William Amasa Scott's Banking is a lucid exposition of the principles, institutions, and practices that organize modern credit. Written in the sober, analytical prose of the early twentieth-century economics textbook, it explains deposits, note issue, reserves, clearing systems, loans, and the relation between banks and the wider money market. Its literary context is the Progressive Era's drive to render finance intelligible, systematic, and publicly accountable. Scott was a distinguished ...

World War II was a global conflict that tested the resolve of each and every competing nation on land, in the air, and on the sea. It was the quintessential struggle between good and evil.The Essential World War II Quiz Book will challenge both the novice and expert with a thousand thought-provoking questions like:• Which U.S. publication named Adolf Hitler its “Man of the Year” in 1938?• Who was the first Native American to graduate from the U.S. Naval Acad...

The Lost Worlds: The Story of Atlantis & The Lost Lemuria gathers William Scott-Elliot's influential accounts of vanished continents, racial epochs, migrations, catastrophes, and spiritual evolution. Written in a measured, quasi-historical style, the work blends mythography, esoteric cosmology, speculative geography, and Victorian scientific vocabulary. Its illustrations and maps give visual authority to a narrative situated firmly within late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Theoso...

The Lost Lemuria presents an esoteric reconstruction of a vanished primordial continent and its civilization, placing Lemuria within the Theosophical scheme of "root races," planetary evolution, and occult prehistory. Its prose is sober, expository, and often quasi-scientific, borrowing the language of geology, anthropology, and comparative myth while grounding its authority in clairvoyant revelation rather than archival or archaeological evidence. In literary context, the work belongs to ...

William Scott-Elliot's The Story of Atlantis presents an ambitious occult history of a vanished continent, combining geography, ethnology, dynastic narrative, and civilizational speculation into a single synthetic account. Written in the late Victorian theosophical milieu, the book adopts the tone of scientific reconstruction while relying on esoteric sources and "clairvoyant" inquiry. Its style is orderly, confident, and taxonomic, reflecting nineteenth-century fascination with racial ori...

There are few people who have been in the wrestling business longer than Jim Ross. And those who have made it as long as he has (half a century to be exact) probably made enemies or burned bridges. But that’s just not JR.Slobberknocker is the story of how an Oklahoman farm kid, with a vivid imagination and seemingly unattainable dreams, became “The Voice of Wrestling” to record TV audiences and millions of fans around the world.Jim opens up about his life as an only child o...

Many companies have taken steps to improve awareness and management of safety systems, yet safety directors continue to report high injury rates. In Keeping People Safe: The Human Dynamics of Injury Prevention, author Josh Williams provides safety leaders with information they can use to further reduce injuries and improve workplace safety.This book addresses five integral components of workplace safety: Systems/Conditions, Leadership, Behaviors, People-Factors, and Communication. ...

June 1943. Many Germans—some of them high-ranking officers—believe the tides of war have turned against them.Increased activity suggests there may be truth to whispers heard by Office of Strategic Services spies: that the Nazis are extorting Jews outside Germany to buy their relatives’ freedom from extermination camps, then smuggling the ransom in Operation Phoenix to fund safe havens in Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay for senior Nazi officials when Germany falls.

Special agent James Cronley Jr. finds that fighting both ex-Nazis and the Soviet NKGB can lead to strange bedfellows, in the dramatic new Clandestine Operations novel about the birth of the CIA and the Cold War.A month ago, Cronley managed to capture two notorious Nazi war criminals, but not without leaving some dead bodies and outraged Austrian police in his wake. He's been lying low ever since, but that little vacation is about to end. Somebody--Odessa, the NKGB,...

October 1945: The Germans and Japanese have surrendered. For Cletus Frade and his colleagues in the OSS, it should be time to pack up—but they have far more important things to do.Chief among them is the protection of their assets, especially the human ones. In the closing months of the war, the United States made a secret deal with the head of German intelligence’s Soviet section. In exchange for a treasure trove of intelligence—in particular the identity of the Soviet spies in th...

The dramatic new novel in the Philadelphia police saga by the #1 New York Times bestselling author.For Philadelphia homicide detective Matt Payne, investigating a young woman’s murder in a Society Hill home invasion uncovers an ugly underworld—that of Mexican drug cartels and the Russian mob.Foreign girls are being smuggled in to work in the sex trade, and now some of them are dying or just disappearing. The trail leads right to Philadelphia — and Payne learns that...

The spectacular new book in New York Times-bestselling author W.E.B. Griffin's Honor Bound saga of World War II espionage.Wars come to an end. But then new ones begin. Just weeks after Hitler's suicide, Cletus Frade and his colleagues in the OSS find themselves up to their necks in battles every bit as fierce as the ones just ended. The first is political-the very survival of the OSS, with every department from Treasury to War to the FBI grabbing for its c...