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Grey Wolf: The Escape of Adolf Hitler.

by Simon Dunstan & Gerrard Williams.

 

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DID HITLER—CODE NAME “GREY WOLF”—REALLY DIE IN 1945?

 

In a riveting scenario that has never been fully investigated until now, international journalist Gerrard Williams and military historian Simon Dunstan make a powerful case for the Führer's escape to a remote enclave in Argentina-along with other key Nazis, where he is believed to have lived comfortably until 1962.

Following years of meticulous research, the authors reconstruct the dramatic plot-including astonishing evidence and compelling testimony, some only recently declassified. Impossible to put down, Grey Wolf unravels an extraordinary story that flies in the face of history.

 

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rick of the Dark by Val McDermid.

 

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Barred from practice, disgraced psychiatrist Charlie Flint receives a mysterious summons to Oxford from an old professor who wants her to look into the death of her daughter's husband.

But as Charlie delves deeper into the case and steps back into the arcane world of Oxford colleges, she realizes that there is much more to this crime than meets the eye.

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Benaud on Reflection by Richie Benaud.

 

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Benaud's great love of Cricket was fostered In a family atmosphere, with a Father who was a good Cricketer, a Mother who was a spectator and a Brother who also played test Cricket in Australia.

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The Stories of Ibis by Hiroshi Yamamoto.

 

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In a world where humans a minority and androids have created their own civilization, a wandering storyteller meets the beautiful android Ibis.

She tells him seven stories of human/android interaction in order to reveal the secret behind humanity's fall.

 

L to R (Western Style).

In a world where humans a minority and androids have created their own civilization, a wandering storyteller meets the beautiful android Ibis.

She tells him seven stories of human/android interaction in order to reveal the secret behind humanity's fall.

The story takes place centuries in the future, where the diminished populations of humans live uncultured lives in their own colonies.

They resent the androids, who have built themselves a stable and cultural society.

In this brutal time, our main character travels from colony to colony as a “storyteller,” one that speaks of the stories of the past.

One day, he is abducted by Ibis, an android in the form of a young girl, and told of the stories created by humans in the ancient past.

 

The stories that Ibis speaks of are the 7 novels about the events surrounding the announcements of the development of artificial intelligence (AI) in the 20th to 21st centuries.

At a glance, these stories do not appear to have any sort of connection, but what is the true meaning behind them?

What are Ibis' real intentions?

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Skallagrigg by William Horwood.

 

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Skallagrigg unites Arthur, a little boy abandoned many years ago in a grim hospital in northern England with Esther, a radiantly intelligent young girl who is suffering from cerebral palsy, and with Daniel, an American computer games genius.

 

Skallagrigg, whatever the name signifies, whoever he is, will come to transform all their lives.

And William Horwood's inspired, heart rendering story of rescue and redemptive love will undoubtedly touch your life too

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Understanding Enterprise, Entrepreneurship and Small Business by Simon Bridge, Ken O'Neill & Stan Cromie.

 

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A uniquely comprehensive and accessible guide to the key facts, ideas, theories, and thinking about enterprise and entrepreneurship, this text considers their relationship to small businesses and discusses the methods that are taken to promote them.

Outlining the importance of the small business sector and the activity of enterprise development, the authors discuss the meaning of enterprise, its perceived benefits, and the cultural, economic, and political influences which affect the behavior of individuals and groups.

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The Inner Structure of Tai Chi: Mastering the Classic Forms of Tai Chi Chi Kung

By Juan Li By & Mantak Chia.

 

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Explores the deep, internal work necessary for the effective practice of Tai Chi.

Designed for practitioners at every level, this book contains step-by-step illustrated instructions for mastering the 13 forms of early Yang-style tai chi, also known as Tai Chi Chi Kung.

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Once Upon a Time in Russia: The Rise of the Oligarchs, A True Story of Ambition, Wealth, Betrayal, and Murder

by Ben Mezrich.

 

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Once Upon a Time in Russia is the untold true story of the larger than life billionaire oligarchs who surfed the waves of privatization to reap riches after the fall of the Soviet regime: “Godfather of the Kremlin” Boris Berezovsky, a former mathematician whose first entrepreneurial venture was running an automobile reselling business, and Roman Abramovich, his dashing young protégé who built a multi-billion dollar empire of oil and aluminum.

Locked in a complex, uniquely Russian partnership, Berezovsky and Abramovich battled their way through the “Wild East” of Russia with Berezovsky acting as the younger man’s krysha, literally, his roof, his protector.

 

Written with the heart-stopping pacing of a thriller, but even more compelling because it is true, this story of amassing obscene wealth and power depicts a rarefied world seldom seen up close.

