B’Anna and Mercury might have come together, might have overcome their differences – it doesn’t mean they’ve won. They’re thrust heart-first into a fight for B’Anna’s dying world. But the Underside won’t let it go – not when it’s this important to their twisted plans. B'Anna and Mercury will fight through anything, but they can’t fight through death, and it is coming for them both. It will sweep up Frost too, for the fight for her station has just begun. … Mercury Nova follows a down-on-her-luck guardian and a cold-hearted god fighting to understand the past. If you love your space operas with action, heart, and a splash of romance, grab Mercury Nova Book Three today and soar free with an Odette C. Bell series. Mercury Nova is the 3rd Supreme Outer Guardian series. A massive, exciting, and heroic sci-fi world where the day is always saved and hearts are always won, each series can be read separately, so plunge in today.

When an ancient force rises, the Guardians must fight together. Before they can try, they’re torn apart. A solitary Guardian, B’Anna, is soon the only force standing between the stations and death. Not just for her, the guardians, and her home – but all universes. When she’s thrust into a journey to find out the truth, she’s thrust into the tale of a man she can’t get out of her head. Ever since Mercury saved her years ago, she’s always wanted to get to the bottom of him. But to do that, she’ll have to dig – dig right through is murky past and out the other side. Because for a man – a virtual god – even Mercury doesn’t remember what he really is anymore. He’ll have to find out. But he’ll never do it without B’Anna’s help. For a woman he’s ignored and worse – dismissed – she now holds his future and everyone else’s in her small hands. … Mercury Nova follows a down-on-her-luck guardian and a cold-hearted god fighting to understand the past. If you love your space operas with action, heart, and a splash of romance, grab Mercury Nova: The Complete Series today and soar free with an Odette C. Bell series. Mercury Nova is the 3rd Supreme Outer Guardian series. A massive, exciting, and heroic sci-fi world where the day is always saved and hearts are always won, each series can be read separately, so plunge in today.

As the end of the multiverse nears, Frost and her team must fight or die. Death will bring the end for all. The Underside will try everything they can to split the Guardians apart, and they’ll concentrate on Harvey and Rae. For both have secrets. And both could save the multiverse. But to get to the truth, they’ll have to fight harder. Tatiana wants revenge, and she won’t stop until she’s let her absurd war swallow all. But just when it seems there’s no hope, hope will come, and the Guardians will rise. But you can’t rise forever. What goes up, must come down. Even if the thing that is rising is the multiverse and the fall will never end. … Brink’s End follows a cold-hearted mech-pilot and a mysterious alien fighting to stop an ancient enemy from rising. If you love your space operas with action, heart, and a splash of romance, grab Brink’s End Book Three today and soar free with an Odette C. Bell series. Brink’s End is the 4th Supreme Outer Guardian series. A massive, exciting, and heroic sci-fi world where the day is always saved and hearts are always won, each series can be read separately, so plunge in today.

This book provides current research on computer vision and simulation. Chapter One studies and compares the representation capability of several different layers in convolutional neural network (CNN) showing that they contain more accurate information about the face image than to believe. Chapter Two finds, empirically, the best methods for describing a given texture using an ensemble to harness the discriminative power of different texture approaches. Chapter Three provides a computer study of the interaction of mercury with graphene. Chapter Four discusses the influence of yttrium(III) ion on calcium(II) and zinc(II) biospeciation in human blood plasma by computer simulation. Chapter Five reviews the simualation of diffraction gratings in the Fresnel diffraction regime using the ab-initio iterative Fresnel Integral Method (IFIM). Chapter Six introduces an example of a simple visual feedback control system of a mobile robot with an axis-symmetric shape for mechatronics education.

In Mercury, Hope Larson weaves together history, romance, and magical realism in this graphic novel of how the past haunts a teenage girl's present. August 31, 5:15 PM, French Hill, Nova Scotia: A girl named Tara is running. She runs through her nice neighborhood and up a road to the burned ruins of what was once a beautiful house--her family's house. August 31, 1859, French Hill, Nova Scotia: A girl named Josey is picking blackberries with her friend Connie. As the girls gossip, a handsome stranger knocks on the door of Josey's house. His name is Asa, and with his coming, Josey's life--and later in time, Tara's as well--is about to change forever. Because there is treasure in the woods that belong to Josey's family. Gold--an untold fortune. Asa has a secret way of finding it, and his partnership with Josey's father could make them all rich. But there is darkness in the woods, and in Asa. And in the present day, Tara, Josey's descendent, is about to discover the truth about what really happened in the family's past. Eisner award winner Hope Larson weaves together history, romance, and a touch of her trademark magical realism in this remarkable graphic novel of how the past haunts a teenage girl's present.

Once upon a time, there lived a girl named Fallon, who was taken far away from home shortly after she was born. A home that held more than strange traditions and bizarre superstitions.Twenty-four years later, she returned to Weeping Hollow, a haunting town she'd only heard about in stories during restless nights under a marble moon, to meet her last living relative.They called her a freakshow--a ghost. They said I couldn't go near her. Still, there was this aching pull to Fallon Grimaldi that I couldn't escape. A nostalgic pull as if we'd been here before. Once upon a time, there lived a mysterious man named Julian with a curse as old as centuries wrapped around his soul. He was one of the four Hollow Heathens, the very dark creatures who caused the town's people to live in fear. And the Blackwell name was stained with darkness and death. They called him a monster. Cold and hollow. They said I shouldn't go near him. Still, there was this aching pull to Julian Blackwell that I couldn't escape. A nostalgic pull as if we'd been here before.

As a programmer for Galapagos Wetware, Hal Briggs is responsible for writing the genetic code for simple, efficient creatures to be employed in menial jobs–sweeping streets or washing dishes. But the demands for “wetware” are changing, and Briggs is given a project that calls for more sophisticated models: clients are demanding more human appearance and behavior. As the project progresses, Briggs finds himself endowing the new models with more than the specifications dictate, giving them distinct personalities and talents and highly developed acumens. When two of his pet projects, Jack and Kay, escape, Briggs reexamines their codes and makes a terrifying yet provocative discovery. From Craig Nova, a master of the modern novel, comes a tale eerie in its vision of a future not far off, of a world precariously close to today’s.

America's finest science writer describes a major revolution sweeping astronomy, as amateur astronomers, in global networks linked by the Internet, make discoveries that are changing the knowledge of the universe. Illustrations.

Thinking about Nothing contains, in addition to a new translation from the Latin of Otto von Guericke's most important writings, an account of his life and a perspective on his thought. Amid the turmoil of the Thirty Years War and the pressures of life as politician and diplomat, he was a pioneer investigator of the nature of space and the atmosphere, and was, most famously, the inventor of the vacuum pump