Lost in Space
Lost in Space

Author: Rob Kitchin

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2005-10-23

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1847143210

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Science fiction - one of the most popular literary, cinematic and televisual genres - has received increasing academic attention in recent years. For many theorists science fiction opens up a space in which the here-and-now can be made strange or remade; where virtual reality and cyborg are no longer gimmicks or predictions, but new spaces and subjects. Lost in space brings together an international collection of authors to explore the diverse geographies of spaceexploring imagination, nature, scale, geopolitics, modernity, time, identity, the body, power relations and the representation of space. The essays explore the writings of a broad selection of writers, including J.G.Ballard, Frank Herbert, Marge Piercy, Kim Stanley Robinson, Mary Shelley and Neal Stephenson, and films from Bladerunner to Dark City, The Fly, The Invisible Man and Metropolis.

The Tigers: Ghost Striker!
The Tigers: Ghost Striker!

Author: Janet Burchett

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2012-12-20

Total Pages: 46

ISBN-13: 1408813270

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The Tigers are facing a difficult away match against a tough team, but they have got the special help of their ghost goalie . . . or have they? Things look bad when an old opponent arrives - intent on revenge!

Deploying Next Generation Multicast-enabled Applications
Deploying Next Generation Multicast-enabled Applications

Author: Vinod Joseph

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2011-08-20

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13: 0123849241

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Deploying Next Generation Multicast-Enabled Applications: Label Switched Multicast for MPLS VPNs, VPLS, and Wholesale Ethernet provides a comprehensive discussion of Multicast and MVPN standards—next-generation Multicast-based standards, Multicast Applications, and case studies with detailed configurations. Focusing on three vendors—Juniper, Cisco, and Alcatel-Lucent—the text features illustrations that contain configurations of JUNOS, TiMOS (Alcatel's OS), or Cisco IOS, and each configuration is explained in great detail. Multiple- rather than single-vendor configurations were selected for the sake of diversity as well as to highlight the direction in which the overall industry is going rather than that of a specific vendor. Beginning with a discussion of the building blocks or basics of IP Multicast, the book then details applications and emerging trends, including vendor adoptions, as well as the future of Multicast.The book is written for engineers, technical managers, and visionaries engaged in the development of next-generation IP Multicast infrastructures. - Offers contextualized case studies for illustrating deployment of the Next Generation Multicast technology - Provides the background necessary to understand current generation multi-play applications and their service requirements - Includes practical tips on various migration options available for moving to the Next Generation framework from the legacy

Multimedia Multicast on the Internet
Multimedia Multicast on the Internet

Author: Abderrahim Benslimane

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2013-03-01

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 1118614445

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This book examines multicast technology and will be a key text for undergraduate engineering students and master students in networks and telecoms. However, it will be equally useful for a wide range of professionals in this research field. Multicast routing was introduced with the advent of multiparty applications (for example, videoconferencing on the Internet) and collaborative work (for example, distributed simulations). It is related to the concept of group communication, a technique introduced to reduce communication costs. The various problems of multicast routing on the Internet are examined in detail. They include: group membership management, quality of service, reliability, safety, scalability and transport. Throughout the text, several protocols are introduced in order to analyze, compare and cover the various aspects of multicast routing.

Harvey Drew and the Junk Skunks
Harvey Drew and the Junk Skunks

Author: Cas Lester

Publisher: Hot Key Books

Published: 2015-07-02

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 1471403351

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The Toxic Spew is back, and in even more trouble than usual. WOOP WOOP WOOP! ALARM ALARM ALARM! It's chaos once more on the bridge of the Toxic Spew. But this time, the ship's problems are of a most human nature - they've run out of food! Mutiny, cannibalism and plain old theft are suggested as potential problem-solvers, but Captain Harvey politely requests that the crew buck their ideas up and think of something else. At which point the ISS is mentioned - no, not the International Space Station! - the Interstellar Service Station . . . But the ISS is spookily deserted when the team arrive, and it's not long before Harvey suspects there's something fishy going on... and he's not just talking about the Spew's malfunctioning rubbish chute. Can Harvey unite his crew one more time and solve the mystery of the abandoned space station? Will Scrummage really eat Yargal if they don't find some food? And will Harvey EVER get home? Join the gang for another rip-roaring, space-hopping and (frankly) stomach-turning adventure on the universe's worst intergalactic rubbish truck - and see if you can spot the special input from kids on The Story Adventure!

