The Netroom Predator Michael and Karen Alexander are the perfect Silicon Valley yuppie couple. millions of other Americans, their lives revolve around the internet. On one hand, Michael is the faithful and happily married husband, but when he plays on the internet, things change and the real world and the cyber world merge into a nightmare. When dark chat room fantasies become reality, cyber-sex, taboos, affairs, and even murder soon encompass their lives. THE NETROOM PREDATOR is a captivating and thrilling story, which plummets the reader into the chilling dark side of the cyber world. It is sexy, mysterious, and unpredictable as it follows the terrifying awakening of a psychotic internet serial killer. Reviews and Awards Honorable Mention Winner in the General Fiction Category Hollywood Book Festival 7-27-2007. Joe Taylor of ForeWord CLARION Reviews rates it 5 STARS (*****): "Nicholas Bain's first novel could accurately be called a cyber-thriller, although it is nicely unencumbered by hacker jargon or high technology specs. Bain sometimes takes readers into the chatroom, where identity often goes no deeper than a screenname and a borrowed photograph. But his young, upscale, and sexually uninhibited characters are more often found lounging in the cafes, bistros, and brewpubs of the Bay area." http://www.forewordmagazine.com/clarion/viewreviews.aspx?reviewID=241 C. Dina of Script Viking wrote this about the book: “When I read this I thought of “Single White Female” and even “The Hand That Rocks The Cradle”--stories of how far our jealous and vengeful nature can take us if we allow it. On the whole, this novel has a gem of a psychological thriller in it.” Check out Nicholas Bain's website: http://www.nicholasbain.com Contact Nicholas at: http://www.myspace.com/nicholasbain
How did the Victorians read novels? Nicholas Dames answers that deceptively simple question by revealing a now-forgotten range of nineteenth-century theories of the novel, a range based in a study of human physiology during the act of reading, He demonstrates the ways in which the Victorians thought they read, and uncovers surprising responses to the question of what might have transpired in the minds and bodies of readers of Victorian fiction. His detailed studies of novelcritics who were also interested in neurological science, combined with readings of novels by Thackeray, Eliot, Meredith, and Gissing, propose a vision of the Victorian novel-reader as far from the quietly immersed being we now imagine - as instead a reader whose nervous system was addressed, attacked, andsoothed by authors newly aware of the neural operations of their public. Rich in unexpected intersections, from the British response to Wagnerian opera to the birth of speed-reading in the late nineteenth century, The Physiology of the Novel challenges our assumptions about what novel-reading once did, and still does, to the individual reader, and provides new answers to the question of how novels influenced a culture's way of reading, responding, and feeling.
Transforming the Measurement of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education proposes a dynamic new model for educational measurement by reconceptualizing the field of learning analytics. Revolving around the agency and daily work of those in the field, this book describes how colleges and universities can be better structured for quality learning, showcases new tools for gathering emergent feedback, and demonstrates how that feedback can be used effectively across higher education organizations. Leaders and practitioners at all levels are offered new approaches for organizational and technological design that ensure the type of data and the way it is gathered serve the ultimate goal of high quality learning and teaching.
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