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After an audacious assassination attempt on boss Daniel Kinahan's life, the Kinahan Cartel recruited an unprecedented number of killers to retaliate against their attackers, the Hutch gang. Kinahan Assassins is the compelling behind-the-scenes account of one man's thirst for vengeance and how it proved fatal for his organization. Kinahan Assassins has the stories of the men who killed for the cartel - including vulnerable drug addicts, a former British soldier, an MMA fighter and an invisible 'Mr Nobody' who acted as a cartel quartermaster - as well as those who gave them orders.

Who are we, and how did we get here? These are two of the most fundamental and far-reaching questions facing scientists and cosmologists alike and have rested at the center of human intellectual endeavor since its beginning. They are questions that stretch across numerous disciplines. Philosophy, theology, evolutionary biology, and mathematics are just some of the fields looking to explain the emergence of human life.

A penetrating astrological reading--how does the astrologer do it? Watch twelve experts representing twelve different astrological traditions interpret the same natal chart, blind! All they knew was the birth data of the woman whose birthchart they analyzed. Read how each one applies his or her real-world techniques, just as they would with a client. To deepen your understanding, all of them explain their underlying interpretive strategies, and respond to a few pressing questions. How accurate are the readings? After it was all over, the mystery woman submitted her autobiography for the ...

In The Serpent’s Embrace, John Hands crafts a heart-pounding scientific thriller that pits cutting-edge genetics against corporate greed, ancient mythology, and moral decay. Narrated by Phillip Nathaniel Freeman & Claire Glover and published by Audiobook Publishing Services, this audiobook plunges you into a world where immortality is within reach—but the price is your soul.

Threatened by a global pandemic and by climate change, very many people fear we are facing an existential crisis. The Future of Humankind shows why these fears are unfounded and why we should be optimistic about our long-term future. It evaluates current major predictions for our future in three categories: (1) Extinction by natural disasters (including pandemics), by nuclear war or accident, by artificial intelligence, or by population explosion and climate change. (2) Survival by colonizing space or by extending individual healthspans and achieving immortality. (3) Transformation by ...

In 1917 as Lenin was seizing power in Russia the Mother of God appeared to children at Fatima in Portugal and disclosed three secrets. In 1960 the Pope made public the first two, but no Pope dared reveal the third. Now a Pope born in the Soviet Union is determined to win the ultimate battle revealed in the terrible Third Secret of Fatima. He sends Father James Ryan on an undercover mission to bring about the collapse of the Soviet Union. But senior KGB officer Lev Babakin is orchestrating his own secret plan to destroy the Catholic Church. “John Hands's Perestroika Christi is a wonderful ...

In his acclaimed Cosmosapiens, renowned scientist John Hands looked back on how we humans evolved from the origin of the universe to the present day. Building on that work, The Future of Humankind: Why We Should Be Optimistic looks ahead to our ultimate destiny. Listeners embark on a fascinating journey in which Hands evaluates current major predictions for our future in three categories—extinction, survival, and transformation—before making his own unique and astonishing forecast.

A bomb slaughters American intelligence officers, their wives, and children. Irish-American CIA officer John Darcy seizes the opportunity to redeem his failed professional and personal life by finding and eliminating the terrorist. . Darcy plunges deeper into an undercover operation that the CIA will disown should he fail. He’s on his own in a terrorist world that operates according to its own rules. His quest forces him to confront not only the fanaticism of the bomber but also the woman who rejected him, the God he rejected, and the truths of his own clandestine operations. . In this ...

At a time of a growing housing crisis this republication of John Hands’s classic Housing Co-operatives could not be timelier. It provides a unique mixture of theory and practice, showing from other countries and from the author’s own experience in Britain how housing co-operatives can work and how they can fail. In a new Introduction, John Hands argues that the creation of a third tenure for housing distinct from both individual owner occupation on the one hand and tenancy—whether from private or social landlord—on the other hand is urgently needed. The par value housing co-...

An undercover agent is torn between love and fear when resurgent nationalism threatens to plunge Russia and Ukraine into ethnic warfare. Taras Stepaniak, half Russian half Ukrainian, is a self-serving womaniser recruited by the Russian intelligence service to destabilize the newly independent Ukraine in order to bring it back under Russian control. Stepaniak spins his web of treachery around the aspiring democrats of the new nation. But he finds that the one woman who resists his cynical seduction techniques cares for him deeply. Maria Bondar’s selflessness, integrity, and devotion to ...