Detective James North is called upon to deal with a young mentally unstable man holding a child hostage at New Yorks Metropolitan Museum of Art. When he arrives he is disturbed to discover that
- although the bad guy is a complete stranger
- hes been asking for North by name. The hostage situation goes wrong & North finds himself injected with a substance that causes hallucinatory nightmares & flashes of memory that are not his own. He begins to hunt through New York for his attacker a man he feels inexplicably compelled to kill
- a man called Gene. As he does so North unlocks the secret of his past a past that stretches back over 3000 years. GENE is the story of forgotten Greek warrior Cyclades who fought & died in the Trojan Wars & was fated by the gods to be reincarnated seven times. Locked in a cycle of battle with the Babylonian Magi Athanatos Cyclades must once again strive to defeat him & thwart his quest to achieve immortality. Cyclades & Athanatos. North & Gene. But in this incarnation neither man knows which is which or why each of them has the instinctive need to kill the other.


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This practical guide identifies the major websites & online sources of data available to family historians. It is ideal for both beginners & more experienced researchers as it explores the most useful sources & helps readers to navigate each one. The Genealogist's Internet features fully updated URLs & all of the recent developments in online genealogy. This fully updated fifth edition endorsed by the National Archives is the comprehensive guide for anyone researching their family history online. It covers: * Online census records & wills including the 1911 Census * Civil registration indexes * Information on occupations & professions *DNA matching * New genealogy websites & search engines * Surname studies * Passenger lists & migration records * Information on digitised historical maps & photographs This book also

Includes:: the impact of blogging podcasting & social networking on family history research allowing family historians to find others with similar research interests & to share their results. Whether you want to put your family tree online find distant relatives or access the numerous online genealogical forums discussion groups & mailing lists this book is a must-have.

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This book is the ideal companion for anybody researching their family tree. It provides advice & inspiration on methods & problem-solving & helps the amateur family historian understand what successful professionals do to get results & why we should copy them. Over ten chapters it examines the various themes that affect the success or failure of all genealogy research. This begins with an overview of common challenges genealogists encounter & continues with an examination of how to both search effectively & find the right documentary sources. Using examples from her own family history as well as client work teacher & professional genealogist Helen Osborn demonstrates how to get the most from documents analyze problems & build research plans. These subjects lead on to recording results how to ensure relationships are correctly proved organizing information & presenting your findings. Although the book deals mainly with research in England & Wales the skills taught are easily transferable to research in other countries. This book will be particularly valuable to anyone who is stuck with their research in addition to those who are keen to learn about advanced skills & methods used by genealogists. ...

The world's largest urban warfare training compound stands in the desert near Las Vegas. Forty British commandos are being hunted by an entire American battalion. But their commander has an ace up his sleeve: he plans to smuggle in ten CHERUB agents & fight the best war game ever. CHERUB agents have one crucial advantage: adults never suspect that kids are spying on them. For official purposes these children do not exist. ...

This book discusses the extraordinary life & crimes of Martin Cahill gangster criminal mastermind Most Wanted Man. In a twenty-year career marked by obsessive secrecy brutality & meticulous planning Cahill netted over GBP40 million. He was untouchable
- until a bullet from an IRA hitman ended it all. The General tells the inside story of: the Beit robbery
- one of the world's biggest art heists; the attempted assassination of a top forensic scientist; the O' Connor Jewellers robbery netting GBP3m; the tyre-slashing & intimidation; the crucifixion of a suspected 'grass'; & the millions still missing. The book reveals Cahill's bizarre personality & the activities of the Tango Squad the special police unit which targetted him with tactics used on the infamous Kray Gang. Now a major film from John Boorman starring Brendan Gleeson & John Voight.

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Sigmund Freuds controversial ideas have penetrated Western culture more deeply than those of any other psychologist. The Freudian slip the Oedipus complex childhood sexuality libido narcissism penis envy the castration complex the id the ego & the superego denial repression identification projection acting out the pleasure principle the reality principle defence-mechanism
- are all taken for granted in our everyday vocabulary. Psychoanalysis was never just a method of treatment rather a vision of the human condition which has continued to fascinate & provoke long after the death of its originator. Its central hypothesis that we live in conflict with ourselves & seek to resolve matters by turning away from reality did not emerge from experimental science but from self-examination & the unique opportunities for observation presented by the psychoanalytic technique
- in particular from the confessions produced by free-association in Freuds consulting room. Written during the turmoil of the First World War A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis was distilled from a series of lectures given at Vienna University but had to wait for the war to end before being made available to the English speaking world.

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Twenty years after the end of the Second World War an Italian general is despatched to Albania to recover his countrys dead. Once there he meets a German general who is engaged upon an identical mission & their conversations brings out into the open the extent of their horror & guilt newly exacerbated by their present task. As they descend from the callous trivialities of their gruesome business past & present to suffering self-disgust the author gives us glimpses of the lives of the people whose graves they are unearthing. ...

This edition combines the popular approach of short up-to-date chapters which provide complete content coverage of the AQA A



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The second title in bestselling author Simon Scarrow's Revolution series: a quartet of novels focusing on two giants of European history Wellington & Napoleon. It's 1796 as THE GENERALS opens & both Arthur Wellesley (later Wellington) & Napoleon Bonaparte are making their mark as men of military genius. Wellesley as commander of the 33rd Regiment of Foot is sent to India where his skill & bravery make a remarkable impression on his superiors. Napoleon's role as commander of the Army of Italy leads to success in battle & rapid political progress. By 1804 Napoleon has established himself as Emperor & has his sights set on conquering all of Europe. The time has come for Wellesley to stand against Napoleon in the confrontation that lies ahead. ...

Though neither event seems related Agents Sam Ryan & Gabriel Stern quickly discover a link between the two
- the military base
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