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[Eric Wiberg] "...builds a character both attractive and intriguing to the reader. I ended genuinely curious about what might come next, and confident that I was in the hands of an expert story-teller." -William F. Buckley Jr. "Eric Wiberg's ability, to unearth obscure historical facts, keeps me in a constant state of surprise. I commend his relentless determination to verify every detail, with local sources in Nassau's historical community, for corroboration of his findings."-Capt. Paul C. Aranha, Author, The Island Airman . . . and his Bahama Islands Home. "Eric Wiberg has made a significant contribution to the bibliography of World War II history." -J. Revell Carr, Santa Fe, N.M. This book tells one more key part of the big story and is one more piece in the giant puzzle of the history of World War II. Its value for historians cannot be underestimated. Throughout the stories of the attacks by German and Italian submarines on Allied shipping in the water around the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos, several consistent themes emerge in Wiberg's thorough accounts. Prime among them is the heroism of the merchant mariners who time and again put themselves in danger as they performed the critical task of moving supplies, military and civilian, which were vital to ultimate victory. We read of numerous instances of sailors having their ships shot out from under them and then continuously going back to sea and having additional ships torpedoed and sunk. We can also recognize what we know today as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), which was seldom recognized 75 years ago. Wiberg pays proper credit to the controversial Duchess of Windsor, whose husband was the wartime governor of the Bahamas. Just as she carried out this official duty, this book relates the heartening tales of everyday Bahamians, often poor and on outlying islands, who generously provided for these desperate castaways. Wiberg also acknowledges the heroism of the Axis submariners as he recounts not only their victories but also their deaths as many of the subs were eventually tracked down and sunk. History isn't great events, it is the continuum of many small events carried out by real people. U-Boats in the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos gives us an intimate glimpse of those events and, importantly, those people. J. Revell Carr Santa Fe, N.M. Eric Wiberg grew up in the Bahamas, the son of the Swedish Consul-General there. A licensed maritime lawyer, his thesis for a Master's Degree in Marine Affairs was published as Tanker Disasters. For three years he commercially operated tankers in Singapore. Over 25 years he has sailed on 100 vessels, most of them sailboats, for 75,000 miles, including voyages across the Atlantic and Pacific and over 30 ocean passages to or from Bermuda. He has published four books, the latest being Round the World in the Wrong Season. A graduate of Boston College, he studied at Harris Manchester College, Oxford, and in Lisbon. Employed in the shipping industry in New York City, he lives with his wife and son in Westport, Connecticut.

Indian Gaming Business wrote, "Class Act, Gary Green has brought Las Vegas flamboyance¿and big profits to Indian Country."Casino City Times called him "The Donald Trump of Indian Casinos" and in fact he is a former Trump Vice-President.How did these casinos come into being?Are the games "legitimate"? Can players win?What have Donald Trump, Caesar's Place, MGM, and Steve Wynn done with or about Indian Casinos?How is the money made and who gets it?What role do non-Indian entrepreneurs play in developing and operating these casinos?Is there organized crime?How are these casinos managed?Is there investment opportunity?Do the states have any recourse, control, or ability to tax?Do these casinos solve or provide retribution for the poverty, neargenocide, and abuse Native Americans have suffered since Europeans arrived?

Whether you're in the rapturous throes of endless love or the first moments of stomach-churning awareness that your marriage is falling apart, this book is for you. It's for every woman who understands that self-preservation will not happen if you rely on someone else to save you. You need to maintain-or begin to establish-your personal independence and financial solvency if you want to be self-sufficient no matter what life throws at you. You can lean on someone, but you have to be able to stand on your own two feet at a moment's notice, and that's what this book is about.

I have met and worked with many entertainers in my life. The idea of this book came to me one evening while visiting Cuba. I expand on this in the chapter ΓÇÿFinding a seed inside Havana.ΓÇÖ Also, the wonderful actress Doris Roberts came for dinner one evening and wrote a letter that stated, ΓÇ£An extraordinary cook who takes pleasure in inviting his friends to his home for an evening of great food, wine and interesting conversation. The table is so beautiful that you hate to sit down to mess it up. The food that he cooks takes time, thoughtfulness and knowledge and he spends hours preparing it. Did I mention the aroma that greets you when you walk into his house?ΓÇ¥

