Olverston Grange is a house with a dark secret from a darker past. Wren, a disabled teenager, has a secret of his own in 'A Quiet Night In' and just why is a lonely man sitting in perpetual darkness in sub-zero temperatures?These questions and more are answered in 'Olverston Grange ...and Other Stories', the first collection of poetry, flash fiction, and short stories from author M. Leon Smith.What readers are saying...M. Leon Smith packs a lot of story in a short s...

WINNER: Independent Press Awards 2023 - Category: TechnologyAI presents a new paradigm in software development, representing the biggest change to how we think about quality and testing in decades. Many of the well known issues around AI, such as bias, manifest themselves as quality management problems. This book, aimed at testing and quality management practitioners who want to understand more, covers trustworthiness of AI and the complexities of testing ...

Activity and engagement are vital to our well-being throughout our lives and this continues to be just as true of people living with dementia.The activities presented in this book have been designed to provide meaningful engagement for residents, while respecting each individual resident's readiness to engage and participate. This approach to person-centred care has proven to be extremely effective: activities such as Namaste Care and Memory Cafés have engaged residents who had pre...

Merriam Press Historical Fiction HF2 (Fifth Edition, 2014). This is a fictionalized account, based on factual information supplied to the author by a former member of the OSS, of a mission which was engineered by Hitler and Goebbels to assassinate Roosevelt in the waning days of the war. From the introduction of the various characters on both sides of the Atlantic, to the planning of the operation, to its final conclusion, a fascinating "what-if" of World War II. Many of the incidents desc...

Leon R. Smith was born into a poor family in 1931, but he never let his modest roots prevent him from chasing his dreams. He was like a banty rooster, which is a small fighting rooster with a feisty attitude—one that walks with its chest out, struts its stuff, and commands the attention of others. At seventeen years old, he joined the National Guard, and after joining the U.S. Army in November 1948 and completing basic training, he was sent to Japan, where occupation duty was a soldier’s p...

Boudica's wrath leads her to revolt against Rome’s claim on her lands and lives. Rome’s consul—Suetonius Paulinus—must annihilate her and her uprising, however, can he?While reputations and loyalties are at stake, Rome’s newest tribune—Gnaeus Julius Agricola and Boudica’s youngest daughter—Rhianna, and her betrothed—Calgacus--are hurled into their opposing worlds intent upon destroying each other. Who will survive this furious revolt?

Proverb "Just when the caterpillar thought the world was coming to an end, she changed into a butterfly." A dangerous butterfly...Ravaged by Rome, Morrigan turns her fear into revenge and now it is Rome who should fear her. Rome's tax collector Decianus Catus intrudes on Morrigan's father's funeral, flogs her mother Boudica, and then takes the Iceni people back to camp where the women are raped. He then sells them all as slaves to be taken back to Rome. However, the Trinovante warr...

This is a challening read. It requires a narrator who enjoys expressing emotion from horror, fear, anger, dispair, torment, forgiveness, joy. It is a story from hell to hope. Healing through Ptsd and complex trauma. I hope you can accept this challenge.Opposites attract and Chad and Sierra are that. Chad is destroyed on the outside by a suicide bomber while Sierra is damaged on the inside by human trafficking. They are each other’s reflection of who they are. Beautiful yet damaged ...

Gnaeus Julius Agricola cannot alter the past that trained him to become a polished Roman senator. No matter how his rage attempts to deny his past, his rage tightens its tentacles around him. And now Rome demands, and he must submit.Colin’s real father is the Roman! Each day, those facts are shoved in Calgacus’ face. Will his rage destroy them all?

Algorithms for Automating Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) presents information on the gathering of information and extraction of actionable intelligence from openly available sources, including news broadcasts, public repositories, and more recently, social media. As OSINT has applications in crime fighting, state-based intelligence, and social research, this book provides recent advances in text mining, web crawling, and other algorithms that have led to advances in methods that can larg...

“You have to react instinctively. In this game there’s no second place, only the quick and the dead.”In Vietnam, Mobile Guerrilla Force conducted unconventional operations against the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army. Armed with silencer-equipped MK-II British Sten guns, M-16s, M-79s, and M-60 machine guns, the men of the Mobile Guerrilla Force operated in the steamy, triple-canopy jungle owned by the NVA and VC, destroying base camps, ambushing patrols...

BAPTISM BY FIREChris Ronnau volunteered for the Army and was sent to Vietnam in January 1967, armed with an M-14 rifle and American Express traveler’s checks. But the latter soon proved particularly pointless as the private first class found himself in the thick of two pivotal, fiercely fought Big Red One operations, going head-to-head against crack Viet cong and NVA troops in the notorious Iron Triangle and along the treacherous Cambodian border near Tay Ninh.Patrols, ambu...