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  Family of Spies - A Cold War...

  Steve B. Davis

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  In the summer of 1950, federal agents arrived at a modest apartment in lower Manhattan and arrested an electrical engineer named Julius Rosenberg on charges of passing atomic bomb secrets to the Soviet Union. Six weeks later, they came for his wife Ethel — a seamstress and mother of two small boys aged seven and three — and took her from the courthouse door in circumstances that the FBI's own internal documents would later reveal had nothing to do with the strength of the evidence against her and everything to do with what the government needed her to be.
   
  Three years later, on the evening of June 19, 1953, the United States government executed them both.
   
  
   
  What happened in between — the fabricated testimony, the compromised judge, the private conversations between prosecutor and bench before a single witness had been sworn, the brother who sent his sister to the electric chair and later admitted he had lied — is one of the most documented, most contested, and most consequential miscarriages of justice in the history of American law.  
   
  
   
  Family of Spies is the complete, documented account of what the United States government did to Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, why it did it, and what the record it left behind demands of everyone who reads it. 
   
  The verdict was returned in 1951. The questions it failed to answer have never stopped accumulating.

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  Neurosculpting for Stress Relief...

  Lisa Wimberger

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  Train Your Brain for Optimal Stress ResilienceHow does a healthy brain handle stress? It responds in the moment, then safely releases the emotional energy—yet modern life confronts us with new forms of stress that often confuse and overload our natural coping instincts. With Neurosculpting for Stress Relief, Lisa Wimberger provides essential practices for retraining your brain to deal with stress in a healthy way. "In my 30 years as a teacher and Neurosculpting® coach," says Wimberger, "these are the most effective techniques I've found for transforming the way our nervous system reacts to stress." These five guided meditations will give you the tools to:  •  Scan the body to reveal the sources of stress and release stagnant energy  •  Defuse the charged emotions around stressful situations  •  Change habitual "scripts" so you can consciously choose how you react to stress  •  Access your inner healing resources to become more flexible, creative, and joyful 
  It's easy to tell ourselves that we shouldn't worry or stress out, but without the right tools it's easier said than done. "I've used these practices to great effect in helping first responders and clients in the most stressful occupations," says Lisa Wimberger. Now this exceptional teacher brings you scientifically grounded meditations to revolutionize the way you deal with stress with Neurosculpting for Stress Relief.

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  The Wild West - History myth &...

  Frederick Nolan

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  On 14 May 1804, one Captain Meriwether Lewis and his companion William Clark led a thirty-three-man expedition to the new lands of Louisiana. 8,000 miles and two years later, after rafting up the Missouri and crossing the Rocky Mountains, they reached the far side of the world, the Pacific Ocean. 
   
  Fredrick Nolan explores the first US settlers of the American West, including the remarkable stories of unsung heroes and heroines, the bloody battles between settlers and the native American inhabitants, the crimes committed by corrupt Sheriffs, and the occasions when citizens had to take the law into their own hands. This is the story of the men and women who answered the call of the West.

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  25 June 1943 MIA - The Search...

  Tony Crawford

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  The stories in this book reflect the dedication of the B-17 crews fighting a losing battle in 1943 and 1944. The politicians and military leaders soon realized that to gain air superiority it would simply be a battle of attrition. The misions to bomb the German industrial targets were dreaded by the crews. After only a few missions there were more replacement crews than original flyers on base. it was obvious to all the flyers that they were not going to make their twenty-five missions and get a free ticket home. UInknown to the rookie cres were thousands of flak guns awaiting the B-17s march into German airspace. There they would also face the deadly German fighter Gruppes intent on destroying any enemy airplane flying over the Fatherland. The Focke Wulfe and Messerschmitt fighters were piloted by socres and scores of aces. The young Germans who mentored the experienced pilots were extremely aggressive, desiring a mvictory over a B-17. The uinfortuantate crewmembers of a B-17 wqere those who were hit by flak or their bomb load wass struck by flak. Additionally, there was always the possibhiloityh of being hit by the exploding shells from an attacking fighter. After bailing out of a burning Fortress the lucky flyers made it to prison camp to spend the rest of the war trying to survive on the meager rations their captors provided. In 1999, a search gfor two MIA B-17 crewmembers was initiated. Thesearch uncovered a number of lost Flying Fortresses and crews that were shot down doggfedly fighting to deliver their bomb loads. Meetiong relatives of the lost flyers was motivation to continue the search for my Uncle and his pilot. Fortunately, personal intervi3ews, old documwents, and letters, along with directions from WWII researchers led to the location of the crash site. Writing of dozens of letters to politicians and the Joint Prisoner of War, Missing in Action Accounting Command (JPAC) led to a promise by the Department of Defe nse to lift the wr

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  Mexican Drug Cartels - Their...

  Kelly Mass

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  The Mexican drug war, also known as the Guerra contra el narcotráfico en México, is the Mexican theater of the global war on drugs, a campaign led by the United States federal government. This war has resulted in a protracted, asymmetric low-intensity conflict between the Mexican government and various drug trafficking organizations. The Mexican government’s main objective when it intervened militarily in 2006 was to curb drug-related violence, which had escalated in the preceding years. The government’s stated aim, in collaboration with U.S. officials, was to eliminate the cartels and reduce the demand for drugs trafficking. 
  Violence erupted after the 1989 arrest of Miguel Ángel Félix Gallardo, who was the leader and founder of Mexico’s first major drug cartel, the Guadalajara Cartel. His arrest led to the dissolution of the cartel as high-ranking members splintered off to create their own groups. This fragmentation gave rise to the Sinaloa, Juarez, Tijuana, and Sonora cartels, among others, which began to battle for control over lucrative trafficking routes and territories. This marked a new chapter in the drug war, with the cartels becoming increasingly violent in their efforts to secure dominance. 
  Mexican drug trafficking organizations have been a powerful force for decades, but their power surged significantly in the 1990s after the collapse of the Colombian Cali and Medellín cartels. By 2007, Mexican criminal groups controlled an overwhelming 90% of the cocaine entering the United States. Efforts to arrest cartel leaders, including those in the Tijuana and Gulf cartels, often resulted in even more violence, as smaller gangs competed for control over key drug trade routes into the U.S.

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  Courage and a Clear Mind - True...

  Jim Weiss

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  Jim Weiss narrates thrilling episodes from the history and culture of ancient Greece, including the Olympics, the 300 Spartans, and the wisdom of Socrates.  In these vivid, true stories, Jim Weiss takes you back 25 centuries to Golden Age Greece. You'll charge into land & sea battles to defend the world's first democracy against a vast, tyrannical empire; attend the original Olympics; hear history's most famous storyteller, Homer, spin his classic adventure, "The Trojan Horse;" laugh and learn with Socrates, the wisest (and funniest) man in Greece; and meet artists and authors, as well as typical families, in the rival cities of Athens and Sparta. Jim Weiss's "Courage and a Clear Mind" is sure to inspire your own exploration of the potential that lies within us all.

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