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On a dark, rainy night in October 1900, George E. Bailey, caretaker of Breakheart Hill farm, disappeared. He no longer made his daily milk runs or stopped at the tavern for his favorite cherry rum. Some suspected foul play right away, as Bailey's "wife" had recently gone to Maine, leaving Bailey alone with his farmhand, John C. Best, who was known to be a drunk and a potentially violent man. Nine days later, when Bailey's dismembered body was fished out of a local pond, all eyes quickly focused on Best. Douglas L. Heath and Alison C. Simcox uncover the facts of this shocking tale.

Demystify buffer ETFs for equity growth potential with built-in downside protection Buffer ETFs For Dummies is your essential guide to understanding one of the fastest-growing segments in the ETF marketplace. Also known as "defined outcome ETFs," the popularity of buffer ETFs is projected to...

It took a brain surgeon who's spent a lifetime in the operating room experiencing the brain's union of form and function to write this book. Cerebral Entanglements, unlike most books on the brain, looks at the intimate and vital emotions in our lives, and shows as well, how neuroimaging studies can transform our understanding of crucial emotional or mental health concerns.

John Kruger is a commercial pilot long on the run from Afrikaner nationalists for smuggling Black activists out of Apartheid-era South Africa. As a flyer of old collectible planes, he now wants nothing more than to enjoy his hobby, party, and play the field. Then John discovers that World War I hero and flying ace Andrew Beauchamp-Proctor seems to be buried in two places 6,000 miles apart. Out of a sense of duty toward the man who inspired him to become a pilot, John begins a search for the truth.

Under the cover of night, on February 19, 1973, another U.S. president witnessed extraterrestrials. President Richard Nixon made a secret trip to a top security U.S. Air Force base, as his former boss, President Dwight Eisenhower, did in 1954. Nixon was said to have taken his golfing buddy, comedian Jackie Gleason. According to Gleason's then wife, Beverly McKittrick Gleason, Jackie was deeply shaken later that night when he returned home and confessed to their clandestine trip.

After the unprecedented events of the COVID-19 pandemic, it may be hard to imagine a time not so long ago when deadly diseases were a routine part of life. It is harder still to fathom that the best medical thinking at that time blamed these diseases on noxious miasmas, bodily humors, and divine dyspepsia. This all began to change on a day in April 1676, when a little-known Dutch merchant described bacteria for the first time. Ending Epidemics explains how we came to understand and prevent many of our worst infectious diseases—and double average life expectancy.

This engaging guide is designed to demystify artificial intelligence (AI) in the business world, no advanced math degrees or robotic companions are necessary. It tackles everything from traditional AI to the exciting realm of Generative AI, clearly distinguishing between what is genuinely...

Eine davon ist die vom Geist des Dombaumeisters Gerhard von Ryle, der keine Ruhe findet und auch in der Gegenwart sein Unwesen treibt. Ich wurde von dem Domkapitel beauftragt, dem Spuk ein Ende zu bereiten, und meine Ermittlungen führen mich auch auf eine Zeitreise in das Jahr 1260.

On October 7, 1780, American Patriot and Loyalist soldiers battled each other at Kings Mountain, near the border of North and South Carolina. With over one hundred eyewitness accounts, this collection of participant statements from men of both sides includes letters and statements in their original form—the soldiers' own words—unedited and unabridged.

Since the 1950s, the American war on drugs has positioned white middle-class youth as sympathetic victims of illegal drug markets who need rehabilitation instead of incarceration. The Suburban Crisis traces how politicians, the media, and grassroots political activists crusaded to protect white families from perceived threats while criminalizing and incarcerating urban minorities, and how a troubling legacy of racial injustice continues to inform the war on drugs today.

The Wanderer is the first book ever to chart a wolf's movement, almost to the day, for an extended period of time. Informed by unique access to research and field notes, award-winning author, photographer, and naturalist Tom Walker shares the story of Wolf 258, nicknamed "the Wanderer," part of a research project that studied wolves in Alaska's Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve for more than two decades.

Der Mann vor dem Fernseher verzog seinen Mund zu einem grausamen Lächeln. Dann griff er nach einer Schale mit goldenen Nadeln, nahm eine heraus und stach sie tief in die Stirn einer vor ihm liegenden Puppe. Die zweite Nadel senkte er in die linke Brusthälfte der Figur, in die Herzgegend. "Durch die Nadel in deinem Herzen stelle ich die Verbindung mit dir her, Derrick Avondale", sprach der Mann in singendem Tonfall weiter. "Alles, was ich deinem Abbild zufüge, geschieht auch mit dir selbst".

Often overshadowed by San Francisco, its larger and more glamorous twin, Oakland has a fascinating history of its own. From serving as a major transportation hub to forging a dynamic manufacturing sector, by the mid-twentieth century Oakland had become the urban center of the East Bay. Hella Town focuses on how political deals, economic schemes, and technological innovations fueled this emergence but also seeded the city's postwar struggles.

One of the central dynamics shaping organizations today is a contradiction managers face between ensuring workforce discipline and harnessing worker creativity. In manufacturing, global best practice includes lean production with substantive worker empowerment; cross-training in enlarged tasks and inclusion in problem solving and decision making. Yet, many managers instead face these conflicting pressures by training workers in narrow tasks and using them exclusively for manual labor.

Mr. Dunford ist hätte allen Grund gehabt, sich des Lebens zu erfreuen. Er hatte eine gute Stellung in einem bekannten Industrieunternehmen und eine junge, hübsche Frau, die ihn über alles liebte. Doch Mr. Dunford war wettsüchtig und setzte regelmäßig hohe Summen auf Pferde. Als man ihn schließlich tot in seinem Stuhl fand, lag vor ihm auf dem Schreibtisch ein blauer Umschlag mit einem ebensolchen Brief. Es war das Forderungsschreiben eines ortsbekannten Geldverleihers.

Jason Verne is an all-American hero. As the first man to set first on Mars after his lone journey into space, he quickly became a familiar figure in every living room. His goodwill and human courage won over the hearts of many, including the daughter of world-famous television evangelist Timothy Grayson. Millions of viewers tuned in to see the Hero of Mars marry the prominent reverend’s lovely daughter. His meteoric rise didn’t end there.

Dominic Drive is the coming-of-age story of Charlie Williams, a young man who has a difficult childhood but who remains optimistic and hopeful, told through the eyes of another young man who becomes as close as a brother to him. Set in the late 1950s and early 1960s, it captures life in a post-WWII community.

Fulford College is broke. In a desperate attempt to keep its doors open, the Florida based college joins forces with the Mafia to establish a scholarship program. This program, however, comes with a new set of students selected by the Mafia and a secret new curriculum. Little did this liberal arts college know, it was now home to the very first criminal education program in the nation. These brave students are now entering their senior year at Fulford during an election year.

Essentially, this is a practical workbook about how these authors from around the world have in their own unique way awakened to their calling and thought outside of the box to offer positive treatment modalities for a variety of conditions. We believe this audiobook will provide a comprehensive insight into how these pioneers have transformed lives and benefited consumers in ways that go beyond the allopathic treatment model of Western medicine.

There have been numerous books examining the 2008 financial crisis from either a US or European perspective. Tamim Bayoumi is the first to explain how the Euro crisis and US housing crash were, in fact, parasitically intertwined. Starting in the 1980s, Bayoumi outlines the cumulative policy errors that undermined the stability of both the European and US financial sectors, highlighting the catalytic role played by European mega banks that exploited lax regulation to expand into the US market and financed unsustainable bubbles on both continents.