Kill Him Twice
Kill Him Twice

Author: Richard S. Prather

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2014-04-01

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1480498750

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It was a bright and shiny Beverly Hills afternoon when Shell Scott opened his door to find intrigue lying at the foot of his apartment...in the form of a corpse! Just another day in the sun for the private eye with a nose for danger. He’s got to dodge bullets and bounce Beverly Hills beauties in his search for the thug that interrupted his afternoon nap before someone puts him to sleep permanently. Now the only way this private dick is going to cop z’s is by pouncing on this perpetrator and making sure to kill him not just once... Kill Him Twice is the 30th book in the Shell Scott Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.

Raw Dog Food
Raw Dog Food

Author: Carina Beth MacDonald

Publisher: Dogwise Publishing

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 1929242093

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Many dog parents, including breeders and competitors, believe that feeding a raw food diet has improved their dogs' health, performance and longevity. Learn how to source, prepare and feed your dog simply, economically and efficiently.

Artificial Intelligence in Education
Artificial Intelligence in Education

Author: V. Dimitrova

Publisher: IOS Press

Published: 2009-06-25

Total Pages: 852

ISBN-13: 1607504464

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This publication covers papers presented at AIED2009, part of an ongoing series of biennial international conferences for top quality research in intelligent systems and cognitive science for educational computing applications. The conference provides opportunities for the cross-fertilization of techniques from many fields that make up this interdisciplinary research area, including: artificial intelligence, computer science, cognitive and learning sciences, education, educational technology, psychology, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, linguistics, and the many domain-specific areas for which AIED systems have been designed and evaluated. AIED2009 focuses on the theme "Building learning systems that care: from knowledge representation to affective modelling". The key research question is how to tackle the complex issues related to building learning systems that care, ranging from representing knowledge and context to modelling social, cognitive, metacognitive, and affective dimensions. This requires multidisciplinary research that links theory and technology from artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and computer science with theory and practice from education and the social sciences.

Space Tripping
Space Tripping

Author: Patrick Edwards

Publisher: Inkshares

Published: 2017-03-07

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1942645228

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Chuck never thought too deeply about whether aliens existed — not until Jopp, an intergalactic transport pilot, drunkenly crashed on Earth and tried to steal his truck. Now, Chuck finds himself unwittingly roped into helping Jopp work off a debt to the universe’s most powerful corporation, the Prime Partners Intergalactic Consortium. Through a series of mishaps and misfortune, the duo finds themselves in possession of a mysterious black case. In order to survive, they must fend off murderous marauders, an interplanetary police force, a peculiar crime boss, and escape a backwater planet inhabited by alien hillbillies. It’s a big and scary universe out there, and Chuck and Jopp will be damned if they’re going to face it sober.

Retief: Ambassador to Space: Seven Incidents of the Corps Diplomatique Terrestrienne
Retief: Ambassador to Space: Seven Incidents of the Corps Diplomatique Terrestrienne

Author: Keith Laumer

Publisher: Gateway

Published: 2016-02-29

Total Pages: 101

ISBN-13: 1473215625

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How are thing on Rockamorra? Bad, very. Earth Ambassador Pinchbottle has contracted to fight a dinosaur, and it's up to troubleshooter Jame Retief to keep him from being stomped, mangled, or eaten. Things are tough on other planets, too, with a civil war on Skweem, a dying race om Sulinore, and mudstorms on Schweinhund's World. These seven stories show the Galaxy's hippest diplomat at his unexpected and jaunty best.