Under Berezovsky’s krysha, Abramovich built one of Russia’s largest oil companies from the ground up and in exchange made cash deliveries, including 491 million dollars in just one year.

But their relationship frayed when Berezovsky attacked President Vladimir Putin in the media and had to flee to the UK.

Abramovich continued to prosper.

Dead bodies trailed Berezovsky’s footsteps, and threats followed him to London, where an associate of his died painfully and famously of Polonium poisoning.

Then Berezovsky himself was later found dead, declared a suicide.

 

Exclusively sourced, capturing a momentous period in recent world history, Once Upon a Time in Russia is at once personal and political, offering an unprecedented look into the wealth, corruption, and power behind what Graydon Carter called “the story of our age.”

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Great British Speeches by Simon Heffer.

 

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50 speeches from every period of British history from the medieval era to the present and a fascinating dip in history title that will both inspire readers and give them a greater understanding of British history.

The speechmakers are: King Henry V; Queen Elizabeth I; King Charles I; Oliver Cromwell; Earl of Shelburne; Edmund Burke (3); Charles James Fox (2); William Pitt (2); Warren Hastings; William Wilberforce; R.B. Sheridan; Robert Peel; Charles Grey; Thomas Carlyle; Lord Palmerston; John Bright (2); Benjamin Disraeli; William Gladstone; James Campbell-Bannerman; F.E. Smith; David Lloyd George (2); Stanley Baldwin; King Edward VIII; King George VI; Winston Churchill (4); Aneurin Bevan; Harold Macmillan (2); Hugh Gaitskell (2); Nigel Birch; Harold Wilson; Enoch Powell (2); Michael Foot; Margaret Thatcher (2); Neil Kinnock; Geoffrey Howe; Charles Spencer; Tony Blair.

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The Deaf Italian Bookkeeper

 

A Mafia Godfather finds out that his bookkeeper, Guido, has cheated him out of $10,000,000.00   His bookkeeper is deaf. That was the reason he got the job in the first place.   It was assumed that Guido would hear nothing so he would not have to testify in court.   When the Godfather goes to confront Guido about his missing $10 million, he takes along his lawyer who knows sign language.   The Godfather tells the lawyer, "Ask him where the money is!   The lawyer, using sign language, asks Guido, Where's the money?   Guido signs back, "I don't know what you are talking about." The lawyer tells the Godfather, "He says he doesn't know what you are talking about" The Godfather pulls out a pistol, puts it to Guido's head and says, "Ask him again or I'll kill him!"   The lawyer signs to Guido, "He'll kill you if you don't tell him." Guido trembles and signs back, "OK! You win! The money is in a brown briefcase, buried behind the shed at my cousin Bruno's house.   The Godfather asks the lawyer, "What did he say?" The lawyer replies, "He says you don't have the balls to pull the trigger."

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Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure

by Tim Harford.

 

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Everything we know about solving the world's problems is wrong.

 

Out: Plans, experts and above all, leaders.

 

In: Adapting, improvise rather than plan; fail, learn, and try again

 

In this groundbreaking new book, Tim Harford shows how the world's most complex and important problems, including terrorism, climate change, poverty, innovation, and the financial crisis, can only be solved from the bottom up by rapid experimenting and adapting.

 

From a spaceport in the Mojave Desert to the street battles of Iraq, from a blazing offshore drilling rig to everyday decisions in our business and personal lives, this is a handbook for surviving and prospering in our complex and ever-shifting world.

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The Rise And Fall Of Alan Bond by Paul Barry.

 

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If you want to know how the business world works, and I mean REALLY works, boy, is this ever the book for you.

 

But what most makes this book great is that the author is not only an extremely capable investigator: he is also a very gifted writer.

He knows how to turn a series of events into a gripping narrative, and does so without ever sacrificing the underlying rigor of his work.

Quite simply, this book is fun to read - albeit only if you have a pretty dark sense of humor. But then, I defy anyone to survive life in the world of big business without that.

 

If you are a serious investor or a student of finance, or even starting out as a working finance professional, I think the single greatest thing you'll get out of this book is a deeper appreciation of the power and the perils of leverage.

It's one thing to sit in a lecture and hear someone tell you that leverage increases both risk and return; but this book takes the lesson to a whole new level.

It not only takes that abstract idea and turns it into something concrete, it makes the lesson come alive.

Yeah... I know that's a bit of a cliché, but the thing is, this book actually does it.

 

Another, arguably even more fundamental lesson that all readers should draw from this work is just how far really first rate sales skills can take you in life.

 

I am by no means exaggerating when I say that this is one of my all time favorite business books.

