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The Powerful and the Damned

Author : Lionel Barber
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0753558211
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book The Powerful and the Damned written by Lionel Barber and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Extraordinary' TONY BLAIR 'Riveting' - PHILIPPE SANDS 'Brutal, brilliant and scurrilously funny' - MISHA GLENNY The real scoop isn't on the front page 'As FT editor, I was a privileged interlocutor to people in power around the world, each offering unique insights into high-level decision-making and political calculation, often in moments of crisis. These diaries offer snapshots of leadership in an age of upheaval...' Lionel Barber was Editor of the Financial Times for the tech boom, the global financial crisis, the rise of China, Brexit, and mainstream media's fight for survival in the age of fake news. In this unparalleled, no-holds-barred diary of life behind the headlines, he reveals the private meetings and exchanges with political leaders on the eve of referendums, the conversations with billionaire bankers facing economic meltdown, exchanges with Silicon Valley tech gurus and pleas from foreign emissaries desperate for inside knowledge, all against the backdrop of a wildly shifting media landscape. The result is a fascinating - and at times scathing - portrait of power in our modern age; who has it, what it takes and what drives the men and women with the world at their feet. Featuring close encounters with Trump, Cameron, Blair, Putin, Merkel and Mohammed Bin Salman and many more, this is a rare portrait of the people who continue to shape our world and who quite literally, make the news.

Too Famous

Author : Michael Wolff
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1250147638
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Too Famous written by Michael Wolff and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2021-10-19 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you can judge a book by its enemies, Too Famous could be an instant classic. Bestselling author of Fire and Fury and chronicler of the Trump White House Michael Wolff dissects more of the major monsters, media whores, and vainglorious figures of our time. His scalpel opens their lives, careers, and always equivocal endgames with the same vividness and wit he brought to his disemboweling of the former president. These brilliant and biting profiles form a mesmerizing portrait of the hubris, overreach, and nearly inevitable self-destruction of some of the most famous faces from the Clinton era through the Trump years. When the mighty fall, they do it with drama and with a dust cloud of gossip. This collection pulls from new and unpublished work—recent reporting about Tucker Carlson, Jared Kushner, Harvey Weinstein, Ronan Farrow, and Jeffrey Epstein—and twenty years of coverage of the most notable egomaniacs of the time—among them, Hillary Clinton, Michael Bloomberg, Andrew Cuomo, Rudy Giuliani, Arianna Huffington, Roger Ailes, Boris Johnson, and Rupert Murdoch—creating a lasting statement on the corrosive influence of fame. Ultimately, this is an examination of how the quest for fame, notoriety, and power became the driving force of culture and politics, the drug that alters all public personalities. And how their need, their desperation, and their ruthlessness became the toxic grease that keeps the world spinning. You know the people here by name and reputation, but it’s guaranteed that after this book you will never see them the same way again or fail to recognize the scorched earth the famous leave behind them.

The Book of the Damned

Author : Charles Fort
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
ISBN 13 : 1613106424
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book The Book of the Damned written by Charles Fort and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Time travel, UFOs, mysterious planets, stigmata, rock-throwing poltergeists, huge footprints, bizarre rains of fish and frogs-nearly a century after Charles Fort's Book of the Damned was originally published, the strange phenomenon presented in this book remains largely unexplained by modern science. Through painstaking research and a witty, sarcastic style, Fort captures the imagination while exposing the flaws of popular scientific explanations. Virtually all of his material was compiled and documented from reports published in reputable journals, newspapers and periodicals because he was an avid collector. Charles Fort was somewhat of a recluse who spent most of his spare time researching these strange events and collected these reports from publications sent to him from around the globe. This was the first of a series of books he created on unusual and unexplained events and to this day it remains the most popular. If you agree that truth is often stranger than fiction, then this book is for you"--Taken from Good Reads website.

