News and News Sources offers a fresh introduction to the sociology of news.It is often suggested that the powerful dominate news agendas. Increasingly however, less powerful groups are employing sophisticated media strategies and new communication technologies to get their message across. The implications of this development are unclear. Do these developments herald a `democratisation′ of news arenas, or will they enable the powerful further strengthen their contro...

Field Guide: Fraud breaks down how fraud actually works in the real world—beyond definitions and theory. Drawing on operational experience, this guide examines fraud as a structured, repeatable system rather than a one-off act of deception.It covers the core mechanics behind common fraud types, including romance fraud, investment scams, identity theft, contractor fraud, and business email compromise, showing how they follow consistent patterns of behaviour, communi...

There was another scream and another and then a terrible cry went up all along the ghats ... panic spread along the riverbank as people rushed to get out of the water.A lethal chemical spill kills thousands of pilgrims worshipping at a sacred Indian river.George Sansi is enticed by a dangerously seductive Government Minister to investigate the atrocity.An unscrupulous industrial tycoon will stop at nothing to cover his tracks ...The enigmati...

The Falklands gave him a taste for killing. Northern Ireland gave him a reason to turn traitor. The IRA gave him the chance to kill again.The Traitor's Contract offers non-stop action when Jack Halloran, a brilliant war hero, turns traitor. After a brutal attack on his counter-intelligence organization, Halloran knows he's being hunted. It's fight or flight and Halloran never runs. Teaming up with a rogue IRA boss, he enacts a terrorist attack that will sh...

Koh Samui is a tropical island in Thailand that offers visitors a wide variety of things to do, from lazing about on the beach and going for seims to discovering old temples and hiking through the forest. The island offers a wide variety of lodging options, including five star resorts, intimate boutiques, hotels and more affordable motels and guesthouses.

The city of Shanghai is home to several museums, skyscrapers and other well known attractions including some of the world's highest buildings. Either the Bund, which is a waterfront region adorned with colonial style buildings or the city's various retail malls and the marketplaces are options for the tourist to check out during their time in Shanghai.It is the city with the most residents anywhere in the world and is consistently ranked among the most visited places in the country...

Since the Reckoning, Charlie wanted nothing to do with his fellow man. 95% of the population had died. The survivors, sank into a life of depravity and debauchery, far removed from Civilization. They spread misery everywhere! Women and children sold on a slavers block to the highest bidder, or the sickest pervert. It was a way of life Charlie abhorred, preferring to live a lonely existence in a valley on the Welsh border, a valley he called Solace. That was until he saw Ann.He loved...

Mentra SynopsisReturning home after six years of fighting a senseless war, that had so far killed six million marines on a planet light year from home. Ivan, one of only a few who holds the Terran Cross for bravery, is recovering from his wounds, looking forward to seeing his parents and sister again. Little does he know; his father is dead. Murdered in the street, his mother grief stricken, starved to death, leaving only his sister. She lives in fear and poverty, scratching in the...

He wakes, cold and wet in the pouring rain; his only shelter the trees that surround him. Naked and without his memory, remembering nothing since 1974 when he was eight years old. A fateful day, his last recollection was being run over by a car on his way to school. Finding shelter in an unoccupied bungalow, he warms himself. Quickly, falling asleep from fatigue. Without warning, he wakes, joined by a woman, just like him, cold, wet, naked and frightened, without a memory of who she is. He...

What happens when a group of people see things that others do not and begin acting accordingly? The Augmented Reality of Pokémon GO: Chronotopes, Moral Panic, and Other Complexities explores this question by examining what happened after Pokémon GO, a smartphone augmented reality game, was released in July, 2016. The game overlaid the world of Pokémon onto the “real” physical world, drawing 30 million players in the first two weeks. Pokémon GO has created new ways of sensing the environmen...

As it had been foretold, the armies of the Universe gathered at Trenzalore. Only one thing stood between the planet and destruction – the Doctor. For nine hundred years, he defended the planet, and the tiny town of Christmas, against the forces that would destroy it.He never knew how long he could keep the peace. He never knew what creatures would emerge from the snowy night to threaten him next. He knew only that at the end he would die on Trenzalore.Some of what happened ...

Buddhists, Hindus, and Sikhs in America explores the challenges that Asian immigrants face when their religion--and consequently culture--is "remade in the U.S.A." Peppered with stories of individual people and how they actually live their religion, this informative book gives an overview of each religion's beliefs, a short history of immigration--and discrimination--for each group, and how immigrants have adapted their religious beliefs since they arrived. Along the way, the roles of men ...