Crime in the heart of darkness. Overworked police and forensics investigators. A criminal justice system with inadequate resources. A residential neighbourhood where vigilante justice replaces the institutions of law and order. As things fall apart Detective 'Nights' Mashego investigates. But he carries his own dark burden...

These eight short stories are works of fiction, but reflect the author's real personal experiences while undergoing compulsory military training during his youth in apartheid South Africa. The stories are all based on real events but the characters are the products of creative imagination, however rooted in reality they might be. Readers will enjoy a range of humour and unusual incidents - frequently hilarious - along with perceptive insights into the trials and tribulations faced by a you...

In the near future, a paranoid society overreacts to the newly created race of advanced androids that are overloading the job sector. By popular demand, the androids are denounced as second-class citizens and relegated to life in a metallic ghetto. Among them is former police officer RMD3000, or Raymond, now forced to eke out a living as an Artificially Intelligent Private Investigator.A missing heir, a new designer drug, a robo-phobic televangelist running for President: all are el...

This practical book provides clear, step-by-step guidance on how to develop a monitoring and evaluation framework in a participatory, logical, systematic, and integrated way. The authors outline the key stages and steps involved, including: scoping the framework; identifying planned results; using program theory and program logic; developing evaluation questions; identifying processes for ongoing data collection and analysis; determining means to promote learning; reporting; and disseminat...

In Of Course!, Ian Patrick discusses some of the toughest challenges known to students of A Course in Miracles: facing the deaths of loved ones; letting go of long-held grievances; trying to comprehend Nelson Mandela meeting the Spice Girls; and much more. In this new edition, O-Books presents the best of Ian's insights and personal reflections in one volume, selected from over 100 editions of the UK's highly respected Course periodical, Miracle Worker. From the lighthearted to the profoun...

Ulysses S Grant, besides being the General-in-Chief of the Union armies at the time of the Union victory in the American Civil War, was also President, 1869–1878, at a time when the United States was undergoing significant transformations, both economically and strategically, and growing in confidence as a world power. At the same time, Japan, following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, was seeking to join the ranks of the developed, read exclusively Western, states. This book explores the in...

A mash-up of sci-fi and detective fiction, A.I. P.I. examines a racist future where society has turned against a new silver-skinned minority: androids. But for some, they're a necessity. When you're in trouble and don't want the police involved, who are you going to call? An Artificially Intelligent Private Investigator.

Ian Thomas Patrick was born on May 3, 1924, in Dennistoun, Glasgow. His father was a senior member of staff in the Glasgow Corporation Rates Department. Before his parents were married, his mother also worked there. When Ian was four, the family bought a semidetached house in Kelvindale, a new estate in the west end of Glasgow. He and his younger sister attended Hillhead High School until war broke out in 1939, when they both became evacuees. Ian was resident in the hostel attached to Dumf...

An amazing story told in short chapters to make it easy for kids to read on their own! Barbie and her sisters are excited to travel to a tropical island. But when their puppies get lost, the sisters’ island vacation turns into an island adventure!

Detectives at war with vicious criminals. Assassinations. Vigilante justice. Heroism. Another gripping crime thriller and police procedural based on the author’s personal experience of brutal crime and on the basis of front-line research in the company of detectives, victims of crime, and forensic specialists.

These eight short stories are works of fiction, but reflect the author's real personal experiences while undergoing compulsory military training during his youth in apartheid South Africa. The stories are all based on real events but the characters are the products of creative imagination (although rooted in reality). Readers will enjoy a range of humour and unusual incidents - frequently hilarious - along with perceptive insights into the trials and tribulations faced by a young man seeki...

Welcome to Dreamtopia! Join Chelsea and Barbie as they journey to find the magical Winged Unicorn in an enchanting make-believe world filled with princesses,mermaids, fairies, rainbow rivers, lollipop forests, and more!