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Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Winters

by Wendy Nikel, Holly Schofield, Sarah Van Goethem, Sandra Ulbrich Almazan, Steve Toase, Heather Kitzman, Commando Jugendstil, Tessa Fisher, Jennifer Lee Rossman, Thomas Badlan, Lex T. Lindsay, R. Jean Mathieu, Brian Burt, Jerri Jerreat, Catherine F. King, Andrew Dana Hudson ...

This anthology envisions winters of the future, with stories of scientists working together to protect narwhals from an oil spill, to bring snow back to the mountains of Maine, to preserve ecosystems—even if they have to be under glass domes. They're stories of regular people rising to extraordinary circumstances to survive extreme winter weather, to fix a threat to their community's energy source ... Read more

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This anthology envisions winters of the future, with stories of scientists working together to protect narwhals from an oil spill, to bring snow back to the mountains of Maine, to preserve ecosystems—even if they have to be under glass domes. They're stories of regular people rising to extraordinary circumstances to survive extreme winter weather, to fix a threat to their community's energy source
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Black Mirror and Critical Media Theory

by Angela M. Cirucci, Barry Vacker, Michael Mario Albrecht, Osei Alleyne, Francois Allard-Huver, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns, Derek R. Blackwell, Sarah J. Constant, Mathieu d’Aquin0, Eleanor Drage1, Julie Escurignan2, Erin Espelie3, Antoine Faure4, Matthew Flisfeder5, Julia M. Hildebrand6, Manel Jiménez-Morales7, Hillary A. Jones8, Morten Stinus Kristensen9, Diana Leon-Boys0, Marta Lopera-Mármol1, Romin Rajan2, Carlos A. Scolari3, Erika M. Thomas4, Pinelopi Troullinou5, Macarena Urzúa Opazo6 ...

Black Mirror is The Twilight Zone of the twenty-first century. Already a philosophical classic, the series echoes the angst of an era, a civilization and consciousness fully engulfed in the 24/7 media spectacle spanning the planet. With clever plots and existential themes, Black Mirror presents near-futures where humans collide with technology and each other—tomorrows that might arrive in five ... Read more

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Black Mirror is The Twilight Zone of the twenty-first century. Already a philosophical classic, the series echoes the angst of an era, a civilization and consciousness fully engulfed in the 24/7 media spectacle spanning the planet. With clever plots and existential themes, Black Mirror presents near-futures where humans collide with technology and each other—tomorrows that might arrive in five
... Read more
Network Performance Analysis

by Thomas Bonald, Mathieu Feuillet ...

The book presents some key mathematical tools for the performance analysis of communication networks and computer systems.Communication networks and computer systems have become extremely complex. The statistical resource sharing induced by the random behavior of users and the underlying protocols and algorithms may affect Quality of Service.This book introduces the main results of queuing theory ... Read more

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The book presents some key mathematical tools for the performance analysis of communication networks and computer systems.Communication networks and computer systems have become extremely complex. The statistical resource sharing induced by the random behavior of users and the underlying protocols and algorithms may affect Quality of Service.This book introduces the main results of queuing theory
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The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume IX: Virginia

