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Real-world strategies for overcoming roadblocks and making the most out of your company's acquisitions.
Despite the economic downturn, the corporate marriage frenzy continues to proceed at fever pitch, as companies reach beyond their traditional boundaries to gain access to resources, expertise, and markets. But after the ink is dry, most experiments in corporate acquisition fail to live up to expectations. In The Morning After, Stephen and Shannon Rye Wall showcase dozens of cases to identify the seven common myths and misconceptions of mergers and offer a wealth of concrete tools for leading and sustaining successful collaborations.
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A weak sister to two masterpieces.......2000-12-06
As a corporate executive, I am always seeking material that will provide new insights into ensuring deal success. This book doesn't offer much. Many of the major findings I've either read before in newspapers or come straight from the pages of more detailed books on how to succeed at M&A. There is not a lot of detail on following through with particular strategies and the idealism of the authors suggests that they have never been true players in the process. This book seems like a diluted version of the two pioneering books that have already said it all --"Joining Forces" and "Winning at Mergers & Acquisitions". In my opinion, no integration can truly work without implementing the guidance set forth in these two masterpieces.
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Development Practitioners And Social Process: Artists of the Invisible
Allan Kaplan
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Soil survey of Kalamazoo County, Michigan
Franklin R Austin
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Ether Day is the unpredictable story of America's first major scientific discovery -- the use of anesthesia -- told in an absorbing narrative that traces the dawn of modern surgery through the lives of three extraordinary men. Ironically, the "discovery" was really no discovery at all: Ether and nitrous oxide had been known for more than forty years to cause insensitivity to pain, yet, with names like "laughing gas," they were used almost solely for entertainment. Meanwhile, patients still underwent operations during which they saw, heard, and felt every cut the surgeon made. The image of a grim and grisly operating room, like the one in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, was in fact starkly accurate in portraying the conditions of surgery before anesthesia.
With hope for relief seemingly long gone, the breakthrough finally came about by means of a combination of coincidence and character, as a cunning Boston dentist crossed paths with an inventive colleague from Hartford and a brilliant Harvard-trained physician. William Morton, Horace Wells, and Charles Jackson: a con man, a dreamer, and an intellectual. Though Wells was crushed by derision when he tried to introduce anesthetics, Morton prevailed, with help from Jackson. The result was Ether Day, October 16, 1846, celebrated around the world. By that point, though, no honor was enough. Ether Day was not only the dawn of modern surgery, but the beginning of commercialized medicine as well, as Morton patented the discovery.
What followed was a battle so bitter that it sent all three men spiraling wildly out of control, at the same time that anesthetics began saving countless lives. Meticulously researched and masterfully written, Ether Day is a riveting look at one of history's most remarkable untold stories.
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The Tale of Laughing Gas Is No Laughing Matter.......2007-09-11
What a fascinating read!
Years ago, I used to want to be an anesthesiologist... but then I lowered my sights to nursing school--but still with some intent of becoming an anesthetist. (anesthesiologist = doctor ; anesthetist = specially trained technician)
Eventually I decided that the medical field was NOT at all for me, yet I still have a strong interest in many things medical--including, certainly, anesthesia.
This book supports the old saying that life is stranger than fiction. The events leading to and following the discovery of the anesthetic qualities of nitrous oxide and sulfuric ether are quite boggling--one of which is the fact that people were having fun at `gas parties' and `ether frolics' for years while patients, without anesthesia, screamed in horror as a limb was amputated or a tumor cut from living, feeling tissue.
Morton, Wells, and Jackson's stories are sad ones, really... especially, in my opinion, Wells', for he seemed the best humanitarian of that lot. Morton was driven by greed, pure and simple. Jackson, perhaps something in between.
I try to pick up a nonfiction book now and then to add in with all the fiction I read, and this most recent bit of nonfiction indulgence was both fascinating and informative.
