An exquisitely written novel set in Renaissance Naples, beset with intrigue, espionage, politics, and a bit of dark magic, at every turn.You've never seen Naples like this.Among the lords of the criminal underground is Puozzolino, owner of the Good Friday, the greatest bordello in Christendom. Its customers can frolic in a recreation of ancient Rome, enjoy the pleasures of a real nymph in its gardens, or explore darker delights in the witches' cave.Despite his succe...

Dumpsite, the adventures of Mudd and Mother (M&M), two kids from New Jersey as they wend along their path to the world of music. The Dumpsite is a thrilling story of treachery, deceit and thievery. What started as two young musicians playing polka music in an old apple orchard pavilion, find themselves going to New York City, Chicago and continuing to the Boardwalk of Atlantic City. In Saddle River Township, New Jersey back in October 1951 their lives would change forever. The unassuming d...

Aversa and Salminen have again gone beyond the call of duty. Hammer II (Redirectribution) scores high points in mystery, adventure, retribution, music, and the treasure of the Jersey Coast Pirates. A vigilant study of many history books has brought our authors to a looming crisis beyond their capabilities. What ever happened to all the talked about treasure buried by the pirates who made their way into the harbors and bays along the Jersey coast? Very little if any has been found of the va...

Aversa and Salminen have gone beyond the call of duty. Hammer (Retribution) scores high points in mystery, adventure, retribution, music, and the treasure of the Jersey Coast Pirates. A vigilant study of many history books has brought our authors to a looming crisis beyond their capabilities. What ever happened to all the talked about treasure buried by the pirates who made their way into the harbors and bays along the Jersey coast? Very little if any has been found of the vast hoard claim...

Get up to speed with a series of performance-enhancing coding techniques and methods that will help you improve the performance of your Unity applicationsKey FeaturesOptimize graphically intensive games using the latest features of Unity such as Entity Component System (ECS) and the Burst compilerExplore techniques for solving performance issues with your VR projectsLearn best practices for project organization to save time through an improved ...

"A savage peek behind the corporate curtain. The power of Aversa's storytelling is undeniable. Corporate Undertaker truly is a gripping read." — Self-Publishing Review____This book is filled with stories of fraud, mobsters, corruption, suicide, murder, arrogance and incompetence. Stories of companies in a fight for their lives against the biggest banks and law firms in the country."Not since first reading Stephen Covey...have I re...

Landslides and Engineered Slopes. Experience, Theory and Practice contains the invited lectures and all papers presented at the 12th International Symposium on Landslides, (Naples, Italy, 12-19 June 2016). The book aims to emphasize the relationship between landslides and other natural hazards. Hence, three of the main sessions focus on Volcanic-induced landslides, Earthquake-induced landslides and Weather-induced landslides respectively, while the fourth main session deals with H...

Learn and Implement game AI in Unity 2018 to build smart game environments and enemies with A\*, Finite State Machines, Behavior Trees and NavMesh.Key FeaturesBuild richer games by learning the essential concepts in AI for games like Behavior Trees and Navigation MeshesImplement character behaviors and simulations using the Unity Machine Learning toolkitExplore the latest Unity 2018 features to make implementation of AI in your game easier...

"A forensic manual on why companies fail." -Kirkus Reviews"A savage peek behind the corporate curtain. The power of Aversa's storytelling is undeniable. Corporate Undertaker truly is a gripping read." -Self-Publishing ReviewFilled with more than fifty business lessons and dozens of stories of companies in a fight for their lives, Corporate Undertaker takes readers on a hero's journey through the eyes of a...

An ink path that stretch to the depths of cosmos, an investigation on man’s drive, on the human soul, on nature, whom are interpreted through dreamlike, metaphysics, esotheric references, with sistemic connections of darkness. These are the foundations that my poems revolve around: “Fading of reality”, which overwhelms the reader, launching him in an enveloping atmosphere, that cross the journey of life, suggesting a passionate and emotional interpretation. My thoughts write verses rooted ...

“Fun and tragic, emotional and entertaining. With cutting intelligence and the wisdom acquired with age, Aversa sews together memories and experiences about the power of forgiveness, love and adversity.” — Self Publishing Review“Fast-paced, intense, and colorful. Readers will find this story compelling and instructive in the way it redefines life’s challenges as boundless opportunities for growth.” — Blue Ink ReviewsIn thi...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.“A forensic manual on why companies fail.”— Kirkus Reviews"A savage peek behind the corporate curtain. The power of Aversa's storytelling is undeniable. Corporate Undertaker truly is a gripping read." — Self-Publishing ReviewFilled with more than fifty business lessons and dozens of stories of companies in a fight for their lives, ...