What would you do if the darkness beneath reality began to seep into our world?Erik stared into the swirling vortex of pure darkness, feeling it pull at his very essence as he prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice.On a remote Norwegian oil rig, deep-sea drilling awakens an ancient, eldritch darkness blacker than the void. As the crew grapples with escalating horror and various forms of madness, they uncover a cosmic threat that could reshape the ...

Regulation is a matter of central importance to industries, consumers, citizens, and governments alike. The third edition of Understanding Regulation provides the reader with an introduction to key debates on regulation and does so from a number of disciplinary perspectives, looking to law, economics, business, political science, sociology, and social administration. The book has been extensively revised and updated to account for the significant developments in business, regulati...

Airport design and operation are always closely related. A poor design affects the airport operations, resulting in increased costs, and a sound understanding of operation is needed to enable good design. The aim of this third edition is to present an updated and integrated approach to the two. The chapters have been enhanced to reflect changes in technology and the way the air transport industry functions. Key topics that are newly addressed in this book include low cost airline operation...

How far would you go to protect your village from an incomprehensible cosmic horror?Antonio's hand trembled as he reached for the glowing Phoenician artifact, aware that using it might save his people but cost him everything.In the picturesque fishing village of Pedregalejo, Antonio Romero's simple life is shattered when he pulls a bizarre, unnatural creature from the Mediterranean depths. As strange occurrences plague the village and an charismati...

What if the secrets of the universe were never meant to be known?As Elsa's fingers flew across the keyboard, decoding the alien signal, reality itself began to warp around her.Dr. Elsa Weber, a brilliant astrophysicist at Schwarzwald Observatory, detects an anomalous signal from deep space that defies explanation. As she delves deeper into its mysteries, she uncovers patterns that hint at an ancient, alien intelligence. Driven by scientific curiosi...

Regulation is often thought of as an activity that restricts behaviour and prevents the occurrence of certain undesirable activities, but the influence of regulation can also be enabling or facilitative, as when a market could potentially be chaotic if uncontrolled. This Handbook provides a clear and authoritative discussion of the major trends and issues in regulation over the last thirty years, together with an outline of prospective developments. It brings together contributionsfrom lea...

Using machine learning for products, services, and critical business processes is quite different from using ML in an academic or research setting—especially for recent ML graduates and those moving from research to a commercial environment. Whether you currently work to create products and services that use ML, or would like to in the future, this practical book gives you a broad view of the entire field.Authors Robert Crowe, Hannes Hapke, Emily Caveness, and Di Zhu help you ident...

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Speeches of Note by Shaun Usher, compèred by Richard Cordery, and with speeches read by a variety of narrators.SPEECHES OF NOTE: seventy-five extraordinary ways to step into someone else’s shoes.From Shaun Usher, the author of the international bestseller LETTERS OF NOTE, comes an obsessively curated, richly illustrated and sumptuously produced collection of speeches from throu...

Return to the era when science fiction magazines introduced readers to impossible planets, experimental machines, and heroes facing problems no one had imagined before. This volume delivers twenty more rediscovered stories filled with daring explorers, clever schemers, unexpected encounters, and mysteries hidden in the vastness of space.Some tales plunge into the dangers of alien environments while others follow quiet characters who suddenly find themselves facing extraordinary sit...

Virtually all enterprises are regulated. Regulation is crucial not only to economic success but also to protecting consumer, worker, environmental, and other interests. Yet it is often considered a tiresome interference with entrepreneurial activity. This negative vision is unhelpful in addressing business and other needs for productive forms of regulation. Taming the Corporation offers an alternative, positive, vision of regulation. It stresses the role of good regulation in allo...

Apes! Sex fiends! Gangsters! Mad scientists! Tentacles! Yes, this MEGAPACK has them all, no less than 25 lurid tales ripped from the pages of pulp fiction magazines. For The Pulp Fiction Megapack, we selected stories with great pulp titles. (Where else are you going to find stories like "Blood for the Vampire Dead," "Mistress of Snarling Death," or "When Super-Apes Plot"?) Of course, these stories were all written in a different time, with different standards of what was acceptable. They a...

The Steampunk Megapack collects 26 tales of high adventure through Victorian and Edwardian eras--past, present, and future! Included are:MIDNIGHT AT VALDOSTA'S, by Jay LakeTHE CASE OF THE PECULIAR SAFECRACKER, by G. D. FalksenTHE ACQUISITION OF MANDRAKES AND ASSISTANTS, by Jillian VentersTHE WHISPERER IN DARKNESS, by H. P. LovecraftTHE BRASS GOGGLE FACTORY WORKER, by John LeavittTHE PATH OF PROGRESS, by Brian StablefordTHE TAILED MEN, by Ar...