A gripping tale of Occupation, Resistance, and the Quest to reclaim stolen masterpieces.In 1940, as German forces race towards Bordeaux, a Jewish physician faces an impossible choice before the darkness descends, sending his wife and daughter to safety in America or keeping them close. Underground resistance cells form in the shadows, but every act of defiance is met with Nazi brutality. Survival means trusting no one.Decades later in Boston, lawyer Corin H...

COULD YOU SURVIVE THE CASTLE?Find out if you’re a Traitor or a Faithful with this official personality test for fans of the BAFTA-winning BBC phenomenon, The Traitors.Would you be banished at the first Round Table before all the players have even learned each other’s names? Or would you make it to the End Game, eyeing your fellow players across the fire pit?Blending behavioural insight with addictive gameplay, this official book put...

Organizations are created to make a difference. But meaningful impact today does not guarantee that an organization will remain capable of making that difference tomorrow.Enduring Impact: Designing Organizations Built to Last in a Volatile World examines what leaders can do to build organizations capable not merely of achieving impact, but of sustaining, protecting and deepening that impact over time. Endurance is not the natural reward of success; it is a distinct...

Shanghai in 1927 did not feel like one city. It felt like 3 cities pressed together so tightly that a man could commit a crime on one street, walk 2 blocks, and stand beyond the reach of the policeman who chased him. A rickshaw puller needed 2 badges on 2 streets, a merchant paid 3 taxes on 1 shipment, and a gangster rented a room on Avenue Joffre to buy French protection. This book explains how that map made crime a business and how the business shaped modern China.Between 1920 an...

The Nat Turner rebellion of August 1831, the iconic uprising of enslaved people in the United States, was much more extensive than we have understood. This powerful exploration of a Tidewater Virginia plantation reveals how the daily resistance of the enslaved was heightened by spiritual beliefs to seek the divine overthrow of a wicked world.Tower Hill draws on a previously untapped family archive to reveal the routines of daily life and the fraught family...

This volume serves as a study guide and revision resource for postgraduate students preparing for examinations in nuclear medicine physics. The problems and solutions presented reflect the typical syllabi adopted by universities and training programmes worldwide. This invaluable study guide should be used in conjunction with other key textbooks in the field to provide additional learning opportunities.Since the publication of the first edition, nuclear medicine has continued to adv...

From the Pulitzer-Prize–winning historian, an absorbing family saga of Virginia slavery and the earthshaking rebellion led by Nat Turner.This powerful history of Virginia slavery is grounded in the daily life of a struggling plantation, Tower Hill, owned by generations of a local merchant family. A persistent debt that is both commercial and emotional drives the Blows—husbands and wives, fathers and sons—to turmoil and madness. The enslaved Blacks at Tower Hill liv...

**How a devastating outbreak of horse flu in the 1870s ground city life to a halt—but ultimately revolutionized animal rights, medicine, and transportation.From a veteran science writer, evolutionary biologist, historian of science, and the coauthor of the acclaimed How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog).**In the 1870s, horses were the lifeblood of North American cities. New York, Boston, Chicago, and Toronto relied on tens of thousands of workhorses to power daily li...

BUY SMART. PAY LESS.Buying a vehicle should be exciting. Instead, for many people, it becomes one of the most stressful and confusing financial transactions they will ever make.Why?Because the dealership negotiates vehicle transactions every day. You might do it once every three, five, or even ten years.Buy Smart. Pay Less. - The Car Buying Playbook was written to help level that playing field.After more than 30 years inside the au...

One state. Many voices. Endless possibilities.Short Stories by Texas Authors, Volume 11 brings together a remarkable collection of stories that cross genres, generations, communities, and worlds.A young man searches for the courage to live openly beneath the lights of a small-town football field. An alien observer sent to study humanity must decide whether saving the species is worth destroying what makes people human. Two cousins follow a stranger...

As Americans grow increasingly mobile, estate planning practitioners routinely encounter clients whose marital property includes community property acquired in one or more states, as well as clients who may benefit from elective community property trust statutes now available in Alaska, Tennessee, Kentucky, South Dakota, and Florida. Because community property generally retains its character even after a couple relocates to a separate property state, estate planners in every jurisdiction m...

Tracing the history of agricultural scientists in the United States from the colonial period to the present, Agricultural Scientists: A Cultural History explores the premise that culture has dictated and constrained how agricultural scientists approach their work through the centuries.Beginning in the 1700s, Alan I Marcus examines the emergence of agricultural scientists in the United States and the effects of agricultural science on American society. Across nine chronolog...