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Acclaimed journalist Randall Sullivan follows Russell Poole, a highly decorated LAPD detective who in 1997 was called to investigate a controversial cop-on-cop shooting, eventually to discover that the officer killed was tied to Marion “Suge” Knight’s notorious gangsta rap label, Death Row Records. During his investigation, Poole came to realize that a growing cadre of black officers were allied not only with Death Row, but with the murderous Bloods street gang. And incredibly, Poole began to uncover evidence that at least some of these “gangsta cops” may have been involved in the murders of rap superstars Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur.

The story of Emma and Carl Jung's highly unconventional marriage, their relationship with Freud and their part in the early years of psychoanalysis. Emma Jung was clever, ambitious and immensely wealthy, one of the richest heiresses in Switzerland when, aged 17, she met and fell in love with Carl Jung, a handsome, penniless medical student. Determined to share his adventurous life and to continue her own studies, she was too young to understand Carl's complex personality or conceive the dramas that lay ahead.

In 1939, Richard Feynman, a brilliant graduate of MIT, arrived in John Wheeler's Princeton office to report for duty as his teaching assistant. A lifelong friendship and enormously productive collaboration was born, despite sharp differences in personality. The soft-spoken Wheeler, though conservative in appearance, was a raging nonconformist full of wild ideas about the universe. The boisterous Feynman was a cautious physicist who believed only what could be tested. Yet they were complementary spirits.

The first full-length biography of Sarah Winchester, the subject of the movie Winchester starring Helen Mirren, now available for the first time in audio. Since her death in 1922, Sarah Winchester has been perceived as a mysterious, haunted figure. After inheriting a vast fortune upon the death of her husband in 1881, Sarah purchased a simple farmhouse in San José, California. She began building additions to the house and continued construction on it for the next twenty years. A hostile press cast Sarah as the conscience of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company—a widow shouldering responsibility for the many deaths caused by the rifle that brought her riches. She was accused of being a ghost-obsessed spiritualist, and to this day it is largely believed that the extensive construction she executed on her San José house was done to appease the ghouls around her. But was she really as guilt-ridden and superstitious as history remembers her? When Winchester’s home was purchased after her death, it was transformed into a tourist attraction. The bizarre, sprawling mansion and the enigmatic nature of Winchester’s life were exaggerated by the new owners to generate publicity for their business. But as the mansion has become more widely known, the person of Winchester has receded from reality, and she is only remembered for squandering her riches to ward off disturbed spirits.

Unlocking My Brain: Through the Labyrinth of Acquired Brain Injury brings to life Christine's personal experience of brain injury - from losing her vision and being unable to walk, talk or write, Christine regained her life, her thoughts and her career. In 1991, Christine was involved in a horrific car accident and suffered extensive injuries including Acquired Brain Injury (ABI). Unlocking My Brain shows the incredible plasticity of the human brain as well as the plasticity of the human spirit.

In 1849 Heinrich Barth joined a small British expedition into unexplored regions of Islamic North and Central Africa. One by one his companions died, but he carried on alone, eventually reaching the fabled city of gold, Timbuktu. His five-and-a-half-year, 10,000-mile adventure ranks among the greatest journeys in the annals of exploration, and his discoveries are considered indispensable by modern scholars of Africa.

Der dritte Teil meiner Trilogie "Sonne im Staub – Labyrinth der Fronten" begleitet den Verlauf nach meiner Rückkehr aus Afghanistan. Die Konsequenzen meiner Entscheidungen der Vergangenheit werden mir ungeschönt vor Augen geführt. Der Zug meines Lebens fährt nun auf Gleisen, für die ich nie ein Ticket wollte und doch wird er mich an ein Ziel bringen. Denn egal wohin unsere Reise geht, dort wo wir ankommen, sind wir nicht allein! Nun im letzten Teil, kann ich meine Erlebnisse so schildern, wie sie mir auch in meinen Alb- und Tagträumen begegnen.

True crime. Disasters. Animal attacks. Diseases. Monsters. Dive into the moment of a catastrophe where you must make a life-or-death decision. There are infinite forking paths available to you, but you can only choose one. Will that choice keep you alive? Or will it be the last choice you'll ever make? Marina and Fin study historical and current cases, science, preparedness, and best practices to avoid death

Cumplir cincuenta años sigue siendo algo inquietante, a pesar del progreso científico, del retraso de la mortalidad y del aumento en la calidad de la vida contemporánea. El escritor Fernando Iwasaki lo comprobó cuando compiló las crónicas que publicó en el suplemento «Laberinto» del diario Milenio y entonces decidió titularlas El laberinto de los cincuenta porque “al releerlas descubrí divertido el típico tono retro, a veces enfurruñado, siempre nostálgico y en cualquier caso amarrido....

Cumplir cincuenta años sigue siendo algo inquietante, a pesar del progreso científico, del retraso de la mortalidad y del aumento en la calidad de la vida contemporánea. El escritor Fernando Iwasaki lo comprobó cuando compiló las crónicas que publicó en el suplemento "Laberinto" del diario "Milenio" y entonces decidió titularlas "El laberinto de los cincuenta" porque "al releerlas descubrí divertido el típico tono retro, a veces enfurruñado, siempre nostálgico y en cualquier caso amarrido....

V svoih memuarah znamenityy shef VI otdeleniya RSKHA rasskazyvaet o tom, chto pobudilo stat' ego chlennom SS i SD, blagodarya chemu on sdelal stol' porazitel'nuyu kar'eru. On podrobno opisyvaet ryad operaciy, kotorye on ne tol'ko splaniroval, no v kakih on i sam prinimal neposredstvennoe uchastie. Im detal'no issleduetsya svetskiy shpionazh, okazavshiysya ves'ma plodotvornym. On raskryvaet taynu osoboy operacii nemeckoy razvedki, sprovocirovavshuyu bol'shuyu chistku vysshego komandnogo sostava v SSSR (delo Tuhachevskogo i t. p.).

Warren Buffett is known to be a famous investor, philanthropist, and business magnate. He started investing in the stock market at the young age of 11 and filed his first tax return at just 13 years old. He is fast approaching his 90th year of life, meaning he carries close to 80 years of experience in the stock market and investments overall. It is safe to assume he is probably the most experienced investor on earth, if age is an indication.