“Funny and poignant... Craig Thomas is a big-hearted, empathetic writer who knows his characters inside and out." —Tom Perrotta, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Mrs. Fletcher and The Leftovers“Funny, real and moving all at once...[A] wonderful, heartfelt debut.” –Lin-Manuel Miranda, Tony-Award Winning creator of Broadway’s Hamilton**From the Emmy-nominated co-creator and Execut...

This is a step-by-step, task-based, practical guide to learning and getting your basic XenDesktop 7.x site up and running. It is fast, easy, and makes learning desktop and application virtualization simple. If you are a system administrator, consultant, or beginner who wants to implement and administer Citrix XenDesktop sites, then this book is for you. Familiarity with virtualization of desktops and applications and datacenter concepts will be helpful. The ability to read network diagrams...

Successfully deploy XenDesktop sites for a high performance Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)Key Features\[\*\] Size the VDI environment so the administrator has breathing room to design and build their XenDesktop systems efficiently\[\*\] Use desktop virtualization tools to provide users fast, convenient access to their Windows Desktops\[\*\] Understand the key pinch points in the resource layers such as; the Client layer, Network Layer, Ac...

The art of mentoring, like all great arts, is a grace to be received, a gift to be given, and a skill that can be learned and practiced. This book explores the practice and grace of that art. The pastors in these pages share their hard-won experience of mentoring and being mentored, their wobbles and successes, insights and wisdom harvested from years in the vineyard.

An airliner has been hijacked and the clock is ticking... The riveting first novel from Craig Thomas, father of the technothrillerThere is relief at Heathrow Airport after a Boeing 707 touches down safely, having experienced engine trouble mid-flight. But when the pilot stops answering the control tower's radio calls, panic spreads again.During the landing, the plane was hijacked by a group of Americans. Their demands? The release of a known terrorist, Shafiq Naso...

The West's new submarine technology could change the direction of the Cold War, and the USSR will go through hell and high water to steal itThe Cold War shows no signs of thawing. The Royal Navy is testing new, top-secret technology aboard their nuclear submarine, Proteus. Known as Sea Leopard, the device can render an entire submarine invisible to sonar, allowing it to sail anywhere, undetected.But the secret is out: the Soviets know all about it. With Sea Leopa...

At the height of the Cold War, a new Soviet threat triggers a daring heist, and the stakes couldn't be higher'A defining novel of the genre and a lost classic' James SwallowBritish and American intelligence services have just learned of the Soviet Union's latest aircraft: the MiG-31.Codenamed "Firefox", the plane is a marvel of engineering stealthy, hypersonic, with a thought-guided weapons system outclassing anything flown by the West. Faced with Soviet air domin...

Climate change is prompting an unprecedented questioning of the fundamental bases upon which society is founded. Businesses claim that technology can save the environment, while politicians champion the role of international environmental agreements to secure global action. Economists suggest that we should pay developing countries not to destroy their forests, while environmentalists question whether we can solve ecological problems with the same thinking that created them. As the process...

Behind the Iron Curtain, there are whispers of war, revolution and the mysterious Group 1917When British Intelligence steals infrared images from Finland, they uncover more than they bargained for: the images contain clues that point towards an alarming Soviet conspiracy in the frozen climes of the RussoFinnish border. The Red Army is planning a coup. If successful, it will trigger an invasion of Finland and Norway, and the next world war.Supported by the CIA, MI6 spymast...

They tried to kill him once. Now they're back to try againRichard Gardiner was once a wartime British Agent, tortured and left for dead by the Gestapo in Paris. He escaped with the help of the French Resistance, but was betrayed one final time. Somehow he survived one final attempt on his life: a hit-and-run assassination to guarantee his silence.The end of the Second World War is now decades past, and Richard is a successful country lawyer. He is safe fr...

Second Edition just released! More Technical Marketing secrets revealed. Technical Marketing II - The Quiet Poison Release - is the complete underground guide to kicking your competitions a**. Based on the infamously popular first edition The Silicon Valley Survival Handbook. The second edition is updated with new sections on Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Social Media Marketing (SMM), Product Teardowns, Pricing, The Venture Capitalists (VC), Blogging and Growth Hacking. Tools of the Tr...

Firefox is down and on thin iceThe unputdownable thriller from a modern masterBadly damaged and rapidly losing fuel after a brutal dogfight, stolen Cold War super-plane Firefox is forced to land on a frozen lake twenty miles from the Norwegian frontier. When the ice breaks, pilot Mitchell Gant has no choice but to abandon the aircraft and run for his life.As NATO races against the Soviets to recover Firefox from its icy tomb, Gant is hunted across Russia ...