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Glimpse Behind the Façade of Rich and Famous Women If you liked The Last Castle and Lean In, you’ll love Women of Means. The Grass Isn't Greener on the Other Side. Heiresses have always been viewed with eyes of envy. They were the ones for whom the cornucopia had been upended, showering them with unimaginable wealth and opportunity. However, through intimate historical biographies, Women of Means shows us that oftentimes the weaving sisters saved their most heart-wrenching tapestries for the destinies of wealthy women. Happily Never After. From the author of Behind Every Great Man, we now have Women of Means, vignettes of the women who were slated from birth―or marriage―to great privi...
From a twenty-five-year career that spanned four continents, an FBI special agent gives you the inside story of the Bureau’s greatest takedowns and biggest screwups. From China to the South Pacific, from East Berlin to Arkansas, I.C. Smith is one of the FBI’s most storied figures. This intrepid G-man has seen it all. In this riveting book about the Bureau, Smith brings a fresh, insider’s perspective on the FBI’s most well-known triumphs and failures of the past three decades. Robert Hannsen. Morris and Eva Childs. Larry Wu-Tai Chin. Aldrich Ames. Smith offers unique insights into how these monumental investigations were handled, or often mishandled, in alarming detail. He also confronts head-on the string of errors inside the FBI—in management and in the field—that directly led to the attacks of September 11th. Filled with startling new information, including more than seventy never-before-published findings, Smith tracks his incredible rise from street agent in St. Louis to special agent in charge of Arkansas—where he took on the corrupt political system that produced President Bill Clinton.
There are no stories quite like those experienced by inner city street cops. Truth is most people will listen when a policeman tells of his experiences. But the stories most folks want repeated are not the ones about the hot pursuits, the shootings, or the prominent arrests. No, it's the bizarre, quirky, sometimes funny, sometimes sad stories that play out in the big city as a part of a cop's existence there. The fictional Casey Teel vicariously lives many of the author's real life police experiences. But Casey Teel is much more than a police story. It is an allegorical saga that spans several decades. The reader will truly experience history while following Casey through espionage training, to working with the French Resistance in WWII, and into his career with LAPD. The author's careful research and personal experience combine to create a saga that is historically correct. Every story either could have, or did actually happen. All settings are real. Police work doesn't attract philosophers, but being in the middle of life's most intimate dramas does create them. The ones you meet in these pages may challenge your beliefs, or at least they will make you think.
"Inspirational romantic suspense"--Spine.
Death has been deemed the “great equalizer,” but each journey towards our shared, ultimate fate is unique. The length of our lives, the quality of our last days, how our deaths are perceived by others, and the handling of our remains are governed by nature and many socio-cultural factors. Unequal Before Death is an edited collection that addresses inequalities surrounding death from the perspectives of scholars in a wide range of humanistic and social science disciplines, including art history, anthropology, Film and media studies, political science, popular culture, psychology, religion, sociology, and statistics. The majority of the chapters of this interdisciplinary anthology are revi...
We all know that speech can be harmful. But how? Mary Kate McGowan argues that speech constitutes harm when it enacts a norm that prescribes that harm. She investigates such harms as oppression, subordination, and discrimination in such forms of speech as sexist remarks, racist hate speech, pornography, verbal triggers, and micro-aggressions.
A controversial character largely known (as depicted in the movie Glory) as a Union colonel who led Black soldiers in the Civil War, James Montgomery (1814–71) waged a far more personal and radical war against slavery than popular history suggests. It is the true story of this militant abolitionist that Todd Mildfelt and David D. Schafer tell in Abolitionist of the Most Dangerous Kind, summoning a life fiercely lived in struggle against the expansion of slavery into the West and during the Civil War. This book follows a harrowing path through the turbulent world of the 1850s and 1860s as Montgomery, with the fervor of an Old Testament prophet, inflicts destructive retribution on Southern s...
Sharing Orion is a highly unique book, in that it is an Action/Adventure/Romance novel written by a fighter pilot. The main characters, Aiden and Chloe Eason, take the reader on a wild ride unlike any other ever experienced. Set in a fighter squadron, the reader experiences true fighter squadron dynamics and flying excitement not Hollywood embellishments.