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  • Mixed-Criticality Industrial Wireless Networks

    by Xi Jin, Changqing Xia, Chi Xu, Dong Li ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This open access book introduces how to manage important tasks in industrial wireless networks.Important tasks must be completed on time and with guaranteed quality; that is the consensus reached by system designers and users. However, for too long, important tasks have often been given unnecessary urgency, and people intuitively believe that important tasks should be executedfirst so that their ... Read more

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  • Adventures in Space (Short stories by Chinese and English Science Fiction writers)

    by Patrick Parrinder, Yao Haijun, Leah Cypess, Ronald Ferguson, Russell James, Alex Shvartsman, Amdi Silvestri, Allen Stroud, Eleanor Wood, Zhao Haihong, Chen Zijun, Han Song, Wang Jinkang, He Xi, Bao Shu ...
    An anthology of visionary new stories from Chinese and English-language writers, featuring three Hugo Award-nominated tales. If you love the mission of science fiction, the exchange between cultures, and the hopeful trajectory of technology and ideas, this collection is for you.An impressive joint project, this outstanding new anthology brings the best of Chinese and English-language science ... Read more

    $6.50 CAD

  • Performance Controllable Industrial Wireless Networks

    by Haibin Yu, Peng Zeng, Meng Zheng, Chi Xu, Xi Jin, Wei Liang ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    With the rapid proliferation of information and communications technology, industrial automation has undergone a sweeping transformation toward intelligent manufacturing. Wireless communication is widely considered to be one of the key technologies enabling intelligent manufacturing. On one hand, deterministic communication with high reliability and low latency is typically required in industrial ... Read more

    $192.99 CAD

  • Complexity Dichotomies for Counting Problems: Volume 1, Boolean Domain

    by Jin-Yi Cai, Xi Chen ...
    Complexity theory aims to understand and classify computational problems, especially decision problems, according to their inherent complexity. This book uses new techniques to expand the theory for use with counting problems. The authors present dichotomy classifications for broad classes of counting problems in the realm of P and NP. Classifications are proved for partition functions of spin ... Read more

    $184.99 CAD

  • Device-Free Object Tracking Using Passive Tags

    by Jinsong Han, Wei Xi, Kun Zhao, Zhiping Jiang ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This SpringerBrief examines the use of cheap commercial passive RFID tags to achieve accurate device-free object-tracking. It presents a sensitive detector, named Twins, which uses a pair of adjacent passive tags to detect uncooperative targets (such as intruders). Twins leverages a newly observed phenomenon called critical state that is caused by interference among passive tags. The author ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

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  • Mammoths at the Gates

    by Nghi Vo ...
    Series Book 4 - The Singing Hills Cycle
    The Crawford and Hugo Award-Winning SeriesFinalist for the Nebula Award for Best Novella; s****hortlisted for the Lambda Literary Award, the Locus Award, the Ignyte Award, the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction**;** One of Book Riot's Best Fantasy Debuts of All Time; A Milwaukee Journal Best of 2023 Pick;** A Recommended Reading List Pick for Locus;</str... ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Brides of High Hill

    by Nghi Vo ...
    Series Book 5 - The Singing Hills Cycle
    Nghi Vo's Hugo Award-winning Singing Hills Cycle returns with a standalone gothic mystery that unfolds in the empire of Ahn.Featured in BookBub | Book Riot | Gizmodo | Amazon Best SF&F of 2024 So Far pick | An NPR Best Book of the Year | Hugo Award finalist"A remarkable accomplishment of storytelling."—NPR on The Empress of Salt and Fortune"Nghi Vo is one of the most original writers we have today ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Into the Riverlands

    by Nghi Vo ...
    Series Book 3 - The Singing Hills Cycle
    Nghi Vo's Hugo and Crawford Award-winning series**, The Singing Hills Cycle, continues...**Lambda Award FinalistIgnyte Award FinalistHugo Award Finalist for Best NovellaLocus Award Finalist for Best NovellaA Best Of Pick for USA Today | Buzzfeed | Ms Magazine | Arlington Magazine | Transfe... ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Mouthful of Dust

    by Nghi Vo ...
    Series Book 6 - The Singing Hills Cycle
    Hunger makes monsters in this dark new tale in Nghi Vo's Hugo Award-winning Singing Hills Cycle."Nghi Vo is so good."―NPR on The Brides of High HillWandering Cleric Chih of Singing Hills and their hoopoe companion Almost Brilliant come to the river town of Baolin chasing stories of a legendary famine. Amid tales of dishes served to royalty and desserts made of dust, they discover the secrets of ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • The City in Glass

    by Nghi Vo ...
    In this new standalone novel, Hugo Award-winning author Nghi Vo introduces a beguiling fantasy city in the tradition of Calvino, Mieville, and Le Guin.An NPR Best Book of the Year | An Amazon Best of the Month pick in SF&F | A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Fall 2024 SF&F pickA demon. An angel. A city.The demon Vitrine—immortal, powerful, and capricious—loves the dazzling city of Azril. She has mothered ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport

    by Samit Basu ...
    A 2024 Locus Award Finalist! A 2024 Dragon Award Finalist!A "Best Of" pick in BookBub | Lit Hub | Book Riot | The Mary Sue“So much fun!”–Ann Leckie, New York Times bestselling authorFrom international bestseller Samit Basu, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport is an exuberant new sci-fi adventure with heart that reads like ... ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Mislaid in Parts Half-Known

    by Seanan McGuire ...
    Series Book 9 - Wayward Children
    A USA Today Bestseller!Portals and danger, and a girl who can find both in the next book in the Hugo and Nebula Award–Winning Wayward Children series from Seanan McGuire.Antsy is the latest student to pass through the doors at Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children.When the school’s (literally irresistible) mean girl realizes that Antsy's talent for finding absolutely anything may extend to ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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