The Crystal Prison - Book Two of the Deptford Mice Trilogy

Jarvis is a great writer, in command of his intricate plotting.' Scottish Sunday Herald

The ghostly spirit of Jupiter has returned, more terrifying than before. Bent on revenge, he smothers the world in an eternal winter of snow and ice.  The Deptford Mice are worried: the mystical bats have fled from the attic, and a new rat army is gathering strength. With food short and no sign of spring, the mice know there’s a desperate struggle ahead. Who knows how many will survive and at what cost?

The first story in the breathtakingly original and utterly captivating Deptford Mice trilogy.

In the sewers of Deptford there lurks a dark presence which fills the tunnels with fear: Jupiter, an evil being who aims to take over the world. Worshipped by the fearsome rats, Jupiter's dreams could well come true.

Can the mice ever survive against such evil? Or have they lost the comfortable world they once knew for ever ...

This stunning trilogy commences with The Dark Portal, in which Albert Mouse squeezes through the Grill and disappears. Realising that he has been captured by the rats of the sewers, Albert's children, Audrey and Arthur, embark on a treacherous journey to find him.

Washington, D.C.: Capital of the Free World; the most powerful city on Earth. No other country, company, or international organization can compare with the reach and wealth of the federal government. Policymaking — the art of deciding what programs to support, what laws to pass, or what regulations to write — is at the core of what Washington does and is what everyone, from the President on down, wants to influence.

How Washington Actually Works For Dummies isn't a dry explanation of the American system of government but a playbook for how Washington really works: who has a seat at the table, how the policymaking process works, and how one survives. It takes you inside the political process in Washington, discusses changes in recent decades, and explains how the parts fit together. You find out:

• Who really runs Washington
• Why the President’s power is limited
• How Congress (and its committee structure) works
• What the bureaucrats — the men and women behind the curtain — do to earn your tax dollars
• How lobbyists, activists, and other players influence policy

In a presidential election year when economic issues are center stage and the candidates will go head to head in policy debates, there’s no better time to discover the ins and outs of how policy is actually made.

A completely New Understanding of Reality! Presenting FET, a new model that meets physicists' criteria for what they term ?The Theory of Everything? and provides answers to many unsolved mysteries of physics. FET describes the qualitative vacuum energies, the ?Fundamental Energies? in the zero-point filed underlying and constituting the entire physical world, explaining dark matter, dark energy, particles, mass, Higgs field, gravity, space-time and much more.
Leif Pettersson has succeeded in presenting this complex, astounding material in a clear-cut, rational and comprehensive way. The subject is highly topical and of great public interest ? it connects to the research at CERN and it also matches the presentation of science and popular science in today's media. The book is richly illustrated in color.

Physicists have worked intensively for a long time to understand our physical world. They have also been struggling to unify the four forces of nature: gravity, electromagnetism and the strong and weak nuclear forces into a ?Theory of Everything?, but so far without success. In this book Leif Pettersson presents a groundbreaking and very exciting material with theories based on the intuitive knowledge contained in Martinus Cosmology. These theories demonstrate a new model, ?The Fundamental Energy Theory ? FET?, that without any contradiction unifies the four fundamental forces of nature, and in fact gives us ?The Theory of Everything?! Hypotheses are presented that may explain the mechanisms behind Einstein?s General and Special Theories of Relativity, quantum physics with its hypothetical gravitons, Higgs particles etc. and the enigmatic dark matter, dark energy and a lot more. The Fundamental Energy Theory offers a logical, coherent key to many of the unsolved mysteries of physics, e.g. those being currently studied in the world?s biggest research project so far, the particle accelerator in CERN.

The book is made available by New Cosmic Paradigm (NCP), an independent organization representing and working with the branch of the intuitive knowledge contained in Martinus Cosmology that is building bridges to Science, focusing on the great issues about Life, Consciousness and Reality posed by humanity and science. This branch is especially represented by Per Bruus-Jensen, former trainee and collaborator with Martinus. Physics, Martinus Cosmolgy and The Theory of Everything ? The Fundamental Energy Theory FET by Leif Pettersson is an important addition to this field. More information at www.newcosmicparadigm.org ? Welcome!