Author : Cullen Bunn
Publisher : Oni Press
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 39,3 MB
Release : 2018-11-14
Category :
ISBN :
Heroes from all corners of the Earth join forces for the first time to battle the Hunter's minions. But with blood in the air, the Hunter himself is drawn out of hiding. In desperate hope of killing the creature once and for all, Kalfu opens a Crossroads doorway to the Hunter's lair.
Author : Colin Thubron
Publisher : Random House
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 50,15 MB
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1446499782
A journey along the greatest land route on earth, from the master of travel writing Colin Thubron On buses, donkey carts, trains, jeeps and camels, Colin Thubron traces the drifts of the first great trade route out of the heart of China into the mountains of Central Asia, across northern Afghanistan and the plains of Iran into Kurdish Turkey. Covering over 7000 miles in eight months Thubron recounts extraordinary adventures - a near-miss with a drunk-driver, incarceration in a Chinese cell during the SARS epidemic, undergoing root canal treatment without anaesthetic in Iran - in inimitable prose. Shadow of the Silk Road is about Asia today; a magnificent account of an ancient world in modern ferment. 'It is hard to think of a better travel book written this century' Times 'Thubron is the pre-eminent travel writer of his generation' Sunday Telegraph
Author : Susan Shwartz
Publisher : Tor Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 39,49 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780812554113
When a blight threatens Byzantium's silk industry, Alexandra, the sister of the Emperor, journeys across Tibet to the Empire of Ch'in, in hopes of smuggling live silkworms back to Byzantium
Author : Eva P. W. Hung
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,36 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Asia
ISBN : 9789462988934
Long before China promulgated the official One Belt One Road initiatives, vast networks of cross-border exchanges already existed across Asia and Eurasia. The dynamics of such trade and resource flows have largely been outside state control, and are pushed to the realm of the shadow economy. The official initiative is a state-driven attempt to enhance the orderly flow of resources across countries along the Belt and Road, hence extending the reach of the states to the shadow economies. This volume offers a bottom-up view of the transborder informal exchanges across Asia and Eurasia, and analyses its clash and mesh with the state-orchestrated Belt and Road cooperation. By undertaking a comparative study of country cases along the new silk roads, the book underlines the intended and unintended consequences of such competing routes of connectivity on the socio-economic conditions of local communities.
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Page : 494 pages
File Size : 14,37 MB
Release : 2008
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Author : José Antonio Sobrino Rodríguez
Publisher : Universitat de València
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 39,46 MB
Release : 2018-12-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 8491332014
The Fifth International Symposium on Recent Advances in Quantitative Remote Sensing was held in Torrent, Spain from 18 to 22 September 2018. It was sponsored and organized by the Global Change Unit (GCU) from the Image Processing Laboratory (IPL), University of Valencia (UVEG), Spain. This Symposium addressed the scientific advances in quantitative remote sensing in connection with real applications. Its main goal was to assess the state of the art of both theory and applications in the analysis of remote sensing data, as well as to provide a forum for researcher in this subject area to exchange views and report their latest results. In this book 89 of the 262 contributions presented in both plenary and poster sessions are arranged according to the scientific topics selected. The papers are ranked in the same order as the final programme.
Author : David Fernández-Llorca
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 45,78 MB
Release : 2020-11-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3039434020
This book presents the results of the successful Sensors Special Issue on Intelligent Vehicles that received submissions between March 2019 and May 2020. The Guest Editors of this Special Issue are Dr. David Fernández-Llorca, Dr. Ignacio Parra-Alonso, Dr. Iván García-Daza and Dr. Noelia Parra-Alonso, all from the Computer Engineering Department at the University of Alcalá (Madrid, Spain). A total of 32 manuscripts were finally accepted between 2019 and 2020, presented by top researchers from all over the world. The reader will find a well-representative set of current research and developments related to sensors and sensing for intelligent vehicles. The topics of the published manuscripts can be grouped into seven main categories: (1) assistance systems and automatic vehicle operation, (2) vehicle positioning and localization, (3) fault diagnosis and fail-x systems, (4) perception and scene understanding, (5) smart regenerative braking systems for electric vehicles, (6) driver behavior modeling and (7) intelligent sensing. We, the Guest Editors, hope that the readers will find this book to contain interesting papers for their research, papers that they will enjoy reading as much as we have enjoyed organizing this Special Issue
Author : Ed Greenwood
Publisher : Wizards of the Coast
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 26,81 MB
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0786961511
When the gods are stripped of their powers, Elminster must carry the weight of Mystra’s magic upon his mortal shoulders It was the eve of the Time of Troubles. The chaos of spilled blood, lawless strife, monsters unleashed, and avatars roaming Faerûn was still to come. Unbeknownst to mortals, the gods had been summoned together—and among them was Mystra, grown proud and willful in the passing eons. With the others, she was about to be stripped of her godhood. The secret of her power gave her an idea. She made certain preparations, looking always for one who would be her successor . . . But until that person's ascension, her power must be preserved. A lone mortal must carry the greater share of her divine energy until the power could be reclaimed, and it was the fate of this mortal to risk being destroyed or driven wild, involuntarily and without warning. This was the occasion of Elminster's Doom.
Author : Richard D. Nolane
Publisher : Humanoids Inc
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 16,70 MB
Release : 2015-02-25
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1594656010
Stunning and intelligent Medieval detective adventure that infuses "The Name of The Rose" with The "X-Files."
Author : Paul Theroux
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 31,92 MB
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0547526199
The acclaimed writer shares an intimate portrait of his former mentor V.S. Naipaul in this memoir of their thirty-year friendship and sudden falling out. Paul Theroux was a young aspiring writer when he met the legendary V.S. Naipaul in Uganda in 1966. There began a friendship that would span continents as both men ascended the ranks of literary stardom. Naipaul’s early encouragement of Theroux’s talent had a profound impact on him—yet the apprenticeship was not always easy. This heartfelt and revealing account of Theroux's thirty-year friendship with Naipaul explores the unique effect each writer had on the other. Built around exotic landscapes, anecdotes that are revealing, humorous, and melancholy, and three decades of mutual history, this is a personal account of how one develops as a writer and how a friendship waxes and wanes between two men who have set themselves on the perilous journey of a writing life. A New York Times Notable Book
