In a career lasting over 30 years, Stephen Thomas served in a number of the most sensitive areas of the fight against serious organised crime. his service in the variety of these positions is unrivalled. After joining the ID in 1990, in 1996 he became an investigation officer on a Drugs Team. And then in 1997, joined an elite Target Drugs Team, investigating the highest levels of organised crime.In 2001 the author moved to the Project Team, becoming an informant (CHIS) handler, run...

At twenty-two years of age, Del Booker finds himself on the brink of adulthood. But he's still dependent on his family. He never even got his college degree. Meanwhile his friends are all at Ivy League schools while he grapples with his decision to become an artist. Eventually his sense of guilt becomes too much and, more childishly than ever, decides to run away from home. The odyssey that follows is more than just a job-huntit is the reluctant embracing of responsibility that begins to d...

Beginning WPF 4.5 by Full Example VB.Net Description: This book will quickly show you (by full example) how to create fully functional WPF applications using VB.Net, XAML, and Visual Studio 2010 or 2012, SQL Server 2012, LINQ, Entity Framework, and the DataGrid. The examples in this book will include every single line of code that is required to execute. No assumptions will be made. There you will find all the Microsoft detailed references. Most real world .NET development projects do not ...

Though we are literally awake as we travel through life, we are often spiritually asleep. What can we do, then, to wake up our souls and have an insight into the unlimited power of the universal mind and manifest the spiritual lives we have always desired? In Empire of the Spirit, author Stephen Thomas Lee opens the doors of perception and shares a warm, intimate, and inspiring spiritual memoir of his own personal journey to find spiritual reawakening. His words are both intelligent and vi...

In the near future, the world stands on the brink of another worldwide economic and social crisis. People look for understanding through occult practices, so that mediums and fortunetellers have become wildly successful in helping them escape reality. There are no more churches, and established religion is a thing of the past. Christians must now gather in secret. In this fragile era emerges Josh Heartley, a young boy with astounding prophetic abilities. Though Josh had a heart transplant ...

This book explores Ghana’s newfound oil wealth and how the revenues it generates can be used to produce inclusive economic growth and development. Comparisons are made with neighboring countries, including Nigeria, Angola, and Equatorial Guinea, to highlight how petroleum resources can create jobs, increase research and development skills, and generate government revenue to invest in local services and infrastructure. The impact of global developments, such as the 2014-16 oil slump and inn...

Connect your talent with your life purpose and start creating the opportunities you deserve within your company; in your current position, but taking initiative... and taking control of your career in the process. How? By creating a value proposition within your field of expertise in order to achieve the fulfillment and recognition you deserve.This course will show you how to build a solid value proposition that will not only allow you to stand out, but also generate impact in your...

Operation Barbarossa, the attack on the Soviet Union, commenced on 22 June 1941.It became the biggest conflict in military history, with some three million German troops and about 900,000 allies facing almost 4.7 million Soviet troops. The effects would colour postwar European history for the next 50 years.This title examines the history of the conflict, and the organisation, uniforms and insignia of the German Army on the Eastern Front from 1941-43. The bo...

A comprehensive look at the long tradition of psychedelic magic and religion in Western Civilization• Explores the use of psychedelics and entheogens from Neolithic times through Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance to the Victorian era and beyond• Reveals how psychedelics were integrated into pagan and Christian magical practices and demonstrates how one might employ a psychedelic agent for divination, sex magic, alchemy, communication with gods, and more

Behemoth, or The Long Parliament is essential to any reader interested in the historical context of the thought of Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679). In De Cive (1642) and Leviathan (1651), the great political philosopher had developed an analytical framework for discussing sedition, rebellion, and the breakdown of authority. Behemoth, completed around 1668 and not published until after Hobbe's death, represents the systematic application of this framework to th...

The world stands on the brink of another worldwide economic and social crisis. People look for understanding through occult practices, so that mediums and fortunetellers have become wildly successful in helping them escape reality. There are no more churches, and established religion is a thing of the past. Christians must now gather in secret.In this fragile era emerges Josh Heartley, a young boy with astounding prophetic abilities. Though Josh had a heart transplant in his early ...

The fascinating history of German Jews who built a community just outside Jerusalem.In the 1920s, before the establishment of Israel, a group of German Jews settled in a garden city on the outskirts of Jerusalem. During World War II, their quiet community, nicknamed Grunewald on the Orient, emerged as both an immigrant safe haven and a lively expatriate hotspot, welcoming many famous residents including poet-playwright Else Lasker-Schüler, historian Gershom Scholem...