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An updated version of the seminal 1994 classic volume on the beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. Nearly every book with "wabi" or "wabi sabi" in the title is based on the concepts first elucidated in this book. Wabi-sabi is the quintessential Japanese aesthetic. It is a...

Inside the “Mickey Mouse Factory” comes from a veteran of 27 years of U.S. government service in various agencies such as the CIA, and combines an insider's life with a memoir that reveals his experiences serving as a CIA operations officer. From training courses designed to reflect operational realities to various incidents that presented special diplomatic and political challenges as operations were carried out in other countries, Sawyer's ability to reveal the nuts and bolts of intelligence goals and conundrums alike creates a fast-paced book packed with information.

For years, among members of the US Intelligence community, there was an undeserved smugness that highly placed Soviet Intelligence operatives such the British spies Guy Burgess, Donald Maclean, and Harold “Kim” Philby could never happen here in the United States. Despite the Hiss and Rosenberg cases, Americans were thought superior to “that sort of thing”. Besides, our security procedures and regulations were thought to be airtight.

Learn your ABCs the cool way! This isn’t just your ordinary alphabet book. Hip-hop Alphabet Rhymes is a fun way to learn some colloquial words used in the hip-hop world. Since hip-hop is a culture associated with rap music, Hip-hop Alphabet Rhymes can link you to your musically inclined side. Presented in the street-style language in rhymes, this book will surely awaken your groove, the hip-hop way!

After obtaining proof that mass murderer and serial killer Billy Dew is alive and possibly responsible for an outbreak of child abductions, Jesse uses his last night to plan a celebratory night with his wife, Natasha, by the beautiful seaside. However, when Natasha fails to return from a supply run, Jesse fears the worst. Instead of the kidnapping Jesse believes it to be, Natasha has run off with Billy - the very killer her new husband has tried to catch for years.

The Marquis d’Arville recounts to his dinner companions why he has refused to go hunting although his ancestors were fanatical about the sport. For his ancestors, Jean and François, hunting was ''the only thing they spoke of and lived for.'' One day, they heard reports of an enormous wolf that was terrorizing the locals, preying on livestock, injuring guard-dogs, wounding a woman and devouring two children. As a result, the brothers resolve to find and kill the beast. It proved difficult.

Rex is bored with his job in a small engineering company, believing his talents are unrecognized and his promotion blocked. Then, the stunningly beautiful Morgan joins the team. She learns fast and appears to see his potential. By seducing him, she revives his latent ambition and encourages him to rise in the organization and rewards him with sexual favors in Room 407 of a local hotel. He proves to be a willing pupil and falls obsessively under her spell.

Why did the United States Government find it necessary to sequester pertinent information about the assassination of President Kennedy all these years (fifty-four years)? Did the U.S. Government leadership fear some catastrophic reaction, by the American people, in the immediate aftermath of the assassination; if the realities of the Kennedy assassination were different from the official findings of the Warren Commission Report?

Thomas Sawyer began investigating aliens in the 1950s when, after doing a two-year stint in the military in the UK, he returned to school at UC Berkeley; there to experience a late-night encounter at a diner. Thus began his belief in alien visitations and the decades-long research that would expand concepts of alien visitations and clarify otherwise-inexplicable phenomena.

With the 2020 election year getting ever closer (indeed, for any election year), it feels important to review some of the history and politics of this nation. The problem is that many such histories either assume much background knowledge, or are designed for students with little understanding of the process. That's why readers of all ages who seek a basic primer to be used as a refresher course in American ideals and formation will find The Founding Fathers and the Birth of a Nation State a solid primer covering the instigation, ideals, and political nature of what constitutes a 'republic'.