When does a philosophy become a conspiracy?In 2024, Sam Bankman-Fried — once hailed as the future of finance and one of the richest men in America — was sentenced to 25 years in prison for stealing $11 billion and collapsing over a hundred companies. Stealing the Future is the inside story of that unraveling, told by a member of the CoinDesk team that first broke the case.But this is more than a true crime story.It’s a journey into the tang...

LURKING IN THE GENE POOL is the fourth annual anthology published by Three Cousins publishing. Twenty-two stories of horror, science fiction, fantasy, mystery, and humor explore the theme. You can pick your friends, but you can't pick your family. Sometimes family must be protected, but sometimes family is the threat.It's been said that all happy families are alike, but all unhappy families are unhappy in their own way. Sometimes one of the family members is different, special if y...

AI Life is your new go-to guide to demystifying the tools and tricks that quietly shape modern life. We’re not here to overwhelm you with technical jargon or predict robot uprisings. Instead, we show you exactly how Artificial Intelligence (AI) already works in your world—and how to make it work better for you.Brought to you by AI experts with real-world experience, this first issue maps the AI landscape from your kitchen to your workplace, and hands you practical ...

The world is facing an ever-changing array of complex threats to international security. Yet intelligence agencies have a mixed record of anticipating these threats, while decision makers have an equally mixed record of effectively acting on predictive intelligence when offered. Sometimes intelligence has provided a useful warning, such as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but at other times it has failed to anticipate critical events, such as the progress of fighting in Ukraine or the likelih...

NOT YOUR GRANDMA'S FAIRY TALES, is an anthology containing two dozen new fairy tales by some of the finest speculative fiction writers in the world. Our contributors come from Australia, Canada, Europe, Africa, and the United States. Remember, these aren't your Grandma's fairy tales, so hold on tightly, it's going to be a bumpy ride.Our contributors are: CAROL MCCONNELL, LAWRENCE DAGSTINE, DAVID L. MORRIS, CAMPBELL BLAINE, ROBERT ALLEN LUPTON, E. V. EMMONS, RICHARD J. MELDRUM, SHEB...

The air is sixty-nine degrees. For a man living in the quiet aftermath of a hospital visit, this is the only fact that matters. In a house that has become a sealed container of memory and routine, he measures his days in degrees of temperature, meaningless numbers, and the small, persistent failures of a world coming undone: the toast that is never brown enough, the buzz from a wire inside a wall, the gray comma of a grease stain on a plate that will not wash clean.This is not a st...

Is humanity threatened by advances in technoloty, by artifical intelligence. Here are two dozen tales about what can go right - and what can go wrong. This anthology explores the perils of dealing with advancing technology. It includes stories by Shebat Legion, Ann Wuehler, Carol McConnell, Charlotte Henley Babb, L. J. Stecher, Jr., Rie Sheridan Rose, Rose Stickman, J. R. Rice, David Lawrence Morris, Judy Lupton Mowdy, Richard Wilson, David Massengill, J. L Royce, David Robichaud, Chris Ad...

The story of Steve Schwarzman, Blackstone, and a financial revolution, King of Capital is the greatest untold success story on Wall Street.In King of Capital, David Carey and John Morris show how Blackstone (and other private equity firms) transformed themselves from gamblers, hostile-takeover artists, and ‘barbarians at the gate’ into disciplined, risk-conscious investors while the financial establishment—banks and investment bankers such as Citi...

A psychologically rich exploration of faith loss and spiritual reconstruction in an age of religious disaffiliation.In Lost Faith and Wandering Souls, religion scholar David Morris offers a psychologically informed investigation of the widespread religious disillusionment shaping contemporary spiritual life. Drawing from psychoanalytic theory, developmental psychology, and sociological research, Morris argues that faith loss should be understood not as mer...

This third edition of Agile Project Management in easy steps has been updated to reflect its ongoing evolution. It explains the principles, practices, and processes of agile project management, by following an entire project, step-by-step, and covering the main activities and deliverables, including:Pre-project foundations, project vision and the business case.Ongoing discovery and definition of scope.Iterative and incremental development....

In the 1800s, a shepherd's hut or living van would have been an unremarkable sight in many regions of rural Britain. By the 1970s most lay abandoned as farming methods and industry left them behind. Today the humble shepherd's hut is making a comeback and these quirky collectors' items are fast developing a cult status of their own. Original huts and living vans command high sums and replica huts are being built in high numbers to satisfy demand. However, many who see one, have one or want...

Today, the sight of a helicopter speeding toward some destination is familiar enough, but take a moment to consider: is there a life at stake? Is someone in peril and on a knife edge of survival, and will the helicopter crew be selflessly placing themselves in the most dangerous of situations for the sake of saving others? Ever since the First World War, aircraft of the Royal Naval Air Service and later the Fleet Air Arm have operated from land bases and ships at sea, flying search and res...