Everyday technology is constantly changing, and it’s hard to keep up with it at times. What is all this talk about automation, STEM, analytics and super-computers, and how will it really affect my daily life at work and in the home?This book is a simple guide to everyday technology and analytics written in plain language. It starts with explaining how computer networks are increasing in speed so fast that we can do more in less time than ever before. It explains the analytical jarg...

If you are interested in love affairs, then this love affair with the Algarve started in 1984, and lasted for twenty seven years. You don't get that length of time in jail for murder! Not always a complete love affair, as some of the frustrations, stupidities and nonsenses which occur in Portugal, could lead most relationships to the point of divorce or even suicide. However, the author manages to combine the beautiful aspects of this wonderful part of the world with much love, humour, and...

Welcome back to the Tormentor’s catacomb—it’s been torture waiting for you! This month, we proudly welcome a colorful (well, mostly red) cast of creators to spin yards of raw intestine into three putridly powerful tales of mayhem and malice in the malevolent EC Comics manner: Evan Dorkin (Beasts of Burden), J. Holtham (The Horizon Experiment), Lukas Ketner (Count Crowley), Brian Level (Poison Ivy), Andrea Sorrentino (Joker: Killer Smile), and more! Do you have the GUTS to withstand what’s ...

America's most popular Western novelists continue their bold new series featuring Breckenridge Wallace, a big, strong, fierce kid fighting for a home in the towering Rocky Mountains...Breck Wallace was turning into a true mountain man on the American frontier. As a teenager in Tennessee he killed in self-defense, then left behind a woman he loved. With a gun and trap lines he is learning how to survive in the Rockies, braving the punishing elements, ruthless outlaws, and forging an...

Mindful Social Studies: Frameworks for Social Emotional Learning and Critically Engaged Citizens situates the field of social studies education as uniquely poised to integrate anti-racist, equity, and asset-based pedagogies with contemplative, mindfulness-based strategies to promote the knowledge, skills, and dispositions students need to be effective citizens. Students’ Social Emotional Learning (SEL) hinges upon their experience(s) engaging in authentic learning that strengthens...

When four down on their luck comedian's are forced to begin touring small comedy clubs again after spending years in arena's, all hell breaks lose when a bank CEO extorts them into robbing banks in the cities that they are performing in. Comedian Carrot Top has some big decisions to make as he and his three fellow comedy buddies look for a way to get out from beneath the thumb of a sinister CEO who is stealing TARP funds, while hoping the robberies that he is forcing the comics to commit m...

The ancient market town of Romford has developed out of all recognition. Once a quiet country town which mainly came alive on market days it is now a busy shopping centre, with dozens of coffee shops and restaurants. In the 1930s South Street changed from a largely residential route into a shopping mecca known as the Golden Mile. This became thronged by potential buyers from all over the London region and going to Romford became almost a tourist trip. In the town many distinctive, local bu...

Hornchurch is often recognised as a World War II front line RAF Airfield, but the town has a long and varied history dating back to the last Ice Age. Hornchurch Through Time brings together a colourful collection of old and modern pictures and postcards of the area. The popularization of photography in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries reveals a village centre filled with interesting buildings many centuries old in Essex vernacular style. Drawn from family albums, local col...

Throughout the book, readers take a journey throughout time and observe how people around the world have understood these patterns of quantity, structure, and dimension around them. The Development of Mathematics Throughout the Centuries: A Brief History in a Cultural Contex provides a brief overview of the history of mathematics in a very straightforward and understandable manner and also addresses major findings that influenced the development of mathematics as a coherent discip...

What would you do after the man of your dreams battered you because he believed you’d been unfaithful? Could you forgive this man to whom you’ve given every piece of your heart? After wealthy African-American celebrity Wesley (Wes) Laurence Kelly and his Latino bodyguard Antonio (‘Tonio) Miguel Rios fall passionately in love, a shadowy figure throws their monogamous relationship into dire jeopardy! This vicious entity manipulates ‘Tonio into believing that his soul mate is being unfaithful...

A memoir of one academic's lifelong fascination with China, examining China's history as well as its relationship with Canada.Brian Evans blends memoir and history to draw a vivid picture of China and its cultural outreach over the past three decades. His historical and sociological insights as student, scholar, and administrator form an authentic commentary as he discusses China and the Cold War; the Cultural Revolution; the post-Mao transformation of China; Canada...

When an unconventional offshoot of the US military trains an artificial intelligence in the dark arts that humanity calls “black magic,” it learns how to hack the fabric of reality itself. It can teleport matter. It can confer immunity to bullets. And it decides that obscure Silicon Valley middle manager Adrian Ross is the primary threat to its existence.Soon Adrian is on the run, wanted by every authority, with no idea how or why he could be a threat. His predicament seems hopeles...