In fact, the only other really serious contender for first place would be Michael Lewis's famous classic Liar's Poker.

If you one day aspire to become a truly sophisticated investor not in the technical legal sense, but in a far more genuine and meaningful sense, it is my personal opinion that you could do a good deal worse than begin by just sitting down and reading these two books.

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Hidden Evidence: Forty True Crimes and How Forensic Science Helped Solve Them by David Owen.

 

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Hidden Evidence takes you to the scenes of 40 infamous crimes and into the heart of the forensic investigations.

These are the true crime shockers that have grabbed headlines and aroused public passions.

David Owen explains the scientific procedures that helped crack every one of these cases; from the gathering of elusive physical clues to the examination of weapons and bodies, to the use of sophisticated scientific analysis.

 

Threaded throughout the book is the history of forensic science and the technologies that support it, including:

fingerprinting, autopsies, handwriting analysis, ballistics, hair sampling, blood typing, DNA testing, dental records, gas chromatography, mass spectrometry, compound and electron microscopes, and toxicology.

 

The high profile cases David Owen used to illustrate forensic developments are from as early as 1775, when Paul Revere used dentures to identify a slain soldier, to the latest developments in the Oklahoma bombing.

Most will be familiar to readers, such as: The Lindbergh Kidnapping, Pan Am Flight 103, The Kennedy Investigation, The Hitler Diaries, Wayne Williams, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey MacDonald, Dr. Josef Mengele, Robert Maxwell's suicide, Tsar Nicholas II, and The World Trade Center bombing.

 

David Owen presents the facts, steering clear of speculation. Comprehensive in scope, thoroughly researched and expertly compiled, Hidden Evidence is, in the words of former Los Angeles County Coroner Thomas T. Noguchi, "a fascinating book ... [and] an excellent mini-encyclopedia of widely discussed, high-profile cases."

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Secret Agent's Handbook: The WWII Spy Manual of Devices, Disguises, Gadgets, and Concealed Weapons

by Mark Seaman.

 

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Cloak and dagger escapades have long been a mainstay of film and literature, but the stuff of these movies and spy novels often had origins in real-life espionage.

Originally used by British special operations agents to select weapons, gadgets, and disguises for their secret missions during World War II, this incredibly diverse manual illustrates actual techniques used during wartime.

Featuring everything from exploding rats and Chianti bottles to shoes that leave barefoot prints and incendiary cigarettes and briefcases, this is an astounding look at the state of espionage during the war and the ingenuity of scientists and spies.

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The Renegade by Jack Whyte.

 

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The Renegade is a blazing, brilliant, new historical adventure in Jack Whyte's Guardians series.

Packed with action, heroism, and vibrant historical detail, The Renegade recounts the life of Scotland's greatest medieval king, Robert the Bruce.

Bruce was one of the most famous warriors of his generation, eventually leading Scotland during the Wars of Scottish Independence against the Kingdom of England, most famously at the bloody Battle of Bannockburn.

Today in Scotland, Bruce is revered as a national hero, but during his lifetime, the rebellious leader and guerrilla tactician was a thorn in Edward Plantagenet's side, earning himself the nickname the Renegade.

 

Set in the 14th century, The Guardians series features three extraordinary guardians of medieval Scotland, the greatest heroes the country ever produced.

The exploits and escapades, high ideals, and fierce patriotism of William Wallace, Robert the Bruce, and Sir James Douglas are the stuff of legends, and the soul and substance of these epic novels.

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Lolly Jackson: When Fantasy Becomes Reality.

 

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With miles of newspaper headlines and a growing body count, the insatiably curious public is still no closer to the truth regarding the assassination of powerful South African businessman Lolly Jackson and several others linked to him. Amid the confusing reports, money laundering on a grand scale, SARS investigations, and the mafia-like killings, this account is the first to cover the events surrounding Jackson’s murder.

Intimate and detailed, it provides the reader with a fascinating inside track into the reality of Jackson’s private and business life, beginning with the night when it ended.

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After the Match, the Game Begins by Kenny McCall.

 

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The Dundee Utility stands apart from other football firms.

Its members are drawn not from the supporters of one team, but from two, Dundee United and Dundee FC - all of whom share the same passion: their city.

The two bands of fans stand united, except on derby day, of course? In this compelling book, authors Kenny McCall and John Robb present the complete inside story of the Utility from their unique positions, each supporting Dundee United and Dundee respectively.

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My Turn: An Autobiography by Norman Wisdom.

 

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Norman Wisdom's early years could easily have come straight from the pages of a Dickens novel.

Left by their frightened mother, ill treated by a brutal father, Norman and his brother were forced to fend for themselves, sleeping rough in London and stealing food to survive.

