A jazz pianist makes a discovery days before the death of his wife that causes him to believe his sixty-five year marriage was a lie. He embarks on an exploration of his own past that brings him face to face with a menagerie of characters from a bygone era.
What happens when you realize that to achieve your dreams you have to live a nightmare? Rose is a quiet, demure, unassuming woman in her looks and actions. Her dream is to become a famous designer in the fashion world, but a terrible accident leaves Rose scarred beyond recognition. She seeks out a radical untested stem cell treatment. The treatment is nothing short of a miracle and wallflower Rose turns into the belle of the ball. It all seems to good to be true. She is now everything she wanted to be. But everything in life comes at a price and this new found perfect life is no exception.
The nationwide-media shocking story of young mother-of-two Sherri Papini, who disappears while jogging near her home, then reappears three weeks later on Thanksgiving Day claiming that two Hispanic women abused her.
“The scope of criminal justice has to include the body of equal norms which have to be protected. The basic elements of authoritarianism, universality, complementarity, and pluralism should not be employed by superior powers and enforced within the procedures and values of our criminal charter. A pure criminal jurisdiction ought to have its own independent honour and its own unified diverse values including: righteousness, innocence, virtue, honesty, and the preservation of objectivity in legal judgments.
The 21st century has been characterized by great turbulence, climate change, a global pandemic, and democratic decay. Drawing on post-structural political theory, this book explores two dominant concepts used to make sense of our disturbed reality: the state and the network.
This companion offers solutions for coping with anxiety as well as psychological trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder with a special focus on the target group of exposed persons who are active in management, the media or in the public in general and are thus exposed to particularly strong observation and evaluation by their environment. This work explains and supports how this can be dealt with constructively and perhaps even used as a competitive advantage as well as overcome fears and regain personal happiness.
An in-depth overview of an emerging field that brings together high-performance computing, big data processing, and deep lLearning.
Over the last decade, the exponential explosion of data known as big data has changed the way we understand and harness the power of data. The emerging field of high-performance big data computing, which brings together high-performance computing (HPC), big data processing, and deep learning, aims to meet the challenges posed by large-scale data processing. This book offers an in-depth overview of high-performance big data computing and the associated technical issues, approaches, and solutions.
It was just a matter of time until DEADPOOL got the porn parody treatment, courtesy of legendary director Ralph Long and adult powerhouse SPIZOO Entertainment… and it was worth the wait! Wolverine (played by AVN winner Tommy Gunn), Rogue, Domino (played by AVN winner Allie Haze), Ms. Marvel (played by AVN winner Anikka Albright), Kitty Pryde (Britney Andrews first feature in 3 years), and Lady Death (Ava Addams) join with Professor X to defeat the villains lead by Stryker (Brandon Irons), in yet another Ralph Long master piece bound to become an instant classic.
A woman is suspected of her husband’s murder, and their blind son faces a moral dilemma as the main witness.
A 24-year-old music critic gets romantically involved with members of an indie band she decides to publicize.
A look at how Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte uses social media to spread disinformation.
Haunted by her past, a grieving girl is drawn to a mysterious traveling carnival that arrives in her small town – only to discover an underground world that feeds on despair and demands a costly price for escape.
