Pringle's thoroughly researched survey into the preserved dead reveals not only the religious and cultural compulsion to mummify in, for example, the Egyptian tradition, but also time-worn mummification practices, the phenomenon of natural mummification, historical mummies, and the modern mummy black market.
To succeed in business today, an individual must be smart, competitive, resilient, tenacious, and fearless. In short, he or she needs a good, old-fashioned backbone. In "How to Grow a Backbone", Susan Marshall, a top business consultant and former executive, outlines skills that readers can develop and perfect to become stronger, more confident, ...
When Lila Beauforte takes up residence in her ancestral home, the 150-year-old Beauforte House in the Garden District of New Orleans, she is terrified by ghostly apparitions. The family reluctantly calls Cree Black for help.
Dr. Vincent Cardoni, a prominent surgeon, is charged with murder when several dead bodies are found whose vital organs have been professionally harvested by someone who knew what he was doing. The father-and-daughter legal team of Frank and Amanda Jaffe have been retained to defend Cardoni--but even though she gets him off, Amanda is sure he is ...
This diary, by a German businessman, records first-hand the 1937 terror known as "the rape of Nanking." Rabe, a Nazi-sympathizer, set up a safe zone for his workers and tried to save as many Chinese lives as he could from slaughter by the Japanese. A New York Times Notable Book of 1999.
An account of the lives of four generations of Cuban women, written by a journalist for "Vogue" and "Mirabella". The central figure, Naty Revuelta, grew up within the privileged precincts of Battista's inner circle yet became enamored of Fidel Castro and his revolution and--to the horror of her conservative mother--bore him a daughter. A "New York ...
An account of the lives of four generations of Cuban women, written by a journalist for "Vogue" and "Mirabella". The central figure, Naty Revuelta, grew up within the privileged precincts of Battista's inner circle yet became enamored of Fidel Castro and his revolution and--to the horror of her conservative mother--bore him a daughter. A "New York ...
A collection of independent essays on the future of China from the very top specialists in the field. This is one of the most wide-ranging books on China yet published. Offering not just another Western view of China, the essays feature Chinese experts as well as those Westerners with extensive experience of this remarkable country. Approximate ...
One of the best-written, most accessible books explaining how to use technical analysis to trade in the stock, bond and commodity markets. This ground-breaking work discusses all the major technical indicators and shows how to put the indicators together in order to provide excellent buy and sell signals in any market. The revised edition contains ...
The voice, those eyes, that hair, the cars, the girls--Elvis Presley revolutionized American pop culture. "His appearance on Ed Sullivan ripped the 1950s in half," writes the author. Keogh examines Elvis's life and style to reveal the generous, complex, spiritual man behind the gold sunglasses.
In her three previous appearances, attorney Barbara Holloway has taken on the sort of cases no one else wants, all hopeless messes, and with the help of her father, Frank, she has pulled through each time. But even from the start, this new case is different. Mitch Arno always meant bad news for the coastal town of Folsum, Oregon. When they ran him ...
Although Barbara Holloway decided to give up the practice of law, she finds herself strangely drawn to the case of a woman accused of murdering her estranged husband.
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