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One Step to Danger

By: John Gubert

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Jacqui Di Maglio, estranged from her family, loyal, gentle and loving. She is trained in martial arts and handy with a gun. She will shoot to kill, commit any crime but drugs and happily joins the biggest financial scam of all times. This is a fast moving thriller, bringing together the worlds of crime and high finance.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1906221359

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9781906221355

The Financial Terrorist

By: John Gubert

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The Financial Terrorist

By: John Gubert

Financial terrorism is now the name of the game. And Charles and Jacqui Rossi are no novices. They use their ownership of the highly regarded International Bank of Europe to launch a series of incredible attacks on markets all over the world. They use banks to channel fraudulent products to the unsuspecting wider public. They use insider dealing to falsify share prices. They use markets to build up huge and speculative positions, spreading false rumours to achieve their ends. And they use murder to eliminate anyone who comes between them and their ambition to be the most powerful people in their world. But they have fierce opposition, primarily in the form of Jacqui’s father, a Mafia don. He is at home in the world of “old crime” – drugs, prostitution and protection rackets. He wants to continue heading the leading Mafia family in America, but, for that, he needs the help of Charles and Jacqui. And, when he can’t get it, their two worlds clash – financial crime against a Mafia which will stop at nothing to achieve its objectives and will destroy anyone who opposes its plans. But it is up against unlimited money and that can be as ruthless a weapon as anything the Mafia have in their arsenal. Even the most trusted government officials are seduced by the wealth on offer. Regulators are powerless and the law is irrelevant as the bankers have the best, and the most unscrupulous, lawyers on their side. Much of the fiction in John Gubert’s first novel, One Step To Danger, became a reality. It is just a matter of time before the same happens to The Financial Terrorist.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1848763271

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9781848763272

The Insider

By: John Gubert

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The Insider

By: John Gubert

Playing the markets, bringing down the banks.... John Gubert’s chillingly true to life financial thrillers continue with The Insider... The Rossi family have already made their billions through fraud and subterfuge. Their links to organised crime have helped them make unrivalled profits in world financial markets. But billions are not enough. Now they are looking for another coup to make them the most powerful financiers of all time. Setting their sights high, they take aim to bring down one of the world’s greatest banks. Charles Rossi is a brilliant banker. His wife Jacqui is the daughter of a Mafia kingpin. Together they head their select team – destroying lives, ruining reputations, establishing incredible scams and confounding the establishment. Financial fraud is their way of life. Money laundering is how they cover their tracks. Illicit trading on world markets is their way to make money. Amoral, ruthless, brilliant and frightening – the Rossis ignore the law, break the rules and use every tool in their armoury. But will they win against impossible odds?

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1780884281

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9781780884288

Tchaikovsky

By: Roland John Wiley

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Tchaikovsky

By: Roland John Wiley

A giant in the pantheon of 19th century composers, Tchaikovsky continues to enthrall audiences today. From the Nutcracker--arguably the most popular ballet currently on the boards--Swan Lake, and Sleeping Beauty, to Eugene Onegin and Pique Dame, to the Symphony Pathetique and the always rousing, canon-blasting 1812 Overture--this prolific and beloved composer's works are perennial favorites. Now, John Wiley, a renowned Tchaikovsky scholar, provides a fresh biography aimed in classic Master Musicians style at the student and music lover. Wiley deftly draws on documents from imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet era sources, providing a more balanced look at recent controversies surrounding the marriage, death, and sexuality of the composer. The author dovetails the biographical material with separate chapters that treat the music thoroughly and fully, work-by-work, with more substantial explorations of Tchaikovsky's most familiar compositions. These analyses present new, even iconoclastic perspectives on the music and the composer's intent and expression. Several informative appendices, in the Master Musicians format, include an exhaustive list of works and bibliography.

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585

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Oxford University Press

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0199709211

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9780199709212

Bubonic Plague in Early Modern Russia

Public Health and Urban Disaster

By: John T. Alexander

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Bubonic Plague in Early Modern Russia

Public Health and Urban Disaster

By: John T. Alexander

John T. Alexander's study dramatically highlights how the Russian people reacted to the Plague, and shows how the tools of modern epidemiology can illuminate the causes of the plague's tragic course through Russia. Bubonic Plauge in Early Modern Russia makes contributions to many aspects of Russian and European history: social, economic, medical, urban, demographic, and meterological. It is particularly enlightening in its discussion of eighteenth-century Russia's emergent medical profession and public health institutions and, overall, should interest scholars in its use of abundant new primary source material from Soviet, German, and British archives.

