An ex-cop with a past. A case police couldn't solve. One chance at redemption...Ex-New York detective Thomas Blume hunts the streets of London for the killers that tore his family apart. For justice, for closure, for revenge.But when Blume stumbles across a case that baffled local police, he unwittingly joins a world of criminals, corruption, and cops that will do anything to stop him.Now, in a country he doesn't understand and a city stack...

Education is broken and most graduates are broke.The purpose of this book is to start an important dialogue about college education. I will make the case for why I believe 70% of college students should drop out. The concept of giving our trust to the educational system without accountability has not worked. I believe it's time to ask serious questions:- Why do we go to college in the first place?- Who should go to college and who shouldn't?- Can I succeed a...

**"Kitty Thomas is a one-click author for me!" -Anna Zaires, NYT Bestselling author of Twist MeShe was a bored housewife until she was taken and trained for the pleasure of the highest bidder.**Vivian Delaney’s life seems privileged on the outside, but behind closed doors she’s trapped in a gilded cage. Her loveless marriage soon drives her into the arms of a charming and seductive Russian who says all the right things and knows exactly how to touch her.But Anton is...

In today's diet-crazed society, one main theme seems to emerge. Carbohydrate heavy foods like fruit are not good for you and if you eat them, you could get fat and even sick. This is a major principle of the low-carb movement.Is this assessment correct? What if that was all wrong? In the China Study, we will find out just how beneficial a plant-based diet is and why we don't need to fear carbs as much as we need to fear meat.The China Study by T. Colin Campbell and Thomas M...

Art collecting can be time-consuming, complicated and confusing for the beginner......but it doesn't have to be.In this clear and easy-to-follow guide, learn the necessary knowledge and skills to begin building your own art collection.Art is the purest form of hope, dreams, and sentiments. A single image can reveal long-held secrets, spark the imagination, offer a sense of belonging and home.Art conveys the words the artist often might not have been able to ...

Over 100 recipes to accelerate the process of learning game design with UDK.Key FeaturesAn intermediate, fast-paced UDK guide for game artistsThe quickest way to face the challenges of game design with UDKAll the necessary steps to get your artwork up and running in gamePart of Packt's Cookbook series: Each recipe is a carefully organized sequence of instructions to complete the task as efficiently as possibleBook Descrip...

After losing her mother to cancer, Meredith packed her most prized belongings and her necessities, loaded up her service dog Max, and took off on a cross-country trip.And ended up settling in a small town in Tennessee.Chase - the local sheriff - is head over heels for her the moment their eyes meet.But Meredith is guarded. After a tragic night changed her life forever, left her with almost crippling anxiety, she doesn't trust easily.Yet, she can't say no to ...

Want spiritual transformation, but turned off by dogmatic religion? Discover the original, mystical teachings of Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas, the most important book left out of the Bible.Are you looking for a life-giving spirituality, but feel disillusioned by organized religion? Does “the church” seem more like the problem than the solution? Are you attracted to Jesus, but not so much to the tradition built up around him?You’re not alone—the earliest an...

The New York Times–bestselling author of The Millionaire Next Door reveals the spending and saving habits of financially successful women.Millionaire Women Next Door presents a variety of groundbreaking concepts involving the personality, lifestyle, motives, beliefs, and spending habits of economically successful American businesswomen. Most of these women report being raised in nurturing family environments. They were trained not only to...

Whenever we envision a world without war, without prisons, without capitalism, we are producing speculative fiction. Organizers and activists envision, and try to create, such worlds all the time. Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown have brought twenty of them together in the first anthology of short stories to explore the connections between radical speculative fiction and movements for social change. The visionary tales of Octavia’s Brood span genres-sci-fi, fantasy, horro...

Companies that don't use AI will soon be obsolete.From making faster, better decisions to automating rote work to enabling robots to respond to emotions, AI and machine learning are already reshaping business and society. What should you and your company be doing today to ensure that you're poised for success and keeping up with your competitors in the age of AI?Artificial Intelligence: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review brings you ...

'People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockheads to kill and be killed - a knife - a purse - and a dark lane...'In this provocative and blackly funny essay, Thomas de Quincey considers murder in a purely aesthetic light and explains how practically every philosopher over the past two hundred years has been murdered - 'insomuch, that if a man calls himself a philosopher, and never had his life attempted, rest assured there is noth...