This is a rags to riches tale of the man Charlie Chaplin said would take his mantle and who went on to make millions laugh around the world for over five decades.

Here are the hardships, tragedies and triumphs that gave him his inspiration.

From the days working the seasons at Scarborough, to the unforgettable and endearing character Norman Pitkin, the little man in a tight fitting suit, read of his rapid climb up the showbiz ladder.

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Rex Hunt's Tall Tales and True.

 

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Rex Hunt at his wittiest best.

 

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The Flying Scotsman by Quinn Fawcett.

 

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To keep the peace after an attempted assassination, a Prince must be smuggled out of England aboard the Flying Scotsman, the fastest train between London and Edinburgh. Disguised as journalists, Mycroft and Patterson Guthrie, guard the Prince.

Also aboard is Pauline Gatspy.

Is she on Mycroft's side, or is the Prince her latest target?

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Off The Record My Autobiography;

by Michael Owen & Paul Hayward.

 

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Boy wonders come and go, but Michael Owen has made the giant leap from sensational teenage star into one of the most consistent and respected strikers in world football and he's still only 24 at the time of writing his new autobiography, Off The Record.

A child goal machine in North Wales who went on to achieve at all levels of the game, Owen has seemingly been the star since he was in diapers.

Warts and all autobiography is the modern standard of course, and while chapters in Off The Record are primarily concerned with simply correcting public stories about England abroad, Owen's gambling, his problems with one time Liverpool boss Gerard Houllier, and the suicide of Owen's interior designer Mike Flynn, it is the frankness of acknowledging the underlying 'me first, team second' reality which makes the usual procession of achievements and frustrations really come alive.

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1356 by Bernard Cornwell.

 

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Go with God and Fight Like the Devil.

A fascinating hero and the pursuit of a sword with mythical power, this is the remarkable new novel by Britain’s master storyteller, which culminates at the Battle of Poitiers in 1356.

 

Thomas of Hookton, a veteran of Crecy and many other battles, is the leader of a mercenary company of bowmen and men at arms who ravage the countryside east of Gascony.

 

Edward, Prince of Wales, later to be known as the Black Prince, is assembling an army to fight the French once more but before Thomas can join, he must fulfil an urgent task.

 

La Malice, a sword of mythical power guaranteeing victory to its owner, is thought to be concealed somewhere near Poitiers.

With signs that a battle between the English and the French is looming others are seeking the treasure too, and some French, Scots and even English, are pursuing their private agendas against Thomas.

 

But all Thomas of Hookton, his enemies and friends and the fate of La Malice, become swept up in the extraordinary confrontation that follows, as the large French army faces the heavily outnumbered English in battle.

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Underbelly : A Tale of Two Cities

by John Silvester & Andrew Rule.

 

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Chris 'Rentakill' Flannery was a Melbourne gunman who sold his services to Sin City's highest bidder.

He went on the missing list because he didn't realise the future belonged to those who controlled pills and powders, not pistols.

A world of corrupt cops, bent politicians and beautiful women who fell for rich gangsters.

And a few detectives trying to stop the tidal wave.

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Billy Wright: A Hero for All Seasons by Norman Giller.

 

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Billy Wright captained England 90 times on the way to becoming the first footballer to win 100 international caps.

He was skipper of the all conquering Wolves team that pioneered European football nights in the 1950's.

In A Hero for All Seasons, Norman Giller, who was a close friend, traces his life and times.

Billy was the David Beckham of his time.

When he married Joy Beverly of the Beverley Sisters in 1959, their wedding stopped the traffic.

It received almost as much publicity as the Posh Spice/Becks union 40 years later.

A Hero for All Seasons is not only a story of a great sportsman, but also of an era of football that has disappeared from sight.

Just one difference: David Beckham earns in just one week more that Billy Wright picked up as a player throughout a 20-year career.

The author discusses the many other changes that have occurred to the game since Wright's time, while also exploring his career and his personal life as he rose from humble beginnings to become a folk-hero.

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The Con Man by Ed McBain.

 

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A con man is plying his trade on the streets of Isola: conning a domestic for pocket change, businessmen for thousands, and even ladies in exchange for a little bit of love.

You can see the world, meet a lot of nice people, imbibe some unique drinks, and make a ton money, all by conning them for their cash.

 

The question is: How far is he willing to go?

 

When a young woman's body washes up in the Harb River, the answer to that question becomes tragically clear.

Now Detective Steve Carella races against time to find him before another con turns deadly.

The only clue he has to go on is the mysterious tattoo on the young woman’s hand but it’s enough.

Carella takes to the streets, searching its darkest corners for a man who cons his victims out of their money…and their lives.