New International

Though mankind has traded tangible goods for millennia, recent technology has changed the fundamentals of trade, in both legitimate and illegal economies. In the past three decades, the most advanced forms of illicit trade have broken with all historical precedents and, as Dark Commerce tells, now operate as if on steroids, tied to computers and social media. Author Louise Shelley examines how new technology, communications, and globalization fuel the exponential growth of dangerous forms of illegal trade and considers diverse ways of responding to this increasing challenge.

Low Winter in Mirribool. Deluge, torrent and passion – set to music! After her disastrous marriage, Elle Charlwood now lives in Mirribool, an Australian country town. It’s the home of her childhood friends Shelley and Liam, and where Tolstoy’s War and Peace is being adapted into a stage musical! But will it ever happen? Two celebrities are invited to do major roles for the musical society, and as the cold rain sets in, the resulting drama is not just on the stage. What ties raging rivers, murderous wives, scores to be settled, new horizons, and love together? Girl in a storm! This ...

At an exclusive private school in Switzerland, mystery surrounds the identity of the beautiful girl who arrives each morning and leaves each afternoon in a heavily protected motorcade fit for a head of state. She is said to be the daughter of a wealthy international businessman. She is not. And when she is brutally kidnapped across the border in the Haute-Savoie region of France, Gabriel Allon, the legendary chief of Israeli intelligence, is thrust into a deadly secret war with an old enemy that will determine the future of the Middle East—and perhaps the world....

Dylan "Dee" Cosgrove is one fourth of Australian rock band, The Devil's Tattoo. Loveable, cocky as hell, but something is missing. Something he can’t put his finger on. Seeing his best friend Zoe fall in love changed something in him he didn’t know was broken and his usual string of conquests isn’t satisfying as it once was. When he gets his heart broken by Galaxy Records intern, Jessie Ware, he embarks on a road trip across America with his one true love—his guitar. He doesn't want to live up to his rock star persona anymore, he wants something meaningful but has no idea how to ...

At the beginning of the Cold War, Humphrey left a teaching position at MIT to help lead the struggle against Communism. Finding that US education was contributing to rather than reducing American overseas problems, he developed a new leadership approach that overcame "ugly American" syndrome among hundreds of thousands in crucial third world areas. More recently his methodology won commendations for educating the alleged uneducable....

From drone warfare in the Middle East to digital spying by the National Security Agency, the US government has harnessed the power of cutting-edge technology to awesome effect. But what happens when ordinary people have the same tools at their fingertips? Advances in cybertechnology, biotechnology, and robotics mean that more people than ever before have access to potentially dangerous technologies that could be used to attack states and private citizens alike.

For the first time in her life, Juniper Rowe knows what it’s like to fall for a guy. After a string of tragedies, she’s given her heart to notorious bad boy rocker, Sebastian Hale. She’s all in, no matter the price his fame brings. As time goes by, Juniper’s doubts begin to grow. She’s not sure she belongs on the road with a bunch of wild rock stars—and her boyfriend’s ex is a glamazon with razor sharp claws—but she’s determined to try. Sebastian's worth it…isn’t he? The lines between love and lust are blurred and when it comes to the crunch, dating a rock star might ...

The New Truth is out there... Jack is just an ordinary college student. How has he got involved with shadowy criminals, a deep cover spy, a dodgy businessman, a mysterious internet avatar, a 14th century nun...and a squirrel? And what, exactly, is the New Truth Movement? A genre-bending tale that mixes dry humour, magical realism and new weird elements into a fantastic thriller.

This program is filled with powerful information on the most important topics you are required to know to use the law of attraction. Covering topics on decision, risk, communication, success, persistence, the power of intuition, and intuition, along with mind -hanging MusiVation™ affirmation songs, New Paradigms will help change your old paradigms to the positive, wealthy, and healthy new person that you deserve to be.

We have lost the plot when it comes to migration. In our collective consciousness, the term 'migration' conjures up images of hordes of refugees fleeing 'their' country, escaping on rafts and coming to invade 'ours'. When we think of migration, we think of (largely unwanted) immigration and its ills. We've got it all wrong. Far from being abnormal, the act of going in search of a better life is at the core of the human experience. And now a new kind of nomad is emerging.

