Bøker av Mark Allen

A multi-narrator novel in which six of the young people who took part in an international voluntary service project in Calabria in 1963, write of that project, the disappearance of one of their number, and the repercussions in their lives over the next sixty years, in Bosnia, East Germany, Colombia, Australia, Italy, Malawi and England.

The term "patho-" refers to the observed physical changes and "physio-" to the disease's functional processes or mechanisms. Pathophysiology describes the changes that occur during a disease process. Pathophysiology is the branch of toxicology that studies the biochemical and physical changes that occur when a person (known as the "host") is exposed to toxic levels of a substance.In toxicology, pathophysiology considers how the qualities of the poison (for instance, measurement, actual properties and substance properties) and the attributes of the host (counting species, life stage, wellbeing/conceptive status, digestion, and individual responsiveness) communicate to deliver physical and additionally biochemical changes in the host. The host's response to a toxicant's effects is another aspect of pathophysiology. Physical and chemical injury may be sufficient to cause rapid death in acutely lethal intoxications. Toxicant-induced injury causes dysfunction of cells, tissues, and/or organs in non-lethal toxic exposures that may last or lead to death.

"Lucas Stone, full-time sheriff, part-time preacher, and sometimes-vigilante, stumbles into a war between local truckers and a biker gang. The rural highways of Garrison County have become road-raging kill zones and the corpses are starting to stack up like cordwood. Pulling the strings is The Remnant, an army of neo-Nazi terrorists. When the feds get involved, Stone finds himself playing second fiddle to Tanya Bester, an FBI supervisor with a chip on her shoulder and a mile-wide competitive streak. Not content to just take over his investigation, Bester invades Stone's personal life as well. The battle between the truckers and bikers is just a warmup for a wider war. The Remnant is determined to make a lethal power play against a government they deem weak and corrupt. When Stone stands in their way, they set their crosshairs on Whisper Falls, targeting law dogs and laymen with impunity. The Remnant believe they are a ruthless, irresistible force. But they are about to slam against Stone's cold, immoveable belief in primal justice"--

Huntington Valley was a haven for family and friends who lived and worked together for generations. A community that would be no longer, with the proposed highway coming through the heart of it, all in the name of so-called improvement. Maureen, like all the others, would have no choice but to move on. Her husband, Bob, and her little angel, Emily, were ready to move on. Emily imagined life as a big adventure and ran at it with eyes wide open and a smile on her face.They will start over in Weston Springs, a small town not far away. But they must accept the change and try to embrace their new lives and all that goes with it, if they have any chance of happiness.

"Things get hot in Whisper Falls when a string of arsons sets the town on edge. When the latest fire causes the death of a beloved citizen and all signs point to the husband, Garrison County becomes a powder keg ready to blow. Lucas Stone, a former black ops specialist who is now the sheriff, knows that he needs to get to the bottom of things before his quiet town is filled with nothing but flames and death. Then a local girl is burned alive and all hell breaks loose. Who is behind the killing? Why did they target an innocent kid? When another girl is abducted, the countdown is on to save her life before she, too, meets a horrific, fiery end. Stone will move heaven and earth to find her. Because when law and order go up in smoke, the only thing that remains is primal justice"--

A HIGH-VOLTAGE ACTION SERIES THAT PROVES SOMETIMES 'THE LAW' AND 'JUSTICE' AREN'T THE SAME THING.Once a man of war, Lucas Stone becomes the preacher of a small church in Whisper Falls, a mountain town located deep in the rural ruggedness of the northern Adirondacks. As he tries to atone for the sins of his past and find some kind of redemption, he believes the dark days of blood and bullets are behind him.Turns out, he's dead wrong.A young girl turns up murdered in the swamp and the local sheriff is too lazy to do much about it, so Stone puts down his Bible, picks up his gun, and starts kicking over rocks to see what comes crawling out. He soon discovers there is a sickening darkness at the heart of Whisper Falls and finds himself with a bullseye on his back.When the vicious cabal corrupting his new hometown targets the people Stone cares about, he reverts to the cold, hard violence of his warrior days, dispensing primal justice.

HARD-HITTING PULP ACTION - AS THE BULLETS BLAZE IN A SCORCHED EARTH SHOWDOWN THEY'LL DISCOVER WHAT TRULY MATTERS MOST. In the cold, lonely world of hired guns, Malakai is a legendary trigger-puller. The victim of a twisted, abusive childhood that left him both physically and emotionally scarred, blood and bullets have become his religion. Once partnered with Gabriel Asher before he walked away, Malakai stayed with the Company, honing his lethal skills to become the quintessential lone wolf assassin. When he is contracted to stop the Syndicate-a powerful Japanese crime organization-from blackmailing the chairperson of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Malakai discovers someone is playing Judas and he needs to flush them out before he gets burned. As the chaos and carnage escalate, his life gets complicated by the arrival of a mysterious woman who may have even more scars on her soul than he does. But is she really who she says she is? With betrayal all around him, Malakai knows one wrong move could cost him his life. When the Syndicate hires a ruthless assassin named Jesus to hunt him down, Malakai knows the only way to survive is to fight fire with hellfire.

