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Peril and Payback

Author : Chuck Marsters
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1462851622
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book Peril and Payback written by Chuck Marsters and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-04-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Guardian and the FarCaller comes the second book of this engaging Spoonworld series. Released through Xlibris, Chuck Marsters PERIL AND PAYBACK: The Attack on the Guardian continues to tell the story of the Kaaler power and Lee Kaalers tremendous responsibility as its guardian. In the first book, Lee discovers the power of the spoons and of a counterpart whose family has a long history of contact with previous Guardiansthe last of which was his grandmother. He also learns of the Geritsa family who has long been after the Kaaler spoon. Together, Lee and FarCaller cooperate to harness their powers to battle the Gerits. In PERIL AND PAYBACK, another enemy surfaces. To get to Lee, Verry, his wife, is kidnapped by men who want what the powers the Gerits sought in THE GUARDIAN AND THE FARCALLER. Worst of all, Verry is pregnant and childbirth is only days away. Will Lee obey the kidnappers in order to save his wife and their unborn child? Or can he unmask the identity of these kidnappers without giving up his family's secrets and endangering his wife?PERIL AND PAYBACK: The Attack on the Guardian reveals all.

Pacific Payback

Author : Stephen L. Moore
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0451465539
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Pacific Payback written by Stephen L. Moore and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Deeply researched and well written....By far the most detailed account of USS Enterprise’s dive-bombers and their decisive role at the Battle of Midway.”* Sunday, December 7, 1941, dawned clear and bright over the Pacific.... But for the Dauntless dive-bomber crews of the USS Enterprise returning to their home base on Oahu, it was a morning from hell. Flying directly into the Japanese ambush at Pearl Harbor, they lost a third of their squadron and witnessed the heart of America’s Navy broken and smoldering on the oil-slicked waters below. The next six months, from Pearl Harbor to the Battle of Midway—a dark time during which the Japanese scored victory after victory—this small band of aviators saw almost constant deployment, intense carrier combat, and fearsome casualties. Many were killed by enemy Zero fighters, antiaircraft fire, or deadly crash landings in the Pacific, while others were captured and spent years in POW camps. Yet the Enterprise’s Dauntless crews would be the first to strike an offensive blow against Japanese installations in the Marshall Islands, would be the first to sink a Japanese warship, and would shepherd the Doolittle Raiders’ bombing of Tokyo. Not until Midway, though, would Dauntless crews get the chance to settle the score...and change the course of World War II. Drawing on dozens of new interviews and oral histories, author Stephen L. Moore brings to life inspiring stories of individual sacrifice and bravery—and the sweeping saga of one of America’s greatest triumphs. INCLUDES PHOTOS

Payback

Author : Thane Rosenbaum
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226726614
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Payback written by Thane Rosenbaum and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-04-10 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We call it justice—the assassination of Osama bin Laden, the incarceration of corrupt politicians or financiers like Rod Blagojevich and Bernard Madoff, and the climactic slaying of cinema-screen villains by superheroes. But could we not also call it revenge? We are told that revenge is uncivilized and immoral, an impulse that individuals and societies should actively repress and replace with the order and codes of courtroom justice. What, if anything, distinguishes punishment at the hands of the government from a victim’s individual desire for retribution? Are vengeance and justice really so very different? No, answers legal scholar and novelist Thane Rosenbaum in Payback: The Case for Revenge—revenge is, in fact, indistinguishable from justice. Revenge, Rosenbaum argues, is not the problem. It is, in fact, a perfectly healthy emotion. Instead, the problem is the inadequacy of lawful outlets through which to express it. He mounts a case for legal systems to punish the guilty commensurate with their crimes as part of a societal moral duty to satisfy the needs of victims to feel avenged. Indeed, the legal system would better serve the public if it gave victims the sense that vengeance was being done on their behalf. Drawing on a wide range of support, from recent studies in behavioral psychology and neuroeconomics, to stories of vengeance and justice denied, to revenge practices from around the world, to the way in which revenge tales have permeated popular culture—including Hamlet, The Godfather, and Braveheart—Rosenbaum demonstrates that vengeance needs to be more openly and honestly discussed and lawfully practiced. Fiercely argued and highly engaging, Payback is a provocative and eye-opening cultural tour of revenge and its rewards—from Shakespeare to The Sopranos. It liberates revenge from its social stigma and proves that vengeance is indeed ours, a perfectly human and acceptable response to moral injury. Rosenbaum deftly persuades us to reconsider a misunderstood subject and, along the way, reinvigorates the debate on the shape of justice in the modern world.

