Understanding dogs, what they are, and why they do the things they do, gives an insight into what makes them tick. Understanding how they are affected by the things we do enables us to train, and live with, our pets more effectively. These are the "Dog Secrets" that your dog wishes you knew. There is no mystical "secret" to training dogs, as professed by some dog trainers. Dog training and owning can be perfected through simple yet effective methods that are well known to science. Illustra...

British author and essayist George Orwell shot to fame with two iconic novels: the anti-Stalinist satire Animal Farm and the dystopian masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-Four.A few years after his death in 1950, the CIA bankrolled screen adaptations of both novels as Cold War propaganda. Orwell's depiction of a totalitarian police state captivated the media in the 1980s. Today, mounting anxieties about digital surveillance and globalization have made him a hot property i...

Dominance used to be a diagnosis for all manner of badly behaved dogs, but what really is a Dominant Dog? David looks at the myths that surround Dominance and how modern trainers handle dogs that might previously have been labelled Dominant. If you want to know what Dominance really means, why enlightened trainers and behaviourists have discarded it as a diagnosis, and what has replaced it, or if you are struggling to deal with a dog you have been told is Dominant, this is the book for you...

It has been a long time in the making but now the illustrated poems of David Stuart Ryan are being made available, just as they were created on a year long overland journey to India and then return to London.The poems and original illustrations in vivid entrancing colours reveal the full magic and mystery of the East as you join the poet on his travels to Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Kashmir, Varanasi, Bihar, Mumbai and Goa in India.The 20 pictures in the book bring the 10...

The amazing story of the rise of John Lennon's group - The Beatles - to fame and fortune.David Stuart Ryan carried out a great deal of original research into the true background to John, speaking to many of the characters who helped formhis intense view of the world. This was backed up with full access to the files of Time magazine. The result is a comprehensive picture of a great artist living at a time of both tumult and awakening.The author spoke to many of the ke...

Author David Stuart Ryan first spent a year in India in 1968-9 and has made regular visits back there ever since.This is why he is able to give you an informative guide, illustrated with dozens of original color pictures, to the places that most tourists miss.By exploring further, off the beaten track of the sites the formal tours take you, you will be able to get a real grasp, insight and feel for what India is all about.In the Hindu holy city of Varanasi you can d...

Born Stanley Martin Lieber, Stan Lee is the creative mind behind the unparalleled success of Marvel Comics. His legendary collaborations with Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko was an explosion of creativity. From his desk sprang Spider-Man, the Hulk, the Avengers, Daredevil, the X-Men, Doctor Strange, and the team that started a revolution in redefined superhero comics, the Fantastic Four. Although his later years were fraught with ups and downs, Stan’s legacy is that he defined the everyman supe...

The contributors argue that rare earths are essential to the information technology revolution on which humans have come to depend for communication, commerce, and, increasingly, engage in conflict. They demonstrate that rare earths are a strategic commodity over which political actors will and do struggle for control.

Five years after The Dispatcher, the sound of gunfire shatters Ian Hunt’s peace—and drags him back into a nightmare.Since rescuing his abducted daughter, Maggie, Chief Ian Hunt has carved out a quiet life in Bulls Mouth, Texas. Maggie is healing. Ian is finally breathing again. And his bond with Sally De Santo—the town’s dangerously alluring gun shop owner—has grown into something worth holding on to.But all it takes is one phone call. One gunshot....

It wasn't every day you had the chance to track down the man who'd killed your mother.In 1964, Andrew Combs' mother is killed in front of him. His father Harry vanishes soon afterwards. Twenty-six years later Andrew wants revenge. There's only one way he can let go of his past and become the man he wants to be: track down and kill his mother's murderer*.* His father.But while Andrew thinks he knows what happened all those years ago, the truth is fa...

David Fincher’s Zodiac (2007), written by producer James Vanderbilt and adapted from the true crime works of Robert Graysmith, remains one of the most respected films of the early twenty-first century. As the second film featuring a serial killer (and the first based on fact) by Fincher, Zodiac remains a standout in a varied but stylistically unified career. While connected to this genre, the film also hybridizes the policier genre and the investigative reporter film. And yet, scholarship ...

Two girlsA whitewater rafting townAnd a serial killer who is just getting his feet wet...Emmy has always been impulsive. She is no longer a minor and has aged out of foster care. When her best friend, Amber, is the target of a perverted uncle who lives in the basement of her group home, they plan her escape.They head for Canada, where Amber will be safe, and the foster care system can no longer control their...