Bill Willingham

Matthew Sturges

Luca Rossi

Meet the five lost souls who unwillingly make the House of mystery their home.

Room and Boredom

Matthew Sturges, writer of the Eisner-nominated JACK OF FABLES, and his JACK co-writer Bill Willingham, the creator of FABLES, proudly unlock the doors to the HOUSE OF MYSTERY, a new graphic novel series that reinvents the classic DC Comics concept. It focuses on five characters trapped in a supernatural bar, trying to solve the mystery of how and why they're imprisoned there. Each one has a terrible past they'd like to forget, and with no books, newspapers or TV allowed in the House, they face an eternity of boredom. But stories become the new currency, and fortunately, the House attracts only the finest storytellers.

House of Mystery Vol. 2: Love Stories for Dead People

Written by MATTHEW STURGES Art by LUCA ROSSI, WERTHER DELL'EDERA, PHIL NOTO, ESAO ANDREWS, MARLEY ZARCONE, CARINE BRANCOWITZ, CRISTIANO CUCINA, BRENDAN MCCARTHY and JOSE MARZAN JR. Cover by ESAO ANDREWS In this volume featuring issues #26-31 of the acclaimed series, witches and goblins abound as Fig and The Witch Queen run from the Thinking Man's robot army that is fighting for control of the Summerlands.

Safe as Houses

House of Mystery

José Marzán

Werther Dell'Edera

As Fig's friends struggle to start new lives outside of the House, and as her father, brother, and lover search for her in world after world, Fig will learn the shocking truth about the Conception. Who they are, how thay came to be, what they want, and what will happen to all of reality if she can't stop them from getting it.

House of Mystery Vol. 7: Conception

Andrea Pakieser

The artificial intelligences of DataCom are trying to save the planet... by exterminating the human race.Aurelia finds her perfect man: a robot.The space explorer Captain Arcot sacrifices his life for an impossible conquest, the heart of Vril the vampire queen.A shape-shifting mutant ignites the erotic desires of the galactic police officer who's been tracking her down.Alessio fights against corruption in a universe of his own creation.An innocent man is forced to submit to the domination of a ruthless prison director.A king who's forgotten his own past wanders through a magical dimension where he discovers his own history.Two souls separated after one abandons the other meet again in another life.In an exciting virtual reality game, the hunter of the fearsome black widow becomes her prey.Ranked #1 in WIRED's Self Published BooksA Highly Rated Read Voted To The Following Positions on Goodreads:#1 in Great Fun Science Fiction & Fantasy#1 in Parallel Universes#1 in Greatest horror/fantasy books ever!#1 in Favorite Fantasy Books#1 in Indie Novellas, Novelettes, and Short Stories#1 in Indie/Self-Published Books#1 in Anthologies you just HAVE TO READ#1 in Best Genuinely Unusual Fiction#2 in Books that most influenced you#3 in Amazing Paranormal Books#7 in Best Indie Fantasy Books#7 in Awsome Action#7 in Best AnthologiesThis book contains explicit scenes of sexual nature.

Galactic Energies

Galactic Energies - Limited Edition

The population of the island of Turios is mercilessly exterminated by the workings of black magic. Only Bashinoir, badly wounded, his wife Lil, and the Priestess Miril have survived. Determined to give their loved ones a worthy burial, the three soon discover that the corpses have disappeared. Their only hope for salvation now lies in the magical protection of the Temple, as sinister threats continue to pursue them. A shadow spreads over their hearts, dividing and destroying them, as their bodies appear to be fading away. Feeling increasingly isolated, Bashinoir watches as the two women grow closer... In the Kingdom of Isk, wizards and wisemen alike must bow down before the insatiable King Beanor, whose greed for power and war is matched only by his hunger for sex. A young woman he has chosen as his next bride does not, however, wish to surrender her freedom to love and live. Will games and tricks under the sheets turn the tide in a war that has lasted thousands of years?

The Branches of Time

Marcello Pelillo

Andrea Torsello

Battista Biggio

Antonio Robles-Kelly

This book constitutes the proceedings of the Joint IAPR International Workshop on Structural, Syntactic, and Statistical Pattern Recognition, S+SSPR 2020, held in Padua, Italy, in January 2021. The 35 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 81 submissions. The accepted papers cover the major topics of current interest in pattern recognition, including classification and clustering, deep learning, structural matching and graph-theoretic methods, and multimedia analysis and understanding.

