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Note: Intro -- Preface -- Fifty Years of World Internet Development -- Overview -- 1 Overall Trends in World Internet Development in 2019 -- 1.1 Steadily Progressing Digital Infrastructure Construction -- 1.2 Increasingly Diverse Patterns of Internet Technological Innovation -- 1.3 Thriving Global Digital Economy with Highlights -- 1.4 New Technologies' Profound Influence on the Development of Internet Media -- 1.5 Increasingly Prominent Global Cybersecurity Threats -- 1.6 Historic Transition Period of Global Cyberspace Governance -- 2 Evaluation and Analysis of Internet Development in Global Representative Countries in 2019 -- 2.1 Index Construction -- 2.2 Assignment of Weights -- 2.3 Analysis of Results -- 3 Internet Development in Some Typical Countries -- 3.1 The USA -- 3.2 China -- 3.3 South Korea -- 3.4 France -- 3.5 Germany -- 3.6 Israel -- 3.7 Russia -- 3.8 India -- 3.9 Brazil -- 3.10 South Africa -- 4 World Internet Development Prospects for 2020 -- 4.1 Given the Prominently Unbalanced Internet Development, It Is Imperative to Improve the Popularity of Internet -- 4.2 With Opportunities in the Rapid Development of Digital Economy, It Is Imperative to Promote Technological Innovation -- 4.3 In Face of New Challenges Confronting a Healthy Cyber-Culture, It Is Imperative to Regulate the Order in Cyberspace -- 4.4 In the Increasingly Severe Situation, It Is Imperative to Strengthen Cybersecurity Protection -- 4.5 As Supports for Cyber-Sovereignty Grow, It Is Imperative to Promote the Internet Governance System Reform -- Contents -- 1 Development of Information Infrastructure in the World -- 1.1 Outline -- 1.2 Broadband Network -- 1.2.1 The Need of High Bandwidth Accelerated the Deployment of Gigabit Fiber Optical Network -- 1.2.2 Mobile Broadband is Evolving Toward 5G. , 1.2.3 Competition on the Construction of Spatial Information Infrastructure Got Fierce -- 1.2.4 Construction of Global Submarine Optical Fiber Cable and Terrestrial Optical Cable is Keeping Advancing -- 1.2.5 Information Network is Evolving Towards Intelligence -- 1.2.6 All Countries Enhanced Support for Broadband Construction in the Rural Areas -- 1.3 Application Facilities -- 1.3.1 Both Domain Name Market and Facility Construction Are Growing -- 1.3.2 Commercial IPv6 Deployment is Carried Out Extensively -- 1.3.3 Global Data Centers Are Expanding Rapidly -- 1.3.4 Cloud Computing and Edge Computing Are Developing in a Coordinated Way -- 1.3.5 Global CDN Industry is Developing Steadily -- 1.3.6 Internet Exchange Point is Developing Fast -- 1.4 New Facilities -- 1.4.1 Deployment of IoT Facilities is Speeding Up -- 1.4.2 Construction of Industrial Internet Platform is Flourishing -- 2 Development of Network Information Technology in the World -- 2.1 Outline -- 2.2 Basic Network Information Technologies -- 2.2.1 High Performance Computing (HPC) Achieved Sustainable Innovative Development -- 2.2.2 Software Technologies Are Accelerating the Development Towards Platform -- 2.2.3 Integrated Circuit Technologies Are Developing Steadily -- 2.3 Cutting-Edge Technologies -- 2.3.1 AI Technology Is Thriving -- 2.3.2 The Implementation of Edge Computing is Accelerated -- 2.3.3 Big Data Technology Keeps Deepening and Expanding -- 2.3.4 Virtual Reality Faces New Starting Point -- 2.3.5 Innovative Achievements Are Continuously Made in Quantum Information -- 3 Development of World Digital Economy -- 3.1 Outline -- 3.2 Development Trend of Global Digital Economy -- 3.2.1 Bright Prospect -- 3.2.2 Divergence in Digital Strength -- 3.2.3 Distinctive Regional Development -- 3.3 Global Consensus on the Development of Digital Economy , 3.3.1 Enhancing Planning and Deployment -- 3.3.2 Intensifying Fight for the Power to Make International Rules -- 3.4 Stable Development of Overall Digital Industrialization -- 3.4.1 Telecommunications Industry Slowing Down Again -- 3.4.2 Ever-Growing Electronics and Information Industry -- 3.4.3 Ever-Growing Revenue in Internet Business -- 3.4.4 Rapid Rise of Public Cloud Market -- 3.4.5 5G Driving the Development of Upstream and Downstream Industries -- 3.5 Rapid Progress of Industrial Digitalization -- 3.5.1 "Smart+" Becomes a New Form of Economic Development -- 3.5.2 Industrial Internet Walking into Reality -- 3.5.3 Continued Attention on Fintech Industry -- 4 Development of World Digital