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Love blooms wherever people gather, and so the Internet has become the dating center for a global population of romantics Freed of limitations posed by physical bodies, identities, reputations, or accountability, people are experimenting with new types of relationships.

Connecting in this new world, people are engaging in love and romance at astonishing rates, and often with disregard to their monogamous offline relationships. They and their loved ones are often not sure if they are cheating or just experimenting. Infidelity on the Internet will help you define cyber-infidelity for yourself. The book will come alive for you with many personal stories and individual conversations that help you understand how people have fallen in love—or what they believe to be love. It will outline their paths to virtual romance and cyber-infidelity. You will hear their experiences, share their joys, cry at their heartbreaks, and somewhere in these stories find answers to your questions.

This book is written as a survival guide. It will examine motivations and benefits, as well as repercussions and long-term effects of experimenting with cyber-infidelity. We will discuss how to understand and deal with the eleven types of virtual lovers, and we will reveal their motivations. Some people are sincere, some are harmless, and some are dangerous. Quizzes will help you decide if one’s behavior has slipped into cyber-sexual compulsivity or cyber-infidelity. We will also provide you with a checklist of signs of a cyber-affair. If your suspicions are correct, we will explain the normal course of emotional reactions to cyber-affairs, and teach you techniques to manage your reactions.

We will discuss how to deal with the discovery of a cyber-affair, how to cope with the emotions that typically follow, and how to recover from its often-devastating blows. After the discovery of cyber-infidelity, decisions must be made about the future of your relationship. Infidelity on the Internet will help you think through the important considerations involved with those decisions. We will help you through the path of recovery, by teaching you how to deal with the strong and often troubling reactions experienced by both the faithful and unfaithful partners. We will suggest ways in which the unfaithful partner can help restore trust and intimacy in the relationship. Infidelity and the Internet will show you what constitutes an apology for cyber-infidelity, and how to bring closure to these painful episodes. We will also provide you with a number of resources to help you find added support and direction both online and offline.

Infidelity on the Internet is different from other books in that it is a compilation of stories as submitted to the SelfhelpMagazine.com website’s “Cyber-Affairs Essay Contest,” blended with feminist psychological theory and research relevant to romance, relationships, sexuality and infidelity. This combination makes it the first truly interactive book of its kind, written with the help of hundreds of experienced web citizens, and crafted by researchers and clinicians.

So, come with us on this journey through virtual romance, real betrayal and recovery from Infidelity and the Internet.

Marlene M. Maheu, Ph.D. Rona B. Subotnik, MFT.
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An African-American novel probes the interior of corporate America and reveals malice and mistrust behind the smiles, handshakes, and pats on the back. Reprint Tour..
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As Mok nears the end of his cyberspace adventure, he finds himself in ancient Jerusalem where crowds are screaming to crucify a simple carpenter Yet the end of his quest is only the beginning, for there still remains the final dangers of Old Newyork, three thousand years in the future..
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Voxel-Man 3D Navigator is a completely new type of atlas of anatomy and radiology It allows the interactive exploration and interrogation of a high-resolution, realistic and detailed 3D anatomy model. A further feature: the radiologic components (X-ray and CT) can be explored in context of 3D anatomy. This second volume Inner Organs covers the organs of the chest, the abdomen and the pelvis, including the skeleton and the principal structures of the nervous and vascular systems. The approximately 650 three-dimensional objects are based on data obtained in the Visible Human Project..
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Man-machine interaction is the gateway providing access to functions and services, which, due to the ever increasing complexity of smart systems, threatens to become a bottleneck This book therefore introduces not only advanced interfacing concepts, but also gives insight into the related theoretical background.This refers mainly to the realization of video-based multimodal interaction via gesture, mimics, and speech, but also to interacting with virtual object in virtual environments, cooperating with local or remote robots, and user assistance.

While most publications in the field of human factors engineering focus on interface design, this book puts special emphasis on implementation aspects. To this end it is accompanied by software development environments for image processing, classification, and virtual environment implementation. In addition a test data base is included for gestures, head pose, facial expressions, full-body person recognition, and people tracking. These data are used for the examples throughout the book, but are also meant to encourage the reader to start experimentation on his own.

Thus the book may serve as a self-contained introduction both for researchers and developers of man-machine interfaces. It may also be used for graduate-level university courses.

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RPG based on the movie from Leading Edge Games. Lots of quotes and B&W photos. 118 pgs + many charts ... LEG 40100..
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