Ash Sunday führt das perfekte Leben - zumindest auf den ersten Blick. Doch etwas stimmt nicht: Mitschüler, die ihn nicht kennen. Bruchstücke von Erinnerungen, die nicht zusammenpassen. Träume von Orten, an denen er nie war. Gemeinsam mit seinen Geschwistern versucht Ash, das Rätsel seiner Vergangenheit zu lösen. Doch je näher er der Wahrheit kommt, desto mehr gerät seine Welt aus den Fugen. Was, wenn die Familie, die er liebt, auf einer Lüge beruht? Wenn seine Erinnerungen nicht seine eige...

Design is a process requiring both rigour and freedom; focus and expansion. Yet how does the concept - the 'intention' - become a built project?This accessible book acts as a storytelling toolkit, taking designers through a tried-and-tested process for taking an architectural project from thought to built project. Based around four main sections - Asking, Looking, Playing and Making - the authors show how a design process can generate beautiful buildings which are rooted i...

In practice, the design and architecture of a cloud varies among cloud providers. We present a generic evaluation framework for the performance, availability and reliability characteristics of various cloud platforms. We describe a generic benchmark architecture for cloud databases, specifically NoSQL database as a service. It measures the performance of replication delay and monetary cost.Service Level Agreements (SLA) represent the contract which captures the agreed upon guarante...

100 years after Karel Capek coined the word, “robots” are an everyday idea, and the inspiration for countless stories in books, film, TV and games.They are often among the least privileged, most unfairly used of us, and the more robots are like humans, the more interesting they become. This collection of stories is where robots stand in for us, where both we and they are disadvantaged, and where hope and optimism shines through.Including stories by:...

Den mörka skogen – Uppföljaren till TrekropparsproblemetUniversum är en mörk skog där varje civilisation jagar i tystnad – och den som avslöjar sin plats riskerar utplåning. Jorden har gjort just det. Nu är något på väg.En djärv, idédriven sci-fi-thriller om överlevnad, kosmisk skräck och mänsklighetens plats i universum. Av Liu Cixin, författaren till den prisbelönta Trekropparsproblemet."Som ni märker är det här är en roman som rör sig långt borta från den svenska...

12 award-winning science fiction authors from around the world offer original tales of relationships in a future world of evolving technology.For fans of anthologies like Soonish and Netflix's Black MirrorIn a future world dominated by the technological, people will still be entangled in relationships—in romances, friendships, and families. This volume in the Twelve Tomorrows series considers the effects t...

The January/February 2023 issue of Hugo Award-winning Uncanny Magazine.Our landmark Issue 50, a double sized issue! Featuring new fiction by Ken Liu and Caroline M. Yoachim, Mary Robinette Kowal, P. Djèlí Clark, A. T. Greenblatt, A.M. Dellamonica, Eugenia Triantafyllou, Sarah Pinsker, E. Lily Yu, Marie Brennan, Christopher Caldwell, John Wiswell, and Maureen Mchugh. Essays by Elsa Sjunneson, John Picacio, Annalee Newitz, A.T. Greenblatt, Diana M. Pho, and Javier Grillo-Mar...

Social Work in Mental Health Settings brings together leading academics and practitioners to explore how mental health social work is shaped and practised around the world. In so doing, it responds to a striking lack of comparative literature in the field and offers readers a timely, global perspective on this important area of practice.Combining macro-level analyses with in-depth country case studies – from Brazil and Bosnia and Herzegovina to China and Trinidad and Tobago – the b...

Boken bakom Netflix-serien med samma namn"Världarnas krig för 2000-talet." - Wall Street JournalThe Three-Body Problem är den första chansen för svenska läsare att uppleva det Hugo Award-vinnande fenomenet från Kinas mest älskade science fiction-författare, Liu Cixin.Mot bakgrund av Kinas kulturrevolution skickar ett hemligt militärt projekt signaler ut i rymden för att etablera kontakt med utomjordingar. En utomjordisk civilisation på randen av förstörelse fångar s...

Transformative Student Experiences in Higher Education: Meeting the Needs of the Twenty-First-Century Student and Modern Workplace presents a thorough consideration of the role, use, and implications of transformative and active instructional strategies in higher education. It examines the changing landscape of higher education and serves as a foundational lens and framework for thinking through higher education from both an experiential and transformative instructional context. As instruc...

Algae are sunlight-driven cell factories, and can efficiently absorb CO2 and convert light energy to chemical energy such as lipid, starch and other carbohydrates and release O2. Algal feedstock is a promising resource for bioproduct production, given its high photosynthetic efficiency for producing biomass compared to conventional crops. Microalgae can be used for flue-gas and wastewater bioremediation. This book highlights recent breakthroughs in the multidisciplinary areas of algal biot...

Study Guide to Psychiatry is a question-and-answer companion that allows you to evaluate your mastery of the subject matter as you progress through The American Psychiatric Association Publishing Textbook of Psychiatry, Seventh Edition. The Study Guide is made up of more than 400 questions divided into 44 individual quizzes containing up to 20 questions each that correspond to the chapters in the Textbook. Questions are followed by an Answer Guide that references relevant text (including p...