Bøger af Andy Thomas

On the edge of the city lies the neglected Scheme, a City Fund zone bounded by the Lake and the Pyramid.Jack Malik, entrepreneur and nightclub operator, carries a letter from murdered dancer Alina home to Russian enclave Kaliningrad, and agrees to collect a secret parcel from Shanghai.What he brings will attract the City Leader's attention, and echo through the Cosmos.Dedicated to the visionaries of Cubesats and personal spacecraft.

This terse bleak gritty novel of lies and layers of deception centres on a young trafficked woman from Transnistria. Anastasia, 'Nastya' to her friends, holds the balance of power in the British Secret Intelligence Service between Bea, the Chinese expert and art historian, and 'Ammer, the radio ham who is Head of Russia. In action from Tiraspol to Tallinn, from a brothel in Berlin to a bar in Bangalore, on board the International Space Station and the Chinese Station Tiangong, Nastya brings the "Dima" trilogy to its startling conclusion.

In the ten years since the first ever Encyclopedia for the label producer and label user sectors was published it has become an established and well-respected international reference source, providing a comprehensive understanding of the technology and terminology for all kinds of label and product decoration solutions.It included materials, adhesives, printing methods, application technologies, inspection systems as well as the related areas of tickets and tags. It also covered legislative requirements and the growing area of brand protection and security as well as new innovations, including smart labels, RFID, indicator labels and chipless tags.Now these topics have been substantially updated and extended in the latest edition of the Encyclopedia to incorporate the production of narrow-to-mid-web package printing, the fast-changing world of digital imaging, printing and finishing, digital direct-to-shape and the new technologies of digital watermarking, mobile interactive labels and packaging, as well as the latest converting and tooling solutions and an understanding of printed sachets, pouches, flexible packaging and cartons. More information has been included on the environment and sustainability, and mention made of all the leading industry associations and relevant bodies.More informative, more relevant and more comprehensive, this new edition of the Encyclopedia should be a basic reference source for every label printer/converter and industry supplier - as well as for the designer, pack producer and brand owner looking to better understand label and related technology, markets and applications.

Jas Gill, the astronomer son of a British Army officer, had every reason to hate the Russian KGB after what they had done to him as a young man. But after the fall of Communism he returned East, criss-crossing Eastern Europe and Russia, from Riga to Bulgaria, and Warsaw to Siberia. Yet unknown to him his tormentor Dima was still there, and had chosen him again for a dangerous mission. Somehow the Leshii, spirits of the Russian forest, held the secret of Yuri Gagarin's soul...

The Sun is dying. The Northern latitudes of the Earth are frozen and cannot support life.In a desperate attempt to re-ignite the Sun, the space agencies of the world mine the regolith, rich in the Helium-3 isotope, from the Shackleton crater on the Moon. After distilling rocket fuel from ice, they launch the rich soil into the heart of the Sun to cause a solar flare.But the mine depends on the community of migrant workers, and the magnetic isolation of the Moon leaves their relationships- between men, women, learning machines, and transhumans- vulnerable to cosmic influences.

Set on the Mars of two generations in the future, and in modern Russia and Ukraine, this blend of cosmology, space technology and Russian literature - the second novel in the "Dmitri" series - explores the first Russian colony on Mars, and the lies and tensions the first Cosmonaut colonists bring from Earth. From Vauxhall in South London to a Ukrainian nuclear bunker, Nil, a lonely, damaged young British spy, gradually unveils layers of treachery and deceit surrounding the Martian Lines project, the "Dima Foundation" and the Russian spy Astra.

Illustrated with over 180 color photos, this first of two volumes covering the railways of the South East concentrates on locomotive-hauled traffic and details a wide range of trains. An extensive range of different liveries are shown. There is also a small selection of DEMUs in some of the areas they once operated.

This is the most balanced and well-reasoned investigation available into why people believe today's highly divisive conspiracy theories, from COVID and QAnon to 5G scares, fake news and more.

In the many worshipping communities, music leaders perform a vital function. They help to build Christlike, inclusive communities - what St Paul described as the "e;body of Christ"e;. However, resources can be in short supply.In this insightful and practical guide, an experienced church musician describes how, according to Paul, individuals and communities are transformed into the body of Christ, and how music-making enables this process, even when resources are in short supply.This valuable book encourages music leaders to step-up and persevere in low-resource contexts, and challenges all those who lead music in worship to focus not just on producing musical results but on building Christlike communities. It is essential reading for music leaders and those who train, oversee and nurture them, such as clergy, elders, worship committees and educators.

A new edition of THE book on conspiracy theories, now fully updated to include fake news, post-truth issues, pro- and anti-Donald Trump theories, Edward Snowden's surveillance revelations and much more.