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by David Domon, Isabella Zumas
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
This final book in a series of three concludes our adventure together and marks the beginning of another. Revelations within it can be quite profound to those with an open mind and honest heart. Though a minimum amount of imagination may be required to comprehend the awareness of its most abstract...
The Failed American Presidency
The Barack Hussein Obama Years, 2009 - ?, In Poetry and Prose
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
Obama. Love him? Hate him? Do you really understand him? First time author, Brian P. Noonan, tackled this last question with the release of his ebook, "The Failed American Presidency". Looking back on President Obama's five years in office reveals a person clothed in the red, white and blue...
How to Make a Million Jobs
A Charter for Social Enterprise
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
In this timely and provocative book, social entrepreneur Colin Crooks makes startling revelations about the true scale and dispiriting depth of the workless problem in the UK. He shows, through unique and powerful personal insights, just how profound the challenges are for some of our most vulnerable...
The Soprano State
New Jersey's Culture of Corruption
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2008
The Soprano State details the you-couldn't-make-this-up true story of the corruption that has pervaded New Jersey politics, government, and business for the past thirty years. From Jimmy Hoffa purportedly being buried somewhere beneath the end zone in Giants Stadium in the Meadowlands, through allegations...
First Dollars
Pipelines, Ports, Prisons and Private Property
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
MAKING MILLIONS — BOLD ABORIGINAL ENTREPRENEURS — KIM BAIRD, CLARENCE LOUIE, TEWANEE JOSEPH, MANNY JULES — ARE REINVENTING CANADA’S ECONOMY
A growing number of aboriginal leaders – especially those blessed by geography – are unlocking the value of their lands in order...
The Indomitable Don Plusquellic
How a Controversial Mayor Quarterbacked Akron’s Comeback
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Until his resignation in May 2015, Don Plusquellic had been the mayor of Akron, Ohio, for twenty-eight years. When he took office in 1987, Ronald Reagan was in the White House, the average price for a car was a little over $10,000, and later that year the US stock market would drop over 22 percent...
Coyote Warrior
One Man, Three Tribes, and the Trial That Forged a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
A Civil Action meets Indian country, as one man takes on the federal government and the largest boondoggle in U.S. history--and wins.
BRIEFE VON BETROFFENEN AMERIKANER
Mr. President, Republikaner, Demokraten, Sie brauchen, um uns zu hören!
Language: German
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Amerika hat durch den Sturm kürzlich mit katastrophalen Ereignisse gewesen, die unsere Stärke und Glauben als Nation getestet. Jedoch wie immer Amerika standhaft, und jetzt ist es Zeit für Amerika, treu die Versprechungen der Demokratie durch die Verbesserung der Lebensbedingungen aller Amerikaner...
by Heinz Duthel
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2013
DEDICATION
Street children in Brazil and Bangkok
Human trafficking Contemporary slavery Unfree labour
Debt bondage
Peon
Penal labour Sexual slavery Wage slavery
Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially
Women and Children
Convention against...
by Brad Theissen
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
Male Nude Photography book. Text and photos from the October 2004, City of West Hollywood sponsored Town Hall public forum on Crystal Meth, and its relationship with the increasing number of HIV diagnoses. Panel participants included Actor Chad Allen, Singer Paul LeKakis, HIV AIDS Medical Doctor...
Teenage Kicks
Every adult should know
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2013
Teenage Kicks is a book that every parent and guardian should read. It explains things that many teenagers get up to with no responsible adults around. Things that teenagers enjoy doing, and "showing off" with friends, not realizing that the risks taken could be fatal...
However,...
by John Gregory Dunne
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
“Dunne has a wicked eye for the telling details, an uncanny ear for the revealing phrase.”—The New York Times.
Quintana & Friends gathers thirty-three brilliant essays written by a pioneer of New Journalism between 1963 and 1978. John Gregory Dunne's gifts for...
by John Gregory Dunne
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
“Funny, outrageous, cynical, and spellbinding.”—People magazine.
In this first-ever digital edition of John Gregory Dunne’s acclaimed collection Crooning, readers find evidence from the get-go confirming the writer’s reputation as one of the most clear-seeing,...
by Bill McGraw
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2005
New edition of the popular pocket-sized collection of former Detroit mayor Coleman Young’s most memorable quotes.