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The Harness of the Riviera
Warren Sparks is the owner of the local mill providing employment to most of the residents of the quiet forestry Town of Lakedge. When he suddenly dies, the search for his heirs unveils a load of issues for the employees and the town. Greed is at the heart of the conflict that could spell the end for Lakedge. Once again, Joshua Stuart, the town manager, has to devote all his energy and ingeniousness to save the town. But he is caught in the middle of a scandal. With suspicion of foul play hanging over him, his way of life, even his family is in jeopardy. Having survived many disasters before, will Josh and Lakedge finally perish to the demon of greed? The Harness of the Riviera is the third book in the Lakedge Disaster Series following The Return of the Spanish Lady and The Curse of El Nio.
Criminal Testimonial Injustice
Through a detailed analysis that draws on work across philosophy, the law, and social psychology, Criminal Testimonial Injustice shows that, from the very beginning of the American criminal legal process in interrogation rooms to its final stages in front of parole boards, testimony is extracted from individuals through processes that are coercive, manipulative, or deceptive. This testimony is then unreasonably regarded as representing the testifiers' truest or most reliable selves. With chapters ranging from false confessions and eyewitness misidentifications to recantations from victims of sexual violence and expressions of remorse from innocent defendants at sentencing hearings, it is arg...
Cyber Security and Business Intelligence
To cope with the competitive worldwide marketplace, organizations rely on business intelligence to an increasing extent. Cyber security is an inevitable practice to protect the entire business sector and its customer. This book presents the significance and application of cyber security for safeguarding organizations, individuals’ personal information, and government. The book provides both practical and managerial implications of cyber security that also supports business intelligence and discusses the latest innovations in cyber security. It offers a roadmap to master degree students and PhD researchers for cyber security analysis in order to minimize the cyber security risk and protect ...
Systemic Thinking
"Systemic thinking" is the process of understanding how systems influence one another within a world of systems and has been defined as an approach to problem solving by viewing "problems" as parts of an overall system, rather than reacting to a specific part, outcome, or event. This book provides a complete overview of systemic thinking, exploring a framework and graphical technique for understanding and identifying new ways to more efficiently solve problems and create solutions. Demystifying the conjunction of systems concepts and systemic diagramming techniques, this comprehensive pocket guide introduces and explains the basis of systemigrams, how to create a systemigram and a SystemiSho...
Parents for Sale
Luke and Lucys parents threaten to sell their golden retriever, Pistachio, since they dont take care of her as they promised. As soon as their parents car is out of sight, Luke, Lucy and Pistachio go into the garage. Luke begins painting big white letters on a piece of dark cardboard: Parents for Sale. Watching her brother, Lucy grows impatient and stomps, saying, Hurry up! Replace the sign as soon as possible. Otherwise, one of our neighbors will buy Pistachio. Three families come to buy, trade, or rent their parents without success. As soon as the twins sell their parents to the fairy orphan, she transforms into a witch who wishes to eat them in a stew. How will the twins save their parents? 2015 New York Book Festival: Honorable Mention 2015 Hollywood Book Festival: Honorable Mention
The Curse of El Nino
Lakedge, a quiet forestry hamlet at the border of the boreal belt of northern Canada, is once again facing doom. El Niño, using the elements and a strong dose of greed from humans that feed it in the first place, is trying to accomplish what its big sister The Spanish Lady couldn’t achieve during the influenza pandemic. Joshua Stuart, the town manager, is forced to use all his willpower and energy to maintain order and survive. His family, his friends, indeed his whole community is threatened by fire, drought and storms. As the Ojibwa story goes, the evil monsters that are under the earth have been freed and they come to devour the inhabitants of the earth. Someone has to stop them before they succeed.
Achieving Effective Acquisition of Information Technology in the Department of Defense
In the military, information technology (IT) has enabled profound advances in weapons systems and the management and operation of the defense enterprise. A significant portion of the Department of Defense (DOD) budget is spent on capabilities acquired as commercial IT commodities, developmental IT systems that support a broad range of warfighting and functional applications, and IT components embedded in weapons systems. The ability of the DOD and its industrial partners to harness and apply IT for warfighting, command and control and communications, logistics, and transportation has contributed enormously to fielding the world's best defense force. However, despite the DOD's decades of succ...
Industry 6.0
What are the means to create a paradigm shift from conventional to intelligent companies? Industry 6.0: Technology, Practices, Challenges and Applications shows how integrating Industry 6.0 technology with data creates a framework for that shift. The book discusses the limitations, pitfalls, and open research questions in Industry 6.0, as well as the most recent advances, architectures, frameworks, applications, and novel practices, methods, and techniques. These are vital for resolving intelligent Internet of Things issues. There is a special focus on sustainable growth, humanization and environmentally friendly intelligent system applications, and an emphasis on the latest innovations in i...
Lean Enterprise Software and Systems
This book contains the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Lean Enterprise Software and Systems, LESS 2013, held in Galway, Ireland, in December 2013. LESS fosters interactions between practitioners and researchers by joining the lean product development and the agile software development communities in a highly collaborative environment. Each year, the program combines novelties and recent research results that make new ideas thrive during and after the conference. This year, the conference agenda was expanded to incorporate topics such as portfolio management, open innovation and enterprise transformation. The 14 papers selected for this book represent a diverse range of experiences, studies and theoretical achievements. They are organized in four sections on lean software development, quality and performance, case studies and emerging developments.
