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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds
by Merlin SheldrakeMerlin Sheldrake&’s New York Times bestseller, Entangled Life, is now a lavish visual journey into the hidden lives of fungi.When we think of fungi, we likely think of mushrooms. But mushrooms are only fruiting bodies, analogous to apples on a tree. Most fungi live out of sight yet make up a massively diverse kingdom of organisms that supports and sustains nearly all living systems. Fungi provide a key to understanding the planet on which we live, and the ways we think, feel, and behave. In the first edition of the mind-bending, &“gorgeous&” (Margaret Atwood), &”brilliant [and] entrancing&” (The Guardian) Entangled Life, Sheldrake introduced us to this mysterious but massively diverse kingdom of life. This new edition, abridged from the original, features over 100 full-color images that bring the spectacular variety, strangeness and beauty of fungi to life as never before. Fungi throw our concepts of individuality and even intelligence into question. They are metabolic masters, earth makers, and key players in most of life&’s processes. They can change our minds, heal our bodies, and even help us remediate environmental disaster. In vivid, surprising images, Sheldrake reveals how these extraordinary organisms—and our relationships with them—are changing our understanding of how life works.
Entangled Performance Histories: New Approaches to Theater Historiography (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies)
by Erika Fischer-Lichte Holger Hartung Torsten Jost Omid Soltani Małgorzata SugieraEntangled Performance Histories is the first book-length study that applies the concept of "entangled histories" as a new paradigm in the field of theater and performance historiography. "Entangled histories" denotes the interconnectedness of multiple histories that cannot be addressed within national frameworks. The concept refers to interconnected pasts, in which historical processes of contact and exchange between performance cultures affected all involved. Presenting case studies from across the world—spanning Africa, the Arab-speaking world, Asia, the Americas and Europe—the book’s contributors systematically expand, exemplify and examine the concept of "entangled histories," thus introducing various innovative concepts, theories and methodologies for investigating reciprocally consequential processes of interweaving performance cultures from the past. Bringing together examples of entanglements in theater and performance histories from a broad variety of geographical and historical backgrounds, the book’s contributions build together a broad basis for a possible and necessary paradigmatic shift in the field of theater and performance historiography. Ideal for researchers and students of history, theater, performance, drama and dance, this volume opens novel perspectives on the possibilities and challenges of investigating the entangled histories of theater and performance cultures on a global scale.
Entangled State Representations in Quantum Optics
by Xiang-Guo Meng Ji-Suo Wang Bao-Long LiangThis book highlights the applications of continuous-variable entangled state representations in the research areas of quantum optics via the integration method within an ordered product of operators (IWOP). As a way to develop the Dirac’s symbolic method, the IWOP method has made the integration of non-commutative operators possible by arranging non-commutable operators within an ordered product symbol. It not only deals with many existent quantum optics problems but also explores new research fields. The book also establishes a theoretical framework for solving important quantum optics subjects by taking full advantage of the entangled state representations. With original methods and detailed descriptions, the book is suitable for researchers, instructors, and students interested in quantum mechanics, quantum optics, and quantum information science.
Entender la politíca: Una guía para novatos
by Pablo SimónUna guía de política para principiantes Por compleja o impenetrable que pueda parecer, no podemos escapar de ella. Así es la política. Como seres sociales que somos, forma parte de nuestra naturaleza. Este libro busca que la comprendas un poco mejor, que sepas cómo nos organizamos en sociedad. Recorriendo miles de años y cientos de kilómetros, desde el reino de los animales al mundo contemporáneo, intentaré que entiendas la razón de ser de los estados modernos, lo inesperada y frágil que es la democracia, o las ideologías y los valores que dotan de sentido a nuestra vida en común. El objetivo es que, de manera libre e informada, tú también puedas participar de una política que ya participa de ti. Después de todo, el mundo que está por construir también es cosa tuya.
