'Fifty years into my life journey I realise that, while I love remote wild places and the peoples I meet there, it is in forests that I find the greatest joy. Of all the forests that I have explored, it is the great circumpolar Boreal forest of the North that calls to me most. Here is a landscape where bush knowledge really counts and where experience counts even more ... This book has been thirty years in the making.'Out on the Land is an absorbing exploration of...

Not Fair offers a fresh perspective on the barriers to true equal opportunity in Canada. Challenging the conventional focus on labour market earnings, this book examines both sides of GDP – income from labour and income from capital – highlighting the critical role of inherited wealth in sustaining Canada’s financial aristocracy of great family fortunes. Through a compelling exploration of both upward and downward social mobility, the book reveals the hidden mechanisms that reinfo...

#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Detectives Joona Linna and Saga Bauer must confront a relentless killer who’s always one step ahead in this installment of the Killer Instinct series from the #1 international bestselling author of The Hypnotist.“Action-oriented, inventive, with over-the-top plots and larger-than-life heroes and criminals.” —Los Angeles Times MagazinePolice discover the lifeless body of a young woman on an abandoned yacht. The...

WITH A FOREWORD BY COACH BRUCE ARIANSThe extraordinary behind-the-scenes story of how Coach Bruce Arians, Tom Brady, and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers came together to deliver one of the most improbable Super Bowl victories in NFL history.The pursuit was so shrouded in secrecy that it was referred to within the Tampa Bay Buccaneers' organization by codename: Operation Shoeless Joe Jackson. Indeed, the prospect of Tom Brady, six-time ...

At the end of World War II, twenty-year-old Vera is brutally raped by an unknown assailant. From that rape is born a boy named Fred, a misfit who later becomes a talented boxer. Vera’s young son, Barnum, forms a special but bizarre relationship with his half brother, fraught with rivalry and dependence as well as love. “I should have been your father,” Fred tells Barnum, “instead of the fool who says he is.”It is Barnum, who is now a screenwriter with a fondness for lies and alcoho...

A genius scientist has been kidnapped, and Mortensen is given a special assignment: deliver the ransom to the Santa Fe Jail. But the kidnappers are time travelers, so nothing is as simple as it seems. Before Mortensen sets foot in Santa Fe, he is drugged by a mysterious woman. He awakens to find himself packed inside a cargo plane that is about to nose dive into the jungles of Tanzania. Can Mortensen survive long enough to track down a clue that will lead him to the missing scientist?

Avoid implementation failures and technical debt by mitigating anti-patterns in your Salesforce enterprise solutions using expert guidance and proven recommendations Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook PDFKey FeaturesBuild exemplary Salesforce architectures by studying anti-patterns that lead to failing systemsDemonstrate deep architectural principles that you can apply in your Salesforce projectsIdentify common problems ...

Georgia, 1779: Brotherhood Sometimes Appears in Unexpected Places...Enmeshed in a brutal siege at the walls around Savannah, James finds unexpected companions among the soldiers who were sent by the French to help the American cause. Friends become brothers, bound together by shared sacrifice and purpose — but will that be enough to carry the day?The Oath is the Georgia volume in the Tales From a Revolution series, in which each standalone novel explores how the American War...

Tracing the origins, evolution, and goals of Polish and Estonian émigré politics in Cold War Sweden and its linkages with both the host and homeland societies, this book investigates the transnational dimension of resistance and opposition to the communist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe. The analysis of the constantly shifting, at times conspiratorial, and even subversive networks that transcended the Iron Curtain draws a line from World War II to the collapse of the Soviet Union, f...

As technology continues to develop, certain innovations are beginning to cover a wide range of applications, specifically mobile robotic systems. The boundaries between the various automation methods and their implementations are not strictly defined, with overlaps occurring. Specificity is required regarding the research and development of android systems and how they pertain to modern science. Control and Signal Processing Applications for Mobile and Aerial Robotic Systems is a pivotal r...

Third Cinema, World Cinema and Marxism offers an analysis of Third Cinema and World Cinema from the perspective of Marxism. Its starting point is an observation that of all cinematic phenomena none is as intimately related to Marxism as Third Cinema, which decries neoliberalism, the capitalist system, and the Hollywood model of cinema as mere entertainment to make money. This is largely to do with the fact that both Marxism and Third Cinema are preoccupied with inequalities result...

Have you ever thought of risky sex in a public place? Wanted to ‘have’ someone right there and then?It’s Sunday. Dave and Sara are trying to enjoy just another workout, but Sara’s X-rated video to her lover put both of their heads in a spin… It’s left them far too excited and horny to focus on set after set in the gym!Is there anything they can do about it?Will they end up hot and sweaty from the gym or from each other?Join them in the latest fantasy from La...