Stupefying Stories emerges from hibernation with a great new lineup of science fiction and fantasy stories Featuring: 50 FOOT ROMANCE, by Eric J. Juneau CITY OF OPPORTUNITY, by Janis Zelcans THE ALIENS WENT DOWN TO GEORGIA, by Peter Wood THIRTY NINE, by Shedrick Pittman-Hassett RIGEL'S MISSING TAIL, by Antha Ann Adkins THE BONE POINTER, by Chuck Robertson GODS ON A HILL, by G. J. Brown THE ANNIVERSARY GIFT, by Gary Cuba MASTERS, by Jason Lairamore WATER PRESSURE, by Anna Yeatts EMISSARY, by Matthew Lavin THE GHOSTLESS MACHINE, by Austin Hackney Always fun and exciting, never predictable,...

Consultancy and Innovation links two important aspects of European economic development in the past thirty years: the pace of technical and management innovation, and the growing significance of technical and business consultancy. This book includes detailed studies of consultancy activities or 'knowledge intensive services' (KIS) in eight EU countries, written by national experts in the field.

When Calen encounters a baby dolphin with special abilities life on a great space habitat in the Asteroid Belt changes forever. He and his friends become involved with Artificial Intelligences in a conflict over domination of the Solar System.

This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 31st British International Conference on Databases, BICOD 2017 - formerly known as BNCOD (British National Conference on Databases) - held in London, UK, in July 2017.
The 17 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics such as data cleansing, data integration, data wrangling, data mining and knowledge discovery, graph data and knowledge graphs, intelligent data analysis, approximate and flexible querying, data provenance and ontology-based data...