This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of solid state physics for undergraduate students in physics, chemistry, engineering, and materials science.

John Ashcroft's service as attorney general began with turmoil: a loss to a deceased challenger in his senate reelection campaign and a tumultuous confirmation battle. Then, on September 11, 2001, his job was transformed into the greatest leadership challenge an attorney general has ever faced. Highly classified intelligence briefings, secret surveillance of terror cells, and war councils with President Bush gave Ashcroft a uniquely comprehensive--and uniquely chilling--view of the threats to American security. In NEVER AGAIN, Ashcroft breaks his silence about historic events that transpired during his term of office--including the largest terrorist attack in U.S. history, the enactment and defense of the Patriot Act, the Robert Hanssen spy scandal, the execution of Timothy McVeigh, and the recently discovered domestic surveillance program authorized by President Bush. In this provocative book, readers will meet the man behind the title and hear his take on the dangers to and within America from outside forces, and what he did to repair the serious breaches in our country's security. NEVER AGAIN is a fascinating and probing look at what Ashcroft believes will ultimately make America safe.

Prologue
For this story to mean anything, you have to understand one basic fundamental fact. Heaven and Hell really exist. What they are in terms of our mortal understanding, is another thing altogether. Therefore I cannot describe or dwell upon God or the Devil. I deal instead with there representatives here on Earth.
So it came to pass, that over centuries when a few chosen humans died. The Creator picked them to be reborn as The Protectorate of the human Race. These special few became known as The Twelve, an odd assortment of humans, reborn with God given powers to help them defend the living against those spawned by the Devil.
But it also came to pass that Shades came into existence. Shades, grey slime covered humanoid shapes containing a trapped human soul within. It is this soul that gives the Shade a life force all of its own, driven to do evil and feed upon the living. Thank God you never get to see one, for if you do it would mean certain death.
Shades are the creation of The Dark, a few evil humans allowed back from death to do Hells bidding. They are the enemy of the Twelve. The Twelve are the enemies of The Dark.
So it is written that for every positive, there must be a negative, for every action a re-action, Ying and Yang. It is an undeniable fact that Life must be balanced in all things, including death, for the world to exist.
Except……The Twelve were only now ten and the ranks of The Dark, eleven. It was foretold that one called ‘Judgement’ and his opposing number who shall be named The Chosen One, will one day appear and when that time arrives. God shall win or loose Earth and its peoples forever.
Eight thousand years pass and still Judgement fails to appear. Until one rain drenched, freezing cold night, in some pitiful London back street, filled with a cardboard city of down and outs. Something happens…….