Bad start to competitive medicine and pharmaceuticals!.......2005-04-20
I spent half my time reading this book shaking my head. Even my husband asked what was wrong. It's simply incredible that even this far back in medical history, the mid-1800s, that an actual advance could cause as much trouble as it did. This story is about three men; one discovered the ability of certain chemicals to cause people to become oblivious to pain, one man found the best chemical and the right means to deliver it--but his reputation as a con artist proved to be his undoing for something he actually did right, and the last man was a doctor on the peripherary of all this who sought to claim more credit for something he had little to do with.
I thought I was cynical before, because of all the problems we are having with pharmaceutical companies placing profits above health, and physicians and researchers following suit...but apparently, this has been a problem for over a hundred and fifty years.
The major 'discoverer' of etherization as an anasthetic for surgery, Morton, actually followed through and experimented with the formulas to get the right amount to allow patients to sleep through horrific surgery such as amputation. However, Morton's previous life as a con artist and also his rush to place a patent on this technique for profit reasons, caused his discovery to backfire against him. Not only did he never receive recompense for his work in this area, even the military absconded and used his work during the Civil War. The poor man died in despair in his mid-40s, with little recognition paid until after his death.
None of the men received what they thought was their rightful due concerning ether use in surgery. One committed suicide, and the last man who was a very intelligent man ended up dying slowly in an insane asylum of most probably a stroke, that may have incapacitated his ability to speak, but not necessarily his memory or thinking abilites.
This is one of the worse case scenarios of the attempt to profit off of the pain of others. I felt remorse for all of these men and their families; yet at the same time, if they had handled it differently with less eagerness to make a profit or be the 'one' whose name was attached with etherization, maybe it would have worked out better.
Well-written and interesting book. It's amazing after 150 years we still don't understand how anasthetia (sic) works. I think it would be more helpful to designing specific methods for individuals if we did understand it more.
Karen Sadler,
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Ether Day-a timeless retelling of the miracle of anesthesia.......2005-01-15
Hearing the news from a doctor in today's era is not quite as frightening as it once was. Try imagining having a leg or other limb amputated without being put to sleep. Just the thought of it sends chills down my spine. Julie M. Fenster is able to grab your attention right when you look at her novel's title, "Ether Day: The Strange Tale of America's Greatest Medical Discovery". It makes you wonder right away how anesthesia was developed and why the men who made such an amazing, world altering discovery could be considered haunted.
The novel begins with the general story of the first time Ether was allowed to be used in a medical operation. This took place on Friday, October 16, 1846 at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. The surgery was to be performed on Gilbert Abbot to remove a large growth removed from his neck. The Ether treatment was to be administered by William T.G. Morton, who was a young dentist at the time. The novel then proceeds to go back further in time to where the discovery began. Throughout, the trials and tribulations of attempting to bring a new scientific advancement into the light of excessive critics. The story is told a few times from the point of view from each character involved in the discovery of Ether, each one trying to stake their claim on the fame of being the actual discoverer of such a miracle drug. With the story of each character, the story continued further on. Throughout the greedy, self-centered nature of all human beings, even those we may consider to be medical geniuses shone through in their actions. The men were willing to do anything to claim themselves as the inventors of anesthesia that they even went to such lengths as committing crimes in order to fund their discovery.
This book was also very informative in the processes it takes in order to make a scientific discovery of this magnitude. The men involved were forced to jeopardize all that they had, including their lives, and reputations as prominent figures in the medical world. They sacrificed everything that they stood for and this pressure eventually ruined their lives and led to each of their deaths.
Prior to reading this novel, I had not even an inkling of an idea as to how the medicine was discovered that made me able to bear the pain of having my appendix removed, nor had I given it much thought. With it's local ties to Mass General hospital and the operating theater that I have actually visited, this book was very enthralling. It caught my attention right from the beginning and held it up until the very end. I highly recommend this novel to the avid intellectual or even the semi-interested student, for it is full of surprises, twists, and turns that you will never see coming.
