The Last Goodbye is an emotional time-travel romance that explores themes of grief and second chances, highlighting the profound connections in soulmate fiction that change the course of our lives.Twenty-year-old Stella Samuelson has always shared an extraordinary connection with Ben Mason-part friendship, part family, and something deeper that neither of them can fully explain. However, when Stella experiences an unimaginable loss, she is left devastated, wondering whether she cou...

This book offers readers an easy introduction into quantum computing as well as into the design for corresponding devices. The authors cover several design tasks which are important for quantum computing and introduce corresponding solutions. A special feature of the book is that those tasks and solutions are explicitly discussed from a design automation perspective, i.e., utilizing clever algorithms and data structures which have been developed by the design automation community for conve...

This book describes automatic methods for the design of droplet microfluidic networks. The authors discuss simulation and design methods which support the design process of droplet microfluidics in general, as well as design methods for a dedicated droplet routing mechanism, namely passive droplet routing. The methods discussed allow for simulating a microfluidic design on a high-abstraction level, which facilitates early validation of whether a design works as intended, automatically dime...

This book describes the current state of the art for simulating paint shop applications, their advantages and limitations, as well as corresponding high-performance computing (HPC) methods utilized in this domain. The authors provide a comprehensive introduction to fluid simulations, corresponding optimization methods from the HPC domain, as well as industrial paint shop applications. They showcase how the complexity of these applications bring corresponding fluid simulation methods to the...

This book discusses modern approaches and challenges of computer-aided design (CAD) of quantum circuits with a view to providing compact representations of quantum functionality. Focusing on the issue of quantum functionality, it presents Quantum Multiple-Valued Decision Diagrams (QMDDs – a means of compactly and efficiently representing and manipulating quantum logic. For future quantum computers, going well beyond the size of present-day prototypes, the manual design of quantum circuits ...

This book discusses the main tasks of Design Automation for Field-coupled Nanocomputing (FCN) technologies, in order to enable large-scale composition of elementary building blocks, that obtain correct systems from given function specifications. To this end, a holistic design flow is described, which covers exact and scalable placement & routing, one-pass logic synthesis, novel clocking mechanisms for data synchronization, and formal verification for obtained circuit layouts. Additionally,...

Sunday Times bestselling author Nora Roberts returns with a brand new standalone novel - a story about the power of love to light a way through the darkness'If you're after the perfect pick-me-up, take-me-away-from-the-world read, then she's your woman'The GuardianWhen he was nine, and his mother had her first deadly dance with cancer, Harry became a thief. Someone had to find food and pay the mortg...

For the last 25 years, a constraints-based framework has helped to inform the way that many sport scientists seek to understand performance, learning design and the development of expertise and talent in sport. The Constraints-Led Approach: Principles for Sports Coaching and Practice Design provides students and practitioners with the theoretical knowledge required to implement constraints-led approaches in their work.Seeking to bridge the divide between theory and practic...

'Told at a ferocious pace in staccato prose, this thriller truly gets the blood racing' Daily Mail on City of WindowsA series of deadly explosions rock the city of New York and with too many victims and no known motive, the F.B.I. turns once again to Dr. Lucas Page.On a beautiful October evening, New York City's iconic Guggenheim Museum is closed for a tech company's private gala. Until an explosion rocks ...

Wryly incisive stories from a major contemporary Croatian voice.Robert Perišić is celebrated for his novels, but his short stories first garnered recognition, establishing him as a vital voice in Croatian literature. Horror and Huge Expenses showcases Perišić's ability to capture a wide range of experiences with humor and sharp insight.From tragic ethnic conflicts to the absurdities of globalism, Perišić fearlessly explores failure and loss, findin...

This book makes the case for a pragmatist approach to the practice of social inquiry and knowledge production. Through diverse examples from multiple disciplines, contributors explore the power of pragmatism to inform a practice of inquiry that is democratic, community-centred, problem-oriented and experimental. Drawing from both classical and neo-pragmatist perspectives, the book advances a pragmatist sensibility in which truth and knowledge are contingent rather than universal, made rath...

The images and characters in Robert Brown's novel The Sleeping Ute will stay with you long after you close the book.The book follows a retired police officer who finds himself starting over on a remote Colorado Indian Reservation and dealing with people and their difficulties at a level never felt before. The backdrop for the tale is a mountain range that resembles an Indian warrior sleeping, The Sleeping Ute.More than a work of fiction, the book explores metaphysical experie...