"Artificial Intelligence is accelerating execution and exposing architectural weaknesses faster than ever before. Enterprise Architecture must be practical, early, and accountable—or it will be bypassed." This book connects real-world successes, failures, and recoveries from inside organizations where outcomes truly mattered in the modern AI and SaaS ecosystem. It provides a clear view of how leaders must navigate the business landscape to achieve the business outcomes enterprises now requ...

"The Endowed Charities of Kensington: By Whom Bequeathed, and How Administered" by Edward Morton Daniel explores the historical context and significance of charitable endowments in Kensington. The book delves into the origins of various charitable institutions, detailing the benefactors who established them and the purposes they aimed to serve. Daniel meticulously documents the administration of these charities, providing insights into how they have evolved over time and their impact on th...

This book investigates the financial aspects of crusading in the thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. Taking the kingdom of England as a case study, it explores a variety of themes, such as how much crusades cost, how they were financed, how funds were transferred to the East and how crusaders fared financially after their return. Its fundamental argument, in contrast with current historiography, is that it was the "private" fundraising of individuals – not the "public" fundraising o...

A War within a War, within a WarYou asked for a conflict within the Viet Nam EraYou got itPost-Traumatic Stress Disorder - Combat ReadinessA normal reaction to abnormal circumstancesMy Heroes have always been ChristiansAgent Orange PoisoningYou got itA Real McCoyYou got itKiller Kilo 3/1, First Marine DivisionIf you can handle itYou got itIt takes a VillageWashington * Oregon * T...

Climate Engineering: A Normative Perspective takes as its subject a prospective policy response to the urgent problem of climate change, one previously considered taboo. Climate engineering, the “deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the planetary environment in order to counteract anthropogenic climate change,” encapsulates a wide array of technological proposals. Daniel Edward Callies here focuses on one proposal currently being researched—stratospheric aerosol injection—which would sp...

A trucker losing his mind on the open road.A rock star living one night in a hundred different hotels.A hardened Santa with a sidearm and a short fuse.A civilization undone by its own creation.Everything That Comes With It is a collection of dark, twisted urban short stories where the ordinary collides with the absurd.Spanning horror, satire, science fiction, and dark comedy, these twenty standalone tales explore strange moments in modern li...

Tom Pinder, Foundling is a romance and moral tale, set in the early part of the 19th Century, to the backdrop of the Greenfield and Holme Valleys when both were a part of West Yorkshire. It deals with the life of a foundling, Victorian values, the burgeoning of the cooperative movement and the Holmfirth flood. The book was first published c.1902 and subsequently published under the title Dorothy’s Choice (A Rushing of the Waters).Sykes is one of few novelists who chose to portray th...

MIRIAM: A Tale of Pole Moor and the Greenfield Hills links the protagonists to The Burn Platts, an area above Slaithwaite near Pole Moor where a group of Romanys or Gypsies lived around the time of an incident which took place, in 1832, at the Moorcock Inn, on the edge of the bleak moorland above Greenfield near Saddleworth. It was at this remote pub that the landlord and his gamekeeper son were violently murdered. The Burnplatters were described by MR. G. S. Philips in 1848 as a group of ...

In all of Sykes' novels he draws heavily on his own life experiences though none more so than in this, his third, semi-autobiographical novel. The Edward Beaumont of the novel is indeed Sykes; his solicitors practice and early political aspirations are featured along with his romance of the daughter of a Lincolnshire vicar. From newspaper articles we can also confirm that he was a councillor and a potential parliamentary candidate for the West Staffordshire constituency; his embroilment wi...

In all of Sykes’ novels he draws heavily on his own life experiences though none more so than in this, his third, semi-autobiographical novel. The Edward Beaumont of the novel is indeed Sykes; his solicitors practice and early political aspirations are featured along with his romance of the daughter of a Lincolnshire vicar. From newspaper articles we can also confirm that he was a councillor and a potential parliamentary candidate for the West Staffordshire constituency; his embroilment wi...

For more than 80 years, clinicians worldwide have relied on The Washington Manual® of Medical Therapeutics to provide succinct, practical guidance for the challenges that residents, interns, medical students, and practitioners face every day in the hospital. Written by faculty, fellows, and internal medicine chief residents of the distinguished Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, The Washington Manual of Medical Therapeutics, 38th Edition presents brief, logical approach...

"The Art of Music. Vol. 01 (of 14)" is a comprehensive exploration of the narrative history of music, focusing on the Pre-classic Periods. Edited by notable figures such as Leland Hall, Edward Burlingame Hill, Daniel Gregory Mason, and Cesar Saerchinger, this volume delves into the origins and evolution of music before the classical era. It provides readers with insights into the cultural and historical contexts that shaped early musical forms, highlighting the significance of various trad...