Inconceivably, as a 20-year-old woman living at home with her parents and 2 sisters, Karla Homolka initiated a schoolgirl killing spree by drugging, raping and murdering her youngest sister as a Christmas gift for her then-fiancé Paul Bernardo.As newlyweds, the couple fashioned a picture-perfect life in a pink, Cape Cod-style bungalow on Lake Ontario, ten minutes from Niagara Falls, where they brought their kidnapped victims and, after raping and torturing them, killed them. Someho...

The use of first-hand service user accounts of mental illness is still limited in the professional literature available. This is, however, beginning to change, with a new ‘recovery’ focus in mental health services meaning that the voices of service users are finally being heard. Recovering from Psychosis: Empirical Evidence and Lived Experience synthesises a narrative approach alongside an evidence-based review of current treatment by including Stephen Williams’ own personal exper...

2021 marks the 40th anniversary of the Limehouse Declaration and the launch of the Social Democratic Party in the UK, which was later to merge and form the Liberal Democrats. To mark this important milestone, this book brings together prominent politicians from across the spectrum of social democracy to reflect on its history and the challenges it faces in the coming decades.With an introduction by Sir Vince Cable describing the current state of social democracy across the world, l...

Detective Mary Hume stares at the crime scene in confusion. She's in an empty flat. Peeling wallpaper. A bloodstained chair in the middle of the room. But no body.Her sergeant hands her a burner phone. On it is a video clip. It shows a woman. Tied to the chair in the flat, a carving knife pressed to her throat. Placed in the woman's lap is a piece of cardboard. Written on it in blood-red is one word: DEADTOWN.The phone was handed in to Charing Cross police station the day b...

Power is the point of envy of those who are weak, and the pride of those who are not. Although power can hold command over the lives of others, it can very much lead to the destruction of the one controlling it. Author Stephen R. Williams discusses the pitfalls of abused power without repentance and guidance in his latest book, Samson the Modern Day America.Almost everyone is familiar with the story of Samson, the only man to hold incredible strength in the Bible. He was b...

A bloodstained coat. Three missing women. One dead body.Detective Mary Hume reckons she's seen it all. But she's never seen anything like this.It begins with the discovery of a broken body in a lift shaft in an old Victorian warehouse.The postmortem reveals the bloodstains on the dead man's coat belong to three different people. DNA identifies one of them as Julie Cross, whose body was discovered six months earlier, covered in horrifying wounds....

This book establishes a foundation for complete mandolin musicianship, both in terms of music literacy as well as having the ability to jam with other musicians without reading music. The student logically begins by learning the “basic” fingering pattern used for the mandolin-friendly keys of A and D as shown in diagram form and standard notation.Tablature reading is lightly addressed, but not at the same time as note reading so the student avoids using tab as a crutch. A generous ...

AN ABSOLUTELY GRIPPING CRIME THRILLER WITH AN ASTONISHING TWIST.Can you crack the code?Detective Mary Hume is on the trail of a vicious serial killer. A killer who leaves a baffling code carved into the skin of his victims.The first victim, a young man, lies spreadeagled in his stylish Soho flat. Carved deep into his hairless chest—while he was still alive—are the numbers 1-4-3.The second victim is a vicar—murdered ...

This is the book we need for guidance on employment for people with Asperger's syndrome. The contributors describe their employment experiences and offer sound advice. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the success stories and took note of the words of warning of what not to do.'- Professor Tony AttwoodEmployment is an important part of a healthy, balanced and fulfilling life but less than 20 per cent of people with Asperger Syndrome (AS) are in work at any one time. The adults w...

Lessons in Politics and Ethics from the Public Hospital takes us behind the scenes of one of America's last major public hospitals - San Francisco General.Drawing on his unique position as both an anthropologist and a psychiatric nurse with 26 years of experience, Foster reveals the complex interplay between compassionate care and institutional constraints that defines modern public healthcare. Through vivid storytelling and keen analytical insight, this book illuminates h...

Most people are familiar with the story of Samson, the only man to hold incredible strength in the Bible. Born to dedicate a life of service to the Lord, he was ordained by God to be a Nazarite and destined to judge and rule the Philistines. Similar to Samson, America was born to serve God. When settlers arrived, there were rules and requirements to follow, which were God’s rules and laws. Prayer was openly practiced, and God’s commandments were observed and became a part of ordinary life....

Besides absolutists of the right (the tsar and his adherents) and left (Lenin and his fellow Bolsheviks), the Russian political landscape in 1917 featured moderates seeking liberal reform and a rapid evolution towards a constitutional monarchy. Vasily Maklakov, a lawyer, legislator and public intellectual, was among the most prominent of these, and the most articulate and sophisticated advocate of the rule of law, the linchpin of liberalism.This book tells the story of his efforts ...