American Grammar for ESL Students is more than a textbook—it’s a guide to the "choices" that make your English sound natural and professional. Built from real student challenges, it moves beyond boring rules to focus on clear, powerful communication.What Makes It Different:Targeted Support: Specialized sections for Spanish, Slavic, and Asian language speakers to fix common interference errors.Practical Mastery: Focuses on the tricky stuff—modals, articles, and prepo...

In an era where public trust in police is fragile, Ethical Policing offers a powerful, insider perspective on how to restore integrity, accountability, and humanity to law enforcement. Written by a seasoned former undercover officer with decades of frontline experience across two continents, this book is a rare blend of practical guidance, lived insight, and unwavering moral clarity.Through real-world examples, candid reflections, and actionable strategies, Ethical Policing challen...

In a world of shadows and deception, Paul Manning walked the line between loyalty and survival, infiltrating both the Mafia and the Hells Angels simultaneously - a dangerous game few dare to play. But the real betrayal didn't come from the criminals he exposed. It came from within his own ranks.Uncover the gripping true story of an undercover officer who risked everything, only to face the ultimate test when corruption from inside the force threatened to destroy it all. This is mor...

This field guide provides a practical, operational overview of anti-money laundering (AML), based on real-world investigative experience rather than theoretical or compliance-driven frameworks.Money laundering is not a secondary offence. It is the mechanism that allows criminal activity to scale, sustain, and reinvest. From organized crime groups and outlaw motorcycle gangs to fraud networks and transnational operations, the movement of money underpins everything.This guide...

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...

In the remote highlands of the country of Georgia, a small group of mountaindwellers called the Khevsurs used to express sexuality and romance in ways that appear to be highly paradoxical. On the one hand, their practices were romantic, but could never lead to marriage. On the other hand, they were sexual, but didn't correspond to what North Americans, or most Georgians, would have called sex. These practices were well documented by early ethnographers before they disappeared completely by...

A concise field guide to outlaw motorcycle gangs (OMGs), based on real-world undercover and organized crime investigations.This guide breaks down how biker gangs operate—from structure and hierarchy to recruitment, criminal activity, and the role of violence in maintaining control. Nothing is off-limits, including firearms, explosives, drug trafficking, extortion, theft, and murder.Outlaw motorcycle gangs rely on intimidation, reputation, and opportunism to dominate territo...

Lives are at stake. Time is running out. And someone has betrayed them."You're looking at twenty days to put together a team and rehearse an operation to accomplish something no Western power has been able to do in eight years. No-one has ever rescued a hostage from Lebanon."The PLO is about to acquire nine reasons why the US will be powerless to retaliate against its outrages in the future. Nine American hostages are for sale and Yasser Arafat wants to buy...

Where there's drugs, there's violence ...A sleepy community on the Indian coast, Goa is a paradise for the international hippie brigade, drawn by the golden beaches and endless supply of cheap dope.Goa is used to a certain manageable level of brutality, used to mellowing its impact in a haze of pot smoke. Lately, though, the ugliness has gotten worse. Professionals have moved in on the drug trade, and even the sweetest smoke can't cover the stink of corrupt...

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...

The Dominican Republic is home to a number of beaches that ran among the most stunning in the world. Visitors will be able to locate a wide selection of beautiful shorelines to explore all the way from the Caribbean sea to the Atlantic Ocean.There is something for everyone to do in the Dominican Republic, whether you're searching for a place to lick back and relax on the beach or for an exciting new experience.

A normal day, Charlie is out shopping, looking forward to a night out with his mates, and lunch with his girlfriend. What happened to him, he could never say; one minute he was happy and carefree, the next he took one small step into a nightmare. The nice buildings of his home town had gone, replaced by rot and decay. The place was lifeless, seconds ago people thronged the shopping area with a constant buzz of talking and traffic noise. Now nothing stirred, not a sound except for dripping ...