Table of Contents: “…-- Making Oscar wild: unmasking Oscar Wilde's opposition to "pathological" gay marriage -- Truth is stranger than science fiction -- Hollywood and the "holy war" -- Three cheers for Hollywood -- Purity and passion: examining the sacred heart of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ -- Paul McCartney: a grief observed -- Above all shadows rides the sun: the poetry of praise -- The magic of technology -- Russian revelations -- Dante: assent's ascent -- Shakespeare: good will for all men -- Modern art: friend or foe? …”
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Table of Contents: “…The Zena Sutherland Lecture -- These are not our faces -- Reflections: on Diana Wynne Jones -- Terry Pratchett: an appreciation -- On Dave McKean -- How to read Gene Wolfe -- Remembering Douglas Adams -- Harlan Ellison: The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World -- Banging the drum for Harlan Ellison -- On Stephen King, for the Sunday Times -- Geoff Notkin: meteorite man -- About Kim Newman, with notes on the creation and eventual dissolution of the Peace and Love Corporation -- Gumshoe: a book review -- SIMCITY -- Six to six -- Fritz Leiber: the short stories -- Hothouse -- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 and what science fiction is and does -- Of time, and Gully Foyle: Alfred Bester and The Stars My Destination -- Samuel R. …”

Table of Contents: “…-- Designing an engaging and informative application about first aid: Gamification and humor as design elements in a serious game -- IOM-Internet of Mobility: A Wearable Device for Outdoor Data Collection -- IoT: Science Fiction or real revolution? -- Design and evaluation of an ICT platform for cognitive stimulation of Alzheimer’s disease patients -- Android-Based Liveness Detection for Access Control in Smart Homes -- Smartphones as Multipurpose Intelligent Objects for AAL: Two Case Studies -- An analysis of ego network communities and temporal affinity for online social networks -- Computer Vision for the Blind: a Comparison of Face Detectors in a Relevant Scenario -- A Serious Games system for the analysis and the development of visual skills in Children with CVI -- Voice Controlled Quiz for People with Hearing Impairment -- Data Dissemination in a Wireless Video Surveillance Platform for Elderly Monitoring: Implementation and Experiments -- A Situation Aware Information Infrastructure (SAI2) Framework -- Delay Tolerant Networking for the Socio-Economic Development in Rural South Africa -- Preserving Privacy in a P2P Social Network -- A Heuristic path planning approach for UAVs integrating tracking support through wireless networks -- Object Detection and Spatial Coordinates Extraction using a Monocular Camera for a Wheelchair Mounted Robotic Arm -- Segmentation of Mosaic Images based on Deformable Models using Genetic Algorithms -- On the Retweet Decay of the Evolutionary Retweet Graph -- Maps for Easy Paths (MEP): Enriching Maps with Accessible Paths Using MEP Traces -- A review of Websites and Mobile Applications for People with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Towards Shared Guidelines -- Analysis of Stereoscopic Visualization in a consumeroriented Head Mounted Display -- The use of wearable devices in the workplace- A Systematic Literature Review -- Radio Link Planning made easy with a Telegram Bot -- Enabling Social- and Location-Aware IoT Applications in Smart Cities -- Connected Vehicles for Safety Enhancement: Reliability of Beaconing in Urban Areas -- Early training in programming: from high school to college -- A Smart Wearable Navigation System for Visually Impaired -- Enabling Smart Objects in Cities towards Urban Sustainable Mobility-as-a-Service: A Capability – Driven Modeling approach -- Crowd Sensing of Weather Conditions and Traffic Congestion based on Data Mining in Social Networks -- Physical and Cognitive Training of Children with Down Syndrome Using Video Games.