I'm not your average hero. I actually wasn't your average anything. Just a poor guy working an after-school job at a South Beach shoe repair shop to help his mom make ends meet. But a little magic changed it all. It all started with a curse. And a frognapping. And one hot-looking princess, who asked me to lead a rescue mission. There wasn't a fairy godmother or any of that. And even though I fell in love along the way, what happened to me is unlike any fairy tale I've ever heard. Before I knew it, I was spying with a flock of enchanted swans, talking (yes, talking!) to a fox named Todd, and nearly trampled by giants in the Everglades. Don't believe me? I didn't believe it either. But you'll see. Because I knew it all was true, the second I got cloaked.

Eight witty stories that parody the Little Red Riding Hood tale

I'm not your average hero. I actually wasn't your average anything. Just a poor guy working an after-school job at a South Beach shoe repair shop to help his mom make ends meet. But a little magic changed it all. It all started with a curse. And a frognapping. And one hot-looking princess, who asked me to lead a rescue mission. There wasn't a fairy godmother or any of that. And even though I fell in love along the way, what happened to me is unlike any fairy tale I've ever heard. Before I knew it, I was spying with a flock of enchanted swans, talking (yes, talking!) to a fox named Todd, and nearly trampled by giants in the Everglades. Don't believe me? I didn't believe it either. But you'll see. Because I knew it all was true, the second I got cloaked.

From Mike Richardson, creator of The Mask, comes a superhero vision as dark as the night. Twenty-five years ago, a genuine masked crimefighter came out of nowhere to declare war on crime. All of America celebrated the exploits of the black-clad vigilante . . . and then he disappeared. But when down-on-his-luck investigator Jake Stevens is hired to find the long-missing avenger, his inquiries threaten to expose the myth behind the mask. Collects Cloaked #1–#4.

My name is Nadia Moran, and I am a thief and a wizard bound in service to the cruel Elven noble Morvilind. If I don't follow Morvilind's bidding, my brother will die. But there are more dangers in the world than Morvilind. When rebel Elves launch an assault upon the High Queen, I'm caught between the rebels and Morvilind's implacable demands. One false step and I'm dead...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applications, ADMA 2014, held in Guilin, China during December 2014. The 48 regular papers and 10 workshop papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 90 submissions. They deal with the following topics: data mining, social network and social media, recommend systems, database, dimensionality reduction, advance machine learning techniques, classification, big data and applications, clustering methods, machine learning, and data mining and database.

Water, Earth, Fire, and Air Alone give strength, together despair! A mysterious disease is affecting the mages in the Tower of Sorcery. Kazin, now an arch mage, is charged with discovering the source of the illness. He learns this same plague is sweeping down from the north, leaving people and livestock dead or dying. Try as they might, the clerics in the Tower of Hope are unable to heal the disease. Tracking the source of the plague into the mountains, Kazin encounters a new group of unlikely adventurers who assist him on his quest. The sudden inexplicable appearance of elementals in the mortal realm complicates matters, and threatens worldwide cataclysmic devastation should all four elementals be summoned simultaneously. This forces Kazin to confront many unknown dangers and challenges as he leads his group deeper into the mountains. Can Kazin and his companions prevent this worldwide devastation, and eliminate the source of the plague before its too late? Find out now in Cloak & Dagger, Book II of The Dragon Mage Trilogy! Check out www.dragonmagetrilogy.com

My name is Nadia, and I’m an errand girl. Except my boss is the High Queen of the Elves. And my errands for her involve spying on people. Or stealing things. Or hunting down monsters. Or, on occasion, killing people. But this time she wants me to solve a murder. And unless I find the killer, I’m going to be his next target…because dragons never forgive a murder.

What Is Cloaking Device A cloaking device is a hypothetical or fictional stealth technology that may make things, such as spacecraft or persons, partly or fully invisible to sections of the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum. This makes the cloaking device a potential candidate for application in real-world stealth technology. Over the course of many years, many different forms of media have exploited fictitious cloaking technologies as narrative elements. How You Will Benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Cloaking device Chapter 2: Invisibility Chapter 3: Metamaterial Chapter 4: John Pendry Chapter 5: Nanophotonics Chapter 6: Cloak of invisibility Chapter 7: Nader Engheta Chapter 8: Negative-index metamaterial Chapter 9: Terahertz metamaterial Chapter 10: David R. Smith (physicist) Chapter 11: Photonic metamaterial Chapter 12: Nonlinear metamaterial Chapter 13: Metamaterial cloaking Chapter 14: Metamaterial absorber Chapter 15: History of metamaterials Chapter 16: Theories of cloaking Chapter 17: Transformation optics Chapter 18: Plasmonic metamaterial Chapter 19: Andrea Al Chapter 20: Illusion optics Chapter 21: Electromagnetic metasurface (II) Answering the public top questions about cloaking device. (III) Real world examples for the usage of cloaking device in many fields. (IV) 17 appendices to explain, briefly, 266 emerging technologies in each industry to have 360-degree full understanding of cloaking device' technologies. Who This Book Is For Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of cloaking device.