A comic fantasy that rides roughshod over the rules of life... and death
The Fifth Horseman presents a modern comic fantasy that challenges traditional mythology and the boundaries of life and death. Jon Smith, an internationally bestselling author, explores unique themes through humor and creativity, offering readers a fresh perspective in his adult debut.
The story follows Sothea and Gabe as they confront a dark entity from Khmer folklore that resurfaces, threatening their community. As they battle this supernatural force, they must also grapple with their own inner demons and the complexities of friendship and family. Their journey highlights themes of resilience and the struggle for acceptance in a society that has marginalized them.
The book serves as a comprehensive guide to Entity Framework Core, emphasizing its role as an object-relational mapper that simplifies database interactions in .NET applications. It features over 100 diagrams and code snippets, with practical examples, including the development of a bookselling web application. Readers will learn essential patterns for security, performance tuning, and unit testing, alongside strategies for addressing common data access challenges. Ideal for beginning to intermediate .NET developers, it draws on Jon Smith's extensive real-world experience.
Il colonnello Jonathan Smith, medico ricercatore, è a Venezia per una missione segreta, ma il partner russo con cui deve incontrarsi viene ucciso al momento dell'incontro. Prima di morire però dà a Smith un'informazione agghiacciante: qualcuno (qualcuno molto, molto potente) sta per far uscire dalla Russia un campione di virus del vaiolo. E' un virus micidiale che può scatenare un'epidemia di proporzioni catastrofiche. Inizia, in tutto il mondo, la lotta contro il tempo... Un romanzo che denuncia i rischi e le paure che possono colpire tutto il mondo: un complotto mondiale perfettamente organizzato che sembra addirittura più vero della realtà.
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This book takes a 'warts and all' sensible yet humorous look at the many stages of pregnancy. It explores the changes, physical and emotional, that any man can expect to see in his partner and in their relationship over the coming months. Becoming pregnant involved two people. The rearing of a child will involve two people; there is every reason that your partner's pregnancy should also involve the two of you, together. For any man that has been put off reading pregnancy books because he doesn't feel he was the intended audience or that something about the tone of these books was alien to him, yet he still has questions that need answers; then "The Blokes' Guide to: Pregnancy" is the book he's been looking for. As a father himself, Jon Smith realised, when his partner Lisa became pregnant that there was nothing out there that he could relate to. "The Bloke's Guide to Pregnancy" is the result. Jon takes a comical yet informed look at the ups and downs of life as a father to be.
Nel giro di poche ore, in punti diversi degli Stati Uniti, un barbone, una ragazzina e un militare muoiono, rivelando gli stessi sintomi: febbre altissima ed emorragia polmonare. Sophia Russel, biologa all'istituto di ricerche per le malattie infettive del Maryland, temendo un'epidemia catastrofica, avvia approfondite indagini. Ma viene assassinata. Il colonnello medico Jon Smith scopre che ad ucciderla è stata una dose del virus mortale che stava studiando, quello stesso che aveva già colpito dieci anni prima, durante la Guerra del Golfo. Ormai è l'umanità intera a essere in pericolo. Appassionante e rapidissimo, il thriller fonde abilmente scienza, spionaggio e politica, e trascina il lettore da Londra alla California, da Washington all'Iraq, lasciandolo senza fiato.
