Bøger af Dane Cobain

Social networking sites can be scary places. When the whole world is connected, anything can happen and it can happen at lightning speed. Social paranoia is the feeling you get when you hesitate before posting an update. It's the feeling you get on a Saturday morning after drunkenly texting your ex the night before. The feeling you get when your friends won't stop posting about their perfect lives, making your own life look boring in comparison. Social Paranoia: How Consumers and Brands Can Stay Safe in a Connected World is the true story of how sometimes the updates that you post come back to haunt you. Filled with real case studies and practical advice, it's a guidebook for everyone who has an online presence from consumers to massive corporations. Sometimes, people really are out to get you. Be afraid. Be very afraid. *** Born as a result of his former career in social media marketing, Dane Cobain brings you a social media book with a difference. Social media isn't always a good thing, and Cobain's research shines a light on some of the negatives that you won't read about in social media marketing books. Do you suffer from Social Paranoia? And if not, should you? Get your copy today to find out why.

Eyes Like Lighthouses is Dane Cobain's first book of poetry, distilled from the sweat of a thousand memorised performances in this reality and others. It's not for the faint-hearted. I've never seen anyone do a stream of consciousness piece as talented as that. Very impressed." - Mark Allard-Will, author of Saskatch-A-Man and co-founder of Cuckoo's Nest Press "Dane's poetry is a multi-layered spiral of the macabre, quirky humour and disjointed imagery. Not only does he make you think, he captures the small forgotten moments of everyday life." - Nikki Dudley, co-editor of Streetcake Magazine ...[Dane] combines concrete detail with socioeconomic concerns." - Lorna Wood, associate editor of Gemini Magazine.

As an academic surgeon, Laurence Ghione was forced to reconsider his understanding of life after accidentally discovering he had the cancer that he specialized in. In Hacking Consciousness: A Physician's Journey, he documents his search for perception and our place in life.We're bound by our beliefs. Brick by brick, we build a wall of expectations that leads us to perceive the anticipated. The shortcuts we're born with and those we learn blind our perceptions and hamper our ability to grasp alternate understandings and realities. Hacking Consciousness: A Physician's Journey shares the events that shook Ghione's core beliefs and the tools which allowed him a glimpse of a greater knowing, including meditation and psilocybin. The path becomes the destination in a humbling, joyous journey towards a greater meaning.

2012: A Night of Desolation is a suspenseful thriller based on an unintended and accidental unearthing of a conspiracy occurring in Kabul, Afghanistan by an American soldier named Jason. The series of events brings the destinies of strangers together to get to the heart of an insidious stratagem. As Jason is trying to survive harsh days and nights in Kabul, the major he reports to is out for his blood.

When Dan Roberts starts his new job at Former.ly, he has no idea what he's getting into. The site deals in death - its users share their innermost thoughts, which are stored privately until they die. Then, their posts are shared with the world, often with unexpected consequences. But something strange is going on, and the site's two erratic founders share a dark secret. A secret that people are willing to kill for.

Doesn't life seem nasty, brutish and short? This horror novella and accompanying screenplay tells the story of Darran Jersey, a troubled teenager who moves into a house that's inhabited by the malevolent spirit of his predecessor. As time goes by and the family begins to settle, Darran begins to take on more and more of the qualities of James, the dead teenager who committed a bloody suicide. As tragedy after tragedy threatens to destroy the family, Darran's mother Alice decides to leave the house behind and start afresh, but is it too late? Find out when you Come On Up to the House...

Join a young James Leipfold as he discovers his knack for uncovering the truth and takes the early steps towards forming his detective agency, Leipfold Investigations.His journey will take him from the deserts of Kuwait to the inside of Reading Jail and have him investigating everything from missing gnomes to drunken Santas and crooked optometrists. Along the way, he befriends a rookie cop named Jack Cholmondeley, helps a widowed army wife find closure, and falls in love with a motorbike he calls Camilla.This collection brings together 24 James Leipfold short stories, including three shorts that take place between Driven and The Tower Hill Terror. It''s a must for all fans of the Leipfold series and any serious reader of quirky detective novels and cozy mysteries.

Unorthodox PI James Leipfold and his technophile assistant Maile O'Hara are back with a brand new case...The Tower Hill Terror is on the loose, a serial killer with a grisly M.O., and Maile and Leipfold must work fast to take him down before another body is found. But while the duo are chasing clues on social networking sites and the police are waiting for forensics, the Terror sends a message to the journalists at the Tribune. A message written in blood.Can Leipfold, Maile and Cholmondeley catch the killer before it's too late? Or will the Tower Hill Terror claim one final, familiar victim?