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Stealing People

Author : Robert Wilson
Publisher : Europa Editions
ISBN 13 : 1609453247
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Stealing People written by Robert Wilson and published by Europa Editions. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Around the world, the children of the rich are disappearing . . . A chilling thriller starring kidnapping expert Charles Boxer, “a great character” (Kirkus Reviews). Kidnapping expert Charles Boxer is contemplating retirement. He’s found a measure of contentment, even as a mystery from his own past gnaws at his sense of justice. Meanwhile, his ex-wife, Mercy, balances a complicated personal life with an even more precarious professional one in the woefully under-resourced metropolitan police department. But both are suddenly pulled back into action when six children of ultrawealthy families vanish—families from India, China, Russia, Australia, Germany, and the United States—taken by a ruthlessly efficient organization with a single astonishing demand. Trapped, off-balance, and with little left to lose, they plunge into a cauldron of warring intelligence agencies, morally destitute billionaires, and human traffickers, coming finally to a fateful reckoning that will forever change them—in this smart, suspenseful thriller by a Gold Dagger and Gumshoe Award–winning author. “A great character whose emotional trials are exciting to follow.” —Kirkus Reviews

Stealing Fire

Author : Steven Kotler
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062429671
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book Stealing Fire written by Steven Kotler and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Bestseller CNBC and Strategy + Business Best Business Book of the Year It’s the biggest revolution you’ve never heard of, and it’s hiding in plain sight. Over the past decade, Silicon Valley executives like Eric Schmidt and Elon Musk, Special Operators like the Navy SEALs and the Green Berets, and maverick scientists like Sasha Shulgin and Amy Cuddy have turned everything we thought we knew about high performance upside down. Instead of grit, better habits, or 10,000 hours, these trailblazers have found a surprising short cut. They're harnessing rare and controversial states of consciousness to solve critical challenges and outperform the competition. New York Times bestselling author Steven Kotler and high performance expert Jamie Wheal spent four years investigating the leading edges of this revolution—from the home of SEAL Team Six to the Googleplex, the Burning Man festival, Richard Branson’s Necker Island, Red Bull’s training center, Nike’s innovation team, and the United Nations’ Headquarters. And what they learned was stunning: In their own ways, with differing languages, techniques, and applications, every one of these groups has been quietly seeking the same thing: the boost in information and inspiration that altered states provide. Today, this revolution is spreading to the mainstream, fueling a trillion dollar underground economy and forcing us to rethink how we can all lead richer, more productive, more satisfying lives. Driven by four accelerating forces—psychology, neurobiology, technology and pharmacology—we are gaining access to and insights about some of the most contested and misunderstood terrain in history. Stealing Fire is a provocative examination of what’s actually possible; a guidebook for anyone who wants to radically upgrade their life.

Stealing People's Names

Author : Simon J. Harrison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521026475
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Stealing People's Names written by Simon J. Harrison and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the people of Avatip, a community in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea, the most prestigious and valued forms of wealth are personal names. In this intriguing study, Simon Harrison analyzes the significance of names in the context of Avatip ritual, cosmology, and concepts of the person, and shows how the Avatip system of names parallels the gift-exchange systems of many other Melanesian societies. In ritualized debates, which form the arena of Avatip political life, rival leaders and the groups they represent struggle in oratorical contests for the possession of strategic names, and as they do so, continually manipulate myth, ritual and cosmology. By exploiting the inner possibilities of this symbolically constituted economy, these competitive processes over the past century have been progressively transforming the political system from a relatively egalitarian type to one based on hereditary inequality and rank. The author offers a critique of the analytical separation of economy and the symbolic order, arguing that it obscures the processes of political evolution in Melanesia and disguises the fundamental similarities underlying the sociocultural diversity of the region.

The Tragedy of Stealing

Author : Dr D. K. Olukoya
Publisher : The Battle Cry Christian Ministries
ISBN 13 : 9789201109
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book The Tragedy of Stealing written by Dr D. K. Olukoya and published by The Battle Cry Christian Ministries. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you take something that is not yours, or you withhold the belongings of others, whether you evade prompt payment of debts or you extort from people. It is all stealing. This book highlights the reasons why people steal, the different kinds of stealing, and the consequences of stealing. It goes on to give us the prescriptions for overcoming stealing and what to do in order to come out of the cage of the spirit of stealing.

