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"Neighbors in Mob: The Mafia History in Pennsylvania and New Jersey" presents an immersive exploration of two infamous crime families that have left an indelible mark on the underworld landscape of the East Coast. This comprehensive book delves deep into the histories of the Bruno-Scarfo Mafia crime family of Philadelphia and the DeCavalcante Mafia crime family of New Jersey, offering listeners an unparalleled journey into the heart of organized crime.

Edward Chisholm's spellbinding memoir of his time as a Parisian waiter takes you below the surface of one of the most iconic cities in the world and right into its glorious underbelly. He inhabits a world of inhuman hours, snatched sleep and dive bars; scraping by on coffee, bread and cigarettes, often under sadistic managers, with a wage so low you're fighting your colleagues for tips. Colleagues—including thieves, narcissists, ex-Legionnaires, paperless immigrants, wannabe actors and drug dealers—who are the closest thing to family that you've got.

Some say he was a breakthrough academic and visionary shaman. Others say he was a sham. Either way, Carlos Castaneda shaped a generation of mystical thinkers and magic mushroom eaters. In 1968, at the height of the psychedelic age, Castaneda published The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge, the first of 12 books describing his apprenticeship to an Indian shaman, and his journeys to the “separate reality” of the sorcerers’ worlds.

Ignite your child's curiosity with a fascinating collection of 132 multiple-choice animal trivia on some of the most interesting animals! Test your knowledge, and learn new information that you can share with family and friends!

When I first met Susie, she appeared to be a normal, happily-married woman dealing with tragedy. Then I uncovered her secrets. While I could understand everything that she’d done, I could never approve. But, knowing what she was capable of, it became clear that if I was going to survive her, I had to play by her rules. And, the first and most important rule is...leave no singing bones.

Manchmal braucht es Dunkelheit, um den schönsten Lichtschimmer erkennen zu können Nachdem er Lucy beinahe für immer verloren hätte, reißen die Wunden vergangener Erinnerungen in Cal endgültig auf. Gefangen in einem Strudel aus Selbsthass und dem Glauben, schuld an der Verfassung seiner ehemals besten Freundin zu sein, flüchtet Cal sich in die betäubende Stille des Alkohols. Einzig dieser kann ihm helfen, die Vorwürfe und Ängste für eine Weile zum Verstummen zu bringen. Währenddessen versucht Lucy, wieder zurück ins Leben zu finden und sehnt sich nach ihrem besten Freund.

In How Did You Get That Job?, 30-year corporate veteran Orlando Ashford explores the “tools and rules” one can use to help maximize their career journey. Drawing from his depth of experience and illustrating concepts with personal stories, Ashford walks the listener through the key elements of building a successful career, including: creating a career vision, taking calculated risks, delivering results, building a career community, a culture or one’s personal brand.

George Soper (1870-1948) was a sanitation engineer who tracked down Mary Mallon, or Typhoid Mary (1869-1938), a cook who was an asymptomatic carrier of typhoid responsible for at least 54 cases with four deaths in nine different epidemics. Soper was called in when a landlord in Long Island struggled to trace the source of an outbreak in 1906. Soper’s every attempt to reason with Mary was met by denial and a refusal to cooperate. She was arrested by the New York Health Department and placed in a detention hospital on March 19, 1907.

Mike Sager is to drugs, porn, and crimes of desperate delusion what Dominic Dunne is to the society murder. In addition to his long-classic Rolling Stone story "The Devil and John Holmes" (which helped inspire the Val Kilmer film Wonderland) and his groundbreaking GQ piece about murdered Irish investigative reporter Veronica Guerin (also the subject of a major film starring Cate Blanchett), Scary Monsters and Super Freaks is a wonderful rogue's gallery of up-close pieces about the most public failures of the American dream.

En la línea de su exitosa saga de divulgación histórica, el escritor Jorge Baradit observa aquellos episodios más escabrosos de la historia de Chile y nos relata de qué modo la maldad se ha hecho parte de procesos políticos y sociales desde el origen de la república.

Reform or Revolution was an influential pamphlet published by Marxist Rosa Luxemburg in 1899. In it, she argues that a revolution is necessary in order to transform a capitalist society into a socialist one. It was a strong criticism of German socialist thinker Eduard Bernstein.

An astonishing transformation over the last 20,000 years has seen our planet changed from a frigid wasteland into the temperate world within which our civilization has grown and thrived. This dynamic episode in our planet's history, right at the close of the Ice Age, saw not only a huge temperature hike but also the Earth's crust bouncing and bending in response to the melting of the great ice sheets and the filling of the ocean basins - dramatic geophysical events that triggered earthquakes, spawned tsunamis, and provoked a series of eruptions from the world's volcanoes.

Jacob's Room was Virginia Woolf’s third novel. It is a character study about Jacob Flanders and is narrated through the impressions of other characters about Jacob. The narrative mainly unfolds through the two women, Clara Durrant and Florinda, and the book is considered an important modernist text.

Is geography really destiny? Our maps may no longer be stalked by dragons and monsters, but our perceptions of the world are still shaped by geographic myths. Myths like Europe being the centre of the world. Or that border walls are the solution to migration. Or that Russia is predestined to threaten its neighbours. In his punchy and authoritative book, Paul Richardson challenges recent popular accounts of geographical determinism and shows that how we see the world represented often isn't how it really is - that the map is not the territory.

Assyria was a Mesopotamian kingdom which became a brutal empire of the ancient Near East and the Levant. This encyclopaedic text covers the lay of the land, the capital, and other cities, plus the language, cuneiform writing, customs, religion, arts, and architecture of Assyria. The city state of Ashur dates back to about the 25th century BCE. The history deals with the Assyrian conquests of Anatolia, Babylonia, the Iranian plateau, and the Levant, until it suffered a series of defeats at the hand of the Medes, Persians, and Babylonians.

Rhymosaurs is a series of hip-hop rhyming books for children of all ages. Our first story follows Tommy Rex as he finds a way to brush his teeth properly with small arms.

Real Estate Marketing Secrets: New Ideas to Win More Deals and Explode Your Business by Wilson D Enriquez contains tips, tricks and secrets for realtors to grow your business in a cool, fun way.

Brief treatment of the history of the historic Hudson River in New York, published by The Bronx County Historical Society.

Drei Tage, zwei Enemies, ein Bett Hätte Delaney Kingston gewusst, dass Brautjungfer bei der besten Freundin zu sein bedeutet, Nanny für den Bruder besagter Braut zu spielen, damit die Hochzeit ohne Panne über die Bühne geht, hätte sie es sich zweimal überlegt. Denn Theo Monroe ist ihr Erzfeind seit der dritten Klasse, und niemand schafft es wie er, sich in Schwierigkeiten zu bringen. Doch als sie sich auch noch ein Zimmer teilen müssen, erkennt, Laney, dass sich hinter Theos Fassade als charmanter Troublemaker so viel mehr verbirgt.

Why do so many Americans reject the modern theory of evolution? Why does creationism, thoroughly refuted by scientists, retain such popularity among the public? A personal memoir of one scientist's attempt to come to grips with this controversy-by immersing himself in the culture of the anti-evolutionists - Among the Creationists is a fair, fresh, and insightful account of the modern American debate over Darwinism.