Why are houses so expensive? Is our banking system going to collapse again? Should we be worried that robots are going to take all our jobs? And just what exactly is the economy anyway? Economists and politicians would have you believe it is a rarified topic best left to 'the experts'. The experts are wrong.This book uncovers what people really mean when they talk about 'the economy', taking the word off its pedestal and showing that it's just a lens for seeing the world around us....

Working with Microsoft's network directory service for the first time can be a headache for system and network administrators, IT professionals, technical project managers, and programmers alike. This authoritative guide is meant to relieve that pain. Instead of going through the graphical user interface screen by screen, O'Reilly's bestselling Active Directory tells you how to design, manage, and maintain a small, medium, or enterprise Active Directory infrastructure.Full...

The crime fiction canopy's a broad one, with room to give shelter to writing of all sorts, as editor Lawrence Block shows with At Home in the Dark: "Some of these stories have one or both feet planted in another genre. James Reasoner's story is a period western, Joe Lansdale's is bleakly dystopian, and Joe Hill's novelette slithers through a little doorway into another world. "And now that I've singled out those three, I suppose I should go ahead and list the rest of the gang: N. ...

This new edition of Microcosm’s popular DIY guide to zine making is updated to address zine making in today’s digital-and-social-media-obsessed world. Covering all the bases for beginners, Make a Zine hits on more advanced topics like Creative Commons licenses, legality, and sustainability.Make a Zine also takes a look at the burgeoning indie comix scene with a solid and comprehensive chapter by punk illustrator Fly. Part history lesson, part how-to guide, Mak...

Eddie Malloy has beaten the odds by winning back his riding licence, and is trying to get his career on track once more. Just when things look like they are turning around for him, he finds himself in the gunsights of a cunning killer who is maiming and murdering racing personalities with a zeal and purpose which terrifies the racing world and mystifies the police.Eddie is convinced the killer has a pre-planned hit list for these ritual slayings, and when he discovers he is high on...

Do you know what it is like to have to pay more or be treated poorly because of your credit? Are you puzzled about why your credit score has just dropped when you are working so hard to jump it up quickly? Every day millions of Canadians like you are looking for answers about credit and don’t know where to turn. The Credit Game contains the insider secrets I have learned over the last decade helping thousands of Canadians increase their score and fix their credit. Stop being confused, emba...

Liar ['l─½-╔Ör] (n): 1. A person who tells lies. 2. A writer."Lying is essential to good storytelling. Daily, we writers sit at our computers—or legal tablets or Underwoods—and write down a bunch of untruths, piling one on top of the other, page after paltering page. We compound them, massage them, edit them, spin them, cut-and-paste them, until we're satisfied that, despite how outlandish or otherworldly these lies are, you, the reader, will swallow them. "In that, we're ...

Do you know what it is like to have to pay more or be treated poorly because of your credit? Are you puzzled about why your credit score has just dropped when you are working so hard to jump it up quickly? Every day millions of Canadians like you are looking for answers about credit and don’t know where to turn. The Credit Game contains the insider secrets I have learned over the last decade helping thousands of Canadians increase their score and fix their credit. Stop being confused, emba...

Learn the basics of baseball as a player, spectator, or coachBaseball For Dummies gets you started learning about this popular sport. You can improve your fundamentals as a player, inspire your team as a coach, or enjoy watching baseball as a superfan. The book includes helpful illustrations and diagrams that make it easy to understand the rules. You'll learn about offensive and defensive strategies, hitting and pitching techniques, the roles of each playe...

From Champion Jockey at 22 to down-and-out at 27, Eddie Malloy is bitter and desolate, reduced to living in an ancient caravan working for a tyrannical horse dealer. Estranged from his family and the sport he loves, Eddie cannot forget or forgive the racing authorities for believing false allegations of horse doping against him which robbed him of his riding licence.With another miserable Christmas looming, Eddie's discovery of murder victim Danny Gordon in the racing capital of Ne...

Lyman, a thirty-year-old loner, is sipping coffee on the front steps of the trailer he calls home one morning, when a parrot suddenly alights on his screen door. The parrot arrives with a mysterious past and beak full of cryptic sayings, such as “That which hath wings shall tell the matter.” Convinced that heeding the bird’s wisdom will lead him to answers about himself that he so desperately seeks, Lyman combines his night job as a courtesy patrolman, circling the highway that loops aroun...

Do You Want to Understand Dark Psychology and Avoid Being Manipulated? Joe M. Bernays Will Teach You Everything About Dark Psychology, Mind Control, NLP and Body Language!Dark psychology is the art and science of manipulation and mind control. It is the practice of using psychology to persuade others to do things in your favor.Communication is what brings people together and closer to each other. When building different forms of relationships, it’s importan...