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American Race Relations and the Legacy of British Colonialism

by Thomas H. Stanton ...

Colonial rule distorts a colony’s economy and its society, and British rule was no exception. British policies led to a stratified American colonial society with slaves on the bottom and white settlers on top. The divided society functioned through laws that imposed rules and defined roles of the respective races. This occurred in other colonies too, often leading to strife that continues today. ... Read more

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Colonial rule distorts a colony’s economy and its society, and British rule was no exception. British policies led to a stratified American colonial society with slaves on the bottom and white settlers on top. The divided society functioned through laws that imposed rules and defined roles of the respective races. This occurred in other colonies too, often leading to strife that continues today.
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Why Some Firms Thrive While Others Fail

Governance and Management Lessons from the Crisis

by Thomas H. Stanton ...

Why did some firms weather the financial crisis and others not? This book investigates inner workings of over a dozen major financial and nonfinancial companies, reveals what went wrong and proposes a remedy. Regulators too must learn from past mistakes and require "constructive dialogue" for companies they supervise. ... Read more

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Why did some firms weather the financial crisis and others not? This book investigates inner workings of over a dozen major financial and nonfinancial companies, reveals what went wrong and proposes a remedy. Regulators too must learn from past mistakes and require "constructive dialogue" for companies they supervise.
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Meeting the Challenge of 9/11: Blueprints for More Effective Government

Blueprints for More Effective Government

by Thomas H. Stanton ...

9/11 revealed serious public sector shortcomings in such areas as border security and immigration control, cybersecurity, and first responses to hostile acts. This book focuses on how to make government more effective, especially in our post-9/11 era of heightened concern for national and homeland security. "Meeting the Challenge of 9/11" is a top-to-bottom guidebook for improving government ... Read more

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9/11 revealed serious public sector shortcomings in such areas as border security and immigration control, cybersecurity, and first responses to hostile acts. This book focuses on how to make government more effective, especially in our post-9/11 era of heightened concern for national and homeland security. "Meeting the Challenge of 9/11" is a top-to-bottom guidebook for improving government
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Runner

by Thomas Perry ...

Series Book 6 - The Jane Whitefield Novels
The New York Times bestselling author "blend[s] the frenetic pacing of a top-notch thriller with Native American mysticism" in Jane Whitefield's return ( Publishers Weekly)."The world's foremost specialist in hiding fugitives from their pursuers is back with a vengeance" in this "high-potency thriller" ( Kirkus Reviews).For more than a decade, Jane Whitefield practiced her unusual profession: "I'm ... Read more

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The New York Times bestselling author "blend[s] the frenetic pacing of a top-notch thriller with Native American mysticism" in Jane Whitefield's return ( Publishers Weekly)."The world's foremost specialist in hiding fugitives from their pursuers is back with a vengeance" in this "high-potency thriller" ( Kirkus Reviews).For more than a decade, Jane Whitefield practiced her unusual profession: "I'm
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White Tiger

A BRAND NEW edge-of-your-seat thriller for readers who love Vince Flynn

by Andrew Warren ...

Series Book 6 - A Thomas Caine Thriller
Prepare yourself for the BRAND NEW, epic action thriller from BESTSELLER Andrew Warren. If you like Mark Greaney, Alan McDermott, and I Am Pilgrim, you'll LOVE this! ⚠️“White Tiger is a dynamic East-West spy story, an Asian action thriller, and a yakuza crime extravaganza that is gloriously cinematic. I couldn’t put it down.” - Raymond Benson, author of James Bond: The Raymond Benson YearsHonor ... Read more

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Prepare yourself for the BRAND NEW, epic action thriller from BESTSELLER Andrew Warren. If you like Mark Greaney, Alan McDermott, and I Am Pilgrim, you'll LOVE this! ⚠️“White Tiger is a dynamic East-West spy story, an Asian action thriller, and a yakuza crime extravaganza that is gloriously cinematic. I couldn’t put it down.” - Raymond Benson, author of James Bond: The Raymond Benson YearsHonor
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Bluegate Fields

by Anne Perry ...

Series Book 6 - The Charlotte and Thomas Pitt Novels
From a New York Times– bestselling author, Charlotte and Thomas Pitt must solve the case of a young gentleman's murder—before an innocent man hangs.The naked body of an aristocratic youth turns up in the sewers beneath Bluegate Fields, one of London's most notorious slums. But Arthur Waybourne had been drowned in his bath, not in the Thames. More shocking still was that the boy had been sexually ... Read more

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From a New York Times– bestselling author, Charlotte and Thomas Pitt must solve the case of a young gentleman's murder—before an innocent man hangs.The naked body of an aristocratic youth turns up in the sewers beneath Bluegate Fields, one of London's most notorious slums. But Arthur Waybourne had been drowned in his bath, not in the Thames. More shocking still was that the boy had been sexually
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The Jo Modeen Box Set: Books 4 to 6

Jo Modeen, #14

by Frank H Jordan ...

Series Book 14 - Jo Modeen
The JO MODEEN series: a crimefest of menacing missions and pump-action suspense.In this boxed set of books 4 to 6 in the high-action series, Modeen's missions uncover dangerous links to the past. Driven to go rogue, she embarks on a lethal campaign of retribution. And even when drawn into an international case that could alter the course of modern warfare, she maintains her mantra: go hard or go ... Read more

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The JO MODEEN series: a crimefest of menacing missions and pump-action suspense.In this boxed set of books 4 to 6 in the high-action series, Modeen's missions uncover dangerous links to the past. Driven to go rogue, she embarks on a lethal campaign of retribution. And even when drawn into an international case that could alter the course of modern warfare, she maintains her mantra: go hard or go
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50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 2 [newly updated] (Golden Deer Classics)

by Lewis Carroll, Mark Twain, Jules Verne, Oscar Wilde, Golden Deer Classics, Arthur Conan Doyle, Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, J.M. Barrie, B.M. Bower, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Robert William Chambers, G.K. Chesterton, Wilkie Collins, Charles Darwin, Daniel Defoe, Margaret Deland, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Alexandre Dumas, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, E. M. Forster, Sigmund Freud, Thomas Hardy, Hermann Hesse, James Joyce, Andrew Lang, Jack London, H.P. Lovecraft, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Edgar Allan Poe, Marcel Proust, William Shakespeare, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Strunk Jr., Vatsyayana, H.G. Wells, Virginia Woolf ...

