Download or read book The Pain Merchants written by Janice Hardy and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2010 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young girl becomes a pawn in a political game when her uncanny, and dangerous, ability to shift pain between people turns out to be the only weapon she has to save her sister.
Download or read book Pain Merchants 3 written by Jack McDonald and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories aren't really about people. Stories are about events: Things that may happen to people. Characters in the stories are just thrown in to emphasize the events. Frank was just another character in a never-ending story of life. Then he dies, and life just goes on to the next character. And on. And on. And on, until there are no more characters to play. Then it becomes another story about something else.
Download or read book Pain Merchants written by Jack McDonald and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-06-21 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You never know who your friends are. You find out who your friends are. Frank Matterson needed friends he could trust to help him bring down the Organization. The list was short. Success depended on two things; the men he had to work with, and a lot of luck.
Download or read book Pain Merchants 2 written by Jack McDonald and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pain Merchants 2 takes the reader back to the events of the previous book to finish it off. Book One was only allowed three acts for special reasons. Two more acts will complete Book One before the reader is thrust into Book Two. Book Two is an extension of the Roller Coaster Ride. Here is where the ride takes on a totally new configuration.
Download or read book The Pain Merchants written by Amnesty International and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pain Merchants written by Jack McDonald and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pain Merchants: For many in the city of Chicago, it is a way of life. Willie Cullerman thought he was getting a normal job. He didn't know that he was also working for the Organization. But, a web had been spun many years before he got out of the Army. As it became harder, and harder for him to find suitable employment, Willie's life started falling apart around him. One day, he happened to run into an old friend from high school. When he told the friend that he was out of work, the guy introduced him to a person who hired him on the spot. That turned out to be an avenue to hell. Suddenly, he found himself caught up in a sinister Game. It was when Willie got his first contract to kill someone for the Organization that it made sense to him. That was when he realizes just what he'd stepped into. Willie saw where he needed to consider unemployment as another option.
Download or read book Merchants of Despair written by Robert Zubrin and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2012-02-28 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was a time when humanity looked in the mirror and saw something precious, worth protecting and fighting for—indeed, worth liberating. But now, we are beset on all sides by propaganda promoting a radically different viewpoint. According to this idea, human beings are a cancer upon the Earth, a horde of vermin whose aspirations and appetites are endangering the natural order. This is the core of antihumanism. Merchants of Despair traces the pedigree of this ideology and exposes its pernicious consequences in startling and horrifying detail. The book names the chief prophets and promoters of antihumanism over the last two centuries, from Thomas Malthus through Paul Ehrlich and Al Gore. It exposes the worst crimes perpetrated by the antihumanist movement, including eugenics campaigns in the United States and genocidal anti-development and population-control programs around the world. Combining riveting tales from history with powerful policy arguments, Merchants of Despair provides scientific refutations to all of antihumanism’s major pseudo-scientific claims, including its modern tirades against nuclear power, pesticides, population growth, biotech foods, resource depletion, and industrial development.
Download or read book Merchants of Truth written by Jill Abramson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gripping and definitive in-the-room account of the revolution that has swept the news industry over the last decade and reshaped our world. The last decade has seen the News industry face unprecedented change. The sometimes-century old institutions which were once the bastions of truth have had their dominance eroded by vast innovations in viral technology and, as millennial appetites force the industry to choose between principles of objectivity and impartiality, the survivors must confront the horrifying cost of their success: sexual scandal, fake news, the election of President Trump and the shaking of democracy. Taking us behind the scenes at four media titans - BuzzFeed, VICE, The New York Times and The Washington Post - Abramson reveals the human drama behind this shift: one involving deal-making tycoons, thrusting reporters, hard-bitten editors, egomaniacs, bullshitters, provocateurs and bullies, with some surfing and others drowning in the breaking wave of change. 'A cracking, essential read... Abramson knows where most of the bodies are buried and is prepared to draw the reader a detailed map' Guardian
Download or read book Empire of Pain written by Patrick Radden Keefe and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. From the prize-winning and bestselling author of Say Nothing. "A real-life version of the HBO series Succession with a lethal sting in its tail…a masterful work of narrative reportage.” – Laura Miller, Slate The history of the Sackler dynasty is rife with drama—baroque personal lives; bitter disputes over estates; fistfights in boardrooms; glittering art collections; Machiavellian courtroom maneuvers; and the calculated use of money to burnish reputations and crush the less powerful. The Sackler name has adorned the walls of many storied institutions—Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, but the source of the family fortune was vague—until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing a blockbuster painkiller that was the catalyst for the opioid crisis. Empire of Pain is the saga of three generations of a single family and the mark they would leave on the world, a tale that moves from the bustling streets of early twentieth-century Brooklyn to the seaside palaces of Greenwich, Connecticut, and Cap d’Antibes to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C. It follows the family’s early success with Valium to the much more potent OxyContin, marketed with a ruthless technique of co-opting doctors, influencing the FDA, downplaying the drug’s addictiveness. Empire of Pain chronicles the multiple investigations of the Sacklers and their company, and the scorched-earth legal tactics that the family has used to evade accountability. A masterpiece of narrative reporting, Empire of Pain is a ferociously compelling portrait of America’s second Gilded Age, a study of impunity among the super-elite and a relentless investigation of the naked greed that built one of the world’s great fortunes.
