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...

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...

You picked up this book because you have a Raspberry Pi on a shelf, or you are thinking about buying one, and you have no idea where to begin, or because you tried a tutorial before and felt lost the moment the word terminal appeared. You have never written a line of code, and you are not sure what a GPIO pin even is, and you are looking for something that delivers a real, satisfying result without a degree in computer science. A Raspberry Pi is a complete, credit card sized computer that ...

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...

"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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

When Tilly Trolley has a fall on the shopping centre escalator, Brandie and Boyle Barrier offer to help. When they arrive in the back corridors of the shopping centre however, they uncover a warehouse packed full of boxes of crisps and snacks. What started out as a favour from Bennie and Beatrice Barrier's parents quickly turns into a reunion with those that Brandie and Boyle left behind in the crisp factory in Leicester when they were recycled into barriers and moved south. Unfortunately ...