Download or read book Let s Meet Blockchain written by Sylvain Metz and published by Business Expert Press. This book was released on 2023-12-26 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quiet revolution is taking place within the computer ecosystem; one that will change the way we do business on the internet. It’s called blockchain, and it promises to disrupt the way people interact with one another online, whether its messaging, banking, keeping up with medical records, land records, booking a vacation, socializing, or voting. Programs are also being developed to use blockchain to serve as one’s identity “papers.” Blockchain technology is based on the idea that all online transactions should be between two people without the need for public or private third-party oversight. Blockchain technology developers believe thoughts and ideas should be shared, not quashed. It’s a world where web platforms are governed by their members, not a board of directors; privacy comes first, and one’s personal information is kept private, not for third parties to take and sell as they, please. Blockchain technology offers everyone opportunities to take part. Anyone can participate in the fast-growing world using non-fungible tokens (NFTs), where works of art, music, literature, and poetry can be tokenized and sold or traded on a blockchain. These components comprise the next generation of the world wide web, which is referred to as Web 3.0. Billions of dollars are being spent to create infrastructure to create a viable framework to mainstream blockchain. This book offers a peek into this new world with examples of how this technology is being used today as well as the hurdles, including legal challenges, it must overcome to be viable. So, if you’re ready, let’s meet blockchain.
Download or read book An Address in Amsterdam written by Mary Dingee Fillmore and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Kirkus Indie Book of the Month Winner, Sarton Women's Book Award for Historical Fiction When the Germans invade her city, Rachel Klein is a teenager falling in love. Within a year, she's delivering illegal papers and confronting Nazi soldiers. In this “compelling and touching tale” (Laurel Corona), Rachel finds her courage and faces wrenching choices. Follow Rachel Klein as she faces double danger as a young Jewish woman and resistance worker in the Amsterdam of Anne Frank. On May 10, 1940, the Nazi bombers blast the night and shatter Rachel Klein's sleep—along with her life as she knew it. She's eighteen, and falling in love with a Gentile in a secret relationship. As the Nazi terror escalates, her romance deepens quickly, and so does her boyfriend's involvement with student protests. Soon, he must disappear rather than face arrest. When Rachel witnesses the first roundup of 425 Jewish men in the Jonas Daniel Meijerplein, she knows that she too must act, and joins the resistance. Despite the ever greater danger as the Nazis tighten their grip on the city, Rachel makes daily deliveries of illegal papers to addresses all over Amsterdam. She ingeniously evades the Nazis and their Dutch collaborators for months, although she has some close calls. As the roundups intensify, Rachel agonizes about whether to go into hiding. Ultimately she persuades her parents to accompany her to a dank basement, where she gets to know herself and them in a different way, and meets a new man. A young woman can find her courage in any situation, no matter how terrible, and love is always a possibility.
Download or read book Let s Meet Famous Women Artists written by Jacqueline A. Badman and published by Instructional Fair. This book was released on 1996 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains biographies, activities, evaluations, a bibliography, a glossary, and extended activities to enrich a child's understanding of 19 women artists and their art.
Download or read book Villa and his friends in the 12th dimension written by La Nien and published by Vior Webmedia. This book was released on 2023-11-08 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dit Engelstalige fantasie verhaaltje gaat over hoe drie sterke mannelijke 12dimenionals de mensheid helpen. Het verhaal is geschreven in makkelijk leesbaar Engels. Iedereen tussen 9 en 99 jaar en ouder kan het lezen. Onze hoofdrolspeler is Villa. Hij is een jonge machtige 12dimensional. Villa maakt zich zorgen over de ontwikkelingen tussen de mensen. Met zijn bijzondere vaardigheden en krachten, en met de hulp van zijn twee beste vrienden Shoro en Gardu, beïnvloedden zij de ontwikkelingen in onze dimensie. Hun doel is de weg te verlichten, zodat wij mensen kunnen leven in vrede en duurzaam omgaan met onze aarde. Het drietal kiest ieder hun eigen mens om te beïnvloeden. Shoro kiest George, een jonge man uit Florida; Villa kiest de wildebras Samlen, opgegroeid ergens in Europa; en Gardu kiest Kadir, een moslim jongen uit een rijke en verwende nest in het Midden Oosten. De drie uitgekozen jonge mannen ontmoeten elkaar, en vormen een onafscheidelijke groep aan de Technische Universiteit van Amsterdam. In het verhaal mogen wij een kijkje nemen achter de perfecte façade van deze drie succesrijke jonge mannen. Dit verhaaltje is de eerste van 4 delen. Hierin worden de twee verschillende werelden geïntroduceerd. De wereld van de 12dimensionals en de wereld van de drie jonge mannen. Villas verloofde: Winngadur is een bijzondere 12dimensional. Zij heeft het beheer over alle insecten in onze dimensie. In de laatste drie delen volgen wij hoe George, Samlen en Kadir min of meer bewust worden beïnvloed door de drie verschillende 12dimensionals. Samlen gaat woonbouwprojecten met sponge dorpen maken in hele Europa, George helpt Samlen en Georges vrouw wordt een vooraanstaande politicus. Kadir zal een nieuwe baanbrekende energievorm lanceren die het gebruik van fossiele brandstoffen volledig overtollig maakt. Dus ja, het is echt een mooie droom. Maar niet te mooi om waar te zijn. Wij mensen zijn gewoon zo stoer. Wij mogen geloven in elkaar.
