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The never-before-seen history of Westeros and the lands beyond.
With hundreds of pages of all-new material from George R.R. Martin.
If the past is prologue, then George R.R. Martin's masterwork-the
most inventive and entertaining fantasy saga of our time-warrants
one hell of an introduction. At long last, it has arrived with THE
WORLD OF ICE AND FIRE. George R.R. Martin, in collaboration with
Elio M. Garcia, Jr. and Linda Antonsson, has written a
comprehensive history of the Seven Kingdoms, featuring the epic
battles, bitter rivalries, and daring rebellions that lead up to
the events in the bestselling A Song of Ice and Fire series.
Collected within this volume is the accumulated knowledge,
scholarly speculation, and inherited folk tales of maesters and
septons, maegi and singers, including over 170 full-colour
illustrations and maps, family trees for the Houses Stark,
Lannister and Targaryen, and in-depth explanations of the history
and culture of Westeros. This is the definitive companion volume to
George R.R. Martin's dazzlingly conceived universe; THE WORLD OF
ICE AND FIRE is indeed proof that the pen is mightier than a storm
of swords.
This lavish visual history-featuring over 150 new, full-colour
illustrations-is a stunning introduction to House Targaryen, the
iconic family at the heart of HBO's Game of Thrones prequel series,
House of the Dragon. For hundreds of years, the Targaryens sat the
Iron Throne of Westeros while their dragons ruled the skies. The
story of the only family of dragonlords to survive Valyria's Doom
is a tale of twisty politics, alliances and betrayals, and acts
both noble and craven. The Rise of the Dragon chronicles the
creation and rise of Targaryen power in Westeros, covering the
history first told in George R. R. Martin's epic Fire & Blood,
from Aegon Targaryen's conquest of Westeros through to the infamous
Dance of the Dragons-the bloody civil war that nearly undid
Targaryen rule for good. Packed with all-new artwork, the
Targaryens-and their dragons-come vividly to life in this deluxe
reference book. Perfect for fans steeped in the lore of Westeros,
as well as those who first meet the Targaryens in the HBO series
House of the Dragon, The Rise of the Dragon provides a must-have
overview for anyone looking to learn more about the most powerful
family in Westeros.
This volume offers a detailed analysis of selected cases in the
reception, translation, and artistic reinterpretation of Italo
Calvino's Invisible Cities (1972) around the world. The book traces
the many different ways in which Calvino's modern classic has been
read, translated and adapted in Brazil, France, The Netherlands and
Flanders, Mexico, Romania, Scandinavia, the USSR, China, Poland,
Japan and Australia, as well as offering analyses of the relation
between Calvino's book and, respectively, the East and Africa, and
reflections on the book's inspiration for and resonance in dance,
architecture and art. The volume thus traces the diversity in the
reception and circulation of Invisible Cities in different
countries and continents, offering a much wider framework for the
discussion of Calvino’s masterpiece than before, and a more
detailed picture of its cultural and linguistic ramifications. This
book will be of interest to scholars in Comparative Literature,
World Literature, Translation Studies, Italian Studies, Romance
Languages, European Studies, Dance, Architecture and Media Studies,
as well as to scholars specialised in paratext and reception.
"Heartwarming... infectious ... [Morillo's The Boy Who
Reached for the Stars]Â is every bit the inspiration he means
it to be." –Kirkus Reviews The engineer known as the “space
mechanic†speaks to both our future and past in this breathless
memoir of his journey from Ecuador to NASA and beyond. Elio
Morillo’s life is abruptly spun out of orbit when economic
collapse and personal circumstances compel his mother to flee
Ecuador for the United States in search of a better future for her
son. His itinerant childhood sets into motion a migration that will
ultimately carry Elio to the farthest expanse of human endeavor:
space. Overcoming a history of systemic adversity and inequality in
public education, Elio forged ahead on a journey as indebted to his
galactic dreams as to a loving mother whose sacrifices safeguarded
the ground beneath his feet. Today, Elio is helping drive human
expansion into the solar system and promote the future of human
innovation—from AI and robotics to space infrastructure and
equitable access. The Boy Who Reached the Stars is both a cosmic
and intimate memoir spun from a constellation of memories,
reflections, and intrepid curiosity, as thoroughly luminous as the
stars above.
