Search Angel

Search Angel
Author: Mark Nykanen
Publisher: Hachette Books
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2006-05-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1401382614

A riveting suspense thriller about the reuniting of birth mothers with their adopted children and the madman who preys on them After two highly praised psychological thrillers, Mark Nykanen returns with his most spellbinding story yet. Suzanne Trayle is a 'Search Angel' whose success in tracking down and reuniting birth mothers with their adopted children has earned her national fame. Known as 'The Orphan's Private Eye,' Suzanne has reunited thousands of mothers with their children, but has failed to find the son she put up for adoption thirty years ago.

You Will See Fire: A Search for Justice in Kenya

You Will See Fire: A Search for Justice in Kenya
Author: Christopher Goffard
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 331
Release: 2011-11-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 039307742X

"You Will See Fire" is a nonfiction mystery dwelling on timeless themes of an individual's stand against corruption and the complexity of the human heart.

Making Sense of Business Reference

Making Sense of Business Reference
Author: Celia Ross
Publisher: American Library Association
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2013
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 083891084X

In times of recession, the library is more critical than ever for those who want to start a business and need to do research, and libraries are at the heart of a growing need to research business questions.

Get Your Business Online Now!

Get Your Business Online Now!
Author: Todd Alexander
Publisher: Hachette Australia
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2012-02-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 073362913X

Online business, or e-commerce, has become the buzzword of the past year. The media and key influencers alike are talking about the potential of e-commerce but many Australian businesses have not reached their potential and those managing them don’t know how to go about it. One of the obstacles is the lack of affordable, local knowledge in the area. The assumption is that anyone with a website can appear on Google and be successful - but the reality is vastly different. Consultants will charge tens of thousands of dollars to give the same advice that is contained in this book, which includes an outline of the e-commerce opportunity, how to design and build an effective website, the best marketing and advertising strategies, logistics and payment solutions, utilising marketplaces and mobile commerce, and the key to outstanding online customer service. In this straightforward user-friendly guide, Todd Alexander, an author with 10 years’ experience as an e-commerce expert, provides the essential tools to get all types of businesses get online and make their websites successful and profitable.

Transforming Technologies to Manage Our Information

Transforming Technologies to Manage Our Information
Author: William Jones
Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2013-10-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1627050175

With its theme, "Our Information, Always and Forever," Part I of this book covers the basics of personal information management (PIM) including six essential activities of PIM and six (different) ways in which information can be personal to us. Part I then goes on to explore key issues that arise in the "great migration" of our information onto the Web and into a myriad of mobile devices. Part 2 provides a more focused look at technologies for managing information that promise to profoundly alter our practices of PIM and, through these practices, the way we lead our lives. Part 2 is in five chapters: - Chapter 5. Technologies of Input and Output. Technologies in support of gesture, touch, voice, and even eye movements combine to support a more natural user interface (NUI). Technologies of output include glasses and "watch" watches. Output will also increasingly be animated with options to "zoom". - Chapter 6. Technologies to Save Our Information. We can opt for "life logs" to record our experiences with increasing fidelity. What will we use these logs for? And what isn’t recorded that should be? - Chapter 7. Technologies to Search Our Information. The potential for personalized search is enormous and mostly yet to be realized. Persistent searches, situated in our information landscape, will allow us to maintain a diversity of projects and areas of interest without a need to continually switch from one to another to handle incoming information. - Chapter 8. Technologies to Structure Our Information. Structure is key if we are to keep, find, and make effective use of our information. But how best to structure? And how best to share structured information between the applications we use, with other people, and also with ourselves over time? What lessons can we draw from the failures and successes in web-based efforts to share structure? - Chapter 9. PIM Transformed and Transforming: Stories from the Past, Present and Future. Part 2 concludes with a comparison between Licklider’s world of information in 1957 and our own world of information today. And then we consider what the world of information is likely to look like in 2057. Licklider estimated that he spent 85% of his "thinking time" in activities that were clerical and mechanical and might (someday) be delegated to the computer. What percentage of our own time is spent with the clerical and mechanical? What about in 2057?

Art Information and the Internet

Art Information and the Internet
Author: Lois Swan Jones
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 762
Release: 2013-12-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1135933456

In the first book of its kind, art information expert Lois Swan Jones discusses how to locate visual and textual information on the Internet and how to evaluate and supplement that information with material from other formats--print sources, CD-ROMS, documentary videos, and microfiche sets--to produce excellent research results. The book is divided into three sections: Basic Information Formats; Types of Websites and How to Find Them; and How to Use Web Information. Jones discusses the strengths and limitations of Websites; scholarly and basic information resources are noted; and search strategies for finding pertinent Websites are included. Art Information and the Internet also discusses research methodology for studying art-historical styles, artists working in various media, individual works of art, and non-Western cultures--as well as art education, writing about art, problems of copyright, and issues concerning the buying and selling of art. This title will be periodically updated.

Windows 8.1 All-in-One For Dummies

Windows 8.1 All-in-One For Dummies
Author: Woody Leonhard
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 1242
Release: 2013-11-06
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1118821009

Ten minibooks in one get you thoroughly caught up on Windows 8.1! With new improvements and changes, Windows 8.1 offers a refreshed user interface, better integration between the new and traditional Windows interfaces, and more. This updated top-selling guide is what you need to get up to speed on everything Windows 8.1. Nine minibooks in one cover such essential topics as navigating the new Start Screen, understanding Windows 8.1 apps, securing Windows 8.1, and much more. Take the guesswork out of Windows 8.1 from day one with this complete, all-in-one resource. Helps you get up to speed on the Windows 8.1 operating system, including its Start Screen, which is a feature sure to please traditional Windows users Provides top-notch guidance from trusted and well-known Windows expert and author Woody Leonhard Covers Windows 8.1 inside and out, including how to customize the Start screen, manage apps, and control privacy Delves into core Windows 8.1 apps such as e-mail, people, and SkyDrive Shows you how to connect online, add hardware, back up and update, and secure Windows 8.1 Discover new improvements, old favorites, and everything in between with Windows 8.1 All-in-One For Dummies.