Stephen Williams

The Rome that Did Not Fall provides a well-illustrated, comprehensive narrative and analysis of the Roman empire in the east, charting its remarkable growth and development which resulted in the distinct and enduring civilization of Byzantium. It considers:* the fourth century background* the invasions of Attila* the resources of the east* the struggle for stability* the achievements of Anastasius.

The Rome that Did Not Fall provides a well-illustrated, comprehensive narrative and analysis of the Roman empire in the east, charting its remarkable growth and development which resulted in the distinct and enduring civilization of Byzantium. It considers:* the fourth century background* the invasions of Attila* the resources of the east* the struggle for stability* the achievements of Anastasius.

AN ABSOLUTELY GRIPPING BRITISH CRIME THRILLER FULL OF TWISTS.She digs up London's past crimes. Her blog is called Deadtown. Now she's dug up something that got her killed.Detective Mary Hume stares at the crime scene in confusion. She's in an empty flat. Peeling wallpaper. A bloodstained chair in the middle of the room.But no body.Her sergeant hands her a burner phone. On it is a video clip. It shows a woman. Tied to the chair in the flat, a carving knife pressed to her throat. As Mary watches in horror, the blade flashes across the woman's exposed skin. She slumps forward, lifeless.Placed in the woman's lap is a piece of cardboard. Written on it in blood-red is one word: DEADTOWN.The phone was handed in to Charing Cross police station the day before. The woman in the video is Melissa Clarke. A true crime blogger famous for exposing London's most notorious cold cases.Just what did Melissa dig up that got her killed?To find the answers, Mary calls on maverick ex-police officer Raine. Raine thinks outside the box. She can reach people - and places - that Mary can't.Then a second body is discovered - and the two detectives realize that someone is playing twisted mind games with them.Can they pull the pieces of the puzzle together before more people die?Perfect for fans of Mark Billingham, Lynda La Plante, Karin Slaughter, Biba Pearce and Angela Marsons.

AN ABSOLUTELY GRIPPING CRIME THRILLER WITH AN ASTONISHING TWIST.A bloodstained coat. Three missing women. One dead body.Detective Mary Hume reckons she's seen it all. But she's never seen anything like this.It begins with the discovery of a broken body in a lift shaft in an old Victorian warehouse.The post-mortem reveals the bloodstains on the dead man's coat belong to three different people. DNA identifies one of them as Julie Cross, whose body was discovered six months earlier, covered in horrifying wounds.Maverick ex-police officer Raine was hired to look for Julie. She didn't find Julie in time. But she's determined to find out who killed her.So, who does the rest of the blood belong to?Chalk-and-cheese detective duo Raine and Hume are in a race against time to uncover the truth before more young women die.Perfect for fans of Mark Billingham, Lynda La Plante, Karin Slaughter, Biba Pearce and Angela Marsons.

Super Chainsaw Squad DX is a stylish explosion of sex, violence, and tentacles-a psychotic fusion of Sailor Moon and H.P. Lovecraft. The dusty town of California City is under attack. A cult led by a gunslinging valkyrie has appeared in the night and they've brought chaos with them. Something is sleeping beneath the Mojave Desert-the heretics are going to wake it up. Standing against this threat is the Super Chainsaw Squad, a trio of magical girls who balance vigilante justice with cute boys and calculus homework. As they begin to gather clues about the mysterious death of their friend, their investigation quickly spirals into a race against the apocalypse.

A graveyard. A corpse. A flock of ravens. In fairy tales, death comes in many forms. When something escapes the underworld and begins to consume the birds' kingdom, their knights are sent to defend their ancestral home. Will the noble corvids repel this creeping threat, or will they suffer a fate darker than their feathers?

After a strenuous training camp, Lorelei "The Lance" Didion is prepared to defend her championship title in front of a sold-out crowd. But before she steps in the cage, her and a few close friends decide to spend a week at the Zhong Kui Inn and Spa to recharge their batteries. What was once a monastery has been renovated into a luxury resort-but dark secrets have spun their webs in the cracks behind the new paint and plaster. Inside, they're greeted by the Innkeeper. She's intelligent, ready to tend to their every desire-and is an undercover harvester for the Triads. With her companion, a warrior who keeps his face hidden behind an ancient dragon mask, they begin their task of collecting the entourage's organs to sell on the Red Market. The only way for Lorelei to survive is to fight-what she was born to do. But what will happen when she comes up against violence far deeper than anything she's ever experienced?

