Fifteen-year-old Caril Hallenbeck is an underachieving misfit in a family of beautiful, talented winners. Walking home from school after receiving yet another terrible report card, she steals herself for the inevitable put down session her father is going to put her through. But as she walks, Caril starts to hear screams coming from the apartment buildings she passes. Then she sees a teenage girl and boy get attacked and beaten with a tire iron by a crazed man. Pleading for her life, the g...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming our world at a breakneck pace, including the practice of law. The recent rapid development of generative AI, which produces new outputs based on the data it has been trained on and prompts from users, has been heralded as a revolutionary intellectual and technological development. AI has the potential to improve many aspects of the practice of law, including increasing the speed at which many tasks can be done, boosting productivity, and reducin...

Thirteen-year-old Mara Jones stood by and did nothing as her father beat her nine-year-old sister Luanne to death. Now overwhelmed with guilt and living in a foster home, she encounters Pearl, a neighborhood child who shows many signs of being abused. Mara tries to get the adults in her life to intervene, but none of them help her. Can she save Pearl before she suffers the same fate as Luanne?

The Internet of Things encompasses the ability to connect and direct almost any kind of mechanical system, whether it's automotive, medical, residential, or critical infrastructure. IoT technologies hold tremendous promise for our communities by making them safer and more efficient. As with any other technology, they also entail security risk, and the risks associated with IoT technologies must be aggressively managed. We can do so, with industry’s help, by working to leverage sta...

A young family returning from a trip from the Gold Coast finds themselves in a life or death fight against a deranged maniac after stopping at a rest area.With the family of four attempting to out-wit, out-last, and out-smart their attacker will they make it out alive?This is the new age of Australian horror with Stop, Revive, Survive? the first short-story in the three part trilogy as Australia's rest stops become over run with faceless, deranged killers who take no prison...

You Have Been Warned--but, if you are so inclined to read this collection of short stories, I urge you to, but remember, you have been warned. Within these pages you will meet a most peculiar old man running a gas station in the middle of nowhere, and what happens to the undesirables that encounter him. You will meet a rather good looking doctor with a most peculiar side line, and you will meet a teacher with years of experience who has a different style of teaching. Your storyteller also ...

A malicious collection of short horror stories. These twenty-one spine tingling shorts have an exciting twist that are full of personality and action. These troubled, haunted, psychotic souls will keep you questioning and reading more. What scares you the most? Better yet, just ask Jack.

This riveting suspense thriller explores the special bond between a brother and sister when Richard Baimbridge rushes back to his coastal hometown of Wilmington, NC, to assist with his sister's recovery after she's brutally attacked and crippled investigating the rape of a 13-year-old. Coming face to face with his tormented past and a dark family secret, he fights to stay above the flood of childhood trauma and, serving as his sister's legs, is drawn into the dark underside of this quiet c...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A potent exploration of the power of blockchains to reshape the future of the internet—and how that affects us all—from influential technology entrepreneur and startup investor Chris Dixon“A must for anyone who wants to better understand the real potential of blockchains and web3.”—Robert Iger, CEO, Disney“A compelling vision of where the internet should go and how to get there.”—Sam Altman, co-f...

Many senior executives talk about information as one of their most important assets, but few behave as if it is. They report to the board on the health of their workforce, their financials, their customers, and their partnerships, but rarely the health of their information assets. Corporations typically exhibit greater discipline in tracking and accounting for their office furniture than their data.Infonomics is the theory, study, and discipline of asserting economic significance t...

Offering real-world insight and explanations, this book provides a roadmap for organizations looking to develop a profitable big data strategy and reveals why it's not something they can leave to the I.T. department.Big data--the enormous amount of data that is created as virtually every movement, transaction, and choice we make becomes digitized--is revolutionizing business. Sharing best practices from companies that have implemented a big data strategy including ...

As an instructor, you have seen business continuity and risk management grow exponentially, offering an exciting array of career possibilities to your students. They need the tools needed to begin their careers -- and to be ready for industry changes and new career paths. You cannot afford to use limited and inflexible teaching materials that might close doors or limit their options. Written with your classroom in mind,Business Continuity and Risk Management: Essentials of Organization...