The world is witnessing the rapid evolution of its own nervous system by an unparalleled growth in communication technology. Like the evolution of the nervous systems in animals, this growth is being driven by a survival-of-the-fittest-mechanism. In telecommunications, the entities that fuel this growth are companies and nations who compete with each other. Companies with superior information systems can outrun and outsmart others because they serve their customers better. On the threshold of an explosion in the variety, speed and usefulness of telecommunication networks, neural network...

Choral music preoccupied Walton throughout his life and developed from his experience as a chorister at Christ Church, Oxford. Alongside Belshazzar's Feast, these four larger-scale works for chorus and orchestra stand testimony to his expertise in the field, and include the orchestral version of The Twelve, commissioned with words by W. H. Auden by his former Oxford college in 1965.

Max Hubbard-White is a middle aged and well preserved gay man who has very clear views about society, his country and his sexuality. At forty one, he and his partner Cameron have decided to enter a civil partnership. They tell their close friends and family and spend the summer preparing for the ceremony in the backdrop of reality television coming to their home and Max reflecting on his brief liason with drugs which ended with a gun man entering his home. This novel explores the positive in life and the strength of humanity to conquer prejudice and addiction. As Max and Cameron experience...