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The FBI has been intercepting chatter regarding the terrorist activity. But it's not coming from the usual mid-eastern sources. It's coming from within our hemisphere. More specifically, it's coming from the Pacific North West. They decide to send agent Angelina Cartier undercover to try to locate the source of the threat. The only problem is that the beautiful agent has minimal field experience, and she will need all the help she can get as she discovers the threat is from a vicious militia group called the Keepers. What the Keepers don't know is Agent Cartier has a secret weapon. She has been teamed up with Sean Malone and his partner Jake Collins of Homeland Security, and Sean has a very specific gift. They'll need to pull out all the stops if they expect to stop the Keepers and thwart their sinister plan.

Vanity Project is an insight into the business of styling. It's a beautiful photo book that tells a tale about the relationship between the fairy-tale worlds of fashion and celebrity, told by the protagonists in their own words. And it's the story of how, with the right kind of help and belief, one boy's dream came true.

Crotch Thinking is the story of one baby boomer’s sexuality from his third year to his seventieth.  Repression, hormones, and cultural forces led to a shotgun marriage and two daughters he adored and abandoned for a second, trophy wife.  Passionate pleasure with her obscured the permanent pain brought on by her alcohol and drug addictions and his codependence. Then, the joy of their son’s open adoption was overshadowed by failed treatment attempts and professional ruin. After six decades he learned the difference between lust and love, but not in time to save his children from alcoholism, depression, obesity, and inability to trust. From this life millennial men can learn to reflect on their sexuality and communicate openly about it. 

Understand, analyse, evaluate, succeed. This study and revision guide takes you through every aspect of Tally's Blood, with exam advice for the National 5 English Critical Reading paper.

Understand, analyse and evaluate Sailmaker with this study and revision guide, written by experts who know how to prepare students for success in the National 5 English Critical Reading paper.

These radiant images from the renowned 19th-century biologist and illustrator Ernst Haeckel, featuring marine microorganisms, will enthrall fans of his previous collections and garner-renewed attention for Haeckel's unparalleled artistry.

It is over sixty years since the office of epistrategos in Roman Egypt was subjected to a detailed examination and in the interverring years a great deal of new papyrological and epigraphic material has come to light.

Ruby is the fastest growing and most exciting dynamic language out there. If you need to get working programs delivered fast, you should add Ruby to your toolbox. This book is the only complete reference for both Ruby 1.9 and Ruby 2.0, the very latest version of Ruby.

Centered on the lawsuit over Kennewick Man, this lively history illuminates one of the most contentious issues in science: the battle between archeologists and American Indians.

This 1979 text addresses the strong criticism of dominant theories in large areas of Western social science.

This book of over 230 old photographs features the parish of Camborne and district from Victorian times to more recent scenes. Some of Camborne's best known individuals are captured too, including William Quintrell the Camborne poet, Organ Joe a familiar character in Edwardian Camborne and Mr A.

A novel based on fact, about a brilliant detective in war-time Berlin who becomes a mass murderer.

The inspirational true story of one man overcoming enormous odds - including sexual abuse from his alcoholic mother - to choose his own path in life and become a truly exceptional human being.From the age of four David Thomas was sexually abused by his alcoholic mother and subsequently physically abused by his aged stepfather. By the age of 16 he had committed multiple burglaries, assaulted a police officer with an iron bar, attempted suicide, received a criminal conviction from a juvenile court, and been expelled from school.He left home as soon as he could and joined the fire service at 20. At the age of 27 he bought a book on memory. Within 8 months he had come fourth in the World Memory Championships and went on to develop one of the most powerful memories in history, even breaking an 18-year-old Guinness Book of Records memory record by reciting the mathematical formula Pi (3.1459) to 22,500 digits from memory.In 1999 he was reunited with his mother after 4 years apart but tragically, a year later he found her dead at home after she had died of an alcohol induced heart attack.David's shocking and moving story is one of abuse, alcoholism, courage, determination, forgiveness, love and how everyone can choose their own path through life irrespective of their upbringing, background or perceptions about what they think is possible. David is an incredible example of how this can happen.

These two volumes report on five season's excavation and four millennia of occupation at Kilise Tepe, from the Early Bronze Age through the rise and fall of the Hittite Empire and into the Byzantine era when the mound was crowned by a substantial church.