Expert Level Knowledge and Experience - Cisco CCIE Routing and Switching Certifies the skills required of expert-level network engineers to plan, operate and troubleshoot complex, converged network infrastructure.This self-study exam preparation guide for the CCIE Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert certification exam contains everything you need to test yourself and pass the Exam. All Exam topics are covered and insider secrets, complete explanations of all CCIE Cisco Certified In...

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Every life is shaped by a handful of choices. Some we make. Some are made for us. And some follow us for decades.The Two Lives of Robert Littman is a sweeping, intimate novel about the long arc of a man's life—told through two parallel timelines that explore who he becomes depending on the choices he makes as a young man.In one life, Robert pursues ambition, success, and the version of himself he believes the world will respect. In the other, he ch...

The Ghost Road is the fourth novel in William Mann's The Long Reckoning, a literary historical series tracing the destruction of the Native nations of the American West across the nineteenth century.It is 1890. Billy Lee Grogan is sixty-eight years old, a retired Army sergeant living quietly in the Davis Mountains of West Texas with his horse, his chickens, and a goat he cannot outwit. He has given the Army forty-five years. He does not intend to give them anythin...

Death Valley in '49 is William Lewis Manly's plainspoken first-person chronicle of the overland journey to California and the ordeal of the "Lost '49ers" in the basin later named Death Valley. Mixing adventure, topographical description, and ethnographic notice, he sets his experience within Gold Rush migration literature. His unadorned, reflective prose—at once laconic and vivid—marks scenes of scarcity, improvised travel, and collective decision, while preserving vernacular detail and fr...

New York Times Bestseller • Edgar Award winner for Best Fact CrimeThe Day of the Locust meets The Devil in the White City and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in this juicy, untold Hollywood story: an addictive true tale of ambition, scandal, intrigue, murder, and the creation of the modern film industry.By 1920, the movies had suddenly become America's new favorite pastime, and one of the nation's...

A modern-day thriller centered on authentic historical letters encoded with Templar and Rosicrucian secrets• Includes the actual text of recently discovered correspondence between two famous 19th-century Masonic leaders, Albert Pike and Colonel J. W. B. MacLeod Moore• Follows the protagonists, Thomas and Janet, as they seek to protect the Pike letters’ secret from the Vatican and its fanatical Jesuit hitman as well as others who desire to use the letters’ secret for world d...

Suppose that God exists: what difference would that make to the world? The answer depends on the nature of God and the nature of the world. In this book, William E. Mann argues in one new and sixteen previously published essays for a modern interpretation of a traditional conception of God as a simple, necessarily existing, personal being. Divine simplicity entails that God has no physical composition or temporal stages; that there is in God no distinction between essence and existence; th...

From the noted Hollywood biographer and author of The Contender comes this celebration of the great American love story—the romance between Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart—capturing its complexity, contradictions, and challenges as never before.InBogie & Bacall, William Mann offers a deep and comprehensive look at Lauren Bacall, Humphrey Bogart, and the unlikely love they shared. Mann details their early years—Bogart’s effete upbringing in New Y...

The Ancient Greeks--What's there to be proud of about the ancient Greeks? Well, only that they set the groundwork for all of Western Civilization, thought up the concept of democracy, encouraged more original thinking than anyone before or since, and actually celebrated same-sex love.The Castro--For any gay first-time visitor, alighting from the trolley at the famous intersection of Castro and Market in San Francisco is like stepping into Oz. Historian Susan Stryker has called it "t...