Nexus

Author : Ramez Naam
Publisher : Axon Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781942948001

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Book 1 of the Nexus Trilogy - Continued in Book 2: Crux In the near future, the experimental nano-drug Nexus can link humans together, mind to mind. There are some who want to improve it. There are some who want to eradicate it. And there are others who just want to exploit it. When a young scientist is caught improving Nexus, he's thrust over his head into a world of danger and international espionage - for there is far more at stake than anyone realizes. From the halls of academe to the halls of power, from the headquarters of an elite US agency in Washington DC to a secret lab beneath a top university in Shanghai, from the underground parties of San Francisco to the illegal biotech markets of Bangkok, from an international neuroscience conference to a remote monastery in the mountains of Thailand - Nexus is a thrill ride through a future on the brink of explosion. Shortlisted for the Arthur C Clarke Award Shortlisted for the Prometheus Award Shortlisted for the Kitschies Award An NPR Best Book of 2013! "Good. Scary good." - Wired "Provocative... A double-edged vision of the post-human."- The Wall Street Journal "A lightning bolt of a novel, with a sense of awe missing from a lot of current fiction."- Ars Technica "Starred Review. Naam turns in a stellar performance in his debut SF novel... What matters here is the remarkable scope and narrative power of the story."- Booklist "A superbly plotted high-tension technothriller ... full of delicious, thoughtful moral ambiguity ... a hell of a read."- Cory Doctorow "A gripping piece of near future speculation... all the grit and pace of the Bourne films."- Alastair Reynolds, author of Revelation Space "A sharp, chilling look at our likely future."- Charles Stross, author of Singularity Sky and Halting State "The most brilliant hard SF thriller I've read in years. Reminds me of Michael Crichton at his best."- Brenda Cooper, author of The Creative Fire "A rich cast of characters...the action scenes are crisp, the glimpses of future tech and culture are mesmerizing."- Publishers Weekly "Any old writer can take you on a roller coaster ride, but it takes a wizard like Ramez Naam to take you on the same ride while he builds the roller coaster a few feet in front of you."- John Barnes, author of Directive 51 "Michael Crichton-like."- SFX Magazine "An incredibly imaginative, action-packed intellectual romp!"- Dani Kollin, Prometheus Award-winning author of The Unincorporated Man "The only serious successor to Michael Crichton."- Scott Harrison, author of Archangel

Author : Jonathan Reed Winkler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674033900

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In an illuminating study that blends diplomatic, military, technology, and business history, Winkler shows how U.S. officials during World War I discovered the enormous value of global communications. In this absorbing history, Winkler sheds light on the early stages of the global infrastructure that helped launch the United States as the predominant power of the century.

Author : Raphael Foshay
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781771991292

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The Digital Nexus by Raphael Foshay Pdf

Over half a century ago, in The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), Marshall McLuhan noted that the overlap of traditional print and new electronic media like radio and television produced widespread upheaval in personal and public life: Even without collision, such co-existence of technologies and awareness brings trauma and tension to every living person. Our most ordinary and conventional attitudes seem suddenly twisted into gargoyles and grotesques. Familiar institutions and associations seem at times menacing and malignant. These multiple transformations, which are the normal consequence of introducing new media into any society whatever, need special study. The trauma and tension in the daily lives of citizens as described here by McLuhan was only intensified by the arrival of digital media and the Web in the following decades. The rapidly evolving digital realm held a powerful promise for creative and constructive good—a promise so alluring that much of the inquiry into this new environment focused on its potential rather than its profound impact on every sphere of civic, commercial, and private life. The totalizing scope of the combined effects of computerization and the worldwide network are the subject of the essays in The Digital Nexus, a volume that responds to McLuhan’s request for a “special study” of the tsunami-like transformation of the communication landscape. These critical excursions provide analysis of and insight into the way new media technologies change the workings of social engagement for personal expression, social interaction, and political engagement. The contributors investigate the terms and conditions under which our digital society is unfolding and provide compelling arguments for the need to develop an accurate grasp of the architecture of the Web and the challenges that ubiquitous connectivity undoubtedly delivers to both public and private life. Contributions by Ian Angus, Maria Bakardjieva, Daryl Campbell, Sharone Daniel, Andrew Feenberg, Raphael Foshay, Carolyn Guertin, David J. Gunkel, Bob Hanke, Leslie Lindballe, Mark McCutcheon, Roman Onufrijchuk, Josipa G. Petrunić, Peter J. Smith, Lorna Stefanick, Karen Wall.

