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Black Market Truth: The Aristotle Quest, Book 1: A Dana McCarter Trilogy
by Sharon Kaye
Non-Fiction
Book 40
Product Description
A secret concealed for centuries, shrouded in myth, silenced by stone.
A secret that if unleashed threatens to shake the very foundation of Western civilization.
A secret that can remain hidden no longer.
The quest begins in Rome, where a grizzly murder and a plundered tomb serve to ignite perhaps the most controversial conflict in human history. Inspector Domenico Conti is charged with the task of recovering the contents of the tomb, but as he delves deeper into the investigation, he is thrust into the center of a centuries-old struggle between truth and those who would stop at nothing to conceal it. But he is not alone.
Dr. Dana McCarter, newly appointed director of the Advanced Institute for the Study of Antiquity, finds herself at the heart of the mystery when her considerable expertise in ancient Greek philosophy and her suspect involvement with the black market take her on a journey beginning in her New York University offices and sweeping around the globe -- from the dark alleys of Moscow, to the rolling hills of the Italian countryside and the enigmatic relics of an ancient civilization, alive with long-kept secrets.
As the search for answers leads them through a labyrinth of conspiracy and intrigue, Dana and Domenico must question everything they believe in and decide how much they are willing to sacrifice to know the truth. |
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Pirates of Manhattan
by Barry James Dyke
Non-Fiction
Book 39
Wikipedia entry
www.PiratesOfManhattan.com
Book Description
Go behind the scenes of modern finance and discover the people and organizations that ultimately control your financial life. Learn why you should invest in yourself and your loved ones first, and why the stock market and mutual fund industry pose a danger to your financial well-being, yet remain extremely profitable for Wall Street and its sidekicks, the banks and mutual fund companies of America. Together they form the Pirates of Manhattan! In this new, thoroughly researched work, author Barry James Dyke brings transparency to the American economic system and outlines why permanent life insurance should be a centerpiece of most Americans' financial plans instead of the stock market or mutual funds.
About the Author
Barry James Dyke entered the financial service and life insurance business in 1982. He has worked and consulted with individuals, professionals, small businesses and public corporations in constructing employee benefit plans, investments and financial planning. In addition, he has also founded a pension consulting business, a third-party administration firm and a registered investment advisory firm. Since 1996, he has passionately studied economics, which is the foundation for his first book, The Pirates of Manhattan. |
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Instant Appeal: The 8 Primal Factors That Create Blockbuster Success
by Vicki Kunkel
Non-Fiction
Book 38
From Publishers Weekly
Kunkel, a communications consultant, posits that the most persuasive and powerful icons and brands owe their success to an uncanny ability to appeal to one or more cultural and biological universals, our species' emotional and behavioral responses to certain stimuli (for example, the need for security and comfort, distrust of classically beautiful people). Unfortunately, Kunkel's evidence of these universals is vague and speculative—referring to research into the effect of sound waves on cellular structure, she asserts that just as plants dislike heavy metal music and uncooked rice thrives on compliments, our body processes are altered by sound waves—and she advises her readers to speak in rhythms that resonate on a cellular level. The author's appeal to science that is either clearly marginal or only vaguely related to her conclusions, along with her tendency to label as universal a wide gamut of folk beliefs and obviously culturally determined phenomena (such as the effect of certain words that have no meaning outside of the speaker's linguistic community), make even the more reasonable arguments in the book seem suspect. In the end, the author overreaches her grasp, producing a marketing guide that is unlikely to convince practical readers.
Review
"I was blown away after reading Vicki Kunkel's new book. Not only does she supply strategies that almost any business can immediately use in their marketing efforts, she explains why they work in a deep, satisfying way. More importantly, the information in this book is evergreen and not based on some new marketing fad. This is the kind of book that ends up dog eared with yellow highlights all over the place in a very short period of time!"
- Michael Lovitch, CEO, The Hypnosis Network |
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People of the Book: A Novel
by Geraldine Brooks
Fiction
Book 37
Amazon.com Review
Amazon Best of the Month, January 2008: One of the earliest Jewish religious volumes to be illuminated with images, the Sarajevo Haggadah survived centuries of purges and wars thanks to people of all faiths who risked their lives to safeguard it. Geraldine Brooks, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March, has turned the intriguing but sparely detailed history of this precious volume into an emotionally rich, thrilling fictionalization that retraces its turbulent journey. In the hands of Hanna Heath, an impassioned rare-book expert restoring the manuscript in 1996 Sarajevo, it yields clues to its guardians and whereabouts: an insect wing, a wine stain, salt crystals, and a white hair. While readers experience crucial moments in the book's history through a series of fascinating, fleshed-out short stories, Hanna pursues its secrets scientifically, and finds that some interests will still risk everything in the name of protecting this treasure. A complex love story, thrilling mystery, vivid history lesson, and celebration of the enduring power of ideas, People of the Book will surely be hailed as one of the best of 2008.
