Bøger af Steve Wilson

More than 600 rarely seen items from the David O. Selznick archive offer fans and film historians alike a must-have behind-the-camera view of the production of this classic movie on its seventy-fifth anniversary.

Large language models (LLMs) are not just shaping the trajectory of AI, they're also unveiling a new era of security challenges. This practical book takes you straight to the heart of these threats. Author Steve Wilson, chief product officer at Exabeam, focuses exclusively on LLMs, eschewing generalized AI security to delve into the unique characteristics and vulnerabilities inherent in these models. Complete with collective wisdom gained from the creation of the OWASP Top 10 for LLMs list--a feat accomplished by more than 400 industry experts--this guide delivers real-world guidance and practical strategies to help developers and security teams grapple with the realities of LLM applications. Whether you're architecting a new application or adding AI features to an existing one, this book is your go-to resource for mastering the security landscape of the next frontier in AI. You'll learn: Why LLMs present unique security challenges How to navigate the many risk conditions associated with using LLM technology The threat landscape pertaining to LLMs and the critical trust boundaries that must be maintained How to identify the top risks and vulnerabilities associated with LLMs Methods for deploying defenses to protect against attacks on top vulnerabilities Ways to actively manage critical trust boundaries on your systems to ensure secure execution and risk minimization

Step into the enchanting world of 'Leroy Brown, Dog Attorney at Law: The Rise of Leroy, ' a delightful children's book that's as heartwarming as it is educational. Join Leroy, the lovable Boxer dog with a keen sense of justice, as he takes on the role of a defender in the charming town of Dogville.In this engaging story, young readers are introduced to Leroy's loyal and compassionate character, which sets the stage for a tale of friendship, understanding, and the power of empathy. When his friend Rufus the Dachshund is accused of a misdeed, Leroy steps up to help, teaching kids about standing by their friends in times of trouble.As Leroy tackles cases, he shows that conflicts can be resolved through communication and understanding, rather than confrontation. Children learn valuable lessons about forgiveness, empathy, and the importance of helping those in need.The story's charming characters and vivid descriptions create an immersive reading experience, making 'Leroy Brown, Dog Attorney at Law' a perfect addition to any child's bookshelf. With a heartwarming narrative and delightful illustrations, it's a book that not only entertains but also imparts essential life lessons. Purchase your copy today at our bookstore and let Leroy's adventures inspire young minds while fostering a love for reading.

As a Christian, how deeply have you studied your lifestyle? Have you ever questioned the impact you have on those with whom you are acquainted? Have you ever wondered if there are areas of your life from which you have excluded God? So many of us believe we live a Christlike lifestyle, yet we've never truly examined our lives in detail to see if that assessment is valid. Are there behaviors we exhibit that, while not particularly being evil or sinful, do not portray Christ? Paul, in 1st Corinthians, exposes those easily ignored areas of our lives and shares the behaviors that should exist, as well as the impact they have upon those around us. Yes, people do notice the details! In this book you will see that Christ wants to guide us 24/7. Discover some areas we may not have considered and maybe some we havechosen to exclude from our self-assessment.

Packed with sumptuous photography, this is one of the first titles in the new and lavish 'Deluxe' natural history series from Reed New Holland. The images celebrate the beauty and marvellous design of some of our most misunderstood animals, the reptiles. They share a magnificence and elegance that we are now beginning to really appreciate. They are, in the true sense of the word, awesome! The images have stories to tell. A gecko with padded toes dashes across vertical glass, seeming to mock the laws of gravity as it moves effortlessly over that smooth surface. In just a fraction of a second a chameleon unleashes its tongue, a high- velocity projectile, with the accuracy of a marksman to snatch an insect from a twig a body's length away. In a powerful test of strength and endurance, two great Komodo Dragons, the largest living lizards, rise on their hind limbs and try to topple each other in a meeting of muscles and scaly hides. Stunning shots of snakes, lizards, crocodiles and turtles from around the world are brought together via a foreword from expert herpetologist Steve Wilson, who explains why reptiles are such an ongoing success story, having been around for 200 million years and with 12,000 extant species adapted to habitats as varied as arctic tundra, deserts, rainforests and open oceans. All in all 'Reptiles' is a glorious memento of a fascinating subject, brought together in a luxurious book that celebrates the many astonishing reptile species from all around the planet, making it ideal for nature lovers, as a gift, or as an interior design feature in any home.

