Three terrifying murders in the South culminate in a relentless manhunt in the North that centers on a ruthless assassin, the woman he loves, and the beloved leader he is hired to kill with extreme prejudice

Today, worldwide effort is being made toward the realization of Integrated Services Digital Networks (ISDN), which are considered as forming an infrastructure for the future information society. In this volume the most advanced teletraffic problems related to ISDN are examined, as are recent advances in basic queueing theories. Practical considerations such as traffic measurements, traffic forecasting, network planning and dynamic routing are also given adequate coverage.

Beautiful Data is both a history of big data and interactivity, and a sophisticated meditation on ideas about vision and cognition in the second half of the twentieth century. Contending that our forms of attention, observation, and truth are contingent and contested, Orit Halpern historicizes the ways that we are trained, and train ourselves, to observe and analyze the world. Tracing the postwar impact of cybernetics and the communication sciences on the social and human sciences, design, arts, and urban planning, she finds a radical shift in attitudes toward recording and displaying information. These changed attitudes produced what she calls communicative objectivity: new forms of observation, rationality, and economy based on the management and analysis of data. Halpern complicates assumptions about the value of data and visualization, arguing that changes in how we manage and train perception, and define reason and intelligence, are also transformations in governmentality. She also challenges the paradoxical belief that we are experiencing a crisis of attention caused by digital media, a crisis that can be resolved only through intensified media consumption.

'A humorous compilation of blogs 'written' by 175 historical figures and celebrities, showing what really went on inside the greatest minds of all time'--Provided by the publisher.