The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy is still as relevant today as it was on November 22, 1963. Over the years, novices and experts have poured over evidence, witness testimonies, pictures and film of the covert cover-up and controversial killing of JFK. To date, nobody has been able to penetrate the elusive plot and classified plan that was established 365 days prior to November 22. 1963 Until now.The training, planning, and actions leading up to the most infamous crime ...

Gold remains a highly prized and impactful resource within the global economy. From the insatiable demand for gold in the electronics that permeate our day-to-day lives to the environmental desolation driven by gold mining in the Amazon, the gold trade continues to touch the lives and livelihoods of people across the world.Bloomfield and Maconachie tell the intriguing story of the yellow metal, tracing the seismic shifts in the industry over the past few decades. They show how huge...

The Gold Rush era was an amazing time in our country’s history. California had just been occupied during the Mexican-American War and wasn’t officially a U.S. territory yet when gold was discovered in 1848. Suddenly the whole world was electrified by the news and tales of men digging vast amounts of wealth out of the ground, even finding gold nuggets just lying around. Within five years, 250,000 miners dug up more than $200 million in gold—about $600 billion in today’s dollars.G...

Sam and Annabel are on vacation with Annabel's parents in Italy.While visiting the small hilltop town of Civita, they hear rumors of looted gold from World War II buried somewhere in the town's network of underground tunnels and caves. Once again the two friends cross paths with their old nemesis, Humphrey Battleford, but he is not the only one in pursuit of the gold. An intimidating man named Kurt, the grandson of a ruthless Nazi, is also snooping around. After An...

一個小男孩和爺爺下棋，他叫喊著，「不！又來了！爺爺，每次都是你贏！」「你要我怎麼辦呢？」老人回答，「故意輸給你嗎？如果那樣，你什麽都學不到。」男孩回答，「我什麼都不要學，我只要贏！」只想贏是不夠的。你必須經過一個改善的過程。那需要耐心、毅力與用心。領導確實不容易學，但還有什麼事值得學呢？全球200萬位領導人都追隨的導師，給你最睿智、實際的貼身指導。精采內容．如果你在高處不勝寒，一定是有些事沒做對．自己才是最難領導的人．當你後面被踢一腳，你知道你已超越在前．領導者的首要責任是定義現實狀況．你最大的錯誤是不去問你犯了什麼錯．經驗不是最好的老師．別送你的鴨子去老鷹學校．不要管理你的時間，而是管理你的人生．影響力只能借，不能給好的領導能帶...

Why are sheep in the remote Egyptian village of Mehenopolis cutting their own throats? That's the mystery Emperor Justinian inexplicably sends John, his Lord Chamberlain, to Egypt to solve. Mehenopolis is a pilgrim destination, thanks to its ancient shrine to a snake deity.Among the characters John encounters are a pretentious local landowner battling a self-styled magician for control of the lucrative shrine, an exiled heretical cleric, an itinerant beekeeper, and a disgraced char...

Cup of Gold' is the debut novel of American author John Steinbeck, first published in 1929. Steinbeck, who would later win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962, is best known for his powerful portrayals of human struggle and social injustice in works such as The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men. However, Cup of Gold stands apart as a romantic historical adventure, revealing the young author’s early fascination with legend, ambition, and the nature of glory.The novel is a fictionalized ...

**“John D. MacDonald was the great entertainer of our age, and a mesmerizing storyteller.”—Stephen KingWith an Introduction by Lee Child**When Travis McGee picks up the phone and hears a voice from his past, he can’t help it: He has to meddle. Especially when he has the chance to reunite Sam Taggart, a reckless, restless man like himself, with the woman who’s still waiting for him. But what begins as a simple matchmaking scheme soon becomes a bloody chase that takes McGee t...

A nationally acclaimed historian has his briefcase stolen during a contentious sheriff’s race in Namekagon County, and John Cabrelli is pulled into a murder investigation with more questions than answers. The victim refuses to cooperate, a political rival circles like a vulture, and Cabrelli’s only suspect turns up dead—run down before he can speak.As the case spirals, Cabrelli follows a trail leading through cryptic journals, whispers of lost French gold, and long-buried secrets i...

Smart leaders learn from their own mistakes. Smarter ones learn from others’ mistakes—and successes.John C. Maxwell wants to help you become the smartest leader you can be by sharing Leadership Gold with you. After nearly forty years of leading, Maxwell has mined the gold so you don’t have to. Each gold nugget is contained in one of twenty- six chapters designed to be a six-month mentorship from the international leadership expert. Each chapter contains detailed applicatio...

Endlich, Ethan stand mit beiden Beinen im Leben. Das sollte man zumindest meinen, oder? Die Wahrheit sah jedoch anders aus. Er hatte einen Teeladen, in dem er Drogen verkaufte, um über die Runden zu kommen, sein einziger richtiger Freund war sein Ex und mit seiner Familie pflegte er keinen Kontakt. Ethan hatte sich mit diesem Alltagstrott abgefunden. Dieser wurde jedoch auf den Kopf gestellt, als er einen seiner Kunden etwas näher kennen lernte.

One man’s ambitious journey into the heart of California’s gold country becomes a pursuit for limitless wealth in the face of devastating ruinAt the height of California’s Gold Rush, men left everything behind for the chance at striking it rich. Now, some thirty years after its peak, gold fever still entices adventurous Easterners like James Macklin Chance to the western frontier. A wanderer and a nobody, James is drawn to California by the dream of lasting wealth—...