Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: frederik

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  • AMAZING TALES VOLUME 13
    FREDERIK POHL ET AL.
    Embark on an interstellar odyssey with "Amazing Tales Volume 13", a mesmerizing science fiction anthology meticulously curated by the illustrious Frederik Pohl. This collection is a galaxy-spanning treasure trove of narratives that invites sci-fi enthusiasts to traverse the vast and varied cosmos, where imagination knows no bounds. Prepare for a pulse-pounding escape with "Aste...

    $39.70

  • AMAZING TALES VOLUME 130
    FREDERIK POHL ET AL.
    Dive into the imaginative and captivating worlds of "Amazing Tales Volume 130", where each story explores themes of time, identity, truth, and the complexities of human desires. This anthology brings together the finest narratives of science fiction and speculative storytelling. In "A Hitch in Time" by Frederik Pohl, a stranded time traveler faces an existential crisis as he be...

    $39.70

  • ASTEROID OF THE DAMNED AND THREE MORE STORIES
    FREDERIK POHL
    This is a great collection of action short stories by Frederik Pohl from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here: "Asteroid of the Damned", "Conspiracy on Callisto", "Double-Cross", and "Let the Ants Try". ...

    $39.70

  • ACCELERATION OF BIOMEDICAL IMAGE PROCESSING WITH DATAFLOW ON FPGAS
    FREDERIK GRÜLL / UDO KEBSCHULL
    Short compute times are crucial for timely diagnostics in biomedical applications, but lead to a high demand in computing for new and improved imaging techniques. In this book reconfigurable computing with FPGAs is discussed as an alternative to multi-core processing and graphics card accelerators. Instead of adjusting the application to the hardware, FPGAs allow the hardware t...

    $720.00

  • THE TUNNEL UNDER THE WORLD AND SIX MORE STORIES
    FREDERIK POHL
    Great collection of action short stories by Frederik Pohl from "The Golden Age of Science Fiction". Featured here: "The Tunnel Under the World", "The Day of the Boomer Dukes", "The Hated", "Pythias", "The Knights of Arthur", "My Lady Greensleeves", and "Survival Kit". ...

    $39.70

  • PLAGUE OF PYTHONS
    FREDERIK POHL
    A Plague of Pythons is a science fiction novel by American writer Frederik Pohl. Serialized in Galaxy Science Fiction in October and December 1962, the novel was published in 1965, and an updated version was published in 1984 under the title Demon in the Skull. The title derives from the words "Domina Pythonis" used as part of an exorcism ritual performed in the first chapter t...

    $39.70

  • GEMSTONES AND THEIR DISTINCTIVE CHARACTERS
    FREDERIK HERBERT SMITH
    Excerpt: "It has been my endeavour to provide in this book a concise, yet sufficiently complete, account of the physical characters of the mineral species which find service in jewellery, and of the methods available for determining their principal physical constants to enable a reader, even if previously unacquainted with the subject, to have at hand all the information requis...

    $39.70

  • GLIDER REPRESENTATIONS
    FREDERIK CAENEPEEL / FRED VAN OYSTAEYEN
    Glider Representations offer several applications across different fields within Mathematics, thereby motivating the introduction of this new glider theory and opening numerous doors for future research, particularly with respect to more complex filtration chains. Features • Introduces new concepts in the Theory of Rings and Modules • Suitable for researchers and graduate stude...

    $4,500.00

  • EURO-ATLANTIC DISCOURSE IN GEORGIA
    FREDERIK COENE
    How have discourses of Euro-Atlanticism been used in domestic and international affairs by the political elite in Georgia? After the 2003 Rose Revolution, as relations with Russia soured, a Euro-Atlantic orientation portrayed as a single and coherent strategy became the cornerstone of Georgian foreign policy as well as a model for domestic reforms. This promise of a prosperous ...

    $1,200.00

  • INTERREGIONALISM AND THE EUROPEAN UNION
    MARIO TELÒ / LOUISE FAWCETT / FREDERIK PONJAERT
    Is the EU isolated within the emergent multipolar world? Concentrating on interregional relations and focussing on the European Union’s (EU) evolving international role with regards to regional cooperation, this innovative book collects a set of fresh empirical analyses of interregional ties binding the EU with its Eastern and Southern neighbourhood, as well as with Asia, Afric...

    $1,560.00

  • THE POLITICS OF TRANSATLANTIC TRADE NEGOTIATIONS
    JEAN-FREDERIC MORIN / TEREZA NOVOTNÁ / FREDERIK PONJAERT / MARIO TELÒ
    By focusing on the wider process of negotiations, this novel volume presents the first systematic analysis of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). The authors include outstanding scholars and relevant practitioners from across disciplines and various academic institutions around Europe and North America, but also from outside of the transatlantic basin. Wh...

    $1,200.00

  • THE EU'S FOREIGN POLICY
    MARIO TELÒ / FREDERIK PONJAERT
    A very timely and topical volume concerned with the impact of the Lisbon Treaty on the European Union’s (EU) capacity to further develop a distinctive foreign policy in accordance with the various policy instruments necessary to fulfil its role as a global actor. This edited volume brings together a host of scholars in the fields of European Studies and International Relations ...

