Capturing the electric short fiction energy that led Robert E. Howard to be one of the top fantasy writers of the century, with exclusive serialized eBook stories starring Conan, Solomon Kane, and more by many of today's top writers in fantasy and sword-and-sorcery.A search for Roman gold leads Cormac Mac Art and Wulfhere the Skull-Splitter to the Isle of Swords. Before they reach the shore, a shipwreck kills their entire crew and strands the duo on the cursed isla...

Key FeaturesBook DescriptionThis book is a great introduction for Java developers, software architects, or DevOps looking to enable scalable and agile data within their applications. Providing in-memory object storage, cluster-wide state and messaging, or even scalable task execution, Hazelcast helps solve a number of issues that have troubled technologists for years.What you will learnLearn and store numerous data types in different d...

Film is popularly described as a mirror of culture. It plays a pivotal role in facilitating intercultural dialogue in our global village. World cinema helps us understand and appreciate each others cultural identity, and promotes harmony across different cultures in our pluralistic society. It introduces us to the life of the other in an entertaining yet engaging fashion, creating cultural bridges that foster a sense of unity in the midst of our diversity.This book argues that cult...

A troubled teen. A school with secrets. A risky plan.Fourteen-year-old Sam Snyder thinks he is going on a short vacation to visit his godfather. Instead, his adoptive mother drops him off at a Baptist reform school in the backwoods of Missouri. Surrounded by razor-wire fences, violent at-risk youth, and oppressive staff, he quickly realizes that he's not in California anymore.Between fistfights, fire-and-brimstone sermons, and falling in love with a girl th...

This PhD thesis is dedicated to a subfield of elementary particle physics called “Flavour Physics”. The Standard Model of Particle Physics (SM) has been confirmed by thousands of experimental measurements with a high precision. But the SM leaves important questions open, like what is the nature of dark matter or what is the origin of the matter-antimatter asymmetry in the Universe.By comparing high precision Standard Model calculations with extremely precise measurements, one can f...

THIS BOOK IS ABOUT THE REAL ALMIGHTY GOD. THESE ARE THE ACTUAL ACTIONS OF GOD, WHILE CLAIMING TO BE SATAN, AND THE DEVIL. THIS IS THE HOLY TRITY COUGHT RED HANDED. THE FATHER, THE SON, THE HOLY SPIRIT, ARE IN FACT GOD/SATN/AND THE DEVIL. THERE IS NO JAIL FOR SATAN, IHE LIVES WTH GOD BECAUSE HE IS HIS SON. THE DEVIL IS GOD'S LIFE PARTNER OR HUSBAND. YES, ABSOLUTLEY, GOD IS GAY. GOD IS MONTERO. SATAN IS A ALIAS THE HOLY TRINITY USE TO COMMIT CRIMES ALL OVER EARTH. THIS BOOK ALSO LISTS COMPAN...

After his father died on 9/11 in the World Trade Center, nine-year-old Matthew John Bocchi began an obsessive quest to find out exactly how he died. He researched video tapes, pictures, blogs, anything that could potentially answer the question looming in his mind: was his father one of the jumpers? In the first memoir told by a child of 9/11, Matt intimately delves into the psychological and emotional torment that ensued after his father's death. With heartbreaking vulnerability, he detai...

This book introduces Lean Six Sigma (LSS) to engineers and managers interested in implementing LSS at their organizations. The book provides a detailed roadmap and industry examples to aid readers in understanding and implementing the LSS system. This book discusses the LSS process to define improvement needs, measure current business performance, analyze performance results using statistical tools, improve business and financial results, and control peak business performance.

There will be a day when we will have no more tears, sadness, fears, pain, and suffering. These are part of Jeremy Camp's song ,There Will be a Day. In this powerful song Matthew listened about the burdens of earth going away some day. God is going to wipe away the tears that we have. So here we are, with our burdens and our crosses. However, there is so much joy, hope, happiness, and strength in the world. There is a lot to enjoy in this life. Until that day that Jeremy Camp tells about, ...

Nothing ever goes to plan, but that is all part of the adventure.Join Harrison and his family as they travel around Australia in a hilarious and heartwarming story.Based on actual events

A troubled teen. A school with secrets. A risky plan.Fourteen-year-old Sam Snyder thinks he is going on a short vacation to visit his godfather. Instead, his adoptive mother drops him off at a Baptist reform school in the backwoods of Missouri. Surrounded by razor-wire fences, violent at-risk youth, and oppressive staff, he quickly realizes that he's not in California anymore.Between fistfights, fire-and-brimstone sermons, and falling in love with a girl th...

Why are zombies consuming the popular imagination? This book--part social analysis, part theological critique, and part devotional--considers how the zombie can be a way to critically situate our culture, awash with consumer products. Matthew Tan considers how zombies are the endpoint of social theory's exploration of consumer culture and its postsecular turn towards an earthly immortality, enacted on the flesh of consumers. The book also shows how zombies aid our appreciation of Christ's ...