Liam Michaels isn't just a wealthy art dealer and photographer. He is actually Azrael, the angel of death, an immortal sentinel created thousands of years ago before the dawn of man for the purpose of finding and destroying true evil.

Azrael and his Core, a group of highly trained commandos, have just squashed attempted attacks on New York and Chicago by terrorists wielding neutron bombs. In the process, they discovered who was behind the threat: the Ba, an ancient warrior people controlled by a demon-the demon Azrael has been battling for more than three thousand years. Now the fight is about to come to a climax as Azrael and his team pursue the demon across the United States and Europe in a desperate effort to prevent a global nuclear holocaust.

While this high-tech thriller rides the borders of the imagination and tangles with the unthinkable, the futuristic weaponry and advanced military systems employed by Azrael and his commandos arise from technologies that actually exist today in prototype form. In this chilling tale of terrorism, Azrael and the Core must utilize their most daring maneuvers, ingenious countertactics, and flat-out heroics in a brutal battle over the fate of the world.

Never before has there ever been any other program that helped me more as this one, and it gave me a nonsmoking life to live for my future. Michael Oliver, author of Educated Smoker.

Price and Markup Behaviour in Manufacturing examines the role that cost, competing domestic and foreign prices, domestic demand and market structure play in determining the price and markup of manufacturing firms across a range of countries and industries. Michael Olive models imperfectly competitive behaviour at the firm level, establishing logical relationships between these variables. Aggregating these relationships gives predictions for price and markup at the industry level. Empirical analysis is carried out by estimating a pricing equation for 11 industrialised countries in Asia, Europe and North America, and for 24 International Standard Industrial Classification industries from 1970 to 1991. The results exhibit a pattern of incomplete pass-through from competing foreign price into industry price and markups that are not fixed. The author illustrates that for higher levels of industry concentration cost becomes less influential in determining industry price, while the opposite is true for competing domestic and foreign prices. This comprehensive and thorough examination of the literature on pricing, the innovative model development and the comparative analysis in this study will be of great interest to government policymakers and academics wanting to keep abreast of new developments in the area of pricing and markup.

Provides a thorough, updated guide to ungasketed bolted joints and their design Based around the latest ASME standards for bolted joints Covers use of the Finte Element Method for design analysis of bolted joints, with ANSYS examples Expands coverage of threads, internal/external thread interaction, and adjustment for design functions Examines the materials aspects of bolted joint design and behavior

Advancing current readings of the deconstructive work of Jacques Derrida, Deconstructing Undecidability critically explores the problematic nature of decision, including the inherent exclusivity that accompanies any decision. In discourses where a pursuit of justice or liberation from systemic oppression is a primary concern, Michael Oliver argues for an appreciation of the inescapability of making limited, difficult decisions for particular forms of justice. Oliver highlights a similarly precarious predicament in the context of philosophical and religious negotiations of divine decision, pointing to the impossibility of safely navigating this issue. While wholeheartedly affirming the problem of exclusivity that inevitably accompanies decision, this book offers a renewed sense of undecidability that highlights a mistaken, illusory position of indecision as a reflection of power and privilege. Ultimately, this book aims to gain a greater appreciation for the complexity of the problem of decision, in order to be more rigorous and transparent in our continued engagement with it.

An origami crane in remembrance of Hiroshima. A father's faded old photograph of his 1970s pre-marital sports car. Youths congregated at a bus stop. The sounds of an empty house after the children have flown the nest. Common phrases spoken by US tourists. Gangs fighting to the death. Radioactive clouds raining down over Europe. A collection of Princess Diana memorabilia. Teaching English in Siberia. These are just a handful of the themes touched upon in Michael Oliver-Semenov's deeply personal and introspective first poetry collection.