Government -- 4.1 Outline -- 4.2 Significantly Stronger Support of Information Infrastructure -- 4.2.1 More Convenient and Compatible Network Access -- 4.2.2 Cloud Computing Boosting E-Government Development Efficiency -- 4.2.3 Wide Upgrading of Smart City Infrastructure -- 4.3 Maturity of Digital Government System and Mechanism -- 4.3.1 Progress in Policy System of Digital Government -- 4.3.2 Growing Overall Planning and Coordination Efforts -- 4.3.3 Significantly Improved Professional Management and Coordination Capability -- 4.4 Significantly Improved Information Application in Government Services -- 4.4.1 Speeding Up Digitalization of Information Resources -- 4.4.2 Speeding Up the Construction of Data Sharing Platform -- 4.4.3 Continuous Effect Generated by Data Disclosure -- 4.5 Continuous Improvement of Public Service Capability -- 4.5.1 Mobile Internet Facilitates More Accessible Public Services -- 4.5.2 Artificial Intelligence Improves the Precision of Public Services -- 4.5.3 Big Data Improves the Precision of Public Services -- 4.6 Improvement of Environment for Digital Government -- 4.6.1 Digital Identity System Gradually Established , 4.6.2 Further Deepening Government-Enterprise Cooperation -- 5 Development of World Internet Media -- 5.1 Outline -- 5.2 Global Landscape of Internet Media Development -- 5.2.1 Social Platform -- 5.2.2 Digital News -- 5.2.3 Online Entertainment -- 5.3 Development and Application of Internet Media -- 5.3.1 5G Improving Media Production and Communication -- 5.3.2 Cloud Computing Changing Media Production Ecology -- 5.3.3 Artificial Intelligence Optimizing Media Value Chain -- 5.4 Governance and Challenges of Internet Media Content Ecosystem -- 5.4.1 New Changes in Online Dissemination of False Information -- 5.4.2 Hard to Control the Spread of Terrorist and Extremist Content Online -- 5.4.3 Drawback of Media Platform Monopoly -- Reference -- 6 Development of World Cybersecurity -- 6.1 Outline -- 6.2 Major Threats to Cybersecurity in the World Today -- 6.2.1 Spread of Ransomware Threatening the World -- 6.2.2 Mining Trojan Active Again with Widespread Threat -- 6.2.3 High Incidence of APT Attacks -- 6.2.4 Frequent Attacks on Critical Information Infrastructure -- 6.2.5 Growing Data Security Risks Raising Concerns -- 6.2.6 Emerging Security Risks of New Technologies and Applications -- 6.3 Countries Actively Building Cybersecurity Protection Capability -- 6.3.1 Optimizing Top-Level Cybersecurity Design -- 6.3.2 Gradually Improving Cybersecurity Systems and Institutions -- 6.3.3 Strengthening Security Protection of Critical Information Infrastructure -- 6.3.4 Speeding Up the Protection of Data Security and Personal Information -- 6.3.5 Accelerating Deployment of Emerging Technologies in Cybersecurity -- 6.3.6 Speeding Up Cybersecurity Talent Training -- 6.3.7 Expansion of International Cyberspace Cooperation -- 6.4 Continuous Development of Global Cybersecurity Industry -- 6.4.1 Growing Cybersecurity Industry , 6.4.2 New Technologies and Applications Empowering Industrial Development -- 6.4.3 Steady Development of Listed Cybersecurity Companies -- 6.5 Growing Militarization of Global Cyberspace -- 6.5.1 A Surge of Cyberspace Strategies Changing Traditional Warfare Rules -- 6.5.2 Large-Scale Cyber Force Intensifying Risk of War -- 6.5.3 Cyber Warfare as an Important Strategic Deterrence Between Countries -- 7 International Cyberspace Governance -- 7.1 Outline -- 7.2 International Cyberspace Governance Faces an Important Turn -- 7.2.1 Emerging Fragility and Uncertainty of International Cyberspace Rules -- 7.2.2 Various Participants Urgently Needed in International Cyberspace Governance -- 7.2.3 Slow Progress on International Cyberspace Rules -- 7.2.4 Major Challenges in the Construction of International Cyberspace Governance Order -- 7.3 Continuous Progress of International Cyberspace Governance Platform -- 7.3.1 The United Nations Internet Governance Forum (IGF) -- 7.3.2 The United Nations High-Level Panel on Digital Cooperation -- 7.3.3 The United Nations Group of Governmental Experts (UNGGE) and Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) on Information Security -- 7.3.4 World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) -- 7.3.5 International Telecommunication Union (ITU) -- 7.3.6 Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) -- 7.3.7 Internet Society (ISOC) -- 7.3.8 Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace (GCSC) -- 7.3.9 World Internet Conference -- 7.4 Traditional International Organizations Accelerating Their Participation in International Cyberspace Governance -- 7.4.1 G20 -- 7.4.2 The BRICS -- 7.4.3 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) -- 7.4.4 Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) -- 7.4.5 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) -- 7.5 Cyberspace Governance in Some Typical Countries and Regions , 7.5.1 The United States

