"To travel through the nineteen works of poetry and prose in this remarkable anthology is to experience Trinidad and Tobago through a kaleidoscopic lens. The writings are grouped into four historically significant periods ('Leaving Colonialism,' 'Facing Independence,' 'Looking In,' and 'Losing Control'). It's an effective construct; the reader experiences island culture and history as a part of its time, formed by a pastiche of nationality, culture, and social class. Standouts abound."

Brought to you by Penguin.In this ground-breaking blend of imaginative storytelling and scientific forecasting, a pioneering AI expert and a leading writer of speculative fiction join forces to answer an imperative question: How will artificial intelligence change our world within twenty years?AI will be the defining development of the twenty-first century. Within two decades, aspects of daily human life will be unrecognizable. AI will gene...

Wireless Control Foundation: Continuous and Discrete Control for the Process Industry offers an overview of wireless communication concepts and terminology essential for implementing wireless control in the process industry. The control system interfaces and wireless field devices discussed in this book are based on industrial wireless standards and are suitable for monitoring and control applications. Initially, wireless transmitters were used only for process monitoring, not con...

How will AI change our world within twenty years? A pioneering technologist and acclaimed writer team up for a “dazzling” (The New York Times) look at the future that “brims with intriguing insights” (Financial Times)A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Financial TimesLong before the advent of ChatGPT, Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan understood the enormous potential of artificial inte...

This foundational textbook investigates the economic, environmental and social sustainability issues facing the hospitality industry today, and explores ideas, solutions and strategies of how to manage operations in a sustainable way.This updated fourth edition features new content including:Research on nature-based solutions and zero-carbon approaches in facilities, technologies for energy, water and waste management, changes in consumer behaviour, and environmental ...

This three-set volume LNCS 16217-16219 constitutes the refereed proceedings of 27th International Conference on Information and Communications Security, ICICS 2025, held in Nanjing, China, during October 29–31, 2025.The 91 full papers presented in this book were carefully selected and reviewed from 357 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Cryptography; Post-quantum Cryptography; Anonymity and Privacy; Authentication and Authorizati...

This three-set volume LNCS 16217-16219 constitutes the refereed proceedings of 27th International Conference on Information and Communications Security, ICICS 2025, held in Nanjing, China, during October 29–31, 2025.The 91 full papers presented in this book were carefully selected and reviewed from 357 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Cryptography; Post-quantum Cryptography; Anonymity and Privacy; Authentication and Authorizati...

This three-set volume LNCS 16217-16219 constitutes the refereed proceedings of 27th International Conference on Information and Communications Security, ICICS 2025, held in Nanjing, China, during October 29–31, 2025.The 91 full papers presented in this book were carefully selected and reviewed from 357 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Cryptography; Post-quantum Cryptography; Anonymity and Privacy; Authentication and Authorizati...

Machine learning boosts the capabilities of security solutions in the modern cyber environment. However, there are also security concerns associated with machine learning models and approaches: the vulnerability of machine learning models to adversarial attacks is a fatal flaw in the artificial intelligence technologies, and the privacy of the data used in the training and testing periods is also causing increasing concern among users.This book reviews the latest research in the ar...

This book provides state-of-the-art coverage of the principles, techniques, and management of issues in cyber security, including threat attacks, privacy, signature and encryption schemes. One of the most important topics addressed concerns lightweight solutions for public key encryption in resource-constrained environments; the book highlights the latest developments in this area. Authentication is another central issue in cyber security. In this book, we address this aspect and sub-aspec...

This book LNCS 13547 constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Cyberspace Safety and Security, CSS 2022, held in Xi’an, China, in October 2022.The 26 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 104 initial submissions. The papers focus on Cyberspace Safety and Security, such as authentication, access control, availability, integrity, privacy, confidentiality, dependability and sustainability issues of cyberspace.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Information Security, ISC 2022, which took place in Bali, Indonesia, in December 2022.The 21 full papers and 8 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. The contributions were organized in topical sections as follows: Cryptography; Post-Quantum Cryptography; Cryptanalysis; Blockchain; Email and Web Security; Malware; and AI Security.