Are you longing for captivating read to thrill you, scintillate you and get your thinking? Fatal Links provides a perfect balance of historical backstory, rich character development, snippets of sauciness, and boatload of edge-of-your-seat thrill. When Rose and Jonathan meet online, we get the front seat insight into their burgeoning romance, complete with text bubbles and plenty of racy moments. What could go wrong? You’ll be surprised... Natasha Lukin expertly created a timeless thriller based on love, while reflecting on our modern ways back at us with razor-sharp accuracy. It will have you thinking twice about downloading that dating app. Lukin’s writing is energetic, with tangible pulse and fast rolling and unfolding of the events leading the characters to the point of no return and then to inescapable demise. We can all recognise part of ourselves in the Natasha’s characters whether we want to or not... the mark of a true writer and outstanding book.
Natasha Lukin is a scientist, positive psychology practitioner, NLP life coach, health educator and writer. She created her Longevity System based on her considerable experience in the allied health fields, knowledge of human biology and a treasure trove of cherished memories from her healthy and happy upbringing near the Black Sea.
Set against a backdrop of the collapse of the Soviet Empire, The Bride From Moscow follows the travails of a young Russian woman who seeks happiness and a better life in Australia. Svetlana is very much the archetypal Russian woman, like Anna Karenina
This book is offering simple and easily affordable natural solutions that are readily available for treating many common ailments without leaving your kitchen, your backyard or your veggie patch. The benefits of using natural health remedies quickly become obvious when you start implementing them into your lifestyle. In a nutshell, they are: - Created by Mother Nature. - All natural. - No harm or side effects. - Cheaper on a budget. - Treat common conditions the way Mother Nature intended. Plus, they are: - Easy to get. Natural home remedies include common substances like salt, vinegar, bicarbonate of soda or vodka as well as herbs, vegetables, fruits and spices. - Easy to make. A preparation of natural remedies at home such as tinctures, infusions and decoctions usually requires no special equipment. - Not harmful. As most of those remedies are also good for cooking, they are not poisonous or contaminated with harmful chemicals (hopefully). - Wide coverage. Natural home remedies treat a broad spectre of minor illnesses: from heartburn, diarrhea or back pain to bad breath, leg crumps, bleeding gums, sore throat or indigestion. - Biological relevance. The active substances of plants and the physiologically active substances of the body are relevant to each other and not contradictory versus how it could be with artificially created chemicals.
Are you longing for captivating read to thrill you, scintillate you and get your thinking? Fatal Links provides a perfect balance of historical backstory, rich character development, snippets of sauciness, and boatload of edge-of-your-seat thrill. When Rose and Jonathan meet online, we get the front seat insight into their burgeoning romance, complete with text bubbles and plenty of racy moments. What could go wrong? You’ll be surprised... Natasha Lukin expertly created a timeless thriller based on love, while reflecting on our modern ways back at us with razor-sharp accuracy. It will have you thinking twice about downloading that dating app. Lukin’s writing is energetic, with tangible pulse and fast rolling and unfolding of the events leading the characters to the point of no return and then to inescapable demise. We can all recognise part of ourselves in the Natasha’s characters whether we want to or not... the mark of a true writer and outstanding book.
Drawing on the most up-to-date sources, this book provides an in-depth examination of Russia’s relations with China and Japan, the two Asia-Pacific superpowers-in-waiting. For Russia there has always been more than one ‘Asia’: after the collapse of the Soviet Union, there were those in the Russian elite who saw Asia as implying the economic dynamism of the Asia-Pacific, with Japan as the main player. However there were others who saw the chance for Russia to reassert its claim to be a great power, based on Russia’s geopolitical and geoeconomic position as a Eurasian power. For these, China was the power to engage with: together China and Russia could control both Heartland and Rim, both Eurasia and Asia-Pacific, whereas accepting Japan’s conception of Asia implied regional fragmentation and shared sovereignty. This book argues that this strand of thinking, mainly confined to nationalists in the El’tsin years, has now, under Putin, become the dominant discourse among Russian policymakers. Despite opportunities for convergence presented by energy resources, even for trilateral cooperation, traditional anxiety regarding loss of control over key resource areas in the Russian Far East is now used to inform regional policy, leading to a new resource nationalism. In light of Russia’s new assertiveness in global affairs and its increasing use of the so-called ‘energy weapon’ in foreign policy, this book will appeal not only to specialists on Russian politics and foreign policy, but also to international relations scholars.
I began writing this book in the summer of 2015, when the fate of Ukraine's nationhood hung by a thread. The tanking economy, drawn-out war, misguided political leadership, inexperienced nascent patriotic elite - everything about the situation was practically in zugzwang. On these July days, I practically forced myself to go into town on business, tearing through the 40-degree heat. At some point, after coming out of another meeting, I understood: we cannot go a single step further unless we genuinely rethink what's happened to us - starting with the Maidan Uprising. Ukraine's recent history, paid for in blood, must at least be spoken aloud. I knew that several accounts more or less describing the developments of the Maidan Uprising came out around that time, as well as Taras Berezovets's book, Annexation: Island of Crimea. As harsh as it sounds, I don't really trust "court chroniclers"; books like that should be written by independent historians or journalists. We became used to writing about dramatic events in recent history from the perspective of a participant on either side of the barricade. Me? I'm only a journalist. My aim is to find and make sense of information, which is what I attempted to do in this book.
Drawing on the most up-to-date sources, this book provides an in-depth examination of Russia’s relations with China and Japan, the two Asia-Pacific superpowers-in-waiting. For Russia there has always been more than one ‘Asia’: after the collapse of the Soviet Union, there were those in the Russian elite who saw Asia as implying the economic dynamism of the Asia-Pacific, with Japan as the main player. However there were others who saw the chance for Russia to reassert its claim to be a great power, based on Russia’s geopolitical and geoeconomic position as a Eurasian power. For these, China was the power to engage with: together China and Russia could control both Heartland and Rim, both Eurasia and Asia-Pacific, whereas accepting Japan’s conception of Asia implied regional fragmentation and shared sovereignty. This book argues that this strand of thinking, mainly confined to nationalists in the El’tsin years, has now, under Putin, become the dominant discourse among Russian policymakers. Despite opportunities for convergence presented by energy resources, even for trilateral cooperation, traditional anxiety regarding loss of control over key resource areas in the Russian Far East is now used to inform regional policy, leading to a new resource nationalism. In light of Russia’s new assertiveness in global affairs and its increasing use of the so-called ‘energy weapon’ in foreign policy, this book will appeal not only to specialists on Russian politics and foreign policy, but also to international relations scholars.
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