Enter the Body
by Joy McCullough&“At once tender, poetic and ferocious, Enter The Body breathes new life into the Bard&’s most tragic heroines. More than a tribute to Shakespeare, this kaleidoscopic, ambitious novel-in-verse gives Juliet, Ophelia, Cordelia, and Lavinia the chance to tell their own stories full of passion, justice, sisterhood, and love. Simply spectacular.&”—Michael L. Printz Award winner Laura Ruby, author of Bone GapIn the room beneath a stage's trapdoor, Shakespeare&’s dead teenage girls compare their experiences and retell the stories of their lives, their loves, and their fates in their own words. Bestselling author Joy McCullough offers a brilliant testament to how young women can support each other and reclaim their stories in the aftermath of trauma.
Enter the Nebula
by Carl JacobiThe greatest cracksman in the Galaxy—The Nebula ... mocked by a gay voice that called herself Andromeda, who led him into danger—and into the hands of his enemy! Phil Hanley came out of the managing editor&’s office and strode savagely to his desk in the paper littered city room. It was one P.M., between editions, and the reporters and copy-desk men of the Martian Globe were taking things easy for the moment. Hanley slumped into his chair, kicked his feet up on his auto-typewriter, and mouthed an oath. &“He can&’t do it,&” he growled. &“Who the hell does he think I am anyway? I&’ll quit, that&’s what I&’ll do.&”
Enter the Water
by Jack Wiltshire'A dark-light beauty' Ali Smith'Totally compelling, Enter The Water pulls you along like a current. Gentle, deft, spacious yet searingly vivid, it wanders like our narrator and shows us both nature and the city through new eyes . . . This book will sneak up on you and leave its music long ringing in your ears' Cecilia Knapp'Enter the Water is both visceral and perceptive, a discomfort formulated in great tenderness and pain' Bhanu Kapil 'Enter the Water has horizons and wit and allusion and rhyme and disenchanted politics and birds, and lines that hit the reader right in the heart . . . The writing is original and perfectly pitched . . . A significant debut' Ian Pattersoni sat in a chapel the other night in my big gay coat talking to a god whose answer is only sometimes no no that was a lie the house of god was closed the night i needed him i sat outside on the granite steps of a fountain happily pouring itself an eternal supplyENTER THE WATER follows a young man who becomes homeless when he is evicted from his flat in Cambridge during the turbulent early months of 2022. As the wind stirs, our narrator embarks on a journey from his park bench out towards the coast, wrapped in his 'big gay coat', accompanied by his pigeons, a blackbird and Storm Eunice - 'Nature' in colourfully alive and playful forms. Along the way he searches for a beauty inherent to all of us, and then calls us to reclaim it. ENTER THE WATER is a story invested in care - care towards the environment; towards the political realities of recession and the war in Ukraine; towards the dynamic self, the human whose love for swimming becomes synonymous with self-acceptance and survival; and to everyone, managing to manage. Walking along the edges of our troubled current affairs, animated by a spirit of cheerful protest, this book is an offering and an urgent invitation to exit and re-enter our world - and to celebrate our capacity for courage in times of suffering.
Enterprise Applications, Markets and Services in the Finance Industry: 11th International Workshop, FinanceCom 2022, Twente, The Netherlands, August 23–24, 2022, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing #467)
by Jos Van Hillegersberg Jörg Osterrieder Fethi Rabhi Abhishta Abhishta Vijay Marisetty Xiaohong HuangThis book constitutes revised selected papers from the 11th International Workshop on Enterprise Applications, Markets and Services in the Finance Industry, FinanceCom 2022, held in Twente, The Netherlands, in August 2022.The 8 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 25 submissions. They deal with the adoption of innovative technologies in the financial services industry. The conference features four main themes: networks and business models, financial markets, IT and implementations, and new emerging digital and virtual financial markets.
Enterprise China: Adopting a Competitive Strategy for Business Success
by J. Stewart Black Allen J. MorrisonHow to adapt your firm&’s competitive strategy to the modern reality of Chinese enterprise Enterprise China: Adopting a Competitive Strategy for Business Success delivers a roadmap for business executives competing in and with China. Prepared by a team of renowned management researchers and strategists, the book examines the often-misunderstood interconnectedness of the Chinese state and Chinese businesses, demonstrating that individual firms and companies are often just the tip of the iceberg. The authors explain how the overarching vision, ambition, and strategy of the State impact and guide key commercial enterprises and how this affects Western business interests. In the book, you&’ll also find: Explorations of the competitive strategy and associated tactics of Chinese enterprise Strategies and tactical options for Western business executives as they compete in and with the Chinese state Descriptions of the key factors business executives must assess as they do business in and with ChinaAn essential discussion of one of the great economic powerhouses of contemporary history, Enterprise China belongs in the libraries of business executives, policy makers, and thought leaders seeking perspective on an unavoidable and determined competitor.
Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing. EDOC 2022 Workshops: IDAMS, SoEA4EE, TEAR, EDOC Forum, Demonstrations Track and Doctoral Consortium, Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, October 4–7, 2022, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing #466)
by Giancarlo Guizzardi Marco Montali Henderik A. Proper Fabrizio Maria Maggi Claudenir M. Fonseca Tiago Prince SalesThis book constitutes revised selected papers from the international workshops, the EDOC Forum and the Demonstration and Doctoral Consortium track, that were held at the 26th International Conference on Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing, EDOC 2022. The conference took place in Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, during October 3–7, 2022.The conference focuses on the area of enterprise computing, this year with the special emphasis on the theme of designing and operating “Flexible Enterprises”. Workshops within EDOC cover more focused topics and allow for the presentation and discussion of work that is in the earlier development stages. The 18 full and 8 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 82 submissions. They stem from the following satellite events: – Workshop on Intelligent Digital Architecture, Methods, and Services for Industry 4.0 and Society 5.0 (IDAMS) – 14th Workshop on Service-oriented Enterprise Architecture for Enterprise Engineering (SoEA4EE) – 17th Workshop on Trends in Enterprise Architecture Research (TEAR) – EDOC Forum – Demonstrations Track – Doctoral Consortium
Enterprise Information Systems: 24th International Conference, ICEIS 2022, Virtual Event, April 25–27, 2022, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing #487)
by Joaquim Filipe Slimane Hammoudi Michał Śmiałek Alexander BrodskyThis book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, ICEIS 2022, This conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 crisis, during April 25-27, 2022.The 20 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 197 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Databases and Information Systems Integration; Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems; Information Systems Analysis and Specification; Human-Computer Interaction; and Enterprise Architecture.
Enterprise Innovation Ecosystem: Theory and Practice
by Jin ChenThis book targets the key issues of both research and practice in innovation and strategic management fields and is regarded as one of the important works explaining enterprises from the innovation system perspective. The book is based on the existing literature involving national innovation system, regional innovation system, and industrial/sectional innovation system and reviews intra-organizational innovation system researches and inter-organizational innovation ecosystem literature. Accordingly, the book proposes a “core competence-based innovation ecosystem framework”, indicating the importance of fit between firms' internal core competence and external innovation ecosystem, which is pivotal for leveraging the sustainable competitiveness advantages. In addition, the book further adopts multiple case studies, involving the firms' innovation ecosystems upon ten typical global enterprises in and out of China – e.g., Apple Inc., Siemens, Procter & Gamble, Microsoft Corporation, Google, Founder Group, Haier Group, China South Railway, Huawei, and Midea. Teachers and researchers from universities in innovation and strategic management fields and industrial management practitioners can benefit from the book.
Enterprise Interoperability IX: Interoperability in the Era of Artificial Intelligence (Proceedings of the I-ESA Conferences #10)
by Bob Young Bernard Archimède Yves Ducq Hedi KarrayThis book gathers the proceedings of the I-ESA’20 Conference, which was organised by the National Engineering School of Tarbes (ENIT), on behalf of the European Virtual Laboratory, for Enterprise Interoperability (INTEROP-VLab) and the Pole Grand Sud-Ouest (PGSO) and was held virtually in Tarbes, France, in November 2020. It presents contributions ranging from academic research and case studies to industrial and administrative experiences with interoperability. These contributions show how, in a globalised market scenario—where the ability to cooperate with other organisations efficiently is essential in order to remain economically, socially and environmentally cost-effective—the most innovative digitised and networked enterprises ensure that their systems and applications can interoperate across heterogeneous collaborative networks of independent organisations. The focus of this edition of the conference is on interoperability in the era of artificial intelligence and so particular attention is paid to Industry 4.0 and the Internet of Things. The content also addresses smart services and the business impact of enterprise interoperability on organisations. Many of the papers in this tenth volume of the I-ESA Conference proceedings include examples and illustrations to help deepen readers’ understanding and generate new ideas. Offering a detailed guide to the state of the art in systems interoperability, the book will be of great value to all engineers and computer scientists working in manufacturing and other process industries, and to software engineers and electronic and manufacturing engineers working in academic settings.
