Welcome back to The Nightmare Library.Within these pages, the Nightmare Library unveils its latest acquisitions. These are not tales casually stumbled upon, but carefully curated dread, selected from the darkest corners of the human psyche and places far more unsettling than that.A man has a late-night encounter with a mysterious and terrifying mime.A man discovers breaking his rental's mysterious house...

Commemorating the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, this volume offers an original examination of the enduring impact of the single most famous gathering of Christians since the apostolic ageDespite the longstanding historical and theological study of the Council of Nicaea, several central questions remain. Was Nicaea a theological event or a political one? What does it mean if it was both? Was Constantine’s intervention without precedent, or was he simp...

How does the most important technology of our time - the Internet and WWW – work? The authors explain in simple language and in short the individual technical building blocks and organizational structures, behind the greatest innovation of our time. Only those who know how the technologies that determine our everyday lives can deal with them confidently and in souvereignity. Although digitalization is shaping our daily lives, the technologies behind the Internet and WWW remain obscure to m...

NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe first new work of fiction since 2013 from one of Canada's most successful, idiosyncratic and world-defining writers, Douglas Coupland. He's called it Binge because it's impossible to read just one.Imagine feeling 100% alive every moment of every minute of the day! Maybe that's how animals live. Or trees, even. I sometimes stare at the plastic bag tree visible from my apartment window and marvel that both ...

This fully updated study guide covers every topic on the current version of the CompTIA Security+ examGet complete coverage of all objectives included on the CompTIA Security+ exam SY0-601 from this comprehensive resource. Written by a team of leading information security experts, this authoritative guide fully addresses the skills required to perform essential security functions and to secure hardware, systems, and software. You’ll find learning objectives at the ...

A " shrewd, funny, and sometimes devastating" novel about the things we desire and the things we throw away ( Entertainment Weekly).A New York Times Notable BookA highly inventive, corrosively funny story of our times, Want Not exposes three different worlds in various states of disrepair—a young freegan couple living off the grid in New York City; a once-prominent linguist, sacked at midlife by the dissolution of his marr...

There is today a dramatic reexamination of structure, authority, dogma -- indeed, every aspect of the life of the Church is held up to scrutiny. Welcoming this as a sign of vitality, Avery Dulles has carefully studied the writings of contemporary Protestant and Catholic ecclesiologists and sifted out six major approaches, or "models," through which the Church's character can be understood: as Institution, Mystical Communion, Sacrament, Herald, Servant, and, in a recent addition to the book...

An accessible guide to cybersecurity for the everyday user, covering cryptography and public key infrastructure, malware, blockchain, and other topics.It seems that everything we touch is connected to the internet, from mobile phones and wearable technology to home appliances and cyber assistants. The more connected our computer systems, the more exposed they are to cyber attacks--attempts to steal data, corrupt software, disrupt operations, and even physically dam...

**Finalist for the CALIBA 2023 Golden Poppy AwardA LibraryReads PickUtterly original and wildly entertaining, Killing Me is a laugh-loud-loud thriller with a protagonist whose life is a total mess.**She escaped a serial killer. Then things got weird.Amber Jamison can’t believe she’s about to become the latest victim of a serial killer. She’s savvy and street smart, so when she gets pushed into, of all things, a white windowless van, she is ...

A study of the history of heresy and rival forms of Christianity, arguing that the church must continue to defend what is true about Jesus.Our ongoing fascination with alternative Christianities is on display every time a never-before-seen gospel text is revealed, an archaeological discovery about Jesus makes front-page news, or anew work of fiction challenges the very foundations of the church. Now, in a timely corrective to this trend, renowned church historian Al...

Were you ever curious to know how computers work but were afraid to ask? This book is for people who would like to understand how computers work, without having to learn a lot of technical details. There are clear explanations of hardware, software, the Internet and smartphones, using examples and diagrams that are easy to follow.Chapter 1 follows step by step how a computer program is developed to solve a simple problem and then shows how the hardware runs the program.Chap...

A new full-length standalone romance from the USA Today bestselling romance series.Jenny is a girlfriend-for-hire, the platonic kind.While under contract with her movie director boyfriend, glamour has ruled. Designer gowns. Red-carpet premieres. And, of course, seeing her face in the tabloids.She loves tabloids.But her reign has come to an end. Her sugar daddy has fallen in love -- with someone else. Her contract is over and tonight...