A New York Times Bestseller In The Life And Death of Adolf Hitler, biographer Robert Payne unravels the tangled threads of Hitler's public and private life and looks behind the caricature with the Charlie Chaplin mustache and the unruly shock of hair to reveal a Hitler possessed of immense personal charm that impressed both men and women and brought followers and contributions to the burgeoning Nazi Party. Although he misread his strength and organized an ill-fated putsch, Hitler spent his months in prison writing Mein Kampf, which increased his following. Once in undisputed command of the Party, Hitler renounced the chastity of his youth and began a sordid affair with his niece, whose suicide prompted him to reject forever all conventional morality. He promised anything to prospective supporters, then cold-bloodedly murdered them before they could claim a share of the power he reserved for himself. Once he became Chancellor, Hitler step by step bent the powers of the state to his own purposes to satisfy his private fantasies, rearming Germany, slaughtering his real or imaginary enemies, blackmailing one by one the leaders of Europe, and plunging the world into the holocaust of World War II. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF ADOLF HITLER is the story of not so much a man corrupted by power as a corrupt man who achieved absolute power and used it to an unprecedented degree, knowing at every moment exactly what he was doing and calculating his enemies' weaknesses to a hair's breadth. It is the story of a living man. Robert Payne (1911-1983) was born in Cornwall, U.K. His father was English, his mother French. He was educated at St. Paul's School in London and at the universities of Liverpool, Capetown in South Africa, Munich and The Sorbonne. During his lifetime he had over a hundred books published on a wide range of subjects, the widest range of any known author. He was known chiefly for his biographies and history books, among them Hitler, Lenin, Stalin, Gandhi, Leonardo, Chaplin, the Christian Centuries, The World of Art. He also wrote novels and poetry. Librarians loved him; critics raved about him. Orville Prescott of The New York Times referred to him as "a literary phenomenon of astounding versatility and industry."

"The Oxygen Plan was a life-changer simply because it put me in control of my choices, while giving me structure to define and categorize my issues." -Lorraine Lucciola, freelance writerWhy Oxygen? Oxygen supports life. We don't think about the science of breathing, of simply inhaling and exhaling, because we do it naturally, every minute of every day. The explanation is so simple that we forget it's even happening. We're part of a process called photosynthesis, the reciprocal exchange between plant life and humans. We involuntarily emit carbon dioxide; plants take it in, and produce oxygen for us to breathe. The cycle continues to sustain life on earth. I get it. Try it now. Inhale. Exhale. There. You've just put the very first step of The Oxygen Plan into motion. Oxygen and the Stress Connection: No One is Immune The Oxygen Plan focuses on the universal, common denominator that applies to everyone: STRESS. The Oxygen Plan offers viable behavioral tools and professional support for abundant happiness, fulfillment and maximized potential, by exploring the foundations of stress, which are different for each of us, and by presenting new methods of managing it. Our goal is to usher you into the green, by presenting a multi-faceted understanding of what being healthy-physically, emotionally, socially and behaviorally-feels like. Optimism is its own self-fulfilling prophecy. Optimism embraces our hope, our strength and our perseverance. One positive thought or action engenders the next positive thought or action. Optimism is powerful and persuasive. It tells your brain that you can do great things. And you can. Author Eric Lucas, the founder and chief executive of The Oxygen Plan Corporation, is a marketing executive with a long track record of creating breakthrough innovations and leading them to success. Prior to creating and leading The Oxygen Plan, Lucas spent 22 years with General Mills, rising to the level of corporate officer, vice-president of marketing and head of New Ventures for the 31,000 employee Fortune 200 Company. He also led promotional campaigns for the 1996, 2000, and 2002 Olympic Games, Disney, NFL, NBA, and MLB for General Mills.

