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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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 ...

Christie Ridgway invites you to a special place of sun, sand and romance in her new series, Beach House No. 9. Enjoy this prequel novella and meet the people of Crescent Cove…Two miles of magic. That's how Meg Alexander remembers her childhood home of Crescent Cove on the California coast. But Meg doesn't believe in magic anymore–not since heartbreak made her leave at nineteen and kept her away for ten years.Yet Meg can't say no when her sister asks her to ...

Unnatural Creatures is a collection of short stories about the fantastical things that exist only in our minds—collected and introduced by beloved New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman.The sixteen stories gathered by Gaiman, winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards, range from the whimsical to the terrifying. Magical creatures from the werewolf, to the sunbird, to beings never before classified will thrill, delight, and quite possibly unnerve ...

From the author of the sensational bestseller I Was Told There'd Be Cake comes a new book of personal essays brimming with all the charm and wit that have earned Sloane Crosley widespread acclaim, award nominations, and an ever-growing cadre of loyal fans. In Cake readers were introduced to the foibles of Crosley's life in New York City-always teetering between the glamour of Manhattan parties, the indignity of entry-level work, and the special joy of suburban nostalgia-a...