When people hear "the Cloud", they think of cloud computing and Salesforce.com, just a sliver of what the Cloud is today. The Cloud has grown: it represents the consummate disrupter to structure; a pervasive social and economic network that will soon connect and define more of the world than any oth[...]

The First World War is looming and for young sweethearts, Christina and Will, their adventures are just beginning as they head to London - their heads full of dreams. But the reality is altogether more difficult. Will has just one ambition - to design and pilot flying machines. As he strives to ful[...]

Functional analysis is a powerful tool when applied to mathematical problems arising from physical situations. This book presents the reader with a keen understanding of applied functional analysis, building progressively from simple background material to the deepest and most significant results.[...]

Clouds have been the object of fascination throughout history, their fleeting magnificence and endless variability providing food for thought for scientists and daydreamers alike. Clouds may have many individual shapes, but there are a few basic forms. In this definitive guide to the clouds and the [...]

"If now a swell from the Deep has swept over this planetary ship of earth, and I, who alone chanced to find myself in the furthest stern, as the sole survivor of her crew ...What then, my God, shall I do?" The Purple Cloud is widely hailed as a masterpiece of science fiction and one of the best "las[...]

"Service Level Agreements for Cloud Computing" provides a unique combination of business-driven application scenarios and advanced research in the area of service-level agreements for Clouds and service-oriented infrastructures. Current state-of-the-art research findings are presented in this book, [...]