The discovery of anesthesia.......2005-01-03
Ether Day, by Julie M. Fenster, is the story of three men and the discovery of anesthesia. This book is written exactly like a story, introducing you to the characters and leading you through their lives. The way it is written kept me interested throughout the entire book.
This book starts off with a story that really caught my attention. Fenster describes a patient undergoing surgery. She describes him as being in a huge amount of pain. She then goes on to say how right down the street there is a show occurring. The people on stage are using nitrous oxide to get high and to make people laugh. Little did anyone know this nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, could have helped this patient have a painless surgery.
Surgery before Ether was very painful. Fenster describes the patients as either "whimpering, raying, mumbling, moaning, cursing, wailing," and shouting. Think about this, back before this discovery the patient could feel, see and hear everything that was happening.
Ether was first administered to a patient undergoing surgery on October 16, 1846. This patient's name was Gilbert Abbott and he was to have a large growth cut from the side of his neck. William T. G. Morton had received an invitation by a physician at Mass General to come try out his "secret compound that promised painless surgery". The surgery and many more to follow were a huge success.
William Morton was not the only man to claim to be the discoverer of this gas. This book goes into detail about the controversy of the discovery of anesthesia. There were three men that insist that they were the first to discover this painkiller; they are William Morton, Horace Wells, and Charles Jackson. Following the discovery was a battle between these three men. The end result was that each man, basically, spiraled wildly out of control.
Fenster does a good job at telling all sides of the controversy. She was able to make the reader understand what the future was like for the three men involved and what they went through. What really hit me was her vivid descriptions of surgeries before this discovery because it made me realize how important it was.
Ether Day review.......2005-01-03
Ether Day is the tragic story of "America's greatest medical discovery." It follows the long and difficult road to finding a form of anesthesia. Set in the mid 19th century, it is not simply a book of dates and facts but a creative story. Fenster brings the characters to life and creates a world of science that can be easily understood. The book flows because it is suspenseful and intriguing.
The book starts off with a sad short story that immediately grabs your attention. There is a very painful operation taking place without anesthetics, and in another building close by a phenomenon known as "laughing gas" is being demonstrated to a crowd of people. Little did they know at the time that this "laughing gas" was a form of anesthesia that could've helped the patient during the operation.
Before I read this book, I had no knowledge of how anesthetics came to be. I guess it was something I always took for granted and never questioned how life would be without it. The only complaint I have of the book are the descriptions of operations without anesthetics. However, I think those graphic descriptions were necessary to make the story more effective and meaningful. You should only skim through those parts if you have a weak stomach.
This book made me appreciate science more and it also made me realize how lucky we are. These men sacrificed their careers and reputations to find something to that would save a lot of people from pain or death. Something many people take for granted was given value and I truly appreciate the use of anesthetics now.
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Vision: Coding and Efficiency
Colin Blakemore ,
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This is an extensive collection of essays on all aspects of vision, approached from the perspective of coding and efficiency. It examines the broad spectrum of vision research from one particular, unifying viewpoint, namely the way that visual systems efficiently encode and represent the outside world. This approach, both rigorous and general, was championed by H.B. Barlow in the fifties and has been followed in many areas of vision research. The approach has recently acquired new significance due to the growing interest of computer science and artificial intelligence in the processes of vision, which attempts to describe visual processes in algorithmic terms, equally relevant to a robotic visual system, the eye of a fly or the complex visual pathways in the human brain.
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Good Supplement To Your Safety Certification.......2002-04-14
This book is good for beginner coaches. The text is easy to read and the content is well-organized. It includes mini self-tests to evaluate what you have learned. It is, though, missing examples of specific skills to have your athletes practice. It is very general in several areas. Also, the 80's style cover photo definitely needs to go! You can just put a sticker on it until they come out with a new and updated guide.
