"Artificial Intelligence is accelerating execution and exposing architectural weaknesses faster than ever before. Enterprise Architecture must be practical, early, and accountable—or it will be bypassed." This book connects real-world successes, failures, and recoveries from inside organizations where outcomes truly mattered in the modern AI and SaaS ecosystem. It provides a clear view of how leaders must navigate the business landscape to achieve the business outcomes enterprises now requ...

A trucker losing his mind on the open road.A rock star living one night in a hundred different hotels.A hardened Santa with a sidearm and a short fuse.A civilization undone by its own creation.Everything That Comes With It is a collection of dark, twisted urban short stories where the ordinary collides with the absurd.Spanning horror, satire, science fiction, and dark comedy, these twenty standalone tales explore strange moments in modern li...

For more than 80 years, clinicians worldwide have relied on The Washington Manual® of Medical Therapeutics to provide succinct, practical guidance for the challenges that residents, interns, medical students, and practitioners face every day in the hospital. Written by faculty, fellows, and internal medicine chief residents of the distinguished Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, The Washington Manual of Medical Therapeutics, 38th Edition presents brief, logical approach...

Climate Engineering: A Normative Perspective takes as its subject a prospective policy response to the urgent problem of climate change, one previously considered taboo. Climate engineering, the “deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the planetary environment in order to counteract anthropogenic climate change,” encapsulates a wide array of technological proposals. Daniel Edward Callies here focuses on one proposal currently being researched—stratospheric aerosol injection—which would sp...

Kristy Wilson is a slut.Most 18-year-old freshman girls would never want to be described that way, but freethinking Kristy wears the word like a badge of honor. She loves sex and isn't afraid to admit it to herself or to the world.Just because Kristy likes to screw doesn't mean she's easy. With a tight body built for sex, she can afford to be selective. In two short semesters, Kristy has selected her roommate, her freshman English professor, a soccer star, a surfer, her bos...

Just weeks away from marrying the man of her dreams and into the oldest of old money families Liz threw it all away for a night with a bartender who was endowed with something other than a trust fund. Only the intervention of Michelle, her almost sister-in-law, had saved her from a complete meltdown in the middle of the family compound. During a few unexpected days and nights together Liz and Michelle learn they share a love for more than just well hung bartenders.

Everyone needs a break – including Kristy and her roommate, lover, and closest friend, Kathryn. After rejecting proposals from many of her school's fraternities to go on spring break as their "guest," Kristy finally gives in to the last and most convincing offer to accompany Kathryn on a get away that promises not to feature wrist bands, foam parties, and thousands of their fellow students looking for the chance to be stupid.Spring Break takes Kristy into a world of opulence that s...

"A Slut's Perspective" is the story of a coed who has discovered the joys of sex – with her roommate, members of the student body, and with her professor. A natural "A" student, Kristy Wilson uses her free time to sleep with as many new and interesting people as possible. By the end of the story, you'll be asking yourself why there weren't girls like her at your school. Or maybe, Kristy will just remind you of someone from your past.The approximately length of "A Slut's Perspective...

"Accidental Dominance: Part 1" is the story of a man unexpectedly becoming Master to his girlfriend. It explores the lust, emotion, and raw deviant sex that draws both of them into the lifestyle and the consequences of the decisions they've made. Although it is technically a work of fiction, many details of this story are based on real-life experiences.This book features a sample of "Accidental Dominance: Part 2", by Edward Daniels, and continues the story of Angie and her accident...

What's the point of being a successful professional if you're stuck going home to the same middle-age wife every night? Lending a helping hand to a college girl looking for an arrangement to make her undergraduate life a little easier is much more satisfying.Having an arrangement isn't for the timid, but in the end every man ends up paying for sex. Some pay for weddings and divorces. Some pay by staying in soul crushing relationships all their lives. The more adventurous men find t...

I hadn't seen Emma in years, but I never expected how much she would grow up. I'd known a gangly teenager. The women I met sitting across the bar had the kind of body men dream about. When our paths crossed unexpectedly that night, I thought it would be a quick bang in the back of her car and then we'd go our separate ways. After we met again a few months later, it was only natural that we'd pick up where we left off. We both wanted it. We both wanted something, anyway.Emma was eve...

Dana had a plan. Get good grades in school. Get a job. Meet a nice boy. Get married. Live happily ever after. It was the same fairy tail plan millions of other young women get stuck in their heads every year. It works out for some of them, but for others the fairy tail dream can turn into a nightmare almost overnight.Most people never realize how close to the edge they've built their life. After her husband's freak accident, with bills piling up, Dana makes it her mission in life t...