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Based on exclusive interviews, the inside story of how America's emergency response system failed and how it remains dangerously brokenWhen Hurricane Katrina roared ashore on the morning of August 29, 2005, federal and state officials were not prepared for the devastation it would bring—despite all the drills, exercises, and warnings. In this troubling exposé of what went wrong, Christopher Cooper and Robert Block of The Wall Street Journal show that the fl...

WHOLE BUSINESS THINKING-EXECUTIVE MANAGEMENT addresses the needs of corporate decision makers, executives, managers, entrepreneurs and business owners who seek to understand and improve their company's financial performance. WBT-EM introduces powerful concepts to help business people understand the past, identify and analyze alternatives, plan the future, execute their plans and evaluate performance.WBT-EM demystifies complex financial concepts by explaining them in plain, easy to ...

Discover dark mysteries nestled in every borough of the Big Apple in this collection of five noir short story anthologies.New York City Noir: The Five Borough Set collects the five NYC borough installments in our award-winning Akashic Noir Series into a single e-book edition: Brooklyn Noir, edited by Tim McLoughlin, Manhattan Noir, edited by Lawrence Block, Bronx Noir, edited by S.J. Rozan, Queens Noir, edited by Robert K...

A comprehensive and extensively revised 5th edition marbles guide, featuring over 500 stunning color photographs (many are new for this edition), a current valuation guide, and information on the the current state of the marbles market. Delve into the fascinating realm of marbles, from handmade masterpieces to meticulously crafted machine-made wonders. This timeless guide covers a wide array of marble types, including Indians, Aggies, Steelies, transitionals, M. F. Christensen & Son, Akro ...

Matthew Scudder is finally leading a comfortable life, one of stability and respectability— even the New York streets don't look so mean anymore. He's married to a woman he loves, and wonder of wonders, he's actually gotten around to becoming an officially licensed private investigator. Then all hell breaks loose. Matthew' s best friend from Hell's Kitchen asks for his help, and Scudder' s world is suddenly turned upside down once again. Instead of a beautiful world where old neighborhoods...

Father Michael Flannery is Keeper of the Sign, prophesied to bring the gospel of peace to the world. On his way to New York for a landmark symposium of the world's largest religious groups, Flannery barely escapes assassination. Not content with possessing the scroll, Via Dei is determined to tie up loose ends and ensure that Father Flannery's message never gets out.Interwoven with this modern-day suspense is the story of Tobias Garlande, a scholar living during the First Crusade. B...

In the great tradition of novels like The Robe by Lloyd C. Douglas and, more recently, Christ the Lord by Anne Rice and S tone Tables by Orson Scott Card, The Masada Scroll is bold and reverent, with deep and important meaning for today's world.At the heart of this timely novel is the discovery of a previously unknown gospel that predates the four gospels of the New Testament. The scroll introduces a mysterious symbol that combines the Star of Dav...

Lawrence Block's "lost" stories, complete and uncut for the first time since their original publication!The focus and subject matter of mid-century men's adventure magazines (MAMs) could be wide-ranging, and versatile storytellers able to confidently navigate genres, approaches, and authorial voices found regular, lucrative work in their pages. Among those talented writers was a notable newcomer: Lawrence Block-though his initial p...

Are you tired of always feeling down with no energy and a foggy brain? Are you suffering of chronic pain like gut inflammation or migraine that make your life unbearable? Have you tried different ways to solve these problems with no success and don’t know what to do anymore?If you answered YES to all these questions, then this is the right audiobook for you!At school you were probably taught that our nervous system allows us to stimulate ...

For almost three years, novelist and short-story writer Lawrence Block's monthly column, "Generally Speaking," was one of the most popular features in Linn's Stamp News. A general collector of pre-1940 issues, Block had the entire world of stamps as his subject, and he turned in thirty-three columns before he decided it was time to stop.But Keller, the author's fictional character, never lost his enthusiasm for philately. A wistful and introspective killer for hire, Keller...

Coal Country Killing revolves around the cold-blooded 1969 assassination of United Mineworkers of America "reform candidate" Jock Yablonski, and the murder of his wife and daughter in their Pennsylvania farmhouse. But driving the story are the extraordinary efforts of a special prosecutor and his "army" of investigators to bring the gunmen, the union boss who ordered the murders, and his henchmen who saw them carried out, to justice.Initially, three bumbling small-time cri...

While there are countless philosophical and psychological studies that focus on sources of the self, narcissism has found relatively little attention in a pre-Freudian context. The Self as Muse fills this gap by examining various aspects of narcissism and their significance for the outpouring of creativity in late eighteenth and nineteenth-century German literature.In many Eighteenth-century works of the period narcissism refers to the creation of an idealized image of the ...