Simon Williams

Killer Dutch

The Endless Shore is the third book in the Aona series of dark fantasy novels by Simon Williams. The marandaal spread throughout Aphenhast and in the bitterly divided land of Harn, a small group of men and women seek to bring the unity without which the entire world will perish. Meanwhile, the wielders of the Old Powers struggle to control and deal with their potent talents.

The Endless Shore

For thousands of years they have sought the world from which they were cast out. Now, at last, Aona has been found. The younger races of this world will all be swept up in a struggle for survival, as their ancient, malevolent masters, guardians of all Aona's secrets, rise to do battle with their foes, remorseless destroyers of world after world throughout the known Existence.

Oblivion's Forge

A Gate has opened; the marandaal have reached out into Aona, and the great powers of the world awaken. Caught between the destroying light of the marandaal and the malign influence of the choragh, ancient masters of Aona, are the men and women who will shape the destiny of this world; wielders of the Old Powers, and their protectors. Secret Roads continues the chronicle of malevolent forces and violent upheaval that began with Oblivion's Forge.

Secret Roads

As the marandaal draw ever closer to Harn, Inerdyr is intent on crushing the renegade Watchers and mercenaries who have banded together in the name of a unified resistance to the starspawn. In Luudhoq, the Seven fight and plot as cracks appear in their ancient empire. Ilumor prepares to lead the defence of Mirkwall against the marandaal, but an unexpected fate awaits him. And those few who walk the Green Road find that something terrible lurks within the very heart of the world...

The Spiral Heart

The known Existence is likely dead and dark, every world turned cold and lifeless by the remorseless marandaal. Only Aona remains; a precious world that represents the only light and hope left. Yet Aona is dying, and the disease spreads not only from out of the Gates, fathomless portals linking the physical world to the void, but also from Aona's true heart, the mysterious Green Road. Now the final battle will be fought, a monumental struggle for life itself.

Salvation's Door

Few major artists have aroused the ire and adulation of successive generations as persistently as Richard Wagner. He was the centre of controversy during his lifetime and yet, when he died, he was the most idolized man in Germany. The situation has not changed much since then. Simon Williams explores the reasons for this adulation and antipathy by examining an aspect that may be a fundamental cause for this radical division in the reception of Wagner's work, the phenomenon of heroism. Williams analyses this heroism as a function of Wagner's theatre and music, beginning with a definition and examination of the concept of the heroic. The book also discusses all thirteen stage works by Wagner and the phenomenon of heroism and Wagner's adaptation of the figure of the Romantic hero. Williams offers a theatrical, musical, and cultural re-evaluation of one of the most enduring figures in the arts.

Wagner and the Romantic Hero

If everyone in the class had been asked by their teacher to vote on who else in the class they thought would turn out to be a truly extraordinary human being, Joe would probably not have received any votes. But Joe- and his best friend Amber- are both about to be drawn into a series of incredible events and discover hidden truths not only about themselves but about the world itself. Their lives will never be the same again...

Summer's Dark Waters

Richard Palliser

Are you bored with playing it safe in the opening? Had enough of developing your pieces sensibly, aiming to control the centre and getting your king castled? Do you yearn to tear the opposition apart in the style of the great 19th century masters? Then Grandmaster Gambits 1 e4 is the book for you! The highly successful writing duo of Richard Palliser and Simon (GingerGM) Williams have teamed up again to create a repertoire based on jettisoning a pawn (and often a whole lot more) very early on. Whatever opening your opponent favours against 1 e4, the authors have a dynamic gambiteering counter which will throw them onto their own resources. The Sicilian Defence? Attack it with the Wing Gambit. 1...e5? Tear Black apart with the Max Lange Attack. The French? Suffocate Black with the Advance Variation including Magnus Carlsen’s souped-up version of the Milner-Barry Gambit. The Caro-Kann? Play the Hillbilly Attack with 2 Bc4! Your opponent might laugh but they won’t be laughing when you crash through on f7. Forget about playing “properly” in the opening. Open 1 e4, play the Grandmaster Gambits and rip your unprepared opponents apart!

Grandmaster Gambits: 1 e4

Marco Scarpa

Hani J. Marcus

Computational power has risen exponentially in recent decades, providing new opportunities in many fields, including that of surgical oncology. One branch of information technology permeating many aspects of healthcare is artificial intelligence (AI), and the incorporation of deep learning neural networks into clinical care. AI enables the computational analysis of vast amounts of data, and the learned ability to contextualize this information digitally through sophisticated algorithms, opening a number of opportunities in the clinical setting. This Research Topic aims to bring together the latest research in the field to demonstrate how these tools can be of benefit to surgical oncologists and patients alike. Oncological surgeons are tasked with making difficult clinical decisions, simultaneously weighing up patient data with expected outcomes, whilst keeping in mind the risks of subsequent morbidity and mortality. Incorporating deep learning algorithms in this field would enable mass clinical, biochemical, and radiological data analysis with numerous potential benefits. Current algorithms have been shown to be efficacious and efficient in making prognostic predictions and making post-surgical outcome assessments using data from various sources. This Research Topic invites manuscript submissions which demonstrate utilizations of AI as a tool to support surgical oncologists through their advanced data analysis capabilities. Manuscript submissions which showcase new opportunities for the incorporation of these systems into surgical practice are welcome, as well as how AI can support clinical decision making, and be used in the training of new oncological surgeons.

