Download or read book Conversations With an Assassin written by Antony Cummins and published by Wordclay. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WARNING: This book contains very strong opinions and you may be offended. Do you think that there is just something wrong with the way we are living and the direction we are heading? Are you in disagreement with the system and the way your government is run? We are all starting to ask questions now, questions that need answers. While this book does not claim to give those answers it will make you rethink your questions. Conversations with an Assassin is a set of 32 short essays that analyse modern society and the way we believe we should live. This book aims to be thought provoking and mind exercising in what could be said to be a stagnant world. Each essay will investigate an element of our physical and psychological world helping us to live as better people and to identify the false elements and self indulgence that have penetrated our lives, hopefully leading you on, to live fuller and more productive lifestyles. Set in a fast flowing narrative involving The Assassin and his Apprentice, Acmed. The Master Assassin instructs his apprentice on social ills and the failures of modern living whilst being involved in training and fictional assassinations. Overall this book will help you deal with death, loss, stress and the struggles of everyday life allowing you to open your mind to an alternative mental existence that you can lead, if you so choose.
Download or read book The Angel and the Assassin written by Donna Jackson Nakazawa and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling story of scientific detective work and medical potential that illuminates the newly understood role of microglia—an elusive type of brain cell that is vitally relevant to our everyday lives. “The rarest of books: a combination of page-turning discovery and remarkably readable science journalism.”—Mark Hyman, MD, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Food: What the Heck Should I Eat? NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY WIRED Until recently, microglia were thought to be helpful but rather boring: housekeeper cells in the brain. But a recent groundbreaking discovery has revealed that they connect our physical and mental health in surprising ways. When triggered—and anything that stirs up the immune system in the body can activate microglia, including chronic stressors, trauma, and viral infections—they can contribute to memory problems, anxiety, depression, and Alzheimer’s. Under the right circumstances, however, microglia can be coaxed back into being angelic healers, able to make brain repairs in ways that help alleviate symptoms and hold the promise to one day prevent disease. With the compassion born of her own experience, award-winning journalist Donna Jackson Nakazawa illuminates this newly understood science, following practitioners and patients on the front lines of treatments that help to “reboot” microglia. In at least one case, she witnesses a stunning recovery—and in others, significant relief from pressing symptoms, offering new hope to the tens of millions who suffer from mental, cognitive, and physical health issues. Hailed as a “riveting,” “stunning,” and “visionary,” The Angel and the Assassin offers us a radically reconceived picture of human health and promises to change everything we thought we knew about how to heal ourselves.
Download or read book The Patient Assassin written by Anita Anand and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “compelling [and] vivid” (The New York Times Book Review) true story of a man who claimed to be a survivor of a 1919 British massacre in India, his elaborate twenty-year plan for revenge, and the mix of truth and legend that made him a hero to hundreds of millions. When Sir Michael O’Dwyer, the Lieutenant Governor of Punjab, ordered Brigadier General Reginald Dyer to Amritsar, he wanted Dyer to bring the troublesome city to heel. Sir Michael had become increasingly alarmed at the effect Gandhi was having on his province, as well as recent demonstrations, strikes, and shows of Hindu-Muslim unity. All these things, to Sir Michael, were a precursor to a second Indian revolt. What happened next shocked the world. An unauthorized gathering in the Jallianwallah Bagh in Amritsar in April 1919 became the focal point for Sir Michael’s law enforcers. Dyer marched his soldiers into the walled public park, blocking the only exit. Then, without issuing any order to disperse, he instructed his men to open fire, turning their guns on the crowd, which numbered in the thousands and included women and children. The soldiers continued firing for ten minutes, stopping only when they ran out of ammunition. According to legend, nineteen-year-old Sikh orphan Udham Singh was injured in the attack, and remained surrounded by the dead and dying until he was able to move the next morning. Then, he supposedly picked up a handful of blood-soaked earth, smeared it across his forehead, and vowed to kill the men responsible. The truth, as the author has discovered, is more complex—but no less dramatic. Award-winning journalist Anita Anand traced Singh’s journey through Africa, the United States, and across Europe until, in March 1940, the young man finally arrived in front of O’Dwyer himself in a London hall ready to shoot him down. The Patient Assassin “mixes Tom Ripley’s con-man-for-all-seasons versatility with Edmond Dantès’s persistence” (The Wall Street Journal) and reveals the incredible but true story behind a legend that still endures today.
