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La historia de Jeffrey Epstein y otras historias ha capturado la atención del mundo entero. Este financiero multimillonario, conocido por su relación con prominentes figuras políticas, celebridades y empresarios, fue acusado de dirigir una red de tráfico sexual de menores y enfrentaba graves cargos criminales. Sin embargo, su muerte en prisión en agosto de 2019, oficialmente catalogada como suicidio, dejó muchas preguntas sin respuesta y alimentó...
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"L'audience est ouverte : faites entrer la juge" est une autobiographie qui relate des enquêtes captivantes impliquant la mafia internationale ainsi que les milieux criminels lyonnais, corses et marseillais. Ce livre met en évidence l'importance cruciale de la collaboration des magistrats avec la police scientifique, les médecins légistes et les experts.
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Juge d'instruction à la JIRS – Juridictions interrégionales spécialisées...
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Follow Carmen Alexis Gray as she takes you through "Gone, A Journey Through Loss", her personal process of grieving after multiple traumas, including the murder of her only son and getting to the other side. The Gone Book includes a workbook to aid the reader in finding inner peace and healing after loss. You will find this book of memoirs is raw at times taking the reader through an unveiled look at trauma and how to manage the realities of depression,...
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In American Roulette, Richard Marcus tells his never-before-heard story, of ripping off casinos. The book follows Marcus, along with several of the world's great professional casino cheaters, as he travels from Las Vegas to London and Monte Carlo, pilfering large sums of money from casinos by performing sleight of hand magic tricks with gaming chips. As skilled cheaters, they back up their moves with psychological setups to convince pit bosses that...
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"A view of the early Texan frontier from a female view point
Teresa Viele was a strong minded woman with clear cut views. Fate would dictate that her life would not be defined by her experiences as an army wife, but in this book she has left us a significant insight into the activities of the officers, soldiers and families of a United States Infantry regiment on the Texas frontier in the pre-Civil War period. Her account encompasses everything that...
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"A highly regarded memoir of the Indian and Civil Wars.
The author of this book, George A. (Sandy) Forsyth was a career soldier who served with distinction in the American Civil War and subsequently upon the western frontier against the Plains Indian tribes as they fought a losing battle to stem the inexorable advance of 'Manifest Destiny'-essentially 'the survival of the fittest'-'the law' as Forsyth writes, 'that has obtained since the dawn of...
7) The Conquest of the Missouri: Captain Grant Marsh, and the Riverboats of the American Civil War a
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"A great river and those who sailed it.
This well known and highly regarded classic of the opening up of the American West concentrates on the great rivers of North America and the Missouri in particular. Focus is, of course, placed to the iconic paddle-steamers, their captains and crews, that plied its waters and that have become emblematic of river navigation in 19th century America. The scope of the narrative is significant. Events are described...
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"Red Sticks, White Sticks and the war in Alabama
The Creek Indian War, also known as the Red Stick War, took place between 1813-1814 and has been considered by many historians as part of the War of 1812. The Creek-or Muscogee-Indians of Alabama were effectively waging a civil war among themselves. One militant faction, the so called Red Sticks, proposed an aggressive return to the traditional life of their forebears and an end to treaties with and...
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"With Crook in pursuit of Geronimo and his band.
The author of this book was a U.S. soldier in addition to being a well known and highly regarded author on the Apache Wars of the later nineteenth century-in which he was an active participant. He maintained an interest, respect for and in some measure an affection for the Apaches and he also made a serious study of and wrote notable works on their customs and culture. He is perhaps best known for...
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