Stealing You Blind

Author : Detective K. A. Farner
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1440139547
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Stealing You Blind written by Detective K. A. Farner and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-04-24 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Federal Trade Commissions yearly report for 2007 stated that over 30 million people in the United States were victimized by some type of fraudulent crime. Over 9 million people saw their personal identities stolen and used by a fraud perpetrator. Millions of others---including businesses---saw their financial accounts compromised by a fraud perpetrator. Strictly speaking, fraud is big business. Are you one of its customers? Everyone is vulnerable to some type of fraudulent crime, but you can take the steps necessary to avoid becoming a victim. Based on actual events, cases, and investigations, Stealing You Blind, describes numerous fraudulent criminal activities taking place today in the United States and throughout the rest of the world, and offers you important tips and advice on how to reduce your susceptibility to such crimes. Drawing upon years of experience as a fraud detective, K.A. Farner reveals some key components of many fraud schemes. The crimes discussed include: Identity theft Internet loan scams Credit card theft Internet auction scams Check fraud And much more Remember: knowledge is power! Arm yourself with the facts and minimize your chances of falling for one of these crimes with Stealing You Blind.

Stealing from the People: The big feast, soldier, judge, banker, civil servant

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Stealing from the People: The big feast, soldier, judge, banker, civil servant written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Stealing Benefacio's Roses

Author : Martín Prechtel
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1556435878
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (564 download)

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Download or read book Stealing Benefacio's Roses written by Martín Prechtel and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2006-06-07 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the acclaimed Secrets of The Talking Jaguar and Long Life, Honey in the Heart, this is an expansive, lyrical novel in the tradition of indigenous oral storytelling. Based on the author's many years of living in a Guatemalan village, Stealing Benefacio's Roses interweaves dramatic recountings of village life and the political horrors of civil war with lyric retellings of sacred Mayan myths. The story shifts expertly from timeless, with archetypal characters like Raggedy Boy and the goddess known as the Water-Skirted Beauty, to timely in the book's striking first-person narrative set in the 1980s. Prechtel shows how ancient myths can become a part of life for everyone and help nurture spiritual survival in the modern world. Though it comes third in sequence with the author's other two books, Stealing Benefacio's Roses also stands on its own as a classic work of spiritual seeking and adventure.

Stealing with Style

Author : Emyl Jenkins
Publisher : Algonquin Books
ISBN 13 : 1565128427
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (651 download)

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Download or read book Stealing with Style written by Emyl Jenkins and published by Algonquin Books. This book was released on 2006-06-30 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sterling Glass has built a nice appraisal business in her small Virginia town. She's sought after to examine antiques, research their history, present her clients with approximate values, and help them distinguish good antiques from not so good ones. And when family skeletons are unearthed among the heirlooms, she is the soul of discretion. It's a world she navigates with ease. But that's before she's called in to examine a diamond brooch found tucked inside an oven mitt over at the Salvation Army thrift store. And before the appraisal of an extremely modest estate turns up a tea urn—hidden inside a basket—worth at least fifty grand. Things aren't adding up, and Sterling, never one to let go of loose ends, starts asking questions. It's not long before she uncovers an intricate plot involving a slew of antique pieces, the oldest families in Leemont, some sophisticated scammers, crooked antiques dealers, and shifty people at the best New York auction houses. Add to that one elderly man who's just trying to preserve his family's treasured collection of bronze and ivory Art Deco sculptures, and suddenly Sterling finds herself ensnared in a mystery laced with greed, deceit, and danger. Stealing with Style, the first in the Sterling Glass series, introduces a writer of great wit who has a grand sense of the mystery hidden in our most treasured possessions.

The Steal

Author : Rachel Shteir
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101516283
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Steal written by Rachel Shteir and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of shoplifting, revealing the roots of our modern dilemma. Rachel Shteir's The Steal is the first serious study of shoplifting, tracking the fascinating history of this ancient crime. Dismissed by academia and the mainstream media and largely misunderstood, shoplifting has become the territory of moralists, mischievous teenagers, tabloid television, and self-help gurus. But shoplifting incurs remarkable real-life costs for retailers and consumers. The "crime tax"-the amount every American family loses to shoplifting-related price inflation-is more than $400 a year. Shoplifting cost American retailers $11.7 billion in 2009. The theft of one $5.00 item from Whole Foods can require sales of hundreds of dollars to break even. The Steal begins when shoplifting entered the modern record as urbanization and consumerism made London into Europe's busiest mercantile capital. Crossing the channel to nineteenth-century Paris, Shteir tracks the rise of the department store and the pathologizing of shoplifting as kleptomania. In 1960s America, shoplifting becomes a symbol of resistance when the publication of Abbie Hoffman's Steal This Book popularizes shoplifting as an antiestablishment act. Some contemporary analysts see our current epidemic as a response to a culture of hyper-consumerism; others question whether its upticks can be tied to economic downturns at all. Few provide convincing theories about why it goes up or down. Just as experts can't agree on why people shoplift, they can't agree on how to stop it. Shoplifting has been punished by death, discouraged by shame tactics, and protected against by high-tech surveillance. Shoplifters have been treated by psychoanalysis, medicated with pharmaceuticals, and enforced by law to attend rehabilitation groups. While a few individuals have abandoned their sticky-fingered habits, shoplifting shows no signs of slowing. In The Steal, Shteir guides us through a remarkable tour of all things shoplifting-we visit the Woodbury Commons Outlet Mall, where boosters run rampant, watch the surveillance footage from Winona Ryder's famed shopping trip, and learn the history of antitheft technology. A groundbreaking study, The Steal shows us that shoplifting in its many guises-crime, disease, protest-is best understood as a reflection of our society, ourselves.

