Have you wondered if it is possible to kick depression out of your life without resorting to medication?Most depression related medication can have a series of harmful side effects that sometimes leave patients in an even worse state than before.Cognitive behavioral therapy has been one of the most successful methods of treating and eliminating depression, anxiety and negative thought patterns with little to virtually no side effects.Here's some of what you can expe...

This book presents the histories of the revolutions in Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela as the latest demonstrations of the price the popular masses pay for the absence of a correct revolutionary strategy. The goal of the leaders of the revolutionary movements in all three countries was to create a progressive, independent bourgeois-democratic state but contrary to expectations, the national bourgeoisie did not welcome a national democratic revolution. Instead, faced with a mass movement, it...

The email arrived at 9 AM on a Tuesday, and a man who had spent nine years writing software that helped other software run faster was suddenly a person with a severance and a question. Maybe you are that man, or maybe you are the person whose team was cut in a wave, or the one who has always wondered whether the bedside might be better than the backlog. Whatever brought you here, you share a conviction this book was written to honor: that the title on your badge was never the whole of who ...

Bennie Barrier returns in another big city adventure. It's Halloween in Southampton City Centre and the city is dressed up for the Day Of The Dead celebrations with everyone dressing up as zombies and monsters. Whilst Bennie Barrier and his team are finishing off fixing some broken railway lines near Southampton Central Station, they see Tanya Train speeding through the tunnel at high speed and completely overshooting the platform. This is very out of character and with the help of some ne...

"A valuable stand-alone text . . . Contains large amounts of data on all of the vessels officially classified as battlecruisers in the Royal Navy." — International Journal of Maritime HistoryThe brainchild of Admiral Sir John Fisher, battlecruisers combined heavy guns and high speed in the largest hulls of their era. Conceived as super-cruisers to hunt down and destroy commerce raiders, their size and gun-power led to their inclusion in the battlefleet as a...

This book answers the questions: - What was the class composition and class nature of the Chinese Communist Party when it took power in 1949? - What forces pushed the Mao regime, despite its explicitly class-collaborationist strategy, to take measures which were objectively socialist and to establish the Chinese workers' state? - The Chinese Revolution was a practical test of both Trotsky's theory of permanent revolution and Mao's theory of uninterrupted revolution by stages. Which theory ...

Alison Pearce, a recent graduate from the Police Academy, grapples with tragedy when her father is killed in a devastating earthquake in central London.Amidst ridicule from her colleagues, Alison takes on an undercover mission to unveil a Special Branch double agent collaborating with the Chinese government.As she navigates a world where every choice carries a perilous outcome, Alison confronts the daunting question: how far must she push herself to carve out her place in a...

Bennie Barrier returns in another big city adventure. When Bex, the city centre's beach bus broke down by the shopping centre, Bruno Bus was asked to step in and help. Worried about all of the sand and wet feet ruining his interior, Bruno asked for Bennie Barrier's help. What started out as a day out at Keyhaven Beach ended up being a day none of the Maintenance Team ever forgot.

Join Blake Langford and his colleagues in four new short stories that complement the novel series; The Blake Langford Adventures.Guest ListSpecial Branch agent Blake Langford is drawn into a bizarre case when an Elvis Presley tribute artist is accused of murdering his promoter.The investigation leads Blake and his team to the USA and reveals a sinister connection to an entertainment manager based in Branson, Missouri, orchestrating chaos in the worl...

With so much information flooding the internet these days, it's often difficult for aspiring writers to know where to start and what advice they should take.Falling victim to this madness, I began writing a blog on Substack where I shared my own experiences of becoming an author and gave my own take on issues that I encountered along the way.None of the blogs featured here are meant to be 100% accurate. This is just my own interpretation of subjects that cropped up in my au...

Artificial general intelligence is the most contested phrase in technology, and almost no one defines it the same way twice. John Roberts cuts through the noise with a clear framework: AGI is not a switch, it is a capability expansion already unfolding beneath your feet. Written for analysts, founders, investors, creators, and the curious citizen watching machine intelligence reshape their industry, it delivers mental models the headlines cannot.Roberts takes you inside the predict...

Most software fails before a line of code is written. It fails when a product manager says "customer" and a developer hears a boolean flag in a database table. The words business and engineering use do not match, and each mismatch compounds into rework, defects, and a codebase nobody trusts. This book fixes that at the source by modeling complex software around the business it serves, with proven domain-driven design practices.This practical field guide is for architects, senior de...