Bücher von Daniel Kraus

Jay Gardiner has given himself a fool's errand: to find the remains of his deceased father in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. He knows it's a long shot, but Jay feels it's the only way for him to lift the weight of guilt he has carried since his dad's death the previous year.The dive begins well enough, but the sudden appearance of a giant squid puts Jay in very real jeopardy, made infinitely worse by the arrival of a sperm whale looking to feed. Suddenly, Jay is caught in the squid's tentacles and drawn into the whale's mouth where he is pulled into the first of its four stomachs. He quickly realizes he has only one hour before his oxygen tanks run out - one hour to defeat his demons and escape the belly of a whale.

YEAR ZERO - der Anfang vom Ende der Menschheit Wo warst du, als die Zombieplage die Welt überrollte? In diesem actiongeladenen Prequel zur Hit-Serie enthüllt der gefeierte Horror-Autor Daniel Kraus (George Romero's The Living Dead, The Autumnal) vier Geschichten aus den ersten Tagen der Zombie-Apokalypse, als selbst die wildesten Gerüchte nicht mit dem kommenden Horror mithalten konnten.Ein gewiefter russischer Polizist patrouilliert in den Hinterhöfen des opportunistischen Schwarzmarkts, der als Reaktion auf die Krise entstanden ist... ein nordkoreanischer Soldat beobachtet seltsame Vorgänge in der DMZ... eine Krankenschwester in der Notaufnahme im ländlichen Süden kämpft darum, ihr Krankenhaus vor Bedrohungen von außen und innen zu schützen... eine transsexuelle Flugbegleiterin, die auf ihrer Reise rund um den Globus beunruhigende Hinweise beobachtet hat, behält den Passagier in Sitz 23C im Auge.

The Martian meets 127 Hours in this “smart, surreal, and powerfully humane” (Owen King, New York Times bestselling author) thriller about a scuba diver who’s been swallowed by an eighty-foot, sixty-ton sperm whale and has only one hour to escape before his oxygen runs out.

Master's Thesis from the year 2018 in the subject Business economics - Trade and Distribution, grade: 1,3, German Graduate School of Management and Law gGmbH, language: English, abstract: This thesis comparatively investigates factors for customers satisfaction in voice commerce and e-commerce to assess the emphasis customers place on factors in both channels. Voice commerce is a newly evolving electronic commerce channel where customers communicate with dedicated systems on smart speakers, mobile phones or other devices using their voice, in order to find and order products. This thesis identifies customer satisfaction predictors that potentially differ between both channels: convenience and transaction process efficiency are based on previous research on chatbot and digital assistant expectations. In the area of recommendations, recommendation personalization (the degree of personalization of product recommendations) is identified from previous research. The construct of recommendation complexity has been created, which is the degree of detail and amount of information recommendations are presented. Differences in this domain of computer-human-interaction are explained by media richness theory, an application of neuro-ergonomics. Data was collected through a survey conducted on the crowdsourcing platform Amazon MTurk. The sample consisted of 178 US consumers that had purchased goods using both e-commerce and voice commerce. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used as well as multiple regression analysis for statistical hypotheses testing. Two SEM models were created for each voice commerce and e-commerce and both models were compared to investigate comparative hypotheses.This research enables product managers to recognize which factors of customers satisfaction differ from those in e-commerce. While developing their voice commerce strategy and system design, managers should emphasize convenience factors such as ease of use and ease of understanding, as well as an efficient transaction process.