In the tradition of the acclaimed film "The Red Violin," The Butterfly by Ryan James Robinson tells the tale of one special element, the migrating Monarch butterfly, as she weaves towards her destiny across landscapes as varying as the characters she meets, touching each with her beauty and grace.This butterfly, born to a very special generation, embarks upon a monumental voyage from the glistening blue shores of Lake Superior on Michigan's Upper Peninsula to the ancient Oyamel for...

From the mad decade of the 1990s comes the tale of a man and his bid to make millions growing and selling marijuana in New York City's vast underbelly.Christian McIntosh, southerner, marijuana dealer, and recent college graduate, descends into the raucous and radiant conflagration that is New York in the last gasp of the millenium, and intends to go straight. His eyes are set firmly on Wall Street and making it as a highly successful trader. The city and the ganja itself, however, ...

This book addresses topics related to the impact of invasive species including biosecurity, demographics, species diversity and food security. It is meant for researchers, upper-level students, and policy makers and provides a factual basis for the underlying science and a discussion of that information with respect to current and future impacts and possible solutions. This book explores the nexus of climate change and biological invasions, resulting impacts (biological and economic) and a...

Penetration testing is the attempt to professionally break in to an organisation's computer systems, with the goal of determining whether the systems are secure. This guide for business and IT managers, developed in collaboration with CREST, explains the process of penetration testing and the benefits it brings. The book provides essential insight and tips for setting up a penetration testing programme, maintaining it, and responding to the results of penetration tests.

Random House presents the audiobook edition of Speeches of Note by Shaun Usher, compèred by Richard Cordery, and with speeches read by a variety of narrators.SPEECHES OF NOTE: seventy-five extraordinary ways to step into someone else’s shoes.From Shaun Usher, the author of the international bestseller LETTERS OF NOTE, comes an obsessively curated, richly illustrated and sumptuously produced collection of speeches from throu...