In a world where the next global war will be fought in silence and shadows, ODIN Spear Ruler follows the journey of a master hacker whose skills can topple governments and rewrite the rules of power. When a mysterious, adaptive cyber weapon—known as the "Dragon's Veil"—emerges, it threatens to destabilize everything from financial markets to military satellites.As the Phantom Hacker moves through Parisian cafés, the Shanghai Stock Exchange, and the digital corridor...

Some journeys begin with a destination. Others begin simply with the need to leave.In The Long Way Home: Poetry of Love, Loss, and Return, John David Smith traces the quiet distances between restlessness and belonging, freedom and responsibility, departure and return.Across five poetic movements, these poems follow a wanderer who believes distance will loosen what binds him, only to discover that some things travel with us: love, memory, absence, r...

There are many phenomena in the current world that defy explanation from mainstream science. This book introduces a revolutionary concept, Matrix Model Theory, which provides a simple, unique and original insight into the events that led to the formation of the cosmos and the establishment of the planet Earth with its life-sustaining environment. The theory further provides an alternative explanation as to how life originated, how mankind became established and describes the most amazing e...

Sending People To Heaven – The Undertaker pulls back the curtain on the extraordinary life of John, a licensed mortician working within the unseen world of caring for the dead… and the living. Go behind the scenes and experience the profoundly serious and, at times, amusing interactions John has with his staff as they unite in handling the preparation of the dead, and serving the grieving families left behind. John's journey reveals the touching and very delicate nature of his profession, ...

What impact did the printing press – a new means of communicating the written word – have on early modern English lawyers? This book examines the way in which law printing developed in the period from 1475 up until 1642 and the start of the English Civil War. It offers a new perspective on the purposes and structures of the regulation of the printing press and considers how and why lawyers used the new technology. It examines the way in which lawyers adapted to the use of printed works and...

Every secret eventually reaches the surface - no matter how old and no matter how deep it may be buried...DI Rosemary Leach had no idea of the nightmare that would unfold after the arrest of Colin Stevens. An arrest that would embroil her and her sergeant, Jenny Preston, of the dangerous world of the local traveller’s site. It was an arrest that would lead to one of the darkest secrets.Rose refuses to give up, even when the investigation is taken away from her, especially w...

What happens to you when you die?Damien, a young teenager from Boston, is indecisive about his faith as a Christian. This unanswered question ponders him mentally which forces him to embark on a journey; however, he will have to go outside of the church to find the answers to his questions. While on this pilgrimage, he stumbles across some interesting who will all play a pivotal role in helping him find the answers he’s looking for.

Joe, a bright young American, fails to confront the reality of separation from his English scientist wife. His life's in a tailspin. When his wife unexpectedly returns center stage in his life, she is the pregnant concubine of a wealthy ex-terrorist, the target of assassins, and at the center of a spectacular demonstration of her consort's suspicious powers. Joe's struggle to unravel the mysteries surrounding his wife ensnares him in a world of suffering and violence as he becomes the unwi...

It has been said that the only asset that a lawyer has is time. But the reality is that a lawyer's greatest asset is information. The practice and the business of law is all about information exchange. The flow of information travels in a number of different directions during the life of a case. A client communicates certain facts to a lawyer. The lawyer assimilates those facts and seeks out specialised legal information which may be applicable to those facts. In the course of a generation...

At 7:15pm on Sunday August 29th 1819, the village of Ashow, Warwickshire was shook to its core by a young girl's scream at Dial House Farm. Thirteen-year-old Mary Dormer found her mother, Sarah Dormer's, slain body lying in Sarah's bedroom.Sarah's 21-year-old maidservant, Ms Ann Heytrey was charged, arrested, and imprisoned at the County Town Gaol at Warwick, where she would remain until the following year when she was tried at Warwick Assizes for Sarah's murder. After being found ...

"Our millennial children, as well as nonchurchgoing millennials, are both the church's greatest challenge and its most exciting new opportunity."—John Seel, PhDWarning: There is a fundamental frame of reference shift in American society happening right now among young adults. You may think of this group as millennials—those born between 1980 and 2000—but millennials resist this label for good reason: the national narrative on them is pejorat...

A Doctor’s Dilemma.Juggling a busy medical career and a carer to two elderly parents, his final year as a GP was never going to be easy. The NHS is on the brink of collapse as David Maddams tells his funny yet poignant story.