Dr Hector Carpentier is a partisan of no cause. His father, Dr Julien Carpentier, saw first-hand the ravages of the Revolution and remained resolutely impartial to politics. His son, cowed by his domineering mother and missing his deceased father, leads a very quiet life. Until he meets Vidocq, Paris' most legendary police officer.

Rene Enriquez, aka 'Boxer', was a mob enforcer among the upper echelons of the Mafia. He worked for the La Familia Mexicana, also knowns as La Eme, a powerful mob organization that used a base army of approximately 60,000 armed, loyal Latino gang members - the Surenos - to control California's crime world. This book tells the story of La Eme.

Offers 125 foolproof, basic recipes for soups, homemade pasta, roast chicken, burgers, vegan specialities, chocolate chip cookies, and more.

Teaches you how to make a satisfying meal without meat and dairy. This book helps you in making the shift to a vegan lifestyle easy.

On April 14, 1989 Mexican immigrant Ramon Salcido slashed the throats of his three young daughters - four-year-old Sophia, three-year-old Carmina, and 22-month-old Teresa. Miraculously, tiny Carmina was still alive and able to tell her rescuers 'My daddy cut me'. This book explores the events surrounding these headline-making murders.

Andy Warhol redefined the boundaries of painting, sculpture, and film, bending them to serve the purpose of his vision. Warhol would take from pop culture and pop culture would take from Warhol. But who was the man behind the public pose? This book disentangles the inherited myth of Warhol.

Explains the roots of our children's organizational problems, and the parents' role in fixing them. This book outlines different organizational styles used by different students.

In an attempt to capture the moments of intense curiosity that the author experiences on a daily basis, he traveled to 17 countries and took over 32,728 photographs of people staring at him. This book tells his story, and it begins in many ways the day he was placed on prosthetic stilts at the age of eight.

Beginning with Alexander's childhood in Macedonia with his abusive father, tyrannical King Philip and his overbearing mother Olympias - educated by Aristotle and trained in the military training - he develops the fierce character, strength, and ambition to overthrow his abusive father and take the crown.

A Ghost Story.

Seventeen-year-old Noora is not like the other women of the sun-battered mountains of the Arabian Peninsula in the 1950s. With the death of her mother, her father sinks into a dazed madness. That's when her brother assumes responsibility and insists that she marry. Noora refuses, and flees to a nearby mountain village.

From hedge funds to arbitrage to Roth IRAs to globalization, capitalism and all that it entails is often complicated, jargon-prone, and intimidating. This title offers a compendium of capitalism's many aspects - from the mechanisms and institutions that uphold it to the terms and laws that define it.

It took 20 years to build the Great Pyramid. By the time its capstone was laid in 2560 BC, the innovations born of the building quest had transformed agrarian Egypt into the world's most modern, most powerful nation. This book follows the progress of Hemienu, the architect who planned, organized and oversaw construction of the Great Pyramid.

Demonstrates what happens to a daughter's formulation of self and her relationships when her mother is either emotionally absent or, worse, cruel and unloving.

In July of 2003, the author was deployed to Baghdad alongside intelligence analysts and fellow interrogators. Their assignment was clear: gather actionable intelligence - leads that could be used to launch raids on High Value Targets within the insurgency. This book uncovers details about the insurgency.

Featuring illustrations that are catagorised according to theme, this title includes a visual index for quick reference and artists' contact information.

Whenever the USA has experienced hard times it has turned to the Exodus story for direction, inspiration and hope. The author visits the island where the Pilgrims spent their first Sabbath, and climbs the bell tower where the Liberty Bell was inscribed with a quote from Moses.

Offers wisdom from writers, philosophers, politicians, actors, and others that demonstrate the power of the question 'What if?' to alter the way we think about our world, using these possibilities to bolster an argument or drive home a point.