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Shadow Web

Author : Yasmine Galenorn

Publisher : Nightqueen Enterprises LLC

Page : 238 pages

File Size : 23,98 MB

Release : 2021-11-30

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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The holidays are here, and this year, they’re deadly… It’s my first Thanksgiving back in Moonshadow Bay, and everything is hunky-dory until the Witches Guild assigns me a research project for the upcoming Winter Solstice Festival. Not only do I melt down my computer, but I download a demon who ends up stuck in my house. But Tarvish the Funtime demon is the least of my worries when my grandmother asks my BFF and me to go undercover. A magical pyramid scheme has moved into town and it’s siphoning more than money off its recruits. Will we be able to take it down, or will the leader of the cult manage to silence us for good? Keywords: Paranormal, Witches, Faerie, Fae, Fairy, Weres, Shapeshifters, Romance, Paranormal Women’s Fiction, Badass heroine, kickass women, action and adventure, Ghost hunting, cats, ghosts, urban legends, shadow people, Shadow towns, wolf shifters, cat shifters, elemental magic, shapeshifter romance, mystery, strong women, kickass heroine, steamy, Pacific North West, woods, fae creatures, divorce, life change, new life, hometown, hauntings, dark creatures, amazing friendships, family secrets, spells, challenging foes, magical creatures, mythology



Shadow Web

Author : N. M. Browne

Publisher : Bloomsbury Children's Books

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 36,22 MB

Release : 2008

Category : Fantasy fiction

ISBN : 9780747593454

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A young girl is bored and Googles her name. Weirdly, she finds another Jessica, same age, also living in London. They arrange to meet. At the designated time, designated place, Jessica sees the girl she is supposed to be meeting, shock registering on both their faces as they realise they look identical. They shake hands, and at that moment are catapulted into each other's worlds. Jessica finds herself somewhere which looks like the London of 50 years ago, but the year is still 2008 . . . In the parallel London, the history is different - key war memorials are missing, and the Jessica who's life she now inhabits was involved in a dark and sinister conspiracy. Jess must convince everyone she is the same girl, at all costs - if she wants to get back to her London - alive.



Me and My Web Shadow

Author : Antony Mayfield

Publisher : A&C Black

Page : 210 pages

File Size : 17,96 MB

Release : 2010-03-15

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1408119080

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Provides information on managing one's online reputation in social networks, including Facebook and LinkedIn, and the wider World Wide Web, and offers advice on ways to protect oneself from identity theft, personal attacks, and cyberbullying.



The Tangled Web We Weave

Author : James Ball

Publisher : Melville House

Page : 273 pages

File Size : 43,6 MB

Release : 2020-10-06

Category : Computers

ISBN : 1612199003

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We all see what the internet does and increasingly don't like it, but do we know how and more importantly who makes it work that way? That's where the real power lays... The internet was supposed to be a thing of revolutions. As that dream curdles, there is no shortage of villains to blame--from tech giants to Russian bot farms. But what if the problem is not an issue of bad actors ruining a good thing? What if the hazards of the internet are built into the system itself? That's what journalist James Ball argues as he takes us to the root of the problem, from the very establishment of the internet's earliest protocols to the cables that wire it together. He shows us how the seemingly abstract and pervasive phenomenon is built on a very real set of materials and rules that are owned, financed, designed and regulated by very real people. In this urgent and necessary book, Ball reveals that the internet is not a neutral force but a massive infrastructure that reflects the society that created it. And making it work for--and not against--us must be an endeavor of the people as well.



Me and My Web Shadow

Author : Antony Mayfield

Publisher : A&C Black

Page : 210 pages

File Size : 35,74 MB

Release : 2010-03-15

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1408130688

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What happens when someone puts your name into Google? Or Facebook? You need to know how to look after what people see when they look for you online. This essential book explains how to understand and manage your online self. In Me and My Web Shadow, Antony Mayfield helps you to: Understand how what's said about you on the Web can affect your job, your business and your personal life, both positively and negatively. Develop a personal plan for managing your online reputation. Create new career and business opportunities by taking part in social networks and other online communities. Protect yourself against identity hijacking, personal attacks and cyber-bullying. Set up and manage the online presences in social networks and the wider Web.



Spam

Author : Finn Brunton

Publisher : MIT Press

Page : 295 pages

File Size : 49,60 MB

Release : 2015-01-30

Category : Computers

ISBN : 026252757X

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What spam is, how it works, and how it has shaped online communities and the Internet itself. The vast majority of all email sent every day is spam, a variety of idiosyncratically spelled requests to provide account information, invitations to spend money on dubious products, and pleas to send cash overseas. Most of it is caught by filters before ever reaching an in-box. Where does it come from? As Finn Brunton explains in Spam, it is produced and shaped by many different populations around the world: programmers, con artists, bots and their botmasters, pharmaceutical merchants, marketers, identity thieves, crooked bankers and their victims, cops, lawyers, network security professionals, vigilantes, and hackers. Every time we go online, we participate in the system of spam, with choices, refusals, and purchases the consequences of which we may not understand. This is a book about what spam is, how it works, and what it means. Brunton provides a cultural history that stretches from pranks on early computer networks to the construction of a global criminal infrastructure. The history of spam, Brunton shows us, is a shadow history of the Internet itself, with spam emerging as the mirror image of the online communities it targets. Brunton traces spam through three epochs: the 1970s to 1995, and the early, noncommercial computer networks that became the Internet; 1995 to 2003, with the dot-com boom, the rise of spam's entrepreneurs, and the first efforts at regulating spam; and 2003 to the present, with the war of algorithms—spam versus anti-spam. Spam shows us how technologies, from email to search engines, are transformed by unintended consequences and adaptations, and how online communities develop and invent governance for themselves.