Download or read book The Merchants War written by Charles Stross and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2010-11-19 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the worldwalkers just got stranger in Charles Stross's The Merchants' War. More worlds, more surprises. And there's a war going on ... Miriam Beckstein is a young, hip, business journalist in Boston. She discovered in The Family Trade and The Hidden Family that her family came from an alternate reality, that she was very well-connected, and that her family was too much like the mafia for comfort. She found herself caught in a family trap in The Clan Corporate and betrothed to a brain-damaged prince, and then all hell broke loose. Now, in The Merchants' War, Miriam has escaped to yet another world and remains in hiding from both the Clan and their opponents. There is a nasty shooting war going on in the Gruinmarkt world of the Clan, and we know something that Miriam does not; something that she's really going to hate--if she lives long enough to find out. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book The Healing Wars Book I The Shifter written by Janice Hardy and published by Balzer + Bray. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dangerous secret. A deadly skill. Nya is an orphan struggling for survival in a city crippled by war. She is also a Taker—with her touch, she can heal injuries, pulling pain from another person into her own body. But unlike her sister, Tali, and the other Takers who become Healers, Nya's skill is flawed: she can't push that pain into pynvium, the enchanted metal used to store it. All she can do is shift it into another person, a dangerous skill that she must keep hidden. If discovered, she could be used as a human weapon. But one day Nya pushes her luck too far and exposes her secret to a pain merchant eager to use her shifting ability for his own sinister purposes. She refuses—until Tali and other League Healers start disappearing mysteriously. Now Nya must decide: How far will she go to get Tali back alive?
Download or read book The Merchant s Daughter written by Melanie Dickerson and published by Zonderkidz. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unthinkable danger. An unexpected choice. Annabel, once the daughter of a wealthy merchant, is trapped in indentured servitude to Lord Ranulf, a recluse who is rumored to be both terrifying and beastly. Her circumstances are made even worse by the proximity of Lord Ranulf’s bailiff—a revolting man who has made unwelcome advances on Annabel in the past. Believing that life in a nunnery is the best way to escape the escalation of the bailiff’s vile behavior and to preserve the faith that sustains her, Annabel is surprised to discover a sense of security and joy in her encounters with Lord Ranulf. As Annabel struggles to confront her feelings, she is involved in a situation that could place Ranulf in grave danger. Ranulf’s future, and possibly his heart, may rest in her hands, and Annabel must decide whether to follow the plans she has cherished or the calling God has placed on her heart.
Download or read book Honorable Merchants written by Richard John Lufrano and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In light of East Asia's current economic success, it has become increasingly clear that Confucian social thought, long assumed in Western scholarship to be a major stumbling block to economic development, can, under the proper circumstances, have exactly the opposite effect. Lufrano's study is the most sustained and sophisticated of recent reevaluations of Confucianism's role in the rapid commercial development in the late Ming to mid-Qing period. It will be of great interest and value to scholars in the growing field of Chinese business history and should be welcomed by those interested in the Confucian roots of Pacific Rim business practice.
Download or read book The Healing Wars Book I The Shifter written by Janice Hardy and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen-year-old Nya is an orphan struggling for survival in a city crippled by war. She is also a Taker—with her touch, she can heal injuries, pulling pain from another person into her own body. But unlike her sister Tali and the other Takers who become Healer’s League apprentices, Nya’s skill is flawed: she can’t push that pain into pynvium, the enchanted metal used to store it. All she can do is shift it from person to person, a dangerous skill that she must keep hidden from forces occupying her city. If discovered, she’d be used as a human weapon against her own people. Rumors of another war make Nya’s life harder, forcing her to take desperate risks just to find work and food. She pushes her luck too far and exposes her secret to a pain merchant eager to use her shifting ability for his own sinister purpose. At first, Nya refuses, but when Tali and other League Healers mysteriously disappear, she’s faced with some difficult choices. As her father used to say, principles are a bargain at any price, but how many will Nya have to sell to get Tali back alive?
Download or read book The Freedom Merchants written by Sherryl Jordan and published by Scholastic New Zealand. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1615. Pirate ships from the Barbary Coast of Northern Africa prowl the coasts of England and Ireland, raiding villages for slaves. When Liam’s brother is one of those captured, Liam travels with a small band of monks and bags full of gold to find them, hoping to redeem them from the pirate masters. Liam's long, dangerous journey takes him to the heart of the pirate world, into the turmoil of religious persecution, and the horrors of slavery. The story of a young man’s determination and courage, through which he challenges his world – and changes it.
Download or read book English Merchants written by Henry Richard Fox Bourne and published by Corinthian Press. This book was released on 1886 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lives of American Merchants written by Freeman Hunt and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
