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Dream to work in fashion and the luxury industry ?  Welcome to FASHION CAREER STORIES  My name is Lucas SILVA EDWARDS, I am a Career strategist and Executive coach.  My role is to help you design your professional journey, in one of the most glamorous industry on the planet, but also one of the most competitive and demanding ones.   Each week, I interview fashion professionals at different stages of their career, in order to decode their best practices, tactics and strategies.  My hope for you is that you will find in these conversations, some inspiration and insights that will help ...

AVATAR: THE BOOK OF WARAn Australian Avatar: Legends Real-Play Podcast.The story of four teenagers seeking balance in a world without the Avatar.Starring Lucas Li as Tomo - The Razor - He/HimGeorgie Hazel as Nuro - The Destined - They/She/HeTed Darling as Banji - The Guardian - He/HimJesse Thomas as Minh Fang - The Foundling - He/HimAsh Cooper as The Game Master

The Kremlin has never been afraid to assassinate its political opponents. In 1940, a Soviet agent murdered Leon Trotsky with an ice pick in Mexico City. In the 1950s, KGB agents poisoned the Ukrainian nationalist leaders Stepan Bandera and Lev Rebet in Munich. In 1978, Georgi Markov, a Bulgarian émigré broadcaster, was killed, supposedly by a poisoned pellet fired from an umbrella, on Waterloo Bridge in central London. New archival research suggests that the Soviet KGB ordered his murder.

From the capture of Sidney Reilly, the "Ace of Spies", by Lenin's Bolsheviks in 1925, to the deportation from the USA of Anna Chapman, the "Redhead under the Bed", in 2010, Kremlin and Western spymasters have battled for supremacy for nearly a century. In Deception Edward Lucas uncovers the real story of Chapman and her colleagues in Britain and America, unveiling their clandestine missions and the spy-hunt that led to their downfall. It reveals unknown triumphs and disasters of Western intelligence in the Cold War,