Insightful interviews of horror legends George Romero, John Landis, Joe Dante, Brian Yuzna, and more, by former editor-in-chief of Rue Morgue, Dave Alexander, about the scariest horror movies never made!Take a behind-the-scenes look into development hell to find the most frightening horror movies that never were, from unmade Re-Animator sequels to alternate takes on legendary franchises like Frankenstein and Dracula!Features art, ...

Success is difficult but…Tomorrow morning, you could wake up as a full-grown rhinoceros and:Charge your way to successUse audacity to reach your goalsBe happier than you’ve ever been beforeMake your life an exciting adventureHave the persistence and tenacity necessary for successNever worry againSucceed at the world’s most profitable hobbyAchieve more and have a better balance in the six major areas of your l...

Software architecture metrics are key to the maintainability and architectural quality of a software project and they can warn you about dangerous accumulations of architectural and technical debt early in the process. In this practical book, leading hands-on software architects share case studies to introduce metrics that every software architect should know.This isn't a book about theory. It's more about practice and implementation, about what has already been tried and worked. D...

Germany's award-winning true crime author Adrian Langenscheid kindles heart-pounding reading pleasure with his shocking short stories about true Austrian crimes. It is a breath-taking and deeply harrowing portrait of human abysses that arouses tremendous emotions precisely because of its cool, factually neutral depictions. Ice-cold serial killers, fatal family dramas, tragic kidnappings, vile torture, and unscrupulous abuse: fourteen shocking true-crime short stories about true crime cases...

L’antica dinastia degli Orgham desidera assumere il controllo di Gotham ed è riuscita a togliere di mezzo il Cavaliere Oscuro spingendolo sull’orlo della follia. La mente di Bruce Wayne, ormai, è quasi del tutto sgretolata e presto i suoi nemici lo condurranno sulla forca per una vera e propria impiccagione. Il tempo a disposizione per aiutare Batman è davvero poco e Catwoman dovrà giocare d’astuzia per salvarlo. Supportata da un gruppo di insoliti alleati, riuscirà a portare a termine la ...

Laughter is the natural response of most Jamaicans to the name Alexander Bedward, long proclaimed as the lunatic who literally attempted to fly to heaven. In Alexander Bedward, the Prophet of August Town: Race, Religion and Colonialism, Dave St Aubyn Gossedebunks this common image of Bedward by drawing on new sources to help cast Bedward in a more positive light. Gosse argues that Bedward ought to be recognized as one of the significant black nationalists of the late nineteenth an...

Agriculture is the product of a complex mixture of behavioural, biophysical and market drivers. Understanding how these factors interact to produce crops and livestock for food has been the focus of economic investigation for many years. The advent of optimisation algorithms and the exponential growth in computing technology has allowed significant growth in mathematical modelling of the dynamics of agricultural systems. The complexity of approaches has grown in parallel with the availabil...

Written by Ganglia designers and maintainers, this book shows you how to collect and visualize metrics from clusters, grids, and cloud infrastructures at any scale. Want to track CPU utilization from 50,000 hosts every ten seconds? Ganglia is just the tool you need, once you know how its main components work together. This hands-on book helps experienced system administrators take advantage of Ganglia 3.x.Learn how to extend the base set of metrics you collect, fetch current values...

With increasing temperatures and an escalation in the frequency and severity of extreme weather events, agricultural productivity remains at risk of being compromised. With the food security of millions threatened, there remains a need to develop alternative, sustainable production models which can thrive in the face of climate change.Advances in plant factories: New technologies in indoor vertical farming reviews the wealth of research on optimising plant...

Livro de memórias de Dave Grohl traz relato emocionante sobre a vida de um dos maiores nomes do rock internacionalNão é preciso ser fã do Nirvana ou do Foo Fighters para saber que Dave Grohl é uma das figuras mais queridas e respeitadas da música mundial. De sua entrada na banda punk Scream, no fim da adolescência, até o enorme sucesso do Foo Fighters — passando pelos estrondosos anos no Nirvana —, Dave tem uma trajetória marcada por situações bizarras, dores inima...

**Winner of the Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction. Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, CBC Books, and the Globe and Mail.From Giller Prize finalist Alexander MacLeod comes a magnificent collection about the needs, temptations, and tensions that exist just beneath the surface of our lives. Named a Canadian Fiction title to watch by the CBC, Quill & Quire, and 49th Shelf, and a "must-read book" by Maclean's. Featuring stories published ...

Milton Jones, Milton Jones - so good, they named him. The most popular living comedian on Radio 4 and officially Britain’s funniest Milton is here with the complete three series of his award-wining show that leapt from late night to prime time - a show which co-stars regular guests Alexander Armstrong (Pointless, Armstrong & Miller), Dave Lamb (the voice of Come Dine With Me) and Joanna Scanlan (The Thick Of It, Getting On).No-one knows ...