Download or read book The Substance of a Conversation with John Bellingham the Assassin of the Late Right Hon Spencer Perceval On Sunday May 17 1812 the Day Previous to His Execution written by Daniel Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Confessions of an Economic Hit Man written by John Perkins and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2004-11-09 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perkins, a former chief economist at a Boston strategic-consulting firm, confesses he was an "economic hit man" for 10 years, helping U.S. intelligence agencies and multinationals cajole and blackmail foreign leaders into serving U.S. foreign policy and awarding lucrative contracts to American business.
Download or read book Assassin s Creed written by Brenden Fletcher and published by Ubiworkshop. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is Jot Soora? Devoted fiance of movie star Monima Das, gifted programmer at software giant MysoreTech, or deadly Assassin with a secret? When Jot stumbles into a layer of code deep in his company's new device, the discovery threatens his relationship, his job, and his life. It also reveals shocking links to an ancestral past that cause him to question everything he knows about himself. As he delves further into memories stored in his genetic makeup, he uncovers an age-old battle between The Templar Order and The Assassin Brotherhood, both of whom are racing to find a mysterious artifact buried in the past that has the power to alter the fate of all mankind!
Download or read book Samak the Ayyar written by and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adventures of Samak, a trickster-warrior hero of Persia’s thousand-year-old oral storytelling tradition, are beloved in Iran. Samak is an ayyar, a warrior who comes from the common people and embodies the ideals of loyalty, selflessness, and honor—a figure that recalls samurai, ronin, and knights yet is distinctive to Persian legend. His exploits—set against an epic background of palace intrigue, battlefield heroics, and star-crossed romance between a noble prince and princess—are as deeply rooted in Persian culture as are the stories of Robin Hood and King Arthur in the West. However, this majestic tale has remained little known outside Iran. Translated from the original Persian by Freydoon Rassouli and adapted by Prince of Persia creator Jordan Mechner, this timeless masterwork can now be enjoyed by English-speaking readers. A thrilling and suspenseful saga, Samak the Ayyar also offers a vivid portrait of Persia a thousand years ago. Within an epic quest narrative teeming with action and supernatural forces, it sheds light on the lives of ordinary people and their social worlds. This is the first complete English-language version of a treasure of world culture. The translation is grounded in the twelfth-century Persian text while paying homage to the dynamic culture of storytelling from which it arose.
Download or read book The Reporter Who Knew Too Much written by Mark Shaw and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-12-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was journalist Dorothy Kilgallen murdered for writing a tell-all book about the JFK assassination? Or was her death from an overdose of barbiturates combined with alcohol, as reported? Shaw believes Kilgallen's death has always been suspect, and unfolds a list of suspects ranging from Frank Sinatra to a Mafia don, while speculating on the possibilities of reopening the case.
Download or read book The Housewife Assassin s Manners Missiles and Mayhem written by Josie Brown and published by Signal Press. This book was released on 2022-11-18 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The clock is ticking as Acme covert operatives Donna and Jack Craig and their mission team traverse the country to take down the embedded Russian spies and their turned assets, who are sabotaging the United State’s missile grid.
Download or read book Grave Mercy written by Robin LaFevers and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2012 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fifteenth-century kingdom of Brittany, seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where she learns that the god of Death has blessed her with dangerous gifts--and a violent destiny.
