GERRY DUGGAN & DAVID O'SULLIVAN of ANALOG fame reteam on the perfect comic book to celebrate Halloween. It's the first appearance of HECTOR SMALLEY, a guitar tech known as THE PALADIN OF AXES. He's working for the world's biggest rock band, and when he and the whole band are killed in a plane crash, it's unexpectedly just the beginning of his bad times. It's a sad tale of working yourself to death—literally. Equal parts Evil Dead and Time Bandits, this horror comedy will put a smile on you...

The internet has collapsed, and now it 's up to steadfast armed couriers called Ledger Men to move sensitive information around the world in locked briefcases. In the wake of the chaos and conspiracy of ANALOG, VOL. 1, one such Ledger Man, hard-drinking human punching bag Jack McGinnis, must unravel the mystery of his nemesisÕ return to power and survive a burn notice from his old pals in the intelligence community. Collects ANALOG #6-10

2024: the world has been mass-doxxed, and the internet is only for porn. Every email, photo, and document ever sent rains down out of the cloud, and only a fool would send a secret over the web. This is the era of the "Paper Jockeys ": armed couriers with a briefcase of secrets who 'll get your sensitive information around the globe or die trying. Human punching bag Jack McGinnis and his partner Oona are two of the best couriers in the business. For a price, they 'll move your sensitive in...

Collaboration among industry, universities and research institutes plays a vital role in stimulating open innovation, which in turn leads to new products, processes, services and business models. This book brings together a number of real-life examples of how to govern and manage open innovation collaboration projects more effectively, and provides timely insights that project consortia, governance boards and funding agencies can directly apply to implement and monitor projects and achieve...

[Siren Allure ManLove: Erotic Romance, Contemporary, Alternative, Interracial, Spanking, MM, HEA] Landon Jackson is a waiter, thirty with a small build. He's never had a relationship last beyond one year. Roarke Jackson, no relation, comes in to eat. Roarke is tall, Black, forty-three, and over six feet tall and fit. He's a retired police officer after he's shot on duty. He has a long history of lovers cheating on him and he worries it will happen again. They both fall for the other and di...

All companies which reach a critical size are faced with outsourcing decisions that can increase the value of their products and services primarily through lower costs, greater reliability and improved efficiency. Successful outsourcing decisions have an important knowledge dimension, where the outsourcing professionals need to be supported by historical and contextual knowledge regarding their own products performance but also the performance of suppliers. Outsourcing in Manufacturing...

A ground-up approach to explaining dynamic spatial modelling for an interdisciplinary audience.Across broad areas of the environmental and social sciences, simulation models are an important way to study systems inaccessible to scientific experimental and observational methods, and also an essential complement to those more conventional approaches. The contemporary research literature is teeming with abstract simulation models whose presentation is mathematically d...

David O'Sullivan and Kevin McCallum are passionate about sport. They are fascinated by its vivid characters, heart-stopping moments and its endless drama. Over years of watching, reading and reporting on great sporting events, they have amassed a wealth of knowledge. After much deliberation, debate and pursuit of famous sports stars for personal anecdotes, they have produced this book: a fascinating collection of trivia and behind-the-scenes stories about South African sport over the years...

The Extraordinary Book of South African Cricket is the perfect gift for any cricket fanatic. Following up on their tremendous success with The Penguin Book of South African Sports Trivia, Kevin McCallum and David O'Sullivan have trawled the South African cricket archives and put together a collection of behind-the-scenes tales, curiosities, trivia, quotable quotes, famous pranks, amazing-but-true scorecards, great triumphs and embarrassing blunders. This encyclopaedia of South Afr...

Business process re-engineering tools offer techniques to model the enterprise and identify opportunities to make change. This book examines the approaches, tools and techniques which support redesign of the enterprise to achieve world class performance.

A step-by-step approach to applying high-impact innovation principles in any organizationInnovation is an important force in creating and sustaining organizational growth. Effective innovation can mean the difference between leading with a particular product, process, or service—and simply following the pack. Innovation transforms mediocre companies into world leaders and ordinary organizations into stimulating environments for employees.Ap...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Geographic Information Science, GIScience 2016, held in Montreal, QC, Canada, in September 2016. The 21 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 63 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections such as spatial algorithms; network analysis; spatial analysis; spatial methods; user-generated data and linked data; automated cartography and geovisualization.