From Publishers Weekly
Reading Geraldine Brooks's remarkable debut novel, Year of Wonders, or more recently March, which won the Pulitzer Prize, it would be easy to forget that she grew up in Australia and worked as a journalist. Now in her dazzling new novel, People of the Book, Brooks allows both her native land and current events to play a larger role while still continuing to mine the historical material that speaks so ardently to her imagination. Late one night in the city of Sydney, Hanna Heath, a rare book conservator, gets a phone call. The Sarajevo Haggadah, which disappeared during the siege in 1992, has been found, and Hanna has been invited by the U.N. to report on its condition. Missing documents and art works (as Dan Brown and Lev Grossman, among others, have demonstrated) are endlessly appealing, and from this inviting premise Brooks spins her story in two directions. In the present, we follow the resolutely independent Hanna through her thrilling first encounter with the beautifully illustrated codex and her discovery of the tiny signs-a white hair, an insect wing, missing clasps, a drop of salt, a wine stain-that will help her to discover its provenance. Along with the book she also meets its savior, a Muslim librarian named Karaman. Their romance offers both predictable pleasures and genuine surprises, as does the other main relationship in Hanna's life: her fraught connection with her mother. In the other strand of the narrative we learn, moving backward through time, how the codex came to be lost and found, and made. From the opening section, set in Sarajevo in 1940, to the final section, set in Seville in 1480, these narratives show Brooks writing at her very best. With equal authority she depicts the struggles of a young girl to escape the Nazis, a duel of wits between an inquisitor and a rabbi living in the Venice ghetto, and a girl's passionate relationship with her mistress in a harem. Like the illustrations in the Haggadah, each of these sections transports the reader to a fully realized, vividly peopled world. And each gives a glimpse of both the long history of anti-Semitism and of the struggle of women toward the independence that Hanna, despite her mother's lectures, tends to take for granted. Brooks is too good a novelist to belabor her political messages, but her depiction of the Haggadah bringing together Jews, Christians and Muslims could not be more timely. Her gift for storytelling, happily, is timeless. |
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The Spirit Man
by Sean K. Murphy
Fiction
Book 36
Product Description
Is it possible to un-do the past? Is there still time to right the wrongs from years ago?
Johnny Sullivan seems to have it all. Still in his 30s, he's cashed in his high-powered career and hit the road for a new life in California. But deep inside, Johnny carries with him the tragic death of his high school sweetheart years before. In an Arizona diner, a chance encounter with a mysterious Native American sends Johnny on a journey back in time to rewrite history. Will his second chance forever change the destiny of those he loves? Find the startling answers in The Spirit Man, a timeless story of love and redemption, a journey of the heart. |
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Stupid Reasons People Die: An Ingenious Plot for Defusing Deadly Diseases
by John Corso, M.D.
Non-Fiction
Book 35
Product Description
Dr. John Corso's entertaining yet serious non-fiction book, Stupid Reasons People Die, illuminates why thousands of people die in the prime of life, from easily preventable causes, and how you can avoid becoming one of them. This is not another "eat-right, get-fit, lose-weight" guilt trip. Nor is it "twenty more secrets that your doctor doesn't want you to know." Engaging and comprehensive, you will learn the things that actually work. The state-of-the-art knowledge, imaging, medications and more, that identify and stop our most common killers before they can hurt us, all presented by a straight-talking doctor with two decades experience on the front lines of medical practice. Vital tests and treatments too often remain unknown and unused by most people because they are not on their menu of medical benefits and may never be mentioned by their physicians. With stinging candor and wry humor, this compelling page-turner lays out exactly which screenings and treatments you should consider and how to gain the control and knowledge needed to get the best that modern medicine has to offer. This book is a survival guide, a get-smart, take-charge, how-to book on diffusing our own medical time bombs. When someone dies before their time from heart attack, stroke, cancer, or other natural cause, it represents a failure on the part of the patient, doctors, and healthcare system to detect disease and intervene when it is easily curable. The book explores why we fail so often, and exposes the blind spots and traps inherent in our healthcare system, our culture, and in our own minds. It shows how to make sure you and your loved ones avoid them, offering a logical yet radically different view from what most of us believe to be healthy vs. unhealthy establishing how we focus our efforts towards longevity on all the wrong things.
