The “father” of Selmo is called on to answer a question no algorithm can solve alone: what ought to be done. From the Ortica neighborhood to the corridors of financial power, from underground theaters to humanitarian camps, Arx takes shape—a project aiming to intervene without dominating. But every choice carries consequences, and not all are reversible.The Washing Machine Diaogues is a clear-eyed, humane solarpunk novel, tracing power when it drops the hero act and technology forced to fa...

Some conversations only happen after dark.In After Dark, author and spoken word artist Michon Fabio explores love, intimacy, vulnerability, desire, and emotional connection through a captivating collection of poetry and reflections. These poems celebrate the beauty of being seen, understood, and loved beyond the surface.Sensual yet thoughtful, passionate yet deeply emotional, this collection invites readers into the quiet s...

The Phantom Hitchhiker offers the first organic study of one of modernity’s most haunting stories: the encounter with a figure—generally a young woman—whose presence unsettles the border between life and death. Focusing on the porous relationship between literature and folklore, the book follows the ‘phantom hitchhiker’ motif as it moves across oral storytelling, fiction, journalism, cinema, television, and the subcultures of the early digital age.Centred on Italy yet reso...

Fiorenzo’s life is full of fishing, biking, and rock n’ roll—until tragedy turns his small Italian town upside down—in this tender, funny, and cinematic novel for fans of Elena Ferrante.Muglione. Nothing grows in this Tuscan backwater except the wild imagination of Fiorenzo, a nineteen-year-old metalhead. He lives for his garage band, horror movies, and fishing in the murky irrigation ditches outside of town. But when his path crosses with Mirko, the teenage cyclin...

Winner, 2023 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards - Food - Food Heritage - USAShortlist, 2023 Book Award in Food Issues and Advocacy, James Beard FoundationThe Italian political right is outraged by halal tortellini and a pork-free lasagna served at the Vatican. In India, Hindu fundamentalists organize attacks on Muslims who sell beef. European anti-immigrant politicians denounce couscous and kebabs. In an era of nationalist and exclusionary move...

Bleiki is the Viking white mouse with real horns that, left behind by his family, is raised by Trolls. He left his adoptive parents to go to find friends, he is being ostracized, and he begins his adventure with Vikings until colonize Scottish Highlands. It's a fairy tale with Viking original names, and invented names for Trolls. The book is full of images, all of it blazes with actions, and it has historical and geographic references. It's a perfect combination and co-ordination between f...

Winner, YA category - 2012 Sandy Literary ContestWitches inhabit our world, organized in covens and hiding behind a shroud of secrecy--the Veil.Skye's London coven sends her to Seattle's Greenwood High to find the Singularity, an unusually gifted witch who may break the Veil and trigger a dangerous new era of witch-hunting. Things get complicated when Skye meets a charming new classmate, Drake. Skye's job becomes even trickier when she clashes with Jane, an...

Birth of a KrakenEmbark on an exhilarating literary journey in "Birth of a Kraken" a gripping tale that takes us step by step through the transformation of Adélard l'ombre from a rural farm boy in western France to a Bérets Verts, an elite French Marine Commando.As Adélard steps into the relentless world of grueling Commando training, he finds himself alongside five other hopeful recruits, forming the foundation of what will become his legendary team known ...

A consumer's guide to the food system, from local to global: our part as citizens in the interconnected networks, institutions, and organizations that enable our food choices.Everybody eats. We may even consider ourselves experts on the topic, or at least Instagram experts. But are we aware that the shrimp in our freezer may be farmed and frozen in Vietnam, the grapes in our fruit bowl shipped from Chile, and the coffee in our coffee maker grown in Nicaragua, roast...

This book will teach you everything about the powerful techniques and applications of parallel computing, from the basics of parallel programming to the cutting-edge innovations shaping the future of computing. The book starts with an introduction to parallel programming and the different types of parallelism, including parallel programming with threads and processes. The book then delves into asynchronous programming, distributed Python, and GPU programming with Python, providing you with...

Unleash the Full Power of Python to Run Faster Code, Scale Smarter, and Compute Without Limits. Key Features ● Get a free one-month digital subscription to www.avaskillshelf.com ● Master end-to-end Python parallelism from multithreading and multiprocessing to distributed computing on GPUs, clusters, and the cloud. ● Accelerate real-world workloads using cutting-edge frameworks like Ray, Dask, PyTorch, Spark, Modin, Joblib, and CUDA. ● Deploy high-performance pipelines at scale with Kuberne...

Winner Takes AllElliot never imagined his afterlife would begin courtside. One moment, he's a middle-aged nobody clutching his cup of tea. The next, he's drafted into the ultimate cosmic basketball showdown. God's own sons, Michael the Archangel, against his fallen brother, Lucifer, the Devil himself.The stakes? Nothing less than Elliot's soul.But as the game unfolds, the rules blur, the trash talk turns biblical, and Elliot's awkward memories from ...