Mortal Fall: A Novel of Suspense - Christine Carbo

Mortal Fall: A Novel of Suspense – Christine Carbo
English | 2016 | 416 Pages | ISBN: 1476775478 | EPUB | 2.33 MB

A wildlife biologist’s shocking death leads to chilling discoveries about a home for troubled teens in Christine Carbo’s haunting and compelling new crime novel set in the wilds of Glacier National Park.

Glacier National Park police officer Monty Harris knows that each summer at least one person—be it a reckless, arrogant climber or a distracted hiker—will meet tragedy in the park. But Paul “Wolfie” Sedgewick’s fatal fall from the sheer cliffs near Going-To-the-Sun Road is incomprehensible. Wolfie was an experienced and highly regarded wildlife biologist who knew all too well the perils that Glacier’s treacherous terrain presents—and how to avoid them.

The case, so close to home, has frayed park employee emotions. Yet calm and methodical lead investigator Monty senses in his gut that something isn’t right. So when whispers of irresponsibility or suicide emerge, tarnishing Wolfie’s reputation, Monty dedicates himself to uncovering the truth, for the sake of the man’s family and to satisfy his own persistent sense of unease.

Monty discovers that Wolfie’s zealous studies of Glacier’s mysterious, embattled wolverine population, so vital to park ecology, had met resistance, both local and federal. To muddy the waters further, a wilderness facility for rehabilitating troubled teens—one that Monty’s older brother attended—may have a disturbing connection to the case. As Monty delves further into an investigation that goes deeper than he ever imagined, he wrestles with the demons of his past, which lead back to harsh betrayals he thought he’d buried long ago.

And then a second body is found.

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Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business [Audiobook]

Makers and Takers: The Rise of Finance and the Fall of American Business [Audiobook] by Rana Foroohar
English | May 17, 2016 | ASIN: B01CUKFLII | M4B@64 kbps | 13 hrs 25 mins | 366 MB
Narrator: Rachel Fulginiti | Genre: Nonfiction/Economics

Eight years on from the biggest market meltdown since the Great Depression, the key lessons of the crisis of 2008 still remain unlearned – and our financial system is just as vulnerable as ever. Many of us know that our government failed to fix the banking system after the subprime mortgage crisis. But what few of us realize is how the misguided financial practices and philosophies that nearly toppled the global financial system have come to infiltrate all American businesses, putting us on a collision course with another cataclysmic meltdown.

Drawing on in-depth reporting and exclusive interviews at the highest rungs of Wall Street and Washington, Time assistant managing editor and economic columnist Rana Foroohar shows how the “financialization of America” – the trend by which finance and its way of thinking have come to reign supreme – is perpetuating Wall Street’s reign over Main Street, widening the gap between rich and poor, and threatening the future of the American dream.

Policy makers get caught up in the details of regulating “too big to fail” banks, but the problems in our market system go much broader and deeper than that. Consider that:

Thanks to 40 years of policy changes and bad decisions, only about 15 percent of all the money in our market system actually ends up in the real economy – the rest stays within the closed loop of finance itself.

The financial sector takes a quarter of all corporate profits in this country while creating only 4 percent of American jobs.

The tax code continues to favor debt over equity, making it easier for companies to hoard cash overseas rather than reinvest it on our shores.

Our biggest and most profitable corporations are investing more money in stock buybacks than in research and innovation.

And still the majority of the financial regulations promised after the 2008 meltdown have yet come to pass thanks to cozy relationships between our lawmakers and the country’s wealthiest financiers.

Exploring these forces that have led American businesses to favor balancing-sheet engineering over the actual kind and the pursuit of short-term corporate profits over job creation, Foroohar shows how financialization has so gravely harmed our society and why reversing this trend is of grave importance to us all. Through colorful stories of both “Takers” and “Makers”, she’ll reveal how we change the system for a better and more sustainable shared economic future.

The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government

The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government
Audio CDs in M4B / English: AAC, 62 kb/s (2 ch) | Duration: 10:18:54 | 2016 | ISBN-10: N/A | 281 MB
Genre: Politics

The New York Times bestselling author of The Party Is Over delivers a no-holds-barred exposé of who really wields power in Washington.

Mike Lofgren is back with a book perfectly pitched for the frenzied circus of the primaries. His argument this time is that for all of the backstabbing and money grubbing of the campaign season, the politicians we elect have as little ability to shift policy as Communist party apparatchiks.

Welcome to Mike Lofgren’s Washington, D.C.—a This Town, where the political theater that is endlessly tweeted and blogged about has nothing to do with actual decision making. The real work gets done behind the scenes by invisible bureaucrats working for the vast web of agencies that actually dictate our foreign policy, defense posture, and security decisions. Have you ever wondered why Obama’s policies look so much like Bush’s? Seek no further: Hillary v. Jeb is just window dressing. Actual power lies in the Deep State, Washington’s shadowy power elite, in the pockets of corporate interests and dependent on the moguls of Silicon Valley, whose data-collecting systems enable the U.S. government to spy on our every move, swipe, and click.

Drawing on insider knowledge gleaned in his three decades on the Hill, Lofgren offers a provocative wake-up call to Americans and urges them to fight to reinstate the basic premise of the Constitution.

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Scrollsaw Woodworking & Crafts #36 - Fall 2009

Scrollsaw Woodworking & Crafts #36 – Fall 2009
English | 99 pages | Scan PDF | 39 Mb

Scrollsaw Woodworking & Crafts

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