Après une éruption volcanique dévastatrice sur une île du Pacifique, un jeune homme est sacré héros par les médias pour avoir organisé le sauvetage d’une dizaine de rescapés sur un voilier. Cet évènement le propulse dans une série d’aventures, notamment dans l’archipel du Vanuatu, où il s’efforce d’utiliser sa couronne de héros et de la mériter. Mais il réalise, au bout du compte, qu’elle ne vaut pas grand-chose face à la vie réelle et au temps qui passe.À PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR

Du pont d’un yacht en mer Égée, un homme tombe à l’eau. Yacov, oligarque russe à la tête d’un groupe pharmaceutique vendant sur internet des médicaments plus ou moins frelatés, a été poussé par Olga, sa femme, qui désapprouve ses activités illicites. Venant à sa rescousse, un équipage de plaisanciers français le sauve de la noyade. Parmi eux, Tom, journaliste à la retraite, seul témoin du geste d’Olga. Yacov décide de pardonner à son épouse, de cesser son trafic et de vendre son affaire. C...

Hugo and Nebula award winning writer James Patrick Kelly has spent the last thirty years thinking about robots. In the twelve stories of The Book of Bots they take many forms. Some look like humans or are embodied in spaceships. One is a house and another is a car. Several exist only in cyberspace. Two are visitors from the future. They are caretakers and lovers, explorers and financial advisors. All have been created to serve, but also have personal agendas that arise from a fier...

Tillage agriculture has led to widespread soil and ecosystem degradation globally, and more particularly in the developing regions. This is especially so in Africa where traditional agricultural practices have become unsustainable due to severe exploitation of natural resources with negative impacts on the environment and food system. In addition, agricultural land use in Africa today faces major challenges including increased costs, climate change and a need to transform to more sustainab...

This book is targeted to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) educators and administrators. It is intended to show how robots in particular, and engineering projects in general can be applied to their STEM program. It is a train-the-trainer document, pointing out sources of information and support to the teaching professional who knows how to present the material at the appropriate level.This book covers the topic of small mobile robotic sensor platforms for env...

In order to fully appreciate this book you need to read the previous books in the Shonak Series.The Shonakians are a simple, placid race of people but so different from us that a great deal of background is provided in the first book, The Crown of Happenstance. The book introduces the three main protagonists in the book; Bon of Shonak, Itself the over spirit of the "Six Earths", and Atsa, a proto-Hopi and all around honest, caring, spiritual human, with profound interests. This is ...

Technologische groei heeft menselijke vooruitgang altijd aangedreven, maar met de komst van AI is er een kantelpunt bereikt. Binnenkort worden onze samenleving, werk en privéleven radicaal hervormd. Patrick Willer beschrijft hoe hyperintelligente AI, robotisering en virtuele werelden elkaar de laatste jaren in steeds grotere en snellere golven opvolgen, en wat ons de komende jaren nog te wachten staat. Patrick Willer combineert lessen uit het verleden met de nieuwste innovaties en biedt ee...

Know Your Star-FightersBeamer: California transplant to a weird Midwestern town. Feels like he’s living on another planet. Scilla: the gangly tomboy next door. Ghoulie: the class nerd. Add one spaceship-shaped tree house capable of taking them most anywhere in the universe. Hop in and blast off for fantastic outer space adventures in Star-Fighters of Murphy Street—the quirky, funny, fast-paced new trilogy by Robert West.Taking a shortcut home from school, the Star-Fighters are chased by a ...