As marketers, we’ve been travelling at breakneck speed over the past few years. More and more technologies and opportunities present themselves on a daily basis and it doesn’t seem possible to keep up. In fact, we shouldn’t be expected to keep up. What we need is a filtering system that just shares the best up-to-date advice and ensures that the rest of the noise doesn’t even reach us. Welcome to Marketing Now, the book that shares the actionable marketing advice that you need to read toda...

The 13 Pillars of Internet Marketing offers a broad introduction to internet marketing methods for marketing managers, business owners and entrepreneurs. It helps the reader build a broad overall online marketing knowledge, prior to implementing their own internet marketing campaign or managing an SEO company. This special edition also includes an interview with blogging guru Yaro Starak.

Teenage friends Brian and Iggy suddenly find themselves living the ghost stories and urban legends they love one night as they watch a car drive across the moonlit surface of GRAY LAKE.At the same moment, in the marshes to the north, the battle for dominance over a troubled gang of small town meth dealers begins.For Iggy, the car’s arrival heralds a downward spiral as he dreams of its sometimes lovely, sometimes ghastly occupants chauffeuring him into murky depths.F...

After the Civil War, the building of the transcontinental railroad was the nineteenth century's most transformative event. Beginning in 1842 with a visionary's dream to span the continent with twin bands of iron, Empire Express captures three dramatic decades in which the United States effectively doubled in size, fought three wars, and began to discover a new national identity. From self--made entrepreneurs such as the Union Pacific's Thomas Durant and er...

"An intriguing, thorough study of a little-known scientific expedition to the Dead Sea by a mid-19th-century U.S. Navy lieutenant" ( Kirkus Reviews).With customary depth and insight, David Haward Bain illumines the United States's nineteenth-century exploration of the Holy Land. To lead the expedition, the navy tabbed William Francis Lynch, an officer eager to enter the esteemed yet dangerous field of Victorian exploration. Like many of his successful cont...

Secrets Buried Beneath the Family Tree It started with an innocent hobby night of genealogy, but what prizewinning author David Haward Bain discovered that night and over the next feverish days of detective work would change the course of his life, revealing a century-old family secret of his beloved grandmother Rose Donahue Haward. It would quickly take him back to her home ground of Kansas City, Missouri and through many archives, and into the very heart of memory itself. Hidden deep in ...

Sitting in Darkness follows the paths of three people in the Philippines: an American soldier of fortune, a Filipino revolutionary leader, and an American historian who left the safety and limits of the library for the hazards of the jungle. What emerges is a narrative in which past and present are unforgettably entwined. In March 1982, David Haward Bain hiked 110 miles through the mountainous, sparsely populated coast of Luzon. Led by pygmy guides, he and his five companions crossed peaks...

This comprehensive edited collection provides key contributions in the field, mapping out fundamental topics and analysing current trends through an international lens.Offering a collection of invited contributions from scholars across the world, the volume is structured in seven parts, each exploring an aspect of local media and journalism. It brings together and consolidates the latest research and theorisations from the field, and provides fresh understandings of local media fro...

The gypsies are back.Horror authors David Bain and C. Dennis Moore return to the world of body-hopping other-dimensional alien entities with BAND OF GYPSIES: Bold as Love.There's evil lurking in the local college, an evil that seeks the source of a demonic song called "The Satanic Furies", a song capable of causing mayhem on a grand scale.Local guitar god Dillon has found the Gypsies' weakness in the Electric Lady's song, and when global guitar god ...

Evil has returned to the Buckley farm....It starts with a dream, a warning. But it's a warning that arrives too late. The Gypsies aren't coming; they're here.His grandmother and nephew are the first to fall to the demonic invaders, leaving Mitch, his grandfather, and his uncle trapped in the barn while occult madness reigns outside. Chaos is the order of the day, and Mitch can only try to cope with the ghostly paranormal attackers. His grandfather, however,...

Suffering is a central component of our lives. We suffer pain. We fall ill. We fail and are failed. Our loved ones die. It is a commonplace to think that suffering is, always and everywhere, bad. But might suffering also be good? If so, in what ways might suffering have positive, as well as negative, value?This important volume examines these questions and is the first comprehensive examination of suffering from a philosophical perspective. An outstanding roster of international co...

Over recent decades, pain has received increasing attention as philosophers, psychologists, and neuroscientists try to answer deep and difficult questions about it. What is pain? What makes pain unpleasant? How is pain related to the emotions? This volume provides a rich and wide-ranging exploration of these questions and important new insights into the philosophy of pain. Divided into three clear sections – pain and motivation, pain and emotion, and deviant pain – the collection covers fu...