Joint IAPR International Workshops, S+SSPR 2020, Padua, Italy, January 21–22, 2021, Proceedings

Structural, Syntactic, and Statistical Pattern Recognition

SYSTEMFEHLER: ein gefährliches Programm versteckt sich in einem regulären Sicherheitsupdate. Es attackiert in der Schweiz und in ganz Europa die Computer-Netzwerke und bringt Banken und Großkonzerne in ernsthafte Bedrängnis. Niemand weiß genau, wer sich hinter diesem Angriff verbirgt und ob noch schlimmere Attacken folgen werden.

Systemfehler

Alessandro Vespignani

Ana Pastore y Piontti

Nicola Perra

Nicole Samay

This book provides an introduction to the computational and complex systems modeling of the global spreading of infectious diseases. The latest developments in the area of contagion processes modeling are discussed, and readers are exposed to real world examples of data-model integration impacting the decision-making process. Recent advances in computational science and the increasing availability of real-world data are making it possible to develop realistic scenarios and real-time forecasts of the global spreading of emerging health threats. The first part of the book guides the reader through sophisticated complex systems modeling techniques with a non-technical and visual approach, explaining and illustrating the construction of the modern framework used to project the spread of pandemics and epidemics. Models can be used to transform data to knowledge that is intuitively communicated by powerful infographics and for this reason, the second part of the book focuses on a set of charts that illustrate possible scenarios of future pandemics. The visual atlas contained allows the reader to identify commonalities and patterns in emerging health threats, as well as explore the wide range of models and data that can be used by policy makers to anticipate trends, evaluate risks and eventually manage future events. Charting the Next Pandemic puts the reader in the position to explore different pandemic scenarios and to understand the potential impact of available containment and prevention strategies. This book emphasizes the importance of a global perspective in the assessment of emerging health threats and captures the possible evolution of the next pandemic, while at the same time providing the intelligence needed to fight it. The text will appeal to a wide range of audiences with diverse technical backgrounds.

Modeling Infectious Disease Spreading in the Data Science Age

Charting the Next Pandemic

Marie Sandberg

Vasilis Galis

Martin Bak Jørgensen

This Open Access book investigates the methodological and ethical dilemmas involved when working with digital technologies and large-scale datasets in relation to ethnographic studies of digital migration practices and trajectories. Digital technologies reshape not only every phase of the migration process itself (by providing new ways to access, to share and preserve relevant information) but also the activities of other actors, from solidarity networks to border control agencies. In doing so, digital technologies create a whole new set of ethical and methodological challenges for migration studies: from data access to data interpretation, privacy protection, and research ethics more generally. Of specific concern are the aspects of digital migration researchers accessing digital platforms used by migrants, who are subject to precarious and insecure life circumstances, lack recognised papers and are in danger of being rejected and deported. Thus, the authors call for new modes of caring for (big) data when researching migrants’ digital practices in the configuration of migration and borders. Besides taking proper care of research participants’ privacy, autonomy, and security, this also spans carefully establishing analytically sustainable environments for the respective data sets. In doing so, the book argues that it is essential to carefully reflect on researchers’ own positioning as being part of the challenge they seek to address.

Caring For (Big) Data?

Research Methodologies and Ethical Challenges in Digital Migration Studies

Mark E. Dickison

Matteo Magnani

This book unifies and consolidates methods for analyzing multilayer networks arising from the social and physical sciences and computing.

Multilayer Social Networks

Una pioggia di schegge stermina il popolo dell'isola di Turios. Si salvano Bashinoir, gravemente ferito, sua moglie Lil e la sacerdotessa Miril. Vorrebbero dare degna sepoltura ai propri cari, ma i cadaveri sono scomparsi. L'unica speranza di salvezza risiede nelle protezioni magiche del Tempio. Tuttavia devono far fronte a minacce oscure. Un'ombra infesta i loro cuori per dividerli e distruggerli. I loro corpi sembrano perdere sempre più consistenza. Alla vicinanza tra le due donne si contrappone il sempre più marcato isolamento di Bashinoir.Nel regno di Isk, maghi e consiglieri devono sottostare all'insaziabile ingordigia di sesso, guerra e potere di re Beanor. L'ultima delle sue giovani mogli, tuttavia, non si dà pace per la libertà e l'amore perduti. Potranno i giochi e gli inganni sotto le lenzuola essere la chiave di svolta di una guerra millenaria?

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