Regardless of the question, the Internet is the answer. Or so we are told.It seemed perfectly normal to Jeff Jarvis, a famous American journalist, to ask: "What Would Google Do?" if the company based in Mountain View were put in charge of the public sector.It apparently didn't occur to him that the rules and goals the public sector lives by are, or at least should be, different from those of a private company.According to many, the Internet, this jumble of servers a...

#NOT a real book (Just a screed)The real question of course is: Does online advertising work?Unfortunately, it's impossible to give a simple answer to this apparently straightforward question.For starters, this is not a single question, but at least three different ones.The right question to ask would be: for whom does online advertising work?Do banner ads, what we once called interactive advertising and now call display adsbec...

#NOT a real book (Just a screed)Does all the hype surrounding social media make sense?Isn't it time that somebody tried to deconstruct all this bullshit?What are social media? Are they the same websites we used to call social networks? Why did we start calling them social media?What is social media marketing? Are companies doing it right? Does it make sense to send your website visitors to Twitter and Facebook?Do people really want t...

What happens when you're on opposite sides of the law?The challenge of a lifetime.MassimoAs the only son to Ciro Mancini, Massimo Mancini had the world at his fingertips. Though raised in a family of ruthless killers, he'd been given the chance to bring something more to The Benetti Crime Family, and he had. Between his high intelligence, his comfortability with death, and a family bred of loyalty, brutality, and ruthlessness, there was nothing Massimo couldn't accom...

PI Marco "the Alligator" Buratti returns in a "raucous, delicious ride" from the celebrated Italian crime writer and author of Bandit Love ( Cedar Rapids Gazette).Padua, Italy. An unremarkable man, a husband and father, disappears without a trace. After a few months of searching, the police send his file to the cold cases department to be thrown in with the files of other missing persons. One woman knows the truth about his disappearance, but, bein...

Build your real-world cryptography knowledge, from understanding the fundamentals to implementing the most popular modern-day algorithms to excel in your cybersecurity career Key Features • Learn modern algorithms such as zero-knowledge, elliptic curves, and quantum cryptography • Explore vulnerability and new logical attacks on the most-used algorithms • Understand the practical implementation of algorithms and protocols in cybersecurity applications Book Description Cryptography Algorith...

"A remarkable contribution to one of the most vexing problems in science: the 'demarcation' problem, or how to distinguish science from nonscience." —Francisco J. Ayala, author of Darwin's Gift to Science and ReligionWhat sets the practice of rigorously tested, sound science apart from pseudoscience? In this volume, the contributors seek to answer this question, known to philosophers of science as "the demarcation problem." This issue has a long history in ...

Don't we all need nice, steamy and sexy short stories that can be read or listen in bed, right before sleeping to finish our day with a little bit of privacy and fun?Here is the best erotic book, seriously hot and provocative erotic short stories by Max Worton, written in his signature style of high passion and emotion. Step into the pages of several short stories that are sure to whet your appetiteand stir your imagination...

A university lecturer and his PhD student embark on a research trip to a remote village in England to write about its dark history.They think they know some of the stories. A burglar shot dead; a tragedy on the train tracks; and remnants of psychological experiments from the Cold War. But as they meet the inhabitants of Renslow, and try to make sense of their sometimes-odd behaviour, they wonder how much of this is connected, and how much is just them seeing patterns.‘A fan...

"[An] outstanding fable of greed, corruption and moral abandonment. Filled with echoes of Dante's Inferno." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)Poisonville is noir par excellence—there's murder, moral ambiguity, and a less than heroic main character. In this bestselling novel, however, the real killer is not an individual but an entire system.The heavily industrialized northeast, Italy's richest region, is undergoing dramatic change...

This book is a detailed guide to a new integrative approach to the prevention and treatment of various cardiac disorders and risk factors, including coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, arrhythmias, dyslipidemia, and hypertension. This approach combines various strategies, including metabolic cardiology, low-dose medicine, exercise programs, stress management programs, evaluation for inherited risk factors, and various other healing modalities. Metabolic cardiology focuses on...

Herodotus tells us that not all of the three hundred Spartan warriors died at the hands of Xerxes, King of the Persians, in the battle of the Thermopylae: two were saved bringing a life-saving message back to the city . . .Valerio Massimo Manfredi's Spartan is the saga of a Spartan family, torn apart by a cruel law that forces them to abandon one of their two sons - born lame - to the elements. The elder son, Brithos, is raised in the caste of the warriors, while the other...