Now a Multi Award Winning Motion Picture from Director Peeter Rebane, Starring Tom Prior.An inspiring memoir, Firebird: The Story of Roman chronicles one man's unwavering resolve to follow his heart above all else. Sergey's remarkable life story fosters understanding and empathy, driving support for LGBTQ+ equality around the world.In 1970s Soviet occupied Estonia, handsome soulful soldier Sergey is serving out a compulsory two-year conscription at...

Bot farms, fake news, and AI propaganda are rewriting what we think is real.Every day, millions of invisible accounts and automated networks fight for your attention. Some sell products. Some push politics. Many exist only to keep you angry, distracted, or uncertain.Reality Hacked pulls back the curtain on the hidden systems that shape what we see and believe online. It shows how bot farms amplify outrage, how “firehose of falsehood” tactics flood social me...

Design modern, rich interfaces for Java apps using JavaFX 10Key FeaturesLeverage advanced GUI programming techniques using the latest JavaFX 10 framework.Create dynamic content using the animation API and work with different application layersCreate and customize plugins and use them efficiently in different applicationsBook Description: JavaFX 10 is used to create media-rich client applications. This book takes you on a jour...

How Putin's autocracy undercut Russia's economy and chances for democracyDuring his nearly twenty years at the center of Russian political power, Vladimir Putin has transformed the vast country in many ways, not all of them for the better. The near-chaos of the early post-Soviet years has been replaced by an increasingly rigid authoritarianism, resembling a hard-fisted monarchy more than the previous communist dictatorship. Putin's early years in power saw rapid eco...

This book is a journey through the life path of an extraordinary blogger, streamer, and, without exaggeration, a phenomenon of modern digital culture. From humble beginnings in Gomel to the heights of global popularity, Andrey «Mellstroy» Burim leaves a profound mark in the history of internet entertainment. The pages of the book reveal not only the bright moments of his career but also deep reflections on the meaning of success and the impact of one person on forming new media trends..

December 2018. A young woman vanishes on the highway between Moscow and Tula. Irina Akhmatova — a restaurant manager, a wife, a mother — had arranged a ride through BlaBlaCar with a stranger named "Sergey." Her phone goes dead at 9:15 PM. It never comes back on. Veteran investigator Colonel Volkov — "the Wolfhound" — launches a digital manhunt through server logs, cell tower data, and fake accounts, unraveling a web of fictitious identities created from a single IP address. The trail leads...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if you could wake up to money you earned while sleeping—without writing a single line of code?In 2026, the rules have changed. AI isn't just a tool anymore—it's your tireless digital workforce. "AI and Making Money" reveals exactly how everyday people are using plain-English automation to build income streams that run 24/7, even when they're unconscious.This isn't about chasing viral TikToks or gambling on crypto. This is the ...

The collapse of the USSR sparked hopes of a peaceful 'end of history', but these were quickly dashed. Why did the opportunity for the two former superpower adversaries to become partners slip away?This book explains the complex reasons behind Russia's turbulent transformation since the dissolution of the USSR. It looks at inconsistent economic reforms, and the failure to establish democratic institutions. It also examines how the US and its allies missed opportunities to support Ru...

This new volume of Methods in Enzymology continues the legacy of this premier serial by containing quality chapters authored by leaders in the field. This volume covers Fluorescence Fluctuation SpectroscopyContains chapters on such topics as Time-integrated fluorescence cumulant analysis, Pulsed Interleaved Excitation, and raster image correlation spectroscopy and number and brightness analysis. - Continues the legacy of this premier serial with quality chapters authored by leaders in the ...

Complex-Valued Modeling in Economics and Financeoutlines the theory, methodology, and techniques behind modeling economic processes using complex variables theory. The theory of complex variables functions is widely used in many scientific fields, since work with complex variables can appropriately describe different complex real-life processes. Many economic indicators and factors reflecting the properties of the same object can be represented in the form of complex variables. By...

In the harsh landscape of Russia's Ural region, convicted criminals make desperate bids for freedom — escaping fromprison colonies, fleeing through forests, and hiding in plain sight. But the investigators tasked with hunting themdown are just as relentless. This gripping true crime narrative follows the cat-and-mouse pursuits between fugitivesand the law enforcement officers who track them across the Russian heartland. Based on real cases, "Hunting theEscaped C...

The properties of strongly correlated electrons confined in two dimensions are a forefront area of modern condensed matter physics. In the past two or three decades, strongly correlated electron systems have garnered a great deal of scientific interest due to their unique and often unpredictable behavior. Two of many examples are the metallic state and the metal–insulator transition discovered in 2D semiconductors: phenomena that cannot occur in noninteracting systems. Tremendous efforts h...