There’s no question that law enforcement officers are under intense scrutiny. In high-profile Canadian cases like Robert Dziekanski and Willie Pickton, police are blamed by a critical public and the media for everything from excessive use of force to allowing criminals to get away with murder. In Souls Behind the Badge, retired veteran RCMP officer Wayne Ryan describes in graphic detail the emotional trauma the job inflicts on those who serve and protect us. Most often, what the public see...

"The Leath are fighting for their Gods, but Bethany Anne is fighting for freedom.Then, the Leath make a very fatal mistake.On another planet, the Leath dishonor the Etheric Empire's warriors and Bethany Anne unleashes her new avatar and there will be hell to pay.For those that believe Might Makes Right, Bethany Anne is about to explain how that can be so, so wrong.Read the latest Bethany Anne adventure that can make you laugh out loud, shed a tear, and yell ...

It has all come down to this.The battle to save Kingsley's pack, and Austin's place of birth, is upon them. They have their team, they have their supplies, and they have a very nerve-wracking secret weapon that Edgar devised.They aren't even close to ready.If they lose this battle, every shifter in the world will be in jeopardy. But to fight means danger they might not all walk away from.If only the battle was their sole worry.Austin has come home fo...

Twenty authors, twenty gods, twenty stories that will chill, thrill and kill you. The Gods of the Pantheon present their first anthology of halloween stories. The time for Samhain draws near....

First Nations peoples and Native Americans in North America have long believed in the power of spirit animals or totems. They believed that these animals had lessons to teach and healing or inspirational powers:One of the strongest spirit animals, the bear is known as the grandfather for many peoples; they are seen as strong, powerful creatures that can never die. Bears also mean leadership, confidence and courage.The buffalo/bison is a symbol of strength and power ...

The mission is simple: escort Dr. Nadir and her team of aid workers through insurgent-held territory to a remote village on Idun-3.Veteran Lieutenant Ralph Hague and his platoon have completed far more dangerous assignments fulfilling the Berserker's contract with Biodyne Industries.When an army of radical cultists, the Immortals, arrive in search of Biodyne's research on a life-extending drug, Hague and his troops are redirected into the heart of a war-tor...

The Oxford Handbook of Symbolic Interactionism features a diverse array of cutting-edge scholarship in symbolic interactionism (SI). Contributors present original research in various established and emerging areas of concern while outlining key theoretical and methodological foundations of this multifaceted and broadly relevant perspective in the field of sociology. The scholars featured in this volume present new and evolving outlooks on foundational SI themes including the self ...

War Whore is a thrilling stand-alone novel in the War's Edge universe.The most dangerous job in the galaxy...In war, there is no second place. To ensure victory, planetary governments employ private armies to help fight their battles. And the Berserkers are the best. As the galaxy's preeminent mercenary force, they are hired by governments and corporations to do jobs that are too tough, too messy, or too deadly for their own forces...

SparkNotes Audio presents … No Fear Shakespeare audio recordings! Listen to full cast performances of Shakespeare's plays in all their brilliance—and understand what every word means!Don’t be intimidated by Shakespeare. These audiobook editions make the Bard’s plays accessible and enjoyable.Each No Fear Shakespeare audio recording audio edition features:The complete original text performed by a full cast, and the

The Patient-Centered Clinical Method (PCCM) has been a core tenet of the practice and teaching of medicine since the first edition of Patient-Centered Medicine - Transforming the Clinical Method was published in 1995. This timely fourth edition continues to define the principles underpinning the patient-centered clinical method using four major components, clarifying its evolution and consequent development, and it brings the reader fully up to date. It reinforces the relevance of...

From the author of the critically acclaimed, prizewinning and internationally bestselling The Colony of Unrequited Dreams comes an epic family mystery with a powerful, surprise ending, which features the return of the ever-fascinating Sheilagh Fielding, one of the most memorable characters in fiction.Ned Vatcher, only 14, ambles home from school in the chill hush that precedes the first storm of the winter of 1936 to find the house locked, the family car m...

One kiss . . . and her lips forever lingered on mine as if tattooed there.Melody Quinn, all through high school I loved her from afar. Of course, in a cruel twist of fate, she waited until right before I left for boot camp to confess she felt the same. In that tender moment, we shared a kiss that branded her name onto my heart. Despite intense training, deployments, and life-altering tragedies, never once did she leave my thoughts.Now, years later, fate has...