A chilling novel that pays twisted homage to Defoe's Robinson Crusoe' Newly reissued with an introduction from Neil Gaiman Robert Maitland a 35 year-old architect is driving home from his London offices when a blow-out sends his speeding Jaguar hurtling out of control Smashing through a temporary barrier he finds himself dazed & disorientated on a traffic island below three converging motorways But when he tries to climb the embankment or flag-down a passing car for help it proves impossible
- & he finds himself imprisoned on the concrete island Maitland must survive using only what he can find in his crashed car As in all Ballard's best work Concrete Island' provides an unnerving study of our modern lives & world With his alienating Ballardian' view of normal events this is a unique novel from one of the twentieth century's finest writers This edition is part of a new commemorative series of Ballard's works featuring introductions from a number of his admirers (including Zadie Smith Adam Philips Adam Thirlwell & Robert Macfarlane) & br&-new cover designs from the artist Stanley Donwood
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If you're one of the many developers uncertain about concurrent & multithreaded development this practical cookbook will change your mind With more than 75 code-rich recipes author Stephen Cleary demonstrates parallel processing & asynchronous programming techniques using libraries & language features in NET 45 & C 50 Concurrency is becoming more common in responsive & scalable application development but it's been extremely difficult to code The detailed solutions in this cookbook show you how modern tools raise the level of abstraction making concurrency much easier than before Complete with ready-to-use code & discussions about how & why the solution works you get recipes for using async & await for asynchronous operations Parallel programming with the Task Parallel Library The TPL Dataflow library for creating dataflow pipelines Capabilities that Reactive Extensions build on top of LINQ Unit testing with concurrent code Interop scenarios for combining concurrent approaches Immutable threadsafe & producerconsumer collections Cancellation support in your concurrent code Asynchronous-friendly Object-Oriented Programming Thread synchronization for accessing data ...

Concurrency can be notoriously difficult to get right but fortunately the Go open source programming language makes working with concurrency tractable & even easy If you're a developer familiar with Go this practical book demonstrates best practices & patterns to help you incorporate concurrency into your systems Author Katherine Cox-Buday takes you step-by-step through the process You'll understand how Go chooses to model concurrency what issues arise from this model & how you can compose primitives within this model to solve problems Learn the skills & tooling you need to confidently write & implement concurrent systems of any size Understand how Go addresses fundamental problems that make concurrency difficult to do correctly Learn the key differences between concurrency & parallelism Dig into the syntax of Go's memory synchronization primitives Form patterns with these primitives to write maintainable concurrent code Compose patterns into a series of practices that enable you to write large distributed systems that scale Learn the sophistication behind goroutines & how Go's runtime stitches everything together ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Will Smith stars in Concussion a dramatic thriller based on the incredible true David vs Goliath story of American immigrant Dr Bennet Omalu the brilliant forensic neuropathologist who made the first discovery of CTE a football-related brain trauma in a pro player & fought for the truth to be known Omalu’s emotional quest puts him at dangerous odds with one of the most powerful – & beloved – institutions in the world With captivating performances by Alec Baldwin & Academy Award nominee Albert Brooks (1987 Best Supporting Actor Broadcast News) ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Will Smith stars in Concussion a dramatic thriller based on the incredible true David vs Goliath story of American immigrant Dr Bennet Omalu the brilliant forensic neuropathologist who made the first discovery of CTE a football-related brain trauma in a pro player & fought for the truth to be known Omalu’s emotional quest puts him at dangerous odds with one of the most powerful – & beloved – institutions in the world With captivating performances by Alec Baldwin & Academy Award nominee Albert Brooks (1987 Best Supporting Actor Broadcast News) ...

Will Smith stars in Concussion a dramatic thriller based on the incredible true David vs Goliath story of American immigrant Dr Bennet Omalu the brilliant forensic neuropathologist who made the first discovery of CTE a football-related brain trauma in a pro player & fought for the truth to be known Omalu’s emotional quest puts him at dangerous odds with one of the most powerful – & beloved – institutions in the world With captivating performances by Alec Baldwin & Academy Award nominee Albert Brooks (1987 Best Supporting Actor Broadcast News) Actors Will Smith Gugu Mbatha-Raw Stephen Moyer Alec Baldwin Bitsie Tulloch Directors Peter Landesman Producers Elizabeth Cantillon Giannina Facio Ridley Scott Larry Shuman David Wolthoff Format Subtitled Language English Subtitles English Hindi Italian Polish Spanish Dubbed Italian Spanish Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired English Audio Description English Region Region B2 Number of discs 1 Classification 12 Studio Sony Pictures Home Entertainment DVD Release Date 6 Jun 2016 Run Time 118 minutes ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Action thriller starring & Stone Cold& Steve Austin as Jack Conrad a death-row prisoner in a corrupt Central American prison who is &purchased& by a wealthy television producer to take part in an illegal reality game show Brought to a desolate island Conrad finds himself trapped in a fight to the death against nine other condemned killers from all corners of the world With no possible escape & millions of viewers watching the uncensored violence online Conrad must use all his strength to remain the last man standing & earn his only chance of freedom ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Former military agent Jack Conrad top-secret mission to El Salvador goes awry; the mountainous man winds up on death row in a local prison while his associates back home conveniently forget about him Conrad is offered a final chance at clemency by the evil entertainment tycoon Ian Breckel who buys up Conrad & nine other condemned men & forces them to participate in his diabolical new reality-TV show The game is simple the contestants are dropped on a remote island fitted with cameras & instructed to kill or be killed over the next 30 hours ...

Modern experimental developments in condensed matter & ultracold atom physics present formidable challenges to theorists This book provides a pedagogical introduction to quantum field theory in many-particle physics emphasizing the applicability of the formalism to concrete problems This second edition contains two new chapters developing path integral approaches to classical & quantum nonequilibrium phenomena Other chapters cover a range of topics from the introduction of many-body techniques & functional integration to renormalization group methods the theory of response functions & topology Conceptual aspects & formal methodology are emphasized but the discussion focuses on practical experimental applications drawn largely from condensed matter physics & neighboring fields Extended & challenging problems with fully worked solutions provide a bridge between formal manipulations & research-oriented thinking Aimed at elevating graduate students to a level where they can engage in independent research this book complements graduate level courses on many-particle theory ...