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Oxford University Press

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0195347994

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9780195347999

Pottery, Pavements, and Paradise

Iconographic and Textual Studies on Late Antiquity

By: Annewies van den Hoek,John Joseph Herrmann

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Pottery, Pavements, and Paradise

Iconographic and Textual Studies on Late Antiquity

By: Annewies van den Hoek,John Joseph Herrmann

These essays on late antiquity traverse a territory in which Christian and pagan imagery and practices compete, coexist, and intermingle. The iconography of the most significant late antique ceramic, African Red Slip Ware, is an important and relatively unexploited vehicle for documenting the diversity and interpenetration of late antique cultures. Literary texts and art in other media, particularly mosaics, provide imagery that complement and enhance the messages of the ceramics. Popular entertainments, pagan cults, mythic heroes, beasts, monsters, and biblical visions are themes dealt with on the patrician and popular levels. With interpretive supplements from these diverse realms, it is possible to achieve greater insight into the life, attitudes, and thought of Late Antiquity.

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BRILL

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9004256938

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9789004256934

Trans-Atlantic Divide

The USA/Euroland Rift?

By: John J. Metzler

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Trans-Atlantic Divide

The USA/Euroland Rift?

By: John J. Metzler

This book brings a needed balance to the debate: are the USA and Europe really at odds after stressful unavoidable diplomatic residue following the Iraq War? The book outlines a clear common ground for both sides, noting that American relations with Europe remain vital for commercial, cultural, and geo-political reasons.

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University Press of America

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1461693012

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9781461693017

Waterloo 1815 (2)

Ligny

By: John Franklin

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Waterloo 1815 (2)

Ligny

By: John Franklin

The battle of Ligny saw the Prussians pushed back by the French Army in what was to be Napoleon's last battlefield victory. This title represents the second instalment of the captivating study of the Waterloo campaign, one of the defining events in European history. In particular it focuses on the desperate struggle for Ligny. With Wellington unable to assist his Prussian allies in time, the Prussian centre was overwhelmed as night began to fall, although the flanks were able to retreat in some semblance of order. Stunning illustrations augment the drama of the fighting in this area while considerable research drawn from previously unpublished first-hand accounts provide a detailed and engaging resource for all aspects of the battle.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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147280368X

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9781472803689

Unbound from Rome

Art and Craft in a Fluid Landscape, Ca. 650-250 BCE

By: John North Hopkins

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Unbound from Rome

Art and Craft in a Fluid Landscape, Ca. 650-250 BCE

By: John North Hopkins

An expansive look at ancient art and architecture over four centuries highlighting the diversity of makers and viewers within and beyond Rome's ever-changing political boundaries Roman art and architecture is typically understood as being bound in some ways to a political event or as a series of aesthetic choices and experiences stemming from a center in Rome itself. Moving beyond the misleading catchall label "Roman," John North Hopkins aims to untangle the many peoples whose diverse cultures and traditions contributed to Rome's visual culture over a four-hundred-year time span across the first millennium BCE. Hopkins carefully reconsiders some of the period's most iconic works by way of the many practices and peoples bound up with them. Some of these include the extraordinary and complex effort to build the Temple of Jupiter; the creative actions and diverse encounters tied to luxury objects like the Ficoroni Cista; and the important meanings held by sacred temple sculpture and votive offerings through their making and subsequent practices of devotion. A key purpose of this book is to question an idea of Rome that has focused on elite production and the textual record; Hopkins instead calls attention to the lesser-known--often silenced--actors who were integral players. The result is a deep understanding of a diverse and historically rich Italic and Mediterranean world, as well as the myriad cultures, communities, and individuals who would have made and experienced art within and around the changing political boundaries of Rome.

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Yale University Press

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0300270038

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9780300270037

Book's by John Gubert

One Step to Danger

One Step to Danger

The Financial Terrorist

The Financial Terrorist

The Insider

The Insider

Tchaikovsky

Tchaikovsky

Bubonic Plague in Early Modern Russia

Bubonic Plague in Early Modern Russia

Pottery, Pavements, and Paradise

Pottery, Pavements, and Paradise

Trans-Atlantic Divide

Trans-Atlantic Divide

Waterloo 1815 (2)

Waterloo 1815 (2)

Unbound from Rome

Unbound from Rome

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