Damned

Author : Chuck Palahniuk
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
ISBN 13 : 0385671113
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (856 download)

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Download or read book Damned written by Chuck Palahniuk and published by Doubleday Canada. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Think adolescence is hell? You have no idea... Welcome to Dante's Inferno, by way of The Breakfast Club, from the mind of American fiction's most brilliant troublemaker. "Death, like life, is what you make out of it." So says Madison, the whip-tongued 11-year-old narrator of Damned, Chuck Palahniuk's subversive homage to the young adult genre. Madison is abandoned at her Swiss boarding school over Christmas while her parents are off touting their new film projects and adopting more orphans. Over the holidays she dies of a marijuana overdose--and the next thing she knows, she's in Hell. This is the afterlife as only Chuck Palahniuk could imagine it: a twisted inferno inspired by both the most extreme and mundane of human evils, where The English Patient plays on repeat and roaming demons devour sinners limb by limb. However, underneath Madison's sad teenager affect there is still a child struggling to accept not only the events of her dysfunctional life, but also the truth about her death. For Madison, though, a more immediate source of comfort lies in the motley crew of young sinners she meets during her first days in Hell. With the help of Archer, Babette, Leonard, and Patterson, she learns to navigate Hell--and discovers that she'd rather be mortal and deluded and stupid with those she loves than perfect and alone.

Circus of the Damned

Author : Laurell K. Hamilton
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780515134483
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Circus of the Damned written by Laurell K. Hamilton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-09-24 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a powerful centuries-old vampire hits Anita Blake's town, a battle of the undead ensues.

Hairstyles of the Damned (Punk Planet Books)

Author : Joe Meno
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1936070294
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Hairstyles of the Damned (Punk Planet Books) written by Joe Meno and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debut novel from Akashic’s new imprint, Punk Planet Books. Also check out the smash hits How the Hula Girl Sings, Tender as Hellfire, and The Boy Detective Fails. “A funny, hard-rocking first-person tale of teenage angst and discovery.” —Booklist “Captures the loose, fun, recklessness of midwestern punk.” —MTV.com Hairstyles of the Damned is an honest, true-life depiction of growing up punk on Chicago’s south side: a study in the demons of racial intolerance, Catholic school conformism, and class repression. It is the story of the riotous exploits of Brian, a high school burnout, and his best friend, Gretchen, a punk rock girl fond of brawling. Based on the actual events surrounding a Chicago high school’s segregated prom, this work of fiction unflinchingly pursues the truth in discovering what it means to be your own person.

Servants of the Damned

Author : David Enrich
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0063142198
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (631 download)

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Download or read book Servants of the Damned written by David Enrich and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Bestseller "A powerful and important picture of how mega law firms distort justice."—David Cay Johnston, Washington Post The NYT's Business Investigations Editor reveals the dark side of American law: Delivering a "devastating" (Carol Leonnig) exposé of the astonishing yet shadowy power wielded by the world’s largest law firms, David Enrich traces how one firm shielded opioid makers, gun companies, big tobacco, Russian oligarchs, Fox News, the Catholic Church, and much of the Fortune 500; helped Donald Trump get elected, govern, and evade investigation; masterminded the conservative remaking of the courts . . . and make a killing along the way. In his acclaimed #1 bestseller Dark Towers, David Enrich presented the never-before-told saga of how Deutsche Bank became the global face of financial recklessness and criminality. Now Enrich turns his eye towards the world of “Big Law” and the nearly unchecked influence these firms wield to shield the wealthy and powerful—and bury their secrets. To tell this story, Enrich focuses on Jones Day, one of the world’s largest law firms. Jones Day’s narrative arc—founded in Cleveland in 1893, it became the first law firm to expand nationally and is now a global juggernaut with deep ties to corporate interests and conservative politics—is a powerful encapsulation of the changes that have swept the legal industry in recent decades. Since 2016, Jones Day has been in the spotlight for representing Donald Trump and his campaigns (and now his PACs)—and for the fleet of Jones Day attorneys who joined his administration, including White House Counsel Don McGahn. Jones Day helped Trump fend off the Mueller investigation and challenged Obamacare. Its once and future lawyers defended Trump’s Muslim ban and border policies and handled his judicial nominations. Jones Day even laid some of the legal groundwork for Trump to challenge the legitimacy of the 2020 election. But the Trump work is but one chapter in the firm’s checkered history. Jones Day, like many of its peers, have become highly effective enablers of the business world’s worst misbehavior. The firm has for decades represented Big Tobacco in its fight to avoid liability for its products. Jones Day worked tirelessly for the Catholic Church as it tried to minimize its sexual-abuse scandals. And for Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, as it sought to protect its right to make and market its dangerously addictive drug. And for Fox News as it waged war against employees who were the victims of sexual harassment and retaliation. And for Russian oligarchs as their companies sought to expand internationally. In this gripping and revealing new work of narrative nonfiction, Enrich makes the compelling central argument that law firms like Jones Day play a crucial yet largely hidden role in enabling and protecting powerful bad actors in our society, housing their darkest secrets, and earning billions in revenue for themselves.

