A series of short stories profiling ten individuals, including the author, and the why, how, and when they came to love football and what it means to them personally.The stories demonstrate that 'the Beautiful Game' is home to the world's biggest community, and within that community are thousands of stories from people from all walks of life. Different races, ethnicities, religions, genders, sexualities, and more. All come together around the call of football.When Mum a...

The Camberwell Assessment of Need Forensic Version (CANFOR) is a tool for assessing the needs of people with mental health problems who are in contact with forensic services. It is based on the CAN, a widely used needs assessment for people with severe mental health problems. Individual needs are assessed in 25 areas of life, spanning health, social, clinical and functional domains. Comprehensive versions are available for research (CANFOR-R) and clinical use (CANFOR-C), as well as a short...

GEO SOCIO is designed as reference to global event and presents a new area of study. To cross reference (what is known as) a time and space would include daily media reporting from (the four) natural selection together with seismic, atmospheric, solar (etc.) data sources to compile a conclusion to a specific geo-politico event (in-line with reference.) Thus, such event may advance upon a specific path, to symbiotic relation for example. Enjoy, there is no right or wrong conclusion to be ma...

This is the first book to examine the impact of blockchain technology on the business of sport. It introduces the fundamentals of blockchain and explores its current and prospective applications in sport, as well as the implications – both positive and negative – of blockchain for the future of the global sport industry.The book opens by explaining how blockchain works, assuming no prior knowledge on the part of the reader, and introduces the most important aspects of blockchain in...

The Edgar Award–winning debut novel from "America's best storyteller" about a man drawn into espionage by his mysterious business partner ( The New York Times Book Review ).At the height of the Cold War, two Americans are runnng a bar in the West German capital, called Mac's place. One of the pair, Michael Padillo, isn't around a lot; he keeps disappearing on "business trips." McCorkle, his partner, wisely doesn't ask ques...

A thrilling history of the Office of Strategic Services, America's precursor to the CIA, and its secret operations behind enemy lines during World War II.Born in the fires of the Second World War, the Office of Strategic Services, or OSS, was the brainchild of legendary US Maj. Gen. William "Wild Bill" Donovan, designed to provide covert aid to resistance fighters in European nations occupied by Germany's Nazi aggressors. Paratroopers Stewart Alsop and Thomas Brade...

Acclaimed biographer Peter Ackroyd vibrantly resurrects the legendary epic of Camelot in this modern adaptation.The names of Arthur, Merlin, Lancelot, Guinevere, Galahad, the sword of Excalibur, and the court of Camelot are as recognizable as any from the world of myth. Although many versions exist of the stories of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory endures as the most moving and richly inventive. In thi...

Award-winning novelist Joan Thomas blends fact and fiction, passion and science in this stunning novel set in 19th-century Lyme Regis, England—the seaside town that is the setting of both The French Lieutenant's Woman and Jane Austen's Persuasion.More than 40 years before the publication of The Origin of Species, 12-year-old Mary Anning, a cabinet-maker's daughter, found the first intact skeleton of a prehistoric dolphin-...

FBI-certified forensic artist Carrie Stuart Parks infuses her real-life expertise into her award-winning suspense novels.Evelyn McTavish’s world came crashing down with the suicide of her fiancé. As she struggles to put her life back together and make a living from her art, she receives a call that her dog is about to be destroyed at the pound. Except she doesn’t own a dog. The shelter is adamant that the microchip embedded in the canine with her name and address m...

His mother instilled in him the value of hard work and being the best at everything that he could be. As a child, he sold milk from the cow that his family owned. By age 7, he was selling newspapers. Naturally gregarious, he had an enthusiastic demeanor. After graduating from college, he worked at a JCPenney store where he had first-hand exposure to customer service. Shortly thereafter, he purchased a Ben Franklin retail store and that led him to create Walmart. This is the story o...

What began that night shocked Duke University and Durham, North Carolina.And it continues to captivate the nation: the Duke lacrosse team members' alleged rape of an African-American stripper and the unraveling of the case against them.In this ever-deepening American tragedy, Stuart Taylor Jr. and KC Johnson argue, law enforcement, a campaigning prosecutor, biased journalists, and left-leaning academics repeatedly refused to pursue the truth while scapegoats...

In the 1940s, an ice cream machine salesman from Chicago saw his sales decline across America. However, one restaurant in California was ordering more machines. He flew over to meet the customers and it changed his life. He helped the McDonald brothers to expand their business and later purchased it. Today, it is the largest fast-food restaurant chain by revenue. That man was Ray Kroc.The success story of McDonald's has not since been replicated. They are considere...