Microsurgical Endodontics, a term coined by the author himself, is
a branch of Endodontics that allows to save dental elements
otherwise lost and intended to be replaced with implants. The study
of it means adding precious information to your knowledge in
endodontics. There are many indications of intervention, always
linked to the failure of a previous treatment and may include
solutions that, once put into practice, can resolve clinically
complicated situations in a single session. The text presents a
complete examination of the diagnostic approaches, of the clinical
procedures, of the necessary tools and of the possible
complications that Microsurgical Endodontics involves. It presents
a complete picture, both from the theoretical point of view and the
practical aspect, in order to face every intervention with
confidence, from the management of soft tissues to the early
removal of a suture.
No matter where you are in your grief journey, The Grief Deck
offers sensitive and supportive tools to help you process your
emotions. Its sixty illustrated cards, created by a diverse array
of artists and grief workers, offer thoughtful prompts, simple
activities, richly textured artwork, and grounding resources for
coping with loss. Everyone faces grief in their own way, and in
their own time. The Grief Deck provides accessible entry points to
meet you where you are in that process, and activities to guide you
forward. The sixty beautiful cards in this deck include meditations
for reconnecting with your body and senses and taking moments to
reflect in nature; prompts to help you address anxiety, hold a
vigil, or create rituals of remembrance; and guidance on finding
time for intentional rest and developing daily routines. These
activities-each one paired with artwork for reflection-can be
explored in any order, at any time as needed. Although each
person's journey is unique, this interactive deck will help you
constructively address grief in daily life, a little bit at a time.
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Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - 13th International Joint Conference, IC3K 2021, Virtual Event, October 25–27, 2021, Revised Selected Papers (1st ed. 2023)
Ana Fred, David Aveiro, Jan Dietz, Jorge Bernardino, Elio Masciari, …
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This book constitutes the extended and revised versions of a set of
selected papers from the 13th International Joint Conference on
Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge
Management, IC3K 2021, on October 25–27, 2021. The conference was
held virtually due to the COVID-19 crisis. The 9 full papers
included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 103
submissions. The purpose of the IC3K is to bring together
researchers, engineers and practitioners on the areas of Knowledge
Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management. IC3K is
composed of three co-located conferences, each specialized in at
least one of the aforementioned main knowledge areas.
Capitalizing on the extensive experience of the author in
estimating shadow prices, Shadow Prices for Project Appraisal
forges a bridge between theory and practice, explaining what shadow
(or accounting) prices are, how they are used, and how they can be
estimated. Starting from the basic principles of applied welfare
economics, Elio Londero's book provides a step by step derivation
of those formulas more frequently utilized in estimating shadow
prices. The preparation and use of input-output techniques are
examined in detail, and different estimation approaches and
updating procedures are presented. Finally, a detailed case study
of shadow prices for Colombia illustrates their practical
application. This book will be essential reading for students and
teachers interested in cost-benefit analysis, and in shadow prices
as a specialized field of applied welfare economics. In addition,
the book will be an invaluable source for applied economists and
practitioners interested in calculating shadow prices.
This book discusses the challenges facing current research in
knowledge discovery and data mining posed by the huge volumes of
complex data now gathered in various real-world applications (e.g.,
business process monitoring, cybersecurity, medicine, language
processing, and remote sensing). The book consists of 14 chapters
covering the latest research by the authors and the research
centers they represent. It illustrates techniques and algorithms
that have recently been developed to preserve the richness of the
data and allow us to efficiently and effectively identify the
complex information it contains. Presenting the latest developments
in complex pattern mining, this book is a valuable reference
resource for data science researchers and professionals in academia
and industry.
This book discusses the challenges facing current research in
knowledge discovery and data mining posed by the huge volumes of
complex data now gathered in various real-world applications (e.g.,
business process monitoring, cybersecurity, medicine, language
processing, and remote sensing). The book consists of 14 chapters
covering the latest research by the authors and the research
centers they represent. It illustrates techniques and algorithms
that have recently been developed to preserve the richness of the
data and allow us to efficiently and effectively identify the
complex information it contains. Presenting the latest developments
in complex pattern mining, this book is a valuable reference
resource for data science researchers and professionals in academia
and industry.
