Simon schuster distribution clients jul 2018 (8 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In spite of being well into middle-age, Pac-Man's popularity shows no sign of decline and the character has appeared in over sixty games on virtually every games platform ever released. According to the David Brown celebrity index, in 2008, nearly three decades after initial release, 94% of Americans were able to recognise Pac-Man, which gave the character greater brand awareness than Super Mario. Pac-Man, with its avowed commitment to non-violence was a videogame of many firsts, including being designed to appeal to children and females and providing the first narrative interlude in a videogame. Although iconic, Pac-Man has not been subject to sustained critical analysis. This book helps to fill that gap, providing an extensive, sophisticated, but accessible analysis of the influence of Pac-Man on the way that we live in contemporary western societies.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This second standalone globe-hopping thriller in the Executive Series finds Secret Service Agent Scott Roarke confronted with Russian spycraft, murder in the White House, and a frenzy fueled by the country's leading hate talk radio personality. "As topical as tomorrow's Internet blogfast-paced, with vivid characters and a plot right off the front pages. Surprises you on every page. A winner."LARRY BOND, New York Times bestselling author of Artic Gambit The terrorists who came within a heartbeat of undermining the presidency of the United States in Executive Actions are back in Executive Treason with a newand deadlierplot to destabilize the U.S. government. It begins with the mugging and murder of a female White House staffer. Secret Service Agent Scott Roarke discovers the larger truth: the murder was committed by his secret nemesis, the mysterious assassin who had stayed one step ahead of him during the presidential campaign. This time, Roarke has found clues about the assassin's past that give him the tools he needs to hunt the hunter and also silence a popular hate talk radio host dividing the country. But the clues can only go so far. Roarke needs all his skill and a huge amount of luck if he's going to catch his quarry. "More chilling than science fiction. Gary Grossman shows how the media itself can become a weapon of mass destruction. You'll never listen to talk radio again without a shiver going down your spine."GARRY GOLDMAN, executive producer of Minority Report and screenwriter for Navy SEALs and Total Recall.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In the third standalone globe-hopping thriller in the Executive Series, Present Morgan Taylor and Secret Service Agent Scott Roarke desperately try to prevent terrorist attacks on America's most valuable and vulnerable natural resource: Water. "Moving at break-neck speed and nothing short of sensational. Grossman is a master storyteller who sets you up and delivers. Executive Command is not just a great book, it's a riveting experience!"W.G. GRIFFITHS, award-winning and bestselling author of Methuselah's Pillar The clock is ticking. Our nation's water resources are high on terrorist target lists but low on America's consciousness. Water sources are largely unprotected, providing open access to any enemy with chemicals and biotoxins. So far we've been lucky. But that luck won't last. This is the all-too-real-and-present danger facing President Morgan Taylor and Secret Service Agent Scott Roarke as they try to prevent terrorists from destroying America and its infrastructure city by city, state by state. Fact-based in frightening detail, Executive Command is a political thriller that will leave you wondering the next time you pour a glass of water.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - For a young victim of human trafficking, FBI Agent Nick Lawrence is the only hope. 'A gripping and action-filled storyline make this sequel a standout page-turner.' -Booklife Prize Critic's Report Nick Lawrence rejoins his old unit, the FBI's Violent Crimes Against Children task force. The career move puts him in Austin, Texas-and onto the case of a young girl on the run. She's been thrust into a foreign land against her will. Armed only with a set of skills bestowed by her father, she embarks on a perilous journey to keep a promise-as she is hunted by a ruthless human trafficking ring. Nick teams up with local law enforcement, intent on saving the girl and dismantling the criminal organization trying to reach her first. But as a greater conspiracy unfolds, Nick finds himself in a deadly game of cat and mouse. The opposition is more powerful than he could have imagined-and they're intent on silencing him, and the girl, forever. With his second installment in the Nick Lawrence Series, Shea delivers a fast-paced, thrill-filled sequel to its well-received predecessor, KILL LIST. ________________________________ What people are saying about Brian Shea and PURSUIT OF JUSTICE: '.an engrossing and entertaining read!' 'I found myself identifying with every character's personality in this book.' 'Fast paced thriller relevant to human trafficking going on today on a global scale.' 'If you have any doubt that former military make great law enforcement heroes, then Nick Lawrence will convince you. If you doubt that they can also make great writers. Shea will do the same. I'm convinced and plan to follow both of them.' ________________________________ BRIAN SHEA has served as both a military officer and law enforcement Detective. His authentic crime fiction novels have been enjoyed by countless readers around the world. His books are recommended for readers who enjoy Michael Connolly's Harry Bosch, David Baldacci's John Puller, or James Patterson's Alex Cross.