Stephen Williams's book is the first biography of Diocletian to appear in English. It combines the historical narrative of his remarkable reign and those of his fellow-emperors, with a chapter-by-chapter study of each of the great problems he faced, the interlocking solutions he evolved to meet them, and the longer term results. It is both a portrait of one of Rome's greatest and most original rulers, and a political study in the emergence of Absolutism. Also includes four maps.

The use of first-hand service user accounts of mental illness is still limited in the professional literature available. This is, however, beginning to change, with a new ‘recovery’ focus in mental health services meaning that the voices of service users are finally being heard. Recovering from Psychosis: Empirical Evidence and Lived Experience synthesises a narrative approach alongside an evidence-based review of current treatment by including Stephen Williams’ own personal experience as it relates to psychosis, recovery and treatment. A mental health professional himself, the author’s account of his own recovery from severe mental health difficulties, without sustained intervention, challenges the orthodoxy of representation of service users in mental health. Recovering from Psychosis critically explores and reviews the current state of the art of research and knowledge about the nature and treatment of psychosis. Working simultaneously from empirical, lived experience and philosophical perspectives, Stephen Williams:Evaluates political and power related issues in professional understanding, knowledge-creation and treatment of people with psychosis;Introduces the current ‘recovery movement’, unpacking its origins and implications for the future development of ‘recovery oriented services’; Reviews, summarizes and critiques the current state of ‘recovery’ research, looking at the advantages and disadvantages of such an approach, examining how this is influencing the transformation of UK mental health services; Analyses the difficulties in organisational implementation of recovery approaches, summarises the most empirically robust approaches to practice, personal and service delivery measurement;Reviews current ‘models’ of psychosis and how various professional scientific groups explain the experience and nature of psychosis; Uses lived-experience accounts taken from the scientific literature, portraying the nature of such experiences and analysing them in the face of contemporary psychological models. Recovering from Psychosis is an essential comprehensive guide for mental health professionals, psychologists, social workers and carers, who are working with people with severe and enduring mental health difficulties diagnosed as psychosis. It addresses the practical implications of working with such difficult conditions and serves as a hopeful story of recovery for service users.

The use of first-hand service user accounts of mental illness is still limited in the professional literature available. This is, however, beginning to change, with a new ‘recovery’ focus in mental health services meaning that the voices of service users are finally being heard. Recovering from Psychosis: Empirical Evidence and Lived Experience synthesises a narrative approach alongside an evidence-based review of current treatment by including Stephen Williams’ own personal experience as it relates to psychosis, recovery and treatment. A mental health professional himself, the author’s account of his own recovery from severe mental health difficulties, without sustained intervention, challenges the orthodoxy of representation of service users in mental health. Recovering from Psychosis critically explores and reviews the current state of the art of research and knowledge about the nature and treatment of psychosis. Working simultaneously from empirical, lived experience and philosophical perspectives, Stephen Williams:Evaluates political and power related issues in professional understanding, knowledge-creation and treatment of people with psychosis;Introduces the current ‘recovery movement’, unpacking its origins and implications for the future development of ‘recovery oriented services’; Reviews, summarizes and critiques the current state of ‘recovery’ research, looking at the advantages and disadvantages of such an approach, examining how this is influencing the transformation of UK mental health services; Analyses the difficulties in organisational implementation of recovery approaches, summarises the most empirically robust approaches to practice, personal and service delivery measurement;Reviews current ‘models’ of psychosis and how various professional scientific groups explain the experience and nature of psychosis; Uses lived-experience accounts taken from the scientific literature, portraying the nature of such experiences and analysing them in the face of contemporary psychological models. Recovering from Psychosis is an essential comprehensive guide for mental health professionals, psychologists, social workers and carers, who are working with people with severe and enduring mental health difficulties diagnosed as psychosis. It addresses the practical implications of working with such difficult conditions and serves as a hopeful story of recovery for service users.

When Ryan and his crew kidnap Edric Samuels, the teenage son of a billionaire, it doesn't take long for fractures to appear in their carefully constructed plan. The walls close in and the once good friends are suddenly at each other's throats. Things look bad-but they're about to get a whole lot worse. Edric is not an ideal prisoner, and soon pacifying the boy is their only option. Sometimes they use a needle, other times, their fists. But what his captors don't know is that each time he falls down the rabbit hole, Edric's nightmares are training him to be a killing machine. Are these hallucinations from the drugs . . . or are they something much darker? Once set on this path of revenge, Edric won't stop until his enemies are hollow shells of blood and bone.