Best Selling Books by Ian Williams

UNtold is a provocative, engaging exploration of the United Nations, including its history and how it functions. This is a warts and all look at a controversial institution that over 70 years has variously evoked respect, indifference, and outrage from the U.S. media. The author and illustrator bring their personal experience with the UN at all levels to the concise, informative text and whimsical cartoons, describing how the organization is supposed to work, how it actually behaves, and why there s a difference! UNtold reveals the quirks and mysteries of international diplomacy and global decision-making. Delightfully funny and irreverent, the message is that this vital body really represents We the peoples of the world. "

On a distant moon a festival is taking place that promises its guests a remarkable gift; they will be allowed to re-create moments from their past. Under the watchful eyes of those who inhabit the moon and organise the event, the visitors will become tourists of their own memories. Among those attending The Passing festival is Nate, a human who has decided to take a break from his hectic life as CEO of Earth''s largest space mining company, and is seeking relaxation. Though, he soon realises that this will not be possible. With the chance to experience physical re-creations of moments from his past he is thrown into a world of possibilities. Times, good and bad, are eligible to be brought back to life for people to explore and to enjoy as they see fit. He starts with a childhood memory of playing with his friends. What he experiences is beyond anything his own mind could have conjured from his memory. Down to the tiniest detail, thought long forgotten. But things don''t quite go to plan as a mysterious intruder decides to bring Nate''s vacation to an abrupt and almost fatal end. With the help of his local guide, L''Armin Hes, they must uncover the truth behind the unknown man''s intentions, before he strikes again. Along the way Nate and L''Armin form a strong bond that will be tested to near destruction as they search the past. This will be a trip none of them will ever forget. If they survive.

One of the yearu0092s most exciting releases'' - The Herald China is building the worldu0092s first digital totalitarian state, a system of hitherto unimaginable social and political control. Internet freedom has been eliminated and ubiquitous surveillance cameras employ the latest facial recognition technology. Through flagrant cyber espionage, it has plundered Western technology on a massive scale, bullied Western tech companies and academics (though many have been willing accomplices) and intimidated critics worldwide. In doing so, it has become a model for aspiring dictators everywhere. Ian Williams examines the extraordinary rise of the Chinese surveillance state, showing how it has been driven by the enigmatic Xi Jinping, now effectively president for life, and how it impacts the daily lives of Chinese citizens, particularly dissidents and those from ethnic minorities. Supporting interviews and first-hand accounts from those whose lives have been turned upside down or worse highlight the chilling and ruthless efficiency with which the government can now act. The book also considers the wider implications for the rest of the world. How to deal with an increasingly strident, aggressive Beijing is one of the biggest challenges facing the West in what has become a technological Cold War.

The Lady Doctor is the follow-up companion graphic novel to Ian Williams''s critically acclaimed debut, The Bad Doctor (Myriad, 2014). Dr Lois Pritchard is a salaried partner at Llangandida Health Centre with Drs Iwan James (subject of The Bad Doctor) and Robert Smith. She also works two days a week in the local Genitourinary Medicine (GUM) clinic. She is 40, currently single, despite the attentions of her many admirers, and is, by her own admission, ''not very good with relationships''. When her estranged mother makes a dramatic appearance on the scene, demanding a liver transplant, Lois has to confront her loyalties and make some hard decisions. From the moment we see Dr Lois nipping out behind the surgery for a fag, we know we are in for a behind-the-scenes warts-and-all comedy drama. We meet a patient who regrets the Pinocchio face he had tattooed on his genitals; a man who resorts to desperate measures after being driven mad by his neighbours'' cats, and a prescription drug addict who plans to sue his previous doctors for failing to refuse him the drugs he demanded. Drugs – prescription, recreational, legal (coffee, alcohol, tobacco) – and behaviours and attitudes surrounding them – are a hot topic at Llangandida Health Centre. Hardening government attitudes towards drugs and addiction, and patients'' demands to benefit from the re emergence of psychedelic therapeutic research, don''t make a doctor''s life any easier, but Williams explores current medical issues and ethics with his trademark lightness of touch and wonderfully sly sense of humour, using his own experience as a practising GP to recreate the lives of both patients and health service practitioners.