Download or read book The Assassin s Doctor written by Robert K. Summers and published by Robert K. Summers. This book was released on 2014-01-29 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the story of Dr. Samuel A. Mudd's life, his early years growing up on his father's large tobacco plantation, his education, marriage, slave ownership, his involvement with John Wilkes Booth and the Lincoln assassination, his heroic work during a horrific yellow fever epidemic at Fort Jefferson, and his life after being pardoned until his death in 1883. John Wilkes Booth fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln on the evening of April 14, 1865 during a play at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C. Confident in his athletic ability, Booth leapt from the president’s box down to the stage, but landed hard and broke the shin bone in his left leg. He hobbled across the stage, through the back door of the theatre, mounted his horse, and rode hard out of the city into Southern Maryland, where he met up with a waiting co-conspirator, David Herold. As the two men rode through the night, Booth’s broken leg became more and more painful, so he told Herold to head for the farm of a young doctor he knew, 31-year-old Dr. Samuel Mudd, near Bryantown, Maryland, some 30 miles south of Washington. Booth had met Dr. Mudd a couple of times before. He had once even stayed overnight at the Mudd farm. Booth and Herold arrived at the Mudd farm just before dawn. Dr. Mudd admitted them to his farm house, put a splint on Booth’s leg, and let him rest in an upstairs bedroom. Booth and Herold left the farm later that day. Booth was shot and killed by Union Soldiers a few days later after being tracked into Virginia. Herold was taken alive. Dr. Mudd was later arrested for aiding Booth's escape. He claimed he didn't know the man with the broken leg was Booth, but the authorities didn't believe him. He and seven others were tried and convicted of conspiracy. The Military Commission found Dr. Mudd guilty by a 5-4 vote, meaning that four of the nine military judges thought him innocent. In a civilian trial requiring a unanimous verdict, he would have been freed. The four who had actually helped carry out the assassination were executed. Dr. Mudd and the other three were sent to the Fort Jefferson military prison located on a remote island in the Gulf of Mexico. One died there during a yellow fever epidemic in 1867. Dr. Mudd and the other two men were pardoned by President Andrew Johnson in early 1869. Johnson's pardon of Dr. Mudd said: "I am satisfied that the guilt found by the said judgment against Samuel A. Mudd was of receiving, entertaining, harboring, and concealing John Wilkes Booth and David E. Herold, with the intent to aid, abet and assist them in escaping from justice after the assassination of the late President of the United States, and not of any other or greater participation or complicity in said abominable crime." General August V. Kautz, one of the nine members of the Military Commission, had reached the same conclusion. After the trial, he wrote: Dr. Mudd attracted much interest and his guilt as an active conspirator was not clearly made out. His main guilt was the fact that he failed to deliver them, that is, Booth and Herold, to their pursuers. Most historians today agree with Johnson and Kautz - that Dr. Mudd had nothing to do with helping to plan or carry out the assassination of President Lincoln, but failed to turn Booth over to those hunting Booth when he could have done so.
Download or read book The Substance of a Conversation With John Bellingham the Assassin of the Late Right Hon Spencer Perceval written by Daniel Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Substance of a Conversation With John Bellingham, the Assassin of the Late Right Hon. Spencer Perceval: On Sunday, May 17, 1812, the Day Previous to His Execution The Conversation contained in the following pages is submitted to the Public at the request of several Friends of the Author, who conceived that, in addition to the interest with which any circumstances calculated to throw light on so dreadful a character might be received, some real benefit might, by the blessing of God, result from the publication. With the design of promoting still further such beneficial effect, he has ventured to offer some observations on what appears to him to have been the progress of sin in the criminals mind, as well as to suggest some remarks of a practical nature, on the whole of the extraordinary and melancholy case. The interview took place at the suggestion of a distinguished Member of Parliament, a friend of the late deeply lamented Chancellor of the Exchequer, who, having condescended to visit the Prisoner on the morning of that day, on a purely benevolent purpose, inquired of him whether a conference with the Author (who was at the time entirely ignorant of the communication) would be agreeable to him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Midnight Assassin written by Skip Hollandsworth and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller, The Midnight Assassin is a sweeping narrative history of a terrifying serial killer--America's first--who stalked Austin, Texas in 1885. In the late 1800s, the city of Austin, Texas was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated western outpost into a truly cosmopolitan metropolis. But beginning in December 1884, Austin was terrorized by someone equally as vicious and, in some ways, far more diabolical than London's infamous Jack the Ripper. For almost exactly one year, the Midnight Assassin crisscrossed the entire city, striking on moonlit nights, using axes, knives, and long steel rods to rip apart women from every race and class. At the time the concept of a serial killer was unthinkable, but the murders continued, the killer became more brazen, and the citizens' panic reached a fever pitch. Before it was all over, at least a dozen men would be arrested in connection with the murders, and the crimes would expose what a newspaper described as "the most extensive and profound scandal ever known in Austin." And yes, when Jack the Ripper began his attacks in 1888, London police investigators did wonder if the killer from Austin had crossed the ocean to terrorize their own city. With vivid historical detail and novelistic flair, Texas Monthly journalist Skip Hollandsworth brings this terrifying saga to life.
