Retreating from the mad, mad world of mechanical overlords, Magnus descends into the SubStructure, where a bizarre collection of feral humans called Gophs live free from robot society. Winding up in the Uncanny Valley, a forbidden sex and death club, the timelost rebel discovers a gladiatorial pit where humans fight to the death, and the slain are dismembered for spare parts. Can Magnus hold his own against the merciless Goph hordes? Collects issues #5-8 of the ongoing Magnus: Robot Fighter series.

Languages change and they keep changing as a result of communicative interactions and practices in the context of communities of language users. The articles in this volume showcase a range of such communities and their practices as loci of language change in the history of English. The notion of communities of practice takes its starting point in the work of Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger and refers to groups of people defined both through their membership in a community and through their shared practices. Three types of communities are particularly highlighted: networks of letter writers; groups of scribes and printers; and other groups of professionals, in particular administrators and scientists. In these diverse contexts in England, Scotland, the United States and South Africa, language change is not seen as an abstract process but as a response to the communicative needs and practices of groups of people engaged in interaction.

Entdecken Sie die faszinierende Welt von „Two and a Half Men“ – „Alles über Two and a Half Men: Das große, inoffizielle Fanbuch“ ist das ultimative Begleitbuch für alle Fans der beliebten Sitcom. Mit einer einzigartigen Kombination aus prägnanten Texten und großformatigen, farbigen Fotos bietet dieses Buch einen umfassenden Überblick über alle Aspekte der Serie. Erfahren Sie alles über die Entstehung und Entwicklung der Serie, die von Chuck Lorre und Lee Aronsohn geschaffen wurde und von 2003 bis 2015 auf CBS ausgestrahlt wurde. Das Buch beleuchtet die Hauptfiguren, angefangen bei Charlie Sheen als Charlie Harper, über Jon Cryer als Alan Harper bis hin zu Angus T. Jones als Jake Harper. Auch die dramatischen Wendungen, wie Sheens Entlassung und die Einführung von Ashton Kutcher als Walden Schmidt, werden detailliert dargestellt. Neben den Hauptdarstellern widmet sich das Buch auch den zahlreichen Gaststars und den unvergesslichen Episoden, die die Serie prägten. Ein Kapitel über die Syndikation und das Streaming zeigt, wie „Two and a Half Men“ auch nach dem Ende der Ausstrahlung weiterhin ein Publikum findet. Zudem wird die Verbindung zur Serie „CSI: Crime Scene Investigation“ und dem Film „Due Date“ erläutert. Abgerundet wird das Buch durch eine Analyse der Kritiken, Einschaltquoten sowie der zahlreichen Auszeichnungen und Nominierungen, die die Serie im Laufe der Jahre erhalten hat. Die minimalistische Gestaltung und die beeindruckenden Bilder machen dieses Buch zu einem idealen Geschenk für jeden Liebhaber der Serie. Tauchen Sie ein in die Welt von „Two and a Half Men“ und erleben Sie die Serie auf eine neue, visuell ansprechende Weise.

FINAL ISSUE! Magnus battles THE BASILISK, an unstoppable entity bent on blasting our hero into atoms! Can Leeja and Magnus hit reboot on their entire world's corrupted infrastructure? And even if they do, what's Magnus' robot-dad's final, horrifying endgame? Is this the end, or a frightful new beginning? Hints in the final pages as Magnus "fades to black".

This volume will define the direction of eddy-current technology in nondestructive evaluation (NDE) in the twenty-first century. It describes the natural marriage of the computer to eddy-current NDE, and its publication was encouraged by favorable responses from workers in the nuclear-power and aerospace industries. It will be used by advanced students and practitioners in the fields of computational electromagnetics, electromagnetic inverse-scattering theory, nondestructive evaluation, materials evaluation and biomedical imaging, among others, and will be based on our experience in applying the subject of computational electromagnetics to these areas, as manifested by our recent research and publications. Finally, it will be a reference to future monographs on advanced NDE that are being contemplated by our colleagues and others. Its importance lies in the fact that it will be the first book to show that advanced computational methods can be used to solve practical, but difficult, problems in eddy-current NDE. In fact, in many cases these methods are the only things available for solving the problems. The book will cover the topic of computational electromagnetics in eddy-current nondestructive evaluation (NDE) by emphasizing three distinct topics: (a) fundamental mathematical principles of volume-integral equations as a subset of computational electromagnetics, (b) mathematical algorithms applied to signal-processing and inverse scattering problems, and (c) applications of these two topics to problems in which real and model data are used. This will make the book more than an academic exercise; we expect it to be valuable to users of eddy-current NDE technology in industries as varied as nuclear power, aerospace, materials characterization and biomedical imaging. We know of no other book on the market that covers this material in the manner in which we will present it, nor are there any books, to our knowledge, that apply this material to actual test situations that are of importance to the industries cited. It will be the first book to actually define the modern technology of eddy-current NDE, by showing how mathematics and the computer will solve problems more effectively than current analog practice.