A dead friend. A dangerous question. A man who refuses to walk away.Exhausted, grieving, and searching for closure, Max Jones is still haunted by the death of his friend Uri in the jungles of Myanmar.Then he discovers he is being followed.The faces are unfamiliar. The threat is not. Someone is watching Max closely, and whatever they want seems to lead back to Uri.What was Uri involved in before he died? Who is trying to keep it hidden? And w...

Life Blood, written by a renowned leukaemia physician, tells unforgettable stories of his leukaemia patients' battles to be cured but also uniquely describes the stresses that doctors face when looking after extremely ill young people during an extraordinary time in their lives.In reflecting on his long and illustrious career, Professor Marks' memoir offers frank descriptions of his own medical family, some personal experiences of ill-health and his relationships with colleagues and...

The Way is a refreshing new version of an ancient Chinese guide to leading a harmonious life. The author has immersed himself in a lifetime of philosophical studies and a career producing historical documentary films for the BBC and PBS. His broad experience has been applied to developing this English language adaptation of The Way; distilling the meaning and essence of the original. This concise treatise presents a world view that corresponds with the essential foundations of many spiritu...

Airship propaganda that's "a visual treat . . . it will appeal to all those interested in how artwork was harnessed to convey information in time of war" (Firetrench).Books on the Zeppelin raids during the First World War have, traditionally, focused on the direct impact of Britain, from the devastating effects on undefended towns and cities, the psychological impact of this first weapon of total war to...

I wrote Time Being while on a trip from Portland to Baja California while on a hiatus from college. I traveled with a family friend, Gary De Young. Gary had bought a British Land Rover with the steering wheel on the right side. We visited friends down through California to Mexico. We ended up with car problems at Bay Concepcion in Baja. We thought about leaving the car to be repaired and hitchhiking down to Cabo San Lucan but I wanted to get back to college so we stuck with the land rover....

Welcome to publishing in the era of the information dealer.Just as the arms dealers and profiteers of the past stirred up murder and chaos for the purpose of profit, so too the information dealers pander to the lowest common denominator for the purpose of profit. Their weapons of choice are link-bait, fake news, click farms, fake reviews, and spammy content.The golden era of the information dealer has been ushered in via the sudden rise of big data and larg...

Over 60 high-quality recipes covering debugging, security, performance, microservices, web frameworks, databases, deployment and more; rewritten for Node.js 8, Node.js 6, and Node.js 4 Key FeaturesActionable recipes across the full spectrum of Node.js developmentCutting edge techniques and tools for measuring and improving performanceBest practices for creating readily-scalable production systemsBook DescriptionToday's web de...

In Baptists and the Emerging Church Movement, David Rathel examines the major ecclesiological proposals of the emerging church movement. Though many theologians argue that the emerging church movement emphasizes epistemology, Rathel contends that its primary concern is ecclesiology. Emerging church leaders offer a number of important ecclesiological proposals, including restructuring traditional church leadership models to accommodate the rise of postmodernity, changing the mission of the ...

In Node Cookbook Second Edition, each chapter focuses on a different aspect of working with Node. Following a Cookbook structure, the recipes are written in an easy-to-understand language. Readers will find it easier to grasp even the complex recipes which are backed by lots of illustrations, tips, and hints. If you have some knowledge of JavaScript and want to build fast, efficient, scalable client-server solutions, then Node Cookbook Second Edition is for you. Knowledge of Node will be a...

The Great Train Robbery goes South of the Border!"Dirty, rotten hombres with dynamite. Heck yes!""A clazzic caper orchestrated with charming despicableness and rollicking fun."WARNING:Virtual horses were virtually harmed during the digitization of this digital short.PRODUCT DESCRIPTION:Pancho Villa's latest General isn't like any of the others. Young, inexperienced and...

The rules are about to change. When Jim Buckner's research to unlock human immortality thrusts his daughter into the cross-hairs of a secret war, he'll do anything to get her back--including evolve.SERIAL DESCRIPTION:When Jim Buckner's daughter is kidnapped, his obsession shifts from discovering the lost genetic sequence for awakening human immortality to discovering who took her and how to get her back.The journey reveals a hiberna...

It's the coldest winter in Hull for years.When McAvoy is told by a concerned stranger that an elderly woman hasn't been seen for a few days, he goes to check on her - only to find her in the bath, encased in ice: the heating off; the windows open; the whole house frozen over.It could be a macabre accident, but McAvoy senses murder. Someone watched her die.As he starts to uncover the victim's story and her connections to a lost fishi...