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. ...

The past is waiting to surface.. . Ethan Quinn shares his late father's passion for the ocean & he is determined to make the family boat-building business a success. But as well as looking out for his young brother Seth the strong but guarded Quinn is also battling some difficult home truths. Grace Monroe the woman Ethan has always loved but never believed he could have is learning that appearances can be deceptive. For beneath Ethan's still dark waters lies a shocking past. With Grace's help can he overcome the shadows that haunt him & finally accept who he is? ...

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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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." ...

Life has not turned out the way that Dan Porter had planned. He thought that when he married Jackie twenty-five years before he would be providing for her & their family until he could retire to a small house on the Devon coast & sit with a smug smile on his face knowing that he had not only done his bit to perpetuate the human race but had achieved it with distinction. But life doesnt always turn out the way you imagine it will. Firstly Jackies little job turned into a high-powered executive position with a top fashion house which required most of her time & attention leaving only a sliver of a moment for her parenting & home-making duties. Secondly that he would suffer an out-of-character brainstorm leave his safe job & start up a business on his own
- but customers had not come rushing to his door. Dan becomes a house husband
- & most of his time is spent studying his empty email inbox. Approaching fifty & having read a magazine article he thinks of a new brainwave
- to upsticks from London buy a croft in Scotland & take over a mail order business with Jackie. The family are not amused...


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This book introduces the reader to the relationship between the Italian national movement achieved by the Risorgimento & the Italian unification in 1860. These themes are discussed in detail & related to the broader European theatre. Covering the literary cultural religious & political history of the period Beales & Biagini show Italy struggled towards nation state status on all fronts. The new edition has been thoroughly rewritten. It also contains a number of new documents. In addition all the most up to date research of the last 20 years has been incorporated. The Risorgimento & the Unification of Italy remains the major text on nineteenth century Italy. The long introduction & useful footnotes will be of real assistance to those interested in Italian unification. ...