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Chaos is everywhere as the Lord of the Nexus orders his servant Haplo and the human child known as Bane to further their master's work on Arianus, the realm of air. But their one time companion Alfred has been cast into the deadly Labyrinth. And somehow the assassin Hugh the Hand has been resurrected to complete his dark mission. More important, the evil force that Haplo and Alfred discovered on Arianus has escaped. As Haplo's doubts about his master grow deeper, he must decide whether to obey the Lord of the Nexus or betray the powerful Patryn...and endeavor to bring peace to the universe.
From the best-selling author, David Jay Brown comes a spell-binding journey into madness, more hellishly horrifying than your worst nightmares, yet more deliciously satisfying than your wildest dreams, David Jay Brown's science-fantasy thriller promises to completely splatter your brain, and thoroughly melt your mind. Join us for an unprecedented global transformation, as twisted aliens from a distant star system unleash an unstoppable, incurable, hallucinogenic virus onto an unsuspecting, schizophrenic world -- offering its inhabitants a final chance for eternal salvation and everlasting life. All it takes is one little kiss...
Finalist for the Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism From a New York Times investigative reporter, this “authoritative and devastating account of the impacts of social media” (New York Times Book Review) tracks the high-stakes inside story of how Big Tech’s breakneck race to drive engagement—and profits—at all costs fractured the world. The Chaos Machine is “an essential book for our times” (Ezra Klein). We all have a vague sense that social media is bad for our minds, for our children, and for our democracies. But the truth is that its reach and impact run far deeper than we have understood. Building on years of international reporting, Max Fisher tells the gripping and galling inside story of how Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other social network preyed on psychological frailties to create the algorithms that drive everyday users to extreme opinions and, increasingly, extreme actions. As Fisher demonstrates, the companies’ founding tenets, combined with a blinkered focus on maximizing engagement, have led to a destabilized world for everyone. Traversing the planet, Fisher tracks the ubiquity of hate speech and its spillover into violence, ills that first festered in far-off locales, to their dark culmination in America during the pandemic, the 2020 election, and the Capitol Insurrection. Through it all, the social-media giants refused to intervene in any meaningful way, claiming to champion free speech when in fact what they most prized were limitless profits. The result, as Fisher shows, is a cultural shift toward a world in which people are polarized not by beliefs based on facts, but by misinformation, outrage, and fear. His narrative is about more than the villains, however. Fisher also weaves together the stories of the heroic outsiders and Silicon Valley defectors who raised the alarm and revealed what was happening behind the closed doors of Big Tech. Both panoramic and intimate, The Chaos Machine is the definitive account of the meteoric rise and troubled legacy of the tech titans, as well as a rousing and hopeful call to arrest the havoc wreaked on our minds and our world before it’s too late.
Following the event of Dark Guardian, Ethan has fully embraced his alter ego of The Guardian. A symbol of hope, he has battled crime and corruption for over two years. But now he must fight the darkness that threatens to destroy everything he holds dear.
Ancient and medieval labyrinths embody paradox, according to Penelope Reed Doob. Their structure allows a double perspective—the baffling, fragmented prospect confronting the maze-treader within, and the comprehensive vision available to those without. Mazes simultaneously assert order and chaos, artistry and confusion, articulated clarity and bewildering complexity, perfected pattern and hesitant process. In this handsomely illustrated book, Doob reconstructs from a variety of literary and visual sources the idea of the labyrinth from the classical period through the Middle Ages. Doob first examines several complementary traditions of the maze topos, showing how ancient historical and geographical writings generate metaphors in which the labyrinth signifies admirable complexity, while poetic texts tend to suggest that the labyrinth is a sign of moral duplicity. She then describes two common models of the labyrinth and explores their formal implications: the unicursal model, with no false turnings, found almost universally in the visual arts; and the multicursal model, with blind alleys and dead ends, characteristic of literary texts. This paradigmatic clash between the labyrinths of art and of literature becomes a key to the metaphorical potential of the maze, as Doob's examination of a vast array of materials from the classical period through the Middle Ages suggests. She concludes with linked readings of four "labyrinths of words": Virgil's Aeneid, Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy, Dante's Divine Comedy, and Chaucer's House of Fame, each of which plays with and transforms received ideas of the labyrinth as well as reflecting and responding to aspects of the texts that influenced it. Doob not only provides fresh theoretical and historical perspectives on the labyrinth tradition, but also portrays a complex medieval aesthetic that helps us to approach structurally elaborate early works. Readers in such fields as Classical literature, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, comparative literature, literary theory, art history, and intellectual history will welcome this wide-ranging and illuminating book.
