Ian Smith

The New Zealand Cricket Almanack is the cricket lover’s bible and is regarded worldwide as one of the finest books of its kind. The 74th edition contains all the details of another full year of cricket at all levels. As usual, there is a detailed records section and a fascinating collection of the season's happenings.

Father O'Brien is a tough Catholic priest with a violent past. He now counsels youth in prison and has a particular interest in two brothers behind bars. He becomes their advocate on the pretext of rehabilitation, visiting them regularly and eventually getting the boys released into his care. DCI Keir Dickson, the man who put these brothers away for eight years, is furious. He sends DS Liam Smith undercover to see what this priest and these ex-cons are up to. It turns out the father has given the boys an intriguing assignment. Every month, they drive a Volvo to an orphanage in Holland with food and clothes, driving a supposedly empty car back into England. The brothers soon realize their car is not empty on the return trip, and this realization puts them in grave danger. Smith, along with the rest of New Scotland Yard, must deduce Father O'Brien's plan and hopefully divert a disaster.

Fraud on businesses is a perennial problem and the levels of fraud reported in England and Wales are increasing year on year, especially in relation to cyber fraud. With cases of this nature being brought before both civil and criminal courts lawyers specialising in fraud litigation need to have combined civil/criminal expertise to be able to properly advise their clients. A Practitioner's Guide to Commercial and Cyber Fraud: Claiming Compensation in the Civil and Criminal Courts provides practical as well as legal guidance to in house lawyers and fraud practitioners who are representing clients in both the civil and criminal courts. Explaining both the law and the strategic and practical choices for lawyers when deciding whether to pursue civil justice, criminal justice, or both in parallel, it also sets out the advantages and disadvantages of each and the conflicts between the systems. It also contains a cohesive analysis of the criminal (public law) framework for international criminal cases from the perspective of a victim-claimant.

The Instant New York Times Bestseller Eat clean, get lean! Losing weight can be simple--get back to basics on your plate, harness the power of intermittent fasting for quick results, save time and money, and train your body to move, and the excess pounds will slip away. The bestselling author of SHRED and The Clean 20 cracks the code for all of us who live in the modern world where we've lost touch with what real food is--and how good it tastes--and what our bodies are designed to do. Dr. Ian wrote Clean & Lean to put what he knows about nutrition and physiology in one place, and to motivate you to: --Use intermittent fasting to discover your optimal eating times each day --Explore clean eating with 30 (!) fresh, real foods that you can combine endlessly for meals and snacks --Try his day-by-day 30-day diet plan that tells you just what to eat, while still giving you loads of options --Get up and move: customized exercise plans for all fitness levels won't wear you out, but will energize you and accelerate your results --Take off up to 15 pounds in 30 days!

What would you do if you found a dead body during a morning stroll in the countryside? Would you phone the police? Of course you would...and it would be your first mistake. Would you help the victim's family? Yes, well things can only become more complicated and dangerous with each step you take. You will find layers of grief, sewn with poisonous family rivalries, abuse, lies, cheating and police brutality. But is that everything? What other mysteries lie buried in your own story? Where will you find redemption? Redemption Song is a gripping murder mystery, a brilliant portrait of life in a small rural town in the foothills of the Pyrenees and an intimate portrait how death and tragedy affect family members and loved ones. It is a story that will grip you and surprise you and will, in the end, make you cry. The novel, written by the poet, Ian Smith, is his first book in the "Mountain Air" series, stories mainly set in and around the Pyrenees in France.

Listed as one of the five worst international selections ever, and described in a book about Scottish rugby as ‘a full back slower than your average prop’, Ian Smith cheerfully won eight caps for Scotland in a career that saw him score every point for his team on his debut in an historic victory over South Africa (and in so doing became the first Scottish full back to score a Test try) and defeated a star-studded England team to lift the Calcutta Cup at Murrayfield in the 1970 Five Nations. One of eight international full backs to have come out of Heriot’s FP, Smith also played for a dashing, innovative Edinburgh University side that revolutionised attacking back play. But this book is so much more than a story of a fleeting Test career. It is a window to another time, when a player could appear, as Smith did, for his club’s third XV and two weeks later make his international debut for his country. And then, eight Tests later, return to his club where he was only considered good enough to play for the second XV.

This book provides a step-by-step guide to writing the different chapters of a PhD dissertation, which will benefit aspiring, beginner and mid-track PhD students and candidates in the Social Sciences. Based on the authors' combined experience of working with both Masters and PhD students through the dissertation writing process, it offers helpful writing guidelines, from the conceptualization and problematization of the dissertation through to the literature review, methodological issues, writing up results and, finally, to the discussion, conclusions and abstract writing process. With chapters dedicated to offering guidelines, suggestions and pitfalls to watch out for, this book will assist PhD students and candidates in the fields of the various Social Sciences with exercises and pointers on successfully navigating the writing of a PhD dissertation. It takes the PhD student in the Social Sciences through the maze of writing a dissertation, and provides a step-by-step train of thought throughout the entire writing process.

It is estimated that there are over five million incidents of fraud and two million cyber-related crimes committed annually in the UK costing approximately £193 billion with organisations losing £183 billion per year. Aimed at business directors, business owners, in-house lawyers and managers, forensic accountants and non-UK lawyers, Commercial and Cyber Fraud: A Legal Guide to Justice for Businesses sets out the legal process, from discovery of the crime and consideration of options, through engaging lawyers, early interventions to secure assets in the hands of fraudsters and culminating in sections on legal rights and processes, including court trials. This new title: - Arms victims of business fraud with valuable information that will enable them to make confident and wise choices in their pursuit of justice right from the first discovery of commercial fraud or cyber fraud - Sets out both the civil and criminal court options for victims - Includes detailed guidance on how to choose, use and pay for lawyers - Explains strategic imperatives, the relative merits of the different justice options and the hurdles that might have to be overcome - Includes case studies and quotes from real victims of commercial and cyber fraud and insightful quotes from specialist fraud litigation lawyers - Contains an introduction to international fraud cases and cross-border laws This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Company and Commercial Law and Cyber Law online services.

At last, someone has written a new style of travel book OK, so you decide to walk to Rome from your home in London. What would your ideal route look like? The most direct path, perhaps? The one that everyone uses and is easy to follow? Not so for Alison and Ian. Their preferred route had to pass through Lourdes, so the final path took a minor detour of a thousand miles. What could possibly go wrong? Well, apart from the odd forest fire, the disappearing paths, the lack of way marking and loss of maps and, of course, a lot of steep hills, it turned out to be a breeze. Thankfully, this odd couple decided to provide us with their amazing record of the journey across England, France and Italy. It has already been called a total immersion experience of modern pilgrimage, but it is much more than that. It is a journey that will draw you in and entrance you so much you will not even stop to ask yourself why you have packed your rucksack and put your walking shoes on. Just remember to take your door keys with you when you go - even pilgrims have to return home eventually. But whether you go or stay, you will be looking out for the book of their next adventures

The 1880's and the 1980's collide in a series of reluctant adventures; a riveting tale of introversion, retroversion, and excursion. You'll enjoy this story of a childhood far from civilization, where running water and electricity have been replaced with hard work and fire; and the simple act of bathing is a dreaded chore. Read about Grey - a boy growing up in the remote mountains of Washington State, along the Canadian border. His family abandoned the land of southern California to get back to nature; and their life on the mountain is a throwback to a long-lost era. Grey's itch for stability is continually interrupted by the uncommon experiences of their pioneer-style existence. Clean mountain air, fresh water from underground springs, and wild animals are the hallmarks of a rare childhood in the early 1980's.