This first book to reassess the myth and the realities of Otto Skorzeny, Hitler's favourite commando.SS-Obersturmbannführer Otto Skorzeny became a legend in his own time. 'Hitler's favourite commando' acquired a reputation as a man of daring, renowned for his audacious 1943 mission to extricate Mussolini from a mountain-top prison.Skorzeny's influence on special operations doctrine was far-reaching and long-lasting – in 2011, when US Navy SEALs inf...

‘The wisest book I’ve read for many years … Much more than a gardening book, much more than a guide to mental health … Hugely recommended’ Stephen FryTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020How can gardening relieve stress and help us look after our mental health? What lies behind the restorative power of the natural world?In a powerful combination of contemporar...

Protesters called it an act of war when the U.S. Coast Guard sank a Canadian-flagged vessel in the Gulf of Mexico in 1929. It took a cool-headed codebreaker solving a "trunk-full" of smugglers' encrypted messages to get Uncle Sam out of the mess: Elizebeth Smith Friedman's groundbreaking work helped prove the boat was owned by American gangsters.This book traces the career of a legendary U.S. law enforcement agent, from her work for the Allies during World War I through Prohibition...

Autonomous manufacturing and cyber-physical systems are key enabling technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (IR4) which are currently being incorporated into the building design and construction industries. These emerging IR4 technologies have the potential to effectively improve construction affordability and productivity, address current and future building demand, and reduce the environmental impact of the built environment. However, design approaches that make use of IR4 tech...

Russian and Ukrainian women are not just a pipe dream or something you read about on the internet. Thousands of men have successfully married women from the former Soviet Union. The authors own the biggest and most-respected Russian women advice forum on the internet today. Get the inside scoop! Learn how to avoid the scammers and corrupt agencies who only want to empty your pocket. Learn how to meet and marry your Russian or Ukrainian princess and bring her to your country. Stuart J. Smit...

This comprehensive guide for management professionals discusses the IT-related legal issues faced by businesses on a daily basis. Legal concepts and terminology are notoriously difficult for non-specialists, but this book explains in plain English the relevant legal frameworks and gives examples from actual cases. New material in this edition include chapters on GDPR, cyber security, cloud computing contracts and Agile.

This book addresses those aspects of anaesthetic practice in perioperative medicine which have a significant impact on both the immediate and the long-term outcome for the surgical patient. Perioperative Medicine is the natural evolution of anaesthesia from a main focus on the patient in the operating room to a responsibility for the care of the patient from the time that the decision to operate is made, through to discharge from hospital. The contributors, well-respected authors in their ...

Q What does the loft of the club dictate when chipping?You would answerA Heightand you would be WRONG.What you need to know is why you are wrong and what the loft of the club does dictate when chipping, and reading this book will teach you this and much more.This book will help you toUnderstand exactly what a chip is as most golfersmisunderstand this shot and visualise it incorrectly, thus reducing the chances of playing it well. A chi...

Brett Stuart Smith weaves a captivating tale of magic and mystery, recounting the adventures of a protagonist on a quest to discover the truth of his past and forge the path of his destiny in "The Eye of Disparager: Book One of The Legend of the Bloodstone."In a tale reminiscent of the works of Lewis, readers are transported to the land of Alton Savia, where three kingdoms live under the rules of an age-old alliance. Dorian Arillon, the story's hero, is a young man eager to escape ...

The three kingdoms of Alton Savia have lived in peace for generations; but now a dark force gathers in the North and threatens the Southern Alliance as rumours spread of the resurgence of the Order of the Obsidian Mask. Dorian longs to escape from the remote village he has known all his life and now a sudden turn of events catapults him into a strange and dangerous new world, a world of intrigue, magic and the unfaltering march of ten thousand men into battle. Who can turn the tide of war ...

«Through marvelously attentive case studies of a handful of works, some canonical, others obscure, Mark Stuart-Smith provides the most thorough exploration so far of Juan Muñoz’s mesmerizing and haunted world. He inhabits the works, analyzing their mechanisms, materialities and drama, while at the same time connecting them to histories of politics, art and thought of great urgency to Muñoz and no less urgency now. This book has much to say not only about the forces and voices of silence bu...

The traditional model of video news reporting has always had two separate roles: reporting and videography. For years, however, small-market news outlets have relied on “one-man bands”—individual reporters who shoot and edit their own video—for stories and footage. Lately, as the journalism landscape has evolved, this controversial practice has grown more and more popular. With the use of video constantly expanding, many large-market TV stations, networks, and newspaper Web sites are relyi...