"Personalist Bioethics" calls us to reflect on the intimate meaning
of human existence and the social environment, going beyond any
specific religious perspective and invoking human reason. It
advances a metaphysics that is rationally grounded in philosophical
anthropology and has a broad range of ethical applications for
professors of bioethics, members of ethics committees, bioethics
students, and those interested in the field in general, whether in
medicine, law, or philosophy. Readers will find a presentation and
discussion of the basic contours of personalist bioethics,
comparisons of personalism with other philosophical positions, and
ethical investigations of particular topics, ranging from genetic
engineering to euthanasia. Translated by John A. Di Camillo and
Michael J. Miller.
This graduate textbook, written by a former lecturer, addresses
industrial chemical reaction topics, focusing on the
commercial-scale exploitation of chemical reactions. It introduces
students to the concepts behind the successful design and operation
of chemical reactors, with an emphasis on qualitative arguments,
simple design methods, graphical procedures, and frequent
comparison of capabilities of the major reactor types. It starts by
discussing simple ideas before moving on to more advanced concepts
with the support of numerous case studies. Many simple and advanced
exercises are present in each chapter and the detailed MATLAB code
for their solution is available to the reader as supplementary
material on Springer website. It is written for MSc chemical
engineering students and novice researchers working in industrial
laboratories.
This book offers readers a comprehensive guide to the evolution of
the database field from its earliest stages up to the present-and
from classical relational database management systems to the
current Big Data metaphor. In particular, it gathers the most
significant research from the Italian database community that had
relevant intersections with international projects. Big Data
technology is currently dominating both the market and research.
The book provides readers with a broad overview of key research
efforts in modelling, querying and analysing data, which, over the
last few decades, have became massive and heterogeneous areas.
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New Frontiers in Mining Complex Patterns - 6th International Workshop, NFMCP 2017, Held in Conjunction with ECML-PKDD 2017, Skopje, Macedonia, September 18-22, 2017, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 1st ed. 2018)
Annalisa Appice, Corrado Loglisci, Giuseppe Manco, Elio Masciari, Zbigniew W. Ras
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This book features a collection of revised and significantly
extended versions of the papers accepted for presentation at the
6th International Workshop on New Frontiers in Mining Complex
Patterns, NFMCP 2017, held in conjunction with ECML-PKDD 2017 in
Skopje, Macedonia, in September 2017. The book is composed of five
parts: feature selection and induction; classification prediction;
clustering; pattern discovery; applications. The workshop was aimed
at discussing and introducing new algorithmic foundations and
representation formalisms in complex pattern discovery. Finally, it
encouraged the integration of recent results from existing fields,
such as Statistics, Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics.
This book investigates different aspects of the relationship
between "healthy cities" and "urban planning", examining various
best practices in Europe. It uses the above as a starting point and
investigates different aspects of healthy cities, examining various
best practices in Europe. Capitalizing on ongoing trials, the
chapters identify the policies that underlie plans and projects
that have caused positive changes in local communities in terms of
the quality of life and safety of inhabitants. From these best
practices, the book deduces criteria and guidelines for planning
healthy and safe cities.
This provocative appraisal unpacks commonly held beliefs about
healthcare management and replaces them with practical strategies
and realistic policy goals. Using Henry Mintzberg's "Myths of
Healthcare" as a springboard, it reveals management practices that
undermine care delivery, explores their cultural and corporate
origins, and details how they may be reversed through changes in
management strategy, organization, scale, and style. Tackling
conventional wisdom about decision-making, cost-effectiveness,
service quality, and equity, contributors fine-tune concepts of
mission and vision by promoting collaboration, engagement, and
common sense. The book's multidisciplinary panel of experts
analyzes the most popular healthcare management "myths," among
them: * The healthcare system is failing. * The healthcare system
can be fixed through social engineering. * Healthcare institutions
can be fixed by bringing in the heroic leader. * The healthcare
system can be fixed by treating it more as a business. * Healthcare
is rightly left to the private sector, for the sake of efficiency.
The Myths of Health Care speaks to a large, diverse audience:
scholars of all levels interested in the research in health policy
and management, graduate and under-graduate students attending
courses in leadership and management of public sector organization,
and practitioners in the field of health care.