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Studies, Chinese Academy of Cyberspace World Internet Development Report 2019 Singapore : Springer Singapore Pte. Limited,c2021 ISBN 9789813369375

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Note: Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- Strong, Weak, General, and Narrow -- Foolish Assumptions -- Icons Used in This Book -- Beyond the Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Part 1 Exploring Practical AI and How It Works -- Chapter 1 Demystifying Artificial Intelligence -- Understanding the Demand for AI -- Converting big data into actionable information -- Relieving global cost pressure -- Accelerating product development and delivery -- Facilitating mass customization -- Identifying the Enabling Technology -- Processing -- Algorithms -- Data -- Storage -- Discovering How It Works -- Semantic networks and symbolic reasoning -- Text and data mining -- Machine learning -- Auto-classification -- Predictive analysis -- Deep learning -- Sentiment analysis -- Chapter 2 Looking at Uses for Practical AI -- Recognizing AI When You See It -- ELIZA -- Grammar check -- Virtual assistants -- Chatbots -- Recommendations -- Medical diagnosis -- Network intrusion detection and prevention -- Fraud protection and prevention -- Benefits of AI for Your Enterprise -- Healthcare -- Manufacturing -- Energy -- Banking and investments -- Insurance -- Retail -- Legal -- Human resources -- Supply chain -- Transportation and travel -- Telecom -- Public sector -- Professional services -- Marketing -- Media and entertainment -- Chapter 3 Preparing for Practical AI -- Democratizing AI -- Visualizing Results -- Comparison -- Composition -- Distribution -- Relationship -- Digesting Data -- Identifying data sources -- Cleaning the data -- Defining Use Cases -- A → B -- Good use cases -- Bad use cases -- Reducing bias -- Choosing a Model -- Unsupervised learning -- Supervised learning -- Deep learning -- Reinforcement learning -- Chapter 4 Implementing Practical AI -- The AI Competency Hierarchy -- Data collection -- Data flow , Content management -- Compliance -- Law -- Manufacturing -- Oil and gas -- Utilities -- Examining the Use Cases -- Document intake, acceptance, digitization, maintenance, and management -- Auditing, fraud detection, and prevention -- Risk analysis and mitigation -- Regulatory compliance management -- Claims processing -- Inventory management -- Resume processing and candidate evaluation -- Chapter 17 Media and Entertainment: Beating the Gold Rush -- Mining for Content -- Asset management -- Metadata -- Distribution -- Silos -- Content compliance -- Striking It Rich -- Metadata -- Digital distribution -- Digital asset management -- Assaying the Algorithms -- Examining the Use Cases -- Search optimization -- Workflow optimization -- Globalization -- Part 3 Exploring Horizontal Market Applications -- Chapter 18 Voice of the Customer/Citizen: Finding Coherence in the Cacophony -- Hearing the Message in the Media -- Delivering What They Really Want -- Answering the Right Questions -- Examining Key Industries -- Consumer packaged goods -- Public and nonprofit organizations -- Chapter 19 Asset Performance Optimization: Increasing Value by Extending Lifespans -- Spying on Your Machines -- Fixing It Before It Breaks -- Learning from the Future -- Data collection -- Analysis -- Putting insights to use -- Examining the Use Cases -- Production automation and quality control -- Preventive maintenance -- Process optimization -- Chapter 20 Intelligent Recommendations: Getting Personal -- Making Friends by the Millions -- Listening to social media -- Mining data exhaust -- Reading Minds -- Knowing Which Buttons to Push -- Popular product recommendation -- Market-basket analysis -- Propensity modeling -- Data and text mining -- Collaborative filtering (CF) -- Content-based filtering (CBF) -- Cross-validation -- Data visualization -- Examining Key Industries , Explore and transform -- Business intelligence and analytics -- Machine learning and benchmarking -- Artificial intelligence -- Scoping, Setting Up, and Running an Enterprise AI Project -- Define the task -- Collect the data -- Prepare the data -- Build the model -- Test and evaluate the model -- Deploy and integrate the model -- Maintain the model -- Creating a High-Performing Data Science Team -- The Critical Role of Internal and External Partnerships -- Internal partnerships -- External partnerships -- The importance of executive buy-in -- Weighing Your Options: Build versus Buy -- When you should do it yourself -- When you should partner with a provider -- Hosting in the Cloud versus On Premises -- What the cloud providers say -- What the hardware vendors say -- The truth in the middle -- Part 2 Exploring Vertical Market Applications -- Chapter 5 Healthcare/HMOs: Streamlining Operations -- Surfing the Data Tsunami -- Breaking the Iron Triangle with Data -- Matching Algorithms to Benefits -- Examining the Use Cases -- Delivering lab documents electronically -- Taming fax -- Automating redaction -- Improving patient outcomes -- Optimizing for a consumer mindset -- Chapter 6 Biotech/Pharma: Taming the Complexity -- Navigating the Compliance Minefield -- Weaponizing the Medical, Legal, and Regulatory Review -- MLR review for product development -- MLR review for sales and marketing -- Enlisting Algorithms for the Cause -- Examining the Use Cases -- Product discovery -- Clinical trials -- Product development -- Quality control -- Predictive maintenance -- Manufacturing logistics -- Regulatory compliance -- Product commercialization -- Accounting and finance -- Chapter 7 Manufacturing: Maximizing Visibility -- Peering through the Data Fog -- Finding ways to reduce costs -- Handling zettabytes of data -- Clearing the Fog -- Connected supply chain , Finance , Moving to "open banking" -- Dealing with regulation and privacy -- Offering speedier service -- Leveraging Big Data -- Restructuring with Algorithms -- Examining the Use Cases -- Improving personalization -- Enhancing customer service -- Strengthening compliance and security -- Chapter 12 Retail: Reading the Customer's Mind -- Looking for a Crystal Ball -- Omnichanneling -- Personalizing -- Reading the Customer's Mail -- A fluid omnichannel experience -- Enhanced personalization -- Accurate forecasting -- Looking Behind the Curtain -- Examining the Use Cases -- Voice of the customer -- Personalized recommendations -- AI-powered inventory -- Chapter 13 Transportation and Travel: Tuning Up Your Ride -- Avoiding the Bumps in the Road -- Planning the Route -- Checking Your Tools -- Examining the Use Cases -- Autonomous vehicles -- Predictive maintenance -- Asset performance optimization -- Enhanced driver and passenger experiences -- Chapter 14 Telecommunications: Connecting with Your Customers -- Listening Past the Static -- Finding the Signal in the Noise -- Looking Inside the Box -- Examining the Use Cases -- Achieve predictive maintenance and network optimization -- Enhance customer service with chatbots -- Improve business decisions -- Chapter 15 Legal Services: Cutting Through the Red Tape -- Climbing the Paper Mountain -- Reading and writing -- And arithmetic -- Foot in mouth disease -- Planting Your Flag at the Summit -- Linking Algorithms with Results -- Examining the Use Cases -- Discovery and review -- Predicting cost and fit -- Analyzing data to support litigation -- Automating patent and trademark searches -- Analyzing costs for competitive billing -- Chapter 16 Professional Services: Increasing Value to the Customer -- Exploring the AI Pyramid -- Climbing the AI Pyramid -- Unearthing the Algorithmic Treasures -- Healthcare , Proactive replenishment -- Predictive maintenance -- Pervasive visibility -- Clarifying the Connection to the Code -- Optimize inventory -- Optimize maintenance -- Optimize supply chain -- Improve quality -- Automate repetitive tasks -- Examining the Use Cases -- Minimize risk -- Maintain product quality -- Streamline database queries -- Outsource predictive maintenance -- Customize products -- Expand revenue streams -- Save the planet -- Delegate design -- Chapter 8 Oil and Gas: Finding Opportunity in Chaos -- Wrestling