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The Generative AI-Driven Sustainable Smart City

Deep, Hybrid, and Foundation Models for Environmental Planning, Computational Design, and Climate Resilience

by Simon Elias Bibri, Jeffrey Huang ...

The rapid rise of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is reshaping urban computing and intelligence, marking the next frontier of sustainable smart cities. This book explores the transformative potential of deep generative models (DGMs), hybrid architectures, and foundation models (FMs) in redefining the urban landscape. These technologies enhance environmental sustainability, climate ... Read more

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The rapid rise of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is reshaping urban computing and intelligence, marking the next frontier of sustainable smart cities. This book explores the transformative potential of deep generative models (DGMs), hybrid architectures, and foundation models (FMs) in redefining the urban landscape. These technologies enhance environmental sustainability, climate
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Inferno

Tales of Terror and the Supernatural

by Nathan Ballingrud, Laird Barron, Elizabeth Bear, Simon Bestwick, P. D. Cacek, Pat Cadigan, Terry Dowling, Paul Finch, Jeffrey Ford, Christopher Fowler, Stephen Gallagher, John Grant, Glen Hirshberg, K. W. Jeter, Mike O'Driscoll, Joyce Carol Oates, Mark Samuels, Lucius Shepard, Lee Thomas, Conrad Williams ...

This multiple award-winning anthology of twenty psychological and supernatural horror stories explores the outer limits of fear.To create this volume, renowned horror editor Ellen Datlow wrote to her favorite authors asking for stories that would "provide the reader with a frisson of shock, or a moment of dread so powerful it might cause the reader outright physical discomfort; or a sensation of ... Read more

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This multiple award-winning anthology of twenty psychological and supernatural horror stories explores the outer limits of fear.To create this volume, renowned horror editor Ellen Datlow wrote to her favorite authors asking for stories that would "provide the reader with a frisson of shock, or a moment of dread so powerful it might cause the reader outright physical discomfort; or a sensation of
... Read more
emerge 22

The Writer's Studio Anthology

by Jónína Kirton, Ross William Bartleman, Sharon Inkpen, Libby Jeffrey, Alisen Santa Ana, Nikica Subek Simon, Jaeyun Yoo, Chase Boisjolie, Codi Darnell, Shantell Powell, Jason E. Coombs, Dianne Kenny, Pammila Ruth, c. nicol, Anna Cavouras, Akiko Hara, Stephen Douglas, Lauren Galbraith-Gould, Caitlin McCarthy, Niyanta Baniya, Julie Lynn Lorewood, Jules Wilson, Heather Morgan, Jennifer J. Allen, Cristina Fernandes, Lisa Jones, Rachelle Jones, H. E. Scott, Kimberley McNeil, Dongkoo Lee, Anna Chadwick, Kirk McDougall, Angelle McDougall, Meredith Lingerfelt, Laura Mervyn, Michelle Greysen, C. Eliot Mullins, Si Mian Melody Sun, April dela Noche Milne, Cate Sandilands, Alicia Neptune, Susan Hawkins, Isaiah Papa, Gerald Williams, Carrie Walker, Natasha Overduin, Tanaz Roudgar, Leena Khawaja, Aimee Taylor, Jennifer Chrumka ...

Series Book 22 - emerge
emerge 22 brings together ninety writers from Canada and beyond, who journey in fiction, speculative fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, investigating belonging, joy, fear, and fascination along the way. The work in this anthology is both deeply human and unflinchingly unexpected. In it, the body becomes a repository of stories, silence is a form of air pollution, and people turn into strawberries ... Read more

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emerge 22 brings together ninety writers from Canada and beyond, who journey in fiction, speculative fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, investigating belonging, joy, fear, and fascination along the way. The work in this anthology is both deeply human and unflinchingly unexpected. In it, the body becomes a repository of stories, silence is a form of air pollution, and people turn into strawberries
... Read more
Last Rights

The Fight to Save the 7th Amendment

by Professor Jeffrey B. Simon ...

