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When the Communist Party Central Committee and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR halted mass operations in repression in November 1938, large numbers of mainly Communist purge victims whose cases remained incomplete were released. At the same time, hundreds of NKVD operatives who had carried out the Great Terror were scapegoated and arrested. Drawing on materials from the largely closed archives of the Soviet security police, this collection of essays by an international team of researchers illuminates the previously opaque world of the NKVD perpetrator.

What if you were kidnapped, tied to a wall for a month, starved, humiliated, tortured and then they tried to murder you, but you survived? What stories would you tell of how you were able to survive and the struggles you went though? What if you went to the police and they did not believe you? What would you do to evade those trying to kill you and how would you bring the criminals to justice before they struck again? How would that change your life and the way you perceived the world and people?

Bienvenido/a a Mi Mejor Versión, el lugar donde se unen la psicología y el desarrollo personal. Ya tienes el potencial para crear la vida que quieres, aquí aprenderás a desarrollarlo. No tienes que convertirte en alguien mejor, sino aprender a ser tu mismo/a. Mi nombre es Marc y soy psicólogo general sanitario con formación Cognitivo-Conductual, Breve Estratégica y Técnicas de 3a Generación con un enfoque humanista. Para ayudarte a desarrollar tu máximo potencial abordaremos 3 pilares fundamentales: 💡 Autoconocimiento 🎯 Propósito 📈 Hábitos https://linktr.ee/...

When Marc Harrison became CEO of Intermountain Healthcare, the organization was already a well-regarded and financially stable player in the industry. Nevertheless, Harrison led an ambitious transformation that has unleashed Intermountain's workforce to look beyond the organization and tackle a range of problems that have hobbled both the healthcare industry and our broader society. Bucking the prevailing culture of conflict and polarization, leaders at all levels are empowered to convene diverse stakeholders in unorthodox ways to solve problems that affect everyone.

Le village de Gryon, dans les Alpes vaudoises, est en émoi : dans le temple gît un cadavre, nu, allongé sur la table sainte à l'image du Christ crucifié. À l'extrémité du couteau qui lui a transpercé le cœur, un message : "Si donc la lumière qui est en toi est ténèbres, combien seront grandes les ténèbres !" L'inspecteur Andreas Auer est convaincu que ce meurtre est le premier acte d'une mise en scène macabre et symbolique.

Make Money on eBay will inform you of the exact items you can sell on eBay for major profits. Most eBay books just cover the basic eBay rules with very little actionable advice. When I first started selling items on eBay, I fell victim to one of these books. Instead of telling me how to make money with eBay, the book proceeded to tell me its rules, which I could have found online.

" Dis-leur Jeannot, dis-leur de raconter tout cela de ma part, avec leurs mots à eux, ceux de leur époque. Les miens ne sont faits que des accents de mon pays, du sang que j'ai dans la bouche et sur les mains. ". Mars 1943. À Toulouse, Raymond, 20 ans, et son frère Claude, 17 ans, rejoignent la Résistance ; ils y rencontrent des garçons et des filles de leur âge. Planques, traques, combats, arrestations au petit matin, leur périple les conduira jusqu'au train fantôme. Quand l'un d'entre eux tombe, un autre sort de l'ombre...

To The Hilt Podcast takes a Deep Dive into the history of sword swallowing by reviewing the lives of historical sword swallowers from the 1800s to modern days, including sword swallowers Chevalier Cliquot, Delno Fritz, Edith Clifford, Edna Price, Lucky Ball, Estelline Pike, Mighty Ajax, Marie DeVere, Alex Linton, Lady Patricia Zerm, Capt. Don Leslie, Lady Diane Falk and many others covered in the book To The Hilt: A Sword Swallower’s History of Sword Swallowing by Dan Meyer and Marc Hartzman (Schiffer Publishing) https://ToTheHiltbook.com

The destruction of Atlanta is an iconic moment in American history - it was the centerpiece of the hugely successful book and movie Gone with the Wind. But though the epic sieges of Leningrad, Stalingrad, and Berlin have all been explored in best-selling histories, the one great American example has been treated only cursorily as a footnote. Marc Wortman remedies that conspicuous absence in grand fashion with The Bonfire.