with Volatility -- Pouring Data on Troubled Waters -- Deriving meaningful insights -- Regaining control over your data -- Wrangling Algorithms for Fun and Profit -- Examining the Use Cases -- Achieving predictive maintenance -- Enhancing maintenance instructions -- Optimizing asset performance -- Exploring new projects -- Chapter 9 Government and Nonprofits: Doing Well by Doing Good -- Battling the Budget -- Government -- Nonprofit -- Fraud -- Optimizing Past the Obstacles -- Digital transformation -- The future of work -- Data security -- Operational costs -- Fraud -- Engagement -- Connecting the Tools to the Job -- Examining the Use Cases -- Enhance citizen services -- Provide a global voice of the citizen -- Make your city smarter -- Boost employee productivity and engagement -- Find the right employees (and volunteers) -- Improve cybersecurity -- Chapter 10 Utilities: Renewing the Business -- Coping with the Consumer Mindset -- Utilizing Big Data -- The smart grid -- Empowering the organization -- Connecting Algorithms to Goals -- Examining the Use Cases -- Optimizing equipment performance and maintenance -- Enhancing the customer experience -- Providing better support -- Streamlining back-office operations -- Managing demand -- Chapter 11 Banking and Financial Services: Making It Personal -- Finding the Bottom Line in the Data

Additional Edition: Print version Jarvinen, Zachary Enterprise AI for Dummies Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,c2020 ISBN 9781119696292

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Content: A reconceptualised edition of the prescient bestseller, first published in 1982, that alerted the public to the likely impacts of information technologies and the emergence of a post-industrial society. When Sleepers, Wake! was first released in Australia, it immediately became influential around the world- it was read by Deng Xiaoping and Bill Gates; was published in China, Japan, South Korea, and Sweden; and led to the author being the first Australian minister invited to address a G-7 summit meeting, held in Canada in 1985. Now its author, the polymath and former politician Barry Jones, turns his attention to what has happened since - especially to work, class, social relationships, and climate in the digital age - and to the challenges faced by increasingly fragile democracies and public institutions. Jones sees climate change as the greatest problem of our time, especially because political leaders are incapable of dealing with complex, long-term issues of such magnitude. Meanwhile, technologies such as the smartphone and the ubiquity of social media have reinforced the realm of the personal. This has weakened our sense of, or empathy with, 'the other', the remote, the unfamiliar, and all but destroyed our sense of community, of being members of broad, inclusive groups. In the post-truth era, politicians invent 'facts' and ignore or deny the obvious, while business and the media are obsessed with marketing and consumption for the short term. Sleepers, Wake! Revisited is a long-awaited update on such challenges of modernity

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Content: " Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djèlí Clark goes full-length for the first time in his dazzling debut novel Cairo, 1912: Though Fatma el-Sha'arawi is the youngest woman working for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities, she's certainly not a rookie, especially after preventing the destruction of the universe last summer. So when someone murders a secret brotherhood dedicated to one of the most famous men in history, al-Jahiz, Agent Fatma is called onto the case. Al-Jahiz transformed the world forty years ago when he opened up the veil between the magical and mundane realms, before vanishing into the unknown. This murderer claims to be al-Jahiz, returned to condemn the modern age for its social oppressions. His dangerous magical abilities instigate unrest in the streets of Cairo that threaten to spill over onto the global stage. Alongside her Ministry colleagues and a familiar person from her past, Agent Fatma must unravel the mystery behind this imposter to restore peace to the city or face the possibility he could be exactly who he seems... Novellas by P. Djèlí Clark The Black God's Drums The Haunting of Tram Car 015 Ring Shout The Dead Djinn Universe contains stories set primarily in Clark's fantasy alternate Cairo, and can be enjoyed in any order. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. "

