What real-life character inspired Bram Stoker's classic Dracula? Did a blood-sucking demon haunt ancient Mespotamia? Did 16th-century Venetians drive a stake through the heart of a true vampire, or was something more sinister at work? For thousands of years vampires have both terrified and titillated our imaginations. Today vampires pervade our popular culture in books, films, and TV shows, and recent discoveries are shedding new light on the origins of vampire myth and legend. This fascin...

Jack Wright is a veteran detective with a tragic past, an uncertain future, and a passion for solving puzzles. As a member of the Toronto Police Service Hold-Up Squad, Jack is tired of always having to clean up after the fact. When the blueprints of a robbery that has yet to take place land on his desk, there's only one problem...he can't read a word of them. The details of the heist are contained on a computer hard drive, protected by an unbreakable security code, seized in an explosive p...

When the going gets tough, the tough get going. Vesperos knew he was in for a hard life, and that it would begin before he was ready. In slavery to piracy and all that he endures, he is determined to maintain his integrity - whatever the cost. Meanwhile his best friend is in tow with a wizard desperately trying to track him down and unbeknown to them all another party seeks his life. A friend in need is a friend indeed, but does Vesperos actually need his friends?

Get ahead in HTML5, including markup, styling, and scripting, with many practical examples and best practice insights. You’ll quickly understand HTML5 markup elements and when to use them, and then apply the latest CSS3 features to create amazing web pages.Pro HTML5 with CSS, JavaScript, and Multimedia teaches the fundamentals of client-side scripting and covers the immense functionality available with HTML5. Learn to use JavaScript to create web applications that are dyna...

Narrated by Silvane, an apprentice to the wizard Herloff, this tale of heroics and foolishness relates a mission to eliminate a renegade witch, Rhavinia. On their way as they gather an unlikely company of heroes, they realise the degree of the complexity of their task. Essentially the future of the kingdom rests on their success or failure and Rhavinia is tougher than anyone dared to dream. As Silvane narrates, we have insights about the world of wizards that is aloof from the ordinary wor...

Vesperos knew in time he would be in for a tough life, but he didn't know how or why. Had he taken his destiny more seriously he might have been better prepared for the road. He was cast upon a quest, the manner of which took him totally by surprise.

Who does your dream need you to be?Knowing we're created for more than the life we're living doesn't necessarily mean we know what we want or how to get there.You probably feel paralyzed from:Fear of the unknownBeing misunderstoodMaking the wrong decisions.These thoughts and actions have caused you to overthink decisions or avoid stepping into the new adventure you long for.Dare to Decide is for those...

Pro Office 365 Development, Second Edition, is a practical, hands-on guide to building applications for the cloud with Office 365. Combine Office 365 features out of the box with custom code to make the most of what this increasingly powerful and flexible platform has to offer.As an Office 365 developer, you have an amazing range of technologies at your fingertips. Build custom SharePoint apps in Visual Studio using HTML5, CSS, and jQuery. Create declarative workf...

Updated edition featuring a new foreword by David "Mr. McFeely" Newell.Born in 1928 in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, Fred Rogers began his television career in 1951 at NBC. In 1954, he became program director for the newly founded WQED-TV in Pittsburgh, the first community-supported television station in the United States. From 1954 to 1961, Rogers and Josie Carey produced and performed in WQED's The Children's Corner, which became part of the the Saturday mornin...

Alcohol is part of our societies today and has gain its entrance into major parts of the world. It is used for celebrations, ceremonies, socialization, recreation and relaxation and also for more reasons. Alcohol is a liquid substance that could be consume in order to ease tension, stress and other situations beyond human control. Alcohol contains recreational drugs ethanol (product of fermentation of grain, fruits and other sugary substance).Despite the countless benefits of alcoho...

Lance Corporal George Hackney of the 36th Ulster Division was an ordinary Belfast soldier who, contrary to military law at the time, took his camera away to war in 1915. The images he took have become an exceptional and rare collection that documents The Great War first hand.George's images of soldiers training, travelling to France, and relaxing with friends and comrades contrast with his later images from the first day of the Battle of the Somme, life in the trenches and poignant...

A man lies dead, a knife in his heart, and no one saw the killer—at least no one admits to it.In this classic mystery from Wilkie Collins, a young constable recounts a long-unsolved crime that haunts him still: a lodging house murder where the most obvious answers feel too neat, and justice remains out of reach. Between a silent staircase, a troubled cook, and a love that flickers beneath the surface, Who Killed Zebedee? draws us into a web of suspicion, memory, and moral ...