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Magistrate Wen Chang, famed for his investigative powers, and his young physician assistant, Kasimir, set out to recover Stonecutter and return the stolen Sword to its rightful owner, Prince Mark. The Red Temple, Blue Temple and a gang of rebels, each for their own purposes, are intent on possessing the Sword. A mysterious young girl, Natasha, enlisted by Kasimir as a spy, fascinates Kasimir, but can she be trusted? Readers will need all their powers of ratiocination to unravel this adventure of the Sword of Siege. Fantasy and mystery combine in a compelling story of the powerful sword that splits diamonds and hews mountains with equal ease.
The proceedings features several key-note addresses in the areas of advanced information processing tools. This area has been recognized to be one of the key five technologies poised to shape the modern society in the next decade. It aptly focuses on the tools and techniques for the development of Information Systems. Emphasis is on pattern recognition and image processing, software engineering, mobile ad hoc networks, security aspects in computer networks, signal processing and hardware synthesis, optimization techniques, data mining and information processing.
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Few religious innovations have shaped Chinese history like the emergence of spirit-writing during the Song dynasty. From a divinatory technique it evolved into a complex ritual practice used to transmit messages and revelations from the Gods. This resulted in the production of countless religious scriptures that now form an essential corpus, widely venerated and recited to this day, that is still largely untapped by research. Using historical and ethnographic approaches, this volume for the first time offers a comprehensive overview of the history of spirit-writing, examining its evolution over a millennium, the practices and technologies used, and the communities involved.