Content: Biographisches: "Born in New York and raised mostly in Houston, P. DJÈLÍ CLARK spent the formative years of his life in the homeland of his parents, Trinidad and Tobago. P. Djèlí Clark is the author of the novellas The Black God's Drums, winner of a 2019 Alex Award from the American Library Association,The Haunting of Tram Car 015,and A Dead Djinn in Cairo. His short story The Secret Lives of the Nine Negro Teeth of George Washington (Fireside Fiction) has earned him both a Nebula and Locus award. He is loosely associated with the quarterly FIYAH: A Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction and an infrequent reviewer at Strange Horizons. He currently resides in New England and ruminates on issues of diversity in speculative fiction." Rezension(2): "Publishers Weekly, Starred Review: Clark reconfigures history with a keen, critical eye toward gender, class, and imperialism. An epic tale of magic and mystery, this is sure to wow. " Rezension(3): "Hugo Award winner Alix E. Harrow, author of The Ten Thousand Doors of January : A Master of Djinn is everything you might expect from Clark: cinematic action, a radical reimagining of real history, and magic on every page. I loved it." Rezension(4): "Mary Robinette Kowal, Hugo and Nebula award-winning author of The Calculating Stars : A Master of Djinn has all the tricky twists I want in a police procedural and all the djinns, magic and wonder I want from fantasy." Rezension(5): "Django Wexler, author of The Thousand Names :Fascinating! I love the intricate alt-history world of A Master of Djinn , with its hints at the changed destinies of nations and ordinary people alike after the cataclysmic return of magic to the world. Clark gives us an engaging mystery with a wonderful mix of the fantastic and the mundane, chain-smoking crocodile gods, stuffy marid librarians, and a brilliant heroine with a dashing bowler." Rezension(6): "〈a href=http://lj.libraryjournal.com/ target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/libraryjournal_logo.png alt=Library Journal border=0 /〉〈/a〉: December 1, 2020 Forty years ago, mystic/inventor Al-Jahiz sundered the veil dividing worlds, letting magic seep into this world while vanishing into the beyond. Djinns now flit about 1912 Cairo while the Egyptian Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities strives to keep the peace. Then someone claiming to be Al-Jahiz wipes out the secret brotherhood protecting his legacy, and ministry agent Fatma el-Sha'arawi gets busy. From Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award winner Clark. Copyright 2020 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission. " Rezension(7): "〈a href=https://www.booklistonline.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/booklist_logo.png alt=Booklist border=0 /〉〈/a〉: March 15, 2021 In 1912, forty years after the mystic al-Jahiz put a hole through the realities that allowed djinn to enter our world, Cairo is a bustling metropolis with commerce, intrigue, and steampunk technology. The Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments, and Supernatural Entities keeps the peace between humans and everyone else in the city. When someone claiming to be al-Jahiz stirs up trouble in advance of a summit of world powers, Agent Fatma el-Sha'arawi, the young and capable ministry employee with a penchant for dressing like an English gentleman (introduced in A Dead Djinn in Cairo, 2016), is called in and paired with a determined new academy graduate, Hadia Abdel Hafez. As al-Jahiz fans the flames of unrest and manifests the ability to control djinn, Fatma and her allies, including her inscrutable love interest Siti, rush to identify and stop their foe before the world is destroyed. Clark deftly explores colonialism and the history of Cairo with an immersive setting that acts as another character in this delightful combination of mystery, fantasy, and romance. Give this to alternate history enthusiasts and mystery readers who enjoy a dose of the magical. Fans of S. A. Chakraborty, Martha Wells, and Zen Cho should be particularly pleased. COPYRIGHT(2021) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. "

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