Download or read book Assassin s Game written by Ward Larsen and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A high-octane thriller from Ward Larsen, the author of The Perfect Assassin. David Slaton has a good life. He has a new wife and a house in the Virginia suburbs. But he also has a dark past. Slaton is a former kidon, the most lethal Israeli assassin ever created. After decades of work, a brilliant scientist has taken Iran to the threshold of its dream—a nuclear-tipped ballistic missile. Mossad must eliminate the man, but with a spy lurking high in its ranks there is only one option: bring back Slaton. The kidon has vowed to never kill again, but when his wife is attacked and forced to flee across Europe, events force his hand. Slaton plots to assassinate one of the most closely guarded men on earth. Success is improbable. Survival unlikely. Only when he learns the labyrinthine truth does Slaton see one high-stakes chance. A chance for an assassin's game . . . . At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book The Assassin s Destiny written by K L Jones and published by Kirsten Jones. This book was released on 2019-08-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are two facts in life. Birth and death. Everything else is just chance. Or is it destiny? As Mistral enters the second year of her apprenticeship to master Sight she begins to question whether it is what she truly wants. All that holds her to an unwanted future is the presence of her Mage, but when figures from his dark and violent past draw him away Mistral quickly becomes uncontrollable.
Download or read book Night of the Assassins written by Howard Blum and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A truly thrilling expose of the previously unknown Nazi assassination plot that could have changed history." — Edward Jay Epstein, New York Times bestselling author of The Assassination Chronicles The New York Times bestselling author returns with a tale as riveting and suspenseful as any thriller: the true story of the Nazi plot to kill the leaders of the United States, Great Britain, and the U.S.S.R. during World War II. The mission: to kill the three most important and heavily guarded men in the world. The assassins: a specially trained team headed by the killer known as The Most Dangerous Man in Europe. The stakes: nothing less than the future of the Western world. The year is 1943 and the three Allied leaders—Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin—are meeting for the first time at a top-secret conference in Tehran. But the Nazis have learned about the meeting and Hitler sees it as his last chance to turn the tide. Although the war is undoubtedly lost, the Germans believe that perhaps a new set of Allied leaders might be willing to make a more reasonable peace in its aftermath. And so a plan is devised—code name Operation Long Jump—to assassinate FDR, Churchill, and Stalin. Immediately, a highly trained, hand-picked team of Nazi commandos is assembled, trained, armed with special weapons, and parachuted into Iran. They have six days to complete the daring assignment before the statesmen will return home. With no margin for error and little time to spare, Mike Reilly, the head of FDR’s Secret Service detail—a man from a Montana silver mining town who describes himself as “an Irish cop with more muscle than brains”—must overcome his suspicions and instincts to work with a Soviet agent from the NKVD (the precursor to the KGB) to save the three most powerful men in the world. Filled with eight pages of black-and-white photographs, Night of the Assassins is a suspenseful true-life tale about an impossible mission, a ticking clock, and one man who stepped up to the challenge and prevented a world catastrophe.
Download or read book The Assassin s Destiny written by Megan Linski and published by Crystallite Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2023-02-24 with total page 911 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love becomes unchained. Ava-Marie Nothing can scare you when you’ve already died. Caught between the realm of the living and the dead, I’m not the same person I used to be. I’m darker, crazier… and nothing’s going to stop me from ruling over this prison. The merfolk key is linked to a legendary assassin, and Kallie might be the way to find it. If we’re going to save the Elves, my friends and I will have to resort to unsavory methods. I’m getting justice for my past, and taking revenge no matter what the consequences. My prophecy will test just how far I’m willing to go. If I truly want to stop the end of the world, we’ll have to go to the one place every inmate fears… Cellblock 9. Charlie The Warden nearly stole the love of my life away. I’m determined to protect what’s mine with everything in me. He thinks he can lock me in this cage, but I’m prepared to show him just what a villain can do. Our demigod powers grow stronger by the day, and soon, nothing will be able to contain us… contain me. There’s nothing I won’t do to fulfill my destiny. One way or another, we’re escaping the Institute, and raining hell down on whoever stands in our way. *** The Villain's Club descends into Cellblock 9 in the fourth installment of the Prison For Supernatural Offenders series. Dark romance and evil schemes ignite at a magical penitentiary full of vampires, shifters, witches, angels, and mermaids, where the Warden wages war and the inmates fight back. This series takes place in the Hidden Legends Universe, along with the Academy of Magical Creatures series, University of Sorcery series and the College of Witchcraft series. Each series stands on its own and can be read in any order. This is a full-length novel over 700 pages. Recommended reading age 18+ Become the villain and order today!
