A fascinating collection of letters and teachings from Robert Cochrane, one of the most influential and enigmatic figures of the Traditional Craft movement. Through personal correspondence, reflections, and practical insights, Cochrane reveals his vision of the Old Craft, its folklore, spirituality, and magical philosophy.This volume offers a rare glimpse into a living tradition that existed beyond modern Wicca, preserving the wisdom of hereditary and traditional practitioners. Ess...

Most AI "how-to" books stop at: call the API, get a response. Cool demo… until you try to ship it.The real challenge begins after the first successful chatbot reply:How do you give an AI a consistent voice and identity across weeks of use?How do you let it use tools (files, web, email, calendar, databases) without turning your system into a security incident?How do you run multiple specialized agents side-by-side—each with different strengths—witho...

A sought-after interior designer shares his principles for transforming four walls, a floor, and a ceiling into stunning poetry in space.Jim Howard creates luxe yet comfortable homes for sophisticated clients around the country. His design work is known for the sort of evocative atmosphere that characterizes the world's great spaces. "Atmosphere" is the magic of a place, the embodiment of all its power to capture your attention and embrace you—some might call it the...

"A sweeping riveting history that manages to capture the essence of the conflict, as well as the contributions of particular schools and individuals." — HMC Insight MagazineIn this pioneering and original book, Anthony Seldon and David Walsh study the impact that the public schools had on the conduct of the Great War, and vice versa. Drawing on fresh evidence from 200 leading public schools and other archives, they challenge the conventional wisdom...

The Conservative Party is Britain's most successful political party. For large parts of modern British history it has been the dominant party, though it has always suffered from internal division and periods of defeat. This colourful account of the Party's history since the late 18th century takes the reader on a voyage of discovery.

By the time the First World War ended in 1918, eight million people had died in what had been perhaps the most apocalyptic episode the world had known. This Very Short Introduction provides a concise and insightful history of the 'Great War', focusing on why it happened, how it was fought, and why it had the consequences it did.It examines the state of Europe in 1914 and the outbreak of war; the onset of attrition and crisis; the role of the US; the collapse of Russia; and the weakening an...

This is my story about being alienated as a parent and becoming a targeted individual. They may go hand in hand and maybe they both happen for the same reason or because of the same person. one of these Mysteries that I may never you're out. I don't think anyone can understand what it's like to be an alienated parent unless they're one of us. I don't care how much empathy you have or what degree in Psychology you have, you don't have a clue. of how evil selfish they are. I have so much rag...

Plan, build, and maintain highly secure Azure applications and workloadsAs business-critical applications and workloads move to the Microsoft Azure cloud, they must stand up against dangerous new threats. That means you must build robust security into your designs, use proven best practices across the entire development lifecycle, and combine multiple Azure services to optimize security. Now, a team of leading Azure security experts shows how to do just that. Drawi...

In 1870 the German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck ordered the Prussian Army to invade France, inciting one of the most dramatic conflicts in European history. It transformed not only the states-system of the European continent but the whole climate of European moral and political thought. The overwhelming triumph of German military might, evoking general admiration and imitation, introduced an era of power politics, which was to reach its disastrous climax in 1914.Michael Howard's

"Through the introduction by Michael Howard and Steiner's ten lectures, this volume offers an account of the sources and purposes of art, as well as a particularly helpful approach to art as a spiritual practice. So, far from being dated, Steiner's account of art and its relation to spiritual experience is at least contemporary and probably ahead of its time. As this book ably shows, Steiner's insights concerning art, particularly when approached and practiced as a spiritual a...

“Never Answer to a Whistle “It was meant to be a simple task of repossessing an executive jet from Nigeria...Mike became embroiled in a mess created by an English aristocrat involved in illegal currency dealing.At the same time, Mossad agents were plotting the kidnapping of a Nigerian diplomat in Kensington.To escape certain death from two groups of very angry Nigerians, Mike took off from Lagos International Airport, without permission, only to have the Nigeria...

Many Western countries have seen an increase in the volume and importance of external consultants in the public policy process. This book is the first to investigate this phenomenon in a comparative and interdisciplinary way. The analysis shows who these consultants are, how widely and for what reasons they are used in Britain, the United States, Canada, Australia, The Netherlands and Sweden. In doing so, the book addresses the positive and negative implications of high levels of external ...