Best Selling Books by Mike Thomas

A young woman is found dead, bound in copper wire; another woman and her six-year old daughter go missing in Barcelona; in Goa a father is overcome with grief as his past life catches up with him; a grandmother is suspected of child abduction; two police officers are brutally attacked and Investigating Judge Jose Ramon Ortega is tasked with unravelling it all

According to the Hindu philosopher Shankara, all things, from Brahman the Creator down to a single blade of grass,are simply appearance and not real.Illusion or not, the young Arthur Butler existed in his own time and place,until at the age of nineteen,during the Battle of the Marne in in July 1918 his heart stopped beating, his blood stopped flowing and he died alone in France.He never married, he never raised chldren. He never got up on cold mornings to go to work; he never lost his job in the Thirties nor did he make his fortune. He never caught colds, never experienced true love; never came home late at night. In fact he never even came home. He lies where he died at the foot of a narrow, elongated vineyard.And then he was granted a second chance.An opportunity to be himself, for good or bad, wherever and however he wished.

A darkly humorous tale of an out-of-control policeman experiencing a spectacular breakdown.

We all have a superhero within us... waiting to be unleashed. Both at work and at home, our lives are growing more and more hectic, and it can be hard to survive, much less, thrive at the pace of progress. Technology has brought new and better ways to create, to communicate, and to collaborate, but has also filled our time with clutter, craziness, and chaos. There is more potential than ever to fill our careers and our lives with magical experiences, but we seldom make enough time or space to realize that potential. Agents of CHANGE is a collection of snackable stories, examples, and fables that provide ideas and insights for creating a super powered innovation program, organizational culture, and purposeful life. While our lives are surrounded by kryptonite that can keep us from finding and fulfilling our purpose, this book will help you to unleash your inner superhero and to become an Agent of Change.

Judge Jose Ramon Ortega is in his first few months of exile to the Pyrenees, after falling foul of the Valencian judiciary, when the mundane life of the mountains is shattered. Two sisters are found dead in a field across the border in France. One of the Catalan sisters, Llora, is a well-known and popular singer; the other, Ona, is a healer, who is a divisive and dominating personality, determined to bend people to her way of thinking. It''s not enough that her sister loves her and shares her house. She wants them to be as one, inseparable and indivisible, married to similar husbands, with matching children. Sisters married to brothers. The Alicante team, Tom and Maria are reunited with Ortega as they start to unravel the secrets and mysteries on both sides of the Pyrenees.

Four bodies are discovered in the foothills of the Pyrenees on Spanish territory. All four have been executed and posed in plain sight for anyone to find. When the identities of the victims are revealed to be from Alicante, over 700 kilometres away, Judge Ortega is summoned north to investigate. The deaths are linked to a turf war between rival drug gangs operating in the Alicante area. The new kids of the block are the Incognitos, young, local and gratuitously violent. Opposing them are the Irish from Marbella, monied and established, but incomers to the town. The mysterious Bolivian indigenous Runa Torres are the unknown threat in this three-sided standoff, at the centre of which stands Judge Ortega and his team.

Danny Proctor never met his father, a man who called himself Jack in one world and Tommy in another. Danny''s never heard anybody say a good word about him and he''s only ever seen one photograph of him. Thirty years down the line Danny receives a tape cassette in the post. On the tape his long dead father warns him about two men, who he names and shames for the part they played in his downfall, but both men have already played key roles in Danny''s life and continue to do so.

An all-scripture guide with no commentary. The perfect companion for personal devotions. Speak the praises of God with one easy-to-use volume, and meditate on Him through His revealed Word. * The most comprehensive collection of praise scriptures ever assembled: 2,085 verses from 57 Bible books, illustrating 87 of God''s traits and works. * An awe-inspiring portrait of who God is and the wonders He performs. * All scriptures in the King James Version, unparalleled in the beauty of the language. * In each verse, selected key words are highlighted in bold for special meditation. Mike Thomas is a professor at Baylor University, Waco, and former pastor of New Hope Community Church, Temple, Texas.

Recently divorced and expelled from an end times cult, Cody Ferguson lives a quiet life of blurred monotony until an embarrassing near death experience forces him to face the stranger in his mirror. Visits from his recently deceased father let loose demons of past abuse, adultery, and deceit. Cody''s chance meeting with enigmatic younger woman, Soledad Estrada, and his obsession with her places him on a collision course with betrayed former friends and long forgotten ambitions, transforming Cody from docile office worker to feral pugilist. Conventional life''s rules and norms are challenged during his conversion. Concepts of security, conformity and surety are questioned: are they practicality or fear? When is it too late to be what you might have been? When is it too late to find out?

Bombs detonate in a busy bazaar, causing massive devastation. An explosion rips apart a mosque, killing and injuring those inside. But this isn''t the Middle East--this is England. In a country where tensions are already running high, DC Will MacReady and his colleagues begin the desperate hunt for the attacker. If they knew the "why," then surely they can find the "who?" But that isn''t so easy, and time is fast running out. MacReady is still trying to prove himself after the horrific events of the previous year, which left his sergeant injured and his job in jeopardy, so he feels sidelined when he''s asked to investigate a vicious knife attack on a young woman. But all is not as it seems with his new case, and soon MacReady must put everything on the line in order to do what is right.

They say that first love merely buds but rarely blossoms, but Sha and Thomo seemed set to break the mould.They''d been together since childhood;they were the ideal couple,attractive, inseparable and still painfully in love with each other. Suddenly, overnight and without warning, Sha leaves Thomo and moves in with one of his best friends.Twenty years later they, and their close-knit group of friends, are drawn back together like moths to the flames of their past and their fully-grown personalities are revealed.Over the years the unfortunate have become the blessed,the spiritual profane and the Oh So Clever have become clueless and foolhardy. Even beauty has been transformed. Only one of them remains the same.

"Fusion 360 was developed for small start-up companies who want a more advanced solution than Autodesk 123D, but don''t need or cannot invest in a more sophisticated modeling product like Autodesk Inventor or SolidWorks. Render your 3D know-how from rank beginner to confident practitioner in this intro course from Autodesk expert Mike Thomas."--Resource description page.

"This course focuses on the tools and techniques needed to produce accurate 3D component designs, industry standard technical documentation, and compelling 3D design presentations. It features extensive lessons on building bodies, rendering, assembling design workflows, and creating animations, drawings, and simulations. You''ll learn how to build components that are accurate real-world representations, create photo-realistic renderings of designs, apply animations to designs, produce drawings of designs that incorporate proper technical documentation, and simulate environments for stress testing designs before manufacturing."--Resource description page.

A crucial step towards improving the conceptual use of digital technology (DT) in the mathematics classroom is to increase teacher involvement in the development of tasks. Hence, this research considers some teacher factors that might influence DT algebra task development and implementation in secondary schools. We observed and assisted one group of three teachers as they designed and implemented DT tasks. Our preliminary analysis examines the richness of the two tasks produced by one group and seeks to explain the difference between them. The results suggest the intervention provided with respect to task design led to improved Pedagogical Technology Knowledge for the teachers, and hence a richer task. The delivery of the intervention could be of assistance in focusing professional development programs so they may better facilitate the training of teachers in the use of digital technology in teaching mathematics.

The LEMMA series is a collection of booklets that contain sequences of metamathematical activities, which invite students to go beyond memorising and applying rules and skills, to thinking, working, and communicating with intriguing mathematical structures on a higher level.

The Magnet Bird on a little girl''s fridge comes to life.

A collection of the latest poetry by the novelist and short story writer, Mike Thomas.