"Skyrm makes complex financial scenarios accessible to all interested readers in an informative and entertaining manner. We can all learn something from this book." -Thomas Peterffy, Chairman, CEO, and President of Interactive Brokers"Skyrm put together the story of MF Global like no one else could in providing the ultimate autopsy covering destructive financial engineering that's played such a big role in our capital markets." -Lawrence G. McDonald, New York Times best selling author of A Colossal Failure of Common Sense"God is in the details...first come the reporters, then the lawyers. Skyrm's book is the necessary antidote. Only someone who has 'done' it can explain it. Perhaps the best 'counterfactual' rationale for reading The Money Noose: If John Corzine had been able to before, there would likely have been no after." -Stan Jonas, Managing Partner, Axiom Management Partners In 2010, President Barack Obama signed into law the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. MF Global was bankrupt less than a year after the law's passage. THE¿MONEY¿NOOSE is a general accounting of the facts that led to MF Global's collapse, as well as the story of the major players involved. It is a chaotic story, one in which individual actions taken in and of themselves are relatively minor. But the sum of those individual actions equal the same end result. How, then, can investors protect themselves from this outcome? The best answer is education. Investors need to be fully aware of what is involved in the investment process, and that includes an understanding of seg funds. It is, after all, their money. This book is designed to tell the story of MF Global, what went wrong and how things came to an abrupt end. In those regards, it's an incredible story. Scott E.D. Skyrm is one of the leading figures in the repo and securities finance markets today, and regularly quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Bloomberg News Service, Reuters, Market News, and Dow Jones. He is highly regarded as a former salesman, trader, trading desk manager, and global business head in fixed-income, securities finance, and securities clearing and settlement. He recently left Newedge, where he was their "Global Head of Repo, Money Markets, and Fixed Income Clearing." He now is writing commentaries on the repo market, the short-end of the Treasury market, Federal Reserve policy and general Wall Street topics. He has worked on Wall Street for over 22 years and has taken billion-dollar risks on the trading floor, managed a multi-billion dollar balance sheet, and consistently ran one of the most profitable trading groups at every firm where he worked. Prior to Newedge, he managed the repo desk at ING Barings, worked summers at Shearson Lehman/American Express and started his full-time career at The Bank of Tokyo.

"This remarkable book will change the way you look at fixing Wall Street and redeeming capitalism." - Scott Umstead, President, Fusion Investment Group Fed up with Wall Street? You're not alone. It doesn't have to be this way! Craig Columbus and Mark Hendrickson turn the subject of financial reform upside down. The authors pull no punches, taking both Wall Street and central bankers to task. They also show you a different side of the financial system, reminding us of the good Wall Street is capable of doing. This hopeful book connects the head and the heart of free markets-uncovering original solutions that cannot be reached by regulations alone. Written for the financial professional and layman alike, God and Man on Wall Street will both challenge and inspire you. A frequent commentator on financial television for fifteen years, Craig Columbus is one of Wall Street's most recognizable strategists and financial executives. He also serves as the chair of the Entrepreneurship Department and executive director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Grove City College. Mark Hendrickson is adjunct professor of economics and Fellow for Economic & Social Policy with the Center for Vision & Values at Grove City College. He is a contributor to Forbes.com, and sits on the Council of Scholars of the Commonwealth Foundation in Pennsylvania.

"Bigger is better turned out to be another 20th century myth. Larry Farrell has eloquently described why."-Peter Drucker, The 20th Century''s Greatest Management Thinker"If you want to learn about international entrepreneurism, Larry Farrell is your man."-Tom Peters, The World''s All-time Best Selling Business AuthorThere''s nothing like a severe, unexpected, worldwide recession to get one''s entrepreneurial juices flowing. After the initial shock and trauma pass, it finally hits home that you can''t trust anyone to run the damn economy and save your job...you''re truly on your own in this crazy and uncertain 21st century global economy! Larry C. Farrell is the Chairman of The Farrell Company, the world''s leading firm for researching and teaching entrepreneurship. He founded the firm in 1983 to do his own ground-breaking research into the high-growth business practices of the world''s great entrepreneurs. Today, with affiliates in North America, Asia, Europe, South America, and Africa, over five million people, in forty countries, across nine languages, have attended the company''s programs. Over the past quarter century, Larry has personally taught entrepreneurship to more individuals, organizations, and governments than any person in the world.

SUMMARY:This is a true story of personal greed and downfall, corporate greed fueled with economic and social treachery, shareholder waste and discrimination at AIG, 70 Pine Street in the heart of the financial district. This address is known as the AIG Tower, hence the title Tower of Thieves. The central character is a man with a wife, a family, who has cheated his way to the top by doing good. He is responsible for leading a 60 billion dollar organization with over 40,000 employees worldwide at one of the largest companies in the world. What he sees and what he does validates what unchecked power on Wall Street will do to a man and what it has done to an entire company and country. The events at AIG lead right to the CEO and Senior Vice Chairman and how our guy fights an entire corrupt organization and how he became one of those he despised.

Stanley Hayami was sixteen when he was sent to Heart Mountain, an internment camp for Japanese Americans during World War II. He kept a diary of his life in the camps, augmented with sketches and drawings. In 1944, like many young Nisei men, he was drafted into the 442nd Infantry Regimental Combat Team, an all-Nisei unit, continuing to write and earning a Bronze Star. He never lost his faith in America, and remained defiantly patriotic to the last. He was killed in combat in Northern Italy on April 23rd, 1945, while trying to help a fellow soldier. He was nineteen years old. This book is based on his diary, now in the permanent collection of the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, Ca.

