the poets offering biographical details.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Digital-forensics and Watermarking (IWDW 2011) held in Atlantic City, NJ, USA, during October 23-26, 2011. The 37 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from 59 submissions. Conference papers are organized in 6 technical sessions, covering the topics of steganography and steganalysis, watermarking, visual cryptography, forensics, anti-forensics, fingerprinting, privacy and security.

Vols. 1-64 include extracts from correspondence.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Foundations and Practice of Security, FPS 2016, held in Québec City, QC, Canada, in October 2016. The 18 revised regular papers presented together with 5 short papers and 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 submissions. The accepted papers cover diverse research themes, ranging from classic topics, such as malware, anomaly detection, and privacy, to emerging issues, such as security and privacy in mobile computing and cloud.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Information Security and Practice and Experience, ISPEC 2017, held in Melbourne, Australia, in December 2017. The 34 full and 14 short papers presented together with 9 papers from the SocialSec Track in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 105 submissions. The papers cover topics such as blockchain, asymmetric encryption, symmetric encryption, lattice-based cryptography, searchable encryption, signature, authentication, cloud security, network security, cyber-physical security, social network and QR code security, software security and trusted computing, and SocialSec track.