Download or read book Guide to Amsterdam written by and published by Boris Aleksandrov Todorov. This book was released on with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fundamental, most exclusive guide to exploring Amsterdam incorporates au courant considerations of the supreme spots to visit, and things to watch as well as the best places to eat at. All the necessities to get to the core of Amsterdam, the guide is the outcome of months of research by our experienced and determined authors and travel authorities who obsessed themselves in Amsterdam and its secrets, bringing to light exclusive risky and unexpected undertakings and use in common with others practical and honest advises, so you will be always familiar and impressed. Wish you a brilliant holiday and just take the most of it!!!
Download or read book The Amsterdam Connection Level 4 written by Sue Leather and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-02-22 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reporter Kate Jensen travels to Amsterdam when a friend is found dead there. Her search for the murderer takes her to parts of the city that tourists never see, and to a man prepared to kill to hide the truth. Kate soon discovers that football can be a very dangerous game.
Download or read book The Amsterdam Connection Level 4 Book with Audio CDs 2 Pack written by Sue Leather and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-20 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reporter Kate Jensen travels to Amsterdam when a friend is found dead there. Her search for the murderer takes her to parts of the city that tourists never see, and to a man prepared to kill to hide the truth. Kate soon discovers that football can be a very dangerous game.
Download or read book War is Not the Season for Figs written by Lidija Cvetkovic and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An arresting collection of poems, deeply informed by personal experience of recent Balkan conflicts and a sensitivity to place, the nailprints of history, and a personal commitment to the value of testimony.
Download or read book The Third Intervention written by Alasdair C Morrison and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-09-28 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the year 2012, and conspiracy theories are thriving. Many believe this is the year when a race of shape-shifting reptilian aliens will finally enact their plan to create a New World Order, wipe out most of the human race and use the survivors as their slaves... Jason Ford, the first minister of Scotland, is fed up with people thinking he's a lizard from outer space. So he asks one of his press officers, Mark Snowden, to engage with the conspiracy theorists and try to dispel their fears. Mark's new position brings him into contact with David Risby, founder of an influential conspiracy website. Initially they find little common ground, but as first minister Ford talks more and more about God's plans for humanity, Mark starts to wonder if David and his followers are actually on to something... Are the conspiracy theorists right? Is a secret elite plotting the extermination and subjugation of the human race? And where exactly does God fit into all this, anyway?
Download or read book When You Are Engulfed in Flames written by David Sedaris and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2008-06-03 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "David Sedaris's ability to transform the mortification of everyday life into wildly entertaining art," (The Christian Science Monitor) is elevated to wilder and more entertaining heights than ever in this remarkable new book. Trying to make coffee when the water is shut off, David considers using the water in a vase of flowers and his chain of associations takes him from the French countryside to a hilariously uncomfortable memory of buying drugs in a mobile home in rural North Carolina. In essay after essay, Sedaris proceeds from bizarre conundrums of daily life-having a lozenge fall from your mouth into the lap of a fellow passenger on a plane or armoring the windows with LP covers to protect the house from neurotic songbirds-to the most deeply resonant human truths. Culminating in a brilliant account of his venture to Tokyo in order to quit smoking, David Sedaris's sixth essay collection is a new masterpiece of comic writing from "a writer worth treasuring" (Seattle Times). Praise for When You Are Engulfed in Flames: "Older, wiser, smarter and meaner, Sedaris...defies the odds once again by delivering an intelligent take on the banalities of an absurd life." --Kirkus Reviews This latest collection proves that not only does Sedaris still have it, but he's also getting better....Sedaris's best stuff will still--after all this time--move, surprise, and entertain." --Booklist Table of Contents: It's Catching Keeping Up The Understudy This Old House Buddy, Can You Spare a Tie? Road Trips What I Learned That's Amore The Monster Mash In the Waiting Room Solutions to Saturday's Puzzle Adult Figures Charging Toward a Concrete Toadstool Memento Mori All the Beauty You Will Ever Need Town and Country Aerial The Man in the Hut Of Mice and Men April in Paris Crybaby Old Faithful The Smoking Section
Download or read book Temptation and Deception written by Sydney Campbell and published by JAM Contemporary Romance. This book was released on 2022-01-08 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Temptation (Book 1) What happens when you just can’t stay away? Allie Styles is a woman on the rebound. After a failed relationship, she starts dating Pete, who’s not exactly rocking her boat. But things get complicated when Allie meets his new roommate, Matt Goldberg. Matt’s smart, funny, and damn sexy. Why couldn’t she have met him first? Ready for a swoon-worthy romance with plenty of heat? Dive into this first-in-series and meet two young lovers with red-hot chemistry. Deception (Book 2) Was crossing the ocean in search of love a huge mistake? Allie Styles finally got her man, but now he’s disappeared. When Matt takes off for an extended work trip in Amsterdam, Allie decides to follow her heart and show up on his doorstep—without any advance warning. Imagine her surprise when she’s greeted by another woman. Could Matt have already found someone new or is this just another obstacle in their path? After a rocky start, Allie and Matt are determined to make things work, as they quickly realize their physical chemistry is evolving into much, much more.