Enterprise Organization Engineering: Academic Origins and Theoretical System
by Yanping Liu Yongzhong Tang"This book creates the concept of “enterprise organization engineering” by introducing the paradigm of tissue engineering in life science into enterprise organization research. It regards the enterprise as live organization, which has life characters and ability to grow and self-repair. The authors seek origins from seven theories including human tissue engineering, evolutionary economics, organization theories, enterprise theories, entrepreneur theory, human recourse theory, knowledge management theory, and summarizes the research framework including five parts : research on enterprise life characteristics, enterprise genes, enterprise seed cells, enterprise life scaffolds and research on enterprise growth factors. This research framework, which bases on five principles, presents a new perspective for corporate management staff and riches management theories."
Enterprise Risk Management Models: Focus on Sustainability (Springer Texts in Business and Economics)
by David L. Olson Desheng WuThis textbook, now in its fourth edition, serves as a comprehensive guide to learning various aspects of risk, encompassing supply chain management, artificial intelligence, and sustainability. It demonstrates a wide range of operations research models that have been successfully applied to enterprise supply chain risk management. Each chapter of the book can function as a standalone module focusing on a specific topic, offering dedicated examples, definitions, and discussion notes.The publication of this book comes at a crucial time when the world is facing increasing challenges from various forms of risk. Events such as Covid-19, the energy crisis, wars, and terrorism in the 21st century have all disrupted supply chains, thus highlighting the critical importance of enterprise risk management. Additional risks, such as financial and technological bubbles, along with concerns surrounding rampant artificial intelligence, contribute to a climate that demands enhanced risk management within organizations.
Enterprise Risk Management in the Fourth Industrial Revolution
by Tshilidzi Marwala Tankiso MoloiThis book examines enterprise risk management in the fourth industrial revolution, and the technologies associated with this phenomenon. In doing so, it seeks to understand these technologies' potential capabilities, and how they could be utilised in the enterprise risk management setting. With this, the book first details the fourth industrial revolution (4IR), and discusses the concept of enterprise risk management, the stakeholders involved, the typical information stakeholders will be responsible for, and their role in integrating risk management information. The book then examines the information processing steps and the new capabilities in the enterprise risk setting necessitated by the capabilities of the 4IR technologies to harness, analyse and integrate information for decision-making and understanding internal and external contexts. In the final chapter, the book conceptualises enterprise risk management in the 4IR, and maps out potential role changes in this space.
Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling: 24th International Conference, BPMDS 2023, and 28th International Conference, EMMSAD 2023, Zaragoza, Spain, June 12–13, 2023, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing #479)
by Rainer Schmidt Han van der Aa Henderik A. Proper Dominik BorkThis book contains the refereed proceedings of two long-running events held along with the CAiSE conference relating to the areas of enterprise, business-process and information systems modeling: * the 24th International Conference on Business Process Modeling, Development and Support, BPMDS 2023, and * the 28th International Conference on Exploring Modeling Methods for Systems Analysis and Development, EMMSAD 2023. The conferences were taking place in Zaragoza, Spain, during June 12-13, 2023. For BPMDS 9 full papers and 2 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected for publication from a total of 26 submissions; for EMMSAD 9 full papers and 3 short papers were accepted from 26 submissions after thorough reviews. The BPMDS papers deal with a broad range of theoretical and applications-based research in business process modeling, development and support. EMMSAD focusses on modeling methods for systems analysis and development.
