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Tales of alien abductions, miraculous relics, and haunted castles have attracted believers and skeptics across the globe for centuries. Paranormal investigator Joe Nickell tackles the world's most seemingly inexplicable myths in Adventures in Paranormal Investigation. With four decades of experience in the field, Nickell employs skepticism and scientific analysis to pull truth from the mires of false evidence and trickery that surround both old and new legends and mysteries. Unlike authors who engage in hype and sensationalism in order to foster or debunk myths, Nickell approaches each case with a rational and scientific approach intended to find the truth. Occam's Razor—all things being e...
Being in the sights of a former ally was the last thing Black Ops Agent, Blake MacKay expected, but that’s just where he landed. An intercepted call discloses that the former Iranian nuclear guru, Mohsen Fallali, has come back on the grid to head-up Iran’s new nuclear weapons program. Mossad has to act fast and sends Solomon Zinn, an elite sniper, to take him out. However, the Ansar al-Sharia militant group wants Fallahi for their own purposes and will stop at nothing to get him. Aware of the two groups after Fallahi, Blake is sent to Vienna to capture him before Mossad or Ansar al-Sharia can carry out their plans. When Blake discovers that his Mossad adversary is a former lover, he must devise the ultimate deception to complete his mission. When the three competing forces descend on Vienna, all hell breaks out in this thrilling spy novella.
Daniels’ Orchestral Music is the gold standard for all orchestral professionals—from conductors, librarians, programmers, students, administrators, and publishers, to even instructors—seeking to research and plan an orchestral program, whether for a single concert or a full season. This sixth edition, celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the original edition, has the largest increase in entries for a new edition of Orchestral Music: 65% more works (roughly 14,050 total) and 85% more composers (2,202 total) compared to the fifth edition. Composition details are gleaned from personal inspection of scores by orchestral conductors, making it a reliable one-stop resource for repertoire. ...
Mariette Fink untersucht das Zusammenspiel verschiedener Akteure rund um die Stellung erwerbstätiger Frauen in den europäischen Nationalstaaten und stellt die Frage, inwieweit europäische Integration als Chance für die Gleichstellung der Geschlechter bewertet werden kann. Es gelingt der Autorin, unterschiedliche Frauenleitbilder und Europaerwartungen durch den Vergleich zwischen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland und Frankreich aufzuzeigen. Zugleich können Interessen und Strategien der Akteure in den 1960er bis 1980er Jahren nachgezeichnet und Erklärungsmöglichkeiten für deren Handeln und den Erfolg von EG-Maßnahmen erarbeitet werden.
"From her birth during World War One, to witnessing the opening of World War ll from the Free Sate of Danzig, expatriation-loss of country and citizenship and considered a Displaced Person, to removal to Hoechst near Frankfurt, and from there immigration to America in 1947, the story is one of survival and growth. Acquiring citizenship in America for herself and her two children, working for captains of Wall Street, this is the story of a remarkable woman, working against odds that might have seemed unbeatable, yet this is a story of how she overcame those odds, and thrived."
The first part of a trilogy whose latter volumes are currently being translated, this novel by the German writer Hubert Fichte is set during World War II in Germany, where a boy placed in a Catholic orphanage must make sense of the incomprehensible and inclement world outside.
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