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Franklin D. Roosevelt led the American people through the two major crises of modern times. The first volume of an epic two-part biography, Franklin D. Roosevelt: Road to the New Deal, 1882-1939 presents FDR from a privileged Hyde Park childhood through his leadership in the Great Depression to the ominous buildup to global war. Roger Daniels revisits the sources and closely examines Roosevelt's own words and deeds to create a 21st century analysis of how Roosevelt forged the modern presidency.

Roger Bacon was born in England in 1219, and while he is primarily remembered as a philosopher, linguist, educator and scientist, he also spent a fair amount of time exploring the art of alchemy. The Mirror of Alchemy is one of the many texts he produced on the subject during his lifetime.

It had been so long since she had someone in her life. She thought he was amazing. The perfect guy and the perfect date. His calculated game of seduction and deception worked flawlessly. After luring her into his death trap, he quietly slid out the door and disappeared yet again without a trace. What clues are hidden in a picture perfect murder? Complex obscure clues woven into intricate crime scenes challenge Mac McRyan, all while a warped mind taunts him and stalks another innocent soul.

This is an unabridged diary kept by actor/writer/director Roger Worrod from January to March 2008, when he was the only passenger on the Grey Fox, a 192 meter-long mixed-cargo boat, from Belgium to South Africa. He went around South Africa by train and on a return trip with the Grey Fox to the Netherlands and on to Switzerland. This was a journey through space and time to re-find his father 60 years after his first voyage to Cape Town on the Winchester Castle, in 1948.

An Introduction to the fundamentals of prosperity.

In the small town of Black Bay, a vacant, forgotten house sits atop a bluff. When Bailey and Bodhi Taylor move in and begin renovations, the house seems perfect. But things move on their own, screams echo from the basement, and Bailey sees a shadowy figure out of the corner of her eye. Is the house haunted? And if it is, what does the ghost want with Bailey?

Welcome to 2050 - what the real 2050 could be like. This book is about what life will be like when "cyber" is prolific, self-aware, and in full control of large-scale industry, service, and transportation. There will be fascinating changes in how humans live and what they think about.

After an intense FBI raid results in the mysterious disappearance of the Snatcher, Detective Miriam Castillo relocates and joins a new police force, ready to put the past behind her. But when the daughter of a wealthy congressman is kidnapped, everything Miriam thought she had escaped comes back to haunt her.

The goal of this book is to get history working for you. I mean this in both senses of the word work: working, as in, you can understand it better; and working, as in, that understanding will bring you benefits - you can exploit your understanding to take advantage of upcoming opportunities, and to sleep better at night because the world you live in is a more understandable and predictable place.

Ever hire someone who seemed to be rock star in the interview only to find them substandard on the job? It happens frequently. Most managers have never received any formal training or instruction in how to structure an interview or how to select the best qualified candidate. This book introduces a four-step process, EPIC Interviewing, that provides hiring managers with a rock-solid roadmap making great selection decisions.

NexGen Human is a call to high adventure! The adventure of your life! We live in a dynamic, ever changing world. To paraphrase Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, "Toto, we ain't in Kansas anymore." In this day and age we are challenged like no other human before with overwhelming choices, overwhelming information, and an overwhelming focus on fear.

Chaplains of ANZAC: New Zealand's Fallen Chaplains of the Great War tells the story of seven New Zealand Expeditionary Force chaplains who served and died during the Great War. The beautiful collection of stories in this book tell the oft-overlooked tales of the chaplains who left New Zealand and served their god, king and country on foreign fields of battle. In all, over 140 chaplains served as part of the NZEF. This book contains the stories of seven of those who paid the ultimate sacrifice.

Mystery/thriller masterminds James Hunt, author of the Death Notes series, and Roger Hayden, author of The Abducted series, come together in this super box set for the first time! That's two complete book series comprising five novels.

Best-selling mystery/thriller author Roger Hayden brings you the complete collection of the highly-rated Abducted series. That's two complete book series totaling six novels!

Derek Lawson is a young man of the turbulent 60s. Set in the context of the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights laws, Derek is trying to find romance, break into radio through college, and please his parents, all at the same time. Follow Derek through his trials and tribulations as he tries to find himself.

In 1861, Lt. Col. William Hoffman was appointed to the post of commissary general of prisoners and urged to find a suitable site for the construction of what was expected to be the Union's sole military prison. After inspecting four islands in Lake Erie, Hoffman came upon one in Sandusky Bay known as Johnson's Island. With a large amount of fallen timber, 40 acres of cleared land, and its proximity to Sandusky, Ohio, Johnson's Island seemed the ideal location for the Union's purpose.

When medical malpractice leads to violent revenge, Irish-style.... Kieran Kelly's world turns upside down when his wife's health is devastated by an epidural in childbirth. Incensed by damning evidence of medical and pharmaceutical misconduct, the tormented former IRA hit man plots revenge against those he deems responsible, including a government that doesn't seem to care. Kelly's quest brings him face-to-face with an alcoholic physician, an altruistic scientist, and a corrupt government minister.

In June of 1861, only a few weeks after the first shots at Fort Sumter ignited the Civil War, Union prisoners of war began to arrive in Southern prisons. One hundred and fifty years later, Civil War prisons and the way prisoners of war were treated remain contentious topics. Partisans of each side continue to vilify the other for POW maltreatment.

Two people are coldly executed behind a bar in Washington DC. A high-powered lawyer and his beautiful client are brutally slaughtered in a lake house in a suburb west of Minneapolis. Two cases separated by 1,000 miles and connected by one man - Mac McRyan. In a tale of money and blood that hits a little too close to home, Mac is forced to confront his tumultuous past.

Does science have all the answers? Can it even deal with abstract reasoning that reaches beyond the world experienced by us? How can we be so sure that the physical world is sufficiently ordered to be intelligible to humans? How is it that mathematics, a product of human minds, can unlock the secrets of the physical universe? Are all such questions to be ruled out as inadmissible if science cannot settle them? Metaphysics has traditionally been understood as reasoning beyond the reach of science, sometimes even claiming realities that are beyond its grasp.