Nicholas Evans
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This strategic guide for business and IT executives focuses on how today's most disruptive technologies (including social, mobile, analytics, cloud, wearables, intelligent automation, robotics, and the IoT) can be applied in powerful combinations, together with platform business models, mastery of digital services, and leading practices in corporate innovation, to help you develop and execute your digital strategies for competitive advantage.
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A compelling portrait of three people who love each other but can't break through the self-created walls that keep them apart.”—Chicago Sun-Times
His name is Tom Booker. His voice can calm wild horses, his touch can heal broken spirits. And Annie Graves has traveled across a continent to the Booker ranch in Montana, desperate to heal her injured daughter, the
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Tom Bedford has put his past behind him--until his son Danny is charged with murder. In the chaos of war, Danny has been caught in a violent skirmish gone bloodily awry, and the Army needs someone to pay for the mistake. Shocked into action, Tom confronts the violence in his past and fights to save the son he'd let slip away.
4) The divide
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Two backcountry skiers find the body of a young woman embedded in the ice of a remote mountain creek. All through the night, police work with arc lights and chain saws to dig her out. But identification doesn't take as long. Abbie Cooper is wanted for murder and acts of eco-terrorism, and her picture is on law-enforcement computers all across America. But just how did she die? And what was the trail of events that led this joyous, golden child of...
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Ogres are a species from another planet. The ones that live on Earth are aware they are different, not that they are aliens.Kip is happier than a dog with two tails, that Jevin, his pet Ogre has found love with Sally.Sally thought her pottery fairies were fairly realistic, but it was only after she met some that she realised she was wrong, she has no clue about Jevin's Grimm heritage.The Realm is not a place to be entered lightly and for humans to...
6) The Tar
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Zacharia Tobias has retired from The United Western Navy. This might be considered 'just cause' for a celebration, but visiting Daisy's Bar after consuming such a large amount of alcohol, proved not to be one of Zack's best ideas.Zack does not normally 'play well with others', but despite his cynical view of the human race, he finds that some aspects of it, are worth fighting for.Spartax, a large corporate organisation has infiltrated the Central...
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Matthew and Marcie Hatch live in a Mews in central London with their Poodle, Poodley.Life has been good to them, Marcie is possibly going to be the next UK Prime Minister and Matt's career as an engineer in the arms industry has been, shall we say interesting. Everything changes when an incident at Matt's work, makes him face the truth about everything he has been doing since he left school.After totally losing his calm during a live TV interview,...
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How do you prove that you're Muslim? This is not a question that most believers ever have to ask themselves, and yet for members of India's Ahmadiyya Community, it poses an existential challenge. The Ahmadis are the minority of a minority-people for whom simply being Muslim is a challenge. They must constantly ask the question: what evidence could ever be sufficient to prove that I belong to the faith?
In Far from the Caliph's Gaze, Nicholas Evans...
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Some years ago a revolution took place in Early Medieval history in Scotland. The Pictish heartland of Fortriu, previously thought to be centred on Perthshire and the Tay found itself relocated through the forensic work of Alex Woolf to the shores of the Moray Firth. The implications for our understanding of this period and for the formation of Scotland are unprecedented and still being worked through.
This is the first account of this northern heartland...
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The world reimagined. This anthology contains three impeccable steampunk stories. Ranging from the gritty tale of discovering a creature who steals the souls of others, to dabbling in the taboo art of imbuing a human soul into an automaton, and even a man venturing back home only to discover he's been demonized. The Soulless Ones by C. Vonzale LewisThe Rogue of Vangard by Nicholas J. EvansGossamer & Thorns by Elle Beaumont For those who love adventure...
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The Picts have fascinated for centuries. They emerged c. ad 300 to defy the might of the Roman empire only to disappear at the end of the first millennium ad, yet they left major legacies. They laid the foundations for the medieval Scottish kingdom and their captivating carved stones are some of the most eye-catching yet enigmatic monuments in Europe. Until recently the Picts have been difficult to trace due to limited archaeological investigation...