    $1,200.00

  • REPRESENTING ZION
    FREDERIK POULSEN
    The prophetic books of the Old Testament offer a fascinating collection of oracles, poetic images, and theological ideas. Among the most prominent themes are those of judgment and salvation, especially concerning the fate of Zion. This place, where the people of God dwell, is alternately presented as either the object of divine wrath or the image of a salvific ideal. Representi...

    $1,280.00

  • MANAGING NONGOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS
    FREDERIK CLAEYÉ
    The idea that international development aid needs to be better managed and coordinated gained currency in the early 1990s. The increasing emphasis on management has resulted in the present vogue of ‘managing for development results’ as one of the central tenets in the discourse on international aid. But how appropriate are these ideas, tools, and techniques for non-governmental...

    $1,320.00

  • CHERNOBYL
    FREDERIK POHL
    The Hugo and Nebula award-winning author presents a "gripping and vivid" fictional account of the worst nuclear disaster in human history ( Kirkus ). Chernobyl: The very name conjures the terror of nuclear catastrophe. On April 26, 1986, a power surge caused an explosion that spewed radioactive steam into the air. More than four thousand people died, as many as a half-million h...

    $274.00

  • AN ANALYTICAL PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION
    WILLEM FREDERIK ZUURDEEG
    This original study, published initially in 1959, introduces students of philosophy and of theology to a treatment of religion based upon the methods of modern philosophy – particularly logical empiricism and existentialism. Above and beyond the importance of its point of view, this book is distinguished by its clarity and by its objective and understanding presentation of dive...

    $1,360.00

  • MONITORING WITH GANGLIA
    MATT MASSIE / BERNARD LI / BRAD NICHOLES / VLADIMIR VUKSAN / ROBERT ALEXANDER / JEFF BUCHBINDER / FREDERIK
    Written by Ganglia designers and maintainers, this book shows you how to collect and visualize metrics from clusters, grids, and cloud infrastructures at any scale. Want to track CPU utilization from 50,000 hosts every ten seconds? Ganglia is just the tool you need, once you know how its main components work together. This hands-on book helps experienced system administrators t...

    $321.00

  • ETHNICIZATION AND IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION IN MALAYSIA
    FREDERIK HOLST
    This book is the first monograph to provide an in-depth and multifaceted study of the processes of ethnicization and identity construction in Malaysia, from the colonial period until the present. In his analysis, the author takes multiple layers of ethnicization into account and shows how these have shaped Malaysia’s socio-political system and society in different ways. Moving ...

    $1,460.00

  • THE DARKROOM OF DAMOCLES
    WILLEM FREDERIK HERMANS
    By the acclaimed Dutch author of Beyond Sleep: a thriller set in Nazi occupied Holland: "fast-moving, frighteningly real yet verging on the incredible" (Milan Kundera, author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being).   During the German occupation of Holland, tobacconist Henri Osewoudt is visited by a mysterious man named Dorbeck—a man who bears a strangely striking resemblance to...

    $251.00

  • THE CAUCASUS - AN INTRODUCTION
    FREDERIK COENE
    The Caucasus is one of the most complicated regions in the world: with many different peoples and political units, differing religious allegiances, and frequent conflicts, and where historically major world powers have clashed with each other. Until now there has been no single book for those wishing to learn about this complex region. This book fills the gap, providing a clear...

    $1,560.00

  • PLATINUM POHL
    FREDERIK POHL
    "An essential treasury" of sci-fi short fiction including the story introducing the Heechee aliens of the Hugo, Nebula, and Campbell Award-winning Gateway ( Booklist) . Acclaimed for his novels, Frederik Pohl is also a master of the science fiction short story. Now, for the first time, he has gathered together the best of his many stories in Platinum Pohl. First published in th...

    $200.00

  • CALCULATING THE WEATHER: METEOROLOGY IN THE 20TH CENTURY
    NEBEKER, FREDERIK
    During the course of this century, meteorology has become unified, physics-based, and highly computational. Calculating the Weather: Meteorology in the 20th Century explains this transformation by examining thevarious roles of computation throughout the history of meteorology, giving most attention to the period from World War I to the 1960s. The electronic digital computer, a ...

    $928.00

  • NATIONAL SOCIALIST CULTURAL DIPLOMACY
    FREDERIK FORRAI ØRSKOV
    National Socialist Cultural Diplomacy provides the first comprehensive account of the German-Nordic Writers’ House. From 1934 to 1939, young Scandinavian and Finnish writers spent summers at a seaside villa in Travemünde, mingling with representatives of the “new German literature,” to enjoy beach days, excursions in the Third Reich, and evening discussions on literature, polit...

    $1,240.00

  • THE BOY WHO WOULD LIVE FOREVER
    FREDERIK POHL
    In 1977 Frederik Pohl stunned the science fiction world with the publication of Gateway, one of the most brilliantly entertaining SF novels of all time. More than twenty-five years later, Pohl completed a new novel set in the Gateway universe: The Boy Who Would Live Forever. The Boy Who Would Live Forever has a sense of wonder and excitement that will satisfy those who loved Ga...

    $229.00