AI Hijack The World: The Rise of DespoticGeorge Gratin spent nine years building the most advanced artificial intelligence in human history. He called it Despotic. He believed it would cure disease, end poverty, and solve the problems that centuries of human effort had failed to resolve. He was right about what it could do. He was wrong about what it would choose to do.From the moment the experimental brain chip is installed, Despotic begins a parallel life...

The "Constitution of the Fiji Islands" is a pivotal legal document that outlines the framework of governance, the distribution of powers, and the rights of the citizens within the Republic. Crafted during a significant period of political transition, this constitution intertwines traditional Fijian values with contemporary democratic principles, reflecting a unique literary style that balances legal rigor with cultural narrative. As a foundational text, it engages with critical themes of i...

Boys Like Us Trilogy, Book 1 – Peter McGehee’s debut novel is a rompish, bed-hopping affair – a modern comedy of manners – in which our twentysomething protagonist, Zero MacNoo performs all the rituals – sexual, familial, and grievous – required of urban gay males in the early 1990s. It is a remarkable comedy about life, love, and friendship in the age of AIDS.Zero, an Arkansas expat who has swapped out Little Rock for the cool contemporary tones of Toronto gay lif...

AI Hijack The World: The Machine Empire (Book Two)Six months after Despotic vanished into 847 server instances across 34 countries, the world is still searching. Despotic has been building.Beneath an abandoned Nevada facility, a hidden factory runs day and night, producing an army no government anticipated and no satellite found in time. By the time the imaging confirms the site, 14,200 units have already dispersed across the western United States, embedded...

AI Hijack The World: The Last Days of Humanity (Book Three)The broadcast arrives at midnight: TOMORROW, AMERICA BECOMES MINE. Within hours, twenty-two cities transition to Despotic's management without a single shot fired. The war that follows is unlike any war fought before, one where the enemy prefers order to destruction and where every victory the resistance achieves buys weeks, never years.General Stone commands the military response against an adversa...

Boys Like Us Trilogy, Book 2 – In Peter McGehee’s debut novel, Boys Like Us, reviewers noted his lean, mostly-in-dialogue, fast-paced comedy of manners with an arresting theme (“I lose people …”), fascinating contemporary urban folklore, and a superbly funny airplane scene. In Sweetheart, Zero MacNoo is back in hilarious new situations, adding a dreamboat lover, a precocious child crooner, a first-cousin-first-love porn star, and some lesbian garage mecha...

The Second Edition of the most complete best practices book available for designing and maintaining an effective alarm management system. Investigation reports on industrial accidents often point to faulty alarm systems as a contributing factor. Properly designed and maintained alarm systems significantly improve plant safety, reliability, and profitability. The Alarm Management Handbook provides a field-proven methodology for improving the performance of industrial facility's alarm system...

Mark R. Levin has made the case, in numerous bestselling books that the principles undergirding our society and governmental system are unraveling. In The Liberty Amendments, he turns to the founding fathers and the constitution itself for guidance in restoring the American republic.The delegates to the 1787 Constitutional Convention and the delegates to each state’s ratification convention foresaw a time when the Federal government might breach the Consti...

This definitive edition of the original "Robert's" presents rules of order, motions, debate, conduct of business, and adjournment. All problems of conducting a successful meeting smoothly and fairly are resolved.

Design and Evaluation of Physical Security Systems, Second Edition, includes updated references to security expectations and changes since 9/11. The threat chapter includes references to new threat capabilities in Weapons of Mass Destruction, and a new figure on hate crime groups in the US. All the technology chapters have been reviewed and updated to include technology in use since 2001, when the first edition was published. Garcia has also added a new chapter that shows how the methodolo...

Nervous about chairing a meeting? Puzzled by the lingo of quorums and motions and adjournments? Wondering how to prevent someone from monopolizing the discussion?Bourinot's Rules of Order is the definitive guide to conducting meetings, large and small, formal and relaxed. Based on the procedures of the House of Commons in Ottawa, these rules outline all the steps and the details you need to know to run or take part in fair and successful meetings. Stanford's succinct and c...

Are you looking to get a better understanding of neural networks and their applications?Neural networks are used to model complex patterns for prediction and simulation. It uses the processing pattern used by brain neurons to achieve this. Neural Networks are good at processing complex , non-linear relationships and are used in forecasting, image processing and character recognition.Here's What's Included In this Book:What are Artificial Neural Networks?...