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Brad Ricca

The incredible untold story of how the world's greatest magician, Harry Houdini, waged war upon Spiritualism, uncovering unknown magic, political conspiracies, and surprising secrets along the way.You won’t live forever, Houdini. You’ve got to DIE. I put a curse on you . . .During a séance in 1924, Houdini—the greatest entertainer in the world—was cursed by a vengeful spirit, who said his days were numbered. Houdini laughed. He believed talking to ...

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M. Ricca, R. Robins

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Business and Management (R0)

Meta-Luxury sets out to define the ultimate meaning of true luxury, exploring it as both a culture and business model. Through the concept of Unique Achievement and the drivers of Craftsmanship, Focus, History and Rarity, the authors examine what is at the heart of true luxury through a unique series of conversations.

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Sofia Ricca

Sold to a pleasure house at twelve, disguised as a girl to survive. Seven years later, Yuy has almost forgotten he was ever anything else, until a powerful lord looks at him and sees exactly who he is.Kimtzuko Ryuu could destroy them all with a single word. Instead, he claims Yuy as his concubine, and means it.A forbidden Edo-inspired romance between a lord who breaks every rule for the man he loves, and the boy who was never really a girl at all....

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A. Ricca

Nature is the true goddess of life, She is the mother who brings the sun and moon, The one who decides if the wind blows or stands, Who brings the hurricanes to shore, The ground to a freeze, And the living to an end. It is by her mercy that we get to feel today, whether we'd wish to or not. The rainbow doesn't just come; its colors are created by the destruction of the storm.

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Brad Ricca

True Raiders is The Lost City of Z meets The Da Vinci Code, from critically acclaimed author Brad Ricca.This book tells the untold true story of Monty Parker, a British rogue nobleman who, after being dared to do so by Ava Astor, the so-called "most beautiful woman in the world," headed a secret 1909 expedition to find the fabled Ark of the Covenant. Like a real-life version of Raiders of the Lost Ark, this incredible story of adv...

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Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science

This book serves as a forum to present applications of innovative techniques for studying and solving complex problems in artificial intelligence and computing. This book brings together experience, current work, and promising future trends related to distributed computing, artificial intelligence, and their applications to provide efficient solutions to real-world problems. Given the conference’s success, this book features fifteen special sessions covering a wide range of topics related ...

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Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science

DCAI 2024 serves as a forum to present applications of innovative techniques for studying and solving complex problems in artificial intelligence and computing. This edition brings together experience, current work, and promising future trends related to distributed computing, artificial intelligence, and their applications to provide efficient solutions to real-world problems. Given the conference's success, this edition features twelve special sessions covering a wide range of topics rel...

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Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Interaction and Player Research in Game Development, WIPlay 2025, which took place in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, in September 2025.The 10 full papers and 2 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 15 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Socially Conscious and inclusive game design; ethical game design and responsible gaming; and practical methods an...

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Brad Ricca

The incredible true story of a young Scottish aristocrat who traveled to Africa to find her missing fiancé in 1910."The perfect summer adventure book." — Town & Country" Olive the Lionheart has it all—secret chambers, lost love, and the dwelling place of a devil. Ricca mines emotions and real fears in this incredible true story." —Brad Meltzer, bestselling author of The First Conspiracy

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Sofia Ricca

A ruined fortune. A fake marriage. A master who demands total surrender.Eric Merlin believed marrying the wealthy Adèle Benchetrit would solve all his financial ruins. But the ink on their marriage contract was barely dry before he realized he had walked straight into a trap. Adèle didn't want a husband, she needed a pawn to satisfy the demands of a dangerous underground figure: Rocco Marchionne.When Adèle’s scheme stalls and Rocco grows tired of w...

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Clare Winger Harris

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Belt Revivals

"Much like Asimov . . . Harris' stories possess something of the eternal . . . They have retained their power to spark the imagination." — Tangent OnlineScience fiction has historically been seen as a man's game, but from the very beginning, women have made their indelible mark on the genre. One of science fiction's pioneers, Claire Winger Harris is credited as the first woman to publish under her own name in sci-fi magazines.In Harris's world, you'l...

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Thomas Adam, Yaron Ayalon, Gregory R. Beabout, Philip R. Gavitt, Fatih Harpci, Melinda Jones, Julia R. Lieberman, Mario Ricca, Elizabeth Patricia Rigotti, Michal Jan Rozbicki, Haim Sperber, Riki Galia, Tahir Zaman, Dauda Abubakar

This collection of essays by a team of international scholars addresses the topic of Charity through the lenses of the three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The contributors look for common paradigms in the ways the three faiths address the needs of the poor and the needy in their respective societies, and reflect on the interrelatedness of such practices among the three religions. They ask how the three traditions deal with the distribution of wealth, in the recognit...