A Treatise on the Criminal Law of the State of Michigan

Author : Alexander Ralston Tiffany
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book A Treatise on the Criminal Law of the State of Michigan written by Alexander Ralston Tiffany and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 1228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Why Usually Honest People Steal

Author : Will Cupchik
Publisher : Booklocker.Com Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781896342108
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (421 download)

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Download or read book Why Usually Honest People Steal written by Will Cupchik and published by Booklocker.Com Incorporated. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over 39 years, psychologist Dr. Will Cupchik has investigated the atypical theft behavior (shoplifting, fraud, etc.) of usually honest and generally well functioning adults. This book includes his latest (2013) study's extensive findings that provide keen insights into the sorts of personal histories, personality traits and ways of operating in the world that can help precipitate theft behavior. Also included are unique, practical tools specifically developed to help successfully assess and treat these individuals.

Stealing Home

Author : J. Torres
Publisher : Kids Can Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1525303341
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (253 download)

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Download or read book Stealing Home written by J. Torres and published by Kids Can Press Ltd. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping graphic novel that tells a boy’s experience in a WWII Japanese internment camp, and the lessons that baseball teaches him. Sandy Saito is a happy boy who’s obsessed with baseball — especially the Asahi team, the pride of his community. But when the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, his life, like that of every North American of Japanese descent, changes forever. Forced to move to a remote internment camp, he and his family cope as best they can. And though life at the camp is difficult, Sandy finds solace in baseball, where there’s always the promise of possibilities. Through his experience, Sandy comes to realize that life is a lot like baseball. It’s about dealing with whatever is thrown at you, however you can. And it’s about finding your way home.

A Complete Practical Treatise on Criminal Procedure, Pleading, and Evidence, in Indictable Cases

Author : John Frederick Archbold
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 976 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book A Complete Practical Treatise on Criminal Procedure, Pleading, and Evidence, in Indictable Cases written by John Frederick Archbold and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Compiled Laws of the State of Michigan, 1915, Comp., Arranged and Annotated Under Act 247 of 1913 and Act 232 of 1915

Author : Michigan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1882 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Compiled Laws of the State of Michigan, 1915, Comp., Arranged and Annotated Under Act 247 of 1913 and Act 232 of 1915 written by Michigan and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Codes of California as Amended and in Force at the Close of the Thirty-sixth Session of the Legislature, 1905 ...: Penal code with forms

Author : California
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1584 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book The Codes of California as Amended and in Force at the Close of the Thirty-sixth Session of the Legislature, 1905 ...: Penal code with forms written by California and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 1584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hustling Is Not Stealing

Author : John M. Chernoff
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022607465X
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Hustling Is Not Stealing written by John M. Chernoff and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-02-11 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While living in West Africa in the 1970s, John Chernoff recorded the stories of “Hawa,” a spirited and brilliant but uneducated woman whose insistence on being respected and treated fairly propelled her, ironically, into a life of marginality and luck as an “ashawo,” or bar girl. Rejecting traditional marriage options and cut off from family support, she is like many women in Africa who come to depend on the help they receive from one another, from boyfriends, and from the men they meet in bars and nightclubs. Refusing to see herself as a victim, Hawa embraces the freedom her lifestyle permits and seeks the broadest experience available to her. In Hustling Is Not Stealing and its follow-up, Exchange Is Not Robbery, a chronicle of exploitation is transformed by verbal art into an ebullient comedy. In Hustling Is Not Stealing, Hawa is a playful warrior struggling against circumstances in Ghana and Togo. In Exchange Is Not Robbery, Hawa returns to her native Burkina Faso, where she achieves greater control over her life but faces new difficulties. As a woman making sacrifices to live independently, Hawa sees her own situation become more complex as she confronts an atmosphere in Burkina Faso that is in some ways more challenging than the one she left behind, and the moral ambiguities of her life begin to intensify. Combining elements of folklore and memoir, Hawa’s stories portray the diverse social landscape of West Africa. Individually the anecdotes can be funny, shocking, or poignant; assembled together they offer a sweeping critical and satirical vision.

The Compiled Laws of the State of Michigan, 1897

Author : Michigan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1050 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Compiled Laws of the State of Michigan, 1897 written by Michigan and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 1050 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: