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by: He, Pin,
A death in the Lucky Holiday Hotel : murder, money, and an epic power struggle in China /

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View DescriptionThe scandalous story of the corruption of the Bo Xilai family–the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood; Bos secret lovers, who may have included Chinese film stars; the blackmailing by Bos supporters; the hasty trial and sentencing of Gu Kailai, Bos wife–is only the tip of an iceberg and just the beginning of a cataclysmic power struggle that could rock the very foundation of Chinas all-powerful Communist Party. By the time it is over, the machinations in Beijing and throughout the country that began with Bos fall could affect Chinas economic development and disrupt the worlds political and economic order– Provided by publisher.
by: Brough, Lawrence A.
The electric Pullman : a history of the Niles Car & Manufacturing Company /

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by: Jameson, W. C.,
Lost mines and buried treasures of Arizona /
University of New Mexico Press, 2009.
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View DescriptionArizonas history is liberally seasoned with legends of lost mines, buried treasures, and significant deposits of gold and silver. The famous Lost Dutchman Mine has lured treasure hunters for over a century into the remote, treacherous, and reportedly cursed Superstition Mountains east of Phoenix. Gold and silver bars discovered in Huachuca Canyon by a soldier stationed at nearby Fort Huachuca just before World War II remain inaccessible despite years of laborious attempts at recovery. Outside the town of Yucca, bandits eager to make a fast getaway buried a strongbox filled with gold, unaware they wouldnt survive the pursuit of a law-enforcing posse to recover their plunder. And somewhere in the Little Horn Mountains northeast of Yuma lies an elusive wash containing hundreds of odd gold-filled rocks. Selected from hundreds of tales passed down from generation to generation since the days of the gold-seeking Spanish explorers, the tales included here are among the most compelling that Arizona has to offer.–Publishers description.
by: Jameson, W. C.,
Unsolved mysteries of the old West /

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by: Hanson, Victor Davis.
The savior generals : how five great commanders saved wars that were lost, from ancient Greece to Iraq /
Bloomsbury Press, 2013.
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by: Coyle, Marcia.
The Roberts Court : the struggle for the Constitution /

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View DescriptionSeven minutes after President Obama signed national health insurance into law, a lawyer in the office of Floridas Attorney General began a challenge that would eventually reach the nations highest court. Health care is only the most visible and recent front in a battle over the meaning and scope of the U.S. Constitution. The battleground is the United States Supreme Court, and one of its most insightful and trenchant observers takes us close up. Marcia Coyles inside account captures how those cases began and how they ultimately exposed the great divides among the justices. Most dramatically, her analysis shows how dedicated conservative lawyers and groups are strategizing to find cases and crafting them to bring to the conservative-dominated Supreme Court. The Roberts Court offers a ringside seat at the struggle to lay down the law of the land.–From publisher description.
by: Wiederhorn, Jon.
Louder than hell. ; the definitive oral history of metal /

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by: Rubin, Richard.
The last of the doughboys : the forgotten generation and their forgotten world war /

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