Tells the behind-the-scenes story of the ill-fated merger of Tribune Media Company with the Times Mirror Company - and through it, the story of the people and business decisions behind the epic collapse of American journalism.

"Kant's Critique of Pure Reason" remains one of the landmark works of Western philosophy. Most philosophy students encounter it at some point in their studies but at nearly 700 pages of detailed and complex argument it is also a demanding and intimidating read. James O'Shea's short introduction to "CPR" aims to make it less so. Aimed at students coming to the book for the first time, it provides step by step analysis in clear, unambiguous prose. The conceptual problems Kant sought to resolve are outlined, and his conclusions concerning the nature of the faculty of human knowledge and...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th KES International Conference on Agent and Multi-Agent Systems, KES-AMSTA 2011, held in Manchester, UK, in June/July 2011. The 69 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. In addition the volume contains one abstract and one full paper length keynote speech. The papers are organized in topical sections on conversational agents, dialogue systems and text processing; agents and online social networks; robotics and manufacturing; agent optimisation; negotiation and security; multi-agent...

Tom Radcliff, an introverted C++ programmer from a sleepy suburb in Silicon Valley, was just dumped by his backpacker type girlfriend who 'd arranged a trip for him after the breakup, to Cambodia. Because Tom was such an avid video gamer, the socially inept programmer brought his video game consoles along with him on vacation, which arose suspicions going through Japanese customs. Without knowing it, the absent minded computer programmer was now on an international terrorists' watch list and being followed by several intelligence agents from several different countries, all trying to figure...