Michael Simmons

When his father is arrested for insider trading and his family loses all their money, Brett Gerson takes a job as an assistant to a elderly pool cleaner in his former wealthy California neighborhood and learns some valuable life lessons. Includes a sixteen-page reader's guide.

Pool Boy

Suspecting that his father's business partner is selling smallpox virus to terrorists and murdering anyone who gets in his way, sixteen-year-old Evan Macalister once again travels to France with his friends, Ruben and Erika, to search for the mysterious Lubchenko, the elusive spymaster whose help they need to avert a major disaster.

The Rise of Lubchenko

When his father is framed for murder and bioterrorism, high-school junior Evan, using clues from a stolen laptop, travels from Seattle to Paris with two friends to find the real culprit.

Finding Lubchenko

Frank Ford

Richard Johnston

Teja Gerken

(Guitar Reference). Foreword by C.F. Martin IV. This comprehensive guide explains how to buy and maintain the guitar that matches your needs. From its beginning in European classical music, through American innovations like blues, jazz, country, and all the way to rock, pop and folk, the acoustic guitar's versatility is remarkable. This book covers all types of models with an emphasis placed on steel-string flattops, archtops and classical guitars. Topics covered include: How to tell the difference between a good sounding and bad sounding instrument; How much of the sound is determined by the wood; How to amplify and maintain its natural sound; How much money to spend in order to get an instrument that matches your level of playing; A color section illustrates historically significant instruments.

The Composition, Construction, and Evolution of One of World's Most Beloved Instruments

Acoustic Guitar

" ... The conclusion of 'But that's another song.' It recaps events from ... [that] book and tells the full story of Rob Baymont, a comatose patient after a major car accident. When Rob awakens from his coma, he is admitted to the psychiatric hospital where he undergoes treatment for his mental state possibly caused by the coma. Dr. James, the psychiatric doctor at Oak Ridge Psychiatric Hospital must put the pieces of the puzzle together in order to find out what caused Rob's mental stability to decline. The ending will Shock you!"--Page 4 of cover.

The Oak Ridge Mystery

Fifteen-year-old Brett Gerson is a real-life S.R.K. (spoiled rich kid)- the guy you love to hate. Yep, Brett' s pretty much got life in the bag- until his dad is jailed for insider trading, and the family money swirls down the drain. Brett wishes things could go back to the way they were- until some dirty swimming pools change everything.

The love-hate relationship between high school musician Will and his older brother Jason is fueled by the abuse Will suffers at Jason's hands, but a devastating accident changes everything for the boys and their family. Reprint.

Vandal

John Morrish

Dave Hunter

Mikael Jasson

Electric Guitars: The Illustrated Encyclopedia is a tour through pop-music’s most celebrated musical instrument. Covering several decades of iconic pieces, this guide describes electric guitars produced by every significant manufacturer from Alembic to Zemaitis. Alongside every model is detailed information and a host of action pictures of key players, from Chet Atkins to Joey Z. 1,200 photographs really bring each guitar to life. With 800 classic, rare and unusual instruments from all major manufacturers in studio-quality photographs, plus illustrations of key players, original ads, and memorabilia, it’s easy to get lost within these pages. Comprehensive and informative text with a unique A-to-Z guitar directory covers makers’ histories, great guitarists, and musical trends. This is the definitive guide to the electric guitar, written and researched by the world’s leading authorities on the instrument that has shaped over 50 years of popular music. In words and pictures, detailed descriptions of just why the electric guitar is the most exciting icon of modern pop music.

The Illustrated Encyclopedia

Electric Guitars

Insight into collateral management and its increasing relevance in modern banking In the wake of recent financial crises, firms of all sizes have adjusted their policies to incorporate more frequent instances of collateral management. Collateral Management: A Guide to Mitigating Counterparty Risk explains the connection between the need for collateral management in order to alleviate counterparty risk and the actions that firms must take to achieve it. Targeted at middle and back office managers seeking a hands-on explanation of the specifics of collateral management, this book offers a thorough treatment of the subject and attends to details such as internal record management, daily procedures used in making and receiving collateral calls, and settlement-related issues that affect the movements of cash and securities collateral. An expert in financial topics ranging from trade lifecycle to operational risk, author Michael Simmons offers readers insight into a field that, so far, is struggling to produce enough expertise to meet its high demand. Presents hands-on advice and examples from a bestselling, internationally renowned author who introduces his third book on operations and operations-related activities Explains the relationship between collateral management and preventing institutional defaults, such as the recent Lehman Brothers downfall Since 2008, firms have recognized and embraced the importance of collateral management, but this book will provide practitioners with a deeper understanding and appreciation of its relevance.

A Guide to Mitigating Counterparty Risk

Collateral Management

The Guide to Creating a Life of Passion, Purpose, and Prosperity

The Student Success Manifesto

Mary Stuart became the Queen of Scots when she was only a week old. While she was still a baby, Henry VIII burned and pillaged the Scottish countryside to force her betrothal to his son Edward. The skillful politicking of her mother, Marie de Guise, resulted in Mary's betrothal to the son of the French king when Mary was five years old. She was sent to France to be educated as a French princess. There, "the little Queen" was adored and admired. But when her husband died a year after succeeding to his father's throne, Mary surrendered to duty and left her beloved France behind to return to the homeland she barely remembered, and be Queen of the Scots in deed as well as in name. Six years, two disastrous marriages, two sordid murders, and one abduction later, Mary Stuart went from being an adored and popular young queen to being the most hated woman in Scotland. Taken captive by her own lords and nobles, she was forced to abdicate the throne. A daring escape in the middle of the night led to a heroic last stand against her enemies. In the end, however, the last queen of Scotland was forced to take refuge with the most dangerous woman in Britain: Elizabeth I.

White Queen, Red Queen

Mary, Queen of Scots

I’ve always been a fan of fiction and myths about other worlds and the power and abilities that they can express and produce, I’ve always seen things differently than the average person, not that there aren’t people who would agree with me and see things how I do, but I haven’t met them. But when someone sees something that confuses them I understand, things that people don’t understand I find fascinating. I’m not crazy or anything I just have a unique eye for things that we encounter on a day to day basis. I see more to life, earth nature outer space, heaven and hell a lot of things that go unexpressed because its something that just comes and becomes apart of what I believe in witch happen to be a lot of things and how I see things. Most of my inspirations come from life experiences, a relationship with someone I got very attached too, frustrations about how I grew up, not that it was all bad, being abandoned, feeling alone, writing was a way to keep me from losing my mind and not caring if I was going down hill, I started to live inside my head and use metaphor’s about how I saw life as it was. Training in martial arts played a big role in my writing, whatever I felt at the time and however long it followed me. One of the things I’m coming to realize is that the bad things never leave us, because they are the memories that haunt us, instead of ignoring them or denying them we can use them and shape them into a work of art or whatever you prefer that fits who you are, it depends on how far you look inside yourself, sometimes you can look so far that it scares you and you never knew you had that side to you. The journey inside the mind and feelings is a never ending story that continues even after death, its what makes your soul that determines how well you’ll be heard. I enjoy writing, but yeah, when I think about it, I don’t want to write, but after I start its like finding myself all over again and something gets reinvented in someway.

The Vampire Chronicles

Sebastian

Om den tjekkiske præsident, hans opvækst, tiden som systemkritiker og perioden som præsident efter fløjlsrevolutionen i 1989

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