Damien: 358 books

What the book covers: business models on the iPhone, including free apps for marketing, trial apps to entice users, advertising-sustained apps, and paid apps. The book discusses the pricing models prevalent on each type of application (games, fitness, utilities, and so on). The book provides a blueprint...

A provocative re-thinking of how genocide should be defined that will be essential reading for all students and scholars of genocide studies Covers a number of highly controversial case studies, including Palestine and Alberta’s Tar Sands Links genocide to highly topical issues...

From household appliances to applications in robotics, engineered systems involving complex dynamics can only be as effective as the algorithms that control them. While Dynamic Programming (DP) has provided researchers with a way to optimally solve decision and control problems involving complex dynamic...

The inner architecture of a material can have an astonishing effect on its overall properties and is vital to understand when designing new materials. Nature is a master at designing hierarchical structures and so researchers are looking at biological examples for inspiration, specifically to understand...

« La question n'est pas de savoir si le virus de la grippe aviaire risque de muter pour devenir mortel pour l'homme, mais quand ? » OMS / Organisation mondiale de la santé. Un homme avance dans les vallées alpines, accompagné d'un robot de portage L2S. Il cherche un refuge, loin des terres basses...

Sortir les images et les mots des livres d'histoire pour leur donner une nouvelle vie, un nouvel éclairage, au travers d'albums de bande dessinée… Comment ? Grâce à deux simples mots : "Et si"… 1912, voyage inaugural du Titanic. À son bord, Maxime Waterson, un jeune Anglais...

Et si Mai 68 avait accouché d'une utopie ou d'un cauchemar ? Deux hypothèses. Deux histoires, L'Imagination au pouvoiret Paris brûle encore, réunies dans une édition spéciale sur cet événement qui fêtera ses 50 ans en 2018. Mai 1968, le Quartier latin brûle, des millions de francs sont dérobés...

Voici la suite de l'intrigue, où Jan, un des seuls rescapés après la mutation du virus de la grippe aviaire, parvient à rejoindre une communauté à Lyon, dix ans après l'épidémie. Mais, alors qu'il croira pouvoir y trouver une sorte de salut, il se sentira finalement encore plus seul et perdu, et devra échapper à d'étranges et redoutables hommes armés qui en veulent à sa vie...

Jan, l'ancien soldat, L.N. et Marguerite, le robot militaire, poursuivent leur traversée des montagnes à la recherche du camp franc. Entre les essaims de micro-robots tueurs et les commandos, bardés d'exo-technologie, la progression est poussive. Lorsque la situation se complique, l'un d'entre eux va se sacrifier pour laisser les deux autres arriver à destination...

  A collection of 23 poems about falling in love for the first time. Written in the syle of love letters. The poems explore topics including: true love, unrequited love, heartbreak and marriage.  Written by three YA (young adult ) authors Why Can't I Tell You? gives...

When you talk about outsiders, it's easy to think about that sense of isolation when you're not one of the "popular kids" in high school, when you're the new person on the job, when you stand out in a bad way. But there's more than that. There's the sense of wonder at a new,...

Time travel, changing history, forestalling atrocities: it's not a job for the weak. For one thing, the things people in the future wear… At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Roads have been around for centuries, allowing mankind a convenient path to arrive at their destination—be it a lengthy vacation getaway with family or merely to their own inviting home after an exhausting day at work. These roadway treks can bring with them a lifetime of memories. But not...

R. Doubting Thomas Perdue, tough Aussie former P.I. and jailbird, is in trouble, and it can only get worse. Tom's *Feng shui* consultancy implodes when some bastard drives a Mack truck through his heritage office. Fatal things keep happening to his phones. And who's been blabbing about his racehorse-doping...