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Wife In The North
by Judith O'Reilly
Non-Fiction
Book 34
Product Description
When Judith O'Reilly, a successful journalist and mother of three, agreed to leave London for a remote northern outpost, she made a deal with her husband that the move was a test-run to weigh the benefits of country living. In the rugged landscape of Northumberland County, O'Reilly swapped her high heels for rubber boots and life-long friends for cows, sheep, and strange neighbors.
In this tremendously funny and acutely observed memoir, O'Reilly must navigate the challenges and rewards of motherhood, marriage, and family as she searches for her own true north in an alien landscape. Her intrepid foray into the unknown is at once a hilarious, fish-out-of-water story and a poignant reflection on the modern woman's dilemma of striking the right balance between career and family. |
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Coyote's Guide to Connecting with Nature: For Kids of All Ages and Their Mentors
by Young, Haas, McGown
Non-Fiction
Book 33
Product Description
Coyote's Guide to Connecting With Nature: For Kids of All Ages and Their Mentors is a new book produced and published by Wilderness Awareness School and OWLink Media. It is co-authored by Evan McGown, Jon Young, and Ellen Haas, and includes a forward from Richard Louv (recent best-selling author of Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature Deficit Disorder).
This book puts into writing 25 years of collective wisdom as to how to best facilitate deep and meaningful relationship with nature. It's full of a diverse variety of learning activities which are the bread-and-butter for many nature-based programs around the world. More importantly it presents a holistic model for nature education.
The Coyote's Guide Web site has a short video introducing the book, as well as an interview with Ellen Haas and nature education legend, Joseph Cornell. In weeks to come, there will be more quick videos with the authoring team. You may join the Coyote's Guide Launch List in order to access to these videos. The list is private, free, and there is no obligation to buy anything. Your info will deleted after the Coyote's Guide book launch, and you can unsubscribe any time. |
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The Myth of the Oil Crisis: Overcoming the Challenges of Depletion, Geopolitics, and Global Warming
by Robin M. Mills
Non-Fiction
Book 32
Product Description
With oil around $100 a barrel, drivers wince whenever they pull into the gas station and businesses watch their bottom lines shrink. "Watch out," say doomsayers, "it will only get worse as oil dries up." It's a plausible argument, especially considering the rate at which countries like China and India are now sucking up oil. Even more troubling, the world's largest oil fields sit in geopolitical hotspots like Iran and Iraq. Some believe their nations need to secure remaining supplies using military force, while others consider dwindling supplies a blessing that will help solve the problem of global warming. But wait--is it really the "end of oil"? Absolutely not, says geologist, economist, and industry-insider Robin Mills. According to Mills, many ideas about petroleum depletion and its consequences are not just grossly overstated but plain wrong. Calmly and persuasively, he argues:
The supply of oil and gas is much larger than imagined by the pessimists. -Seeking political, military, or commercial control of oil supplies is unnecessary, self-defeating, and exorbitantly expensive. -Oil is merely one convenient source of energy. Opportunities exist to decrease the global consumption of oil radically while maintaining a healthy economy. -The environmental impact of fossil fuels is the most serious problem the world faces today. But a portfolio of solutions can solve it. There is no other book by an industry insider that effectively counters the "peak oil" theory by showing where and how oil will be found in the future. There also is no other book by an insider that lays out an environmentally and geopolitically responsible path for the petroleum industry and its customers. The Myth of the Oil Crisis, written in a lively style but with scientific rigor, is thus a uniquely useful resource for business leaders, policymakers, petroleum industry professionals, environmentalists, and anyone else who consumes oil. Best of all, it offers an abundance of one commodity now in short supply: hope for the future.
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With Pythons & Head-Hunters in Borneo: The Quest for Mount Tiban
by Brian Row McNamee
Non-Fiction
Book 31
Product Description
With Pythons & Head-Hunters in Borneo: The Quest for Mount Tiban, is the thrilling narrative of the 2003 & 2006 journeys deep into the heart of Borneo, made by the author and his remarkable indigenous guides.
This is a classic travel narrative - long river voyages and foot trekking expeditions wih the ultimate goal of scaling the mysterious and allegedly haunted Mount Tiban located near the jungly border between Malaysia and Indonesia. Following in the footsteps of comedy-adventure writer Redmond O'Hanlon's 1983 expedition, the author braves dangerous rivers, deadly diseases, pestiferous insects, leeches, wild animals, venomous snakes & pythons in an attempt to become the first Westerner to scale Tiban since naturalist-explorer Eric Mjoberg in 1925.
Brilliantly tying together his own intrepid expeditions with fascinating quotes from famous historic predecessors to include: White Rajahs, District Officers, naturalist-scientists, military soldiers, writers, missionaries, and explorers, the author takes the reader on a rollercoaster ride of emotions while putting together a uniquely complete history of Sarawak, Borneo. |
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