by Amy Wright, Darnell Arnoult, April J. Asbury, Emma Aylor, Zeina Azzam, Jeff Bagato, George Bandy0, Christina Beasley1, John Berry2, David Black3, Terry Hall Bodine4, Tara Bray5, Robert Brickhouse6, Candace Butler7, Ben E. Campbell8, John Casteen9, Michael Chitwood0, Kathy Davis1, R.H.W. Dillard2, Rita Dove3, Michael Dowdy4, Hilda Downer5, Angie Dribben6, Claudia Emerson7, J. Indogo Eriksen8, Latorial Faison9, Forrest Gander0, Matthew Gilbert1, Leah Naomi Green2, Lucy Fowlkes Griffith3, Raymond P. Hammond4, Cathryn Hankla5, Chelsea Harlan6, Mr. David Havird7, Jane Hicks8, Mary Crockett Hill9, Scott Honeycutt0, Emily Hooker1, John Hoppenthaler2, Jessica K. Hylton3, Luisa A. Igloria4, Edison Jennings5, Don Johnson6, Jeffrey N. Johnson7, Joshua Jones8, M.A. Keller9, Jennifer Key0, Chelsea Krieg1, Jessi Lewis2, Christopher Linforth3, Robert Wood Lynn4, Catherine MacDonald5, Margaret Mackinnon6, Josh Mahler7, Jeff Mann8, John Q. Mars9, Irène P. Mathieu0, Gretchen McCroskey1, Marianne Mersereau2, Jesse Millner3, Jim Minick4, Felicia Mitchell5, Thorpe Moeckel6, Elisabeth Murawski7, Yvonne Nguyen8, Mel Nichols9, Evan Nicholls0, William Notter1, Gregory Orr2, James Owens3, Lisa J. Parker4, Lynda Fleet Perry5, Kiki Petrosino6, Alex Pickens7, Matt Prater8, Rita Sims Quillen9, Valencia Robin0, Allison Seay1, Olivia Serio2, Leona Sevick3, Leslie Shiel4, Maia Siegel5, Rod Smith6, Ron Smith7, R.T. Smith8, Lisa Russ Spaar9, Sappho Stanley0, Sofia M. Starnes1, Ruth Stone2, Henry Taylor3, Randolph Thomas4, Michael Trocchia5, Ellen Bryant Voigt6, G.C. Waldrep7, Jorrell Watkins8, L.A. Weeks9, Brian Phillip Whalen00, Stephen Scott Whitaker01, Beth Oast Williams02, Abby Wolpert03, Karenne Wood04, Diana Woodcock05, Annie Woodford06, Amy Woolard07, Charles Wright08, Charles Gillispie09 ...

Series Book 9 - The Southern Poetry Anthology
Home of the first settlement in the United States and known as Old Dominion and The Mother of Presidents, the state of Virginia’s artistic output proves among the most fecund in the nation, evidenced in this ninth volume of The Southern Poetry Anthology. This collection includes well-known, established, and celebrated poets such as Charles Wright, Claudia Emerson, Gregory Orr, Ellen Bryant Voigt, ... Read more

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Home of the first settlement in the United States and known as Old Dominion and The Mother of Presidents, the state of Virginia’s artistic output proves among the most fecund in the nation, evidenced in this ninth volume of The Southern Poetry Anthology. This collection includes well-known, established, and celebrated poets such as Charles Wright, Claudia Emerson, Gregory Orr, Ellen Bryant Voigt,
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Achieving sustainable cultivation of temperate zone tree fruits and berries Volume 2

Case studies

by Prof. Gregory A. Lang, Dr Pasquale Losciale, Dr José Quero-Garciá, Dr Amy Iezzoni, Dr Gregorio López-Ortega, Dr Cameron Peace, Dr Mathieu Fouché, Dr Elizabeth Dirlewanger, Dr Mirko Schuster, Dr Danielle Guzman0, Dr Dario J. Chavez1, Assoc. Prof. Todd Einhorn2, Dr Amanda Karlström3, Dr Magdalena Cobo Medina4, Dr Richard Harrison5, Dr Pierre-Éric Lauri6, Dr Sylvaine Simon7, Prof Mihai Botu8, Dr Chris Barbey9, Prof Kevin Folta0, Dr Rachel A. Itle1, Prof M. P. Pritts2, Dr T. M. Sjulin3, Dr Ramón Molina-Bravo4, Dr Margaret Leigh Worthington5, Dr Gina E. Fernandez6, Dr Julie Graham7, Dr Alison Karley8, Dr Alison Dolan9, Dr Dominic Williams0, Dr Nikki Jennings1, Dr Daniel Mancero-Castillo2, Dr Susan McCallum3, Dr Jose X. Chaparro4, Dr Thomas G. Beckman5, Prof Luca Corelli Grappadelli6, Dr Brunella Morandi7, Dr Luigi Manfrini8, Professor Amit Dhingra9 ...

