Alasdair: 165 books

This book, FinTech Rising aims to be an introduction to both Financial services generally and more specifically to Financial technology (FinTech). The book explores the financial Services environment, the booms and crashes, before FinTech's provenance and how it has come to prominence and why it is...

What is Digital Transformation, why is it so important and why do so many transformation projects fail? More importantly, what can we do to make our transformation initiative succeed? These are a few of the profound questions that we seek to answer in this book. The anomaly between the number...

From early times there has been the conundrum of what makes a great leader. For every so often great leaders with no extraordinary traits, and certainly not having high IQ would appear to debunk the common psychological theories of their day. Conversely, why do some people with high traditional intelligent...

Although this book is primarily concerned with the explanation and technical implementation of the Regulatory Technology Standard for Strong Customer Authentication under the PSD2 it does also contemplate that despite the PSD2 perhaps being commonly perceived to favour the nascent FinTech industry...

As an entrepreneur you need to be interested in crowdsourcing. It can make the difference between success and failure. Believe me it can reduce your operational costs and make your profit margin swell. By simply looking for affordable fresh talent and skills that may have been beyond you before …...

The Spaghetti Tree, charts how Britains gastronomic revival was largely shaped and coloured by the extraordinary influence of two Italian men. Mario Cassandro and Franco Lagattolla opened their famed La Trattoria Terrazza in Londons Soho in 1959. It was to be the start of a restaurant revolution which...

This is Alasdair Barcroft’s third book on the subject of aloe vera and he believes the aloe vera topic will run and run as more and more people, both lay people and professional healthcare specialists and therapists alike, begin fully to understand the powerful healing and health-giving properties...

The European Union faces a crossroads in the twenty-first century. While there is evidence of declining enthusiasm for European integration, the EU plays an increasingly vital role in tackling problems that can no longer be dealt with at member state level. In recent years, the EU has developed a...

This book is designed to help those in a DevOp environment that are new to API, visualization of networking, storage and the control and management of such interfaces. After all technology has changed in so  much and in such a short time  it is no longer possible to write quick and easy scripts...

The first annual of literary speculative fiction magazine recompose. Collects issues #0-#3, featuring Alasdair Stuart, Nisi Shawl, Lucy A. Snyder, Ken Liu, Charlee Jacob, Seanan McGuire, Cat Rambo, Matt Betts, Jaymee Goh, Janice Leach, Sara Cleto, Brittany Warman, Kelly Stewart, Bruce Boston, Alessandro...

The fourth book in the series. An amazing tale of how Drac and Adrianna who are Vampire's along with their friend are on the run from being hunted! They must escape or face the hunters alone. The three come across an ancient map that is offered to them for special crystals by a powerful Witch! Will they survive and what will they find. Grab a copy and find out!

This is the "FIRST BOOK" in the "AMAZING BLUE WIZARDS JOURNEY TRILOGY SERIES!" A "MAGICAL ADVENTURE" that happens in New Zealand. Far up north a secret, "ANCIENT TEMPLE" hides a dark "MYSTERIOUS WIZARD" that has cast a dreadfully powerful spell to "DOOM" the forests and the creatures...

‘Too clever for its own good in parts, but otherwise a damned good read.’ Col. Sebastian Moran in the Simla Times ‘This anthology may be likened to a vast architectural folly imblending the idioms of the Greek, Gothic, Oriental, Baroque, Scottish Baronial and Bauhaus schools. Like one who, absently...

The first thing I remember is... falling. A young man arrives in a dying city with seashells in his pockets. He doesn't know who he is, or how he got here. He goes by the only name he can think of: Lanark. Lanark is a portrait of the outsider artist as a young man, an exploded life story like...