Bøger af Anthony Watson

Since 2004, Adam Nevill has been responsible for some of the most terrifying fiction ever created. His eleven novels of supernatural horror have garnered multiple awards and cemented his reputation as a leading author in the genre.Dreams and Shadows is an exploration of those novels, an examination of their themes and techniques in order to elucidate what it is that makes them masterpieces of horror.

Twelve tales of dark fiction on the theme of crossing a border. Dare you cross the line?

Set during three different time periods, the story begins in Vienna 1938 on Kristallnacht with the Nazis flexing their muscles by dispatching the Brownshirts to smash the windows of Jewish owned businesses. "Shattered" then takes several leaps back in time to tell the history of one of those windows in particular and why breaking it was the worst possible thing anybody could have done...(cover by Adrian Baldwin)

Look at the world around you. Every second is detrimental towards what I'm about to tell you. Never, I mean never lose sight of the game. The game was given its name for a reason, and if you have a sound mind you know that reason. It takes a player to play, and most of the players most of time, play by the rules. You see, in the game you always end up in compromising situations, sometimes even fatal. That's when the players stop playing by the rules, and if you not smart enough or ruthless enough, you get played. But what exactly are you gearing that ambition towards? Time is precious and the dollar bill is powerful. It's so powerful that printed on blood money, all money, is the words, "In God We Trust". Somewhere in your mind's eye you trust that dollar bill will one day get you that car you desire. Maybe you want that iced out Rolex you over heard gold digging Trina talking about. Maybe you're just jealous because Trina don't associate herself with low ballers. Never let money be the ultimate cause for your actions. Never let your left hand know what the right is doing. Most importantly always remember, the streets is watching.

Smart cards or IC cards offer a huge potential for information processing purposes. The portability and processing power of IC cards allow for highly secure conditional access and reliable distributed information processing. IC cards that can perform highly sophisticated cryptographic computations are already available. Their application in the financial services and telecom industries are well known. But the potential of IC cards go well beyond that. Their applicability in mainstream Information Technology and the Networked Economy is limited mainly by our imagination; the information processing power that can be gained by using IC cards remains as yet mostly untapped and is not well understood. Here lies a vast uncovered research area which we are only beginning to assess, and which will have a great impact on the eventual success of the technology. The research challenges range from electrical engineering on the hardware side to tailor-made cryptographic applications on the software side, and their synergies. This volume comprises the proceedings of the Fourth Working Conference on Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications (CARDIS 2000), which was sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and held at the Hewlett-Packard Labs in the United Kingdom in September 2000. CARDIS conferences are unique in that they bring together researchers who are active in all aspects of design of IC cards and related devices and environments, thus stimulating synergy between different research communities from both academia and industry. This volume presents the latest advances in smart card research and applications, and will be essential reading for smart card developers, smart card application developers, and computer science researchers involved in computer architecture, computer security, and cryptography.