The Entrepreneurial Effect is a collection of advice articles by successful high technology entrepreneurs, based on their experiences. Every budding entrepreneur seems to imagine a series of lunch dates with the most successful entrepreneurs in technology and other sectors of the Ottawa area Silicon Valley north. What skills are seen as needed to be successful in starting, growing and managing technology-based business in the 21st century? Every business seems to have some technology base ...

We now live in a world where all aspects of everyday life are thoroughly mediated by digital technologies. Making sense of digital life is accordingly an essential undertaking for social science and humanities scholars.This multidisciplinary book provides an essential guide to researching digital life:Orienting readers with respect to methodologies, research design, and research ethics.Detailing key research methods, including interviews, surveys, ethnograph...

Rob Paulsen is one of Hollywood's busiest, most talented, and most passionate performers. If you don't know him by name, you will know him by the many characters he has brought to life: Pinky from Pinky and the Brain and Yakko from Animaniacs, the tough, but loveable, Raphael from the original animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and many more.So, you can imagine how terrifying it must have been when Rob was diagnosed with throat cancer, putting his ent...

This guide is not just a map through the ancient city; it’s an invitation to walk through history, to feel the heartbeat of a world that once thrived and perished in the shadow of a volcano.step into the world of pompeii where tragedy and beauty collide. This travel guide takes you far beyond the surface, helping you uncover the mysteries of the ancient roman city that continues to captivate historians, archaeologists, and travelers from around the globe. Whether you’re visiting for a day ...

Testability is a vital property of modern software. It enables software teams to make changes rapidly and safely with clear feedback loops to understand the impact of changes. When your product is testable, it is more likely to meet all of your customer's needs. If you want to drive improvements in both speed and agility, testability is the fuel you need to deliver modern software.

As digital technologies have become part of everyday life, mediating tasks such as work, travel, consumption, production, and leisure, they are having increasingly profound effects on phenomena that are of immediate concern to geographers. These include: the production of space, spatiality and mobilities; the processes, practices, and forms of mapping; the contours of spatial knowledge and imaginaries; and, the formation and enactment of spatial knowledge politics Similarly, there are dist...

Amateur private investigator Ash McKenna’s time is about to expire—on his visa, that is. Having fled the demons that haunted him in the U.S., Ash has been laying low in Prague for nearly three months. Now, it’s time to move on. But as he contemplates his next stop, a man named Roman appears, claiming to work for the U.S. government, and possessing intimate knowledge of Ash’s many sins. Sins nobody should know. Roman offers to protect him...in exchange for a favor.It sounds simple: ...

Ash McKenna used to be an amateur P.I.—emphasis on ‘amateur.’ Despite good intentions, he made a mess of his life in New York, so tried to build a new one in Portland. But after a traumatic turn of events, he ends up on a commune in the Georgia woods, binge-drinking cheap whiskey and waiting for his passport to flee the country and nightmares that have followed him.Then a man is found dead. Known only as ‘Crusty Pete,’ the commune dweller is sprawled in the dirt, having fallen from...

As an amateur PI with a bent moral compass, Ash McKenna is good at finding people—but not at staying out of trouble. Between his own violent tendencies, the shadow cast by his father’s death, and a self-destructive revenge quest, he made a mess of his life in NYC. Figuring it was time for a change of scenery Ash relocated to Portland, taking a job as a bouncer in a vegan strip club. And he hasn’t had to hit anyone in six months.So when one of the club’s dancers asks Ash for help fi...

"Ash McKenna is my favorite kind of hero, a tough guy romantic with a smart mouth and a dark past."―Chelsea CainThe final book in Rob Hart's acclaimed Ash McKenna series shows that Ash can go home again...but it might cost him everything.Amateur private investigator Ash McKenna is home. After more than a year on the road he's ready to face the demons he ran away from in New York City. And he’s decided what he wants to do with his life: Beco...