Stolen Without A Gun

Author : Walter Pavlo,Neil Weinberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105064204543

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Stolen Without a Gun by Walter Pavlo,Neil Weinberg Pdf

Walter Pavlo, Jr. was a young MBA rising quickly through the finance ranks at the nation’s second largest telecom company. With a beautiful wife, two kids and a promising career, he epitomized the American dream. Pavlo’s life took a dark turn when he became a willing participant in the company’s efforts to hide from investors and potential acquirers a mountain of bad debt run up by mobsters and other unsavory customers. Encouraged by higher-ups, Pavlo became accomplished at accounting gimmickry. Then the jaded young executive consorted with a colorful scam artist and others to use some of the same ploys he’d devised for his employer to enrich himself at its expense. A ruse born of disillusionment and greed turned into a nightmare for Pavlo after he was caught and forced to choose--rat on his buddies or spend decades rotting in prison. His crimes ultimately cost Pavlo his freedom, family, reputation and self-respect. Only later did he recognize that his original sins were part and parcel of the corruption that led to an historic collapse for his company, his industry and of public confidence in corporate America. With humor and raw honesty, Pavlo and award-winning Forbes senior editor Neil Weinberg use this compelling personal story to portray in intimate detail the pressures millions of white-collar workers face every day.

Author : Fuminori Nakamura
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781616955915

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The Gun by Fuminori Nakamura Pdf

A Tokyo college student’s discovery and eventual obsession with a stolen handgun awakens something dark inside him. On a nighttime walk along a Tokyo riverbank, a young man named Nishikawa stumbles on a dead body, beside which lies a gun. From the moment Nishikawa decides to take the gun, the world around him blurs. Knowing he possesses the weapon brings an intoxicating sense of purpose to his dull university life. But soon Nishikawa’s personal entanglements become unexpectedly complicated: he finds himself romantically involved with two women while his biological father, whom he’s never met, lies dying in a hospital. Through it all, he can’t stop thinking about the gun—and the four bullets loaded in its chamber. As he spirals into obsession, his focus is consumed by one idea: that possessing the gun is no longer enough—he must fire it.

Author : Lynne W. Jeter
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004-07-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0471647470

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Disconnected by Lynne W. Jeter Pdf

A journalist with two-decades of experience covering WorldCom traces its birth, growth, colossal success, and ultimate collapse, examining the key players, finances, corporate culture, and politics within the telecom giant.

Author : Toni Jensen
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781984821201

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Carry by Toni Jensen Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A powerful, poetic memoir about what it means to exist as an Indigenous woman in America, told in snapshots of the author’s encounters with gun violence. Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize • Goop Book Club Pick • “Essential . . . We need more voices like Toni Jensen’s, more books like Carry.”—Tommy Orange, New York Times bestselling author of There There Toni Jensen grew up around guns: As a girl, she learned to shoot birds in rural Iowa with her father, a card-carrying member of the NRA. As an adult, she’s had guns waved in her face near Standing Rock, and felt their silent threat on the concealed-carry campus where she teaches. And she has always known that in this she is not alone. As a Métis woman, she is no stranger to the violence enacted on the bodies of Indigenous women, on Indigenous land, and the ways it is hidden, ignored, forgotten. In Carry, Jensen maps her personal experience onto the historical, exploring how history is lived in the body and redefining the language we use to speak about violence in America. In the title chapter, Jensen connects the trauma of school shootings with her own experiences of racism and sexual assault on college campuses. “The Worry Line” explores the gun and gang violence in her neighborhood the year her daughter was born. “At the Workshop” focuses on her graduate school years, during which a workshop classmate repeatedly killed off thinly veiled versions of her in his stories. In “Women in the Fracklands,” Jensen takes the reader inside Standing Rock during the Dakota Access Pipeline protests and bears witness to the peril faced by women in regions overcome by the fracking boom. In prose at once forensic and deeply emotional, Toni Jensen shows herself to be a brave new voice and a fearless witness to her own difficult history—as well as to the violent cultural landscape in which she finds her coordinates. With each chapter, Carry reminds us that surviving in one’s country is not the same as surviving one’s country.

Author : Emily St. John Mandel
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781936071883

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The Singer's Gun by Emily St. John Mandel Pdf

From the award-winning, bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility, “a gripping story, full of moral ambiguities, where deception and betrayal become the norm, and where the expression ‘a riddle wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma’ is lifted to new heights” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). Everyone Anton Waker grew up with is corrupt. His parents dealt in stolen goods, and he was a successful purveyor of forged documents until he abandoned it all in his early twenties, determined to live a normal life, complete with career, apartment, and a fiancée who knows nothing of his criminal beginnings. He’s on the verge of finally getting married when Aria—his cousin and former partner in crime—blackmails him into helping her with one last job. Anton considers the task a small price for future freedom. But as he sets off for an Italian honeymoon, it soon becomes clear that the ghosts of his past can't be left behind so easily, and that the task Aria requires will cost him more than he could ever imagine. Look for Emily St. John Mandel’s bestselling new novel, Sea of Tranquility!