This book is a celebration of lizard-hood. It salutes a diversity of form and function unparalleled among terrestrial vertebrates, from apex predators capable of swallowing goats to limbless subterranean insectivores. In equal measure they thrive in a tropical paradise, a waterless terrain so bleak one wonders how anything survives, and the human domain, including domestic gardens and the ruins of past civilizations The book ventures into how lizards exploit those disparate places, and author and photographer Steve Wilson's attempts to document them around the world. This book is born from journeys of discovery by the author. Quests for lizards and other reptiles have taken him to some of the world's extraordinary biodiversity hot-spots in Borneo, Madagascar, Costa Rica and the Galapagos Islands. He has also crisscrossed his native Australia many times, searching for lizards in deserts, rainforests and even peoples' back yards. From mighty Komodo Dragons in Indonesia to tiny anoles in the Americas, every lizard has a tale to tell, making this a must-read title for anyone who is passionate about reptiles or about wildlife in general.

The second book in the series of books about Brett Clifton, Private Detective. In this book, Brett Clifton helps the police solve a series of art thefts in London where the thieves leave clues as to what the next theft will be. The police are baffled and call on the help of the eminent detective.

Children all over the world have asked "Why does the sun come up?" or "What makes the thunder crash?" A Kenyan folktale answers "Why does the Ostrich Has a Long Neck?" Folktale specialist Laura Wilson weaves a new version of this fable with a feminist spin. Ostrich meets a variety of African animals in his search for a wayward wife. In brilliant colors, the animals' story will delight ages five to adults.

Beautiful, alluring, and deadly, no man can resist her charms.No soul can escape her grasp. No grave can contain her infernal hunger... Of Flesh & Blood is a tale of Gothic Horror that will chill readers to their very bones. This is the untold story of Nosferata, The Bride of The Damned.

Long Range is back! A special edition launched by Dr. Cicero Books, this reissue of the classic motorbike novel offers the full, unabridged book, in addition to an exclusive 2013 interview with the author. America as we know it is no more. In the west, a state called the Fief must depend on Hell's Angels, men ruled only by their own violent code of brotherhood, to protect them both from the Gypsies constantly threatening their borders, and from the East, a state that has failed to learn from the nuclear devastation and pursues an aggressiveness reminiscent of the days before the blast. When a scientist whose work promises the reclaiming of the vast Dead Lands decides he must take his discoveries out of the pugilistic East, the Fief sends three Angels to help him escape. Aboard their powerful hogs-motorcycles-the rescue party crosses the desolate plains to the Eastern fortress where he is held. Long Range, an Angel too young to know fear, leads them, which is good, because the world's meanest Gypsy, Bad Hand, who has sworn he'll wipe them out, is right on their tail. Bad Hand was once an Angel himself, but his brothers left him for dead, and now his madness and rage make him indestructible....

POLAND'S PAST AND PRESENT COLLIDE IN AN EPIC QUEST FOR PEACE AND TREASURE! In Central Europe, Poland has rejected plans for an anti-missile shield-until a threat from beyond their borders causes disaster. During testing, an Iranian ICBM veers off course with tragic results, and the Polish government turns to NATO-and the United States-for protection. With the defensive shield now back on the table, National Security Advisor Willis Avery envisions an even broader network of emplacements. His strategy depends on the cooperation of the breakaway states-and the help of Captain Michael Neill. Tasked as a liaison, it's Neill's job to convince the republics. He enlists the aid of an old friend, General Andrei Ulyanov-and, if he can keep her alive, dynamic and beautiful journalist Viktoriya Gavrilenko. The stage is set for increased tension when the Russians threaten an arms race. Avery is targeted, and along the way, Neill becomes caught up in the search for a lost religious icon, foretold by legend to restore the faith of a disheartened people . . .

