Nik: 181 books

The journey for a new business is often complex and arduous and The Mobile Boardroom covers some of the bigger questions and challenges those business owners and senior managers will face. It looks at all the important elements to consider when starting up a business through to running it successfully...

The first guide to show you how to power your site using Umbraco. More companies are turning to the power and simplicity of Umbraco's web content management system to build robust, customized sites. Written by leaders in the Umbraco community, this invaluable guide takes you through every aspect...

This book critically investigates the discourses and practices of human security and aims to delve below the stereotypical imageries representing them.    Drawing on Foucault and Deleuze, the author approaches human security from a new perspective, with the aim of ascertaining what...

Combining theories of calculation and property relations and using an array of archival sources, this book focuses on the building and decommissioning of state-owned defense factories in World War II–era Chicago. Robert Lewis’s rich trove of material—drawn from research on more than six hundred...

In a dystopian world ravaged by war and environmental collapse, one man fights history to discover the truth about his wife and child. After decades of war, the brutal Tathadann Party restored order toshattered Eitan City by outlawing the past and rewriting history. Memory is a commodity –...

Author Jo Uddermann has published an autobiographical novel about certain dark events in his past. Expectations run high both in the publishing house and the media, but after an appearance on television sinister things begin to happen: anonymous letters, Barbie dolls with their heads cut off, dead...

As the remnants of humanity defend against the onslaught of a deadly infection, an army commander is sent on a voyage along the river Thames to discover the whereabouts of a missing general. Along the way he witnesses the futility of humanity's struggle and experiences the overwhelming power that...

HIS MIND COULD SAVE THE WORLD... IF SHE CAN SAVE HIM FROM THE HUMAN RACE.The Shield is Earth’s only defence. Rendering the planet invisible from space, it keeps humanity safe and hidden. The exceptional minds of the Actives maintain the Shield; without them it cannot function.When an Active called...

A murder during one of the worst winters on record, forces a desperately short staff Newcastle-on-Tyne Police to seek help from the Metro police in London, which they receive in the form of the cantankerous Detective Inspector David Charles, and his long-suffering sidekick, Detective Sergeant Malcolm McKarnﾅ

After a difficult start in life, Joey's dreams are finally coming true after he is accepted to the college of his choice. He attempts to find what’s missing on a BDSM website and is invited to dinner by Gabriel. Joey finds comfort in Gabriel’s understanding of his needs and accepts an invitation...

A sound understanding of legal professional privilege provides practitioners with a strategic advantage not to be underestimated. This authoritative text provides a comprehensive reference to legal privilege in both contentious and non-contentious contexts. This book addresses both legal advice and...

An epic tale of mind-control and sinister conspiracies, magnetic cult leaders and an evil cabal intent on establishing the New World Order.The US is suffering from an unusual rash of mass cult suicides. The bloody and shocking deaths of almost one hundred people in a seedy Brooklyn warehouse...

The Mercedes 126 S-Class of 1979-1991 remains the most successful premium saloon in the company's history and is considered by many to be one of the best cars in the world. "You don't simply decide to buy an S-Class: it comes to you when fate has ordained that your life should take that course....

This book argues that qualitative methods, ethnography included, have tended to focus on the human at the cost of understanding humans and animals in relation, and that ethnography should evolve to account for the relationships between humans and other species. Intellectual recognition of this has...