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Kingsbury -- Reflections on the enemy: from evil Nazis to good Germans / Petra Rau -- Camouflage and the re-enchantment of warfare / Mark Rawlinson -- Warplane / David Pascoe -- Monsarrat's Corvettes and the Battle of the Atlantic / Jonathan Rayner -- Submarine novels 'after history' / Hamish Mathison -- 'An ecstasy of fumbling': gas warfare, 1914-18 and the uses of affect / Santanu Das -- Paul Virilio as twentieth-century military strategist: war, cinema and the logistics of perception / John Armitage -- World electric, so finite: radio, poetry and the séance in World War I / Jane Lewty -- The trenches / Allyson Booth -- Literature of the camps in the Second World War / Sue Vice -- 'That fighting was a long way off': desert and jungle war poems / Peter Robinson -- Cityscape: the bombed city in the Second World War/ Leo Mellor -- The eight-week college of the age of extremes: the barracks and the training ground / Glyn Salton-Cox -- Contemporary war drama: Caryl Churchill / Julia Boll -- Nuclear war in science fiction / David Seed -- The children's war / Katie Trumpener -- The troubles with the thriller: Northern Ireland, political violence and the peace process / Aaron Kelly -- Fantasies of complicity in the Second World War / R.W. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Section 2:  Language, Literature and Semiotics -- Chapter 8: Crafting the Literature of Semiotic Possibility: From the Metaphysical to the Detective Story in The Name of the Rose -- Chapter 9: The Emergence of 'Atomodoxy' in Cold-War Rhetoric and Science Fiction Narratives: Fear, Threats, and the Duties of Citizenship in an Atomic Age -- Chapter 10: The Semiotics of “Monk” Rehearsals:  A Weaving of Two Texts -- Chapter 11: Deviant Orthography -- Chapter 12: Semiotics of Translation: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Translation -- Chapter 13: Intersemiotic Translation and Transfer Theory in Cinematic/Audiovisual Adaptations of Greek Drama -- Section 3: Media, Communications, and Semiotics -- Chapter 14: The Brand as an Economic Value and a Sign: Positioning as an Instrument for Creating Market Distinctions -- Chapter 15: Understanding the Codes and Assumptions of New Media -- Chapter 16: The Semiotics of Innovation -- Chapter 17: Multimodal Digital Humanities -- Chapter 18: Semiotics of Photography. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Kane -- The Psychoanalytic Movement / William Sims Bainbridge -- Quantum Mechanics / Mélanie Frappier -- Science Fiction / William Sims Bainbridge -- Service Science / James C. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Apocalyptic Horror -- Eco-horror -- Gender, Sexuality, and the Monsters of Literary Horror -- Ghosts Stories -- The Gothic Literary Tradition -- Horror Anthologies -- Horror comics -- Horror Criticism -- Horror Literature and Science Fiction -- Horror Literature as Social Criticism and Commentary -- Horror Literature in the Internet Age -- Horror Publishing, 1975-1995: The Boom Years -- Horror Video Games -- The Legacy of Frankenstein: From Gothic Novel to Cultural Myth -- Occult Fiction -- Page to Screen: The Influence of Literary Horror on Film and Television -- Religion, Horror, and the Supernatural -- Shakespearean Horrors -- Small Press, Specialty, and Online Horror -- Vampire Fiction from Dracula to Lestat and Beyond -- Weird and Cosmic Horror Fiction -- Young Adult Horror Fiction -- Part Three: Reference Entries (Authors, Works, and Specialized Topics) -- Aickman, Robert -- Ainsworth, William Harrison -- Ajvide Lindqvist, John -- Alcott, Louisa May -- Alone with the Horrors -- Alraune -- Ancestral Curse -- Arkham House -- At the Mountains of Madness -- Ballard, J.G. -- Barker, Clive -- Barlow, R.H. -- Barron, Laird -- Baudelaire, Charles -- "The Beast with Five Fingers" -- Beaumont, Charles -- Beloved -- Benson, E.F. -- Bierce, Ambrose -- Blackwood, Algernon -- Bleiler, E.F. -- Bloch, Robert -- Body Horror -- Body Snatching -- Books of Blood -- Borges, Jorge Luis -- Bowen, Marjorie -- Bradbury, Ray -- Bram Stoker Award -- Brennan, Joseph Payne -- Brite, Poppy Z -- The Bronte Sisters -- Brown, Charles Brockden -- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward -- Burnt Offerings -- Butler, Octavia E. -- Buzzati, Dino -- Byron, Lord…”
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Table of Contents: “…Double trouble: Helen MacInnes's and Agatha Christie's speculative spy thrillers / Phyllis Lassner ; Historical fictions / Diana Wallace ; Children's literature: ideologies of the past, present and future / Catherine Butler ; Science fiction / Susan Watkins.…”

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