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A story about a small town doctor, a con man on the run, and a movie star whose chance for the role of a lifetime is becoming ever more elusive. When fate brings the three of them together, their stories of frustration, greed, divorce and kidnapping form the basis of "Hollywood on the Pecos," a Hollywood story set on the banks of the Pecos River in southeastern New Mexico.
It Can Happen Here: A Prehistory of the 2016 Presidential Election was begun in 2011 and completed early the following year. It is the story of a fanatical village mayor, Samuel Parsons, who becomes governor, Vice Presidential candidate, and ultimately President of the United States. Juxtaposed with his story is the story of a small town newspaper editor, Hal Simpson, balancing his family, job, and reputation as he tries to report the news in a fair and unbiased fashion. As the country is pushed into war with Mexico to stem the flow of narcotics and violence into the United States, Parsons comes to resemble a dictator more than a President, and Simpson must decide whether reporting the truth is worth the risk of imprisonment. A story rooted as much in the presidential election of 2012 as that of 2016, It Can Happen Here is a story of ambition and conscience, asking the reader the decide how far freedom can be compromised in order to save it.
The World's Water: The Report on Freshwater Resources (from the Pacific Institute) is the pre-eminent publication regularly addressing global freshwater challenges and solutions. The first volume was published in 1998 and the current volume - the ninth - continues the tradition of tackling timely, critical freshwater problems in a fresh, easy-to-read style. Information on the previous volumes and important water data can be found online at www.worldwater.org. When the first volume of The World's Water was published in 1998, the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) for 2015 had not even been established. The concepts of water "footprints," "virtual water," "corporate water stewardship," "peak water," and other now-central topics had not yet been put forward or were mostly unknown. Yet today, the MDGs have been replaced with a new set of comprehensive environmental and social targets, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030. A wide variety of research, academic, advocacy, and policy groups are addressing water problems in new and innovative ways. And the demand for good water analysis is greater than ever. This new volume continues to offer insights into critical global water problems, overviews of data and analysis around water use and management, and case studies of some of the greatest water challenges around the world. The chapters in the current volume include the issue of corporate water stewardship, the human right to water and sanitation, water-use trends in the United States, an assessment of the water footprint of California energy, the consequences of the severe five-year California drought, a review of water markets and economic strategies for water management, and a summary of the cost of alternative water supply and demand strategies. The current volume also includes the regular update on the Pacific Institute's unique Water Conflict Chronology, with historical examples of conflicts related to water going back to 2500 BC and new entries through early 2017; a summary of the 2017 Pontifical Academy of Sciences Vatican meeting on the human right to water; and a review of critical issues around public access to water through drinking fountains. The World's Water has always been about more than just bad news. There is plenty of good news and there are many innovative efforts underway to identify and implement sustainable water solutions. The latest volume continues the tradition of bringing these solutions to students, the public, policy makers, and scientists working to understand the world of water.
This book almost didn't see the light of day as government officials tried to bar its publication! The Inside Story of the Real President Trump, by His Former Attorney and Personal Advisor! Once Donald Trump's fiercest surrogate, closest confidant, and staunchest defender, Michael Cohen knows where the skeletons are buried. This is the most devastating business and political horror story of the century. As Trump's lawyer and "fixer", Cohen not only witnessed firsthand but was also an active participant in the inner workings of Trump's business empire, political campaign, and presidential administration. This is a story that you have not read in newspapers, or on social media, or watched on television. These are accounts that only someone who worked for Trump around the clock for over a decade could know. Cohen describes Trump's racist rants against President Barack Obama, Nelson Mandela, and Black and Hispanic people in general, as well as the cruelty, humiliation, and abuse he leveled at family and staff. Whether he's exposing the fact that Trump engaged in tax fraud by inflating his wealth or electronic fraud by rigging an online survey, or outing Trump's Neanderthal views towards women or his hush-money payments to clandestine lovers, Cohen pulls no punches. He shows Trump's relentless willingness to lie, exaggerate, mislead, or manipulate. Trump emerges as a man without a soul - a man who courts evangelicals and then trashes them, panders to the common man, but then rips off small business owners, a con man who will do or say absolutely anything to win, regardless of the cost to his family, his associates, or his country. At the heart of Disloyal, we see how Cohen came under the spell of his charismatic "Boss" and, as a result, lost all sense of his moral compass. The real "real" Donald Trump who permeates these pages - the racist, sexist, homophobic, lying, cheating President - will be discussed, written about, and analyzed for years to come.
This is the second book in the Reflections on Reality series.In the first book, The Big Story: Challenging the dichotomy of evolution and creation, the false dichotomy perceived between evolution and creation was challenged. It was identified that the existence of the universe and everything therein, has come into being through a gradual, evolutionary, and divinely-ordained process.Building on the foundation laid in the first book of the series, The Divine Plan: Integrative & disintegrative forces in society, examines social and cultural maturation throughout history. The impetus provided by the Manifestations of God for this maturation is explored, as are the symptomatic disintegrative and integrative forces at play within society today. It describes the opportunities, unique to this period of human history, available to the individual and the collective, to develop latent capacities essential to the establishment of a divine civilization.This book is designed for adults and youth. The language is generally suitable for those 14 years and older.
This book reveals the extent to which the UK clung on to great-power pretensions in the Middle East 1954-60 and used bluff to give the impression that it disposed of greater military resources than was the case.
A thrilling account of the 1968 presidential election and its impact on the next four decades of American politics
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