Learn how to integrate well-known concepts, methods and processes from ITIL® and COBIT®, combining the best from each approach. IT4B is not about reinventing your favourite method, but putting it into the context of improvement and identifying any potential gaps.Written by service management experts with years of real-life experience, ensuring sensible, practical and effective advice.This book reads like a conversation on IT service management. Rather than reinvent...

A Minnesota journalist breaks down the cold case that has beguiled a community and haunted his family for generations.At 3:30 a.m. on April 11, 1933, neighbors and firefighters arrived at the farmhouse of Albin and Alvira Johnson to find a smoldering heap where a seemingly happy home once stood. Beneath the ruins, investigators found the bodies of Alvira and her seven children, but Albin's remains were nowhere to be seen. The authorities determined that Alvira and ...

Caution: This is a true story based on real-life events and contains many triggers.As a young lad, I was exposed to grave robbing, car theft, murder, extortion, abuse, parental abandonment, nudity, and troubles with the "Queen."

A Brace of Professors is comprised of both ‘Professor’ stories.THE PROFESSOR: The self-titled character gives up his Lepidopterist hobby after observing Charles Montgomery Hackett pedal his pushbike into the rear end of a stationary bus. The "Professor" instantly decides to abandon the butterfly and moth fraternity and become an anthropologist instead. He is going to study Charlie. However, the Professor is not a well man, mentally speaking.Between lust-fuelled desire for h...

The Testament of Solomon comprises a family of texts, some dating to the fourth century CE or earlier, relating an extra-Biblical account of King Solomon's divinely-conferred power to constrain the demons who plague the human race. It is also, implicitly, a handbook for those bold or foolhardy enough to follow his example in the demonological sciences.Translated here for the first time from fifteenth-century Byzantine Greek manuscripts, one such text of this secret Solomon...

Collaborative business service design (CBSD) is a methodology to help business and IT cooperate more effectively to create IT-driven business services that fully support business requirements.This adapted version of CBSD for the Fundamentals Series explores the characteristics of IT-driven business services, their requirements and how to gather the right requirements to improve the service lifecycle throughout design, development and maintenance until decommissioning. By understand...

Science fiction is the playground of the imagination. If you are interested in science or fascinated with the future then science fiction is where you explore new ideas and let your dreams and nightmares duke it out on the safety of the page or screen. But what if we could use science fiction to do more than that? What if we could use science fiction based on science fact to not only imagine our future but develop new technologies and products? What if we could use stories, movies and comi...

When companies develop a new technology, do they ask how it might affect the people who will actually use it? That, more or less, sums up Brian David Johnson’s duties as Intel’s futurist-in-residence. In this fascinating book, Johnson provides a collection of science fiction prototyping stories that attempt to answer the question.These stories focus on the same theme: scientists and thinkers exploring personal robotics as a new form of artificial intelligence. This isn’t fanciful s...

The author of Tube Ritual shares his money-making Internet tactics: SEO, list building, persuasion, self-publishing video marketing, and more.Here is the true story of how Brian G. Johnson generated millions of dollars in revenue (and kept a pretty penny) by leveraging the big sites online such as YouTube, Facebook, Amazon, and his own marketing blog. Trust Funnel focuses on the most important elements found in highly successful online businesses, ...

In the first book of its kind, an acclaimed futurist gives readers the tools they need to envision and create the future they want.If you’re like most people, thinking about tomorrow makes you anxious. You may have dreams of what you want to do or where you want to be in the next few months, years, or decade, but you’re fearful because you don’t know what may await. Unfortunately, this apprehension affects how you make decisions today—the kind of decisions that wil...

How does one handle infidelity? Follow the ups and downs of this story that chronicles the tragic end of one marriage to the triumphant beginning of another. See the self-inflicted wounds caused by bad decision-making from emotional pain and scars and celebrate the rebuilding of a new life. This story will bring out every emotion, from sadness to anger to joy, and will show that trusting in the right person leads to real happiness.

Comprehensive introduction to aerodynamics applied to different types of modern aircraft, now updated with the latest FAA guidanceFlight Theory and Aerodynamics provides an introduction to aerodynamics using practical application to modern aircraft with step-by-step calculations. This fifth edition streamlines content, notably the chapters on aircraft stability, and incorporates updated FAA guidance and figures from the 2023 Pilot’s Handbook of Aeronau...