Indigenous peoples around the world are seeking greater control over tangible and intangible cultural heritage. In Canada, issues concerning repatriation and trade of material culture, heritage site protection, treatment of ancestral remains, and control over intangible heritage are governed by a complex legal and policy environment. This volume looks at the key features of Canadian, US, and international law influencing indigenous cultural heritage in Canada. Legal and extralegal avenues ...

Cyberwar is about to define the world’s future. At a secret meeting in Montreux, Switzerland, the financial trading platform was acknowledged by one of the world’s largest banks as the fastest they had seen, with huge potential for profit, and equal potential to devastate world financial markets. A fast-paced thriller that takes place in London, Paris, Hong Kong, Beijing and deep in Russia at KGB HQ, blending fact and and real-life events. The world’s superpowers are sucked into in a cyber...

Matthew Dunn uses his experience as a former MI6 field officer to bring transfixing realism to Slingshot, his third Spycatcher novel featuring Will Cochrane—MI6’s, and now the CIA’s, most prized asset and deadliest weapon.In Slingshot, Cochrane is ordered to recover a mysterious document stolen by a Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SRV) traitor working for a former high-ranking East German Stasi officer. The officer, years before, had instigated a secret pact...

In Call of Duty, this race-to-the-finish thriller in the bestselling Tom Clancy's Op-Center series, an attempt to exfiltrate a Chinese scientist threatens to incite war between China and the United States.When the launch of their powerful new hypersonic missile ends in destruction, the Chinese government needs someone to blame. Was it a failure of engineering, or sabotage? The chief engineer on the project, Dr. Yang Dàyóu, is targeted as the scapegoat and ...

The explosive, action-packed prequel to EA's mega-selling video game, BATTLEFIELD 4.It's 3am and 20 below zero on the Chinese-North Korean border. Shanghai-based CIA operative Laszlo Kovic's mission is going straight to hell. Tasked with exfiltrating a North Korean nuclear scientist, he unwittingly leads a team of Marines into a deadly ambush.Bruised, battered and frostbitten, he returns to Shanghai seeking answers. Was he set up or did someone leak the mis...

175 countries, four billion dollars, one scam: the thrilling rise and fall of the biggest cryptocurrency con in history and the woman behind it allIn 2016, on stage at Wembley Arena in front of thousands of adoring fans, Dr. Ruja Ignatova promised her followers a financial revolution. The future, she said, belonged to cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. And the Oxford-educated, self-styled cryptoqueen vowed that she had invented the Bitcoin Killer. OneCoin would not ...

The utterly gripping story of the most outrageous case of cyber piracy prosecuted by the U.S. Department of Justice.A former U.S. Navy intelligence officer, David Locke Hall was a federal prosecutor when a bizarre-sounding website, CRACK99, came to his attention. It looked like Craigslist on acid, but what it sold was anything but amateurish: thousands of high-tech software products used largely by the military, and for mere pennies on the dollar. Want to purchase ...

"Donald Gregg's career . . . would make a great spy novel. This autobiography makes an even better book." —Tim Weiner, Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter and bestselling author of EnemiesPot Shards is a memoir, based on the author's unforgettable experiences. He served as a CIA agent on the island of Saipan, during ten years in Japan, and a tour in Burma. He then spent four years tied up in the Vietnam War, two tours in Korea, the second time as ambas...

The phone rang, but no one in the family could pick it up. He gently flicked his beloved knife over what he considered a "work". An elegant splash of blood splashed onto the wall, deftly avoiding the ringing phone. Jacks will certainly enjoy his flair and ingenuity. “Beautiful knife path!” Soon his picture will be finished. The phone was still ringing, he was annoyed that what he was doing was interrupted, thinking so, he walked over to the phone, careful not to step on the bloodstain, but...

Alexander Lebedev is best known as the Russian businessman and public figure who bought the Evening Standard and The Independent newspapers in the UK. A former KGB intelligence officer in the USSR's London Embassy, his book covers the years from his birth in 1959 to 2016. Written in a wry and humorous manner, the book is mainly a memoir of Lebedev's own hair-raising experiences as someone who aspires to show that an 'honest banker' is not an oxymoron. There is the thread of a whodunit as h...

During the immediate post-Soviet years the privatization of state assets gave birth to a number of billionaires, later known as Oligarchs. Using their wealth, some of them developed political ambitions and stopped at nothing to gain power. A satellite telecom project became an acquisition target, needed to seize control of all national communications for an imminent coup d'état.

On the day the two experts arrived, all of Blue Ocean's cars had gone to the province and no one had time to spend a few hours going to the airport to pick up people. An accidentally learned about this, feeling a little sorry for the two unlucky guys, so Tidj drove his car to pick him up. Only about a kilometer from the company office to her house, she can completely walk.As soon as he opened the door to the house, the polite smile on An 's lips immediately froze when he realized t...