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Buckner looked into the wagon bed at the body, which now lay on its back, one bold onlooker having turned it to facilitate the viewing. He nodded in agreement. His lips twisted in disgust, and he found himself wondering again why he had taken a job that required him to look at the bodies of people dead by violence. James Buckner, the new police chief of Corinth, Missouri, must root out corruption and incompetence in his department, hire new of...

Bold and invigorating, Freed Indeed takes an inspiring look at black America through a unique spiritual perspective. From cover to cover Trawick explores the uncanny similarities between the Israelites and black America. In doing so, he offers a very different argument for the challenges facing African Americans today. While calling for much needed change, Trawick also makes some startling revelations about hidden wealth exclusive to African A...

From the knowledgeable perspective of 25 years as a criminal lawyer (mostly appeals like murder, rape, robbery, etc.), a former co-editor of Gilbert's Criminal Law & Procedure, and a free lance writer for over a decade, the author writes incisively about the remorseless cop killer described by America's newspaper of record as: "Perhaps the best known Death-Row prisoner in the world." (Page 1, New York Times, Dec. 19, 2001, the day after a fede...

Globalization and the off-shoring of middle-class jobs will be one of the most important forces shaping the 21st Century. Accelerating job migration is already permanently altering nearly every one of the world's economies, typically leaving Western workers anxious about how to compete. For instance, just when Mr. and Mrs. Middle Class have finished school, gotten good jobs, had their kids, and bought their house, they find their jobs are expo...

In 2012 the world appears to have recovered from the catastrophic events of 2006 but one nation, determined to manipulate those events, unleashes a force so powerful that it changes the world forever. The horrific attacks, codenamed Dragon's Breath, in Washington DC, London, Paris, Madrid, Berlin and Brussels in January 2012 are just the terrifying opening shots of a conflict that will go on to engulf most of the world within weeks. A secret a...

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Pathological bacteria are only 5% of the bacterial population. The other 95% promote the health and well-being of Earth. The digestive tract holds trillions of archaebacteria from over 4 1/2 billion years ago. When in danger, bacteria create shells for protection. Are humans evolved shells in order to protect the bacteria from atmospheric oxygen? Life forms are descended from prokaryote archaebacteria, for whom oxygen is unnecessary. After mil...

Where was Jesus between the ages of 12 and 30? The Bible says nothing of these years or his whereabouts during that time. There are clues, however, and the author follows some of them in this book, bringing us to a conclusion which he feels is the most obvious. It's been claimed that there have been more books written on the subject of Jesus than on any other subject in the history of publishing. There have been so many books over the years th...

The Christian Reconstructionists formed an alliance with the Bush regime to convert the U.S. to Biblical rule. The Bush Christian alliance's vision is to prepare the world for Armageddon. No war, terror or torture is to extreme to impede progress of their vision. The alliance plans are secret. The destruction of the environment, the elimination of professional and union jobs, the elimination of public education, the disrespect for the fine art...

Tommy er 45-50 år og bor stadig hos sin mor. Han er på bistandshjælp og opholder sig for det meste på torvet sammen med Verner. Han får lidt for mange øl, og set udefra er han en uskadelig bums. Folk rynker på næsen ad ham og hans livsstil. Men Tommy er mere end det. Han har en side, som ingen regner med. Hans moralkodeks ligger milevidt fra det almindelige. Han er rendyrket psykopat og går ikke af vejen for manipulation, vold eller mord. Han...

Was bringt Fritz Reuter dazu, sein Mecklenburg eine "schlechte Mutter" zu nennen? Warum suchen Hebbel und Groth ihr DIthmarschen nicht mehr auf? Was macht Storm in seiner Heimatstadt heimwehkrank? Was zieht Tönnies, den anderen Husumer, immer wieder dort hin? Vierzehn "Profile des Nordens" werden in diesem Buch unter verschiedenen Aspekten-biographisch, politisch, theologisch- beleuchtet. Bei allen kommt dabei der "Faktor Heimat" in seiner Am...

Als dieses Buch 1971 erstmals unter dem Titel "Organismus und Technik" erschien, befand sich die bundesrepublikanische Gesellschaft gerade am Beginn eines langdauernden Diskussionsprozesses im Hinblick auf die technologische Revolution und ihre Auswirkungen auf den Einzelnen. Die von Hugo Kükelhaus hier zusammengestellten zivilisationskritischen und humanökologischen Erkenntnisse sind allerdings nach wie vor aktuell, wie nicht zuletzt der weit...

Was ist das wirklich Wichtige, was ich meinem Kind mitgeben sollte? Genau diese Frage stellt sich der Autor in dem Buch "Vom Vater zum Sohn". In der Erzählung für seinen Sohn fasst Knut Burchard die Dinge zusammen, die junge Eltern beschäftigen: Von humorig bis tiefsinnig greift er dazu die elementaren Punkte des Lebens wie Werte, Natur, Liebe, Bildung, Sport, Wirtschaft, Frauen, Soziale Zusammenhänge, Mitmenschen und Persönlichkeit auf und b...

Das Buch beschreibt die Erlebnisse eines Auswanderers, wie er Australien gesehen und erlebt hat. Dort zu arbeiten und im Outback, hunderte Kilometer von der Zivilisation entfernt zu leben. Auf der Suche nach Opal, dem Opalfieber verfallen, wie man ihn sucht und auf das grosse Geld hofft. Es eine Zusammenstellung von Erlebnissen über sieben Jahre in denen jemand versuchte, durch Opalsuche zu überleben. Aber auch, wie das Leben im Outback sein k...

Praise for MORE THAN A NUMBERS GAME "More Than a Numbers Game is a revelatory history of how accounting conventions have shaped business reality, for good and ill." --Justin Fox, Editor at Large, Fortune > --Dennis R. Beresford, Ernst & Young Executive Professor of Accounting, The University of Georgia, and former chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (1987-97) "More Than a Numbers Game is a must-read for accounting students loo...

Klassisches Spiel in lustigem Design - hier bekommen die Spieler eine Beziehung zu ihren tierischen Figuren! Eine weitere Besonderheit: Der Würfel zeigt keine "Augen" sondern Ziffern! Die Spielsteine und Würfel werden in der klappbaren Holzbox sicher verstaut. Achtung: Der Artikel wird ab 11/2015 in einer Buntverpackung ausgeliefert.

Matilda Weimar flees her lecherous and incestuous uncle and seeks refuge in the ancient Castle of Wolfenbach. Among the castle's abandoned chambers, Matilda will discover the horrifying mystery of the missing Countess of Wolfenbach. But when her uncle tracks her down, can she escape his despicable intentions? One of the seven "horrid novels" named in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, The Castle of Wolfenbach is perhaps the most important of the...

This short monograph is a sequel to the author's previous two reference books on the subject of High Voltage Vacuum Insulation, and will be of interest to all of those involved in both fundamental research and the technological development of practical high voltage devices. Its aim is to offer an improved understanding of the operational behaviour of the high voltage vacuum gap, with particular reference to the physical origin of the prebreakd...

Under the pseudonym Louis Lloyd, writer and journalist Lily Lewis was regularly featured in the newspaper The Week, and her hugely popular column "Montreal Letter" was for some time a staple in the Toronto newspaper. She also accompanied writer Sara Jeannette Duncan on a journey around the world which later became the subject of Duncan's fictional work, in which Lewis was immortalized as a character. Consequently, Lewis's work has largely been...

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