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Author: Philip K. Dick
Publisher: Orion
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 395
ISBN-13: 9780575048454
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScience fiction. Fifth and final volume of Dick's collected short stories covering the period 1963-1981, the year before his death.
Author: Julie Schumacher
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Published: 2008-08-26
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 0375891161
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWHEN DORA, ELENA’S older sister, is diagnosed with depression and has to be admitted to the hospital, Elena can’t seem to make sense of their lives anymore. At school, the only people who acknowledge Elena are Dora’s friends and Jimmy Zenk—who failed at least one grade and wears blackevery day of the week. And at home, Elena’s parents keep arguing with each other. Elena will do anything to help her sister get better and get their lives back to normal—even when the responsibility becomes too much to bear.
Author: Michael Connelly
Publisher:
Published: 2016-01-04
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9781760292690
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvery bullet tells a story - Detective Harry Bosch searches for a killer who thinks he's been safe for twenty years.
Author: Philip Kiindred Dick
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Published: 1990
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: K. J. Gillenwater
Publisher: K. J. Gillenwater
Published: 2018-08-14
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 1723245720
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen thoughts can kill. Haunted by traumatic childhood memories of an accident caused by her telekinetic gift, Paula is a promising research assistant in a small-town Paranormal Sciences lab. Under the expert guidance of Professor Pritchard, she spends her days working with his strange little black box – a device he claims can read auras. But when a spate of mysterious suicides strikes their project, Paula is forced to question whether their black box has anything to do with it. The professor is adamant his precious creation is harmless… but Paula can’t shake the strange, magnetic lure the box has over her. As the bodies begin to pile up, Paula finds herself ensnared in a dangerous quest to unravel a conspiracy and discover the not-so-innocent truth behind the seemingly innocuous box – and why her test subjects keep killing themselves. And as her telekinetic powers grow steadily stronger, her investigation threatens to spiral out of control… and claim the lives of everybody she loves. If you love exhilarating paranormal thrillers with hair-raising suspense, mysterious supernatural powers, and deadly secrets, then you’ll love The Little Black Box. Scroll up and grab your copy today… KEYWORDS: paranormal, paranormal suspense, family, family drama, curse, ghosts, psychics, supernatural, supernatural suspense, ghost story, horror, paranormal thriller, paranormal thriller books, paranormal thriller novels, paranormal fiction, clean paranormal romance, paranormal romance, paranormal horror, paranormal mystery, paranormal mystery romance, paranormal mystery books, paranormal novels, paranormal romance, paranormal standalone, standalone, supernatural mystery, supernatural romance, supernatural horror, supernatural thriller, supernatural books, supernatural fiction, supernatural mystery, supernatural romance, supernatural tales, dark secret, secret origins, race against time, countdown, time running out, family mystery, family secrets, dark family secrets, telekinesis, aura, auras, ESP, experiments, suicide, mysterious death, college, university, new adult, danger, scary, disturbing, clean romance, just kisses paranormal, just kissed paranormal romance Readers also enjoyed books by: Phil Rickman, Shirley Jackson, bram stoker, anne rice, stephen king, charlaine harris, h p lovecraft, susanna clarke, patricia biggs, mary shelley, laurell k hamilton, neil gaiman, cassandra clare, kim harrison, richelle mead, ira levin, edgar allen poe, karen marie moning, kelley armstrong, sherrilyn kenyon, j r ward, jim butcher, susan hill, dean koontz, ilona andrews, clive barker, henry james, ray bradbury, anthony m strong, leigh bardugo, deborah harkness, karina halle, colleen hoover, kristen probe, lara parker, alice hoffman, joan vassar, val conrad, james rollins, paula fernandes, paula minton, ginny dye, lindsay maracotta
Author: Matthew Syed
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2015-11-03
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 069840887X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNobody wants to fail. But in highly complex organizations, success can happen only when we confront our mistakes, learn from our own version of a black box, and create a climate where it’s safe to fail. We all have to endure failure from time to time, whether it’s underperforming at a job interview, flunking an exam, or losing a pickup basketball game. But for people working in safety-critical industries, getting it wrong can have deadly consequences. Consider the shocking fact that preventable medical error is the third-biggest killer in the United States, causing more than 400,000 deaths every year. More people die from mistakes made by doctors and hospitals than from traffic accidents. And most of those mistakes are never made public, because of malpractice settlements with nondisclosure clauses. For a