HARD-HITTING ACTION WITH A WHOLE LOT OF HEART. Burned by the betrayal of his best friend and embittered by the tragic death of his wife, former government assassin Gabriel Asher becomes a freelance gun-for-hire, trying hard to bury the past beneath a violent sea of bullets, blood, and booze. But some sins refuse to stay buried... Asher soon finds himself targeted by Black Talon, a brutal kill-team from his past led by the ruthless and legendary Colonel Macklin. Asher just wants to be left alone but when fate thrusts an ex-lover back into his life and she is caught up in the crossfire, Asher unleashes a take-no-prisoners war against his enemies. As the guns thunder and the bodies bite the dust, he finds the scars on his soul being ripped wide open. With its full-throttle pace, hard-hitting action, and heart-wrenching emotion, The Assassin's Prayer is a relentless tale of redemption for those who know that sometimes bullets speak louder than words.

A first-person narrative, the story of a life distorted by sexual abuse in childhood and a serious crime in early adulthood that concealed for decades before the narrator, now retired, finally ends up in prison where he writes this memoir for his estranged daughter.

FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE TEAM REAPER SERIES COMES KANE…When John 'Reaper' Kane is forced to gun down a fourteen-year-old boy in self-defense, the combat-weary warrior becomes disillusioned with the endless cycle of blood and violence his life has become. He goes off-grid in the remote mountain town of Vesper Lake for a week of soul-searching, but when he steps in to help a young woman from being molested, his two-fisted interference finds him running afoul of the local sheriff. In the violent aftermath, he discovers that the town suffers under the crushing stranglehold of Nazareno 'The Nazarene Dragon' Pedregon, a ruthless drug lord commanding his criminal empire from inside Black Bog Federal Prison, a cesspool of death and corruption.Framed for murder, Kane is dragged into the prison and forced to fight for his life when Nazareno finds out who he really is. After surviving a series of brutal, kill-or-be-killed battles, Kane pulls off a brazen escape and flees into the deep, unforgiving woods of the Adirondack Mountains, hunted by both a prison special operations team and cartel kill-squads. Alone, exhausted, and outgunned, with enemies closing in on all sides, the odds are stacked against him. But when the hunt turns primal, Kane knows that the only way to survive is by tooth and nail."Visceral, unforgiving violence that takes no prisoners."

THE GUNS BLAZE, THE BODIES STACK, AND THE KILL-COUNT SKYROCKETSWhen a ruthless Colombian cartel kidnaps the 10-year-old son of a DEA agent for leverage, Team Reaper unleashes a blood-and-bullets blitz that uncovers an unholy alliance dirtier than the devil's own heart.Hunted by both a rogue black ops assassin and a cartel cutthroat, Team Reaper take the fight from sin-soaked city streets to the jungle hell-zones of Colombia. Meanwhile, a devastating series of terrorist attacks strike New York City as al-Qaeda rises from the ashes and ignites a political firestorm that threatens to topple the President.With a young boy's life on the line and the fate of a nation at stake, Team Reaper refuses to retreat.A non-stop action-fest - Kill Count is the fifth book in the thrilling Team Reaper Series.

This book originally saw the light of day as a long running series of articles in Wargames Illustrated in the late 1980¿s. Due to growing interest in the wars of the late 17th century, the author of the original features has complied them along with new research and made them available again for the first time in thirty years.The book is very much a handbook covering all the major conflicts and battles of the period, it examines how the armies were organised and fought. Each army is covered, with attention paid to specific uniform details, and the colours carried by the individual regiments.

Author of The Canterbury Tales and foundation of the English literary tradition, Geoffrey Chaucer has been popular with readers, writers and scholars for over 600 years. More than 4600 books, essays, poems, stories, recordings and websites pertaining to Chaucer were published between 1997 and 2010, and this bibliography identifies each of them separately, providing publication information and a descriptive summary of contents. The bibliography also offers several useful discovery aids to enable users to locate individual items of interest, whether it be a study of the Wife of Bath's love life, a video about Chaucer's language, advice on how to teach a particular poem by Chaucer, or a murder mystery that features Chaucer as detective. Useful for scholars, teachers and students alike, this volume is a must for academic libraries.

This business fable highlights 13 talent management principles, illustrating them in action at a fictional company with a charismatic and passionate Chief People Officer.

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From setting appropriate goals for each type of fitness to learning how to feed both body and soul, this ground-breaking guide goes beyond the typical health mantras—eat right, exercise regularly, reduce stress—and explores the emotional and physical obstacles to corporeal and spiritual fitness. Based on the immensely successful training of a six-time Ironman triathlete by a renowned Huichol Indian healer, this handbook seeks to remedy the conspicuous absence of spirituality in typical Western exercise regimens by explaining how to incorporate the divine into everyday exercises and why the two issues are inexorably linked. After years of respective training, both parties realized that the art of prayer and its signature mindfulness could increase not only one's physical abilities but also the mind, and that fitness wasn't just a matter of good cardiovascular health and strong muscles. Whether training for intense competition or just reaching fitness goals, this indispensable resource discusses how to exceed mental limitations and become successful in any physical, emotional, or spiritual journey.