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This title was first published in 2001. The challenges that face the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) have changed considerably. Growing international interdependence has meant that domestic civil servants are playing an increasing role in international negotiations and foreign policy...

A collection of short stories and some poems written in Africa; some are real and some fictional. Most of them are based on events that happened far below the surface of the earth in a world that is in fact stranger than fiction. They are of random events and thoughts with no particular theme.

In The Language of Fraud Cases, Roger Shuy follows the now well-established format of his previous volumes on language and law. He discusses here eight cases that he himself has consulted on, and that illustrate how linguistics can help to solve the various problems that arise in trying to define...

When a man wakes up in a Sanitarium he must try to figure out how he got there and why he is there. Join him on his journey and find out the disturbing discoveries he makes along the way. Also included is the short story “Lettuce Is Real”.

A four character thriller. Two east-end chancers, George and Lennie, have kidnapped wealthy heiress Charlotte Chamberlain and taken her to a remote farmhouse. George is confident her father will pay five million to get her back safely. But why did he insist on renting the farmhouse in Lennie's name?...

Violins, pipes and cellos, Orchestras, choirs and solos, Songs to remember, Songs to forget, Songs to unmake the universe... And songs to put it all right. Have a seat in the Chamber of Music. These thirteen stories will take you to distant lands of faerie lords, lovelorn angels, plucky skyship...

The cat stared up at him as though it knew all about the entry and he was being tiresome about it. Then it proceeded to have a bath, the kind of cello-playing bath one feels obliged to look away from unless one knows the cat well. A collection of short (some very short) stories and poems, mostly about New Zealand, or cats, or sheep.

1857 — The terror of the Indian Uprising …It isn’t every day that you get to dress in a freshly slaughtered bear skin while your brother wears the scalp of a slain fakir, but that’s all in a day’s work for two young lads.A terrible misunderstanding about the grease used on...

1896—In the heart of Sudan, the Mahdiya’s cruel dictatorship faces final retribution. As the British and Egyptian armies under general Kitchener mount a massive campaign to free Khartoum from the fanatic Dervish forces, one young man promises his dying mother to set out and seek the truth of his...

1884—Deep in the deserts of the Sudan a crazed fanatic spawns violent bloodshed. As members of the British force engaged in a doomed bid to save heroic Gordon of Khartoum, besieged by the frenzied armies of the Mahdi, Edgar and Rupert Clinton, twin brothers divided by a woman’s greed, unravel...

They were back and safe. But the bomb was still ticking away in the future. The bomb that would destroy the planet. The only way was to use the time machine again, but this time to Nazi Germany. Now not one man awaited them, but a whole army.

Plague: Jacob Trimble has never experienced it. Fear: He has never really known it. Death: He has never had to deal with it - until now. The human race is decimated by a lethal virus. The few people that are left, the lions and lambs of humanity, are gathering in the Cumberland Mountains of eastern...

Jacob Trimble has learned painful lessons as the leader of the Cumberland Community, a group of teenagers and kids who survived the worst plague in human history. People died on his watch. Now, Jacob is in a dark place in his life. The responsibilities of leadership weigh heavily upon him and...

3D Animation for the Raw Beginner Using Autodesk Maya is a hands-on academic textbook as well as a do-it-yourself training manual for the individual animator. This second edition has been completely rewritten to take into account updates to Autodesk Maya, including Autodesk’s renderer, Arnold. It...