![]() ![]() Starring Charles Drake and Karin Booth.ġ956 - 1984 - In a dystopian world, society is closely monitored by Big Brother, an omnipotent force for government surveillance. ![]() ![]() It might even change your life.”ġ954 - Tobor the Great - This science fiction film tells the story of a young boy, his grandfather, and his best friend - who just so happens to be a robot - as they work together to stay safe from the group of communist agents on their tail. “Watch a movie and release your inner hacker. The “ Hacker’s Movie Guide” 2022–2023 Edition, published by Cybersecurity Ventures, is available on Amazon and you can order a printed or Kindle edition of the book.Ĭo-author Connor Morgan dove deep into Hollywood, and then launched himself into cyberspace, in order to produce an unrivaled list of movies. “I believe there is a hacker inside each one of us,” says co-author Steve Morgan. ![]()
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![]() ![]() So, Bram Stoker described a castle perched on a steep hill, with a river washing the valley below. ![]() Transylvania - filled with popular beliefs about vampires and surrounded by dark forests- seemed perfect, and the Bran Castle presented an excellent starting point. However, it’s mostly a place imagined by Bram Stoker, who needed a mystical setting for his Dracula character. Like most places in Romania, Dracula’s Castle is a place of myth, magic and grisly legends. Spoiler alert: it’s a garlicky affair! Unravelling the myth of Dracula’s Castle ![]() We’ll reveal the lethal weapon that can instantly save you from the most famous Romanian vampire. Together, we’ll understand better Dracula’s Castle by discovering the story behind the myth. To stay out of harm’s way, we’ll tell you everything there is to know about Dracula’s Castle, Transylvania and the count himself, adding a pinch of real facts to the myth. ![]() Now, it’s time for you to travel to the magical place that has sparked the imagination of so many and sent countless chills down their spine. The count himself doesn’t own a passport, but his legend has travelled all around the world. Ask anybody and, even if they won’t have a clue as to where Romania is, they will instinctively let you know that it’s the birthplace (and lurid playground) of Count Dracula. Dracula’s Castle: Discovering the Story Behind the Mythĭracula’s Castle in Transylvania is Romania’s most famous and notorious attraction. ![]() ![]() ![]() There are banter and jokes aplenty as Sherlock Sam and Watson investigate, and details incorporated throughout the story (as well as a glossary) help contextualize the Singaporean setting (the book was originally published in that country in 2013) and Sam’s family’s Peranakan heritage. Auntie Kim Lian’s heirloom recipe book is missing, and it’s up to Sherlock Sam to find it so that Auntie can make her famous ayam buah keluak (a chicken stew). Aspiring 10-year-old detective Samuel Tan Cher Lock, who prefers to go by Sherlock Sam, and his robot sidekick, Watson, prove that the promise of food is a great way to solve a mystery in this series opener from Low, a pseudonym for the husband-and-wife writing team of Adan Jimenez and Felicia Low-Jimenez. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His parents expected him to follow the family tradition in theology - they had served as missionaries in India. Johannes Hesse, his father, was born a Russian citizen in Weissenstein, Estoniaologist, Hermann Gundert. Hermann Hesse was born into a family of Pietist missionaries and religious publishers in the Black Forest town of Calw, in the German state of Wüttenberg. ![]() A spiritual guide assists the hero in his quest for self-knowledge and shows the way beyond the world "deluded by money, number and time." Several of Hesse's novels depict the protagonist's journey into the inner self. Hesse was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. German poet and novelist, who has explored in his work the duality of spirit and nature and individual's spiritual search outside restrictions of the society. ![]() ![]() ![]() With multiple interconnecting series, Ruby Dixon is the master of giving her fans what they want - which is, of course, more to read! ![]() Beyond the fact that it’s breathtakingly sexy, her writing is also deeply moving and impressively plotted. Ruby Dixon is actually a pen name, and no one knows who is behind it! Not that Ruby’s readers mind the mystery: they just love how dedicated she is to her fans. Her beloved Ice Planet Barbarians series is one of the buzziest romance series out there, and readers are quick to understand why - they’re addictive and unputdownable. Ruby Dixon writes steamy sci-fi romances like no other: with detailed worldbuilding, emotional storylines, and heroes and heroines that you’ll love rooting for. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now, Andi has a crush on the one man she can’t have, and her resolve is about to be put to the test, because Carrick has decided he wants Andi, and he plans on testing her to the very limit… Full length, Standalone, Adult Contemporary Romance. But she’s not prepared for the off-the-chart sparks that fly the moment they meet. When Andi is offered her dream job working in the glamorous world of F1, she leaves her home in Brazil, positive she can handle working for Carrick. The youngest driver to ever sign with F1, he’s still at the top of his game five years later, breaking hearts on and off the tracks. ![]() Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. With a face and body that melts panties on sight, and an Irish lilt that leaves women on their knees, begging for more. Revved (Revved Series Book 1) - Kindle edition by Towle, Samantha. Carrick Ryan is the bad boy of Formula One. With a good reason behind the rule, she has no plans on breaking it. Race car mechanic Andressa “Andi” Amaro has one rule-no dating drivers. ![]() REVVED is a STANDALONE, CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE NOVEL from the New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestselling author of THE MIGHTY STORM. ![]() ![]() Luckily, NaNoWriMo just squeaks over the limit to be considered a full-length novel: Interestingly, there actually are a few hard word counts used to categorize fictional works by length. How Long Should Your Novel Be Based on Genre With that lofty goal in sight, quantity quickly took precedence over quality, and we met in coffee shops after work each night to add another couple thousand words to our literary creations.” – Chris Baty, No Plot No Problem “For the sake of clarity, we had all agreed to define a novel as 50,000 words of fiction. Thus, National Novel Writing Month was born, and as more and more people began taking on the NaNoWriMo challenge that fifty thousand word novel became the new norm. Considering none of them had written a novel before, fifty thousand words seemed like both an impressive, yet attainable goal. ![]() The goal was to write the first draft of a novel within one month, and they needed a target word count to make the challenge fair. ![]() You see, National Novel Writing Month began as a challenge between friends. ![]() 3 How to Calculate the Length of Your Novelīefore we can dive into how long your novel should be, we should talk about why NaNoWriMo has a fifty thousand word goal to begin with.2 How Long Should Your Novel Be Based on Genre.1 Why Does NaNoWriMo Call for 50,000 Words?. ![]() ![]() Martin's novel A Dance with Dragons, which will be released tomorrow. An Amazon tablet will use the same playbook." - Entertainment Weekly's Shelf Life blog answered " 10 burning fan questions" about George R.R. The Kindle with Special Offers has ads and can go even lower on price. "Amazon can offer cheap Kindles because it can make up sales on e-book sales. DigiTimes cited information obtained from "upstream component suppliers for non-iPad tablet PCs" in noting that Amazon's demand for touch panels is "likely to reach two million units for the August-September period" and shipments of tablet PCs to Amazon "are expected to reach 1 to 1.2 million units by a conservative estimate in the third quarter." "Welcome to the subsidized tablet," ZDNet observed. Amazon's expectations for its upcoming tablet keep getting higher. ![]() ![]() ![]() From 1995 to 2009 he was CEO of Simon-Kucher & Partners. He was also a visiting professor at Harvard Business School, Stanford, London Business School, INSEAD, Keio University in Tokyo and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In China, a business school has been named after him.īefore committing himself entirely to management consulting, Simon was a professor of business administration and marketing at the Universities of Mainz (1989-1995) and Bielefeld (1979-1989). In German-speaking countries he has been continuously voted the most influential living management thinker since 2005. He is the only German in the Thinkers50 list of the most influential international management thinkers in the world. He has an extensive global range of clients. He is an expert in strategy, marketing and pricing. ![]() ![]() Hermann Simon is the Founder and Honorary Chairman of Simon-Kucher & Partners. ![]() ![]() ![]() (Tengu are an infamous part of Japanese Shinto mythology - winged yokai with bright red faces and long noses. ![]() When she emerges, she finds two small tengu bickering. In it, Tsukiko recalls awakening to the sound of arguing. There’s an otherworldly creep to it and yet it very much feels like a modern fairy tale. The story which Tsukiko decides to recount reads like a Junji Ito short story designed for children. ![]() As the story begins, Tsukiko and Sensei are sitting together, all alone in the world, napping in a tatami room, when Sensei takes Tsukiko’s hand and insists that she tell him a story from long ago.Īll she has is a tale from her childhood, which proves to be something far removed from the events, themes, and tone of Strange Weather in Tokyo, which is why Paradecan be enjoyed entirely all on its own. Readers who have not yet enjoyed Strange Weather in Tokyo do not need to Paradeexists as a strange and eerie folk tale that stands so very independently of that original work. Rather than choosing to craft a sequel or a prequel to her most celebrated work, Kawakami has decided, with Parade, to craft something wholly unique. ![]() |