Last Rights: The Fight to Save the 7th Amendment shines a bright spotlight on a grave but often overlooked effort by large corporate interests to undermine America's civil justice system and consumer rights. Trailblazing plaintiff’s lawyer, Jeffrey B. Simon, wrote this book as a rallying cry for anyone who has ever been wronged by a rigged system of laws. Through riveting tales of real courtroom ... Read more

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Last Rights: The Fight to Save the 7th Amendment shines a bright spotlight on a grave but often overlooked effort by large corporate interests to undermine America's civil justice system and consumer rights. Trailblazing plaintiff’s lawyer, Jeffrey B. Simon, wrote this book as a rallying cry for anyone who has ever been wronged by a rigged system of laws. Through riveting tales of real courtroom
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NATO-Warsaw Pact Force Mobilization

by Jeffrey Simon ...

Recent demographic and economic trends present mobilization problems for both the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the Warsaw Pact. When the United States and the Soviet Union agreed to rid Europe of intermediate-range nuclear weapons, their agreement increased the emphasis on conventional force balances—thus creating anew strains within and between the alliances. These developments make the ... Read more

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Recent demographic and economic trends present mobilization problems for both the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the Warsaw Pact. When the United States and the Soviet Union agreed to rid Europe of intermediate-range nuclear weapons, their agreement increased the emphasis on conventional force balances—thus creating anew strains within and between the alliances. These developments make the
... Read more
The Terrorist Trap

America's Experience with Terrorism

by Jeffrey D. Simon ...

A book that traces the government response to terrorism from the days of Thomas Jefferson and the Barbary Pirates to George W. Bush and September 11th.The bombings of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City and of the World Trade Center in New York City have joined a long history of terrorists acts against the United States. In this newly updated edition of his book, Jeffrey Simon reaches ... Read more

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A book that traces the government response to terrorism from the days of Thomas Jefferson and the Barbary Pirates to George W. Bush and September 11th.The bombings of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City and of the World Trade Center in New York City have joined a long history of terrorists acts against the United States. In this newly updated edition of his book, Jeffrey Simon reaches
... Read more
Notes from the Sand: A Stand-Up Comedian's Middle East Travel Journal

by Jeffrey Neil Simon ...

A Stand-Up Comedian's Middle East Travel Journal.Jeffrey Simon, stand-up comedian and insurance salesman, hated what he was doing, and despised what his job was doing to him. When his wife walked into his office and said, "Let's sell all our things and go live on a Kibbutz for awhile," he didn't even flinch. Here's the story of how Jeffrey Simon goes from a three-hundred-pound unhappy life ... Read more

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A Stand-Up Comedian's Middle East Travel Journal.Jeffrey Simon, stand-up comedian and insurance salesman, hated what he was doing, and despised what his job was doing to him. When his wife walked into his office and said, "Let's sell all our things and go live on a Kibbutz for awhile," he didn't even flinch. Here's the story of how Jeffrey Simon goes from a three-hundred-pound unhappy life
... Read more
NATO in Search of a Vision

by Gülnur Aybet, Rebecca R. Moore, Jamie Shea, Ryan Hendrickson, Friis Arne Peterson, Hans Binnendijk, Charles Barry, Peter Lehmann Nielsen0, Martin A. Smith1, Sean Kay2, Roger E. Kanet3, Gabriele Cascone4, Jeffrey Simon5 ...

As the NATO Alliance enters its seventh decade, it finds itself involved in an array of military missions ranging from Afghanistan to Kosovo to Sudan. It also stands at the center of a host of regional and global partnerships. Yet, NATO has still to articulate a grand strategic vision designed to determine how, when, and where its capabilities should be used, the values underpinning its new ... Read more

$53.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

As the NATO Alliance enters its seventh decade, it finds itself involved in an array of military missions ranging from Afghanistan to Kosovo to Sudan. It also stands at the center of a host of regional and global partnerships. Yet, NATO has still to articulate a grand strategic vision designed to determine how, when, and where its capabilities should be used, the values underpinning its new
... Read more
Ancient Indigenous Cuisines

Archaeological Explorations of the Midcontinent

by Rebecca K. Albert, Alleen Betzenhauser, Jennifer R. Haas, Mary M. King, Susan M. Kooiman, Mary E. Malainey, Terrance J. Martin, Fernanda Neubauer, Kelsey Nordine, Jodie A. O'Gorman, Autumn M. Painter, Jeffrey M. Painter, Kimberly Schaefer, Mary Simon ...

