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This synthesis of Indian-white relations west of the Appalachians from the end of the French and Indian War to the beginning of the Mexican War is not simply a story of whites versus Indians. The term "whites" encompassed British, Spanish, and American settlers and governments, and the hundreds of Indian tribes who opposed them were no more unified than their European colonizers.

Joe Kurtz, former investigator and convicted felon, is on parole. But the years he spent in Attica didn't make his old haunts any safer. Back on the streets of Buffalo, he's already marked by a local Mafia don.

How are you supposed to survive when you are already dead? Ben Stone has one aim: discover the cure for genetic disease. He watched his father die and promised himself that it would never happen again, especially to his own son. After his appointment as lead researcher in Bionics Laboratories, he begins his desperate research. It takes four years, but he succeeds. He discovers NEMREC, a serum able to reconstruct DNA and cure the diseases that have driven him.

Once Joe Kurtz needed revenge - and revenge cost him 11 years in Attica prison. Now Kurtz needs a job, and the price is going to be higher. Out of prison, out of touch, Kurtz signs on with the Byron Farino, Don of a Mob family whose son Kurtz had been protecting on the inside. Farino enlists Kurtz's help to track down the Family's missing accountant - a man with too much knowledge of Family business to have on the loose.

Tyler Stone is about to be divorced and is unwilling to start over so he devises what he believes is the perfect murder. He knows perfection is in the details but so is the Devil as he's about to be reminded. There is no such thing as the perfect murder. Mistakes are common place. Everyone makes them. The trick is not to make that Fatal Mistake, the one that gets you caught.

Valerie Davis is dead...very dead. The widower, a prominent business exec, has good reason to keep his personal life private, but he's not the only one - not by a long shot. As Ray Schiller of the Widmer, MN. P.D. joins Minneapolis Detective Dick Waverly to target the killer, the body count rises. Ray's career and personal life are in the balance when, in the midst of the case, he becomes the subject of an Internal Affairs investigation. The devil is in the details, and he soon learns the details aren't what anyone expected

Ayn Rand and her philosophical school, Objectivism, have had a considerable influence upon American popular culture, yet the true story of her life and work has yet to be told. In this book, Jeff Walker debunks the cult-like following that developed around the author of the classics Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead - a cult that persists even today.

A lone astronomer spies a massive object in space hurtling towards earth at a pace defying the laws of known physics. When word finally gets out to the public, an unrivaled panic clenches the world's leaders - and global chaos unfolds. When Halcyon finally arrives, and it doesn't act as predicted, military, civilian and scientific leaders aboard the International Space Station are left to try and make sense of the aftermath, and the unexplained events unfolding in Halcyon's wake.

Copyright 2008, Marilynn Hughes Out-of-Body Travel Magazine: Moses Maimonides - Forgotten Jewish Mystic ( For more info - www.outofbodytravel.org)

In 2121, Dr. Moss Leder flees across Canada one-heart pounding step ahead of his ruthless enemies. Climate change is destroying civilization. Primitive bands of dehumanized squatters roam the Earth and kill for scarce drinking water. Leder's innovative time booth holds the key to the planet's renewal. Leder's nemesis, R. Faro Bradshaw, and his greedy political cronies are exposed. They control the black market in fresh water. Fearing that Leder's scheme will destroy their business model, they try to stop him.

In 1893, the 27.5 million visitors to the Chicago World’s Fair feasted their eyes on the impressive architecture of the White City, lit at night by thousands of electric lights. In addition to marveling at the revolutionary exhibits, most visitors discovered something else: beyond the fair’s 633 acres lay a modern metropolis that rivaled the world’s greatest cities. The Columbian Exposition marked Chicago’s arrival on the world stage, but even without the splendor of the fair, 1893 would still have been Chicago’s greatest year.

In this stunning new story of political economy, author Eric Robert Morse examines why the modern system has become so unwieldy and explains what must be done to correct it. His astute analysis and fascinating storytelling take readers on an epic journey, from the dawn of free-market capitalism during the age of exploration, through the industrial revolution and Adam Smith, to the rise of Keynesianism and the dominance of the welfare state....

This is the first practical guide for every citizen on the problem of corporate personhood and the tools we have to overturn it. Jeff Clements explains why the Citizens United case is the final win in a campaign for corporate domination of the state that began in the 1970s under Richard Nixon. More than this, Clements shows how unfettered corporate rights will impact public health, energy policy, the environment, and the justice system.

In America in the Forties, Goldberg energetically argues that the decade of the 1940s was one of the most influential in American history, a period marked by war, sacrifice, and profound social changes. With superb detail, Goldberg traces the entire decade from the first stirrings of war in a nation consumed by the Great Depression through the conflicts with Europe and Japan, to the start of the Cold War and the dawn of the atomic age.

In Steamboats and the Rise of the Cotton Kingdom Robert Gudmestad examines the wide-ranging influence of steamboats on the southern economy. From carrying cash crops to market, to contributing to slave productivity, increasing the flexibility of labor, and connecting southerners to overlapping orbits of regional, national, and international markets, steamboats not only benefitted slaveholders and northern industries, but also affected cotton production.

Brad loved her deeply, but she did not want to settle down. She worked as an assistant to a Senator and enjoyed the opulence that the job offered. The Senator worked with Omar. Brad found her with Omar. Brad went into a rage. Omar missed his meeting with the Senator. No one could find Omar. The local Sheriff's office searched for Omar. The FBI, and others, searched for Omar. But they could not find him. But Brad and his friends found Omar again, and again, and again, and again....

In "Six Figures and Broke: Breaking Free from Living Paycheck to Paycheck," author Mark Livingston presents a transformative guide to overcoming the cycle of financial struggle and achieving true financial freedom. This book is a comprehensive resource for individuals seeking to break free from the constraints of living paycheck to paycheck and build a solid financial foundation.

The year 2024 is marked by an astronomical phenomenon of monumental significance: the 2024 Supernova. This event is anticipated to be one of the most visually spectacular and scientifically significant astronomical events of the century.

The book welcomes you to a fictive Ferrari museum (although the two official ones are always worth a visit), telling the tales of the different cars on display. All short stories are independent from each other, but nevertheless, you will soon observe that they are all interconnected. Each car, engineer, designer, coachbuilder, driver, and owner has become a part of the rich Ferrari legacy.