When Marine Lieutenant Michael Neill is ordered to the former Soviet Union, his assignment is to verify nuclear disarmament. But before his mission begins, an American reconnaissance plane is attacked by a Russian fighter, and a Navy pilot is killed. After the incident, Neill's mission changes. Willis Avery, the President's National Security Advisor, wants Lieutenant Neill to investigate Russian stealth technology, in addition to his original assignment. Photographic evidence-and the lack of radar images of the attacking aircraft-lead the American intelligence community to conclude that something new has been developed in the skies over Russia. Avery believes that Neill's friendship with a high-ranking officer in the Ukrainian Air Force is the key to establishing Red Sky at Morning-the existence of new aviation technology that could upset the balance of power between East and West. However, ultra-nationalist forces are at work. After arriving in Eastern Europe, Neill quickly uncovers a conspiracy of terrorism secretly instigated by the Kremlin. Government leaders in Moscow will stop at nothing to rebuild the Soviet Union as they try to force the breakaway republics back into the fold. Neill discovers that the terrorism has extended to the weapons facility he is charged with inspecting. Communist agents have gone far beyond their original orders, and it's a race against time as the Marine-with the help of a beautiful Ukrainian journalist-tries to stop them-and come up with a plan to bring down the corrupt govenment officials in Moscow.

Somalia has split in two, with armed insurgents threatening American lives. China has emerged as a leading arms exporter, supplying weapons to Third World nations. But before National Security Advisor Willis Avery can deal with either danger, he faces a new challenge On her maiden voyage, Beijing's newest and most advanced nuclear submarine is destroyed by a weapon of unimaginable power. While the loss of the sub is kept secret, America and her allies want to know what happened. Avery believes a renegade faction of China's Navy is behind the attack, striking from a secret naval facility in the South China Sea, and assembles a group to investigate. Leading the mission is Marine Corps Lieutenant Michael Neill. Fresh from his assignment in the Ukraine, Neill and his team, with a little help from British Intelligence and the Royal Navy, must find a way to locate the weapon before it is deployed again. Along the way, they must stop a Chinese Admiral who plans on seizing control of an independent Taiwan. Neill's squad is aided by a mysterious informant, but is he baiting them into a trap?

Questions lie at the heart of Steve Wilson's latest collection, Complicity. In poems that wander confidently across a wide range of subjects, places and voices, Wilson works at making sense through musicality, within the movement of lines, upon the interplay of empty space and evocative images, against the pressures of isolation. The effect of Complicity is that we are watching a world being made.

Newborn babies are smuggled to safety from an oppressive regime, as an ancient prophecy foretells that only when their magic is combined on their sixteenth nameday will the evil be overcome. Unitl then, they have to be kept safe from both the regime's killer squads and the harsh realities of the everyday battle to stay alive.In the novella Ei8ht, the Eight Temptations of Man are explored.The collection also includes almost fifty short stories or poems.

T.J. Goes FishingBy: Steve WilsonAbout the AuthorAuthor Steve Wilson was raised on a creek farm in South Central Kentucky. Steve has always been an avid outdoorsman, from hunting and fishing to scouting and hiking. His passion for fishing began at an early age, fishing with a cane pole in the creek and farm ponds for sunfish, bluegill, bass, catfish, and redeyes. As a Boy Scout Leader for over thirteen years, he saw firsthand how being in the outdoors and fishing can impact young lives. Steve is married and has seven children; him and his wife and three of the children reside on a small farm in south central Kentucky and spend their time outdoors and enjoying nature. He is a lifelong Baptist and worked as a special local peace officer, volunteer firefighter, and an emergency medical tech for thirty-three years. He has also been a singer and songwriter since he was a teenager; he has written many gospel and country songs and played in a local bluegrass band called Area Code 606.It is Wilson's hope that T.J. Goes Fishing will encourage children of all ages to put down their cell phones and video games and get out and enjoy the great outdoors and experience Mother Nature firsthand. It is his wish that this book will inspire children and parents alike to reconnect with nature and enjoy activities such as fishing and to be able to put aside the cares of everyday life and soak up all the goodness that family, friends, and the great outdoors has to offer, if only for a little while.

You are trapped in a twisted labyrinth with many blind curves, dead ends, and crazy turns. You wish you had a compass to guide you or someone yelling from above, giving you guidance! In the same way, your personal finances can be a complete maze. If you liken the compass to a personal financial plan, would not your life be much simpler?Individuals and their families normally have goals that require money to achieve. It may be routine things, like planning to set aside money for university education for their children or having a solid retirement plan where they will get a set income each month to cover expenses.The financial stress that will come about due to any of the above circumstances happening (these are just a few listed out) can be avoided by having a sound and solid financial plan. A comprehensive plan to budget and save and not get fazed by an emergency can help with focus on allocation of resources to achieve goals in a systematic way. Individual and family goals have to be established and agreed on first. Then they have to be prioritized in a logical way. Once this is done, you can work on a plan on how to achieve those goals in the order you have listed them down.Having a financial goal or dream is often the cause of conflict and stress. Some individuals have very limited income and, hence, are often not able to achieve their goals. What is allocated to daily consumption will obviously not be available for any future use. If you decide to go on a vacation that is not planned, it may have an effect on your retirement fund. Some goals are complementary to each other and are also interdependent.Why is it important to have a personal budget? If you want to live a life without stress and achieve your goals and make your dreams come true, you have to learn to save and cut out on the unnecessary.