Rookie Coaches Gymnastics Guide.......2000-05-10
This is a great guide for those just starting out! I found this book to be a very practical tool in preparation for my first coaching experience. There are excelent examples for class structuring and coaching techniques. It has probably the best illistrations of tumbling skills I've seen yet. The chapters are easy to read, flow smothly, and are independant enough from one another for skimming to the task at hand.
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Rookie Coaches Gymnastics Guide
Manufacturer: Human Kinetics (Trade)
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Too Vague.......2004-02-04
I wasn't happy with this book one bit. It was very vague. Isn't there a book out there that breaks down elements and explains what is correct and what is not??? There is for dance.
One Of The Best Coaching Books.......2001-03-31
This book was truly written for the rookie coach. There are tips on how to start a gymnastics problem and how to deal with legal problems. There are several sample training programs for different skill levels.
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There are dozens of books with college stats, and hundreds of Web site virtual tours, but really, nothing takes the place of the actual, live campus visit. This excellent college guide paves the way to the 250 most-toured campuses in the U.S., providing parents and students with maps, directions, nearby accommodations, tour times, dormitory stay options, how to meet professors and admissions officers, and when's the best and worst time to visit. Choosing a college is an important, exciting, terrifying time; anything that helps smooth the rough edges is a boon. --Stephanie Gold
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This new edition of Visiting College Campuses is your one-stop resource for plotting your journey, whether it’s by plane, train, or automobile. Our profiles of the 299 most-toured campuses include:
• Maps and precise directions to get you there by any mode of transportation
• Nearby hotels, motels, B&Bs, and resorts for every budget
• The best and worst times to visit each campus
• Dates and times when campus tours are available
• How to arrange an overnight stay in a dormitory
• Information on meeting professors, admissions officers, and coaches
Visiting College Campuses also gives you mileage charts by state and region, so you’ll know exactly how far your targeted schools are from one another and how many campuses you can hope to cover each day of your trip. Month-by-month academic calendars let you know when school is in session, so you won’t show up to find an empty campus. Customize your trip to avoid hassles and disappointments, and get the most out of your time.
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Visiting College Campuses.......2007-03-08
Great service. The book was in excellent condition and arrived within the stated delivery time.
For good advice, find another source.......2003-07-23
If all you require in selecting a college is what the cutoff for the SAT scores are, and which Motel-6 is nearby where you can stay while visiting the campus, then this is your book. The best that the book can do for you is supply you with the hours and telephone number of the admission office. It offers absolutely no insight to the curricula, strengths or weaknesses of the school.
How this book can Help.......2002-09-08
Andy Bevridge completely misunderstands the purpose of this book.
At the start of a book there is a disclaimer which directs readers to double check times of tours and visits with the college you are planning to visit.As a high school College counselor, what I found very useful in the book were the directions to each college which were incredibly accurate..and believe me if you ever tried to drive to these schools you know how difficult the directions can be. In addition most people don't have access to the web while they are driving and don't always plan ahead. This book allows for the opportunity to visit other schools that are in the area of the school you originally intended to visit. Not every one is so organized before a trip--I've told countless parents about this book and they've been very appreciative before and after. Don't leave home without it.
Web Sites Are More Accurate.......1998-06-21
Having just returned from a "college caravan" trip through the Northeast with my daughter and another family, including a son, I can attest to the glaring inaccuracies in this book. They often have the times of tours and info sessions wrong. They even sometimes indicate that things are closed when they are open and vice versa.
An hour or two on the Web (and then printing off the pages) will save lots of aggravation. Then give each college a call!
You are going to be traveling with Fiske anyway, just pick-up a Mobil Guide, a map, and copies of the web pages.
Andy Beveridge beveridg@bestweb.net
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Exquisite images of men, perfect to send or to keep for yourself.
In conjunction with The Andy Warhol Museum and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.
