This is a novel of fiction loosely based upon some real events. In doing so, it conveys both the positive and negative aspects of its characters. mostly finding the good.In a city where politics, power, and secrets collide, tensions rise as unsettling events unravel. The brutal murder of a priest and the mysterious deaths of young female tourists leave authorities grasping for answers. Dark motives lurk beneath the surface, and the lines between justice and corruption blur. Amid th...

In the past 10 years mobile phones have gone from being high-end gadgets only the wealthy could afford to an essential accessory, now owned by a large portion of the population of the world. The integration of the Internet, mobility and communications at the device, service and transport level has created a new set of business opportunities. Mobile marketing has become a mainstream marketing tool and marketers must now identify and reach their mobile audience. This book is designed to teac...

Marketing Through Search Optimization, Second Edition, is the step-by-step marketer's guide to improving your web ranking in search engines and getting your site listed effectively in online directories. Search engine placement has become a key task for those engaged in website marketing because good positioning in search engines and directories dramatically increases visitor traffic. Optimizing search engine ranking will be the most important and cost-effective way of marketing y...

What does it take to turn an idea into a brand that lasts?In From Vision to Identity, Alex Michael Jackson an entrepreneur, creative director, and former professional athlete, shares the lessons he learned from building a fashion house and shows how those same principles can be applied to streetwear, fitness, or lifestyle brands.Blending personal experience with practical guidance, Jackson breaks down the essential steps of brand creation: defining vision, shaping ...

This book considers what it means to die.Trew achieves this through the prism of two significant twentieth century thinkers: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Christos Yannaras. In doing so, he continues an esteemed tradition of works considering the theology and philosophy of death, including Karl Rahner's On the Theology of Death and Martin Heidegger's Being and Time. However, Trew is also breaking new ground: this is the first English language book to co...

This book consolidates the current knowledge of how short and long-duration spaceflight affects the anatomy and physiology of the central nervous system. It also incorporates the methodology and constraints of studying the central nervous system in space.Chapters detail advances in imaging techniques available to assess intracranial and intraocular pathology as well as translational medicine with an emphasis on brain cancer and neurodegenerative disease in spaceflight. Additionally...

You’re tired of living from hand to mouth?You can reverse the trend with self discipline, if failure is not an option. Think of self-disciple as a form of sacrifice, denying self life’s pleasures for a moment to gain better future return on investment on your time.You use the alarm clock for the occasional sleep over. But you could do without it. It gets complicated to control thoughts. You have conditioned the body to wake up at day break. Knowing self discipline is a good...

After an astonishing career, soccer coach Sir Alex Ferguson analyzes the pivotal leadership decisions of his time as a manager and, with his friend and collaborator Sir Michael Moritz, draws out lessons for success in both business and life.**"A case study in leadership." —**Financial TimesFrom hiring practices to firing decisions, from dealing with transition to teamwork, from mastering the boardroom to responding to failure and a...

The irresistible novel that was adapted into a major motion picture starring Leonardo DiCaprio.The Khao San Road, Bangkok—first stop for the hordes of rootless young Westerners traveling in Southeast Asia. On Richard's first night there, in a low-budget guest house, a fellow traveler slashes his wrists, bequeathing to Richard a meticulously drawn map to "the Beach."The Beach, as Richard has come to learn, is the subject of a legend among young travelers in ...

What's worse than hiding a secret? Liccle Bit's about to find out...Venetia King is the hottest girl at school. Too bad Lemar is the second shortest guy in his year. Everyone calls him Liccle Bit, and his two best friends, McKay and Jonah, never tire of telling him he has no chance with girls. Things aren't much better at home. His mum is permanently hassled, his sister a frustrated single mum and his dad moved out years ago. Liccle Bit wishes he could do something - anything! - to...

It’s 1935. Rita Feuerstahl comes to the university in Krakow intent on enjoying her freedom. But life has other things in store—marriage, a love affair, a child, all in the shadows of the oncoming war. When the war arrives, Rita is armed with a secret so enormous that it could cost the Allies everything, even as it gives her the will to live. She must find a way both to keep her secret and to survive amid the chaos of Europe at war. Living by her wits among the Germans as their conquests t...

On June 27, 1844, a mob stormed the jail in the dusty frontier town of Carthage, Illinois. Clamorous and angry, they were hunting down a man they saw as a grave threat to their otherwise quiet lives: the founding prophet of Mormonism, Joseph Smith. They wanted blood.At thirty-nine years old, Smith had already lived an outsized life. In addition to starting the Church of Latter-Day Saints and creating his own "Golden Bible"—the Book of Mormon—he had worked as a water-dowser and trea...