In an era when people and money are flowing fast across international boundaries, physically and virtually, culture crashes have become increasingly frequent, says international business consultant Michael Landers. A culture crash is what happens when someone unwittingly offends, frustrates or mystifies a person from a different culture. This can lead to lost business, hurt feelings, damaged relationships, even international incidents.

"The greatest story ever told" is more than just a cliché. God goes to great lengths to rescue lost and hurting people, and that is what The Story is all about: the story of the Bible, God’s great love affair with humanity. Filled with intrigue, drama, conflict, and redemption, listen to chapter six of this dramatized edition that sweeps you into the stories, poems, and teachings of the Bible.

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The head of a drug cartel, a billionaire, a spy’s wife, and a killer experience grief and resolve it in different ways. A DEA team raids the headquarters of a South American drug cartel, but things don't go as planned and the daughter of the cartel chief seeks revenge on the United States. She develops a new narcotic which she plans to release, killing several million Americans. With political tensions running high, the U.S. governmental agencies are unable to act, and the task of preventing the disaster falls to Purple Frog, a clandestine organization devoted to world peace that does not...

A daring secret agent of the worldwide D.A.V.E. spy organization is sent on a perilous mission to save humanity from a weapon as futuristic as a space-based high-energy laser and as ancient as the burning ray of ancient weapon master Archimedes of Syracuse. The action begins in Germany, races across Europe from France to Switzerland, Austria and Italy, then booms across Eastern Europe and roars across the Balkans into Greece, from where it hurtles eastward to the Black Sea port of Odessa, and then rockets into orbit. Plus, this thriller even has its own sound track. So don't wait until the ...

When opposites attract, life’s not so simple… When Hermione Spencer’s parents ask her to housesit their summer home in New Zealand, the English earl’s daughter is happy to escape her impending arranged marriage. She’s sure there will be plenty of time to scout out hotels for her romantic retreats business while she supervises the landscaping of the grounds. Then the gardener arrives, and suddenly life’s not so simple anymore. Danny Love, the owner of Love Landscaping, knows he’s the opposite of the kind of man Hermione needs, but their differences only seem to draw them ...

The rise of China and the fall of Hong Kong to authoritarian rule are told with unique insight in this new history by Michael Sheridan, drawing on eyewitness reporting over three decades, interviews with key figures and documents from archives in China and the West. The story sweeps the listener from the earliest days of trade through the Opium Wars of the 19th century to the age of globalisation, the handover of Hong Kong from Britain to China, the battle for democracy on the city’s streets and the ultimate victory of the Chinese Communist Party.

The social contract shapes everything: our political institutions, legal systems and material conditions, but also the organisation of family and community, our well-being, relationships and life prospects. But accelerating changes in technology, demography and climate will reshape our world in ways many of us have yet to grasp. In this landmark study, Minouche Shafik, director of the London School of Economics, draws on evidence from across the globe to identify the key principles every society must adopt if it is to meet the challenges of the coming century.

On a Dublin city street, packed with afternoon Christmas shoppers, a young woman appears, naked, traumatised and bearing burn marks. Tom Reynolds, now chief superintendent, is no longer head of the murder squad. But when it transpires the woman escaped from a house fire started deliberately and that there are more victims, including a baby, Tom is sucked in. What begins as a straightforward case of arson, soon becomes something much more sinister. The people in that house never wanted to be there in the first place. Now more of them are missing.

When Nick Caine and Ishi go missing from an airport, the price of their freedom is the Syrinx of Polyphemus... The legendary pan flute of a mythological cyclops. But others want it, too—and stealing it will create yet another powerful enemy. The Cyclops is more than a religious relic. It has powers so immense that whoever possesses it could rule the world—or destroy it. They’re dealing with the Illuminati, being chased by a madman, being kidnapped and trying to stop a megalomaniac from taking over the world... It’s all in a day’s work for antiquities thief and looter ...