Hard power, Soft Belief, and the future of the West. Silicon Valley has lost its way. Our most brilliant engineering minds once collaborated with government to advance world-changing technologies. Their efforts secured the West's dominant place in the geopolitical order. But that relationship has now eroded, with perilous repercussions. Today, the market rewards shallow engagement with the potential of technology. Engineers and founders build photo-sharing apps and marketing algorithms, unwittingly becoming vessels for the ambitions of others. This complacency has spread into academia, politics, and the boardroom. ... |
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Collections of documents. Edited by: Evgeniy Kandilarov, Soyoung Kim, Svetla Karteva-Dancheva. ... This collection of documents is dedicated to the relations between the European Union and the East Asian region, which includes three of the EU strategic partners in East Asia: China, Japan and the Republic of Korea. The EU's rising interest in Asia has been largely based on the economic and political importance of Asia in the post-Cold War period, as well as the impact that it has had on Europe's own international relations. The whole Indo-Pacific region is rapidly evolving and is becoming the centre of ... |
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In search of a reward, Geralt brings the carcass of a slain creature to a small town where he is told it may be of use to the local sorcerer but the mage isn't who he is alleged to be. In hiding for his life, he requests Geralt's help in slaying the monster who seeks to murder him a young woman said to have been born under the Curse of the Black Sun a prophecy of inborn evil. He declares that she is more a monster than the creature presented before him. Geralt later encounters the woman, who asserts that it is the sorcerer who is the true monster committing unspeakable crimes at the behest of his superstitious ... |
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A Contrastive Corpus-Based Study of Link Words in The Academic Writing of Advanced Bulgarian Learners of English. "When almost a quarter of a century ago I got involved in my first real corpus creation task, the state of technological development, not only in our country but worldwide, was such that everything concerning the processes of collection, annotation and tagging of electronic databases as well as development of software tools for their processing sounded like talk taken from some science fiction novel or movie. To have millions of words in electronic form and be able to process them seemed, as Sinclair ( ... |
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Fifteen-year-old Sam is not a famous vlogger, he's never gone viral, and he doesn't want to be the Next Big Thing. In fact he's ordinary and proud of it. None of which was a problem until Dad got rich and Mum made the whole family move to London. Now Sam's off to the North London Academy for the Gifted and Talented, where everyone's busy planning Hollywood domination or starting alt-metal psychedelica crossover bands. Sam knows he'll never belong, even if he wanted to. And that's before he ends up on stage wearing nothing but a fur onesie. A brilliantly funny look at fitting in, falling out ... |
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Autonomous and embedded systems are the infrastructural fabric of modern technological society and are present as an almost imperceptible environment to each of us. Very soon after the advent of the electronic computer in the middle of the last century, the possibilities of digital control were realized as a substitute for human control over various processes. Accordingly, their use also began - first of all in an industrial environment and in military technologies - a still relatively limited application due to the then high price of the devices themselves, and also due to the need for complex adaptation of the ... |
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When Gods dance with monsters... With the return of Samkiel, the rightful heir, battle lines are beginning to form across the realms. But without the Ring of Oblivion, the ancient darkness living beneath Samkiel's skin begins to lash out, and as war looms on the horizon, he struggles with his growing power. Meanwhile, an ancient power plagues Dianna's dreams with messages of retribution. Desperate to protect the woman he loves, Samkiel must embark on a frantic search for answers - a journey that will lead him to the one place he dare not go: the Otherworld. As Nismera hunts for Vincent and Camilla, relentlessly ... |
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The Sunday Times Bestseller and New York Times Bestseller. A book of hope for uncertain times. Enter the world of Charlie's four unlikely friends, discover their story and their most important life lessons. The conversations of the boy, the mole, the fox and the horse have been shared thousands of times online, recreated in school art classes, hung on hospital walls and turned into tattoos. In Charlie's first book, you will find his most-loved illustrations and some new ones too."The World that I am required to inhabit is this one. But the world that I long to inhabit is the one that Charlie Mackesy has ... |
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The sequel to the book A Column of Fire. ... A time of conflict. It is 997 CE, the end of the Dark Ages. The king's grip on the country is fragile and chaos reigns. A young boat builder dreams of a better future after a devastating Viking raid shatters the life he hoped for. Lives intertwined. A Norman noblewoman follows her husband to a new land only to find her life there shockingly different; and a capable monk at Shiring Abbey has a vision of transforming his humble home into a centre of learning admired throughout Europe. The dawn of a new age. Now, with England at the dawn of the Middle Ages, these three ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Inspired by his experiences as a reporter during the Spanish Civil War, Ernest Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls" tells the story of Robert Jordan, an American volunteer in the International Brigades fighting to defend the Spanish Republic against Franco. After being ordered to work with guerrilla fighters to destroy a bridge, Jordan finds himself falling in love with a young Spanish woman and clashing with the guerrilla leader over the risks of their mission. One of the great novels of the twentieth century, "For Whom the Bell ... |
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The secrets of our planet revealed. Built around a journey from the inner core to the Earth's surface, this sumptuous, fully illustrated volume covers a wide range of environments and processes in fascinating yet accessible detail. Elegant design combined with beautiful images to explore and explain Earth's natural riches. This is an informative, visually arresting introduction to planet Earth. The core of the book features large, detailed photographs of single objects, many of them small enough to be held in the hand, that each speak volumes about an aspect of Earth's environments and how they work. For ... |
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Complete and unabridged. A pocket sized book - 10 x 15.5 cm. ... Strange things are going on at the Paris Opera House; a mysterious phantom - a skeleton in dinner dress - is wreaking havoc amongst the singers and backstage staff. But when new managers take over and dismiss the rumours of the Opera Ghost, the terror really begins. Who is the curious figure stalking the stage at night? How can he be in so many places at once, entering and leaving locked rooms at will? And what is his connection to the beautiful and talented young soloist, Christine? "The Phantom of the Opera" is perhaps best known for its many ... |