Investigations into the Potential Benefits of Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning to Surgical Oncologists

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle "Mr Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound " The terrible spectacle of the beast, the fog of the moor, the discovery of a body: this classic horror story pits detective against dog, rationalism against the supernatural, good against evil. When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead on the wild Devon moorland with the footprints of a giant hound nearby, the blame is placed on a family curse. It is left to Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson to solve the mystery of the legend of the phantom hound before Sir Charles' heir comes to an equally gruesome end. The Hound of the Baskervilles gripped readers when it was first serialised and has continued to hold its place in the popular imagination. The Penguin English Library - 100 editions of the best fiction in English, from the eighteenth century and the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War.

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Based on case histories from nine Third World countries, this study examines the successful cooperation between private agribusiness firms and small farmers to increase agricultural production and income in developing countries. In such ventures, small farmers are organized around a core private company that buys their output and provides manageria

A Dynamic Partnership For Development

Agribusiness And The Small-scale Farmer

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The Colle-Koltanowski System

The emotions have traditionally been marginalized in mainstream social theory. This book demonstrates the problems that this has caused and charts the resurgence of emotions in social theory today. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, both classical and contemporary, Simon Williams treats the emotions as a universal feature of human life and our embodied relationship to the world. He reflects and comments upon the turn towards the body and intimacy in social theory, and explains what is important in current thinking about emotions. In his doing so, readers are provided with a critical assessment of various positions within the field, including the strengths and weaknesses of poststructuralism and postmodernism for examining the emotions in social life.

Corporeal Reflections on the (Ir) Rational

Emotion and Social Theory

'Hilarious, heart-wrenching and packed with British music history.' - COLDPLAY It's a life-and-near-death story. But whose life? And whose near-death? As a one-time NME journalist, former Xfm radio presenter, toilet-circuit promoter and the founder of enduring homespun British record label Fierce Panda, Simon Williams has been at the cutting, cutting, cutting edge of all things 'indie' for over thirty years. During his tenure as managing director of Fierce Panda (a role he holds to this day), Simon was responsible for tripping over bands such as Coldplay, Keane, Placebo and countless other acts of independent hue - some of whom have gone on to achieve earth-shattering musical superstardom, while others have merely baffled the crowd at the Bull & Gate in north London on a wet Wednesday evening. Unfiltered and unflinching, Pandamonium! is the story of Simon's time at the indie coalface, filled with insider anecdotes to entertain music enthusiasts everywhere - from the origins of a bootlegged Oasis release to Chris Martin's delight at reaching number ninety-two in the charts. But it is also the story of how Simon tried to bring a premature end to proceedings, documenting in blunt, matter-of-fact detail his longstanding mental-health struggles. Yet, despite his raw and often poignant honesty, Simon writes with the warmth, wit, self-deprecation and wide-eyed good fortune of someone who has stared into the abyss and survived, bounding down a few indie rabbit holes along the way.

How (Not) to Run a Record Label

Pandamonium!

Michael Hamburger

Maik Hamburger

Wilhelm Hortmann

Shakespeare has been a central figure in German literature and theatre. This book tells the story of Shakespeare in the German-speaking theatre against the background of German culture and politics in the twentieth century. It follows the earlier volume by Simon Williams on the reception of Shakespeare during the previous 300 years (Shakespeare on the German Stage, 1586-1914). Hortmann concentrates on the two most important and fruitful periods: the years of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933) and the turbulent decades of the sixties and seventies, when the German theatre was revitalised by a stormy marriage of avant-garde art and revolutionary politics. A section by Maik Hamburger covers developments in the theatres of the German Democratic Republic. Hortmann focuses on the most representative and colourful directors and actors, describing and illustrating individual productions as examples of particular trends or movements.

Shakespeare on the German Stage: Volume 2, The Twentieth Century

The emotions have traditionally been marginalized in mainstream social theory. This book demonstrates the problems that this has caused and charts the resurgence of emotions in social theory today. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, both classical and contemporary, Simon Williams treats the emotions as a universal feature of human life and our embodied relationship to the world. He reflects and comments upon the turn towards the body and intimacy in social theory, and explains what is important in current thinking about emotions. In his doing so, readers are provided with a critical assessment of various positions within the field, including the strengths and weaknesses of poststructuralism and postmodernism for examinin

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