CDS Payback Oversight

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Merchant Marine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book CDS Payback Oversight written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. Subcommittee on Merchant Marine and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Payback

Author : David P. Barash
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199752982
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Payback written by David P. Barash and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the child taunted by her playmates to the office worker who feels stifled in his daily routine, people frequently take out their pain and anger on others, even those who had nothing to do with the original stress. The bullied child may kick her puppy, the stifled worker yells at his children: Payback can be directed anywhere, sometimes at inanimate things, animals, or other people. In Payback, the husband-and wife team of evolutionary biologist David Barash and psychiatrist Judith Lipton offer an illuminating look at this phenomenon, showing how it has evolved, why it occurs, and what we can do about it. Retaliation and revenge are well known to most people. We all know what it is like to want to get even, get justice, or take revenge. What is new in this book is an extended discussion of redirected aggression, which occurs not only in people but other species as well. The authors reveal that it's not just a matter of yelling at your spouse "because" your boss yells at you. Indeed, the phenomenon of redirected aggression--so-called to differentiate it from retaliation and revenge, the other main forms of payback--haunts our criminal courts, our streets, our battlefields, our homes, and our hearts. It lurks behind some of the nastiest and seemingly inexplicable things that otherwise decent people do, from road rage to yelling at a crying baby. And it exists across boundaries of every kind--culture, time, geography, and even species. Indeed, it's not just a human phenomenon. Passing pain to others can be seen in birds and horses, fish and primates--in virtually all vertebrates. It turns out that there is robust neurobiological hardware and software promoting redirected aggression, as well as evolutionary underpinnings. Payback may be natural, the authors conclude, but we are capable of rising above it, without sacrificing self-esteem and social status. They show how the various human responses to pain and suffering can be managed--mindfully, carefully, and humanely.

Natural Catastrophe Risk Management and Modelling

Author : Kirsten Mitchell-Wallace
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118906071
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (189 download)

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Download or read book Natural Catastrophe Risk Management and Modelling written by Kirsten Mitchell-Wallace and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers both the practical and theoretical aspects of catastrophe modelling for insurance industry practitioners and public policymakers. Written by authors with both academic and industry experience it also functions as an excellent graduate-level text and overview of the field. Ours is a time of unprecedented levels of risk from both natural and anthropogenic sources. Fortunately, it is also an era of relatively inexpensive technologies for use in assessing those risks. The demand from both commercial and public interests—including (re)insurers, NGOs, global disaster management agencies, and local authorities—for sophisticated catastrophe risk assessment tools has never been greater, and contemporary catastrophe modelling satisfies that demand. Combining the latest research with detailed coverage of state-of-the-art catastrophe modelling techniques and technologies, this book delivers the knowledge needed to use, interpret, and build catastrophe models, and provides greater insight into catastrophe modelling’s enormous potential and possible limitations. The first book containing the detailed, practical knowledge needed to support practitioners as effective catastrophe risk modellers and managers Includes hazard, vulnerability and financial material to provide the only independent, comprehensive overview of the subject, accessible to students and practitioners alike Demonstrates the relevance of catastrophe models within a practical, decision-making framework and illustrates their many applications Includes contributions from many of the top names in the field, globally, from industry, academia, and government Natural Catastrophe Risk Management and Modelling: A Practitioner’s Guide is an important working resource for catastrophe modelling analysts and developers, actuaries, underwriters, and those working in compliance or regulatory functions related to catastrophe risk. It is also valuable for scientists and engineers seeking to gain greater insight into catastrophe risk management and its applications.

Whitey's Payback

Author : T. J. English
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 148041171X
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Whitey's Payback written by T. J. English and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVSixteen stories of true crime from America’s foremost authority on the underworld/divDIV James “Whitey” Bulger is the last of the old-fashioned gangsters. As a polished, sophisticated psychopath—who also happened to be a secret FBI informant—his reign of power in Boston lasted for more than twenty years. When he went on the lam in 1995, the kingpin’s legend grew to rival that of Al Capone. Captured after sixteen years in hiding, he now sits in a maximum security prison awaiting trial on racketeering charges and nineteen counts of murder./divDIV /divDIVT. J. English has been writing about men like Bulger for more than two decades. And this collection, culled from his career in journalism and supported by new material, shows English at his best. In addition to the numerous pieces about Whitey, he reports stories about gangsters and organized crime from New York City to Jamaica to Hong Kong and Mexico. Be they about old school mobsters, corrupt federal agents, or modern-day narcotraficantes wreaking havoc on the US–Mexico border, English tells these stories with depth and insight. Combining first-rate reporting and the storytelling technique of a novelist, English takes his readers on a bloody but fascinating journey to the dark side of the American Dream./div