Author : Maureen Bush
Publisher : Coteau Books
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-16
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781550506075

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The Nexus Ring by Maureen Bush Pdf

Josh and Maddy must go on a quest to find out how to fix the Veil of Magic, and protect and strengthen the magical world’s inhabitants for all time.

Author : George Herbert
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0809122987

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The Country Parson ; The Temple by George Herbert Pdf

George Herbert (1593-1633) was an Anglican priest, poet and essayist--truly one of the most profound spiritual masters in the English tradition. His spirituality was a synthesis of Evangelical and Catholic piety.

Author : Katie Aubrecht,Christine Kelly,Carla Rice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0774863684

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The Aging-Disability Nexus by Katie Aubrecht,Christine Kelly,Carla Rice Pdf

As the global population ages, disability demographics are shifting. Societal change and global health inequities have changed who is likely to live to old age, who is likely to live with disability, and the relationship between aging and disability in different sociocultural and geopolitical contexts. One thing is clear: aging is a pressing issue across the Western world, and will become more so in the years ahead. Yet scholarship that focuses on the disciplinary nexus of disability studies and aging studies has not been considered comprehensively. The Aging-Disability Nexus breaks new ground by bringing gerontology and disability studies into dialogue with each other. This thoughtful examination of competing narratives about aging and disability employs a variety of empirical, conceptual, and pedagogical approaches. Contributors explore the tensions that shape how disability and aging are understood, experienced, and responded to at both individual and systemic levels, while avoiding the common tendency to conflate these overlapping elements and map them onto a normative, faulty notion of the human life trajectory. This perceptive work analyzes the distinction between aging with a disability and aging into disability, and reveals how multiple identities, socio-economic forces, culture, and community give form to our experiences.

Author : Benoit Chartier
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-09
Category : Conspiracies
ISBN : 1505870941

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Red Nexus by Benoit Chartier Pdf

Once part of the Tokyo elite, Wen Harkwell lost his status when his mother died, and now he's forced to labor in the depths of the city, far from the easy life of the Heights, struggling to support his thirteen-year-old brother Sammy. By day he toils in a factory and by night he digs for scrap in the infamous Heap under the city. One night Wen is drawn to an old book he finds and risks taking it home--a quick decision with devastating consequences. Soon after, Sammy is kidnapped, and when Wen turns to a friend and coworker for help, the two find themselves embroiled in a secret high-tech operation that will stop at nothing to maintain their ciphered code. When Wen realizes that the same corporation connected to his mother's disappearance is behind the attack, he knows he must do whatever it takes to save his brother--even if it means working for the enemy.

Author : Henry Miller
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-06
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : 0141399104

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Nexus by Henry Miller Pdf

Nexus is the third volume of the scandalous trilogy The Rosy Crucifixion, Henry Miller's major life work The exhilarating final volume of Henry Miller's semi-autobiographical trilogy, Nexus follows his last months in New York. Trapped in a bizarre ménage-à -trois with his fiery wife Mona and her lover Stasia, he finds his life descending into chaos. Finally, betrayed and exhausted, he decides to leave America and sail for Paris, to discover his true vocation as a writer.

Author : Jeremy Allouche,Carl Middleton,Dipak Gyawali
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351805520

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The Water–Food–Energy Nexus by Jeremy Allouche,Carl Middleton,Dipak Gyawali Pdf

The world of development thinkers and practitioners is abuzz with a new lexicon: the idea of "the nexus" between water, food, and energy which is intuitively compelling. It promises better integration of multiple sectoral elements, a better transition to greener economies, and sustainable development. However, there appears to be little agreement on its precise meaning, whether it only complements existing environmental governance approaches or how it can be enhanced in national contexts. One current approach to the nexus treats it as a risk and security matter while another treats it within economic rationality addressing externalities across sector. A third perspective acknowledges it as a fundamentally political process requiring negotiation amongst different actors with distinct perceptions, interests, and practices. This perspective highlights the fact that technical solutions for improving coherence within the nexus may have unintended and negative impacts in other policy areas, such as poverty alleviation and education. The Water–Food–Energy Nexus: Power, Politics and Justice lays out the managerial-technical definitions of the nexus and challenges these conceptions by bringing to the forefront the politics of the nexus, around two key dimensions – a dynamic understanding of water–food–energy systems, and a normative positioning around nexus debates, in particular around social justice. The authors argue that a shift in nexus governance is required towards approaches where limits to control are acknowledged, and more reflexive/plural strategies adopted. This book will be of interest to academic researchers, policy makers, and practitioners in the fields of international development studies, environmental politics, and science and technology studies, as well as international relations.

