1967: Ye Wenjie witnesses Red Guards beat her father to death during China\"s Cultural Revolution. This singular event will shape not only the rest of her life but also the future of mankind. Four decades later, Beijing police ask nanotech engineer Wang Miao to infiltrate a secretive cabal of scientists after a spate of inexplicable suicides....

A satirical fable, a political allegory and an ecological warning from the author of The Three-Body Problem. On an otherwise ordinary day in the late Cretaceous, the seeds of Earth\"s first and greatest civilization were sown in the grisly aftermath of a Tyrannosaurus\" lunch....

Imagine a universe patrolled by numberless and nameless predators. Imagine what might happen to any civilisation unwise enough to broadcast its location. This is Cixin Liu\"s Three-Body Problem Trilogy. Weaving a complex web of stratagem, subterfuge, philosophy and physics across light years of space and 18....

Eight years ago and eight light years away, a supermassive star died. Tonight, a supernova tsunami of high energy will finally reach Earth. Dark skies will shine bright as a new star blooms in the heavens and within a year everyone over the age of thirteen will be dead, their chromosomes irreversibly damaged. And so the countdown begins....

On his fourteenth birthday, right before his eyes, Chen\"s parents are incinerated by a blast of ball lightning. Striving to make sense of this bizarre tragedy, he dedicates his life to a single goal: to unlock the secrets of this enigmatic natural phenomenon....

The Sun is dying. Earth will perish too, consumed by the star in its final death throes. But rather than abandon their planet, humanity builds 12,000 mountainous fusion engines to propel the Earth out of orbit and onto a centuries-long voyage to Proxima Centaurai... Cixin Liu is one of the most important voices in world Science Fiction....

From the author of The Three-Body Problem, a collection of award-winning short stories – a breath-taking selection of diamond-hard science fiction....

Read the award-winning, critically acclaimed, multi-million-copy-selling science-fiction phenomenon – soon to be a Netflix Original Series from the creators of Game of Thrones. Imagine the universe as a forest, patrolled by numberless and nameless predators. In this forest, stealth is survival – any civilisation that reveals its location is prey....

Read the award-winning, critically acclaimed, multi-million-copy-selling science-fiction phenomenon - soon to be a Netflix Original Series from the creators of Game of Thrones. Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, the uneasy balance of Dark Forest Deterrence keeps the Trisolaran invaders at bay....

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE HARDWARE DESIGN Learn foundational and advanced topics in Neural Processing Unit design with real-world examples from leading voices in the field In Artificial Intelligence Hardware Design: Challenges and Solutions , distinguished researchers and authors Drs....

Theory of Electromagnetic Well Logging provides a much-needed and complete analytical method for electromagnetic well logging technology....

International students come to the United States with different cultural, social, and linguistic backgrounds. The disparity between the American culture and the foreign student’s culture is large enough to cause serious adaptation problems....

NALT, network-assisted language teaching, is a new teaching model which is guided by the instructional concept of teacher-oriented and student-centered and integrates network effectively to finish teaching tasks together under the condition of combining traditional classroom teaching....

Chinese television programs have been drawing inspiration from their counterparts in America since the founding of the state television network China Central Television (CCTV) in 1958. This is especially true for the development of talk shows in China....

This book is motivated by mitigating the impact of the penetration of Electric vehicle on the power supplier. It sequentially proposes three distributed frameworks for demand dispatch in smart grid networks....