Series Book 54 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
Brings together some of the world’s leading experts on the breeding and cultivation of particular fruitsComprehensive coverage of key stone, pome and berry fruitsReviews key advances across the value chain for particular crops that collectively optimise sustainable production ... Read more

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Brings together some of the world’s leading experts on the breeding and cultivation of particular fruitsComprehensive coverage of key stone, pome and berry fruitsReviews key advances across the value chain for particular crops that collectively optimise sustainable production
... Read more
The Long Year

A 2020 Reader

by Andy Horowitz, Éric Charmes, Max Rousseau, Adam Tooze, Joan Wallach Scott, Andrew Lakoff, Keisha N. Blain, Natalia Molina, Marcia Chatelain, Michelle Cera, Gilles Guiheux, Ye Guo, Renyou Hou, Manon Laurent, Jun Li, Anne-Valérie Ruinet, Govindan Venkatasubramanian, Isabelle Guérin, Mathieu Ferry, Marine Al Dahdah, Neha Vora, Sulfikar Amir, Sherihan Radi, Mustafa Dikeç, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Simon Balto, Jeffrey Aaron Snyder, Rachel Nolan, David Schmidt, Julie Livingston, Margaret Morganroth Gullette, Xiaowei Wang, Priscilla Wald, Evan Lieberman, Warwick Anderson, Julia Foulkes, Soledad Álvarez Velasco, Sophie Lewis, Guobin Yang, Sophie Gonick, Margaret O'Mara, Alfonso Fierro, Erick Corrêa, Ananya Roy, Gianpaolo Biaocchi, Jake Carlson, Quentin Ravelli, Jean-Paul Gagnon, Rikki J. Dean, Afsoun Afsahi, Emily Beausoleil, Selen A. Ercan, Miguel Centeno, Gautam Bhan, Joanne Randa Nucho, Yarimar Bonilla, Jacob A.C. Remes, Warren Breckman, Cordula Dittmer, Daniel F. Lorenz, Kathryn Cai, Eric Klinenberg, David S. Barnes, Kavita Sivaramakrishnan, Merlin Chowkwanyun ...

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Some years—1789, 1929, 1989—change the world suddenly. Or do they? In 2020, a pandemic converged with an economic collapse, inequalities exploded, and institutions weakened. Yet these crises sprang not from new risks but from known dangers. The world—like many patients—met 2020 with a host of preexisting conditions, which together tilted the odds toward disaster. Perhaps 2020 wasn’t the year the ... Read more

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Some years—1789, 1929, 1989—change the world suddenly. Or do they? In 2020, a pandemic converged with an economic collapse, inequalities exploded, and institutions weakened. Yet these crises sprang not from new risks but from known dangers. The world—like many patients—met 2020 with a host of preexisting conditions, which together tilted the odds toward disaster. Perhaps 2020 wasn’t the year the
... Read more

Multispecies Cities

by Andrew Dana Hudson, Octavia Cade, D.K. Mok, Priya Sarukkai Chabria, N. R. M. Roshak, Meyari McFarland, Kate V. Bui, Avital Balwit, D.A. Xiaolin Spires, Timothy Yam, Joyce Chng, Caroline M. Yoachim, Vlad-Andrei Cucu, Joseph F. Nacino, Natsumi Tanaka, Phoebe Wagner, Eliza Victoria, Taiyo Fujii, Sarah E. Stevens, Joel R. Hunt, Rimi B. Chatterjee, Amin Chehelnabi, E.-H. Nießler, Shweta Taneja ...

Cities are alive, shared by humans and animals, insects and plants, landforms and machines. What might city ecosystems look like in the future if we strive for multispecies justice in our urban settings? In these more-than-human stories, twenty-four authors investigate humanity's relationship with the rest of the natural world, placing characters in situations where humans have to look beyond ... Read more

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Cities are alive, shared by humans and animals, insects and plants, landforms and machines. What might city ecosystems look like in the future if we strive for multispecies justice in our urban settings? In these more-than-human stories, twenty-four authors investigate humanity's relationship with the rest of the natural world, placing characters in situations where humans have to look beyond
... Read more
Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers

by Sarena Ulibarri, Julia K. Patt, D.K. Mok, Jennifer Lee Rossman, Stefani Cox, Shel Graves, Holly Schofield, Jerri Jerreat, Jaymee Goh, Commando Jugendstil, Wendy Nikel, Blake Jessop, Edward Edmonds, Sam S. Kepfield, Gregory Scheckler, M. Lopes da Silva, Helen Kenwright, Charlotte M. Ray ...