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Rarely seen and often created for his own delight, Pop artist Andy Warhol's images of men are among his most personal and sensual work. Collected in book form here for the first time, Andy Warhol Men showcases hundreds of illustrations, paintings, drawings, silkscreens, Polaroid studies, and fine art photographs in a handsome and intimate volume. Mostly nudes, this gallery of delights includes the beautiful boys and drag queens who adorned Warhol's legendary Factory studio, as well as less racy illustrations of notables such as Christopher Isherwood, Truman Capote, and James Dean. Sprinkled with Warhol's perceptively funny observations on love, and a witty reflection on art and desire by Alan Cumming, Andy Warhol Men is a playfully swooning celebration of male beauty.
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The Greatness is in the Simplicity.......2006-01-18
Andy Warhol remains a true Icon of the art world. His famous '15 minutes of fame' was a terrific statement, but in Warhol's case his words and his art linger on in museum retrospectives, in art history studies, and in books on photography, fine print making, and art whether drawn, painted, of screened.
This little book is a treasure. From the opening apropos statement by Alan Cumming, the book is devoted to over 250 works of art by Warhol. His line drawings for the most part are undecorated even with cross-hatching: the single continuous line defines the faces, the bodies, the genitalia, the feet, the lips of his models. These are finely reproduced on several different tones of paper, each a full-page bleed. Then along with little quips from his feisty, shy, and sage mouth are his photographs of men including some self-portraits, some of transsexual friends, some of just beautiful male bodies, some of famous men from history. These photographs are at times followed or paired with the subsequent now famous silkscreen interpretations. Some collages and other experiments with imagery complete the set.
By this time most people including the harshest critics have the consensual opinion that Andy Warhol was a significant figure in American art history. This fine book, very beautifully designed by Azi Rad, is a substantial volume of tribute to the simplicity of Warhol's genius. It belongs in the library of every art collector and everyone who appreciates the male form - especially as much as Warhol obviously did! Highly Recommended.
Grady Harp, January 06
A Really Exquisite Book!.......2004-12-22
What a great little book of delights! Here is a really beautiful collection of art by Andy Warhol, many of the works apparently published for the first time. There are color photographs here of men's body parts-- chests, feet, butts, etc.-- a series of color portraits of drag queens labelled "Ladies and Gentlemen", photographs of a few celebrities including Mick Jagger and the artist himself eating a banana. But most of the book is taken up by beautiful line drawings of men-- figures, faces, body parts, even the feet of Christopher Isherwood. Alan Cumming in right on the money in his foreward: "just a simple collection of lines on paper that magically produce a sense memory of something so visceral it can actually arouse." And Mr. Warhol had this thing about body hair! This is a very erotic collection beautifully produced that you will go back to again and again.
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Andy Warhol was queer in more ways than one. A fabulous queen, a fan of prurience and pornography, a great admirer of the male body, he was well known as such to the gay audiences who enjoyed his films, the police who censored them, the gallery owners who refused to show his male nudes, and the artists who shied from his swishiness, not to mention all the characters who populated the Factory. Yet even though Warhol became the star of postmodernism, avant-garde, and pop culture, this collection of essays is the first to explore, analyze, appreciate, and celebrate the role of Warhol’s queerness in the making and reception of his film and art. Ranging widely in approach and discipline, Pop Out demonstrates that to ignore Warhol’s queerness is to miss what is most valuable, interesting, sexy, and political about his life and work.
Written from the perspectives of art history, critical race theory, psychoanalysis, feminist theory, cinema studies, and social and literary theory, these essays consider Warhol in various contexts and within the history of the communities in which he figured. The homoerotic subjects, gay audiences, and queer contexts that fuel a certain fascination with Warhol are discussed, as well as Batman, Basquiat, and Valerie Solanas. Taken together, the essays in this collection depict Warhol’s career as a practical social reflection on a wide range of institutions and discourses, including those, from the art world to mass culture, that have almost succeeded in sanitizing his work and his image.
General readers with interests in Warhol, Pop art, and gay and lesbian issues will find this book appealing as will more academic audiences working in art history, queer theory, cultural studies, postmodernism, and popular culture.
