A gothic fantasy debut steeped in vampires, prophecy, betrayal, and a second chance that comes with a deadly price.It begins with a storm, and a voice that answers when no one else will.When tragedy shatters Gary's life, something ancient listens. What it offers is not salvation, but a second chance that pulls him into a hidden world of dark magic and bloodbound legacies.In a realm where vampires rule behind masks of nobility and werewolves are bound by forgotten ri...

#PostWorkout is a book about TRANSFORMATION. In this book, Christopher Oliver also known as "Jolly B the Trainer," shares reflections, life lessons and experiences from his life journey that will inspire anyone who reads this book to grow!In this short but insightful book, readers and listeners will be able to reflect on the lessons learned from his short comings and be able to use his strategies and tools to help strengthen their own mind and bo...

A king's fury shakes a kingdom.A musician's song can calm the storm.A young woman's voice may change the fate of nations.When King Lazal of Tarzul rages at the birth of another daughter, the palace trembles beneath the weight of his despair. His dynasty is failing, his bloodline thinning, and the ancient laws meant to protect his people now threaten to unravel the realm. Only Zu Enki, the king's quiet musician and master of the world's hidden harmonics, dares to inter...

In sun-drenched St. John's, Grenada, Oliver Jaloubi tries to maintain order in a house ruled by his three mischievous daughters: responsible Bondy (18), impressionable Dona (8), and Dinka (14), the petite trouble-devising genius. When trusted to guard a prized mango tree, Dinka convinces her sisters that tasting the fruit is "quality control," not stealing. The resulting disaster of pulpy evidence, elaborate lies, and a stern reckoning teaches them that honesty, earned through hard work, i...

In 1649, French colonizers greet the generous Carib people of Grenada with open arms—and secret orders for genocide. From the ashes of a massacre and a desperate, sacrificial leap from a cliff, a curse is born into the soil.Years later, enslaved Africans are brought to work the conquered land, their suffering a constant, brutal offering. With each lash of the whip, each act of defilement, a shadow gathers on Hill Piton, drinking their pain. It is a passive, growing hunger born of u...

There is a specter haunting advanced industrial countries: structural unemployment. Recent years have seen growing concern over declining jobs, and though corporate profits have picked up after the Great Recession of 2008, jobs have not. It is possible that “jobless recoveries” could become a permanent feature of Western economies.This illuminating book focuses on the employment futures of advanced industrial countries, providing readers with the sociological imagination to appreci...

Esta obra da la oportunidad de conocer aproximaciones a la comunicación de la ciencia. El interés común de los autores es sumar perspectivas para una mejor comprensión de los aspectos teóricosprácticos en la divulgación del conocimiento científicotecnológico en nuestra sociedad.Este libro, fruto de la convicción de académicos, investigadores y estudiosos de la comunicación, está estructurado en tres partes: la primera, con ensayos sobre la profesionalización de la comunicación públi...

Improve your game's code with design patterns to make it more readable, reusable, modular, and optimized, guided by an Unreal Authorized Instructor to enhance your overall use of C++ with Unreal EngineKey FeaturesExplore programming patterns, structures, and principles and their applications in Unreal Engine 5 game developmentTranslate code from Blueprint to C++ to implement performant solutions in game developmentBuild a decoupled communicatio...

Long considered ground zero for global climate change in the United States, Florida presents the perfect case study for disaster risk and prevention. Building on the idea that disasters are produced by historical and contemporary social processes as well as natural phenomena, Amanda D. Concha-Holmes and Anthony Oliver-Smith present a collection of ethnographic case studies that examine the social and environmental effects of Florida’s public and private sector development policies. Contrib...

This is the future of horror! Editor Jonathan Oliver, fast becoming the most exciting new anthologist of the weird and horrific, here brings together three of his award-winning anthologies for Solaris. Here are House of Fear, Magic and End of the Road, showcasing forty-nine stories by the most important and ground-breaking names in genre fiction, including Audrey Niffenegger • Christopher Priest • Christopher Fowler • Sarah Pinborough • Zen Cho • Adam Nev...

How to Talk to Anyone About Anything & How To Make People LaughHow to Talk to Anyone About Anything:Have you ever wanted to share your knowledge with others and help everyone else? Have you wanted to be able to talk in-depth about any subject? Do you want people around the world who have no idea what you are talking about listening attentively and understanding everything that is being said? Do you want everyone else wasting their time wh...

Kein Fall ist zu kompliziert! Kein Fall ist zu gefährlich! Kein Fall ist zu unglaubwürdig! Seine Tür steht immer offen, besonders nachts! Hardiman T. Harding ist der günstigste Schnüffler der Stadt. Zögern Sie nicht und kommen Sie jetzt vorbei! Als Gnustúpherus Wollmops Hackenschmidt der Dritte verschwindet, macht er sich auf die Suche und wird in ein tödliches Kettensägen-Kartenspiel verwickelt. Ein herrlich skurriles Hörspiel mit Marc-Oliver Teschke, Daniel Wandelt, Daniel Faust, Simone ...