Zombies make no sense. Ariel Laffont explains why.No blood circulation, so no movement. No lungs, so no screaming. A brain with no blood supply that should melt like everything else — but which somehow, conveniently, remains the only target that matters. In a text as blunt as it is rigorous, Ariel Laffont dissects the zombie myth through the lens of biology, decomposition, and basic logic — dismantling, point by point, why the genre only stands up thanks to cinemat...

THE FORGOTTEN ONESSome stories were never meant to stay buried.Five of horror's most compelling voices KD Davies, Deep Arya, Carl Bluesy, Don Campbell, and Hamo Woods, reach into their archives and pull something out. These are the pieces that existed before this book did, written in private, set aside for reasons only their authors know. Stories that waited. And now, finally, refuse to wait any longer.A woman's dream car whispers her name on a mountain road. A prof...

Mégane wasn't looking for a savior. She found one anyway — three meters of muscle, fangs, and white fur, answering to the name of Raoul.

Splunk is a software technology for monitoring, searching, analyzing, and visualizing machine-generated data in real time. This book, divided into three modules, is structured to help readers prepare for Splunk certification exams.The first module focuses on the Splunk Core Certified User and Power User exams. It covers Splunk installation across operating systems, license management, and user role configuration. Readers will learn the Splunk Processing Language (SPL) to create sea...

Ariel Laffont, twenty years old, known to her subscribers as the Paranormal Vixen, hunts cryptids with her camera and her skepticism. When coordinates found on the dark-net lead her deep into the German Black Forest, she expects to debunk one more legend.What she finds at the edge of a contaminated pond is not a legend.Beauty and the Mutant is a short horror erotica story that pulls no punches. An encounter between two beings that everything separates — and that nothing wil...

"One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel"-Jean-Antoninette ("Reinette") Poisson, aka Madame de Pompadour, "The Girl in the Fireplace"What a world of demons Doctor Who has presented us with over the past seven decades: from Daleks and Cybermen to Weeping Angels and the Silence, the greatest villains of the Who-niverse have achieved an iconic status all their own, cementing themselves in the minds of millions of viewers (why else would Parker Brothers h...

"Don't be alone, Doctor," Amy Pond tells the Eleventh Doctor in "The Angels Take Manhattan," and of course the irony is that in one sense the Doctor is always alone--a Gallifreyan whose regenerative powers mean he will outlast nearly everyone near and dear to him -- while at the same time he is rarely without one or more trusted companion by his side. This is a book about those companions--those fortunate few who accompany him on his journeys through space and time on--to quote the Ninth D...

The universe is vast, silent, and filled with mysteries that continue to challenge everything we think we know.Strange Mysteries Of The Universe takes you on a fascinating journey through the most intriguing and unexplained phenomena of the cosmos—from the invisible matter holding galaxies together to the powerful gravity of black holes that bend space and time itself.This audiobook explores deep cosmic questions: What lies beyond the observable un...

Queer celebration and resistance!Nicole Givens KurtzJason RoachJenn LyonsSarah J. SoverKatie FrendreisSylvie AlthoffDavid HornRand GaynorJennifer PeasleeJezza DeepPaige L. ChristieKay HanifenKevin A Davis

Melissa never expected a man like Cal Morris to waltz into her classroom. He’s a high-powered executive who gets what he wants, when he wants it.Melissa refuses to be bullied. Unfortunately for her, Cal is a hard man to resist—especially when he won’t take no for an answer.

The main objective of this book is to introduce a student who is familiar with elementary math concepts to select topics in deep learning. It exploits strong connections between deep learning algorithms and the techniques of computational physics to achieve two important goals. First, it uses concepts from computational physics to develop an understanding of deep learning algorithms. Second, it describes several novel deep learning algorithms for solving challenging problems in computation...

(Guitar Play-Along). The Guitar Play-Along Series will help you play your favorite songs quickly and easily! Just follow the tab, listen to the audio to hear how the guitar should sound, and then play along using the separate backing tracks. The melody and lyrics are also included in the book in case you want to sing, or to simply help you follow along. The audio is available online for download or streaming, and it is enhanced so you can adjust the recording to any tempo without changing ...