Daníel and Áróra hunt a brutal killer when a shipping container with the bodies of five women is found outside Reykjavik, as Áróra continues the search for her missing sister. Book three in the addictive, chilling An Áróra Investigation series. `Lilja Sigurðardóttir is good at describing the dark and cold of her native Iceland — and making you laugh … telling a terrific tale with twist after twist´ The Times BOOK OF THE MONTH `Another action-packed and pacy thriller … The writing is crisp and clear, plotting ingenious and characterisation so vivid´ Liz Nugent `Icelandic crime queen Lilja Sigurðardóttir goes from strength to strength, as is proved by White as Snow … protagonists tackling sub-zero temperatures and baffling crimes´ Financial Times –––– On a snowy winter morning, an abandoned shipping container is discovered near Reykjavík. Inside are the bodies of five young women – one of them barely alive. As Icelandic Police detective Daníel struggles to investigate the most brutal crime of his career, Áróra looks into the background of a suspicious man, who turns out to be engaged to Daníel's former wife, and the connections don't stop there… Daníel and Áróra's cases pit them both against ruthless criminals with horrifying agendas, while Áróra persists with her search for her missing sister, Ísafold, whose devastating disappearance continues to haunt her. As the temperature drops and the 24-hour darkness and freezing snow hamper their efforts, their investigations become increasingly dangerous … for everyone. Atmospheric, twisty and breathtakingly tense, White as Snow is the third instalment in the riveting, award-winning An Áróra Investigation series, as crimes committed far beyond Iceland's shores come home… Shortlisted for The Blood Drop – Icelandic Crime Novel of the Year, 2022 –––- Praise for the An Áróra Investigation series: `Icelandic crime-writing at its finest´ Shari Lapena `Lilja Sigurdardottir is rapidly becoming my favourite Icelandic writer´ The Times `Chilly and chilling … another tense and thrilling read!´ Tariq Ashkanani `The Icelandic scenery and weather are beautifully evoked…´ Daily Mail `A stand-out voice in Iceland Noir´ James Oswald `Sure to please Scandi-noir fans´ Publishers Weekly `So atmospheric´ Crime Monthly `Another bleak, unpredictable classic´ Metro `Tough, uncompromising and unsettling´ Val McDermid `Tense and pacey´ Guardian `Deftly plotted´ Financial Times `Breathtakingly original´ New York Journal of Books `Taut, gritty and thoroughly absorbing´ Booklist `A stunning addition to the icy-cold crime genre´ Foreword Reviews `A thrilling ride, super-addictive, fast-paced and atmospheric´ From Belgium with Booklove `Another emotional, pacy, tension-filled and highly topical investigation´ Jen Med's Book Reviews
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Bienvenidos a la colección 3 libros para conocer, nuestra idea es ayudar a los lectores a aprender sobre temas fascinantes a través de tres libros imprescindibles y destacados. Estas obras cuidadosamente seleccionadas pueden ser de ficción, no ficción, documentos históricos o incluso biografías. Siempre seleccionaremos para ti tres grandes obras para instigar tu mente, esta vez el tema es: Literatura Chilena. - Sub sole de Baldomero Lillo. - Martín Rivas de Alberto Blest Gana. - Desde Júpiter de Francisco Miralles. Este es uno de los muchos libros de la colección 3 libros para conocer. Si te ha gustado este libro, busca los otros títulos de la colección, pues estamos convencidos de que alguno de los temas te gustará.
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Gordon Wasson, Albert Hofmann und Roger Heim erforschten in den 50er Jahren die psychoaktiven Psilocybe-Arten Mexikos in interdisziplinärer Zusammenarbeit. Neben der ethnobotanischen und mykologischen Erforschung konnten als wirksame Prinzipien der Pilze die Psychedelika Psilocybin und Psilocin isoliert und charakterisiert werden. In den nächsten Jahrzehnten wurden dann diese Alkaloide zunehmend in Pilzarten auch anderer Gattungen rund um die Welt nachgewiesen. Jochen Gartz erforschte selbst über mehr als 15 Jahre alle Aspekte der Pilze auf wissenschaftlicher Basis. Er entdeckte mehrere "neue" Arten, die er zusammen mit anderen Bearbeitern benannte, so die stark psychoaktiven Pilze Psilocybe azurescens (USA) und Psilocybe natalensis (Südafrika). Begünstigt auch durch seine frühere Tätigkeit in der Arzneimittelforschung und die lang-jährige Beschäftigung mit allen Bereichen, die durch solche psychoaktiven Sub-stanzen angerissen werden, legt er hier dieses interdisziplinäre Standardwerk über psycho-aktive Pilze völlig überarbeitet und aktualisiert erneut vor. Jeweils ausgehend von historischen Aspekten beschreibt dieses kompetent und doch allgemein verständlich alle Wissensgebiete, in denen die Arten myzelartig vernetzt sind. So wird die Mykologie und Chemie genauso ausführlich unter Einschluss vieler farb- uns s/w Fotos beschrieben wie die einzelnen Kulturverfahren. Rein toxikologische und medizinisch-psychotherapeutische Aspekte sind mit einer Vielzahl detaillierter Wirkungsbeschreibungen einzelner Pilzarten bei unterschiedlichen Dosierungen rund um die Welt verknüpft worden. Auf die Ver-wechslungsgefahren mit tödlich wirkenden Giftpilzen wird genauso hingewiesen wie auf den eventuellen Nutzen von Farbreaktionen zur Differenzierung einzelner Arten. Das interdisziplinäre Werk wird schliesslich durch ein umfangreiches Literaturverzeichnis mit mehreren hundert Zitierungen aus unterschiedlichsten Bereichen abgerundet.
