The first of a series of high-octane spy thrillers, Into the Shadows: The Fever is the story of Michael Brennan, a career CIA non–official-cover intelligence officer and his quest to identify and disrupt a plot crafted by the Islamic State terror group. After Michael travels to Israel and meets with Israeli intelligence, he partners with Elif Turan, a Mossad agent working in Turkey as a “false flag” along the Syrian border. Together they must use their skills and tradecraft to sto...

While human beings might be rational animals, they are emotional animals as well. Emotions play a central role in all areas of our lives and if we are to have a proper understanding of human life and activity, we ought to have a good grasp of the emotions. Michael S. Brady structures Emotion: The Basics around two basic, yet fundamental, questions: What are emotions? And what do emotions do? In answering these questions Brady provides insight into a core component of all our lives...

For Detective Peter Strauss and his colleagues, the disappearance of a man from a crowd in the Adelaide Hills town of Hahndorf is one of several ongoing investigations. But they soon learn the man is not who he appears to be and when a body is later found some distance away, he becomes a major focus.As they investigate, the case balloons out to encompass other crimes old and recent, close and far away and the detectives struggle to link what they are learning.Suddenly the kil...

This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of social work find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and...

The body of Ray Woods, local historian, is found in the ruins of his burned-out house in the small Adelaide Hills township of Mylor, and young detective Peter Strauss is at the head of the investigation.Peter is keen to resolve the crime and to prove his mettle as a detective, but as the case unfolds no clear suspect emerges. The state's Major Crime Team takes over and Peter becomes a small cog in the investigative machine. The Majors sift the evidence, interview the people, follow ...

The standard view of the economics profession is that Keynes was a brilliant, intuitive, nonrigorous innovator. These essays show that Keynes backed up his intuitions with a rigorous mathematical and logical supporting analysis, which has been overlooked.

His best friend has been murdered, his daughter’s in danger.There’s only one answer. Going back to his old life.The one that cost him his wife…Michael Brady was a high-flying detective, working on a high-profile case.And much too close to the truth.Someone arranged a hit-and-run.But they missed Brady. And hit his wife.And after six months sitting by her bed, he took the only decision he could take. He turned the machine off.No...

Despite there being deep lines of convergence between the philosophies of Alfred North Whitehead, C. S. Peirce, William James, John Dewey, and other classical American philosophers, it remains an open question whether Whitehead is a pragmatist, and conversation between pragmatists and Whitehead scholars have been limited. Indeed, it is difficult to find an anthology of classical American philosophy that includes Whitehead’s writings. These camps began separately, and so they remain. This v...

“Brilliant. Brady is fast becoming the Yorkshire Rebus.”Billy and Sandra were childhood sweethearts.Writing their names on a lovelock. Fastening it to the end of Whitby pier. Throwing the key into the sea.A lifetime together. A happy retirement in a peaceful hamlet on the North Yorkshire Moors.Until the day they were brutally murdered.“Whoever did this – he didn’t do it quickly. And he enjoyed it…”Billy was a fisherman, making a living in the col...

Good people do bad thingsBad people do good thingsSometimes it’s hard to tell the difference…Gina’s body has floated down the River Esk. She was a farmer’s wife. And it looks like an accident.But Michael Brady has his doubts.Brady’s back in the police – and he needs to prove himself.Is it murder? Or does Brady need it to be murder?It’s a year since his wife died. He’s feeling lonely. And he’s still trying to balance being a single dad...

There are three sides to every storyYours. Theirs.And the Truth.Michael Brady is back. The Edge of Truth is the fifth book in the series. And there’s a ghost from Brady’s past…The push that sent Diane Macdonald over the cliff edge was surprisingly gentle.She was walking her dog on the cliff top. Runswick Bay, a few miles north of Whitby.Thirty-six hours later her body is found at the bottom of the cliff.Brady’s convinced it’s murder....

It’s 20 years since Alice went missing.There’s never been any trace.Until now.Until some bones are found in a shallow grave on the cold, bleak North York Moors.But is it Alice?Or Becky? The other girl – who disappeared a month earlier…Two local girls: two families that have finally learned to live with their grief.But now Michael Brady must tell one family their daughter has been found.And break the bad news to the other family.