You trust your brain more than anything else. But what if your memory is not a recording but a reconstruction, your perceptions are controlled hallucinations, and your conscious mind is not the author of your choices? For decades, neuroscience has revealed that the brain is not the reliable narrator you imagine. It's a prediction engine, a fiction writer, and a master of self-deception—all designed to help you survive, not to show you objective truth. This book pulls back the curtain on th...

Told through an ever expanding collection of microstories, short stories, novelettes, novellas, and audio dramas, the events of Summer Culling take place between the inciting Carrington Event of 2012 and the days leading up Spring Peeling, a primary novel within the larger series of Post Carrington.This first collection is comprised of eight terrifying tales. Told through short, punchy horrors, we get a glimpse into what happens when an entire civilization is sudd...

The Empire of Pilth Rabour is run by a tyrant, but that might be about to change. Assassins, rescue two orphan children from their would be murders. While they attempt to safely escort the children to a long lost uncle, a three-way war for control of the Empire of Pilth Rabour threatens to tear the empire apart. As the empire tries to settle into a new norm murderous trade factions, warlord prophets, demons and assassins constantly threaten the tenuous peace.

Nowadays, just having a website or an app is not enough. Potential customers aren’t going to stumble across you by accident – you need to employ digital marketing tools and techniques to help them find you and keep you front of mind, and have them coming back again and again.Marketing your products and services online doesn’t have to cost the earth. Lots of digital marketing activities can be done for free, or very little, and are very effective. You may also save costs for adverti...

'Excellent . . . an in-depth excavation of the murky and mysterious world of football business. Smith's candid and often shocking book reveals the true workings of football business that take into account things few of us even could even imagine . . . The Deal answers some of those questions and leaves you wanting more. It is an educational tool that most fans could do with researching' Joe Short, ExpressFootball analysis has grown at the same exponential rate as ...

Regardless if you are a Poe expert or a newcomer to his works, this hand-selected collection is the perfect addition to any horror lover's library.From "The Black Cat" to "The Tell-Tale Heart" the stories in this collection have shaped the face of modern horror literature. See where it all began in The Selected Works of Edgar Allan Poe.Featuring:"The Fall of the House of Usher""The Masque of the Red Death""The Pit and the Pendulum"an...

RUBYRAJAN... published by Custom Book Publications…An odyssey taking place in a country of towering mountains, living goddesses, arranged marriages, ancient traditions and terrible natural disasters... an emotional journey through the eyes of Rubyrajan and her twin sister, Binsa.Taking different pathways, the twins strive to find their identities, pursue personal aspirations and rise above those seeking their subjugation in a country undergoing a rapid transition from...

A follow on to the bestselling Blokes Guide to Pregnancy, this pocket bite size guide book has all the crucial advice for expectant blokes and outlines 100 absolute need to know tips for surviving pregnancy. Written in his customary no nonsense, straightforward style – These 100 tips are taken from interviews with 100 blokes who have lived to tell the tale. This is the only guide to be reading for all expectant dads out there.

SummaryEntity Framework Core in Action teaches you how to access and update relational data from .NET applications. Following the crystal-clear explanations, real-world examples, and around 100 diagrams, you'll discover time-saving patterns and best practices for security, performance tuning, and unit testing.Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications.About the Technol...

This year, the holidays are FUCKED! This is not a children's happy family Christmas book you're looking at right now. Oh no. There is blood. Guts and Garland. Brutality. Faustian wraiths. Patricide. Soul-sucking shrunken heads. Entire wars unfolding at the North Pole. Aliens. Mutant streptococcus. Evil Christmas bread. Badly behaved elves. Twelve brain-fritzing days of Christmas. Oh. And werewolves, not to mention dryads. Also...someone put a hit out on Santa! Within these 24 stories, no o...

What bloke is entirely ready or totally prepared for the reality of a new baby and all that it entails? Babies may bring boundless joy into your life but they also bring temper tantrums, stubborn moods and 90-decibel fits of hysterical screaming. In Jon Smith's new, absolutely essential and extremely entertaining baby manual, he provides all the treasured wisdom that will help new dads master coping with delights such as projectile vomiting, sleep-deprived mums, the 'hidden gifts' that com...

The new southern studies has had an uneasy relationship with both American studies and the old southern studies. In Finding Purple America, Jon Smith, one of the founders of the new movement, locates the source of that unease in the fundamentally antimodern fantasies of both older fields.The old southern studies tends to view modernity as a threat to a mystic southern essence—a dangerous outside force taking the form of everything from a "bulldozer revolution" to a "nation...