Mobile has reprogrammed your customers’ brains.Your customers now turn to their smartphones for everything. What’s tomorrow’s weather? Is the flight on time? Where’s the nearest store, and is this product cheaper there? Whatever the question, the answer is on the phone. This Pavlovian response is the mobile mind shift — the expectation that I can get what I want, anytime, in my immediate context.Your new battleground for customers is this mobile moment — the instant in whic...

***One last fling (with danger) before the ring?Nothing’s that simple when you’re a geek girl. Julie Moffett’s beloved Lexi Carmichael mystery series returns with*** No Questions Asked***.***Lexi Carmichael: saving scientists one snake at a time.Weddings aren’t my thing—never have been. But eloping would break my mother’s heart, especially since the president of the United States put in a good word for me with his daughter’s wedding planner. I’m goi...

One last fling (with danger) before the ring?Nothing's that simple when you're a geek girl. Julie Moffett's beloved Lexi Carmichael mystery series returns with No Questions Asked.Lexi Carmichael: saving scientists one snake at a time.Weddings aren't my thing—never have been. But eloping would break my mother's heart, especially since the president of the United States put in a good word for me with his daughter's wedding pl...

When thirteen-year-old Matt disappears on his way home from school, his mother Rachel refuses to believe he is simply gone.Everyone tells her to let go. The police have no answers. Her friends think she's spiralling. Even her husband, Dom, seems to want her to stop asking questions.But Rachel won't give up. As she begins to uncover links between Matt's disappearance and a string of other missing children, a pattern begins to emerge. Then she finds the coded message Matt lef...

Is ______ okay in the bedroom?If I’m single, how far is too far?How do I get past my shame?Whether you are married or single, having great sex or no sex, your sexuality is inseparable from your spirituality. Sadly, most churches are silent on the subject.Dr. Juli Slattery is breaking the silence.In 25 Questions You're Afraid to Ask About Love, Sex, and Intimacy, she tackles the most common and critical questions people ask abo...

God's answers for the hard questions women ask.Just think of it—women are given the chance to come into the presence of God the Father and ask him questions that have been burning in their hearts for years.Down and dirty questions that must have answers, and God is the only one who can provide them. Facing overwhelming life circumstances, readers come face to face with the Creator of everything.Imagine hearing God respond to the most gut-level questions. Imagine women opening up their hear...

Look up "writer" in any dictionary and it will likely define a writer as "anyone who writes". This study initiates a discussion to refine what it means to be a writer—a real writer—not to judge, but to suggest guidelines, expectations, and well-defined standards by reviewing best practices and industry expectations—because being a writer really is more than just being someone who writes. Interviews were conducted with published fiction authors; and analysis found that there were twenty ide...

This book shares my 50 years of experience practicing emergency room medicine, general medicine, and psychiatry in Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, California, and Texas since 1972. I have been the Chairman of a Department of Psychiatry in a Community Hospital, Medical Director of a four county and five county mental Health Center in Indian from 1984 to 1986 and 1991 to 2001. I have practiced psychiatry in Regional Medical Centers, Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit and Hazard ARH Regional Medical...

Is ______ okay in the bedroom?If I’m single, how far is too far?How do I get past my shame?Whether you are married or single, having great sex or no sex, your sexuality is inseparable from your spirituality. Sadly, most churches are silent on the subject.Dr. Juli Slattery is breaking the silence.In 25 Questions You're Afraid to Ask About Love, Sex, and Intimacy, she tackles the most common and critical questions people ask abo...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Advances in Computer Games, ACG 2015, held in Leiden, The Netherlands, in July 2015.The 22 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics such as Monte-Carlo Tree Search and its enhancements; theoretical aspects and complexity; analysis of game characteristics; search algorithms; and machin...

Snappsy the alligator is having a normal day when a pesky narrator steps in to spice up the story. Is Snappsy reading a book ... or is he making CRAFTY plans? Is Snappsy on his way to the grocery store ... or is he PROWLING the forest for defenseless birds and fuzzy bunnies? Is Snappsy innocently shopping for a party ... or is he OBSESSED with snack foods that start with the letter P? What's the truth?Snappsy the Alligator (Did Not Ask to Be in This Book) is an irreverent ...

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computers and Games, CG 2016, held in Leiden, The Netherlands,in conjunction with the 19th Computer Olympiad and the 22nd World Computer-Chess Championship.The 20 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected of 30 submitted papers.The 20 papers cover a wide range of computer games and many different research topics in four main classes which determined t...