Payback's a Witch

Author : Lana Harper
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593336062
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Payback's a Witch written by Lana Harper and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chilling Adventures of Sabrina meets The L Word in this fresh, sizzling New York Times bestselling rom-com by Lana Harper. Emmy Harlow is a witch but not a very powerful one—in part because she hasn't been home to the magical town of Thistle Grove in years. Her self-imposed exile has a lot to do with a complicated family history and a desire to forge her own way in the world, and only the very tiniest bit to do with Gareth Blackmoore, heir to the most powerful magical family in town and casual breaker of hearts and destroyer of dreams. But when a spellcasting tournament that her family serves as arbiters for approaches, it turns out the pull of tradition (or the truly impressive parental guilt trip that comes with it) is strong enough to bring Emmy back. She's determined to do her familial duty; spend some quality time with her best friend, Linden Thorn; and get back to her real life in Chicago. On her first night home, Emmy runs into Talia Avramov—an all-around badass adept in the darker magical arts—who is fresh off a bad breakup . . . with Gareth Blackmoore. Talia had let herself be charmed, only to discover that Gareth was also seeing Linden—unbeknownst to either of them. And now she and Linden want revenge. Only one question stands: Is Emmy in? But most concerning of all: Why can't she stop thinking about the terrifyingly competent, devastatingly gorgeous, wickedly charming Talia Avramov?

Payback

Author : G. W. Trompf
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521416914
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Payback written by G. W. Trompf and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-07-14 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this ambitious study, the first monograph on religion and "the logic of retribution," Professor Trompf shows how various aspects of "payback," both negative and positive, provide the best indices to an understanding of Melanesian views of life. The book explores the reasons why people "pay back" and opens up a whole new dimension in the cross-cultural study of human consciousness. The author conducts his readers through the most complex anthropological pageant on earth, illustrating his arguments from western New Guinea to Fiji.

Payback

Author : Larry Goldsmith
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1669860922
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (698 download)

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Download or read book Payback written by Larry Goldsmith and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2023-04-10 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author Larry Goldsmith has created a story of a morally strong-willed woman much like the biblical character Joseph in that she survives her fateful situation to become a heroine. Hanna is a coming-of-age college student who must face a life-threatening situation. Treachery and deceit become the recipe for a good romance mystery. Mama’s husband enters a Chicago area hospital for routine medical tests and is allegedly killed by Hanna’s father due to medical malpractice. Stricken with grief, the widow plans revenge against the doctor who killed her husband. While murder is not on the menu, Mama devises a plan to cause the doctor to feel the pain of losing a loved one. She plans to take her revenge on an unsuspecting Hanna. Like Joseph in the Bible, Hanna not only survives being in a strange and foreign environment but because of her integrity is elevated to a position of a trusted confidant. In the end, Hanna finds the life that she desires and becomes the master of her own fate. The reader will discover that there is more than one payback in the story. There are the planned paybacks and ones created by fate. There is a lesson to be learned as the characters forgive those who wronged them, and in doing so, begin to move forward living their lives again. Author’s previous novels: Bashert and Marc Marci

A Radical Journey to the Higher Country

Author : Mark VanSkiver
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (924 download)

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Download or read book A Radical Journey to the Higher Country written by Mark VanSkiver and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2024-05-15 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sermon on the Mount ends with the words, "And when Jesus finished these sayings, the crowds were astonished at his teaching." For over two millennia, the astonishing words of Jesus from the Sermon Mount have transformed the lives of incalculable numbers of people living obediently to the way of kingdom life proclaimed by the Lord. Jesus knew full well the power of His words during His earthly ministry and prophesied, "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words will never pass away." As readers embark on A Radical Journey to the Higher Country, they will travel with brothers and sisters--prophets, poets, and mystics past and present--who have been transformed by the power of the Messiah's astonishing words from the Sermon on the Mount and throughout the New Testament. A tapestry of noted voices pertaining to the themes of kingdom life, revealed by Jesus in the great sermon, is weaved carefully in this devotional format to encourage every follower of Jesus. As travelers journey upward to the higher country by way of guideposts and waypoints, they will arrive at the summit of the Sermon Mount, finding strength and empowerment to live intentionally, by the grace of God, to illuminate the way of Jesus in this turbulent world.