Entertaining German Culture: Contemporary Transnational Television and Film (Film Europa #27)
by Elizabeth Ward Stephan Ehrig, Benjamin SchaperAudiences for contemporary German film and television are becoming increasingly transnational, and depictions of German cultural history are moving beyond the typical post-war focus on Germany’s problematic past. Entertaining German Culture explores this radical shift, building on recent research into transnational culture to argue that a new process of internal and external cultural reabsorption is taking place through areas of mutually assimilating cultural exchange such as streaming services, an increasingly international film market, and the import and export of Anglo-American media formats.
Entertaining Uncertainty in the Early Modern Theater: Stage Spectacle and Audience Response
by Lauren RobertsonLauren Robertson's original study shows that the theater of Shakespeare and his contemporaries responded to the crises of knowledge that roiled through early modern England by rendering them spectacular. Revealing the radical, exciting instability of the early modern theater's representational practices, Robertson uncovers the uncertainty that went to the heart of playgoing experience in this period. Doubt was not merely the purview of Hamlet and other onstage characters, but was in fact constitutive of spectators' imaginative participation in performance. Within a culture in the midst of extreme epistemological upheaval, the commercial theater licensed spectators' suspension among opposed possibilities, transforming dubiety itself into exuberantly enjoyable, spectacular show. Robertson shows that the playhouse was a site for the entertainment of uncertainty in a double sense: its pleasures made the very trial of unknowing possible.
Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2023: 22nd IFIP TC 14 International Conference, ICEC 2023, Bologna, Italy, November 15–17, 2023, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #14455)
by Francesco Poggi Angelo Di Iorio Paolo Ciancarini Helmut HlavacsThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd IFIP TC 14 International Conference on Entertainment Computing, ICEC 2023, which was held in Bologna, Italy, during November 15–17, 2023. The 13 full papers and 5 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 85 submissions. They cover a large range of topics in the following thematic areas: Game Experience; Player Engagement and Analysis; Serious Gameplay; Entertainment Methods and Tools; Extended Reality; Game Design; Interactive Entertainment; Student Game Competition; Workshops and Tutorials; and Aesthetics and Empowerment. .
Entire Vehicle (Commercial Vehicle Technology)
by Michael HilgersThe aim of this work, consisting of 9 individual, self-contained booklets, is to describe commercial vehicle technology in a way that is clear, concise and illustrative. Compact and easy to understand, it provides an overview of the technology that goes into modern commercial vehicles. Starting from the customer's fundamental requirements, the characteristics and systems that define the design of the vehicles are presented knowledgeably in a series of articles, each of which can be read and studied on their own. This volume, Entire Vehicle, provides an introduction to the vehicle concept,vehicle variants and the legal framework conditions. The relationships between longitudinal and lateral dynamics are explained in a way that is necessary for understanding both in training and in practice.
Entity Alignment: Concepts, Recent Advances and Novel Approaches (Big Data Management)
by Xiang Zhao Weixin Zeng Jiuyang TangThis open access book systematically investigates the topic of entity alignment, which aims to detect equivalent entities that are located in different knowledge graphs. Entity alignment represents an essential step in enhancing the quality of knowledge graphs, and hence is of significance to downstream applications, e.g., question answering and recommender systems. Recent years have witnessed a rapid increase in the number of entity alignment frameworks, while the relationships among them remain unclear. This book aims to fill that gap by elaborating the concept and categorization of entity alignment, reviewing recent advances in entity alignment approaches, and introducing novel scenarios and corresponding solutions.Specifically, the book includes comprehensive evaluations and detailed analyses of state-of-the-art entity alignment approaches and strives to provide a clear picture of the strengths and weaknesses of the currently available solutions, so as to inspire follow-up research. In addition, it identifies novel entity alignment scenarios and explores the issues of large-scale data, long-tail knowledge, scarce supervision signals, lack of labelled data, and multimodal knowledge, offering potential directions for future research. The book offers a valuable reference guide for junior researchers, covering the latest advances in entity alignment, and a valuable asset for senior researchers, sharing novel entity alignment scenarios and their solutions. Accordingly, it will appeal to a broad audience in the fields of knowledge bases, database management, artificial intelligence and big data.
