book class with continuous page numbering throughout chapters

Question

There are a few related entries but I cannot find a solution, sorry it's quite urgent.

I'm trying to achieve a continuous numbering of pages, figures and tables, rather than the numbering restarting at each chapter.

\documentclass[10pt,a4paper,twoside,english]{book}

\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{float}



\usepackage[a4paper,verbose, asymmetric, centering]{geometry}
\usepackage[justification=centering]{caption}
\usepackage{subfigure}

\usepackage{enumerate} 
\usepackage{verbatim}   
\usepackage{float}     
\usepackage{multirow}
\usepackage{chappg}
\usepackage{url}
\usepackage{expdlist}
\usepackage{acronym_expdlist} 
\usepackage{hhline}
\usepackage{amsmath,amsfonts,amsthm}
\usepackage{listings}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{hyperref}

\usepackage[tableposition=top]{caption}


\usepackage{upgreek}

\usepackage{natbib}
%\bibliographystyle{unsrtnat}
\bibliographystyle{copernicus}

%\usepackage[nottoc,numbib]{tocbibind} %add bibliography to table of contents
\usepackage[nottoc]{tocbibind}
%\addbibresource{thesis.bib}

\input{page_layout_definition.tex}

\begin{document}

\thispagestyle{empty}
\noindent
\begin{minipage}{3cm}%
\end{minipage}\hfill
\begin{minipage}{8cm}
\raggedleft
\textsf{university\\
faculty\\
department}
\end{minipage}

\bigskip
\begin{flushleft}
\Large \textsf{title}\\

\end{flushleft}
\hrule    

\bigskip
 \LARGE\noindent \textsf{name} \hfill
\bigskip

\normalsize
% 
% % Footer
\vfill
\begin{minipage}{2.0cm}%
   %\includegraphics*[width=2.0cm]{intec}%       % intec logo
\end{minipage}\hfill
\begin{minipage}{9cm}
 \raggedleft
 %\textsf{text1 \\
 %text2: \\
 %text3 \\
 %text4}
\end{minipage}

\clearpage{\pagestyle{empty}\cleardoublepage}
\thispagestyle{empty}

\normalsize

\noindent
\begin{minipage}{3cm}

\end{minipage}\hfill
\begin{minipage}{8cm}
\raggedleft
\textsf{university\\
faculty\\
department}
\end{minipage}
\\[2cm]

\noindent \begin{tabular}{ @{} l l}
name \\
\end{tabular}
\\[2cm]


\noindent university \\
\noindent faculty
\\[0.3cm]
\noindent add1 \\
\noindent add2
\noindent add3
\\[0.3cm]

\\[4cm]
\noindent

\vfill

\begin{minipage}{2.0cm}%
    %\includegraphics*[width=2.0cm]{intec}%       % logo
\end{minipage}\hfill
\begin{minipage}{9cm}
\raggedleft
\textsf{thesis\\
text}
\end{minipage}
\clearpage{\pagestyle{empty}\cleardoublepage}


\selectlanguage{english}
\hyphenation{every-where}
\frontmatter
\chapter{}
\vspace{0.35in}

\begin{flushright}{\emph{place, date\\
name}}
\end{flushright}
\selectlanguage{english}

\clearpage{\pagestyle{empty}\cleardoublepage}


\renewcommand{\contentsname}{Table of Contents}

\tableofcontents
\clearpage{\pagestyle{empty}\cleardoublepage}

\listoffigures
\clearpage{\pagestyle{empty}\cleardoublepage}

\listoftables
\clearpage{\pagestyle{empty}\cleardoublepage}

\include{acronyms}

\clearpage      
\thispagestyle{empty}  
\mbox{}        
\clearpage{\pagestyle{empty}\cleardoublepage}


\mainmatter


\selectlanguage{english}
\renewcommand*{\thesection}{\thechapter.\arabic{section}}

\newcommand\fdtsvrightmarktmp{{\scshape\small Chapter }}
\renewcommand\evenpagerightmark{{\scshape\small\chaptername\ \thechapter}}
\renewcommand\oddpageleftmark{{\scshape\small\leftmark}}

\baselineskip 13.0pt

\include{ch1/ch1}
\include{ch2/ch2}
\include{ch3/ch3}
\include{ch4/ch4}
\include{ch5/ch5}
\include{ch6/ch6}
\include{ch7/ch7}
\include{ch8/ch8}
\include{ch9/ch9}


%\printbibliography
%\bibliographystyle{copernicus}

\renewcommand\evenpagerightmark{{}}
\renewcommand\oddpageleftmark{{}}

\bibliography{thesis}

\end{document}

page_layout_definition.tex

\geometry{body={11.5cm,18.92cm}}
\geometry{twoside,marginpar=0.0cm,marginparsep=0.0cm}

\setlength{\textwidth}{11.5cm}
\renewcommand{\topfraction}{0.8}

\renewcommand{\subfigcapskip}{0pt}

\fancypagestyle{plain}{
\fancyhf{}
\renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt}
\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt}}

\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhf{}
\addtolength{\headwidth}{\marginparsep}
\addtolength{\headwidth}{\marginparwidth}

\renewcommand{\chaptermark}[1]{\markboth{#1}{}}

\newcommand\oddpageleftmark{}
\newcommand\evenpagerightmark{}

\fancyhead[LE,RO]{\small\thepage}
\fancyhead[LO]{\oddpageleftmark}
\fancyhead[RE]{\evenpagerightmark}

\setcounter{tocdepth}{3}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{3}
 \def\PARstart#1#2{\begingroup\def\par{\endgraf\endgroup\lineskiplimit=0pt}
 \setbox2=\hbox{\uppercase{#2} }\newdimen\tmpht \tmpht \ht2
 \advance\tmpht by \baselineskip\font\hhuge=cmr10 at \tmpht
 \setbox1=\hbox{{\hhuge #1}}
 \count7=\tmpht \count8=\ht1\divide\count8 by 1000 \divide\count7 by\count8
 \tmpht=.001\tmpht\multiply\tmpht by \count7\font\hhuge=cmr10 at \tmpht
 \setbox1=\hbox{{\hhuge #1}} \noindent \hangindent1.05\wd1
 \hangafter=-2 {\hskip-\hangindent \lower1\ht1\hbox{\raise1.0\ht2\copy1}
 \kern-0\wd1}\copy2\lineskiplimit=-1000pt}

\newcommand{\usefn}[1]{\mbox{\textsuperscript{\normalfont#1}}}


\renewcommand{\captionfont}{\small \itshape \mdseries \rmfamily}
\renewcommand{\subcapsize}{\footnotesize \itshape \mdseries \rmfamily}

\AtBeginDocument{
  \renewcommand{\tablename}{Table}
  \renewcommand{\bibname}{References}
}