Hedgehugs from author Steve Wilson and illustrator Lucy Tapper tells the sweet story of two hedgehog friends and their attempts to hug in spite of their spiky spines. Horace and Hattie are hedgehogs, and the very best of friends. Together, they make daisy chains, splash in puddles, and have tea parties. But there is one thing they can't do-hug! They are just too spiky. Throughout the seasons, these two hedgehogs will try many different ways of hugging. But will Horace and Hattie find a hug that feels just right?

In the tradition of Buzz Bissinger's Friday Night Lights, a sensitive and clear-eyed journalist takes us deep inside Oregon's only all-Hispanic boys' high school soccer team, a team whose players stand on the cusp of change. The all-Hispanic boys' soccer team from Woodburn High has made the playoffs for nineteen straight years--but they've never won a championship. As they prepare to make it twenty, one thing will become clear: "Los Perros" play the beautiful game with heart, pride, and their lives on the line. More than just riveting sports writing, "The Boys from Little Mexico" is about the fight for the future of the next generation--and a hard, true look at boys dismissed as gang-bangers, told to "go home" by lily-white sideline crowds. The wins and losses they notch along the way spin a striking tale about what it takes to capture the American Dream.

"Son, there's more treasure buried right here In Oklahoma than in the rest of the whole Southwest." Those words from an old-timer launched Steve Wilson on a year long quest for the stones of Oklahoma's treasures. This book is the result.

Ten-year-old Sadie Meadows is reading in bed on New Year's Eve when she notices an unopened present beneath her window. She finds it contains a book called The World from Your Bedroom - There and Back Again, but when she opens it up and begins to read, she is disappointed to see it is nothing more than a travel book packed with pages detailing hundreds of places across the world. She reads the first page, then puts the book down just as sleep claims her at the instant that the New Year arrives. She awakes to find that, instead of being in her bedroom at home in Skipton, somehow she has been transported to Ireland, the location that she had just read about in the book. There follow a series of adventures, each set in a different location, as Sadie finds herself travelling across the globe as she attempts to get back home again. This month sees her journeying across China and the Far East into the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East.

Ten-year-old Sadie Meadows is reading in bed on New Year's Eve when she notices an unopened present beneath her window. She finds it contains a book called The World from Your Bedroom - There and Back Again, but when she opens it up and begins to read, she is disappointed to see it is nothing more than a travel book packed with pages detailing hundreds of places across the world. She reads the first page, then puts the book down just as sleep claims her at the instant that the New Year arrives. She awakes to find that, instead of being in her bedroom at home in Skipton, somehow she has been transported to Ireland, the location that she had just read about in the book. There follow a series of adventures, each set in a different location, as Sadie finds herself travelling across the globe as she attempts to get back home again. This month sees her continuing her journeys across the continent of Africa.

Almost eight months after her adventures around the world had concluded, twelve-year-old Sadie Meadows has been celebrating her birthday at home when 'The Book' pays her another unwelcome visit. This time, it tells her that she will be taken to the various planets of the Solar System, one a year at the end of this and her next seven birthdays. When she awakes, she finds herself on the surface of the planet Mercury, where she is given a task to complete before she will be allowed to go home. Will she be able to fulfil her requirements, year-by-year, until she can finally go back for good?

Ten-year-old Sadie Meadows is reading in bed on New Year's Eve when she notices an unopened present beneath her window. She finds it contains a book called The World from Your Bedroom - There and Back Again, but when she opens it up and begins to read, she is disappointed to see it is nothing more than a travel book packed with pages detailing hundreds of places across the world. She reads the first page, then puts the book down just as sleep claims her at the instant that the New Year arrives. She awakes to find that, instead of being in her bedroom at home in Skipton, somehow she has been transported to Ireland, the location that she had just read about in the book. There follow a series of adventures, each set in a different location, as Sadie finds herself travelling across the globe as she attempts to get back home again. This month sees her completing her travels across Europe and returning to the United Kingdom. But will she be allowed to go home?