Author : Jennifer Clement
Publisher : Chatto & Windus
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781524761684

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Gun Love by Jennifer Clement Pdf

"Pearl's mother took her away from her family just weeks after she was born, and drove off to central Florida determined to begin a new life for herself and her daughter--in the parking lot next to a trailer park. Pearl grew up in the front seat of their '94 Mercury, while her mother lived in the back. Despite their hardships, mother and daughter both adjusted to life, making friends with the residents of the trailers and creating a deep connection to each other"--Amazon.com.

Author : Adams,Captain J F C Adams
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1507733941

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Personal Firearms Record Book by Adams,Captain J F C Adams Pdf

No firearm owner should be without this book. The "Personal Firearms Record Book" has been designed to be an important accessory for anyone who owns firearms. It gives you a record of the important specifics of each of your firearms that will enable quick identification in the event of a theft, fire or other situation. Your collection will be documented so you will have all the information needed for insurance or police. Anyone who owns firearms should have this book. With enough room for 50 firearms, there is even space to include a photograph of each gun along with key information such as Manufacturer, Model Number, Serial Number, Type, Action, Caliber/Gauge, Finish, Date Acquired, etc. There is even a specific an area to note insurance information PLUS a quick reference section to your firearms - basically an owner-created table of contents. With the "Personal Firearms Record Book," you'll easily put together a consolidated, comprehensive listing of firearm specifics that will enable quick identification and ease the burden of proof should it become necessary. Get this book for yourself and for any family member or friend who owns more than one firearm. It's the smart and responsible way to keep track of a gun collection.

Author : United States. Congress Senate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1680 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-19
Category : United States
ISBN : UOM:35112102384858

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Report by United States. Congress Senate Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Delacorte Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345544308

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Jack Reacher's Rules by Anonim Pdf

Jack Reacher’s Rules is the ultimate fan’s guide to the World of Reacher! Featuring selections from all seventeen electrifying Jack Reacher novels and an introduction from Lee Child himself, this one-of-a-kind book compiles timeless advice from maverick former army cop Jack Reacher, the hero of Lee Child’s blockbuster thrillers and now the star of a major motion picture. My name is Jack Reacher. No middle name, no address. I’ve got a rule: People mess with me at their own risk. You don’t have to break the rules if you make the rules. Case in point: Jack Reacher, the two-fisted, quick-witted, “current poster-boy of American crime fiction” (Los Angeles Times). The brainchild of #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child, Reacher is a freelance troubleshooter with a mysterious past—and a serious passion for justice. Now the hard-won knowledge and hard-hitting strategies of fiction’s toughest tough guy are within every thriller reader’s reach—in a rapid-fire rundown of the trade secrets, tried-and-true tricks, and time-honored tactics that separate the man in the street from the man to beat. Rule 1. When in doubt, drink coffee. Rule 2. Never volunteer for anything. Rule 3. Don’t break the furniture. Rule 4. Only one woman at a time. Rule 5. Show them what they’re messing with. Please note: Jack Reacher’s Rules is a compilation of advice, wisdom, and facts from the Jack Reacher series of novels by #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child. It features an introduction by Lee Child, but is not a Jack Reacher novel.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Firearms
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119563919

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Firearms Legislation by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Crime Pdf

Author : Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald,R. M. W. Dixon
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780191004568

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The Grammar of Knowledge by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald,R. M. W. Dixon Pdf

The Grammar of Knowledge offers both a linguistic and anthropological perspective on the expression of information sources, as well as inferences, assumptions, probability and possibility, and gradations of doubt and beliefs in a range of languages. The book investigates twelve different languages, from families including Tibeto-Burman, Nakh-Dagestani, and Austronesian, all of which share the property of requiring the source of information to be specified in every sentence. In these languages, it may not be possible to say merely that 'the man went fishing'. Instead, the source of evidence for the statement must also be specified, usually through the use of evidential markers. For example, it may be necessary to indicate whether the speaker saw the man go fishing; has simply assumed that the man went fishing; or was told that he went fishing by a third party. Some languages, such as Hinuq and Tatar, distinguish between first-hand and non first-hand information sources; others, such as Ersu, mark three distinct types of information - directly required, inferred or assumed, and reported. Some require an even greater level of specification: Ashéninka Perené, from South America, has a specific marker to express suspicions or misgivings. Like others in the series, the book illustrates and examines these aspects of language in different cultural and linguistic settings. It will interest linguists of all persuasions as well as linguistically-minded anthropologists.

