Robin Bailey talks about his long-serving career as a police officer and the challenges and triumphs that came with the job, letting readers see beyond the badge and uniform and glimpse the lives of real people navigating their way through the front lines of law enforcement. Bailey joined the police force in Victoria when he was just 22 years old. In the next 29 years, he rose through the ranks, becoming chief inspector and expert consultant for complex cases. He would cross paths with dangerous criminals and interact with members of the United Nations Police. Bailey's journey also came with its own set of pitfalls as he became embroiled in several life-changing and life-threatening situations. In his book, he talks about all these with equal measures of candor, humour and clear-minded common sense.

From USA Today bestselling author Catherine Bruns comes a delicious mystery on a cruise ship! Full time baker and sometime sleuth Sally Muccio is excited to be traveling on her first cruise along with family and friends. Sal and coworker Josie have been hired to cater desserts for the mortuary event onboard that her father is headlining and are also looking forward to some fun and relaxation in the sun. But the ship’s itinerary doesn’t go as planned when the body of Southern belle and galley director Sarah Leigh Walker is discovered in the freezer. To make matters worse, Sal’s nemesis, the elderly and cranky Nicoletta Gavelli, is accused of the ice-cold crime after a very public and ugly argument with the victim. Despite Nicoletta’s sharp tongue, Sal knows the woman isn't guilty and would never refuse to help her. With the real killer still cruising the decks, Sal and Josie must work fast to track them down before Nicoletta’s last hope sinks faster than the Titanic. *Recipes Included!* What critics are saying: "A fantastic cozy mystery!" —InD'Tale Magazine "I want to visit more with all of the quirky characters just to see what crazy and outrageous things they will do next!" —Fresh Fiction "The Cookies and Chance Mystery series is more than just a series....it's a family !! Once you read the first book, you are hooked and feel like a member of the crazy Muccio family." —Cozy Mystery Book Reviews

The First Children return to find the Soul Rings, Rings with the power to combine two or more souls, so that they may revive the Original. Unfortunately, each of the Rings is possessed by one of Xaos's tyrannical Lords of the universe, ten highly powered god-like beings that rule a tenth of the universe each.Complicating matters is the aftermath of the Andromeda Disaster and the fact that space has changed dramatically since the destruction of the Void. However, whilst it seems that Xaos and his Lords are the only major challenge facing the First Children, they must face treachery from inside their own ranks and a more omnipotent power than they could have ever imagined...Darkness is coming.

2031 A.D. Just a week before Christmas, all hell breaks loose. A crime wave tears through Cryo City like a typhoon, with a sudden explosion of poisoned eggnog on the supermarket shelves and a swarm of an immortal psychopath's sentient, multiplying limbs riding the wave. Damian Warkowski is caught in the middle of this royal mess as he's tasked with finding the man he believes to be responsible for all this chaos--an immortal bank robber whose agenda seems to extend a lot further than running a few bank jobs to fill his pockets. Something big is going down, and no one knows what, but they do know that it ain't gonna be pretty. He's got till Christmas Day to bring it all to a stop; otherwise, the city might not survive to see the New Year.

Alienating for some, yet most intimate and real for others, emerging communications technologies are creating a varied array of cyberspace experiences. Nowhere are the new and old more intertwined, as familiar narratives of the past and radical visions of the future inform our attempts to assess the impact of cyberspace on self and society. Amidst the dizzying pace of technological innovation, Annette N. Markham embarks on a unique, ethnographic approach to understanding internet users by immersing herself in on-line reality. The result is an engrossing narrative as well as a theoretically engaging journey. A cast of characters, the reflexive author among them, emerge from Markham's interviews and research to depict the complexity and diversity of internet realities. While cyberspace is hyped as a disembodied cultural arena where physical reality can be transcended, Markham finds that to understand how people experience the internet, she must learn how to be embodied there_a process of acculturation and immersion which is not so different from other anthropological projects of cross-cultural understanding. Both new and not-so-new, cyberspace provides a context in which we can ask new sorts of questions about all cultural experience.

Mensah is a London Noir. A crime novel with a difference set in the deprived streets of Hackney amongst the African community, a stone throw away from affluent and gentrified parts of the borough and Islington. It pays homage to Raymond Chandler and introduces us to the charismatic Mensah, a black hero for our times. Mensah is the kind of man you go looking for when you have a problem. He might cause mayhem and carnage on the way but he will get the job done. So when a would-be African pop star disappears her rich husband puts Mensah on the case. Soon things start to go wrong and Mensah finds he is the one being hunted. The mean streets of Hackney spell danger for him. Mensah is set in an African city in the heart of London.