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<p> This book demonstrates how GIS techniques and statistical methods can be used to emphasise the characteristics of population and its related variables, vis-à-vis care facilities and the status of vector borne diseases, as well as for malaria modeling.  Concentrating on the Varanasi district of India, the main aim of the book is to determine and map the density areas of vector borne diseases using GIS techniques.</p> <p>The book explores how health GIS is an important sub-discipline of health science and medical geography, which is traditionally focused on the spatial aspects of disease ecology and health care facility analysis.       </p> <p><br></p> <p> <br></p> <p><br></p> <p><br></p> <p><br></p>
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<p>Biological and biomedical research are increasingly driven by experimental techniques that challenge our ability to analyse, process and extract meaningful knowledge from the underlying data. The impressive capabilities of next generation sequencing technologies, together with novel and ever evolving distinct types of omics data technologies, have put an increasingly complex set of challenges for the growing fields of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. The analysis of the datasets produced and their integration call for new algorithms and approaches from fields such as Databases, Statistics, Data Mining, Machine Learning, Optimization, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. Clearly, Biology is more and more a science of information requiring tools from the computational sciences. In the last few years, we have seen the surge of a new generation of interdisciplinary scientists that have a strong background in the biological and computational sciences. In this context, the interaction of researchers from different scientific fields is, more than ever, of foremost importance boosting the research efforts in the field and contributing to the education of a new generation of Bioinformatics scientists. PACBB‘16 hopes to contribute to this effort promoting this fruitful interaction. PACBB'16 technical program included 21 papers spanning many different sub-fields in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Therefore, the conference will certainly promote the interaction of scientists from diverse research groups and with a distinct background (computer scientists, mathematicians, biologists). The scientific content will certainly be challenging and will promote the improvement of the work being developed by each of the participants.</p>
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The works of American author Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) include many poems, short stories, and one novel. His fiction spans multiple genres, including horror fiction, adventure, science fiction, and detective fiction, a genre he is credited with inventing.These works are generally considered part of the Dark romanticism movement, a literary reaction to Transcendentalism.Poe's writing reflects his literary theories: he disagreed with didacticism and allegory.Meaning in literature, he said in his criticism, should be an undercurrent just beneath the surface; works whose meanings are too obvious cease to be art.Poe pursued originality in his works, and disliked proverbs.He often included elements of popular pseudosciences such as phrenology and physiognomy.His most recurring themes deal with questions of death, including its physical signs, the effects of decomposition, concerns of premature burial, the reanimation of the dead, and mourning. Though known as a masterly practitioner of Gothic fiction, Poe did not invent the genre; he was following a long-standing popular tradition. Edgar Allan Poe: The Complete Works,contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work. Contents The Intro The Tales The Poems The Novels The Essays The Miscellanea The Play The Criticism The Letters
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The 10 Works to read in this life Vol:1, contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all the chapters and sub-chapters of that specific work. contents : Middlemarch by George Eliot Cabin Fever by B. M. Bower Bel-Ami by Guy de Maupassant The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe Great Expectations by Charles Dickens The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare Hamlet by William Shakespeare Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
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This book along with the essay "Beyond Cryptographic Routing: The Echo Protocol in the Era of Exponential Encryption" describe a new protocol: The Echo Protocol and its characteristics with respect to Graph-Theory, Routing-Theory, Networking and Encryption. As a contrast to the TCP protocol, the ECHO is a protocol without routing information. Instead, it's a multi- and hybrid-encryption concept. A network node sends packets to all connections. This creates the new network type of a flooding network, which is particularly interesting in the context of anonymizing mix networks like Tor or I2P and other. The modes of operation of the Echo Protocol like Full, Half or Adaptive Echo and sub-protocols of the Echo protocol like the POPTASTIC protocol (which is encrypted chat over e-mail servers) or the SECRED protocol (which is a kind of cryptographic discovery like in a DHT) complement further interesting innovations: Some Servers will learn someday through being instructed by private cryptographic tokens. For encryption there are also many new inventions discussed like: Secret Streams, Pass-Through PatchPoints, Cryptographic Calling, Fiasco Forwarding, or IPFS - Instant Perfect Forward Secrecy even through E-mail, based on symmetric as well as asymmetric keys. Many new cryptographic innovations are ready to use by the given Echo Clients like Spot-On, GoldBug Crypto Chat, Smoke or Lettera and some other, which overtook these ideas already. These innovations lead to a new Era of Exponential Encryption, which is defined by new thinking and acting as well as new ways of multi-encryption. The resulting tendency consists in the authors' vision of encryption and decryption going into the direction of exponential multiplication: for used keys, for options to decode ciphertext of ciphertext to ciphertext, for taken routes, for duplicated messages and congestion filters, as well as for several Fiasco keys used for the keys of several friend and their messages. The authors analyze this environment and identify four arms of the Era of Exponential Encryption, discuss these and give social, economic, political, legal and educational recommendations. New multiplied directions in encryption? File-Sharing or Web browsing through a new Tor2 based on the POPTASTIC Echo? The Echo's growth is independent from a reader or observer. TCP is fluid but bounded. The Echo is boundless and just limited to the imagination of those imagining to create things from simple concepts.
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