Author : Carmen María Montiel
Publisher : CMM Books
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9788412213133

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Stolen Identity by Carmen María Montiel Pdf

Like most women, I was unaware that I was a victim of domestic violence. My husband had managed to diminish me through years of psychological and physical abuse and even through the use of drugs. However, despite being almost destroyed, I managed to rebuild my dignity and demonstrate my innocence. I loved my husband. I never imagined that he could harm me or that he would end up trying to destroy me. Nor did I think, when he started hurting me, that this could be intentional, since all the aggressors blame their victims. In my case, the victimization was so effective that, after each assault, I would recreate the incident to see what I had done to make my husband react in this way. This is my story, that of a battered and immigrant woman who found no way to escape or hide; A Catholic who believes in family and who fought to keep it for the good of her children. However, in the end, and precisely for them, she was forced to leave that vicious marriage to save herself and them. Carmen Maria Montiel

Author : Steve Sheinkin
Publisher : Roaring Brook Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-24
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781250291035

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Bomb (Graphic Novel) by Steve Sheinkin Pdf

A riveting graphic novel adaptation of the award-winning nonfiction book, Bomb—the fascinating and frightening true story of the creation behind the most destructive force that birthed the arms race and the Cold War. In December of 1938, a chemist in a German laboratory made a shocking discovery: When placed next to radioactive material, a Uranium atom split in two. That simple discovery launched a scientific race that spanned three continents. In Great Britain and the United States, Soviet spies worked their way into the scientific community; in Norway, a commando force slipped behind enemy lines to attack German heavy-water manufacturing; and deep in the desert, one brilliant group of scientists was hidden away at a remote site at Los Alamos. This is the story of the plotting, the risk-taking, the deceit, and genius that created the world's most formidable weapon. This is the story of the atomic bomb. New York Times bestselling author Steve Sheinkin's award-winning nonfiction book is now available reimagined in the graphic novel format. Full color illustrations from Nick Bertozzi are detailed and enriched with the nonfiction expertise Nick brings to the story as a beloved artist, comic book writer, and commercial illustrator who has written a couple of his own historical graphic novels, including Shackleton and Lewis & Clark. Accessible, gripping, and educational, this new edition of Bomb is perfect for young readers and adults alike. Praise for Bomb (2012): “This superb and exciting work of nonfiction would be a fine tonic for any jaded adolescent who thinks history is 'boring.' It's also an excellent primer for adult readers who may have forgotten, or never learned, the remarkable story of how nuclear weaponry was first imagined, invented and deployed—and of how an international arms race began well before there was such a thing as an atomic bomb.” —The Wall Street Journal “This is edge-of-the seat material that will resonate with YAs who clamor for true spy stories, and it will undoubtedly engross a cross-market audience of adults who dozed through the World War II unit in high school.” —The Bulletin (starred review) Also by Steve Sheinkin: Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights Undefeated: Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War Born to Fly: The First Women's Air Race Across America The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery Which Way to the Wild West?: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About Westward Expansion King George: What Was His Problem?: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About the American Revolution Two Miserable Presidents: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About the Civil War

Author : New York (State). Legislature. Assembly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3257376

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Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly Pdf

Author : Daniel W. Webster,Jon S. Vernick
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781421415222

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Updated Evidence and Policy Developments on Reducing Gun Violence in America by Daniel W. Webster,Jon S. Vernick Pdf

This digital update to Reducing Gun Violence in America presents new evidence and developments in the effort to address the staggering toll of gun violence in the United States. In 2013—in the wake of the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School—Johns Hopkins University Press published Reducing Gun Violence in America, a collection of essays written by the world’s leading experts on gun violence. Updated Evidence and Policy Developments on Reducing Gun Violence in America follows up on the state of American gun violence by analyzing new data, research, and policy developments one year after Sandy Hook. Over the course of ten substantive chapter addendums, contributors bring readers up-to-date on such varied topics as mental illness, domestic violence, background checks, illegal gun sales, and personalized guns. They describe the recent policy measures that have been enacted and suggest additional approaches that may help stem the violence. An essential companion to Reducing Gun Violence in America, the reliable, empirical research and legal analysis in this e-book will help lawmakers, opinion leaders, and concerned citizens identify policy changes to address gun violence, which takes an average of more than 80 lives every day in the United States.