The Damned

Author : Renée Ahdieh
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1984812602
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book The Damned written by Renée Ahdieh and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Instant New York Times bestselling sequel to The Beautiful. Now in paperback. Following the events of The Beautiful, Sébastien Saint Germain is now cursed and forever changed. The treaty between the Fallen and the Brotherhood has been broken, and war between the immortals seems imminent. The price of loving Celine was costly. But Celine has also paid a high price for loving Bastien. Still recovering from injuries sustained during a night she can't quite remember, her dreams are troubled. And she doesn't know she has inadvertently set into motion a chain of events that could lead to her demise and unveil a truth about herself she's not ready to learn. Forces hiding in the shadows have been patiently waiting for this moment. And just as Bastien and Celine begin to uncover the danger around them, they learn their love could tear them apart.

Dilvish, the Damned

Author : Roger Zelazny
Publisher : Del Rey
ISBN 13 : 9780345901750
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Dilvish, the Damned written by Roger Zelazny and published by Del Rey. This book was released on 1985-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

DĀGAHVOR. THE WHISPERS OF THE DAMNED

Author : Cole Perry Te Kanawa
Publisher : Cole Perry Te Kanawa
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (561 download)

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Download or read book DĀGAHVOR. THE WHISPERS OF THE DAMNED written by Cole Perry Te Kanawa and published by Cole Perry Te Kanawa. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raiñ and his companions have achieved the rank of Listeners of the Academy of Dāgahvor, where they continue to hone their magical abilities in relation to the five elements. But following the death of Master Eamon, Raiñ was faced with a fear that he had never expected: the fear of allowing darkness to take over his heart. Understanding that The Damned are the previous Children of The New Dawn, he knows he must help them regain the visions left by Dāgahvor to prevent Ræhˈta’s return. To do so, however, means accepting guidance from both his master’s and friends—guidance that comes with its own complications. When the forces of The Dark Army come for Raiñ and his group, the situation becomes even more challenging to navigate. The question remains: is Raiñ able to embrace this guidance before it becomes too late?