Entre Este y Oeste: Un viaje por las fronteras de Europa
by Anne ApplebaumUna lectura imprescindible para descifrar los orígenes de la guerra en Ucrania y la frágil situación de Europa del Este. En el otoño de 1991, en plena desintegración del imperio soviético, Anne Applebaum -ganadora del Premio Pulitzer por Gulag. Historia de los campos de concentración soviéticos- emprendió un viaje desde el Báltico hasta el mar Negro, pasando por Lituania, Bielorrusia, Los Cárpatos y Ucrania, con la intención de comprender la nueva configuración de unos territorios en constante conflicto. Por el camino descubrió un amplio abanico de culturas identitarias, religiones y aspiraciones nacionalistas que competían entre sí. Si bien han transcurrido más de treinta años, las vidas aquí narradas se leen hoy como un registro documental de un mundo que ya no existe. Applebaum, una excelente observadora, teje con granhabilidad la desgarradora historia de una región incomprendida a través de los relatos de personas corrientes, que describen el modo en que los acontecimientos históricos influyen y marcan la vida de la gente. Ubicado entre la crónica periodística, la literatura de viajes y el ensayo histórico, Entre Este y Oeste ilumina con brillantez los orígenes de la crisis geopolítica entre Rusia y Europa y nos ofrece algunas claves para entender el alma de estas tierras fronterizas. La crítica ha dicho:«En su implacable búsqueda de la comprensión, Anne Applebaum ilumina mundos relegados al olvido de esperanza, sufrimiento y dignidad humana».The Washington Post «Sus investigaciones la han llevado a revalorizar de manera radical algunos de los supuestos históricos más básicos de Occidente».The Evening Standard «El carácter receptivo de Applebaum anima a los fronterizos a contarle la infinidad de formas en que la división política ha subyugado sus vidas personales, sus tradiciones culturales y sus lenguas».Publishers Weekly
Entre bombones y rosas
by S. F. TaleSan Valentín se acerca y trae una... ¿sorpresa? Una novela con mucho romanticismo en la que el corazón, una vez más, se rinde al amor. ¿Qué mejor que una fiesta para celebrar el amor con el pretexto del día de los enamorados? Con todos los preparativos hechos, con todo listo para la noche más romántica, con el amor flotando en el ambiente nada puede salir. Pero una sombra, siempre dispuesta a empañar la felicidad, rondará a los protagonistas, los asustará, los enfadará y se deberán enfrentar a las peores versiones de sí mismos. Una aventura llena de risas, amistad y malentendidos donde nada es lo que parece.
Entre el cielo y el mar (Bilogía Corazón Pirata #Volumen 1)
by Christine CrossEn un océano infestado de piratas, dos corazones en busca de la felicidad encontrarán el amor entre el cielo y el mar. Maximiliam Hart, marqués de Blackmoor, heredó el título a los doce años, cuando recibió la noticia de la muerte de sus padres y su hermana de tres años a manos de unos sangrientos piratas. Catorce años después, descubre que hay una posibilidad de que su hermana haya sobrevivido. Tras pedir ayuda al Almirantazgo para emprender su búsqueda y serle denegada, decide ir él mismo a buscarla, aunque tenga que unirse a los piratas y servir al mismo diablo. Quizá por eso no sabe qué pensar cuando en medio de aquel infierno encuentra un ángel. La honorable señorita Prudence Houghton cuenta con una sustanciosa herencia tras el fallecimiento de sus padres. A pesar de las numerosas proposiciones matrimoniales que ha recibido, Hector, su primo y tutor legal, se ha negado a conceder su mano.Cuando descubre las viles intenciones que Corey guarda hacia ella, resuelve pedir ayuda a un antiguo amigo de su padre. ¿Cómo iba a saber que para ello tendría que embarcarse y soportar los modales toscos y sucios de los marineros? Y, sobre todo, enfrentarse a un demonio de ojos azules que despierta en ella emociones poco apropiadas para un grumete.Una historia plagada de aventuras, de batallas en el mar, de piratas y de romance en el siglo XVIII. Un viaje al mar Caribe, a sus islas paradisiacas, a sus tabernas que eran nidos de asesinos y ladrones.