Author : Lee Grimes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1994-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0380773198

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Dinosaur Nexus by Lee Grimes Pdf

Members of the scientific Pegasus Expedition journey back in time to the Late Cretaceous, before the extinction of the dinosaurs, and come face to face with the Heesh, alien reptilian creatures who had evolved from the dinosaurs on a parallel Earth. Original.

Author : Aries Purwanto
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000542387

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Grasping the Water, Energy, and Food Security Nexus in the Local Context by Aries Purwanto Pdf

The existence of water, energy, and food (WEF) is critical for people to fulfil their basic needs, to achieve welfare, and to support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The WEF security topic is becoming widely discussed in developing and developed countries. Major components of WEF security i.e. availability, accessibility, and quality should be achieved integratedly to avoid unexpected impacts. The interconnectedness among endogenous and exogenous variables such as environmental, socio-economic, and political factors makes this issue immensely complex. The nexus approach attempts to integrate management and governance across sectors and scales to improve WEF security. This study aims to grasp WEF security in a local context and evaluate the implications of planned local interventions by developing a conceptual and quantitative analysis with local stakeholders. Karawang Regency in Indonesia is chosen as the case study. Several strategies for WEF-related sectors are formulated using location quotient (LQ) and competitive position (CP) methods. In addition, qualitative and quantitative system dynamics models are established by involving related stakeholders through group model building. Finally, a nexus-based framework for WEF security is developed to assist local policymakers in doing the evaluation and planning of WEF resources in the region.

Author : Andrew Dansie
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031254635

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The Water, Energy, and Food Security Nexus in Asia and the Pacific by Andrew Dansie Pdf

Author : Raouf, Mariam,Randriamamonjy, Josée,Engelke, Wilfried,Kebsi, Tarek Al,Tandon, Sharad A.,Wiebelt, Manfred,Breisinger, Clemens
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Regionalized Social Accounting Matrix for Yemen: A 2014 Nexus project SAM by Raouf, Mariam,Randriamamonjy, Josée,Engelke, Wilfried,Kebsi, Tarek Al,Tandon, Sharad A.,Wiebelt, Manfred,Breisinger, Clemens Pdf

A Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) is a representation of an economy that shows the circular flow of all transfers and real transactions between sectors and institutions. The SAM, which is a square matrix, describes the flows of incomes from activities, taking the form of factor remunerations, that are consequently received by the households for consumption on goods and services. The accounts in the SAM are the production activities, commodities, institutions, and factors of production. According to data availability, the production activities can be further disaggregated to include more detailed information on sub-sectoral or regional production. Similarly, the factors of production could be differentiated by the level of skills or the location of employment. Households can be disaggregated by income quintiles or by rural and urban residence.

Author : Sathish Sampath
Publisher : OrangeBooks Publication
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-01
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Funding Nexus by Sathish Sampath Pdf

"Dive into the world of strategic startup funding with 'Funding Nexus: Investment Strategy for Startup Business’s Success.' This comprehensive guide unveils the intricacies of securing resources for startups. Packed with real-world case studies, actionable strategies, and expert insights, this book equips entrepreneurs with tools to align investment choices with growth objectives, navigate cross-border challenges, and foster investor relationships. From understanding diverse funding avenues to crafting compelling proposals, this guide offers a roadmap for startups to triumph in the competitive business landscape. Explore the wealth of knowledge within these pages and empower your venture to secure funding and flourish."

Author : Jose Alberto Fuinhas,António Cardoso Marques
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780128154441

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The Extended Energy–Growth Nexus by Jose Alberto Fuinhas,António Cardoso Marques Pdf

The Extended Energy-Growth Nexus: Theory and Empirical Applications advances the established bivariate econometric relationship which inextricably links energy consumption to economic growth. The book extends this "nexus" to accommodate variables such as globalization, institutional variables, financial variables and the energy "mix." Rooted firmly in the modern literature, it covers empirical applications such as the evaluation of renewable energy incentives, the electricity generation mix, and sustainable development. Each application area incorporates modern econometric methodologies, including VAR, panel VAR, ARDL, panel ARDL, Asymmetric panel ARDL, and Panel Quantile Regression. Throughout chapters are accompanied by illustrative Stata and EViews code, demonstrating their uses in applied research. Primes researchers to understand advanced literature and current methodologies within the energy-growth nexus Provides a rich set of working tools for econometricians working on real-world energy and growth problems Accompanied by representative databases and illustrative Stata and EViews code, facilitating replication and use