This book is a guide to survival in the modern information space. It contains the main methods of manipulation and fraud on the Internet. In simple language, specific examples show how to recognize them, what they are harmful and how to act to minimize risks and harm.The book is written in the format of a guide so that more knowledgeable readers can structure their knowledge, and those who are just beginning to look for the answer to the question "How am I being manipulated?", Quickly orientated. The publication will be a find for those who want to explain to family and friends how manipulators and fraudsters work.
Other people's money always attracts scum. The thirst for profit rules for them with a compass. The murderer and seller of live goods Hans-Peter Schneider learns about the gold in the house of drug lord Pablo Escobar, which remained nobody after the death of the owner. The criminal has the perfect kidnapping plan. The only obstacle is Kari Mora, a housekeeper, a former refugee whose soul is torn by painful memories. Schneider is obsessed with the idea of taking gold, so he has to kill this woman. But Curry is not as simple as it seems. She is not afraid of a deadly duel with the beast, because she went through hell. Schneider thinks he is the only executioner in this eerie story, but there is always someone stronger
Seattle, 1933. A single mother, Vera Ray, goes to bed and kisses her three-year-old son, Daniel, on a night shift at a local hotel where she works as a maid. She returns and discovers that the May blizzard covered the city with snow, and her boy has disappeared. On the frozen street, Vera finds his favorite teddy bear, and the snow sweeps away any traces of her child.Seattle, 2010. Reporter Claire Aldridge is commissioned to write about the May Day ""blackberry winter"" (late spring cold). She knows about her double from the past and about the abduction, which has remained unsolved, and swears to find the truth. It turns out that there are many unexpected parallels in the lives of these two women.
The standards that modern society dictates to the younger generation are sometimes simply absurd: girls from an early age tend to be slimmer, suffer from addictions, try to seem "cool", suffer from violence. All this can lead to dire consequences that need to be prevented. This book provides helpful tips for girls and parents who want their children to feel safe. Here are the brave and painfully honest voices of the girls themselves, who suffer from the chaos of adolescence. "Resurrection of Ophelia" calls for striving to find one's own identity, which can be facilitated by important tactics of behavior, empathy, inner strength and thirst for change. Thanks to this book, you will be able to save the family from many dramatic experiences and give your daughter the opportunity to confidently enter adulthood.
Caroline Criado Perez, an officer with the Order of the British Empire and a human rights activist, exposes gender inequality where it seems to be sought: on piano keys, in voice recognition programs, in clinical trials of medicines. target audience, collect data about a typical man, statistics will not show the true picture! Women in this system go unnoticed. Areas of life tailored to men's needs are uncomfortable, and more dangerous for women. But this will not always be the case ...
In this warm and at the same time sharp story, the events of the past and the present are skillfully intertwined. The main character Kaylee Crane can not believe in her own happiness: she is a successful journalist and the bride of the perfect guy. However, one meeting with Cade McAllister, the love of her life, suddenly changes everything. Now he is homeless and does not recognize Kaylee, but the woman decides to find out what happened to him, the former head of the record company, and wants to help him settle his life.
Narrow specialization is now the exception rather than the rule, so to be successful you need to have knowledge of several different areas, instead of delving into one. David Epstein researched the stories of the world's best athletes, artists, inventors and scientists and concluded that flexibility and diverse experience are the key to real achievement. Such observations are confirmed by numerous scientific and statistical data. In this book you will learn why long hard training does not always give the desired result, while constant defeats will help build the perfect career. Get rid of the stereotypes imposed by the education system for years and learn to acquire universal knowledge and implement it in any field.
This book will help find answers to the most common questions that responsible parents face: how to spend time with the child as useful as possible, how to hear and understand its problems, help at school, care for health and safety, how to ""put"" children on books, as well as how to remain calm in the whirlpool of constant experiences and fears, parental chats, teenage riots and aspirations to be ultra-modern parents.
No one is perfect by nature. The neuroplasticity of the brain allows a person to develop, so there are no limits to improvement. If we fail to do something, the reason is that from childhood to adulthood we are guided by a series of prejudices and ideas about what we seem to be able to do "better" and what we are "incapable" of. With this book you will understand that a simple change of perception will help to look at everything in a new way and arouse interest in learning. Success is the result of a long process, not a quantity. Science, creativity, leadership - all the doors are open, you just need to make an effort and restructure your ideas to become successful in what interests you.
There are games that cannot be won or lost, they last forever and do not have clear rules. They are more difficult than chess or football, because you are constantly in the dynamics, with no chance of rest or stability. Such games are business, politics and even life itself, and this book is for real players. For those who want to have a global vision, think by the standards of generations and consider themselves a visionary.Are you ready to change and change the rules of the game while your competitors are tired of following a stereotyped strategy? Together with Simon Sinek you will become a flexible leader who will be able to act in spite of all troubles and lead allies forward. Economic crisis, sudden change of circumstances, loss of everything - you will know what to do with it.
The global financial and economic crisis has turned the lives of San Francisco-based web designer Clay Jennon, and he was lucky enough to work as a night salesman at Mr. Penumbra's 24-hour bookstore. However, within a few days Clay realized that the bookstore was a rather mysterious place. There are a few customers here who come regularly but don't buy anything, just take something to "read" on the basis of some secret long-standing agreement with the mysterious Mr. Penumbra. Apparently, the bookstore is a cover for something much bigger, Clay decides and begins his investigation... An incredibly fascinating novel. "
Detective Max Gedz has a new case: in a car accident, returning from a client, lawyer Marina, the wife of an influential businessman, dies. Police blame everything on the accident, but the man believes it was a murder and hires a former classmate to investigate.But will Max be able to forget the school insults and unravel this story, which features a murderous psychopath, witnesses who cannot be trusted, a girl he already feels sympathy for, and dogs. Lots of dogs.
