It’s the year 2307. For 250 years, the Great Division has held firm—an impenetrable wall made of frozen light that separates two radically different worlds. In the Kingdom, loved-based emotion is seen as weak and disgusting. Its citizens, transformed by a brain-altering process called PowerTurn, wield sharpened intellect and unbridled ambition, stripped of emotional attachment and unchecked by discipline. On the other side is the PLD, where the Full-Merge process has fused heart and mind i...

The term "Artificial Intelligence" has been around since the 1950s, but a lot has changed since then. Today, AI is referenced in the news, books, movies, and TV shows, and the exact definition is often misinterpreted. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning For Dummies provides a clear introduction to AI and how it’s being used today. Inside, you’ll get a clear overview of the technology, the common misconceptions surrounding it, and a fascinating look at its applications in...

It’s San Francisco, 1928, and Sam Spade is a wisecracking, womanising Private Investigator. Missing husbands and unfaithful wives are his usual stock-in-trade, but when the beautifully distressed Miss Wonderley calls he gets involved in a dangerous caper most people would run a mile from. Miss Wonderley asks Sam’s partner, Miles Archer, to shadow Floyd Thursby, whom she maintains has kidnapped her sister. But then Archer is shot dead, and Miss Wonderley’s story turns out to be a lie – just...

A collection of seven ingenious full-cast thrillers and crime dramas by Rod BeachamActor, dramatist and founding member of Laurence Olivier’s National Theatre, Rod Beacham wrote over 15 plays for BBC Radio. This collection comprises seven crime dramas first broadcast on Radio 4’s ‘Saturday Night Theatre’ strand between 1980 and 1987, ranging in tone from tense whodunnits to light-hearted comedy thrillers.The Inter-City Contract – A...