Jet-Set Escape with Her Billionaire Boss

Jet-Set Escape with Her Billionaire Boss
Author: Andrea Bolter
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 177
Release: 2024-08-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0369757491

The trip of a lifetime with her billionaire boss! Dive into Andrea Bolter’s latest story for Harlequin Romance. FROM NEW YORK TO THAILAND…INTO THE TYCOON’S ARMS! Spa manager Esme has sacrificed too much to let her career stall before reaching the top. So when her brooding boss, Jackson, needs her expertise to relaunch the business, she offers him a deal. If she impresses him on a whirlwind tour of the world’s best spas, he must promote her! Only, with each new destination, an unexpected temptation builds… Dare she take a risk with the guarded billionaire? From Harlequin Romance: Be swept away by glamorous and heartfelt love stories.

The Master of Disguise

The Master of Disguise
Author: Antonio J. Mendez
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2000-11-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780060957919

For the first time, the CIA has authorized a top-level operative to tell all in an unforgettable behind-the-scenes look at espionage in action. an undisputed genius who could create an entirely new identity for anybody, anywhere, anytime, Antonio J. Mendez combined the cunning tricks of a magician with the analytical insight of a psychologist to help hundreds of people escape potentially fatal situations. From "Wild West" adventures in East Asia to Cold War intrigue in Moscow and helping six Americans escape revolutionary Tehran in 1980, Mendez was on the scene. Here he gives us a privileged look at what really happens in the field and behind closed doors at the highest levels of international espionage, some of it shocking, frightening, and wildly inventive--all of it unforgettable.

The Putin Paradox

The Putin Paradox
Author: Richard Sakwa
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2020-02-06
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1838601279

Vladimir Putin has emerged as one of the key leaders of the twenty-first century. However, he is also recognized as one of the most divisive. Abroad, his assertion of Russia's interests and critique of the western-dominated international system has brought him into conflict with Atlantic powers. Within Russia, he has balanced various factions within the elite intelligentsia alongside the wider support of Russian society. So what is the 'Putin paradox?' Richard Sakwa grapples with Putin's personal and political development on both the international political scene and within the domestic political landscape of Russia. This study historicizes the Putin paradox, through theoretical, historical and political analysis and in light of wider developments in Russian society. Richard Sakwa presents the Putin paradox as a unique regime type - balancing numerous contradictions - in order to adapt to its material environment while maintaining sufficient authority with which to shape it.

Young Guns

Young Guns
Author: Eric Cantor
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2010-09-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1451607350

America urgently needs a new direction. But who will provide it? The time has come to move the country forward with a clear agenda based on common sense for the common good. THERE IS A BETTER WAY. Make no mistake: Congressmen Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan, and Kevin McCarthy are proud Republicans. But they believe the party had lost sight of the ideals it believes in, like economic freedom, limited government, the sanctity of life, and putting families first. This isn’t your grandfather’s Republican party. These Young Guns of the House GOP—Cantor (the leader), Ryan (the thinker), and McCarthy (the strategist)—are ready to take their belief in the principles that have made America great and translate it into solutions that will make the future even better, solutions that will create private sector jobs, maximize individual freedom, and establish a better world for our children. This groundbreaking book is a call to action that sets forth a plan for growth, opportunity, and commitment that will propel this country to prosperity once again. Together, the Young Guns are changing the face of the Republican party and giving us a new road map back to the American dream.

Contemporary Hollywood Stardom

Contemporary Hollywood Stardom
Author: Thomas Austin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2003
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780340809372

This book offers a reappraisal of star studies in light of the arrival of the internet and the explosion in materials such as glossy magazines and merchandise meaning that stars are visible as never before. It explores the political economy of stardom, questions of performance, the effect on stardom of convergence between the film industry and other leisure industries, and the role of audiences.

The Franklin Cover-up

The Franklin Cover-up
Author: John W. DeCamp
Publisher: A W T, Incorporated
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1992
Genre: Child abuse
ISBN: 9780963215802

This book decribes the scandal and public investigation of the Franklin Community Federal Credit Union, raided by federal agencies in 1988 with revelations of murder, drug trafficking, money-laundering, political cover-up and a nationwide child abuse ring.

Corruption and Money Laundering

Corruption and Money Laundering
Author: D. Chaikin
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2009-06-22
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0230622453

Through a policy and legal analysis, this book shows how corruption facilitates money laundering, and vice versa. Furthermore, it demonstrates specifically how the responses developed to combat one type of financial crime can productively be employed in fighting the other.

Business Maharajas

Business Maharajas
Author: Gita Piramal
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 521
Release: 2000-10-14
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 935118739X

The inside track to India's most powerful tycoons The eight business maharajas profiled here are among Asia's most powerful industrial tycoons, Their combined turnover runs into billions of rupees, and between them they employ some 650,000 people, while indirectly affecting the lives of millions more. Sip a cup of tea, drive to work, listen to music, build a house and the chances are that in these and a myriad other ways you are using products that they manufacture or market. By any yardstick, the achievements of these men would rank among the great business stories of our time. How did these men build their enormous empires? What are their management secrets? How did they thrive and prosper even as others failed? What is their vision for the future? Top business writer and industry insider Gita Piramal draws on exhaustive interviews and in-depth research to discover the answers to these and related questions in her profiles of the men who will lead the country's push to become an industrial superpower in the 21st century.