Our all-too-human hero, Ishmael Starbuck, has no idea who he is. So, when a man with a gun disturbs his silent reverie in the Botanical Gardens in Sydney, he decides to make an adventure out of it. He meets Kim Hawthorne and her friend Hymoliga Eight - a Martian plant with the power of travelling through time and space - and he sets off on an adventure around the cosmos. Time travelling into the future and past, the gang are imprisoned and freed; threatened and saved; lost and reunited. They contend with whole systems of government and warmongering robots, but most of all they battle...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization, EMO 2013 held in Sheffield, UK, in March 2013. The 57 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 98 submissions. The papers are grouped in topical sections on plenary talks; new horizons; indicator-based methods; aspects of algorithm design; pareto-based methods; hybrid MCDA; decomposition-based methods; classical MCDA; exploratory problem analysis; product and process applications; aerospace and automotive applications; further...

This title tells the story of the dead man working. It follows the figure of the working man through the daily tedium of the office to the humiliating mandatory team-building exercise, to awkward encounters with the boss who pretends to hate capitalism and tells you to be authentic.

Capitalism is about to commit suicide and is threatening to take us down with it. But will it give way to a grand social utopia or the beginning of a new dark age... albeit WiFi enabled?

THE ULTIMATE SALES BOOK gives you everything you need to succeed in sales and account management. It is a dynamic collection of essential skills covering the topics that will help you make a seismic impact upon your performance - faster than you ever thought possible.