Contributors. Jennifer Doyle, Jonathan Flatley, Marcie Frank, David E. James, Mandy Merck, Michael Moon, José Esteban Muñoz, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Brian Selsky, Sasha Torres, Simon Watney, Thomas Waugh
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oh well.............2003-01-05
I didn't think this book was particularly strong. It has writings from academics whom I totally admire. And I understand why people would study gayness as it relates to 1960s popular culture. Still, this book has very little about Warhol and his sexuality in it. A person is better off reading a biography of Warhol, especially those written by the people who knew him personally. This was quite an unimpressive anthology.
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A Small Boy and Others: Imitation and Initiation in American Culture from Henry James to Andy Warhol (Series Q)
Michael Moon
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In A Small Boy and Others, Michael Moon makes a vital contributon to our understanding of the dynamics of sexuality and identity in modern American culture. He explores a wide array of literary, artistic, and theatrical performances ranging from the memoirs of Henry James and the dances of Vaslav Nijinsky to the Pop paintings of Andy Warhol and such films as Midnight Cowboy, Blue Velvet, and Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures.
Moon illuminates the careers of James, Warhol, and others by examining the imaginative investments of their protogay childhoods in their work in ways that enable new, more complex cultural readings. He deftly engages notions of initiation and desire not within the traditional framework of âsexual orientationâ but through the disorienting effects of imitation. Whether invoking the artist Joseph Cornell’s early fascination with the Great Houdini or turning his attention to James’s self-described âinitiation into styleâ at the age of twelveâwhen he first encountered the homoerotic imagery in paintings by David, Géricault, and GirodetâMoon reveals how the works of these artists emerge from an engagement that is obsessive to the point of âqueerness.â
Rich in historical detail and insistent in its melding of the recent with the remote, the literary with the visual, the popular with the elite, A Small Boy and Others presents a hitherto unimagined tradition of brave and outrageous queer invention. This long-awaited contribution from Moon will be welcomed by all those engaged in literary, cultural, and queer studies.
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Queer Sensibility and Today's "America".......1998-12-03
This collection of essays clusters under the idea that the characteristic repetition one finds in American popular culture arrives by way of rituals of "imitation and initiation" in the lives of sexual outsiders [i.e., queers]. These essays are intelligent, provocative, even beautiful analyses of such 20th-century culture-makers as Henry James, Joseph Cornell, Andy Warhol, David Lynch, Kenneth Anger, Maria Montez, Jack Smith, and Vaslav Nijinsky. Each essay is chattily vernacular enough to allow the reader to forget that it's academic scholarship (good for your brain) and not just plain fun. Gossipy tidbits like Cornell's fondness for Kool-Aid and little girls enliven Moon's observations of the artist's memory-saturated work. The way Moon re-homosexualizes an apparently de-homosexualized text such as the film MIDNIGHT COWBOY should inspire a wholly new approach in gay and lesbian criticism. And I thought the treatment of Charles Ludlam's and Ethyl Eichelberger's theatre, largely ignored in academic circles up to now, a fitting climax to a thoroughly enjoyable and illuminating book. A SMALL BOY AND OTHERS deserves a wide and appreciative audience. It offers an elaboration of and a correction to current understandings of the role "camp" has played in shaping contemporary American culture.
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Dynamite enters the land of the dead with an all-new Zombie tale set in the middle of a full-scale zombie infestation! This time though, theres a twist, as Dynamite puts the "living" into the living dead! Writers Leah Moore and John Reppion are joined by the newest Dynamite artistic sensation, Hugo Petrus, for this special Zombie event! In issue #3, our dwindling band of survivors has headed out of the city and straight towards a research facility where they hope to take shelter from the growing undead tide. But what - and who - they will find there is just another horrific chapter in their desperate bid for survival!
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- The Pretender: How Martin Frankel Fooled the Financial World and Led the Feds on One of the Most Publicized Manhunts in History
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