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An elderly couple living in Victorian London had been struggling financially, until an eccentric gentleman answered their ad for a lodger. But as women begin dying at the hands of a serial killer, they start to suspect something too horrific for words.

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Three thousand feet above China, it was Jake's turn to jump. He slid his pistol, knife, and ration packets into the pockets of his leather jacket and edged toward the open hatch of the B-52 bomber. He checked the tension on the harness of his parachute, made sure the handle of the ripcord was free, and then began lowering himself out of the hatch and into the darkness. One of the famous Doolittle Raiders who first attacked Japan after the bomb...

Reviews the methodology that led to the 2006 Department of Homeland Security report, Bioterrorism Risk Assessment (BTRA). This book identifies a number of fundamental concerns with the BTRA of 2006, ranging from mathematical and statistical mistakes that have corrupted results, to unnecessarily complicated probability models.

Conventional prompt global strike (CPGS) is a military option under consideration by the US Department of Defense. This book, the final report from the National Research Council's Committee on Conventional Prompt Global Strike Capability, analyzes proposed CPGS systems and evaluates the potential role CPGS could play in US defense.

<, div>, Poems, essays, satires, and letters in the style of <, i>, The Spectator<, /i>, provide an authentic portrait of many aspects of life in 18th-century Barbados in this anthology of writings drawn from newspapers, journals, and society newsletters of the time. While the writing ostensibly reveals the perspectives of the white slave-owning class, many authors wrote under pen names, and the dialogues presented about the legal ...

This is a revised and enlarged edition of John Moriarty's first book from 1994 -- a Book of Revelations mediated by stories and personal excursions into literature, philosophy, and sacred writings. He articulates the wisdom of humanity, drawing on cultural landscapes in India, China, Egypt, Australia, Native America, and Europe. Now recognized as a classic of spiritual writing, it enlarges our capacity for symbolic understanding in an age of m...