Solarpunk is a type of optimistic science fiction that imagines a future founded on renewable energies. The seventeen stories in this volume are not dull utopias—they grapple with real issues such as the future and ethics of our food sources, the connection or disconnection between technology and nature, and the interpersonal conflicts that arise no matter how peaceful the world is. In these pages ... Read more

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Solarpunk is a type of optimistic science fiction that imagines a future founded on renewable energies. The seventeen stories in this volume are not dull utopias—they grapple with real issues such as the future and ethics of our food sources, the connection or disconnection between technology and nature, and the interpersonal conflicts that arise no matter how peaceful the world is. In these pages
... Read more
The Twice-Drowned Saint

by C. S. E. Cooney ...

The mind-blowing new novel from C. S. E. Cooney, author of Saint Death's Daughter"World Fantasy Award winner Cooney imagines angels as Lovecraftian monsters . . . Plenty of charm!"—Publishers Weekly"Many have spoken about how angels can be both terrifying yet beautiful, but few have successfully captured the idea well-until The Twice-Drowned Saint, at least. A sumptuous, saw-toothed read, it is a ... Read more

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The mind-blowing new novel from C. S. E. Cooney, author of Saint Death's Daughter"World Fantasy Award winner Cooney imagines angels as Lovecraftian monsters . . . Plenty of charm!"—Publishers Weekly"Many have spoken about how angels can be both terrifying yet beautiful, but few have successfully captured the idea well-until The Twice-Drowned Saint, at least. A sumptuous, saw-toothed read, it is a
... Read more
Solarpunk: Ecological and Fantastical Stories in a Sustainable World

by Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro, Carlos Orsi, Telmo Marçal, Romeu Martins, Antonio Luiz M. C. Costa, Gabriel Cantareira, Daniel I. Dutra, André S. Silva, Roberta Spindler ...

Imagine a sustainable world, run on clean and renewable energies that are less aggressive to the environment. Now imagine humanity under the impact of these changes. This is the premise Brazilian editor Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro proposed, and these authors took the challenge to envision hopeful futures and alternate histories. The stories in this anthology explore terrorism against green corporations, ... Read more

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Imagine a sustainable world, run on clean and renewable energies that are less aggressive to the environment. Now imagine humanity under the impact of these changes. This is the premise Brazilian editor Gerson Lodi-Ribeiro proposed, and these authors took the challenge to envision hopeful futures and alternate histories. The stories in this anthology explore terrorism against green corporations,
... Read more
Fragile: A Novel

by Alexa Weik von Mossner ...

"Engrossing."—Kirkus Reviews"A striking fiction debut."—BookLife"Undeniably timely, imaginative, and compelling."—The Black ListNew York, 2057: Sheltered by seawalls, Manhattan is green, clean, and thriving, but Brooklyn and Queens have been given up to the hurricanes and the rising Atlantic. In this divided city, Jake Alvaro works a gruelin... ... Read more

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"Engrossing."—Kirkus Reviews"A striking fiction debut."—BookLife"Undeniably timely, imaginative, and compelling."—The Black ListNew York, 2057: Sheltered by seawalls, Manhattan is green, clean, and thriving, but Brooklyn and Queens have been given up to the hurricanes and the rising Atlantic. In this divided city, Jake Alvaro works a gruelin...
... Read more
Wings of Renewal: A Solarpunk Dragon Anthology

by Claudie Arseneault ...

The future is vibrant, hopeful, and filled with dragons.In WINGS OF RENEWAL, nineteen authors explore the exciting new subgenre of solarpunk through the lens of these majestic creatures. Whether they irrigate dry terrain or serve as spaceships, are mythic beasts come to life or biomechanical creations of man, these dragons show us a world where renewable energy overcomes gas and oil, and ... Read more

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The future is vibrant, hopeful, and filled with dragons.In WINGS OF RENEWAL, nineteen authors explore the exciting new subgenre of solarpunk through the lens of these majestic creatures. Whether they irrigate dry terrain or serve as spaceships, are mythic beasts come to life or biomechanical creations of man, these dragons show us a world where renewable energy overcomes gas and oil, and
... Read more

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