In this unsparing exploration of one of the most powerful Americans of the 20th century, accomplished historian Marc Aronson unmasks the man behind the Bureau: his tangled family history and personal relationships; his own need for secrecy, deceit, and control; and the broad trends in American society that shaped his world. Hoover may have given America the security it wanted, but the secrets he knew gave him—and the Bureau—all the power he wanted.

For Marc Lesser the key to healthy relationships and effective workplaces is compassionate accountability—a practical and trainable way to clarify and achieve shared visions of success. Marc works from the premise that problems are inevitable and that the success of an enterprise or relationship relies on how they are resolved. This applies to any joint effort—in a workplace, a family, a civic organization, a community, a country, or the world at large.

To be a great leader, you must be able to unite people from all backgrounds with seemingly competing agendas to come together under a common cause. Marc Morial, former mayor of New Orleans and current president and CEO of the National Urban League, has been such a leader and shares the lessons he learned along a legendary journey of achievement.

Using the Force of Communicative Intelligence Whether in a presentation or a negotiation interview, whether during uni-versity studies or in your first job: it is not always easy to find the right words. However, if you are experienced in rhetoric, you can use language and body more effectively and efficiently at work and in everyday life and this is independent of whether you want to be convincing and successful in professional or private situations. Through intensive reading and working with this book, you will acquire the necessary tools for a negotiation, a sales pitch, a discussion, a ...

Esta guía simple y sin rodeos de Marc Reklau atraviesa la maraña de consejos financieros para traerte 71 hábitos probados que abren el camino hacia la riqueza y la prosperidad—hábitos que puedes comenzar hoy mismo, incluso mientras sueñas despierto con ganar la lotería.

Last Battles is the fourth novel in the Jaco Jacinto Age of Sail series. The first three are Raider of the Scottish Coast, Carronade and Death of a Lady. The series follows the careers of two Naval officers - Jaco Jacinto in the Continental Navy and Darren Smythe in the Royal Navy. They start as mortal enemies when the American Revolution begins, but when Jacinto captures Smythe, they become friends. When Smythe is paroled, they are back to being enemies. As the series progresses, Jacinto's and Smythe's lives and careers intertwine and become closer and closer. Peace was in the air after ...

In Cuban Revelations, Marc Frank offers a first-hand account of daily life in Cuba at the turn of the 21st century, the start of a new and dramatic epoch for islanders and the Cuban diaspora. A US-born journalist who has called Havana home for almost a quarter century, Frank observed in person the best days of the revolution, the fall of the Soviet Bloc, the great depression of the 1990s, the stepping aside of Fidel Castro, and the reforms now being devised by his brother.

No one is better than Dr. Marc Bekoff at turning state-of-the-art animal science into practical, digestible information. His subjects include dog care, dog cognition and emotions, and dog-human relationships, and though he has impressive scientific credentials and much technical expertise, this is the accessible book that every dog lover should have.

Arthur's experience babysitting for the terrible Tibble twins is more challenging than he expected! The feisty little ones almost get the best of the adorable aardvark, but he is finally able to settle them down with an imaginative story.

Medical practice and research are inconceivable today without electronic computing and communication tools. Digital machines do many tasks orders-of-magnitude better, faster, and more accurately than humans. Still, there are functions critical to the healthcare endeavor that people do much better than machines, things like: understanding and using natural language; perceiving what is unexpressed; taking into account values, culture, ethics, and human relationships; touching and healing.

The battle is won, but the war has just begun. Evil stalks the Island-World as the Marshal of Herimor and his Dragon-slaying hordes put nation after nation to the sword. The haunting cry of the Nurguz summons all Dragonkind to their doom. None can resist. But Marshal Re'akka and his all-conquering Dragon Assassins are not the only trouble on the horizon. For there is a new Dragoness finding her wings, and she will stop at nothing to protect her loved ones. She is Pip the Pygmy Dragon.