In the spring 2003, kids, parents, teachers, librarians—whole communities—discovered and fell in love with Jeanne DuPrau's story about a doomed city, and the two children who found a way out. Nearly 10 years later, that story, The City of Ember, is a bona fide classic, with over 1.7 million copies sold. Now experience Jeanne DuPrau's vision anew as artist Niklas Asker faithfully brings to life the glare of the lamps, the dinginess of the streets, and the brilliance of the first su...

'With equal parts of birch wood and passion, we keep the flames alive. We cook all our ingredients over an open fire. Charcoal and smoke are our most powerful tools. No electric griddle, no gas stove – only natural heat, soot, ash, smoke and fire. We have chosen these ways to prepare our food as a tribute to the ancient way of cooking. At Ekstedt it is the flames that are superior.'Through his bold flavours at the eponymous Michelin-starred restaurant, Niklas Ekste...

Antjie Krog’s career as a poet began with resistance to language and authority. This was more than simply youthful rebellion – it was a desire to free language itself from all constraints. In this, her first book of poetry in eight years, Krog once again disrupts language to create new meaning as she re-engages with her deep attachment to the land of her birth and its complex history. Amongst poems expressing her anger at social injustice, there are poems on the nature of memory and consci...

Experience the flowing soundscape of 'On and On' by Niklas Blumenthaler. Written in 3/4 time and G major, the piece unfolds a gentle melody played with serene calm. The harmonic sounds create an atmosphere of constancy and endless flow, inviting pianists to explore the soothing nuances and gentle energy of this piece of music. Perfect for anyone who appreciates the relaxing effect and expressive power of piano music. Discover these notes and let the serenity of "On and On" carry you away.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Christmas means more to Niklas and Nikita than just a holiday. It is a time of small wonders, familiar traditions, unexpected encounters, and that special warmth that grows when people and animals are there for one another.In “Nikita’s Christmas Tale,” Niklas and his faithful dog share a loving Christmas season filled with snowy paths, festively decorated homes, and ordinary moments that suddenly take on a touch of magic. This is not a sto...

Whittling is more than just a way of busying idle hands - it is a pastime for those who love the texture of wood and a way of life for those who feel a special connection between people and trees.This beautiful and practical guide to the art of whittling offers the perfect antidote to the stresses of modern life and a means of getting back to basics and creating unique items from scratch. Inside you will learn about the ancient art of whittling as one of the earliest forms of artis...

This book investigates the relationships between gestures and artefacts theoretically and historically, by analyzing different phenomena stemming from a variety of fields such as robotics, archaeology, gesture studies, anthropology, philosophy, and gestural practices like choreography, music performance, and composition. It underlines how embodiment and technology change the interplay between maker and artefact over time and appeals to students and researchers in these fields. Its goal is ...

In 2003, Swedish businessman Niklas Zennström sent out an email message to his friends, asking them to take a look at a new Web site called Skype.com. With that message, he launched one of the most popular Internet services of the early twenty-first century. Skype revolutionized the way that people communicated by offering free and low-cost phone calls to anywhere in the world through the Internet. In the years since Zennström sent that e-mail message, more than six hundred million people ...

This book constitutes the 15th edition of the annual Multi-Agent Programming Contest, MAPC 2020.It gives an overview of the competition, describes the current scenario. Furthermore, it summarises this year's participants and their approaches and analyses some of the matches played and the contest as a whole. In the second part, each team contributed a paper describing their approach and experiences with creating a team of agents to participate in the contest.

Niklas Luhmann is now widely recognized as one of the most important social theorists of the twentieth century. While several of his key texts have been translated into English significant parts of Luhmann's extensive output remain unavailable to a non-German-speaking readership. His publication in four volumes on Gesellschaftsstruktur and Semantik (Social Structure and Semantics) 1980, 1981, 1989, 1995) together constitute an important part of his work as they not only r...

Reliable and detailed information about the Earth’s subsurface is of crucial importance throughout the geosciences. Quantitative integration of all available geophysical and geological data helps to make Earth models more robust and reliable. The aim of this book is to summarize and synthesize the growing literature on combining various types of geophysical and other geoscientific data. The approaches that have been developed to date encompass joint inversion, cooperative inversion, and st...

This book aims to show practice approaches at work in the fields of European diplomacy and security broadly conceived. It sets out to provide readers with a hands-on sense of where research on social practices and European diplomacy, security and foreign policy currently stands. The book reviews how practice approaches have evolved in International Relations (IR) and brings together an unique set of contributions which highlights how insights from practice approaches can be applied to adva...