The Verifiers
Title | The Verifiers PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Pek |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 369 |
Release | 2022-02-22 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0593313798 |
ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S BEST MYSTERY BOOKS OF THE YEAR • Introducing Claudia Lin: a sharp-witted amateur sleuth for the 21st century. This debut novel follows Claudia as she verifies people's online lives, and lies, for a dating detective agency in New York City. Until a client with an unusual request goes missing.... “The world of social media, big tech and internet connectivity provides fertile new ground for humans to deceive, defraud and possibly murder one another.... Well rendered and charming.... Original and intriguing.” —The New York Times Book Review Claudia is used to disregarding her fractious family’s model-minority expectations: she has no interest in finding either a conventional career or a nice Chinese boy. She’s also used to keeping secrets from them, such as that she prefers girls—and that she's just been stealth-recruited by Veracity, a referrals-only online-dating detective agency. A lifelong mystery reader who wrote her senior thesis on Jane Austen, Claudia believes she's landed her ideal job. But when a client vanishes, Claudia breaks protocol to investigate—and uncovers a maelstrom of personal and corporate deceit. Part literary mystery, part family story, The Verifiers is a clever and incisive examination of how technology shapes our choices, and the nature of romantic love in the digital age.
Trust, Privacy, and Security in Digital Business
Title | Trust, Privacy, and Security in Digital Business PDF eBook |
Author | Claudia Eckert |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 203 |
Release | 2014-08-19 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 3319097709 |
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Trust and Privacy in Digital Business, TrustBus 2014, held in Munich, Germany, in September 2014 in conjunction with DEXA 2014. The 16 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: trust management; trust metrics and evaluation models; privacy and trust in cloud computing; security management; and security, trust, and privacy in mobile and pervasive environments.
Principles of Distributed Systems
Title | Principles of Distributed Systems PDF eBook |
Author | Teruo Higashino |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 470 |
Release | 2005-08-25 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 3540315845 |
The 8th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems (OPODIS 2004) was held during December 15 –17, 2004 at Grenoble, France.
Leśniewski’s Systems Protothetic
Title | Leśniewski’s Systems Protothetic PDF eBook |
Author | Jan J.T. Srzednicki |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2012-12-06 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9401157367 |
Between the two world wars, Stanislaw Lesniewski (1886-1939), created the famous and important system of foundations of mathematics that comprises three deductive theories: Protothetic, Ontology, and Mereology. His research started in 1914 with studies on the general theory of sets (later named `Mereology'). Ontology followed between 1919 and 1921, and was the next step towards an integrated system. In order to combine these two systematically he constructed Protothetic - the system of `first principles'. Together they amount to what Z. Jordan called `... most thorough, original, and philosophically significant attempt to provide a logically secure foundation for the whole of mathematics'. The volume collects many of the most significant commentaries on, and contributions to, Protothetic. A Protothetic Bibliography is included.
Customs Bulletin and Decisions
Title | Customs Bulletin and Decisions PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 96 |
Release | 2001-11 |
Genre | Customs administration |
ISBN |
United States Court of International Trade Reports
Title | United States Court of International Trade Reports PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Court of International Trade |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1618 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Customs administration |
ISBN |
Kit Fine on Truthmakers, Relevance, and Non-classical Logic
Title | Kit Fine on Truthmakers, Relevance, and Non-classical Logic PDF eBook |
Author | Federico L. G. Faroldi |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 796 |
Release | 2023-11-25 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 3031294157 |
This book explores some of Kit Fine's outstanding contributions to logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, and metaphysics, among others. Contributing authors address in-depth issues about truthmaker semantics, counterfactual conditionals, grounding, vagueness, non-classical consequence relations, and arbitrary objects, offering critical reflections and novel research contributions. Each chapter is accompanied by an extensive commentary, in which Kit Fine offers detailed responses to the ideas and themes raised by the contributors. The book includes a brief autobiography and exhaustive list of his publications to this date. This book is of interest to logicians of all stripes and to analytic philosophers more generally.