In Deconstructing Undecidability, Michael Oliver explores the problematic nature of decision, including the inherent exclusivity that accompanies any decision, and the ways in which we attempt to avoid recognizing this exclusivity. Advancing current readings of the deconstructive work of Jacques Derrida, Oliver critically examines the perennial problem of inescapable decision by focusing on two particular scenarios. In discourses where a pursuit of justice or liberation from systemic oppression is a primary concern, Oliver argues for an appreciation of the inescapability of making limited, difficult decisions for particular forms of justice. He highlights a similarly precarious predicament in the context of theological understandings and negotiations of divine decision, pointing to the impossibility of safely navigating this issue. In so doing, Oliver offers a renewed sense of undecidability that urges continued vigilance with regard to complex, difficult decisions. While wholeheartedly affirming the problem of exclusivity that inevitably accompanies decision, Oliver argues for the necessity of reckoning with difficult decisions and highlights how one only ever mistakenly inhabits the illusory position of "indecision," i.e. standing outside the decision point, as a reflection of power and privilege. Ultimately, this book aims to gain a greater appreciation for the complexity of the problem of decision-in the contexts of justice work and theological understandings of divine decision-in order to be more rigorous and transparent in our continued engagement with it.

The Blackstone's Guide series delivers concise and accessible books covering the latest legislative changes and amendments. Published soon after enactment, they offer expert commentary on the scope, extent, and effects of the legislation accompanying a full copy of the Act itself. The Sentencing Act 2020 is the culmination of over four years' work to identify the myriad legislative provisions which form part of the sentencing process and produce a coherent consolidation which would stand as a Code, capable of being treated and developed as a single source. The purpose of the Code is to draw together a single statement of the law that stipulates what happens to an offender who is convicted of, or has pleaded guilty to, a criminal offence. This includes the general principles of sentencing law, the orders a court may or must impose as a result of an offender's plea, conviction, or breach of an existing sentence, and any related case management functions. It represents a major landmark for the criminal justice system in England and Wales. This Guide provides an essential bridge for practitioners from the previous patchwork of sentencing procedure to the new unified Code and includes valuable checklists and tables which map the previous statutory basis for all key elements of the Code to the new Act. The enhanced digital product (included) provides both offline and online access wherever you are on OUP LawReader. Synchronize your notes and bookmarks across all of your devices, and take advantage of the quick and simple search function to find what you need, whenever you need it.

After a hostile takeover attempt of his video game design company Imaginarium that resulted in the murder of his wife, Cailan Bane retires to the northern Maine woods to rethink his life. But his plans go in the dumpster when he intervenes to save a young boy being chase by mysterious assault rifle-wielding commandos. He's forced to revive his persona as the Death Whisperer, a former Force Recon Marine sniper who rained the wrath of God on the Taliban, in order to get the boy to safety. But when the boy reveals that his entire town has disappeared and is now occupied by strangers bent on killing him as the only survivor, Cailan and his old sniper teammate, Dan Gabriel, investigate. What they discover is a terrorist plot that will make the 9-1-1 disaster look like a fender bender. Cailan's intervention brings him to the attention of the terrorist mastermind, who contracts a deadly assassin to hunt down and kill him. Cailan is forced to fight a two-front war, trying to preserve the lives of thousands as well as his own, knowing that in this war, you only lose once. After that, no one keeps score.

Never before has there ever been any other program that helped me more as this one, and it gave me a nonsmoking life to live for my future. Michael Oliver, author of Educated Smoker.

Mirlinda Dzafer is a conundrum. She has a doctorate in international economics and a position as an Associate Professor at the University of Chicago's Gleacher School of Business. When not teaching, she owns and operates a trendy sports bar, all while raising her adopted daughter. But Mirlinda is also an elite assassin. Raised from the age of four in a secret Spetsnaz GRU program that began under the Soviet government, she speaks seven languages like a native and is an expert with guns, knives, hand-to-hand combat, explosives, and poisons. After defecting to the U.S., she became a CIA operative, and eliminated the five remaining assassins from the Soviet program. Yet nothing prepares her for an email inviting her and seven other elite assassins to participate in a contest to assassinate two high value targets. The prize-one hundred million dollars. The targets-the vice president and president of the United States. With the help of Cailan Bane and Dan Gabriel, an ex-force recon Marine sniper team known as the Death Whisperers, and Manny Alito, the Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago FBI office, Mirlinda must hunt down the other assassins to protect the vice president and president while Cailan and Dan follow a trail to uncover the identity of the contest sponsors. What they discover is an insidious plot that could undermine the entire American political system and send the country into chaos. Stopping it will require an impolitic solution.

Standing Naked in Rose Petals tells an amazing tale of discovery, identity, and commitment to one's true purpose. The most enchanting, magical, and rewarding life of all is using our own stories to become more human.