Monaco was a nice vacation—until Steve Dane and Nina Talikova witness a secret agent’s murder.They are now loose ends in a Russian conspiracy to steal a direct-energy weapon from the U.S., but the assassins pursuing them have made a grave miscalculation. Dane and Nina are former spies who know all the tricks and invented a few themselves. Their trail of vengeance leads from Monaco to Texas to a showdown in the Gulf of Mexico, where Dane is taken prisoner by an oppo...

International adventurer Steve Dane never should have set foot in Italy.Witnessing a young woman’s kidnapping, he is drawn into the decades-old vendetta behind the crime. Hired by the girl's father, racing against time as her life hangs in the balance, Dane battles the mafia who want him dead and the police and international agents who want him out of the way.With the help of his lover, Nina Talikova, Dane plunges along a path leading him past a mere kidnap...

The three stories, in this book of fiction, tell compelling tales of the many archetypes we encounter while on our individual and collective journeys of self realization. From the tale of Grandpa's Garden, we accompany the young Innocent on an inner journey as the Wise Old Man instructs him on the endless cycles of death and rebirth. Using the metaphor of the garden, we walk with the child through the transformation process mindful of proper care for the seeds we sow.In the story H...

STEVE DANE AND NINA RETURN!When the deadly duo witnesses a catastrophic terrorist attack, they don't stand idly by. They run into the fray, engaging the enemy, and stumble upon a message the killers leave behind.Graypoole has resurrected.It's an impossible development. Dane knows Graypoole, a terrorist who targeted capitalists, is dead – killed by a black ops team. But as he and Nina follow the evidence, they learn Graypoole's son has taken over his...

Steve Dane faces a day of reckoning long coming when he learns the truth about his father.But the truth is a bitter pill when he discovers his father's death ties to rogue agents within US intelligence who use Agency assets to further their own agenda. With battle lines drawn, Steve Dane and Nina Talikova do what they do best: attack! From the shores of Maryland to the blistering heat of a South American jungle, Dane and Nina destroy each tentacle of the enemy befo...

The Termination Protocol is the first book in the hard-edged, action thriller series—Scott Stiletto.The United States is under siege, and the enemy has help from the White House!Scott Stiletto is one of the CIA's toughest assets, a veteran of numerous missions, an operative with compassion and ruthlessness in equal parts.His enemy is the New World Revolutionary Front, a terrorist organization seeking to overthrow the government of the United States ...

The Fairmont Maneuver is book two in the hard-edged, action thriller series—Scott Stiletto.An urgent plea from a former flame brings CIA agent Scott Stiletto to San Francisco.Ali Lewis was once a capable spy herself before striking out on her own, creating a fashion empire that stretches around the world. Now her father has been murdered, and Stiletto is the only man Ali can trust to learn the truth behind the killing.Evidence points to a g...

The Glinkov Extraction is the third book in the hard-edged Scott Stiletto action thriller series.An authorized mission to rescue a friend may be the last adventure of Stiletto's career . . . or his life.A coup stirring in Russia to overthrow President Putin faces the wrath of Moscow police and government agents. Suspects are arrested or assassinated. Survivors run for their lives, including Vladimir Glinkov, a friend of Scott Stiletto.Glink...

First published in 1998. The Education Reform Act of 1988 introduced into schools in England and Wales a range of major reforms, including the National Curriculum, the transfer of certain key powers and responsibilities from LEAs to schools and new and altogether more comprehensive procedures for the monitoring of school performance. Offering a view as to whether or not the OFSTED inspection process will actually secure 'improvement through inspection' is not the purpose of this publicatio...

An annual audit by staff and governors strengthens the school development planning process. This work aims to assist schools to identify their strengths and weaknesses with respect to specific requirements of the OFSTED Framework for Inspection.

Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems compares the Copernican or Heliocentric system with the Ptolemaic or Peripatetic, system of the cosmos. Published in Florence in 1632, it resulted in him being tried before the Inquisition. Using the dialogue form, Galileo masterfully shows the truth of the Copernican system that the earth revolves around the sun. The Dialogue is one of the most important treatises ever written. A work of supreme clarity and accessi...

A frank and engaging exploration of the burgeoning academic field of environmental historyInspired by the pioneering work of preeminent environmental historian Donald Worster, the contributors to A Field on Fire: The Future of Environmental History reflect on the past and future of this discipline. Featuring wide-ranging essays by leading environmental historians from the United States, Europe, and China, the collection challenges scholars to rethink some ...