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The modern world is networked and always working. Organizations no longer have the luxury of time. Expertise is no longer confined to a couple of smart guys in corner offices, reviewing information to which only they have access and issuing instructions through layers of middle-men to nine-to-fivers who carry out the dictates and feed paper back up the chain, awaiting the next set of instructions. Today's successful organization is decentralized and never stops moving. In fact, organizational success is a lot like soccer. Every player is both a specialist and generalist. Responsibility on the field is distributed, and everyone on the team works for everyone else. Communication among players is constant. Soccer is 90 minutes of systems thinking in action. Soccer Thinking for Management Success is by a soccer fan and player who has spent a career building and running teams and organizations. He draws on insights from leaders, known and not-so-well-known who use soccer thinking to succeed. This is not just another book on how to be a great leader by a famous person. This is a management and leadership book by, and for, the rest of us.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Both the presidency and the constitution are at stake in this tense and shockingly real political thriller. "Grossman had done lots of research on everything from political infighting to clandestine military operations[H]olds reader interest right up to the inevitable conclusion."Publisher's Weekly An assassin's bullet changes the course of the presidential electionnot by killing Democratic candidate Teddy Lodge but his wife. Riding a wave of popular sympathy, Lodge surges forward as the man to beat for incumbent President Morgan Taylor. Secret Service Agent Scott Roarke is ordered by President Taylor to investigate the assassination, which unravels a deadly Soviet plot that has incubate for more than decades. But it's not just the Russians that Agent Roarke must contend with. There's another nation's sleeper agent poised to forever alter American policy in the Middle East.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Middle Way is the practical principle of avoiding both positive and negative absolutes, so as to develop provisional beliefs accessible to experience. Although inspired initially by the Buddha's Middle Way, in Middle Way Philosophy Robert M. Ellis has developed it as a critical universalism: a way of separating the helpful from the unhelpful elements of any tradition. In this book, the Middle Way is applied to the Christian tradition in order to argue for a meaningful and positive interpretation of it, without the absolute beliefs that many assume to be essential to Christianity. Faith as an embodied, provisional confidence is distinguished from dogmatic belief. Recent developments in embodied meaning, brain lateralization from neuroscience, Jungian archetypes and the Jungian model of psychological integration are drawn on to support an account of how Christian faith is not only possible without 'belief' in God or Christ, but indeed puts us in a better position to access inspiration, moral purpose, responsibility and the basis of peace.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - SummaryConcurrency in .NET teaches you how to build concurrent and scalable programs in .NET using the functional paradigm. This intermediate-level guide is aimed at developers, architects, and passionate computer programmers who are interested in writing code with improved speed and effectiveness by adopting a declarative and pain-free programming style.About the TechnologyUnlock the incredible performance built into your multi-processor machines. Concurrent applications run faster because they spread work across processor cores, performing several tasks at the same time. Modern tools and techniques on the .NET platform, including parallel LINQ, functional programming, asynchronous programming, and the Task Parallel Library, offer powerful alternatives to traditional thread-based concurrency.About the BookConcurrency in .NET teaches you to write code that delivers the speed you need for performance-sensitive applications. Featuring examples in both C# and F#, this book guides you through concurrent and parallel designs that emphasize functional programming in theory and practice. You'll start with the foundations of concurrency and master essential techniques and design practices to optimize code running on modern multiprocessor systems.What's Inside- The most important concurrency abstractions- Employing the agent programming model - Implementing real-time event-stream processing - Executing unbounded asynchronous operations- Best concurrent practices and patterns that apply to all platformsAbout the ReaderFor readers skilled with C# or F#.About the BookRiccardo Terrell is a seasoned software engineer and Microsoft MVP who is passionate about functional programming. He has over 20 years' experience delivering cost-effective technology solutions in a competitive business environment.Table of ContentsPART 1 - Benefits of functional programming applicable to concurrent programs - Functional concurrency foundations- Functional programming techniques for concurrency- Functional data structures and immutabilityPART 2 - How to approach the different parts of a concurrent program- The basics of processing big data: data parallelism, part 1- PLINQ and MapReduce: data parallelism, part 2- Real-time event streams: functional reactive programming- Task-based functional parallelism- Task asynchronicity for the win- Asynchronous functional programming in F#- Functional combinators for fluent concurrent programming- Applying reactive programming everywhere with agents- Parallel workflow and agent programming with TPL DataflowPART 3 - Modern patterns of concurrent programming applied- Recipes and design patterns for successful concurrent programming- Building a scalable mobile app with concurrent functional programming.…