The war hero known as Silver Wolf - Lud Langart - piloted a humanoid assault weapon while dreaming of life as a baker. After the war, Lud now peacefully runs a bakery, but, thanks to his frightening scowl, he can't sell a single loaf of bread. After posting an ad for a waitress in a last-ditch effort to save his business, who should reply but a beautiful, silver-haired, red-eyed young girl. What Lud doesn't know is that this new waitress was born from Avei, his AI partner installed in the weapon he piloted during the war. Originally released as a Bookwalker exclusive!

While business was stabilizing at Tockerbrot Bakery, its owner, Lud Langart, received a surprising invitation. A party was to be held on a large airship for the purpose of building a friendship between Wiltia and Pelfe. Sven persuaded the reluctant Lud to accept the invitation to bake for the party in order to increase his bakery’s popularity. However, political speculation and conspiracy mean danger is swirling behind the scenes. Originally released as a Bookwalker exclusive!

At the end of the year, the town of Organbaelz holds a Holy Festival to praise the Saint of Europea. It's said that, on the night of the festival, the Saint comes to hand out presents to good children and the Devil comes to take away bad children--and Sven and Lud are going to disguise themselves for these roles! This volume contains the story of the Holy Festival for which the two are bustling about baking new sweets and donning costumes. Also contained within is a story revealing the secrets surrounding Daian Fortuner, a.k.a. the Sorcerer, and a story about Hilde, who has enlisted in an officer's school known as the Preparatory School for Young Ladies. Volume 6 in this popular series revolves around these three stories and the characters after the Genitz's rebellion!

Everyone celebrated Lud and Sven’s wedding with them. However, human and machine lifespans are vastly different, so Sven decides to become human. Meitzer knows how to accomplish this, so she goes to meet him, but he has been abducted by the Security Department. Lud and company take action to rescue Meitzer and find themselves caught up in the Saint’s schemes to start another Great War. However, they’re no longer a war hero and a weapon—they're just a normal baker and a popular waitress. This record of an eventful small-town bakery reaches its moving finale!

Over the past two decades, there has been a huge amount of innovation in both the principles and practice of operating systems Over the same period, the core ideas in a modern operating system - protection, concurrency, virtualization, resource allocation, and reliable storage - have become widely applied throughout computer science. Whether you get a job at Facebook, Google, Microsoft, or any other leading-edge technology company, it is impossible to build resilient, secure, and flexible computer systems without the ability to apply operating systems concepts in a variety of settings. This book examines the both the principles and practice of modern operating systems, taking important, high-level concepts all the way down to the level of working code. Because operating systems concepts are among the most difficult in computer science, this top to bottom approach is the only way to really understand and master this important material.

Lud finds out Sven is an automaton when mechanical soldiers targeting Meitzer attack Organbaelz. But before they can come to grips with this new situation, Daian and Blitzdonner appear out of thin air, throwing Tockerbrot into even greater confusion. Usually, Jacob would be there to calm everyone down, but the sudden appearance of his father causes him to make himself scarce. One year since Sven became the bakery's popular waitress, she and Lud are finally beginning to work out their misunderstanding. But as the Saint sows disorder behind the scenes, their future is still uncertain...

From the winner of the Turing Award and the Abel Prize, an introduction to computational complexity theory, its connections and interactions with mathematics, and its central role in the natural and social sciences, technology, and philosophy Mathematics and Computation provides a broad, conceptual overview of computational complexity theory—the mathematical study of efficient computation. With important practical applications to computer science and industry, computational complexity theory has evolved into a highly interdisciplinary field, with strong links to most mathematical areas and to a growing number of scientific endeavors. Avi Wigderson takes a sweeping survey of complexity theory, emphasizing the field’s insights and challenges. He explains the ideas and motivations leading to key models, notions, and results. In particular, he looks at algorithms and complexity, computations and proofs, randomness and interaction, quantum and arithmetic computation, and cryptography and learning, all as parts of a cohesive whole with numerous cross-influences. Wigderson illustrates the immense breadth of the field, its beauty and richness, and its diverse and growing interactions with other areas of mathematics. He ends with a comprehensive look at the theory of computation, its methodology and aspirations, and the unique and fundamental ways in which it has shaped and will further shape science, technology, and society. For further reading, an extensive bibliography is provided for all topics covered. Mathematics and Computation is useful for undergraduate and graduate students in mathematics, computer science, and related fields, as well as researchers and teachers in these fields. Many parts require little background, and serve as an invitation to newcomers seeking an introduction to the theory of computation. Comprehensive coverage of computational complexity theory, and beyond High-level, intuitive exposition, which brings conceptual clarity to this central and dynamic scientific discipline Historical accounts of the evolution and motivations of central concepts and models A broad view of the theory of computation's influence on science, technology, and society Extensive bibliography