Download or read book Snowing in Bali written by Kathryn Bonella and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of 'Hotel Kerobokan' and co-author of Schapelle Corby's 'My Story' comes an incredible account of Bali's hidden drug world. With unprecedented access to some of Bali's biggest international smugglers and local dealers, Kathryn Bonella has written a book even more explosive and revelatory than 'Hotel Kerobokan'.
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Download or read book Yom Kippur in Amsterdam written by Maxim D. Shrayer and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2009-09-08 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether set in Maxim D. Shrayer’s native Russia or in North America and Western Europe, the eight stories in this collection explore emotionally intricate relationships that cross traditional boundaries of ethnicity, religion, and culture. Tracing the lives, obsessions, and aspirations of Jewish-Russian immigrants, these poignant, humorous, and tender stories create an expansive portrait of individuals struggling to come to terms with ghosts of their European pasts while simultaneously seeking to build new lives in their American present. The title story follows Jake Glaz, a young Jewish man apprehensive about marrying a Catholic woman. After realizing Erin will not convert, Jake leaves the United States to spend Yom Kippur in Amsterdam, "a beautiful place for a Jew to atone." In "Sonetchka" a literary scholar and his former girlfriend from Moscow reunite in her suburban Connecticut apartment. As they reminisce about their Soviet youth and quietly admire each other’s professional successes, both wrestle with the curious mix of prosperity, loneliness, and insecurity that defines their lives in the United States. Yom Kippur in Amsterdam takes the immigrant narrative into the twenty-first century. Emerging from the traditions of Isaac Babel, Vladimir Nabokov, and Isaac Bashevis Singer, Shrayer’s vibrant literary voice significantly contributes to the evolution of Jewish writing in America.
Download or read book Amsterdam Stories written by Nescio and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one has written more feelingly and more beautifully than Nescio about the madness and sadness, courage and vulnerability of youth: its big plans and vague longings, not to mention the binges, crashes, and marathon walks and talks. No one, for that matter, has written with such pristine clarity about the radiating canals of Amsterdam and the cloud-swept landscape of the Netherlands. Who was Nescio? Nescio—Latin for “I don’t know”—was the pen name of J.H.F. Grönloh, the highly successful director of the Holland–Bombay Trading Company and a father of four—someone who knew more than enough about respectable maturity. Only in his spare time and under the cover of a pseudonym, as if commemorating a lost self, did he let himself go, producing over the course of his lifetime a handful of utterly original stories that contain some of the most luminous pages in modern literature. This is the first English translation of Nescio’s stories.
Download or read book Death in Amsterdam written by Patricia Simpson and published by Lucky Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Dutch police tell American Leigh French that a mysterious potion has killed her daughter, Leigh travels to Holland to search for answers. Why did two young women die in the rear garden of a house in Amsterdam? Was it suicide or homicide? This gripping account of journal entries, texts, emails and narrative passages chronicles the journey of a desperate mother struggling to make sense of the ultimate loss. This is the story of one family’s pursuit of the truth after the loss of their daughter. It is a cautionary tale that shows the far reaching impact of family values and the potential conflict with the new values of younger generations—proof that these conflicts are not restricted to teens and college-aged children, but continue into our adult lives.
Download or read book Loving Characters Into Gas Station Snacks written by Sára Iványi and published by Rough Trade Books. This book was released on 2022-03-01 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early winter of 2019, Katinka van Gorkum and Sára Iványi met online after creating personal ads on a text-based dating app called Lex. Without knowing who the other person was or what they looked like, they started writing to each other on a daily basis. This exchange is presented here as a kind of un-edited textual performance in which the act of language functions under the most intense pressure—how can we perform our 'selves' only through the use of words? How do the negotiations of the early stages of friendship, romance, sexuality, hold up under these conditions? How does language itself?
