This critical examination of Canada’s bail system delves into the urgent need for reform following the tragic homicide of Tori Dunn. The book presents a comprehensive analysis of the systemic issues plaguing the current bail system, highlighting the balance between public safety and individual rights. It explores the political and legal challenges to reform, and presents a detailed account of proposed changes designed to improve the effectiveness and fairness of bail decisions.Thro...

This book delves into the critical issue of domestic violence through a detailed examination of recent events and their broader implications. Centered around the controversy involving Nova Scotia's Justice Minister Brad Johns, the book offers a thorough analysis of his controversial remarks regarding domestic violence and the subsequent public and governmental reactions.The narrative begins by detailing the timeline leading to Johns' comments, exploring his statements made on domes...

Welcome to "Growing Up Brave: Celebrating the Joy of Toddler Independence and Small Victories," a delightful exploration of one of the most exciting stages of childhood. This captivating book is designed to guide toddlers and their families through the magical world of early development, celebrating every milestone along the way.In "Growing Up Brave," we embark on an enchanting journey from those first wobbly steps to the joy of making new friends. With engaging illustrations and s...

'Here at least we shall be free. Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven...'Defeated in battle and exiled from heaven, Satan burns in a lake of fire with his army of rebels around him. Consumed with envy, he plots his bitter revenge – to destroy God's delight in his newest creation. During his hunt for Paradise on Earth, Satan sweet-talks his way out of hell and tricks his way across the universe to tempt Eve and seduce humanity.Paradise Lost, the greatest epic...

The genius of Dickens meets PJ Harvey's fierce, lyrical songs in this romantic and propulsive thriller adapted by Ben Power ( The Lehman Brothers).It begins like this. With the dusk and the storm and the Thames.A storm rages and, in the darkest part of the night, a body is pulled from the swirling Thames.Across the city, two young women confront an uncertain future. In Limehouse, Lizzie Hexam struggles to break free of the river an...

"Just when you thought everything about the 82nd Airborne Division in World War II had been published, author Ben Powers delivers Never a Dull Moment, The 80th Airborne Anti-Aircraft Artillery Battalion in World War II. Excellently researched and written, this powerful book fills a critical void about a lesser known, but so very important unit in the 82nd." — Colonel Mark C. “Plug” Vlahos, USAF-Retired, USAAF Troop Carrier and Glider Operations Historian and Author...

The first in the explosive and bestselling Dewey Andreas series.The largest oil-platform in the Western Hemisphere and a major hydroelectric dam are destroyed in a coordinated terrorist attack. The West's energy supplies risk total failure.But when the terrorists strike a rig off the coast of Colombia, slaughtering the crew and destroying the oil field, there's one factor they don't take into account: former special forces operative Dewey Andreas....

Award-winning writer Ben Bova returns with another tense political thriller starring Jake Ross, science advisor to Senator Frank Tomlinson, as they continue their complex power maneuvers they began in Power Play and Power Surge.Dr. Jake Ross came to Washington to try to make a difference, but he’s learned the only way to get something done in Washington, assuming your ideals survive the corrosive atmosphere, is to gather power. Ross has gathered a great deal, ridi...

Introducing a major new thriller writer—in the vein of Vince Flynn and Brad Thor—and an electrifying character, Dewey Andreas.A major North American hydroelectric dam is blown up and the largest off-shore oil field in this hemisphere is destroyed in a brutal, coordinated terrorist attack. But there was one factor that the terrorists didn't take into account when they struck the Capitana platform off the coast of Colombia—slaughtering much of the crew and b...

'Brilliant: singular, unsettling and mutative' ROSIE ANDREWS, author of THE LEVIATHAN'The strange events of this story have haunted me' NAOMI BOOTH'A beautiful, moving, unexpected novel . . . I will carry it with me for a long time' ELVIA WILK'A queer, oneiric, watery fable in which narrative form and logic are in constant flux' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENTYou ...

The wind power business has grown from a niche sector within the energy industry to a global industry that attracts substantial investment. In Europe wind has become the biggest source of new power generation capacity, while also successfully competing with the gas, coal and nuclear sectors in China and the US.Wind Power looks at the nations, companies and people fighting for control of one of the world’s fastest growing new industries and how we can harness one of the planet’s mos...

The conventional wisdom has held that China's economic power is very close to America's and that Washington cannot undertake a broad economic cutoff of China without hurting itself as much, or more. In Command of Commerce, Ben A. Vagle and Stephen G. Brooks show the conventional wisdom is wrong on both fronts. The authors argue that America's economic power has been underestimated because conventional economic measures have ignored America's unprecedented control over the world's ...