A true story set on Greece's real 'Mamma Mia' island of Skopelos.Comic and tragic by turns, Aegean Dream is a story of love, resilience, and the power of friendship. A compelling window on the daily life of a small Greek island and the spirit of its people, this book also provides striking insights into the broken institutions that would soon shake the entire global economy.- What's it really like to live on a tiny Greek island?- Why is the Greek economy so messed up...

Six Science Fiction stories that take the reader from the very edge of our own universe to the dizzying depths of parallel worlds and alternate realities. This dazzling collection from noted Panverse anthology editor Dario Ciriello includes both hard and humorous SF, and novelette-length work. Recommended!FREE VERSE: When whole bundles of worldlines—parallel realities—begin to collapse and die, an old linewalker is the only one who can help—if he can conquer his own demons.C...

Compassionate Digital Innovation examines the ethical tensions at the heart of the digital innovations that shape contemporary life, from artificial intelligence and blockchain to social media platforms. Rather than treating harm as an accidental by-product of progress, this book argues that recurring dilemmas are embedded in the structural logics of digital infrastructures.Through a pluralistic conceptual framework, it shows how amplification, personalisation, persistence...

Five Original Novellas of Science Fiction and Fantasy, including Ken Liu's Hugo and Nebula Award nominated story, "The Man Who Ended History".Since the publication of Panverse One in 2009, Panverse Publishing's annual anthology series has received excellent critical reviews in Asimov's, Locus, and other venues. Stories from this series have won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History, received Hugo and Nebula Award nominations, and been included on the Locus magazine and Tangent O...

From H.P. Lovecraft's 1931 classic 'At the Mountains of Madness' to Neil Gaiman's multiple award-winning 'Coraline', the novella, or short novel, is a favorite among readers.PANVERSE ONE is the first in a series of original novella anthologies from Panverse Publishing. The five novellas in this volume showcase some of the strongest writing in the genre by new and established authors.

The author uses decades of experience and interviews with experts in precision medicine to explain past, present, and future of precision medicine. She reviews the full continuum of personalizing precision medicine, including diagnostics, therapeutics, big data, supportive care, regulation, and reimbursement and innovation in precision medicine worldwide.Combines a unique cross section of history, current technologies, and future directions for how precision medicine has and ...

High blood pressure disease is one of the most prevalent pathological conditions in modem society with potentially serious consequences. During the last two decades major progress has been made in the development of rational approaches to the treatment of high blood pressure. A key factor in this progress has been an increase in our understanding of how the brain controls blood pressure. The chapters in the present book, together with those in a previous volume, provide a broad overview of...

We all feel uncomfortable about the role of profit in healthcare, we all have a vague notion that the global $600bn pharmaceutical industry is somehow evil and untrustworthy, but that sense rarely goes beyond a flaky, undifferentiated new age worldview. Bad Pharma puts real flesh on those bones, revealing the rigged evidence used by drug companies. Bad information means bad treatment decisions, which means patients suffer and die: there is no climactic moment of villainy, but drug...

To smooth over five decades of constant clashing, determined daughter Jane Christmas decides to take her arthritic, incontinent, and domineering mother, Valeria, to Italy. Will being at the epicenter of the Renaissance spark a renaissance in their relationship? As they drag each other from the Amalfi Coast to Tuscany - walkers, shawls, and a mobile pharmacy of medications in tow - they find new ways to bitch and bicker, in the process reassessing who they are and how they ...

**How genomics, big data, and digital technology are revolutionizing every aspect of medicine, from physical exams to drug prescriptions to organ transplants“The Creative Destruction of Medicine should be required reading by all physicians and in all medical schools. It is simply that good.” —Forbes**Technology dominates our lives, and personal genomics is revolutionizing biology. But despite the availability of technologies that can provide virtual, perso...