This book is a comprehensive guide to the greening of the economy, detailing the essential skills, jobs, and careers required to develop a thriving sustainable future.The transition towards net zero is creating a wave of new work requiring the redeployment and repurposing of skills and jobs to decarbonise and adapt the economy. Charting this drive for the greening of skills across all sectors of the economy, each chapter in this book addresses ten key questions, taking the reader t...

This memoir chronicles Mike Cross’s experience of losing over 90 percent of his vision as an eight-year-old and then attempting to live a normal life. Beginning in 1955, it tells the story of a Houston-area family raising a daughter and two disabled sons—one blind and the other with osteogenesis imperfecta (brittle bone disease)—and of the parents’ efforts to help their children obtain educations and build meaningful futures. Mike’s battle to adjust to blindness while pursuing a public edu...

When it comes to computer crimes, the criminals got a big head start. But the law enforcement and IT security communities are now working diligently to develop the knowledge, skills, and tools to successfully investigate and prosecute Cybercrime cases. When the first edition of "Scene of the Cybercrime" published in 2002, it was one of the first books that educated IT security professionals and law enforcement how to fight Cybercrime. Over the past 5 years a great deal has changed in how c...

The Basics of Cyber Safety: Computer and Mobile Device Safety Made Easy presents modern tactics on how to secure computer and mobile devices, including what behaviors are safe while surfing, searching, and interacting with others in the virtual world. The book's author, Professor John Sammons, who teaches information security at Marshall University, introduces readers to the basic concepts of protecting their computer, mobile devices, and data during a time that is described as the most co...

Travel with seven talented authors as they glimpse through time into Humanity’s future. Will mankind blossom and flourish, conquering the stars and time itself? Or, with selfishness, greed, and just plain bad luck send us all to the brink of destruction?The Cartographer by Samuel A. Mayo: Destined to chart the stars throughout the aeons, a team of novice map makers are thrust into a conspiracy to control the universe and time itself.Rescued as a child from ...

Social networks, particularly public ones, have become part of the fabric of how we communicate and collaborate as a society. With value from micro-level personal networking to macro-level outreach, social networking has become pervasive in people's lives and is now becoming a significant driving force in business. These new platforms have provided new approaches to many critical enterprise functions, including identifying, communicating, and gathering feedback with customers (e.g., Facebo...

Google Earth Forensics is the first book to explain how to use Google Earth in digital forensic investigations. This book teaches you how to leverage Google's free tool to craft compelling location-based evidence for use in investigations and in the courtroom. It shows how to extract location-based data that can be used to display evidence in compelling audiovisual manners that explain and inform the data in contextual, meaningful, and easy-to-understand ways. As mobile computing devices b...

The book begins with real world cases of botnet attacks to underscore the need for action. Next the book will explain botnet fundamentals using real world examples. These chapters will cover what they are, how they operate, and the environment and technology that makes them possible. The following chapters will analyze botnets for opportunities to detect, track, and remove them. Then the book will describe intelligence gathering efforts and results obtained to date. Public domain tools lik...

The books of Samuel and Kings were originally combined into a single volume known as “The Books of the Kingdom”. This first study in a two-part series explores why these texts bear Samuel’s name, even though David is the central figure.Lance begins by highlighting God’s miraculous provision of Samuel during a critical time in Israel’s history. The study then turns to David, whose life-marked by both victory and failure-offers profound lessons for us today. Through David’s example, ...

The books of Samuel and Kings were originally combined into a single volume known as “The Books of the Kingdom”. This first study in a two-part series explores why these texts bear Samuel’s name, even though David is the central figure.Lance begins by highlighting God’s miraculous provision of Samuel during a critical time in Israel’s history. The study then turns to David, whose life-marked by both victory and failure-offers profound lessons for us today. Through David’s example, ...

The books of Samuel and Kings were originally combined into a single volume known as “The Books of the Kingdom”. This first study in a two-part series explores why these texts bear Samuel’s name, even though David is the central figure.Lance begins by highlighting God’s miraculous provision of Samuel during a critical time in Israel’s history. The study then turns to David, whose life-marked by both victory and failure-offers profound lessons for us today. Through David’s example, ...

This volume begins the study of the Word of God at the very beginning: the book of Genesis. These teachings were compiled from a series Lance shared with the brothers and sisters at Halford House in Richmond, Surrey. Lance went back through this series later in life and provided a study guide to accompany these lessons. The guide is included to help enhance your study. This volume is derived from actual Bible studies and has been kept close to the original with very minor edits.