Attorney for the Damned

Author : Clarence Darrow
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226136515
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Attorney for the Damned written by Clarence Darrow and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Courtroom summations by “one of America’s greatest lawyers . . . this book is better than an entire college course in Rhetoric” (Thomas Geoghegan, author of The Secret Lives of Citizens and Only One Thing Can Save Us). A famous defender of the underdog, the oppressed, and the powerless, Clarence Darrow (1857–1938) is one of the true legends of the American legal system. His cases were many and various, but all were marked by his unequivocal sense of justice, as well as his penchant for representing infamous and unpopular clients, such as the Chicago thrill-killers Leopold and Loeb; Ossian Sweet, the African American doctor charged with murder after fighting off a violent, white mob in Detroit; and John T. Scopes, the teacher on trial in the famous Scopes Monkey Trial. Published for the first time in 1957, Attorney for the Damned collects Darrow’s most influential summations and supplements them with scene-setting explanations and comprehensive notes by Arthur Weinberg. Darrow confronts issues that remain relevant over half a century after his death: First Amendment rights, capital punishment, and the separation of church and state. With an insightful forward by Justice William O. Douglas, this volume serves as a powerful reminder of Darrow’s relevance today. “Clarence Darrow [was] perhaps the most effective courtroom opponent of cant, bigotry, and special privilege that our country has produced . . . The ghastly comedy of his deadpan interrogation of William Jennings Bryan on the origin of man in the Scopes case is particularly recommended.” —The New Yorker “More illuminating as well as more dramatic than anything that has yet appeared about [Darrow].” —Herald Tribune Book Review

The Saved and the Damned

Author : Prof Thomas (Professor of Church History Kaufmann, University of Goettingen)
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198841043
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book The Saved and the Damned written by Prof Thomas (Professor of Church History Kaufmann, University of Goettingen) and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-26 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Kaufmann, the leading European scholar of the Reformation, argues that the main motivations behind the Reformation rest in religion itself. The Reformation began far from Europe's traditional political, economic, and cultural power centres, and yet it threw the whole continent into turmoil. There has been intense speculation over the last century focusing on the political and social causes that lay at the root of this revolution. Thomas Kaufmann, one of the world's leading experts on the Reformation, sees the most important drivers for what happened in religion itself. The reformers were principally concerned with the question of salvation. It could all have ended with the pope's condemnation of Luther and his teaching. But Luther believed the pope was condemned to eternal damnation, and this was the root cause of the great split to come. Hatred of the damned drove people to take up arms, while countless numbers left their homes far behind and carried the Reformation message to the furthest corners of the earth in the hope of salvation. In The Saved and the Damned, Thomas Kaufmann presents a dramatic overview of how Europe was transformed by the seismic shock of the Reformation--and of how its aftershocks reverberate right down to the present day.

Reading the Bible with the Damned

Author : Bob Ekblad
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664235291
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Reading the Bible with the Damned written by Bob Ekblad and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2005-09-19 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the challenges that both the churched and the unchurched have faced regarding giving and receiving the word of God, Bob Ekblad encourages us all to learn to read the Bible together as a whole. In this compelling book, he reflects on how Christians have often found it difficult to proclaim God's good news to every realm of society, while those who have needed it most have frequently deemed themselves unworthy due to social circumstances or sinfulness. In Reading the Bible with the Damned, Ekblad offers concrete advice on how to bridge this gap through a variety of insights ultimately leading to spiritual transformation. This book is full of examples of how Scripture changes lives for those who attend Bible studies and for those who lead them, offering practical suggestions on many passages from the Old and New Testaments.

Ramses the Damned: The Reign of Osiris

Author : Anne Rice
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 1101970332
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Ramses the Damned: The Reign of Osiris written by Anne Rice and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gilded adventures of Ramses the Damned, iconic creation of the legendary bestselling author, continue in this breathtakingly suspenseful tale of a titanic supernatural power unleashed on the eve of war. A pharaoh made immortal by a mysterious and powerful elixir, Ramses the Great became counselor and lover to some of Egypt's greatest and most powerful rulers before he was awakened from centuries of slumber to the mystifying and dazzling world of Edwardian England. Having vanquished foes both human and supernatural, he's found love with the beautiful heiress Julie Stratford, daughter of Lawrence Stratford, the slain archeologist who discovered his tomb. Now, with the outbreak of a world war looming, Ramses and those immortals brought forth from the mists of history by his resurrection will face their greatest test yet. Russian assassins bearing weapons of immense power have assembled under one command: all those who loved Lawrence Stratford must die. From the glowing jewels at their necks comes an incredible supernatural force: the power to bring statues to life. As Ramses and his allies, including the immortal queens Cleopatra and Bektaten, gather together to battle these threats, Ramses reveals that the great weapon may have roots in an ancient Egyptian ritual designed to render pharaohs humble before Osiris, the god of the underworld. The resulting journey will take them across storm-tossed seas and into the forests of northern Russia, where they will confront a terrifying collision of tortured political ambitions and religious fervor held in thrall to a Godlike power. But the true answers they seek will lie beyond the border between life and death, within realms that defy the imagination of even an immortal such as Ramses the Great. In Ramses the Damned: The Reign of Osiris, Anne Rice, revered and beloved storyteller ("queen of gothic lit, the maestro of the monstrous and the diva of the devious" --The Philadelphia Inquirer), in collaboration with her son, acclaimed bestselling novelist Christopher Rice ("a magician; a master" --Peter Straub), bring us another thrilling, seductive tale of high adventure, romance, history, and suspense. AN ANCHOR ORIGINAL

