Follow one woman’s journey as she embarks on a new career in four-dimensional espionage and national security with the intriguing, yet lethal, Agency of Adjustments.“An intriguing mix between reality and sci-fi,”Amazon readerKalila Grey is a new recruit in an unknown British security organisation and is about to find out if she has the nerve to survive in a government role that few people even know exists.A former s...

The letters from John written to churches at the end of the first century CE possess meaningful theological insight for Christians today—in a sense, they were written for us.Working from this standpoint, Thomas Andrew Bennett keeps historical speculation to a minimum and delves into the theological depths of 1–3 John in this commentary. He begins by providing a new translation of the text from the Greek, along with verse-by-verse exegesis, and then moves into an extended r...

Acclaimed author Andrew Thomas has chosen fifty fascinating cameos of individual actions or incidents across a wide variety of major and minor campaigns and scenarios ranging from the First World War to the present day. Each selection is accompanied by relevant, often rare, photographs. So, from the Battle of Mons in 1914 through shooting down a Zeppelin over Teeside, to WW2 Timor Ace 'Butch' Gordon in his Beaufighter in 1943 and a nightmare for Halifaxes over Nuremburg in 1944, to SAAF fi...

A short story about trail running on Christmas day that doesn't end the way it should.For those who love their reading a little bit darker, and a lot more grown up. This short story is a must for all those trail runners and ultramarathoners out there... winter runs will never be the same again!

In a world marked by the effects of colonial displacements, slavery's auction block, and the modern observatory stance, can Christian theology adequately imagine racial reconciliation? What factors have created our society's racialized optic--a view by which nonwhite bodies are objectified, marginalized, and destroyed--and how might such a gaze be resisted? Is there hope for a church and academy marked by difference rather than assimilation? This book pursues these questions by surveying t...

Liverpool - 1984Jack Mahon is out of luck and out of work. Unable to find a job and provide for his wife, Linda, every day is a battle for survival. When his drinking buddies decide to holiday in Rhyl, Jack is invited for a day. Will he be able to scrape together the money to go? Set in a city choked by economic turmoil, ran by a city council fighting a bitter ideological civil war, A Postcard from Rhyl asks what hope is there for a man when there is no hope of work.

The music business doesn't come with a manual, so Andrew Blaze Thomas wrote one! With over 20 years of experience as a professional drummer, Blaze has established rules for working musicians that illustrates how to acquire and maintain consistent work. You Got The Gig, Here's How To Keep It, explains how to negotiate salary, network with musicians, prepare for tours and much more. Blaze includes stories from the road that will entertain Blues fans as well. Andrew Blaze Thomas has toured wi...

Stop forever – regret nothing!Can you afford to ignore your health and happiness any longer? No gimmicks, no hypnotherapy and no nicotine replacement fads - just a realistic approach to freeing yourself from nicotine addiction forever.Using a mixture of harsh reality, self-discipline and inspiration, author Andrew Thomas describes how he went 'cold turkey' on cigarettes. He describes the mental strategies he used to make his final attempt at quitting smokin...

Bacteria are the most ubiquitous life-forms on Earth, and are studied extensively to gain insight into their function and understand how they interact with their environment. In recent years, bacterial biophysics has added a new dimension to this research by using the tools of physics to investigate the quantitative principles that underpin these cellular systems. This book provides a modern and cohesive introduction to bacterial biophysics, with a focus on biofilms, slimes and capsules. I...

Truman called it a police action. The phrase infuriated every soldier who fought it — and the 36,500 Americans who didn't come home. The Korean War was America's first limited conflict of the nuclear age, fought not for unconditional surrender but to restore a line on a map that two Army colonels had drawn in thirty minutes using a National Geographic atlas. Thomas Andrew Buckley traces the full arc across twenty-four chapters: Task Force Smith's disaster at Osan, where 540 men watched art...

This volume provides an in-depth, qualitative analysis of volunteers and volunteerism in the U.S. National Parks Service (NPS). Over the course of the 50+-year history of the Volunteers-in-Parks (VIP) program, there has been no systematic research undertaken about the history or impact of volunteers serving in parks. This book corrects this deficiency, filling a large gap in the scholarly literature and advancing theory on volunteerism within a critical space in the nation’s environmental,...

Synopsis: Pussley and her new band, along with their manager, Maxipuss Maxwell, enjoy the trappings of rock stardom. While creating new friendships, learning the ins and outs of the business, dealing with the occasional drama, and in this not-so-purrfect cat world, still manage to find real love along the way.Autobiography: Thomas Andrew grew up in New Jersey. Always enjoying the adventures that the shore could provide. Now living in Virginia, his passions are for...