Walter's Wonderful Web

Author : Tim Hopgood

Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

Page : 36 pages

File Size : 13,95 MB

Release : 2016-08-16

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 1466896159

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A determined little spider named Walter is trying to make a sturdy web that will stand up to the blustery wind. The webs he makes at first are woven in special shapes--a triangle, a square, a circle--but they are still wibbly-wobbly. Can Walter make a web that is both wonderful and strong? This simple, vibrant adventure is a lively companion to our two previous Tim Hopgood "first books": Wow! Said the Owl, about colors; and Hooray for Hoppy!, about the five senses.



Starlight Web

Author : Yasmine Galenorn

Publisher : Nightqueen Enterprises LLC

Page : 273 pages

File Size : 35,80 MB

Release : 2020-12-07

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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Moonshadow Bay…where magic lurks in the moonlight, and danger hides in the shadows. One month before January Jaxson turns 41, her husband ditches her for a trophy wife. Adding insult to injury, he steals the business she helped build, and kicks her out during the holidays. So when her best friend Ari suggests she move back to Moonshadow Bay—a quirky, magical town near Bellingham WA—January decides to take the plunge. Born into a family of witches, January accepts a job at Conjure Ink, a paranormal investigations website. The job’s right up her alley but she doubts that everything reported to Conjure Ink really exists. That is, until she’s sent out on her first case. An abandoned asylum once housed a murderer, who killed an entire family one Yuletide Eve. It’s rumored that every December he returns to haunt the woodland around the asylum, seeking to add new members to his supernatural family. January’s sure it’s an urban legend, but when new victims show up with no logical explanation for their deaths, Conjure Ink sends her in to investigate. Suddenly January finds herself in over her head, staring directly into the shadowed world of the Veil. Now, January must not only navigate the new life she’s trying to build, but the paranormal beasties she’s sent out to explore, as well as a hot new neighbor, who seems to be hiding a shadowed past of his own. Keywords: Paranormal, Witches, Faerie, Fae, Fairy, Weres, Shapeshifters, Romance, Paranormal Women’s Fiction, Badass heroine, kickass women, action and adventure, Ghost hunting, cats, ghosts, urban legends, shadow people, Shadow towns, wolf shifters, cat shifters, elemental magic, shapeshifter romance, mystery, strong women, kickass heroine, steamy, Pacific North West, woods, fae creatures, divorce, life change, new life, hometown, hauntings, dark creatures, amazing friendships, family secrets, spells, challenging foes, magical creatures, mythology



A Shadow of Crows

Author : Yasmine Galenorn

Publisher : Nightqueen Enterprises LLC

Page : 296 pages

File Size : 10,39 MB

Release : 2018-12-03

Category : Fiction

ISBN :

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As autumn approaches and Ember approaches the Cruharach, a revelation rocks Herne’s world that threatens their relationship. In the middle of the chaos, the Wild Hunt is approached by Raven, one of the Ante-Fae. A bone-witch, Raven hires them to find her missing fiancé. The spirits have warned her that he’s in danger. The Wild Hunt follows a trail of blood and bones, it leads them into a labyrinth of grisly deaths that extend far beyond Raven’s lost love. A serial killer is murdering Dark Fae, hoping to win favor with one of the gods. But as Ember and Herne draw close to solving the case, yet another bombshell drops. And this time, the fallout could lead to outright war between the Fae Courts and an ancient enemy. Keywords: Fae, Gods and Goddesses, Demigods, witches, vampires, romance, urban fantasy, fantasy, magic, shapeshifters, faerie, Fae, fairy, weres, coyote shifter, stag shifter, ghosts, dragons, psychic, elemental magic, wolf shifters, strong women, kickass heroine, steamy, gargoyle, cats, mystery, demigod romance, fae romance, steamy, dwarves, amazons, elementals, mythic fantasy, surprising allies, other realms, changes in life, challenging foes, fantastic friendships, Pacific North West, spells, magical creatures, Celtic, Norse, Finnish, mythology



Reverse Engineering Social Media

Author : Robert W Gehl

Publisher : Temple University Press

Page : 240 pages

File Size : 39,97 MB

Release : 2014-07-25

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 9781439910344

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Robert Gehl's timely critique, Reverse Engineering Social Media, rigorously analyzes the ideas of social media and software engineers, using these ideas to find contradictions and fissures beneath the surfaces of glossy sites such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter. Gehl adeptly uses a mix of software studies, science and technology studies, and political economy to reveal the histories and contexts of these social media sites. Looking backward at divisions of labor and the process of user labor, he provides case studies that illustrate how binary "Like" consumer choices hide surveillance systems that rely on users to build content for site owners who make money selling user data, and that promote a culture of anxiety and immediacy over depth. Reverse Engineering Social Media also presents ways out of this paradox, illustrating how activists, academics, and users change social media for the better by building alternatives to the dominant social media sites.