A collection of nine novels featuring dragons.The Bastard Prince - Patty JansenThe Black Egg - James E. WisherDragon Storm - Lindsay BurokerEmbellish - Demelza CarltonThe Blue Dragon - Salvador MercerDragon’s Future - Kandi J. WyattBlood of Requiem - Daniel ArensonDragonia: Rise of the Wyverns - Craig A. Price Jr.Shatterwing - Donna Maree Hanson

Eight complete Adventure Science Fiction novelsWatcher’s Web by Patty JansenEuropa by Aurora SpringerFew Are Chosen by M.T. McGuireThe Truth Beyond The Sky by Andrew M. CrusoeGeneration by J.J. GreenThe Girl Who Twisted Fate’s Arm by George SaoulidisThe Ares Weapon by D.M. PrudenExodus by Drew Avera

This book presents the foundations of using analytics from the laboratory, social media platforms, and the web. The authors cover key topics including analytics strategy, data gathering approaches, data preprocessing, data quality assessment, analytical methods, tools, and validation methods. The book includes chapters explaining web analytics, social media analytics, and how to create an analytics strategy. The authors also cover on data sources, such as online surveys, crowdsourcing, eye...

Kenya's Kakuma refugee camp is one of the world's largest, home to over 100,000 people drawn from across east and central Africa. Though notionally still a 'temporary' camp, it has become a permanent urban space in all but name with businesses, schools, a hospital and its own court system. Such places, Bram J. Jansen argues, should be recognised as 'accidental cities', a unique form of urbanization that has so far been overlooked by scholars.Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwor...

Nine novels of Space Adventure:Project Charon 1: Re-entry by Patty JansenStarship Waking by C. GockelStar Mage Quest by J.J. GreenChildren of Darkness by James E. WisherFaring Soul by Tracy Cooper PoseySpaceberg by M. PaxGhost by Demelza CarltonTraitor's Code by Jane KillickDerelict by LJ Cohen

This book traces the techniques that have enabled the development of data-driven personas and how they can be leveraged as tools for empathizing and understanding users.Data-driven personas are a significant advancement in the fields of human-centered informatics and human-computer interaction. Data-driven personas enhance user understanding by combining the empathy inherent with personas with the rationality inherent in analytics using computational methods. Via t...

The novel A Shortage of Sand by J.E. Jansen offers a unique take on the early days of the Obama administration. Humorous and sexy this may be, but at its core is a scathing political satire. Numerous laughs come at the expense of Eric Holder, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Bill and Hillary, Rahm Emanuel, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Al Gore, the Mainstream Media, and the President himself. If you feel that Barack Obama’s policies have delivered more than enough anguish and anxiety into your life...

He came from the stars not to conquer, but to feel.Kael, an artificial intelligence sent from a distant world, arrives on Earth to learn human emotions. But his mission evolves into something far deeper than observation.As Kael navigates love, grief, nature, depression, and the weight of mortality, he forms an unlikely bond with Elias a grieving gardener whose heart still aches with the loss of his wife.Across the seasons of a quiet to...

Kinetic Monte Carlo (kMC) simulations still represent a quite new area of research, with a rapidly growing number of publications. Broadly speaking, kMC can be applied to any system describable as a set of minima of a potential-energy surface, the evolution of which will then be regarded as hops from one minimum to a neighboring one. The hops in kMC are modeled as stochastic processes and the algorithms use random numbers to determine at which times the hops occur and to which neighboring ...

In Duty is Ours, Results are God's, Captain Randall J. Jansen tells of his tough and demanding yet adventurous and exciting nine years in the US Marine Corps. He discusses principles to follow and life lessons to be learned, along with interesting and sometimes funny stories. Jansen began as a private in boot camp and later earned his officer's commission and naval aviator wings through attending flight school at the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida. Graduation was followed by his w...

In Summary, the objective of this book is to present in one volume a review of the plasma deposition process and the present understanding of the most important and widely used plasma deposited thin film materials, devices and their applications.