This book highlights the use of an outcome-oriented view of
performance to frame and assess the desirability of the effects
produced by adopted policies, so to allow governments not only to
consider effects in the short, but also the long run. Furthermore,
it does not only focus on policy from the perspective of a single
unit or institution, but also under an inter-institutional
viewpoint. This book features theoretical and empirical research on
how public organizations have evolved their performance management
systems toward outcome measures that may allow one to better deal
with wicked problems. Today, 'wicked problems' characterize most of
governmental planning involving social issues. These are complex
policy problems, underlying high risk and uncertainty, and a high
interdependency among variables affecting them. Such problems
cannot be clustered within the boundaries of a single organization,
or referred to specific administrative levels or ministries. They
are characterized by dynamic complexity, involving multi-level,
multi-actor and multi-sectoral challenges. In the last decade, a
number of countries have started to develop new approaches that may
enable to improve cohesion, to effectively deal with wicked
problems. The chapters in this book showcase these approaches,
which encourage the adoption of more flexible and pervasive
governmental systems to overcome such complex problems.
Outcome-Based Performance Management in the Public Sector is
divided into five parts. Part 1 aims at shedding light on problems
and issues implied in the design and implementation of
"outcome-based" performance management systems in the public
sector. Then Part 2 illustrates the experiences, problems, and
evolving trends in three different countries (Scotland, USA, and
Italy) towards the adoption of outcome-based performance management
systems in the public sector. Such analyses are conducted at both
the national and local government levels. The third part of the
book frames how outcome-based performance management can enhance
public governance and inter-institutional coordination. Part 4
deals with the illustration of challenges and results from
different public sector domains. Finally the book concludes in Part
5 as it examines innovative methods and tools that may support
decision makers in dealing with the challenges of outcome-based
performance management in the public sector. Though the book is
specifically focused on a research target, it will also be useful
to practitioners and master students in public administration .
This book offers readers a comprehensive guide to the evolution of
the database field from its earliest stages up to the present-and
from classical relational database management systems to the
current Big Data metaphor. In particular, it gathers the most
significant research from the Italian database community that had
relevant intersections with international projects. Big Data
technology is currently dominating both the market and research.
The book provides readers with a broad overview of key research
efforts in modelling, querying and analysing data, which, over the
last few decades, have became massive and heterogeneous areas.
This book provides a unified treatment of Flip-Flop design and
selection in nanometer CMOS VLSI systems. The design aspects
related to the energy-delay tradeoff in Flip-Flops are discussed,
including their energy-optimal selection according to the targeted
application, and the detailed circuit design in nanometer CMOS VLSI
systems. Design strategies are derived in a coherent framework that
includes explicitly nanometer effects, including leakage, layout
parasitics and process/voltage/temperature variations, as main
advances over the existing body of work in the field. The related
design tradeoffs are explored in a wide range of applications and
the related energy-performance targets. A wide range of existing
and recently proposed Flip-Flop topologies are discussed.
Theoretical foundations are provided to set the stage for the
derivation of design guidelines, and emphasis is given on practical
aspects and consequences of the presented results. Analytical
models and derivations are introduced when needed to gain an
insight into the inter-dependence of design parameters under
practical constraints. This book serves as a valuable reference for
practicing engineers working in the VLSI design area, and as text
book for senior undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate students
(already familiar with digital circuits and timing).
This book gives an overview of the current knowledge on the most
common neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer's disease,
frontotemporal lobar degeneration, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis,
and additional neurodegenerative diseases. Different aspects of
each disease are reviewed, including clinical issues, treatments,
basic discoveries (genetics and molecular biology), and translation
of basic research into biomarkers for early diagnosis. In addition,
emerging data indicate that neurodegeneration seems to also be
present in classically non-degenerative disorders. Therefore, a
chapter about overlapping mechanisms between dementias and
psychiatric disorders is included, as well as a description of the
role of neurodegeneration in multiple sclerosis. Neurodegenerative
Diseases is aimed at clinicians, particularly those working in
academic hospitals. This multidisciplinary book will also be of
interest to basic researchers in medical fields.
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