Maya Delaney is a skin-walker
- a supernatural who can Shift into the shape of a cougar. But just as she learns this extraordinary
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When Garda Inspector Benedict Devlin is summoned to a burning barn he finds inside the charred remains of a man who is quickly identified as a local drug dealer Martin Kielty. It soon becomes clear that Kielty's death was no accident & suspicion falls on a local vigilante group. Former paramilitaries the men call themselves The Rising. Meanwhile a former colleague's teenage son has gone missing during a seaside camping trip. Devlin is relieved when the boy's mother Caroline Williams receives a text message from her son's phone & so when a body is reported washed up on a nearby beach the inspector is baffled. When another drug dealer is killed Devlin realises that the spate of deaths is more complex than mere vigilantism. But just as it seems he is close to understanding the case a personal crisis will strike at the heart of Ben's own family & he will be forced to confront the compromises his career has forced upon him. With his fourth novel Mc Gilloway announces himself as one of the most exciting crime novelists around: gripping heartbreaking & always surprising The Rising is a tour de force -- Mc Gilloway's most personal novel so far. ...

Rising 44" is a brilliant narrative account of one of the most dramatic episodes in 20th century history drawing on Davies unique understanding of the issues & characters involved. In August 1944 Warsaw offered the Wehrmacht the last line of defence against the Red Armys march from Moscow to Berlin. When the Red Army reached the river Vistula the people of Warsaw believed that liberation had come. The Resistance took to the streets in celebration but the Soviets remained where they were allowing the Wehrmacht time to regroup & Hitler to order that the city of Warsaw be razed to the ground. For 63 days the Resistance fought on in the cellars & the sewers. Defenceless citizens were slaughtered in their tens of thousands. One by one the Citys monuments were reduced to rubble watched by Soviet troops on the other bank of the river. The Allies expressed regret but decided that there was nothing to be done Poland would not be allowed to be governed by Poles. The sacrifice was in vain & the Soviet tanks rolled in to the flattened city. It is a hugely dramatic story vividly & authoritatively told by one of our greatest historians." ...

No.12 in the highly popular My Secret Unicorn" series featuring Lauren & her magical pony Twilight. Lauren & Twilight are delighted to learn that Currant the new foal at Orchard Stables is also a unicorn & that Laurens friend Grace is his special unicorn friend. Now they can all have fun together. But Currant soon realises being a unicorn is not as easy as he thinks particularly when it comes to flying. Currant needs lots of help & luckily Lauren & Twilight know just what to do." ...

Take another step into the wild with the Warrior Cats! Rejoin the adventures in book four of the series set in a thrilling feline fantasy world when the forest is getting hotter & hotter! Firehearts traitorous enemy Tigerclaw has been vanquished & exiled from Thunder Clan -- but Fireheart cant shake the feeling that hes lurking out there in the forest waiting for the chance to strike. Thats not the only problem facing the young Thunder Clan deputy in these blazing summer months as he struggles to handle ominous omens a disrespectful apprentice with a shocking secret & a devastated Clan leader who is a shell of her former self. Meanwhile the forest gets hotter & hotter & everyone braces for the coming storm. ...

As an amateur jockey Roland Britten was lucky; as an accountant he was zealous. He knew he was on the hate list of several fraudsters but never thought pen-pushers got kidnapped
- not from a racecourse. Not after winning the Cheltenham Gold Cup. The identity of the kidnappers unknown the reason behind Britten's abduction is a mystery. Then with the help of old school headmistress Hilary Pinlock he escapes & begins to use his accountant's logic to track his abductors down. But they have other ideas.. .' Dick Francis holds his form like a top-class chaser' The Times Literary Supplement
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Lead your troops. Take a Risk. Rule The World.

Enter a world of gutsy adventure a world where every decision every move every

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As there is a need for careful analysis in a world where threats are growing more complex & serious you need the tools to ensure that sensible methods are employed & correlated directly to risk. Counter threats such as terrorism fraud natural disasters & information theft with the Fourth Edition of Risk Analysis & the Security Survey". Broder & Tucker guide you through analysis to implementation to provide you with the know-how to implement rigorous accurate & cost-effective security policies & designs. This book builds on the legacy of its predecessors by updating & covering new content. Understand the most fundamental theories surrounding risk control design & implementation by reviewing topics such as cost/benefit analysis crime prediction response planning & business impact analysis
- all updated to match todays current standards. This book will show you how to develop & maintain current business contingency & disaster recovery plans to ensure your enterprises are able to sustain loss are able to recover & protect your assets be it your business your information or yourself from threats. It offers powerful techniques for weighing & managing the risks that face your organization. It gives insights into universal principles that can be adapted to specific situations & threats. It covers topics needed by homeland security professionals as well as IT & physical security managers."
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This title provides an integrated risk management framework for Islamic banks. This guide shows students & professionals how to identify measure & mitigate risk in Shariah-compliant banks. Covering the key areas
- credit or default risk liquidity risk market risk operational risk Shariah risk & displaced commercial risk
- it explains risk analysis & mitigation on both the contract & the overall bank level. Using financial statements from a simulated Islamic bank Salem demonstrates how this integrated risk-management process would work in practice & investigates how risk regulatory insights have implications for banking policy. Simulated financial statements include the balance sheet income statement & profit distribution model. It provides a risk coding system that facilitates risk management & reporting systems. It

Includes:: a glossary of key Arabic terms & abbreviations for students & professionals who are not familiar with Islamic finance.



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Simon Serrailler's story began in The Various Haunts of Men" (about a serial killer) & continued with " The Pure in Heart" (about a kidnapped schoolboy). Susan Hill is not afraid to tackle difficult issues nor to face up to the realities of stress in an ordinary English police station. Her third crime novel " The Risk of Darkness" even more compulsive & convincing follows up the child abduction & explores the crazy grief of a widowed husband a derangement which turns to obsession & threats violence & terror. Meanwhile handsome introverted Simon Serrailler whose cool reserve has broken the hearts of several women finds his own heart troubled by the newest recruit to the Cathedral staff: a feisty female Anglican priest with red hair..." The Risk of Darkness" is packed with action & adventure. Like " Various Haunts" it hinges on a terrific twist which comes as a complete surprise to the reader; & like " The Pure in Heart" it deals in depth with complex daily problems." ...