Recollections from his past suddenly return, haunting Ian Harbinger in wanting to know about the death of his Aunt Anastasia. By some premonition he finds himself back at the old family home in Cambridgeshire that was once owned by his aunt and where he spent all his school holidays. It now stands empty but by dubious means he gains access into 'Homemead' and discovers certain unanswered questions. It forces him into a sense of loyalty to use his long overdue leave as an engineer from the ...

DO YOU WANT TO MAKE YOUR COMPANY PROCESSES MORE EFFECTIVE AND OFFER HIGHER QUALITY PRODUCTS?Do you often look at how the company works and wish things could be better?Are you a boss who's sick of the waste in your systems, products and services?Do you want to find ways to change the behaviors and mentalities of the workers in your organization?Do you want to know the values, strategies, tools and techniques that can strengthen the organizati...

Get A Comprehensive Look At Agile Project Management And See What It Can Mean To YouAgile Project Management is a very flexible structure and method for the project and its processes. Although it takes a competent and capable person to be successful at the helm of things. It will ensure that a quality product is delivered on time through a constantly changing and iterative approach. Many ground-breaking and innovative goods have been developed over the yea...

The Lean system is a great way to help you get rid of the waste in your company so that you can be more productive and increase profits.Lean Analytics is part of this process that can help you collect the right data and get the information you need to come up with a winning strategy for your team.The key idea behind Lean Analytics is to allow an organization to track and then optimize the metric that will matter most to its program, project or curr...

Most of the startups crash. But many of these errors are preventable. Lean Startup is a new approach that is being implemented across the globe, changing the way businesses are being developed and new products are being introduced.Eric Ries describes a start-up as an entity committed to creating something new under conditions of intense uncertainty. This is just as true for one person in the garage or a group of experienced professionals in the Fortune 500 boardroo...

How well does the company adapt to changing market dynamics, customer needs and emerging technologies while designing software-based products?This practical guide presents Lean and Agile principles and patterns to help you move quickly on a scale — and shows why and how to apply these methodologies across your organization, rather than with a single department or team.Through case studies, you can explore how successful companies have changed every...

Here's How You Should Run Your Business If You Want To Succeed!What if you could run your business like an experienced CEO - even if it's your very first business?If you're nodding with excitement, there's one thing you should know.No matter how good your business idea is, you will NOT succeed if you don't manage projects and processes in the best way possible.This is why you MUST know Si...

An “ingenious, horrifying” (The Guardian) first contact story by one of the twentieth century’s most brilliant—and neglected—science fiction and horror writers, whom Stephen King called “the best writer of science fiction that England has ever produced.”“Few books capture the obscure, elliptical way that threats move from the background to the foreground of reality like The Kraken Wakes. . . . Feels all too familiar in today’s age of anti-...

Winner of CrimeFest 2013's 'eDunnit Award' for 'the best crime fiction ebook published in 2012 in both hardcopy and in electronic format'.Two small children are playing a game called 'Witch-Hunter'. They place a curse on a young woman taking lunch in a church courtyard and wait for her to die. An hour later the woman is indeed found dead inside St Bride's Church - a building that no-one else has entered.Unfortunately Bryant & May are refused the case. Inste...

Our story begins at the end of an investigation, as the members of London's Peculiar Crimes Unit race to catch a killer near London Bridge Station in the rain, not realising that they’re about to cause a bizarre accident just yards away from the crime scene. And it will have repercussions for them all…One year later, in an exclusive London crescent, a woman walks her dog – but she’s being watched. When she’s found dead, the Peculiar Crimes Unit is called in to investigate. Why? Bec...

It’s a fresh start for the Met's oddest investigation team, the Peculiar Crimes Unit.Their first case involves two teenagers who see a dead man rising from his grave in a London park. And if that's not alarming enough, one of them is killed in a hit and run accident. Stranger still, in the moments between when he was last seen alive and found dead on the pavement, someone has changed his shirt...Much to his frustration, Arthur Bryant is not allowed to investigate. Instead, he...

When I was 10, I was taken from my quiet, safe corner of old Europe and deposited into an exotic new world. Africa, at once breathtaking and soul-destroying, from the snow-capped mountains and teeming game plains of Kenya and Tanzania to the haunted hunger-stalked dustbowls of Ethiopia and the Sudan – the hideous and the magnificent have always gone hand in hand there.Nobody who has once set foot on the soil of Africa will ever be quite free of it again. When I first went there, I ...