The White Peril

Author : Sean Brawley
Publisher : UNSW Press
ISBN 13 : 9780868402789
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book The White Peril written by Sean Brawley and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study surveying the changing positions towards Asian migration in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the US between 1919 and 1978. The volume examines the foreign policy choices and relations of the four nations and how their desire to maintain policies of Asian exclusion shaped regional and inte

Outrageous Fortune

Author : William Ian Miller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197530702
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Outrageous Fortune written by William Ian Miller and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-02 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, William Ian Miller offers his reflections on the perverse consequences, indeed often the opposite of intended effects, of so-called 'good things'. Noted for his remarkable erudition, wit, and playful pessimism, Miller here ranges over topics from personal disasters to literary and national ones. Drawing on a truly immense store of knowledge encompassing literature, philosophy, theology, and history, he excavates the evidence of human anxieties around scarcity in all its forms (from scarcity of food to luck to where we stand in the eyes of others caught in a game of musical chairs we often do not even know we are playing). With wit and sensitivity, along with a large measure of fearless self-scrutiny, he points to and invites us to recognize the gloomy, neurotic, despondent tendencies of reasonably sentient human life. The book is a careful examination of negative beliefs, inviting an experience of bleak fellow-feeling among the author, the reader and many a hapless soul across the centuries. Just what makes you more nervous, he asks, a run of good luck, or a run of bad?

Solid Ranking

Author : Lasse Smith
Publisher : 8Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Solid Ranking written by Lasse Smith and published by 8Publishing. This book was released on with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solid Ranking: Search Engine Optimization will deliver a lot of great tips without making it too complex. The ebook is written for non-geek readers. I will show you… - How to rank the right way. - How you get stable rankings. - How to build a strong Internet presence. - How SEO can work with branding and social media. - How to rank locally. - How SEO can be less time consuming. - How to create great content. - Why quality content is the way forward. - Why SEO is a long term investment. The ebook contains everything you need from what you need to avoid with SEO, how to optimize your website to how you integrate SEO and automate it in your day to day operations. The ebook will be worth its investment and will be updated on a regularly basis with new tips and changes to the industry.

Finance

Author : Frank J. Fabozzi
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470486155
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Finance written by Frank J. Fabozzi and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-05-13 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FINANCE Financial managers and investment professionals need a solid foundation in finance principles and applications in order to make the best decisions in today's ever-changing financial world. Written by the experienced author team of Frank Fabozzi and Pamela Peterson Drake, Finance examines the essential elements of this discipline and makes them understandable to a wide array of individuals, from seasoned professionals looking to fine-tune their financial skills to newcomers seeking genuine guidance through the dynamic world of finance. Divided into four comprehensive parts, this reliable resource opens with an informative introduction to the basic tools of investing and financing decision-making financial mathematics and financial analysis (Part I). From here, you'll become familiar with the fundamentals of capital market theory, including financial markets, financial intermediaries, and regulators of financial activities (Part II). You'll also gain a better understanding of interest rates, bond and stock valuation, asset pricing theory, and derivative instruments in this section. Part III moves on to detail decision-making within a business enterprise. Topics touched upon here include capital budgeting that is, whether or not to invest in specific long-lived projects and capital structure. Management of current assets and risk management are also addressed. By covering the basics of investment decision-making, Part IV skillfully wraps up this accessible overview of finance. Beginning with the determination of an investment objective, this part proceeds to demonstrate portfolio theory and performance evaluation, and also takes the time to outline techniques for managing equity and bond portfolios as well as discuss the best ways to use derivatives in the portfolio management process. Filled with in-depth insights and practical advice, Finance puts this field in perspective. And while a lot of ground is covered in this book, this information will help you appreciate and understand the complex financial issues that today's companies and investors constantly face.

The Video Movie Guide 2001

Author : Mick Martin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780345420992
Total Pages : 1602 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Video Movie Guide 2001 written by Mick Martin and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 1602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents brief reviews of more than nineteen thousand films and other videos that are available at rental stores and through mail order, arranged alphabetically by title; also includes actor and director indexes.

Mining Economics and Strategy

Author : Ian C. Runge
Publisher : SME
ISBN 13 : 9780873351652
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Mining Economics and Strategy written by Ian C. Runge and published by SME. This book was released on 1998 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will help direct mining operations through the use of innovative economic strategies. The text covers what is meant by a cost-effective mining scheme, the economics of information, and the procedures for rational evaluation of uncertain projects.