The Anointed, The Elect, and The Damned!

Author : The Akurians
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1438948107
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book The Anointed, The Elect, and The Damned! written by The Akurians and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-04-07 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Most High Lord God of All Creation, The Most High Supreme Lord of Spirits, the God of Ish (Adam) and Isha (Eve), the God of Enoch, the God of Noe (Noah), the God of Shem, the God of Melchizedek, the God of Audreah, the God of Abraham, the God of Ishmael, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob (Israel) will personally communicate with YOU, personally! Be prepared to understand YOU have been lied to all your life about everything; and to possess True Spiritual Knowledge you have been deliberately denied. The Most High, Himself, will testify to you that each and every word, statement and claim in this book is absolute, irrevocable, consistently verifiable, indispensable and indisputable TRUTH!

Keeper of the Damned

Author : KEITH JONES
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1491840307
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (918 download)

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Download or read book Keeper of the Damned written by KEITH JONES and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2014-01-13 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lars returns to the city of Ragal, eager to see Amelia again and to discover what he can learn there. Since the attack of the Draknor many people have been displaced and formed roving groups of bandits, stealing and killing to survive, making the land of Gravick a very dangerous place for travellers. In Ragal he once again finds himself visting the crystal dome in his dreams. The souls trapped there seem more distraught than usual and what Lars discovers from them makes him determined to find a way to set them free. Meanwhile, across the oceans, an army sets sail, intent on destroying Ragal and reclaiming their birthright. King Zief, learning of their approach to his lands, feels the need to have Ragal better protected. Keeping this news secret Zief plans for the coming battle. As Lars continues with his lessons the king also places on him the burden of perfecting weapons that have already killed men far more experienced in that field than him. With his lessons, his determination to free the souls, and now the weapons to try and improve, Lars also has to deal with deciet and lies form House Corban and his beloved Amelia. And war his coming, which Lars will be drawn into whether he wishes it or not. If Ragal is to survive, Lars must work with people he has come to despise and try and force a peace between them.

The Queen of the Damned

Author : Anne Rice
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307575896
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book The Queen of the Damned written by Anne Rice and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2010-11-17 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “With The Queen of the Damned, Anne Rice has created universes within universes, traveling back in time as far as ancient, pre-pyramidic Egypt and journeying from the frozen mountain peaks of Nepal to the crowded, sweating streets of southern Florida.”—Los Angeles Times In a feat of virtuoso storytelling, Anne Rice unleashes Akasha, the queen of the damned, who has risen from a six-thousand-year sleep to let loose the powers of the night. Akasha has a marvelously devious plan to “save” mankind and destroy the vampire Lestat—in this extraordinarily sensual novel of the complex, erotic, electrifying world of the undead. Praise for The Queen of the Damned “Mesmerizing . . . a wonderful web of dark-side mythology.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Imaginative . . . intelligently written . . . This is popular fiction of the highest order.”—USA Today “A tour de force.”—The Boston Globe