As seen in The Times, Sunday Times, Spectator, and on Tonight with Andrew Marr (LBC) Join journalist Ian Williams as he examines China like never before. He begins with the extraordinary rise of the Chinese surveillance state, how information is controlled and how it affects the population, before moving his gaze outward to examine China''s aggressive foreign policy in relation to Taiwan and the wider world. Thought-provoking and alarming, these books are crucial to understanding China as a nation and global competitor. Ian Williams brings his years of expertise as a foreign correspondent to bear, having reported on China across the last 25 years, providing unmatched insight into a country that many do not fully understand. Titles included in this eBook bundle are: Every Breath You Take The Fire of the Dragon

This is the terrifying story of China''s vampire economy. State capitalism. Socialism with Chinese characteristics. A socialist market economy. There have been numerous descriptions of the Chinese economy. However, none seems to capture the predatory, at times surreal, nature of the economy of the world''s most populous nation – nor the often bruising and mind-bending experience of doing business with the Middle Kingdom. Rules and agreements mean little. Markets are distorted, statistics fabricated, foreign industrial secrets and technology systematically stolen. Companies and entrepreneurs, at home and abroad, are bullied – often with the collusion of the victims themselves. The Party is in every boardroom and lab, with businesses thriving or dying at its will. All this is part of realising President Xi Jinping''s ambition of China becoming the world''s pre-eminent economic, technological and military power.

The German Spitz Mittel Training Book is a truly informative and unique training guide, full of reliable and tested information - written for the admirers of this wonderful breed. This is an easy-to-read, and in-depth text which you will thoroughly enjoy. It contains a wealth of interesting facts and reliable information, along with detailed advice for owners. Contributed to by a series of German Spitz Mittel dog trainers, this book is certainly a must have addition to your collection.

Dorking and the Mole Valley past and present

This publication illustrates the variety and unpredicatability of conditions encountered by primary care physicians. Some of the topics covered include cardiovascular disease symptoms, nail disorders, skin conditions, infectious diseases, carcinoms and orthopaedics.

This book is an extract from an engineers private journal of his observations while living and working in Russia, before travelling to and working in the United States. It forms a comparison on the way of life in each country and system.

Sock puppet ventriloquist who appeared on Melbourne children''s shows in the 1950s and 1960s. Sock puppet named Sylvester. File contains newspaper articles.

Discover a host of watercolour sketches by Ian Williams that honestly capture the wildlife of Skye as seen whilst out in the field gathering inspiration.

U.S. air and missile defense efforts have long been characterized by a striking dichotomy. Defenses for the homeland have largely focused on long-range ballistic threats, while cruise missile defense and other air defense efforts have focused on regional and force protection applications to the exclusion of the homeland. This compartmentalization assumes that battles in one place will only consist of certain parts of the threat spectrum, and battles elsewhere will consist only of others. That lingering dichotomy creates a vulnerability that near-peer adversaries now seek to exploit. In a sense, the homeland-regional dichotomy ignores the fact that North America is a region, too. As with any other region, attacks on assets in North America could be designed to shape the political and military calculus of U.S. policymakers. This report explores the strategic significance of air and missile defense for the homeland, considers principles informing defense design, and develops and costs an architecture based on those principles.

"The structures, energies and reactivities of nitrogen containing heterocyclic compounds are studied using computational methods. A method to calculate azole, azine and benzoazole heats of formation using ab initio total energies and isolobal reaction schemes is developed, and gives heats of formation to within 0-4 kcaVmol of experiment. Systematic errors in semi-empirical MNDO, AMI and PM3 heats of formation of azoles, azines and benzoazoles are discussed, and correction terms suggested. Pentazole, pentazine, hexazine, pyrazepine, indazine, punne, azolotriazine and diazoazole heats of formation are then predicted. Isocyanate equilibrium geometries calculated with semi-empirical and ab initio methods are compared to experiment. [...] A simple atom-atom potential method is used to model the stability and dynamics of small endohedral gas molecules inside fullerene cages. The results are shown to compare qualitatively with available ab initio results. The problem of electron correlation is briefly addressed, and relationships between Configuration Interaction (CI) and Natural Spin Orbitals (NSOs) are discussed." --

Since the late-1940s, the United States has used forward-based forces to deter military aggression against its allies and interests. These forces complicate an adversary’s ability to achieve a quick, fait accompli win, raising the threshold for states to engage in conflict. However, the emergence of aerial hypersonic weapons—specifically, these systems’ combination of speed, maneuverability, and atmospheric flight—challenges traditional U.S. approaches to regional deterrence and stability. Conventional hypersonic strike weapons undermine deterrence by complicating early-warning and increasing the vulnerability of forward-based forces to surprise attack below the nuclear threshold. Nevertheless, history shows that adaptation to strategically disruptive technologies is possible. Just as the world mitigated the most destabilizing aspects of systems like the strategic bomber and the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), the United States can blunt some of the risks posed by aerial hypersonic weapons. Some approaches include improving the ability to detect and track these weapons and improving active and passive defenses of forward-deployed forces. Popular media often vaunts aerial hypersonic weapons as unstoppable, but they do have weaknesses that a defender might exploit. Arms control may also be part of the solution. However, the United States will likely need to gain some advantage in offensive hypersonic weaponry to bring either Russia or China into negotiations.