A compilation of the author's own vast personal experiences, investigative reports and news coverage, mixed with outlooks and observations of life from ancient authors to present. Award winning journalist Randolph C. Shaw has spent more than three decades in newspapers, radio and television news broadcasting. He is a former network radio correspondent who worked for a decade in our nation's capitol covering everything from the Watergate hearings to the presidency of Ronald W. Reagan. Shaw ...

In a world of dragons...When Rose Blackthorn decides to tour the Southern Lands, she only hopes to improve her painting skills. She doesn't expect adventure.Join Rose as she pursues artistic excellence through the white-topped mountains, along the seaside, and in the corrupt city of Tirras--and finds friendship, romance, and a dragon-sized helping of trouble along the way.Art. Adventure. And lots of tea.

The past is about to catch up to JackLogan and Taylor Parks in this gripping follow-up to The Network—praised by Steve Berry as “mandatory reading for any thrilleraficionado.”It’s been almost two years sinceinvestigative reporter Jack Logan and television producer Taylor Parks broughtdown the Institute—the secret facility responsible for indoctrinating ageneration of America’s political and media power players. Their live...

A non-stop, fantasy adventure set in a unique and expansive magical world, perfect for fans of Samantha Shannon, Brandon Sanderson and Robert Jackson Bennett.Ailyanna was one good con away from her ticket East and escape from the looming war, and instead she's locked in the palace dungeon staring at a lifetime sentence. You scam one prince and suddenly you're the captain of the constable's personal obsession.While Captain Kresta would love for Ailyanna to...

"A twisty, nonstop conspiracy thriller that only has one gear: high! The Network delivers." —Andrew Gross, #1 New York Times Bestselling Author"This is mandatory reading for any thriller aficionado." —Steve Berry, New York Times Bestselling AuthorA pulse-pounding, page-turning thriller involving corruption, secrets, and lies at the very deepest levels of government and media.A shadowy group is ...

Woven textiles are produced by nearly all human societies. This volume investigates evidence for patterned textiles (that is, textiles woven with elaborate designs) that were produced by two early Mediterranean civilizations: the Minoans of Crete and the Mycenaeans of mainland Greece, that prospered during the Aegean Bronze Age, c. 3000–1200 BC, contemporary with Pharaonic Egypt. Both could boast of specialists in textile production. Together with their wine, oil, and art, Minoan and Mycen...

Customer Experience is now the key differentiator as consumers and businesses alike decide among competing brands. The authors explore growing trends in Experience Psychology, Social Media and Neuroscience and their impact on Customer Experience that businesses need to understand to gain preference, loyalty and market share.

In Now Is the Time! Todd C. Shaw delves into the political strategies of post–Civil Rights Movement African American activists in Detroit, Michigan, to discover the conditions for effective social activism. Analyzing a wide range of grassroots community-housing initiatives intended to revitalize Detroit’s failing urban center and aid its impoverished population, he investigates why certain collective actions have far-reaching effects while others fail to yield positive results. Wh...

Conventional computed tomography (CT) techniques employ a narrow array of x-ray detectors and a fan-shaped x-ray beam to rotate around the patient to produce images of thin sections of the patient. Large sections of the body are covered by moving the patient into the rotating x-ray detector and x-ray source gantry. Cone beam CT is an alternative te

This study of clothing during British colonial America examines items worn by the well-to-do as well as the working poor, the enslaved, and Native Americans, reconstructing their wardrobes across social, economic, racial, and geographic boundaries.Clothing through American History: The British Colonial Era presents, in six chapters, a description of all aspects of dress in British colonial America, including the social and historical background of British ...

This book documents the two ideas of cosmos that prevailed from about 500 BCE until about 1840 CE. These two ideas of cosmos were the foundation for theories of creation that continue even today.Both of these ideas of cosmos were based on the perception of the sky as a solid structure, a work of art, divine art. The four revolutionary scientists of the modern era Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, and Newton did a great deal to challenge the cosmos. Their work was limited, however, to ou...

When everything you thought you knew about your life turns out to be a lie, who can you trust?After witnessing his mother's death Gabriel Smith finds himself orphaned and surrounded by strangers. Under the guardianship of an uncle he had never heard of, and convinced his mother was killed, Gabe struggles to deal with the loss of the life he knew. Thrown into the centre of a prophecy, in a world where power is everything, only his friendship with Emma gives him the strength he needs...