In literature, labyrinths can represent many things: complication and difficulty, interconnectedness, creativity, and even literature itself. This new title discusses the role of the labyrinth in “The Garden of Forking Paths,” Great Expectations, Ulysses, and many others. The Labyrinth unravels this theme for literature students through 19 critical essays.
Ancient and medieval labyrinths embody paradox, according to Penelope Reed Doob. Their structure allows a double perspective—the baffling, fragmented prospect confronting the maze-treader within, and the comprehensive vision available to those without. Mazes simultaneously assert order and chaos, artistry and confusion, articulated clarity and bewildering complexity, perfected pattern and hesitant process. In this handsomely illustrated book, Doob reconstructs from a variety of literary and visual sources the idea of the labyrinth from the classical period through the Middle Ages. Doob first examines several complementary traditions of the maze topos, showing how ancient historical and geographical writings generate metaphors in which the labyrinth signifies admirable complexity, while poetic texts tend to suggest that the labyrinth is a sign of moral duplicity. She then describes two common models of the labyrinth and explores their formal implications: the unicursal model, with no false turnings, found almost universally in the visual arts; and the multicursal model, with blind alleys and dead ends, characteristic of literary texts. This paradigmatic clash between the labyrinths of art and of literature becomes a key to the metaphorical potential of the maze, as Doob's examination of a vast array of materials from the classical period through the Middle Ages suggests. She concludes with linked readings of four "labyrinths of words": Virgil's Aeneid, Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy, Dante's Divine Comedy, and Chaucer's House of Fame, each of which plays with and transforms received ideas of the labyrinth as well as reflecting and responding to aspects of the texts that influenced it. Doob not only provides fresh theoretical and historical perspectives on the labyrinth tradition, but also portrays a complex medieval aesthetic that helps us to approach structurally elaborate early works. Readers in such fields as Classical literature, Medieval Studies, Renaissance Studies, comparative literature, literary theory, art history, and intellectual history will welcome this wide-ranging and illuminating book.
1. Fundamentals. 1.1. Dynamical systems. 1.2. State space. 1.3. Dissipation. 1.4. Limit cycles. 1.5. Chaos and strange attractors. 1.6. Poincaré sections and fractals. 1.7. Conservative chaos. 1.8. Two-toruses and quasiperiodicity. 1.9. Largest Lyapunov exponent. 1.10. Lyapunov exponent spectrum. 1.11. Attractor dimension. 1.12. Chaotic transients. 1.13. Intermittency. 1.14. Basins of attraction. 1.15. Numerical methods. 1.16. Elegance -- 2. Periodically forced systems. 2.1. Van der Pol oscillator. 2.2. Rayleigh oscillator. 2.3. Rayleigh oscillator variant. 2.4. Duffing oscillator. 2.5. Quadratic oscillators. 2.6. Piecewise-linear oscillators. 2.7. Signum oscillators. 2.8. Exponential oscillators. 2.9. Other undamped oscillators. 2.10. Velocity forced oscillators. 2.11. Parametric oscillators. 2.12. Complex oscillators -- 3. Autonomous dissipative systems. 3.1. Lorenz system. 3.2. Diffusionless Lorenz system. 3.3. Rs̈sler system. 3.4. Other quadratic systems. 3.5. Jerk systems. 3.6. Circulant systems. 3.7. Other systems -- 4. Autonomous Conservative Systems. 4.1. Nosé-Hoover oscillator. 4.2. Nosé-Hoover variants. 4.3. Jerk systems. 4.4. Circulant systems -- 5. Low-dimension systems (D3). 5.1. Dixon system. 5.2. Dixon variants. 5.3. Logarithmic case. 5.4. Other cases -- 6. High-dimensional systems (D3). 6.1. Periodically forced systems. 6.2. Master-slave oscillators. 6.3. Mutually coupled nonlinear oscillators. 6.4. Hamiltonian systems. 