The decades-old question surrounding the death of the Red Baron has been embroiled in controversy. In this book, the author has uncovered new information and insights, shedding new light on the events of that day.This is a true story of young men who fought and died for their country. It puts the reader behind the stick of a Sopwith Camel from the pilot''s point of view. This is the first of two volumes.Part One of this comprehensive study covers the life of Captain Arthur Roy Brown, who is well-known as an ace fighter pilot. The basic story is told in Brown''s own words, via his previously unpublished letters home and the entries in his Pilot''s Flying Log Book. His surviving Combat Reports are also included. The letters and the Combat Reports are unedited, and are used to tell the story within a military, historical and geographical context. They are accompanied by over 500 photographs, most of them never before published, plus diagrams and maps. Part Two of the book covers Captain Brown''s encounter with Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron, in detail.The story is told on the basis of recently released official documents of the time, together with recently offered letters written by some of the participants and witnesses. The new information corrects several well-established beliefs, and is able to provide the true story together with the necessary confirmation. In 1995 Alan Bennett toured the site in France where Captain Brown had attacked the Red Baron on 21 April, 1918. As an experienced pilot of similar aircraft, he had grave doubts as to the truth of some parts of the story. The eventual result was a book written in conjunction with Norman Franks: "The Red Baron''s Last Flight." After plentiful information from readers, Captain Roy Brown''s family and Wop May''s son, plus further research in France, a considerably different picture of the entire event and of Roy Brown''s life emerged. The new book, Captain Roy Brown, tells the complete definitive story.Margaret Harmon is Captain Roy Brown''s daughter. She lives in Arizona, and provided most of her father''s letters. Denny May is Wilfrid "Wop" May''s son. He lives in Alberta and is very active in keeping his father''s legacy alive. Alan Bennett finished compiling his book on Captain Roy Brown around Christmas of 2006. He was always striving for perfection to make sure his manuscript would be as complete as possible. He received correspondence from around the world to help him in this endeavour. Though not in great health towards the end, he nevertheless continued his research with passion and zeal. Alan Bennett passed away in January 2007.

"Let's get the consumer in the game. The idea behind HSAs is a 'supercharged IRA' for health care...No other program is as tax advantaged."-John W. Snow, Treasury Secretary"...HSAs can drastically lower an employer's costs of providing employee health benefits. This may allow more small businesses to offer such benefits." -Fed Brock, The New York Times"These accounts give workers the security of insurance against major illness, the opportunity to save tax-free for routine health expenses, and the freedom of knowing you can take your account with you whenever you change jobs." -President George W. Bush"Laing's new book (The Small Business Guide to HSAs) lives up to its name...an excellent explanation of how HSAs work..." -Greg Scandlen, The New York PostA breakthrough in health care for employees and employers alike, HSAs stand for "Health Savings Accounts." As of January 1, 2004, HSAs are a new option from the U.S. government, similar to an IRA, offering individuals a new, tax-sheltered way to accumulate savings. Tax-free dollars in HSAs may be withdrawn instantly for qualified medical expenses, rolled over without penalty for spending in future years, or invested, to accumulate savings to pay for health needs after retirement. The Consumer's Guide to HSAs answers the question "What's in it for Me?" But responsibility doesn't stop there. You must read your medical reports, check statements, and count your pills carefully. Ask questions. Keep records for future use, and soon you will realize as much of the benefits of consumer-driven health care and HSAs as possible. JoAnn Mills Laing has a Harvard MBA and global work and living experience with four public companies (Sara Lee, Olivetti, Chase and Citigroup), as well as running her own ecommerce-based businesses. As chairman of Cybernautics, a premier Audience Development Company, she took the company from idea to profitability and its purchase/IPO (by U.S. Web). Laing is currently President of Information Strategies, Inc., a marketing and information firm based in Fort Lee, New Jersey. She oversees the management of an online editorial service that reaches more than 1.7 million readers each month, and consults with corporations. Ms. Laing has been studying the HSAs marketplace and regularly polling individuals and businesses about healthcare issues. Further, she manages www.HSAfinder.com, the complete independent source for information on Health Savings Accounts for individuals and employers. Ms. Laing is author of The Small Business Guide to HSAs.