Pressure is Malik Wade's compelling, brutally honest description of his descent into the underworld, his years as a FBI fugitive, his incarceration, and his ultimate redemption. Wade began dealing drugs in San Francisco's infamous Sunnydale housing project at age 15. By 19, his network reached from the Bay Area to Washington, DC. By 22, he had made the FBI's wanted list. By 29, he was serving a 14-year stretch in federal prison. In prison, Wade began...

"I didn't come here to sell my soul. I came here to buy it back." Once dubbed "The Deadliest Man Alive," Jarrod Torrealday is a former Olympic saber hopeful and medieval weapons expert banned from competition for killing another fencer in a duel. Despondent, volatile, alcoholic, yet still one of the greatest swordsmen alive, he now works for third-rate fantasy films as a technical consultant and stuntman. When Jarrod accepts the gig of a lifetime...

After researching conversion to and from Islam, this book suggests that misunderstanding surrounds groups of converts from Islam. However, converts should be heard as they understand the perspectives of both traditions, and are potential agents for cross-cultural dialogue and mediation. The book's overarching theoretical framework focuses on the themes of conversion and identity. It records and analyses the experiences of converts from Islam to Christianity,...

Une disparition inquiétante. Des cadavres mutilés. Une course contre la montre et une chasse au serial killer dans laquelle la Suissesse risque bien, elle aussi, de laisser des plumes... Dans cette région subarctique et sauvage du Canada, les jours commencent à se rallonger. Pourtant, le ciel s'assombrit. Les eaux bleu turquoise du Yukon se ternissent et les épinettes noires des vastes forêts se dressent, telles des poils hérissés par l'effroi....

Hassan Malik is an investment strategist and financial historian. He earned a PhD at Harvard University and was a postdoctoral fellow at the European University Institute in Florence and the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse. He lives and works in London. Following an unprecedented economic boom fed by foreign investment, the Russian Revolution triggered the worst sovereign default in history. Bankers and Bolsheviks tells the dramatic story...

A parallel world inhabited by lost souls. A boy thrust into a spiralling adventure. An unbreakable sibling bond.When Kara's very soul is torn from her body on the eve of her 13th birthday, Arias will do anything to find her - even if that means leaving the human world behind and crossing into the wickedly bizarre and fantastical land of Falasia, with no guarantee of return. Discovering a demonic King called Kazzabus plans to stitch Kara into a cloak...