Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!

You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.

Sign up

Casting Forward
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 239

Casting Forward

In Casting Forward, naturalist, educator, and writer Steve Ramirez takes the reader on a yearlong journey fly fishing all of the major rivers of the Texas Hill Country. This is a story of the resilience of nature and the best of human nature. It is the story of a living, breathing place where the footprints of dinosaurs, conquistadors, and Comanches have mingled just beneath the clear spring-fed waters. This book is an impassioned plea for the survival of this landscape and its biodiversity, and for a new ethic in how we treat fish, nature, and each other.

Lawless Capitalism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 304

Lawless Capitalism

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 2013
  • -
  • Publisher: NYU Press

In this innovative and exhaustive study, Steven A. Ramirez posits that the subprime mortgage crisis, as well as the global macroeconomic catastrophe it spawned, is traceable to a gross failure of law. The rule of law must appropriately channel and constrain the exercise of economic and political power. Used effectively, it ensures that economic opportunity isn’t limited to a small group of elites that enjoy growth at the expense of many, particularly those in vulnerable economic situations. In Lawless Capitalism, Ramirez calls for the rule of law to displace crony capitalism. Only through the rule of law, he argues, can capitalism be reconstructed.

Faithless: A Jane Doe Thriller
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 321

Faithless: A Jane Doe Thriller

Her only memory is dying from her wounds… Jane wakes up in a lab. She's alone, immersed in a sterilized tank with wires and tubes connected to her. She looks around. There are others–test subjects like her. Except they're all dead. What makes her different? She has no answers, but she wants them. Wants them with a powerful drive that courses through her like the life she lost in a night raid in Afghanistan. It's a life she shouldn't have now. Someone brought her back without her memories–no doubt for a reason. Only it seems they changed their minds. Men in gray suits are trying to kill her now. They shoot her, but she heals. As she flees, she leaves a trail of bodies. She knows they will pursue her unceasingly. Let them come. Jane wants answers because none of this is accidental. Who is she? How was she brought back? What are the limits of her body? What causes the fever that rages in her? And one thing she wants to know above all. Should she thank the people who did this–or kill them?

The Case for the Corporate Death Penalty
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 271

The Case for the Corporate Death Penalty

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 2017-01-31
  • -
  • Publisher: NYU Press

"An unprecedented breakdown in the rule of law occurred in the United States after the 2008 financial collapse. Myriad large banks settled securities fraud claims for failing to disclose the risks of subprime mortgages they sold to the investing public. Rather than breaking up these powerful megabanks, , the government accepted fines that essentially punished innocent shareholders instead of senior leaders at the megabanks. In [this book the authors] examine the wrongdoing underlying the financial crisis. They reveal that the government failed to use its most powerful law enforcement tools despite overwhelming proof of fraud on Wall Street before, during, and after the crisis. The pattern of...

Casting Onward
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 281

Casting Onward

In writing this book, author, naturalist, and educator Steve Ramirez traveled thousands of miles by plane, motor vehicle, boat, and foot. Each chapter includes his fishing with a notable person in the worlds of fishing and conservation. His fishing partners in this book include Bob White, Chris Wood, Kirk Deeter (and many other leaders within Trout Unlimited), Ted Williams of The Native Fish Coalition, Matthew Miller, and John Karges of The Nature Conservancy, and many more. In the course of this journey, Ramirez explores and fishes mountain streams, alpine lakes, National Wild and Scenic Rivers, desert canyons, brackish water estuaries, and the rolling ocean off the coast of Cape Cod. About...

The Girl in the Mirror
  • Language: en

The Girl in the Mirror

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 2019-06
  • -
  • Publisher: Unknown

While renovating an old house with her ex-husband, Sarah Greene finds a mirror that holds the spirit of a dead girl. As she learns more about the people who built Casa Abrigo-and about their demon-worshiping son-Sarah comes to believe the girl did not die a natural death, and she sets out to discover the truth. But prying into someone's sketchy past can be risky, especially when it awakens dangerous dark forces.

The Great Migration
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 413

The Great Migration

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 2021-05-30
  • -
  • Publisher: Unknown

After a hundred years of peace on the remote continent of the Kingdom, evidence of the mysterious beings known as the s'orne has been discovered. Having just completed an eight-month wilderness tour, Bellona Stanick is ignorant of the threat as she arrives at the nation's capital to attend the city's weeklong summer festival. Along with three other members of her tour group, Bellona hopes to enjoy the week's festivities while exploring her newfound feelings for her guide, Luta, a member of the ancient, enigmatic Zuni tribe. As the festival begins, news of a s'orne incursion and contagion event across the country reaches the capital. As the Kingdom's defenses mobilize to protect its Citizens, fate brings Bellona to a new realization about the s'orne and their connection to the Zuni lands. Knowing an invasion of the capital is inevitable, she must choose between protecting the city and its Citizens, or Luta and his homeland.

The Alchemy of Us
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 392

The Alchemy of Us

  • Type: Book
  • -
  • Published: 2021-04-06
  • -
  • Publisher: MIT Press

A “timely, informative, and fascinating” study of 8 inventions—and how they shaped our world—with “totally compelling” insights on little-known inventors throughout history (Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sixth Extinction) In The Alchemy of Us, scientist and science writer Ainissa Ramirez examines 8 inventions and reveals how they shaped the human experience: • Clocks • Steel rails • Copper communication cables • Photographic film • Light bulbs • Hard disks • Scientific labware • Silicon chips Ramirez tells the stories of the woman who sold time, the inventor who inspired Edison, and the hotheaded undertaker whose invention pointed the w...

Let's Get Lost
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 249

Let's Get Lost

Adam lost the woman he loves. If only he had a time machine… Adam, the inheritor of a fortune born from tragedy, grapples with the existential absurdity of it all. His solution? Dive into the cutthroat world of marketing at Bland Corporation's Manhattan headquarters. It's there he meets the boss's daughter, Jenny, and they fall in love. But Bruce, the cunning VP, has other plans… While spearheading a new campaign, Adam visits Bland's science division in Cambridge, where he meets Claire, an eccentric young genius fixated on time travel. Meanwhile, in New York, Bruce devises a scheme to eliminate the bothersome junior executive. He assigns an English lush to "help" Adam. But the Brit becomes an unexpected ally when he uncovers the VP's malevolent plot. The bombshell sends Adam spiraling, and he ends up in a mental hospital. Ashamed to face Jenny, he seeks solace in the Hudson Valley with his mad scientist uncle. There, in a haze of uncertainty, Adam vows to win back Jenny by confronting the extraordinary circumstances that upended his life. But how? If only he had a time machine…

Rise and Shine
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 361

Rise and Shine

“When I was thirty-five, my wife and I were both reported dead by the first paramedics to arrive at the scene of a seventy-five-mile-an-hour hit-and-run. My wife Marcy died instantly that day. With brain damage from a massive stroke and my body broken, I wasn’t expected to survive either.” So begins Rise and Shine, the dramatic story of Simon Lewis and his remarkable recovery from a horrific car accident. Told through the eyes of someone who has “lived through it” and successfully overcome the hurdles of the health insurance maze, Rise and Shine is a first-person account of unexpected tragedy and life-affirming courage, with lessons both medical and spiritual. Rise and Shine shows how much patients can achieve, beyond the limited horizons of insurance-based diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation, to attain maximum regeneration and rebuild their lives. An inspiring story about what it means to return to life after a near-death experience, Rise and Shine is, essentially, an exploration of the nature of consciousness itself, and an impassioned tale about survival and recovery.