Do you want to develop your own business more effectively? Make more money by spending less time on work? Don't be afraid that without your constant presence everything will just fall apart? Mega-cool entrepreneur and startup Mike Michalowitz argues that responsibilities can and should be delegated, and business can be optimized by making all processes as accurate as clockwork. A number of powerful strategies will help reformat business management into the most autonomous mode - without daily work until night, endless communication with customers and mountains of deadlines.
As everyone who follows Maye Musk on social media knows, she generously gives sincere and very practical advice on making decisions at a certain age, which can later pay off in a strange and unpredictable way. In this edition, the author shares the experience and wisdom gained during the difficult, full of adventures and trials of life. These are tips on health, beauty, family and career. You can't control everything around you, but you can live the way you want at any age. All you need is a plan. So start thinking about it right now.
Based on 20 years of experience in individual counseling and treatment, Michel Odul argues that our bodies do signal problems, as evidenced by the link between emotional and mental stress and specific illnesses. The location of the pain indicates a problem.For example, skin diseases are evidence of problems with the perception of the outside world, and knee pain signals inflexibility and tension in the relationship. Examining the distribution of emotional and physical energy in the body according to Chinese medicine, the author offers us the keys to treatment and advises to learn to perceive illness as a message to the soul. By solving our own problems, we can overcome any pain, restore health and find happiness in life.
Blackgate House, Masquerade Ball. At eleven o'clock the daughter of the owner of the estate, the young Evelyn Hardcastle, will be killed. Again. This horrible cycle cannot be broken until one of those present names the killer. Every day Aiden Bishop will wake up in the body of one of the guests with the eternal question: who killed Evelyn Hardcastle? Seven days, seven warnings. Maybe, being in someone else's body, Aiden will finally be able to expose the killer until the next shot is fired and Evelyn's life ends ... Again.
The heroes of this book are people who went through the Gulag. Some ofthem were convicted under Article 58 of the Political Act (""Anti-SovietAgitation""), the rest were guarded in the camps. Under this cover, these peopleare together for the first time - a generation separated by barbed wire, whichstill does not feel each other.All our heroes are from eighty to one hundredyears old, but they tell about their youth. That is why this book is not aboutthe suffering and horrors of the camps. It is about the generations of ourgrandparents, about their values, ideals and relations with the authorities.About love, friendship and mutual assistance where everything is aimed atdestruction. About the abnormal, often unbearable, but still reallife.
Arthur Moses visits her grave daily for six months after his wife's death. He usually has a silent lunch at the cemetery and returns home, but one spring day he is met with an unexpected meeting. Maddie Harris is alone everywhere, but not in the cemetery - it's quiet here and you can forget about your own problems, and the girl has a lot of them. Maddie grows up without a mother, she has a difficult relationship with her father, she has almost no friends, and here the guy left her at a difficult time. She calls her new acquaintance Trulav "true love", and he calls her Sunshine like a father. And Maddie has no idea what role Arthur plays in her life and in the fate of his lonely old neighbor Lucille, who loves to make homemade cakes. It is from the meeting of these heroes that the story of true devotional friendship and mutual support will begin, which can sometimes be obtained from the average stranger.
Stephane Garnier has been looking after his cat for 15 years and discovering something new every day! He is constantly learning from his pet, because the cat: independent, proud, calm, prudent, observant, graceful, charismatic... The author has identified 40 characteristic cat traits that can be useful in our daily lives: at work, at home, with friends - a cat will teach you to cope with stress, protect your independence, secretly influence everything - there is a cat! So imagine that your coach for improving your life is...
At home and at work, we struggle every day in the powerful flow of information flowing from social networks, sites, news portals. It is extremely rare to question the facts we consume in the infospace. And it is becoming more and more toxic: fakes, propaganda, words taken out of context poison. It's time to filter the information we absorb. This book will be for a gas mask. To all who will have the courage to admit: our minds are ruled by distorting the facts with falsified evidence. Anyone who is interested in how the mechanisms of creating fakes work, where we have a fondness for fabricated sensations and what are the benefits for those in power. Modern man has almost no choice but to live or not live in three spaces at once: physical, informational and virtual. And so far someone uncontrollably reproduces fakes, and someone rakes up the consequences in the real world, we are able to maintain clarity of thought and freedom of action!At home and at work, we struggle every day in the powerful flow of information flowing from social networks, sites, news portals. It is extremely rare to question the facts we consume in the infospace. And it is becoming more and more toxic: fakes, propaganda, words taken out of context poison. It's time to filter the information we absorb. This book will be for a gas mask. To all who will have the courage to admit: our minds are ruled by distorting the facts with falsified evidence. Anyone who is interested in how the mechanisms of creating fakes work, where we have a fondness for fabricated sensations and what are the benefits for those in power. Modern man has almost no choice but to live or not live in three spaces at once: physical, informational and virtual. And so far someone uncontrollably reproduces fakes, and someone rakes up the consequences in the real world, we are able to maintain clarity of thought and freedom of action!
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