dramatically different approach to failure, look at aviation. Every passenger aircraft in the world is equipped with an almost indestructible black box. Whenever there’s any sort of mishap, major or minor, the box is opened, the data is analyzed, and experts figure out exactly what went wrong. Then the facts are published and procedures are changed, so that the same mistakes won’t happen again. By applying this method in recent decades, the industry has created an astonishingly good safety record. Few of us put lives at risk in our daily work as surgeons and pilots do, but we all have a strong interest in avoiding predictable and preventable errors. So why don’t we all embrace the aviation approach to failure rather than the health-care approach? As Matthew Syed shows in this eye-opening book, the answer is rooted in human psychology and organizational culture. Syed argues that the most important determinant of success in any field is an acknowledgment of failure and a willingness to engage with it. Yet most of us are stuck in a relationship with failure that impedes progress, halts innovation, and damages our careers and personal lives. We rarely acknowledge or learn from failure—even though we often claim the opposite. We think we have 20/20 hindsight, but our vision is usually fuzzy. Syed draws on a wide range of sources—from anthropology and psychology to history and complexity theory—to explore the subtle but predictable patterns of human error and our defensive responses to error. He also shares fascinating stories of individuals and organizations that have successfully embraced a black box approach to improvement, such as David Beckham, the Mercedes F1 team, and Dropbox.
Author: Michael J. Behe
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 353
ISBN-13: 9780684827544
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBehe argues that the complexity of cellular biochemistry argues against Darwin's gradual evolution.
Author: Cassia Leo
Publisher: Gloss Publishing
Published: 2014-03-09
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 1493768824
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Thoughtful, real and raw" - Sinfully Sexy Books "Unexpected, beautiful and will not be forgotten" - Winding Stairs Book Blog From New York Times best selling author Cassia Leo, comes an epic love story about rewriting destiny. Three chance encounters… Two heart-breaking tragedies… One last chance to get it right. Mikki and Crush have crossed paths twice before, but they’ve never met. Their first encounter changed Mikki’s life forever, but their second meeting left them both scarred from a violent attack. Three years after the attack, Mikki and Crush both book a flight to Los Angeles to escape the memories of the past and expectations of their families. Crush plans to record a song he wrote for a girl he doesn’t even know: Black Box. He’s never felt his life had any purpose, until he meets Mikki in Terminal B. When Mikki and Crush cross paths for the third time in Terminal B, neither has any idea who the other person is; until they slowly piece together their history and realize fate has more in store for them than just another love story.
Author: Frank Pasquale
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2015-01-05
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 0674967100
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvery day, corporations are connecting the dots about our personal behavior—silently scrutinizing clues left behind by our work habits and Internet use. The data compiled and portraits created are incredibly detailed, to the point of being invasive. But who connects the dots about what firms are doing with this information? The Black Box Society argues that we all need to be able to do so—and to set limits on how big data affects our lives. Hidden algorithms can make (or ruin) reputations, decide the destiny of entrepreneurs, or even devastate an entire economy. Shrouded in secrecy and complexity, decisions at major Silicon Valley and Wall Street firms were long assumed to be neutral and technical. But leaks, whistleblowers, and legal disputes have shed new light on automated judgment. Self-serving and reckless behavior is surprisingly common, and easy to hide in code protected by legal and real secrecy. Even after billions of dollars of fines have been levied, underfunded regulators may have only scratched the surface of this troubling behavior. Frank Pasquale exposes how powerful interests abuse secrecy for profit and explains ways to rein them in. Demanding transparency is only the first step. An intelligible society would assure that key decisions of its most important firms are fair, nondiscriminatory, and open to criticism. Silicon Valley and Wall Street need to accept as much accountability as they impose on others.
Author: Jennifer Egan
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2012-09-06
Total Pages: 44
ISBN-13: 1472102819
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Close your eyes and slowly count backward from ten.' America, the near future. A young spy on a mission logs her observations. The result is an intense thriller, and a minute dissection of the experience of a woman whose beauty is also her camouflage, for whom control relies on submission: a woman whose success - whose life - depends on being seen and not seen. Originally published online via Twitter by @NYerFiction, Jennifer Egan's first new fiction since the phenomenal success of A Visit From the Goon Squad is a taut, compulsive work of unrelenting genius.
