Best-selling guide to the inner workings of the Linux operating system with over 50,000 copies sold since its original release in 2014.Unlike some operating systems, Linux doesn’t try to hide the important bits from you—it gives you full control of your computer. But to truly master Linux, you need to understand its internals, like how the system boots, how networking works, and what the kernel actually does.In this third edition of the bestselling How ...

When Jack Nolan discovers a rock that bends reality, he’s hurled into a war that started long before he was born. A secret tyrant called the Architect wants the power to rewrite America. A hidden resistance wants Jack. Jack just wants his family to be safe.To win, he must learn the stone’s rules, outsmart hunters who step through seconds, and chase a rumor buried in the archives—about forged orders, sealed letters, and a single decision in 1781 that bent a revolution off its true c...

Digital Marketing Mastery 2025 is a field-tested, up-to-the-minute playbook that turns today’s chaotic digital landscape into a clear, repeatable growth system. Whether you’re launching your first campaign or scaling an established brand, this book shows you exactly how to design strategy, deploy AI, and execute across channels to lower acquisition costs, lift conversions, and build a high-ROI marketing engine. What makes it different? It’s relentlessly practical. Every chapter moves from ...

Alex Gates, "Gater", is a former Buffalo NY police officer and forensic investigator who has retired because he has been defeated by the stress and violence in his job. He became estranged from his wife and teenage daughter for a job as a security guard at an upper New York estate.It is a winter weekend and his daughter is visiting. The owners of the estate are living in their other home in the Caribbean. They keep two horses in the estate's barn along with a donkey and a recent bo...

The definitive operational post-mortem of modern Wall Street's most secretive disaster has arrived. When Archegos Capital Management collapsed in March 2021, it didn't just erase a ten-billion-dollar family fortune overnight—it exposed a systemic blind spot that crippled global banking titans and rewrote the rules of counterparty risk forever. This masterfully calculated analysis strips away the financial jargon to dissect the mechanical engineering of a catastrophic default. Discover how ...

The Golden Mile is a book of poems but it is more than that: it is a love story. It speaks of one man’s love first of his brave father who died, when the author was a teenager, of disabilities caused by his service in the Battle of the Atlantic during World War II and then of his own family. He dedicates the book to his late father’s memory. He retraced his father’s footsteps along the Golden Mile that leads up to Edinburgh Castle seventy years after he father did so during a break in host...

Brian Ward is Lecturer in American History at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne .; This book is intended for american studies, American history postwar social and cultural history, political history, Black history, Race and Ethnic studies and Cultural studies together with the general trade music.

It's dangerous out there…On the road.The highways, byways and backroads of America are teeming day and night with regular folks. Moms and dads making long commutes. Teenagers headed to the beach. Bands on their way to the next gig. Truckers pulling long hauls. Families driving cross country to visit their kin.But there are others, too. The desperate and the lost. The cruel and the criminal.Theirs is a world of roadside honky-tonks, truck stops...

This book explores how an eclectic selection of narratives and images of the American South have been created and consumed. The thirteen essays move beyond both traditional accounts of southern identity as either declining or enduring, and more recent postmodernist accounts of the South as imagined or invented. Instead, the contributors emphasize how narratives and images of "the South" have real social, political, and economic ramifications, and that they register at various local, region...

Set during the American Revolution. Richard Dudgeon, put off by the dour religious ferocity of his mother and many of his neighbors, declares himself to be the devil's disciple, befriends the town's disreputable characters, repulses minister Anthony Anderson's dutiful attempts to save his soul, and takes a certain grim satisfaction in the shocked disapproval of his neighbors, including Anderson's young wife Judith. But when the British Army under General Burgoyne approaches, seeking promin...

The Church Missionary Society (now renamed the Church Mission Society) has been for most of its 200-year history the largest and most influential of the British Protestant missionary agencies. Its bicentenary in 1999 is being marked by the publication of this collection of historical and theological essays by an international team of scholars, including Lamin Sanneh, Kenneth Cragg, and Geoffrey A. Oddie. The volume contains re-assessments of the classic centenary history of the CMS by Euge...

“This is a remarkable collection of essays. Citizenship clearly forms the backbone for these investigations but the range of the contributors’ backgrounds (in terms of disciplinary training) and the approaches they take to the question makes this collection both broad and deep. As it turns out, there is no other way to tackle a concept as central but also as slippery as citizenship. A shorter or more focused collection would miss the nuances and insights that this one offers.”—Aaron Sheeha...