Thomas and Diane Watts are a couple looking forward to a relaxing holiday at a grand Victorian hotel on the Cornish coast. But from the moment they set out on the road, something strange follows them. Thomas catches a glimpse of a little girl's face staring back at him from the rear-view mirror, a face that should not be there. What begins as an unsettling curiosity quickly turns into something far more difficult to brush off.As the weekend unfolds, the mysterious girl keeps appear...

In a world of information technologies, genetic engineering, controversies about established science, and the mysteries of quantum physics, it is at once seemingly impossible and absolutely vital to find ways to make sense of how science, technology, and society connect. In Feedback Loops: Pragmatism about Science & Technology, editors Andrew Wells Garnar and Ashley Shew bring together original writing from philosophers and science and technology studies scholars to provide novel ways of r...

Survival is not about strength. It is about behavior.Inside survival environments, power is rarely won through aggression alone. It is won through awareness, strategy, emotional control, and understanding how human behavior actually operates under pressure.After spending 12 years incarcerated, the author began studying survival as a science. Not as theory — but as reality.Prison Zoology breaks survival intelligence into practical behavioral systems across eight doma...

Performance simply matters. Technology may allow us to "go bigger", but maybe not necessarily be better when it comes to performance. Now is the time to utilize the amazing tools that are available to us for making websites and applications faster, and to learn how to improve user experience and satisfaction.This collection contains four books:Front-end Performance is a collection of practical articles on front-end website performance for front-end developers...

The 20th century's automobile-inspired land use changes brought about tremendous transformations in how stormwater moves across the modern urban land-scape. Streets and parking areas in the average urban family's neighborhood now exceed the amount of land devoted to living space. Add parking, office and commercial space, and it's easy to understand