IT’S TIME TO SETTLE OLD DEBTS…Riker was just another has-been loser drowning in debt, until the offer of a lifetime fell into his lap. All he had to do was take a boring security gig, and a mysterious benefactor would make sure the Sprawl’s gangsters didn’t sell his organs and toss his body into the Barrens. He’s been working his way up the corporate ladder ever since, and now his savior has given him his final mission: extract the brilliant scientist Valarie St. C...

The modern world relies entirely on a seamless, invisible network of thousands of orbiting satellites. GPS navigation, global banking transactions, military intelligence, and high-speed communications are all completely dependent on this delicate extraterrestrial infrastructure. However, decades of unregulated launches and exploded rocket boosters have turned the Earth's low orbit into a hyper-lethal, high-speed minefield of jagged metal trash. This investigation explores the terrifying, r...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The little things live all around us in the world of nature, but sadly these days people are just too busy to see them. This story illustrates this whimsical charm of the little things in life with a heartfelt message to make time for yourself so that you can enjoy them.

FIGHT FOR THE FUTURE!Shrapnel: The Official BattleTech Magazine surges onward, waging wars that will decide the fate of the BattleMech-dominated future of the 31st century and beyond! Follow a quest for quick cash that yields unusual Star League relics. Commiserate with an aging MechWarrior convinced he is cursed with the devil’s luck—which is about to run out. Listen to the tale of how mercenary commander Ace Darwin obtained his iconic ’M...

'Eat Pray Love' meets 'An Apple A Day' meets 'Under The Tuscan Sun'.Stuck in a job he hates, madly smitten with a woman two decades his junior, racing helplessly into middle age and living in a world where vodka and orange juice is considered breakfast food, Mark Hill knows it's time to make a big life change.He quits his job, stuffs a few clothes and some personal items into an old navy duffel bag, sends all of his other possessions to the bin or the charity shop and books...

This book attempts to briefly describe the rich History of the Inland Water Route of Northern Michigan. From the fur trading Natives to the recreational use today, snippets of various accounts of significant events are presented with curious flair. Early railroad and steamer vessels led the way for the transportation of both goods and services. Resorts and camps developed alongside the use of lake steamers. Emphasis of the Steamer Topinabee, the Atherton Inn and the Indian play Wa-Ya-Ga-Mu...

In the late Eighteenth Century, a goldsmith and early European banker by the name of Meyer Anselm Rothschild convened a secret meeting in Frankfurt Germany, of 13 prominent Jewish banking families, for the purpose of formulating a plan to oppose the power of the Catholic Church and gain control of the western world through financial and political manipulation. Throughout the centuries, this close affiliation of international bankers and heads of state has been referred to by many different...

Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this convenient resource provides systematic information on how the United Kingdom deals with the role religion plays or can play in society, the legal status of religious communities and institutions, and the legal interaction among religion, culture, education, and media. After a general introduction describing the social and historical background, the book goes on to explain the legal framework in which religion...

Ecclesiastical Law has established itself as the leading authority on the laws of the Church of England. Offering a uniquely detailed and scholarly exposition of the law, it has become an essential reference for anyone with a professional interest in ecclesiastical and canon law. The fourth edition has been fully revised and updated to take account of significant changes in the substantive law, specifically: the effects of the Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction and Care of Churches Measu...

The ideas presented in this book explain marketing thinking and how to cultivate it, and ultimately, the ways in which marketplace differences are created. Instead of offering marketing steps, processes, and models, the focus here is on developing the practitioner's thinking rather than providing some formulaic series of steps, processes, and/or models based upon someone else's thinking. This provocative perspective requires a deeper reading and thinking about many of the familiar notions ...

Archbishop Stephen Langton hoped with Magna Carta to realise an Old Testament, covenantal kingship in England. At the Charter's 800th anniversary, distinguished jurists, theologians and historians from five faith-traditions and three continents ask how Magna Carta's biblical foundations have mattered and still matter now. A Lord Chief Justice, a Chief Rabbi, a Grand Mufti of Egypt, specialists in eight centuries of law, scholars and advocates committed to the rule of law and to the place o...

For centuries, since the Roman Empire's adoption of Christianity, the continent of Europe has been perceived as something of a Christian fortress. Today, the increase in the number of Muslims living in Europe and the prominence of Islamic belief pose questions not only for Europe's religious traditions but also for its constitutional make up. This book examines these challenges within the legal and political framework of Europe.The volume's contributors range from ...