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Two white lines on a black coffee bag...A Peruvian engineer asks for nothing extraordinary: an honest opportunity, a legal way to rebuild his life after an unjust dismissal. What he has, however, is knowledge nobody else possesses — a formula capable of turning the coca leaf into a fortune.That knowledge will carry him from Lima to Culiacán, from a Soviet bunker buried in Côte d'Ivoire to the hushed villas of Calabria. From Mexican cartels to corrupt generals, from the Italia...

RED LINES PROTOCOLHe was trained to never ask why. Then the next name on his kill list was his best friend's.Three years, one false identity, zero questions asked. Major Alexei Volkov doesn't take orders — he takes temperature readings from a voice in Siberia that never says "kill," because it doesn't have to. There's a protocol for that. A red line nobody's supposed to cross, and a system that's been quietly redrawing it for years, one operation a...

INTERNATIONAL ESCORTSNearly Twenty Years on the LineA phone that opened at nine in the morning and closed at midnight. Even today, it keeps ringing.Lausanne. Geneva. Paris. London. Monaco. Milan...It all began with a one-line ad in a newspaper. Back then, there was no Google, no websites, no digital photos. Just a name, a phone number and a promise: absolute discretion.That is how International Escorts was born.For nearly twenty years, Luigi ...

On the shores of Lake Leman in Lausanne, Switzerland, a Swiss intermediary delivers a warning that Colonel Ariel Ben-David cannot act on — and cannot ignore. Two days later, Iranian hypersonic missiles reduce Israel's Unit 8200 to rubble in thirty minutes.But the unit isn't dead. From an underground bunker, Ben-David, his deputy Noa Shalev, and the prodigy hacker Yonatan Ezra launch a counter-offensive that will never make the headlines: a silent cyber operation to neutralize 142 I...

"Thousands of years of unanswered prayers are not a mystery. They are the answer."What if God had never existed? What if, for millennia, humanity had been speaking to someone who was never there?Why has an all-powerful, all-knowing, and infinitely good God never provided the slightest public, verifiable proof of His existence? This book relies neither on faith nor theology, but on facts: history, science, and philosophy.In four chapters, this brief and uncompromisin...

During the final years of the Tahuantinsuyo, when ancient omens foretell the arrival of uncertain times, a young warrior is forced to embark on a journey that will change his destiny forever.Across sacred mountains, ancestral roads, and carefully guarded secrets, a story of loyalty, courage, love, and survival unfolds in the heart of the Inca Empire.The Hollow Stone transports readers to a fascinating era, recreating the customs, beliefs, and challenges of one of the most e...

My name is Manko Quispe. I was an Auca Runa (savage warrior, man of war) of the Tawantinsuyo (Empire of the Four Parts). My life was not measured in years, but in battles. So many that their number was lost, like a raindrop lost in the great Vilcanota river (sacred river of Cusco). My body became a parchment of skin, a topographic map of pain where each scar is a valley carved by the edge of foreign iron, a mountain raised by the blow of the macana (war club), a furrow where death sowe...

This book is a greatly supplemented translation from Portuguese, originally published in 2015. It discusses the most appropriate ways to create databases for research on history and other humanities, including an extensive debate about the usages that historians have made of computing since the 1950s. It has four chapters: the first is dedicated to theoretical and methodical questions about the usage of databases in history; the second is about technical issues; the third presents the conc...

This volume reviews the drinking water treatments in which AOPs display a high application potential. Firstly it reveals the typical supply sources and limitations of conventional technologies and critically reviews natural organic matter characterization and removal techniques, focusing mainly on AOP treatments. It then explores using AOPs for simultaneous inactivation/disinfection of several types of microorganisms, including highly resistant Cryptosporidium protozoa. Lastly, it...

For human health, leishmaniasis is among the most important protozoan diseases, superseded only by malaria. Globally, 10 to 12 million people are infected with 1.5 million new cases every year. The development of cheaper new drugs is urgently needed for this neglected disease that is developing resistance to current treatments. Chemotherapy remains the only treatment option for the bulk of patients. However, this is largely unaffordable for most. In the past three years numerous advances i...

This book shares research and practice on current trends in digital technology for agricultural and rural development in the Global South. Growth of research in this field has been slower than the pace of change for practitioners, particularly in bringing socio-technical views of information technology and agricultural development perspectives together. The contents are therefore structured around three main themes: sharing information and knowledge for agricultural development, informatio...

A once-in-a-generation event held every twenty years, the Minnowbrook conference brings together the top scholars in public administration and public management to reflect on the state of the field and its future. This unique volume brings together a group of distinguished authors—both seasoned and new—for a rare critical examination of the field of public administration yesterday, today, and tomorrow. The book begins by examining the ideas of previous Minnowbrook conferences, such ...