In recent years, British drug policy has undergone a transformation: tackling 'drug-driven' crime through criminal justice interventions has arguably become the central priority and focus. The 'criminal justice turn', as the authors refer to current UK drugs policy, is based on three simple and linked assumptions: drug-driven property crime is a major driver of local area crime rates, especially in deprived neighbourhoods; the criminal justice system can be used to target these drug-motiva...

In recent years, British drug policy has undergone a transformation: tackling 'drug-driven' crime through criminal justice interventions has arguably become the central priority and focus. The 'criminal justice turn', as the authors refer to current UK drugs policy, is based on three simple and linked assumptions: drug-driven property crime is a major driver of local area crime rates, especially in deprived neighbourhoods; the criminal justice system can be used to target these drug-motiva...

The God Gap takes you on a journey from the scientific teachings of Charles Darwin, David Attenborough, and James Lovelock; Galileo, Isaac Newton, and Stephen Hawking; the lessons of Moses, Buddha, Christ, and Muhammad; the philosophical insights of Socrates, Carl Jung, and Confucious, to present-day spiritual teachers to answer the perennial question, 'Does God Exist?'In accessible language, The God Gap ...

An Enchanted Life is the story of a man who from small beginnings metamorphosises into a future he could never have imagined. It is a powerful account of reinvention, resilience, and the belief that it is never too late, or impossible, to change direction.

Raindrops from Heaven - 12 Lessons of Water for Humanity explores the profound ways in which water shapes our world and offers wisdom for how humanity can thrive in harmony with nature.

The tapestry of life on Earth is woven with countless relationships and actions, so intricate, so finely balanced, and precisely tuned that to attribute them solely to chance is insufficient. From the colossal movement of continents, and locations of huge volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, to the rotation and orbit of the planet, spread over billions of years, to seasonal localised shifts in temperature and precipitation, the humble labour of ants, termites, and bees, every element and ma...

The most succinct insightful biography of Robert Burns by a transatlantic writer, philosophy, and intellectual.

My name is William Robert (Tosh) Plumlee, but over the years and across many sensitive operations (as we call them) for the US military, CIA and other departments of the Federal government, I' ve been assigned many aliases. Some like William ' Buck' Pearson, Juan Cabrillo, John Rawlins and John James Rollins and James Plumley can be found in public records. Others remain unknown and are classified. And there are more assigned aliases that I no longer remember. I' ve spent most of my eighty...

Natural Theology - Exploring Nature Through a Spiritual Lens is the journey of an ordinary man who led two extraordinary lives. By merging facts about natural phenomena and spiritual practices, he bridged the gap between scientific theory and the reality of nature. He came to believe in a Higher Power behind all that exists.In this accesible book, he shares the path he took and argues that anyone can achieve similar revelations – whether by chance as he did, or through int...

Natural Theology - Exploring Nature through a Spiritual Lens is the journey of an ordinary man who led two extraordinary lives. By merging facts about natural phenomena and spiritual practices, he bridged the gap between scientific theory and the reality of nature. He came to believe in a Higher Power behind all that exists.In this accesible book, he shares the path he took and argues that anyone can achieve similar revelations – whether by chance as he did, or through int...

The story of one of the most important and least-understood jobs in moviemaking-film editing-is here told by one of the wizards, Ralph Rosenblum, whose credentials include six Woody Allen films, as well as The Pawnbroker, The Producers, and Goodbye, Columbus. Rosenblum and journalist Robert Karen have written both a history of the profession and a personal account, a highly entertaining, instructive, and revelatory book that will make any reader a more aware movie-viewer....

Trapped in the frozen Arctic. A ship crushed by ice. A crew fighting to survive against impossible odds.The Last Voyage of the Karluk is a gripping true story of survival, leadership, and human endurance in one of the harshest environments on Earth. When the Karluk becomes locked in Arctic ice during the Canadian Arctic Expedition, what begins as an ambitious scientific mission quickly turns into a desperate struggle for survival.This audiobook immerses you in the ...