Shortly before his 44th birthday, John Diamond received a call from the doctor who had removed a lump from his neck. Having been assured for the previous 2 years that this was a benign cyst, Diamond was told that it was, in fact, cancerous. Suddenly, this man who'd until this point been one of the world's greatest hypochondriacs, was genuinely faced with mortality. And what he saw scared the wits out of him. Out of necessity, he wrote about his feelings in his TIMES column and the response...

At the time of his death from cancer on 1 March 2001, journalist and broadcaster John Diamond had completed six chapters of what was to be "an uncomplimentary look at the world of complementary medicine". These chapters, based on his own experience and on researched fact, which were emailed each week to his editors at Random House, are both personal and poignant, hard hitting and controversial, tackling the issues raised by alternative medicine with total candour and his usual wit. The sec...

'My father, that stern and upright man, was nothing but a swindler and a thief!'What is the matter with old Mr Jones? Endless footsteps and low groans can be heard from his room in the dead of night. Only his son William knows the a terrible secret: his father betrayed his business partner Mr Diamond, and swindled him out of a great fortune. William resolves to go to London, find Mr Diamond and make amends. But the murky big city, with its sinister characters and treachero...

Australiathis astonishing story of actual police corruption will challenge everything you thought about policemen. Loaded with black money, free sex, uncontrollable deceptions, and multiple murders, Double Trouble is a graphic account of cops on the wrong side of the law. Senior Detective John Diamond was in the middle of a mafia investigation when he stumbled across information which indicated serious police corruption at high levels of the force. Instead of forgetting about it, he tried ...

Early in 1978, a young Melbourne cop is seconded to Special Branch to be part of a covert joint task force. He is to infiltrate a religious sect blamed for the Sydney Hilton Hotel bombing. It is there Jack Davidson receives his personal call signa recognition of his birthdate, Scorpion. This story follows Jacks adventure from uniform work to plainclothes work and into the Criminal Investigation Branch. Eventually, disillusioned and aggravated by the level of police corruption, he gives up ...

Stemming from a need to understand strategic processes, examine current practices, and identify the needs of regeneration management professionals, this book cites current regeneration management practice within a framework which critically examines the theoretical models developed over the past twenty years. It features illustrative case studies, learning objectives, key themes boxes, and review and reflection segments, and explains strategic processes and new forms of local, sub-regional...

Challenging some of the established practices of public policy and administration, which have been called into question in recent years by the financial and banking crises of 2008, the authors specifically seek to investigate current public sector management and the public managers acting in the interests of civil society to get to the heart of best practice.

Recently retired from the priesthood, Terence Joseph Glasheen is starting over as a private citizen in the fabled Mile End neighbourhood of Montreal. At loose ends, Glasheen befriends his neighbour, Orenstein, a religious Jew, only to find himself pulled into the goings-on of the surrounding Orthodox Jewish community. Unlikely allies bound by their decency and keen insight, together Glasheen and Orenstein mediate, negotiate, and investigate an acrimonious divorce, the worthiness of a poten...

Searching for John Hughes is Jason Diamond's hilarious memoir of growing up obsessed with the iconic filmmaker's movies.From the outrageous, raunchy antics in National Lampoon's Vacation to the teenage angst in The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink to the insanely clever and unforgettable Home Alone, Jason Diamond could not get enough of John Hughes' films. So, he set off on a years-long delusional, earnest, and assiduous...

A revised and expanded edition of the definitive guide to the Diamond Approach, the modern contemplative practice that integrates psychology and spirituality and emphasizes the importance of self-inquiry.The Diamond Approach has been developed and taught over the last forty-five years by Hameed Ali, who is known chiefly by his pen name, A. H. Almaas. This book, the first to offer a full overview of the Diamond Approach, is now revised and expanded with a new forewo...

Dive into the intelligence that powers artificial intelligenceArtificial intelligence is swiftly moving from a sci-fi future to a modern reality. This edition of Artificial Intelligence For Dummies keeps pace with the lighting-fast expansion of AI tools that are overhauling every corner of reality. This book demystifies how artificial intelligence systems operate, giving you a look at the inner workings of AI and explaining the important role of data in cr...

He wore diamonds to the theatre, forgot his lines on stage, and was booed off by audiences who came purely to laugh at him -- and yet Robert Coates became one of the most talked-about figures in Regency England. This is the extraordinary true story of a man so gloriously, catastrophically devoted to the idea of himself as a great performer that he turned his own failure into a kind of fame. Known across London as Romeo Coates and Diamond Coates, this self-styled Amateur of Fashion crashed ...