6.5. Anti-Newtonian systems. 6.6. Hyperjerk systems. 6.7. Hyperchaotic systems. 6.8. Autonomous complex systems. 6.9. Lotka-Volterra systems. 6.10. Artificial neural networks -- 7. Circulant systems. 7.1. Lorenz-Emanuel system. 7.2. Lotka-Volterra systems. 7.3. Antisymmetric quadratic system. 7.4. Quadratic ring system. 7.5. Cubic ring system. 7.6. Hyperlabyrinth system. 7.7. Circulant neural networks. 7.8. Hyperviscous ring. 7.9. Rings of oscillators. 7.10. Star systems -- 8. Spatiotemporal systems. 8.1. Numerical methods. 8.2. Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation. 8.3. Kuramoto-Sivashinsky variants. 8.4. Chaotic traveling waves. 8.5. Continuum ring systems. 8.6. Traveling wave variants -- 9. Time-delay systems. 9.1. Delay differential equations. 9.2. Mackey-Glass equation. 9.3. Ikeda DDE. 9.4. Sinusoidal DDE. 9.5. Polynomial DDE. 9.6. Sigmoidal DDE. 9.7. Signum DDE. 9.8. Piecewise-linear DDEs. 9.9. Asymmetric logistic DDE with continuous delay -- 10. Chaotic electrical circuits. 10.1. Circuit elegance. 10.2. Forced relaxation oscillator. 10.3. Autonomous relaxation oscillator. 10.4. Coupled relaxation oscillators. 10.5. Forced diode resonator. 10.6. Saturating inductor circuit. 10.7. Forced piecewise-linear circuit. 10.8. Chua's circuit. 10.9. Nishio's circuit. 10.10. Wien-bridge oscillator. 10.11. Jerk circuits. 10.12. Master-slave oscillator. 10.13. Ring of oscillators. 10.14. Delay-line oscillator
This heavily illustrated book collects in one source most of the mathematically simple systems of differential equations whose solutions are chaotic. It includes the historically important systems of van der Pol, Duffing, Ueda, Lorenz, Rössler, and many others, but it goes on to show that there are many other systems that are simpler and more elegant. Many of these systems have been only recently discovered and are not widely known. Most cases include plots of the attractor and calculations of the spectra of Lyapunov exponents. Some important cases include graphs showing the route to chaos. The book includes many cases not previously published as well as examples of simple electronic circuits that exhibit chaos.No existing book thus far focuses on mathematically elegant chaotic systems. This book should therefore be of interest to chaos researchers looking for simple systems to use in their studies, to instructors who want examples to teach and motivate students, and to students doing independent study.
The Labyrinth is a unique vision of a dystopian future from one of the most sought-after visual storytellers in the world. A world covered by ruins and ash, the remnants of an otherworldly phenomenon that has ravaged the earth’s atmosphere and forced the few survivors deep underground. Matt, Sigrid and Charlie leave the safe harbour of the enclave for an expedition onto the wastelands of the surface world. During their journey they are forced to confront dark secrets from the time before civilization’s fall. Simon Stålenhagis the internationally acclaimed author and artist behind Tales From the Loop, Things From the Flood and The Electric State. He is world-renowned for his highly imaginative images and stories depicting illusive sci-fi phenomena in mundane, hyper-realistic Scandinavian landscapes. Perfect for fans of everything from Stranger Things to Jurassic Park to Westworld. PRAISE for SIMON STALENHAG 'Tales has the magic. It's got the robots, the weirdness, the dinosaurs. But most of all, it has the wonder. No one who picks this book up will be the same person when they put it down again' NPR on Tales from the Loop 'No words to describe this novel in pictures. Stahlenhag defined a whole new aesthetic for scifi in the 21st century' Damien Walter on The Electric State 'A chilling, unforgettable visual and narrative experience' Locus on The Electric State Stalenhag's 'stories crawl into my brain and mess with my memory of history, time and place' NPR on The Electric State