Ian Johnstone a grandi dans l'Oxfordshire et vit maintenant à Oxford, ce qui pourrait suggérer un homme qui aime s'en tenir à ce qu'il connaît. En fait, Ian a l'habitude étrange de passer d'un monde à l'autre. Il a grandi dans une petite ville anglaise tranquille, mais a passé une grande partie de sa vie à voyager et à travailler en Afrique. Il aime la science, mais a étudié la littérature anglaise. Il a grandi à Oxford, mais a obtenu son diplôme à Cambridge. Il a commencé sa carrière dans l'édition en produisant des livres pour l'Afrique de l'Ouest et a fini par créer des sites Web futuristes et des environnements d'apprentissage virtuels. Plus récemment, il a quitté l'édition pour devenir écrivain. Il n'est donc peut-être pas du tout surprenant qu'il écrive des romans fantastiques sur les voyages dans d'autres mondes. L'œuvre de Johnstone explore les thèmes de l'altérité et de la découverte, et son style est connu pour sa capacité à transporter le lecteur dans des réalités entièrement nouvelles.
Should we regulate artificial intelligence? Can we? From self-driving cars and high-speed trading to algorithmic decision-making, the way we live, work, and play is increasingly dependent on AI systems. This book examines how our laws are dealing with AI, as well as what additional rules and institutions are needed.
Virtually every significant public policy question today involves an international organization, impacting areas from trade to health policy. Governments engage with these organizations in nearly all their activities, and individual citizens increasingly feel the effects of their work. This book provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary international organizations, targeting academics, students, practitioners, and lawyers. It highlights both practical organizational aspects and the conceptual challenges at the intersection of nation-states and international authority, as well as law and politics. While primarily focusing on inter-governmental organizations, it also covers non-governmental organizations and public policy networks. Contributions from leading scholars and practitioners explore key international organizations and the issues they tackle, including trade, humanitarian aid, and peace operations, alongside historical perspectives. The book examines the internal functioning of these organizations, addressing management, decision-making power distribution, assembly structures, the roles of Secretaries-General and heads, budgets, and the complexities of international bureaucracies. This work is essential for scholars, practitioners, and students alike.
The Bell Between Worlds
Half of your soul is missing.The lost part is in the mirror.And unless Sylas Tate can save you, you will never be whole again.Sylas Tate leads a lonely existence since his mother died. But then the tolling of a giant bell draws him into another world known as the Other, where he discovers not only that he has an inborn talent for the nature-influenced magic of the Fourth Way, but also that his mother might just have come from this strange parallel place.Meanwhile, evil forces are stirring, and an astounding revelation awaits Sylas as to the true nature of the Other. As violence looms and the stakes get ever higher, Sylas must seek out a girl called Naeo who might just be the other half of his soul – otherwise the entire universe may fall…