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When Samuel receives a call out of the blue about the death of his lover Clara, his own numbing existence seems about to come to an end. Does it matter that he never knew Clara? And, if he invents a past for his love and his loss, could he even fake his way through her funeral? Unable to pass up the chance at leading a fresh, new life, Samuel leads himself down a path of lies, until he can no longer distinguish between what is real and what he has invented. Ovejero's existential thriller of first mistaken and then stolen identity exposes the fictions people create to sustain themselves in a dehumanising modern world.
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• Front cover
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Translator's Note
• The Woman Priest
• Notes
• Bibliography
• About the Author and Translator
• Other Titles from The University of Alberta Press.

"In pre-revolutionary Paris, a young woman falls for a handsome young priest. To be near him, she dresses as a man, enters his seminary, and is invited to become a fully ordained Catholic priest, a career forbidden to women then as now. Sylvain Maréchal's epistolary novella offers a biting rebuke to religious institutions and a hypocritical society; its views on love, marriage, class, and virtue remain relevant today. The book ends in la Nouvelle France, which had become part of Canada during Maréchal's lifetime. With thorough notes and introduction by Sheila Delany, this first translation of Maréchal's novella, La femme abbé, brings a little-known but revelatory text to the attention of readers interested in French history and literature, history of the novel, women's studies, and religious studies."-- Provided by publisher.

In this "historical suspense, Ariel Lawhon unravels the extraordinary twists and turns in Anna Anderson's 50-year battle to be recognized as Anastasia Romanov. Is she the Russian Grand Duchess, a beloved daughter and revered icon, or is she an imposter, the thief of another woman's legacy?"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction Nesli Erdogmus and Sebastien Marcel Forgeries of Fingerprints in Forensic Science Christophe Champod and Marcela Espinoza Fingerprint Anti-Spoofing in Biometric Systems Javier Galbally, Julian Fierrez, Javier Ortega-Garcia and Raffaele Cappelli Face Anti-Spoofing: Visual Approach Andre Anjos, Jukka Komulainen, Sebastien Marcel, Abdenour Hadid and Matti Pietikainen Face Anti-Spoofing: Multi-Spectral Approach Dong Yi, Zhen Lei, Zhiwei Zhang and Stan Z. Li Iris Anti-Spoofing Zhenan Sun and Tieniu Tan Speaker Recognition Anti-Spoofing Nicholas Evans, Tomi Kinnunen, Junichi Yamagishi, Zhizheng Wu, Federico Alegre and Phillip De Leon Gait Anti-Spoofing John D. Bustard, Mohammad Ghahramani, John N. Carter, Abdenour Hadid and Mark S. Nixon Multimodal Anti-Spoofing in Biometric Recognition Systems Giorgio Fumera, Gian Luca Marcialis, Battista Biggio, Fabio Roli and Stephanie Caswell Schuckers Evaluation Methodologies Ivana Chingovska, Andre Anjos and Sebastien Marcel Related Standards Christoph Busch Legal Aspects: Biometric Data, Evidence Rules and Trusted Identities Els J. Kindt Ethical Issues in Anti-Spoofing Andrew P. Rebera Evaluation Databases Stan Z Li, Javier Galbally, Andre Anjos and Sebastien Marcel.
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Presenting the first definitive study of the subject, this Handbook of Biometric Anti-Spoofing reviews the state of the art in covert attacks against biometric systems and in deriving countermeasures to these attacks. Topics and features: provides a detailed introduction to the field of biometric anti-spoofing and a thorough review of the associated literature; examines spoofing attacks against five biometric modalities, namely, fingerprints, face, iris, speaker and gait; discusses anti-spoofing measures for multi-model biometric systems; reviews evaluation methodologies, international standards and legal and ethical issues; describes current challenges and suggests directions for future research; presents the latest work from a global selection of experts in the field, including members of the TABULA RASA project.
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