Series series Archaeology of Food
New essays from foodways archaeology related to cuisine in social, cultural, and environmental contexts.This collection of original essays is the first to cover recent trends in foodways archaeology in the Midwest using the concept of cuisine: the selection of food ingredients and methods of food preparation, cooking, and serving/consumption in relation to their social, cultural, and environmental ... Read more

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New essays from foodways archaeology related to cuisine in social, cultural, and environmental contexts.This collection of original essays is the first to cover recent trends in foodways archaeology in the Midwest using the concept of cuisine: the selection of food ingredients and methods of food preparation, cooking, and serving/consumption in relation to their social, cultural, and environmental
... Read more
The Bulldog Detective

William J. Flynn and America's First War Against the Mafia, Spies, and Terrorists

by Jeffrey D. Simon ...

America in the early twentieth century was rife with threats. Organized crime groups like the Mafia, German spies embedded behind enemy lines ahead of World War I, package bombs sent throughout the country, and the 1920 Wall Street bombing dominated headlines. Yet the story of the one man tasked with combating these threats has yet to be told. The Bulldog Detective: William J. Flynn and America’s ... Read more

$19.99 USD

America in the early twentieth century was rife with threats. Organized crime groups like the Mafia, German spies embedded behind enemy lines ahead of World War I, package bombs sent throughout the country, and the 1920 Wall Street bombing dominated headlines. Yet the story of the one man tasked with combating these threats has yet to be told. The Bulldog Detective: William J. Flynn and America’s
... Read more
Disney Gothic

Dark Shadows in the House of Mouse

by Lorna Piatti-Farnell, Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Murray Leeder, Terry Lindvall, Jay Bamber, Carl H. Sederholm, Kathy Merlock Jackson, Gwyneth Peaty, Kevin J. Wetmore0, J.S. Mackley1, Nancy Johnson-Hunt2, Antonio Sanna3, Christy Tidwell4, Joan Ormrod5, Angelique Nairn6, Simon Bacon7, Blair Speakman8 ...

Series series Research in Horror Studies
Despite Disney’s carefully crafted image of family friendliness, Gothic elements are pervasive in all of Disney’s productions, ranging from its theme parks to its films and television programs. The contributors to Disney Gothic reveal that the Gothic, in fact, serves as the unacknowledged motor of the Disney machine. Exploring representations of villains, ghosts, and monsters, this book sheds ... Read more

$105.99 USD

Despite Disney’s carefully crafted image of family friendliness, Gothic elements are pervasive in all of Disney’s productions, ranging from its theme parks to its films and television programs. The contributors to Disney Gothic reveal that the Gothic, in fact, serves as the unacknowledged motor of the Disney machine. Exploring representations of villains, ghosts, and monsters, this book sheds
... Read more
Women and Music in the Age of Austen

by Pierre DuBois, Kelly M. McDonald, Danielle Grover, Penelope Cave, Simon Fleming, Alison C. DeSimone, Jane Girdham, Leslie Ritchie, Jeffrey A. Nigro, Ruth Perry, Devon R. Nelson, Gayle Magee, Juliette Wells ...

Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
Women and Music in the Age of Austen highlights the central role women played in musical performance, composition, reception, and representation, and analyzes its formative and lasting effect on Georgian culture. This interdisciplinary collection of essays from musicology, literary studies, and gender studies challenges the conventional historical categories that marginalize women’s experience ... Read more

$38.19 USD

Women and Music in the Age of Austen highlights the central role women played in musical performance, composition, reception, and representation, and analyzes its formative and lasting effect on Georgian culture. This interdisciplinary collection of essays from musicology, literary studies, and gender studies challenges the conventional historical categories that marginalize women’s experience
... Read more

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