Five strangers. One storm. A bunker that promises salvation – but delivers hell. The Shelter is the electrifying thriller that will keep you up all night, questioning who you'd trust when the world falls apart.When Hurricane Jason – a monstrous Category 5 storm – barrels toward California, DJ Drew Samuel, meteorologist Hazel Cox, and three others flee the chaos for a woodland bunker, expecting refuge. Instead, they find Pastor Quincy Gordon, a charismatic zealot wh...

A journalist on the edge. A town swallowed by disaster. A criminal empire that refuses to stay buried. Step into the haunting, dreamlike world of Mika Ito – a thriller that grabs your senses and doesn't let go, where every page pulses with vivid, surreal intensity.Dylan Solly came to Tomioka, Japan, chasing a story: the trial of the Notorious Three, a trio of monsters led by the Tomioka Torturer, a psychopath with a taste for breaking minds and bodies. But when a c...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Evil has a voice – and it’s about to roar. Red Shift is the explosive companion novella to Mika Ito, flipping the script to unleash the dark hearts of the Notorious Three in a tale of chaos, vengeance, and twisted love. It tells the Mika Ito story from the POV of the bad guys.March 11, 2011: As Fukushima’s earth shatters and a tsunami swallows Tomioka, Japan’s most infamous criminals – Shinsuke Takahashi, the To...

Evil has a voice – and it's about to roar. Red Shift is the explosive companion novella to Mika Ito, flipping the script to unleash the dark hearts of the Notorious Three in a tale of chaos, vengeance, and twisted love.March 11, 2011: As Fukushima's earth shatters and a tsunami swallows Tomioka, Japan's most infamous criminals – Shinsuke Takahashi, the Tomioka Torturer; Freddie Yoka, the monstrous Artist; and Jushin Okada, the cunning Merchant – seize their chance....

The Shelter is a tense and completely gripping thriller. It's the perfect listen for fans of authors like T.M. Logan, David Baldacci and Alex Marwood.You think you’re safe. You’re wrong. When an unusual category 5 hurricane threatens to devastate California, it forces five strangers to seek shelter inside a woodland bunker. But the bunker is already occupied. Community leader, Pastor Quincy Gordon, has built a church within the walls of the bunker which he calls Salvation. While th...

This practice-oriented, person-centred learning tool will help you acquire the knowledge, skills and competencies you need to perform accurate health assessments in an ever-changing health care environment. The text helps you learn how to think like a health care professional by developing your clinical reasoning skills. It guides you through collecting assessment data before moving on to discussing the health assessment of each patient, explaining the decision-making process used to ident...

A multidisciplinary analysis of how state capture unfolded in South Africa and was contested within both civil society and the state itself. It presents a scholarly and empirical understanding of how things went awry, even with various regulating bodies in place, and how to prevent state capture from happening again in the future.The metaphor of ‘state capture’ has dominated South Africa’s political discourse in the post-Zuma presidency era. What is state capture and how does it ma...

In the summer of 1850, a topsail schooner delivered a man to a forested california coast. The man swung his pack to his broad, powerful back and strode resolutely into the timber. The man was John Cardigan, the first pioneer in that lonely land. This is the story of Cardigan and his son Bryce. John is to experience love, great accomplishment and ruin. But when his sire falls, Bryce takes up the fight to save his heritage, not for the sake of wealth but for an ideal. Here is a tale of battl...

The convergence of changes in the legal landscape - wider economic pressures, the growing implementation of legal technologies, the disrupting influence of alternative service providers and their competitive pricing offerings - mean that the corporatization of the law firm is well underway. The "business of law" is now more of a priority than ever before, with procurement and pricing professionals playing increasingly significant roles within firms and a growing focus towards the measureme...

As John Henry Newman reflected on 'The Idea of a University' more than a century and a half ago, Bradley C. S. Watson brings together some of the nation's most eminent thinkers on higher education to reflect on the nature and purposes of the American university today. They detail the life and rather sad times of the American university, its relationship to democracy, and the place of the liberal arts within it. Their mordant reflections paint a picture of the American university in crisis....

The ethnographic experience is an indelible venture that continuously redefines one's life. Bringing together important cross-currents in the national debate on education, this book introduces the student or practitioner to the challenges, resources, and skills informing ethnographic research today. From the first chapter describing the cultural foundations of ethnographic research, by George Spindler, the book traces both traditional and new approaches to the study of schools and their co...

This book brings together expert opinions from scientists to consider the evidence for climate change and its impacts on ticks and tick-borne infections. It considers what is meant by 'climate change', how effective climate models are in relation to ecosystems, and provides predictions for changes in climate at global, regional and local scales relevant for ticks and tick-borne infections. It examines changes to tick distribution and the evidence that climate change is responsible. The eff...