This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names - Little Women [Louisa May Alcott] - Sense and Sensibility [Jane Austen] - Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) [J.M. Barrie] - Cabin Fever [ B. M. Bower] - The Secret Garden [Frances Hodgson Burnett] - A Little Princess [Frances Hodgson Burnett] - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [Lewis Carroll] - The King in Yellow ... Read more

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This book contains the following works arranged alphabetically by authors last names - Little Women [Louisa May Alcott] - Sense and Sensibility [Jane Austen] - Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) [J.M. Barrie] - Cabin Fever [ B. M. Bower] - The Secret Garden [Frances Hodgson Burnett] - A Little Princess [Frances Hodgson Burnett] - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [Lewis Carroll] - The King in Yellow
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The Year's Best Crime and Mystery Stories 2016

by Kristine Kathryn Rusch, John Helfers, Joyce Carol Oates, Mary Higgins Clark, Tendai Huchu, Genevieve Valentine, Amity Gaige, Kelly Washington, Tananarive Due, R.S. Brenner, Jedidiah Ayers, Annie Reed, Charles Todd, Christina Milletti, T. Jefferson Parker, Dan Duval, Thomas Pluck, Neil Schofield, Angela Penrose, Carrie Vaughn, SJ Rozan, Thomas H. Cook, René Appel, Megan Abbott ...

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The Year's Best Crime & Mystery Stories contains the best crime and mystery stories that were originally published in 2015 in either print or electronic format as selected by editors Kristine Kathryn Rusch and John Helfers.Reading through thousands of titles and carefully narrowing their favorite reads down to the ultimate list that is presented in this volume, the editors chose their top picks of ... Read more

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The Year's Best Crime & Mystery Stories contains the best crime and mystery stories that were originally published in 2015 in either print or electronic format as selected by editors Kristine Kathryn Rusch and John Helfers.Reading through thousands of titles and carefully narrowing their favorite reads down to the ultimate list that is presented in this volume, the editors chose their top picks of
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Star Crusader: Siege of Kalar

Star Crusader, #6

by Michael G. Thomas ...

Series Book 6 - Star Crusader
Nate and his friends in Ironclad Squadron are returning to the fleet when they detect a mysterious signal. Sensing a trap, Colonel Gun sends Nate out alone in his captured fighter to scout the source. The signal is emitting from inside the heart of the abandoned Kalar Anchorage. This massive facility was once the Byotai Empire's greatest shipyard, but now it lies cold and lifeless. Or does it? ... Read more

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Nate and his friends in Ironclad Squadron are returning to the fleet when they detect a mysterious signal. Sensing a trap, Colonel Gun sends Nate out alone in his captured fighter to scout the source. The signal is emitting from inside the heart of the abandoned Kalar Anchorage. This massive facility was once the Byotai Empire's greatest shipyard, but now it lies cold and lifeless. Or does it?
... Read more
50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 2

by Lewis Carroll, Mark Twain, Jules Verne, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle, Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, G. K. Chesterton, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Alexandre Dumas, F. Scott Fitzgerald, E. M Forster, Thomas Hardy, Hermann Hesse, James Joyce, Jack London, H.P. Lovecraft, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Edgar Allan Poe, Marcel Proust, William Shakespeare, Robert Louis Stevenson, H. G. Wells, Virginia Woolf, Rudyard Kipling, D. H. Lawrence, Thomas Mann, William Somerset Maugham, Herman Melville, George Sand, Mary Shelley, Walter Scott, Leo Tolstoy, Bram Stoker ...

This 2nd volume contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names: Jerome, Jerome K.: Three Men in a Boat Joyce, James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James: Ulysses Kingsley, Charles: The Water-Babies Kipling, Rudyard: Kim La Fayette, Madame de: The Princess of Clèves Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de: Dangerous Liaisons Lawrence, D. H.: Sons and Lovers ... Read more

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This 2nd volume contains the following 50 works, arranged alphabetically by authors’ last names: Jerome, Jerome K.: Three Men in a Boat Joyce, James: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James: Ulysses Kingsley, Charles: The Water-Babies Kipling, Rudyard: Kim La Fayette, Madame de: The Princess of Clèves Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de: Dangerous Liaisons Lawrence, D. H.: Sons and Lovers
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The Body In The Thames

6

by Susanna Gregory ...

Series Book 6 - Adventures of Thomas Chaloner
London swelters in a heatwave in the summer of 1664, and in the corridors of power the temperature is equally high as an outbreak of war with the Dutch threatens to become a reality.--------------------------------The sixth adventure in the Thomas Chaloner series.In the dilapidated surroundings of the Savoy hospital, a delegation from the Netherlands has gathered for a final attempt to secure ... Read more

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London swelters in a heatwave in the summer of 1664, and in the corridors of power the temperature is equally high as an outbreak of war with the Dutch threatens to become a reality.--------------------------------The sixth adventure in the Thomas Chaloner series.In the dilapidated surroundings of the Savoy hospital, a delegation from the Netherlands has gathered for a final attempt to secure
... Read more

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