Now in its Eighth Edition, Robert M. Clark′s classic Intelligence Analysis: A Target-Centric Approach once again delivers a consistent, clear method for teaching intelligence analysis, demonstrating how a collaborative, target-centric approach leads to sharper and more effective analysis. In addition to looking at the intelligence cycle, collection, managing analysis, and dealing with intelligence customers, the author also examines key advances a...

Over the past thirty years the Australian travel experience has been ‘Aboriginalized’. Aboriginality has been appropriated to furnish the Australian nation with a unique and identifiable tourist brand. This is deeply ironic given the realities of life for many Aboriginal people in Australian society. On the one hand, Aboriginality in the form of artworks, literature, performances, landscapes, sport, and famous individuals is celebrated for the way it blends exoticism, mysticism, multicultu...

A beautifully written story of love, idealism, and our recent history.Amid the crises of the summer of 1968, two teenagers become lovers. Emily is a good Catholic girl, for whom an incarnate God means joy and contentment in the life of the body. William is preoccupied, in a vague sort of way, with politics and the evils of the System. Together, impelled by physical passion and the idealistic notion that "all our life is some form of religion, and all our action som...

On May 26, 1896, in Victoria, British Columbia, hundreds of residents and visitors headed out to a grand military display, the culmination of days of celebration surrounding Queen Victoria’s birthday. As a packed electric streetcar crossed the Point Ellice Bridge, passengers heard a loud crack and felt a sharp jolt. A moment later, the car, its occupants and the entire span of the bridge crashed into the water below, resulting in fifty-six deaths and overwhelming the city with grief.

At midnight, she tried to end her own life.At ten minutes past, she found the body.The most wanted man in Britain floats alone in the ocean. Just moments from death, a young woman by the name of Rosselin Claes rescues him.He can’t remember the events that led up to the moment he was found, and he is in dire need of help. The kindness of a stranger pulls him back from the void. Yet as he rests, the curse of James Stone strikes again.Stone can’t...

The Chronicles of the City of E is a captivating Christian allegory set in a richly imagined world where the eternal struggle between light and darkness plays out against the backdrop of a city in search of redemption. This epic narrative follows the journey of the Thirteen, a diverse group of guardians chosen to protect the city of E, as they navigate the trials and tribulations that threaten its very soul. Through vivid characters, deep philosophical reflections, and a narrative rich wit...

Second in a two-volume set, this book discusses the role of public-private partnerships (PPPs) in global transportation infrastructure, specifically focusing on roads, bridges, and parking. To provide vital services in an era of shrinking government budgets, public-private partnerships have become an increasingly important part of travel infrastructure worldwide.This book describes and analyses the structure of various models of PPPs in several countries, evaluating their effective...

In 1994, Robert Black was convicted of the kidnapping, sexual assault and murder of three young girls, and sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum tariff of thirty-five years; in 2011 he was convicted of a fourth such killing. He died in HMP Maghaberry, Northern Ireland, in January 2016, aged sixty-eight, unmourned, and entirely unrepentant of his repellent crimes.These bald facts, horrific as they are, do not begin to scratch the surface of the truth about Robert Black, a Sc...

A compelling personal memoir and a scathing indictment of bureaucratic indifference and agenda-driven government policies.In his thirty years in the Canadian prison system, Robert Clark rose from student volunteer to deputy warden. He worked with some of Canada's most dangerous and notorious prisoners, including Paul Bernardo and Tyrone Conn. He dealt with escapes, lockdowns, prisoner murders, prisoner suicides, and a riot. But he also arranged ice-hockey games in a maximum-securit...

Six sisters, two brothers, a Monty Python–loving mom, and a military father all add up to one very full and funny house in Rob Clark’s Robservations. Growing up in a chaotic Catholic household in the ’60s and ’70s was rarely easy—forced haircuts, cranky nuns, fetching tampons, and the worst pizza ever made are the least of the author’s troubles as he navigates family, faith, and finances in Barrie, Ontario.Follow Rob as he attempts to answer life’s biggest questions: How do you get...

Something is wrong with Sophie.It starts small — a few missing seconds, a sentence she can't remember stopping. By the time her closest friends notice the gaps, the spaces are growing: lost hours, words written in her sleep, a voice in her flat that isn't hers.They call it stress. They call it exhaustion. Eventually, they call it what it is.When Mark finds Nicholas Grey — calm, certain, and exactly the kind of man you'd trust with something you can'...

A gritty yet high-spirited tale of life and death. This humorous and witty true-crime memoir tells of one man’s place in a flawed system, whose resilience and dedication shine through his often-harsh reality.As a directionless young man, when Robert sent off an application to be a police officer he did not stop to consider what it might entail. His career began in the mid-nineties, and he hit the ground running, quickly finding no two days were the same.Being a police offic...