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The ABCs of Gold Investing: How to Protect and Build Your Wealth with Gold

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Beginning investors will find thorough guidelines for making good decisions in this guide to private gold ownership. Emphasis is placed on the asset-preservation qualities of gold at a time when investor uncertainty about the economy and recent investment scandals have led many to seek asset diversification. The economic and political trends driving gold marketing are detailed, as are the reasons why gold plays an important role in millions of investment portfolios worldwide--as both a hedge and an investment for capital gain. Topics examined include understanding gold's role in combating inflation and deflation, how to select a gold firm, the history of gold since 1971, storing gold, and government debt.

Assassins: The Story of Medieval Islam's Secret Sect

This dramatic and sinister story of some of the most sinister characters in medieval history is expertly written with pace and skill. There is no other general history of the Assassins in print, and this new book shows that the real Assassins were every bit as interesting as the 'Assassins' of legend. Bartlett's study reveals how the Assassin myths have developed over time, and how these myths continue to have an impact on the popular imagination. Assassins: The Story of Medieval Islam's Secret Sect
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The Destruction of the Soviet Economic System: An Insider's History by Michael Ellman, ISBN 0765602644

The political collapse of the Soviet Union has been much better documented than the course of its economic and social disintegration. To get an inside account, Ellman and Kontorovich questioned former top Soviet officials and economic and other policy advisors (both Soviet and foreign) who were privy not only to the data but also to the internal policy debate during the 1980s. They have woven their informants' analyses of key issues and turning points into a compelling history of systemic collapse. The Destruction of the Soviet Economic System: An Insider's History by Michael Ellman, ISBN 0765602644
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The Queen's Throat by Wayne Koestenbaum, ISBN 0306810085

This passionate love letter to opera, lavishly praised and nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award when it was first published, is now firmly established as a cult classic. In a learned, moving, and sparklingly witty melange of criticism, subversion, and homage, Wayne Koestenbaum illuminates mysteries of fandom and obsession, and has created an exuberant work of personal meditation and cultural history. The Queen's Throat by Wayne Koestenbaum, ISBN 0306810085
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African Americans in Florida by Maxine D. Jones, ISBN 156164031X

-- Profiles more than 50 African Americans during four centuries of Florida history in brief essays
-- Traces the role African Americans played in the discovery, exploration, and settlement of Florida as well as through the Civil War to the Civil Rights movement
-- From Estevanico the Black, who first stepped on the shores of Florida in 1528, to Carrie Pittman Meek, elected to the United States Congress, African Americans have been setting examples of courage and perseverance
-- Topics include Fort Mose (first free black community in North America), Black Seminoles, T. African Americans in Florida by Maxine D. Jones, ISBN 156164031X
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Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody, ISBN 0385337817

Born to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived through some of the most dangerous days of the pre-civil rights era in the South. The week before she began high school came the news of Emmet Till's lynching. Before then, she had "known the fear of hunger, hell, and the Devil. But now there was...the fear of being killed just because I was black." In that moment was born the passion for freedom and justice that would change her life.
An all-A student whose dream of going to college is realized when she wins a basketball scholarship, she finally dares to join the NAACP in her junior year. Through the NAACP and later through CORE and SNCC she has first-hand experience of the demonstrations and sit-ins that were the mainstay of the civil rights movement, and the arrests and jailings, the shotguns, fire hoses, police dogs, billy clubs and deadly force that were used to destroy it.
A deeply personal story but also a portrait of a turning... Coming of Age in Mississippi by Anne Moody, ISBN 0385337817
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Gods, Genes, and Consciousness: Nonhuman Intervention in Human History

A provocative look at how Advanced Beings (angels and extraterrestrials) have been influencing human history since the dawn of time through contributions to the roots of language, technology, math, science, and more. Gods, Genes, and Consciousness: Nonhuman Intervention in Human History
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Let Them Journey: True Stories Uniting the Past With the Future

This book illustrates the story of Jewish migration in the last hundred years, from an unusual perspective. There is no faceless narrator sweeping the characters along the tides of history; the stories are told by the people themselves, unaltered and with all the poignancy of memory intact. These people, their lives overshadowed and sometimes obliterated by catastrophic events, relate in their own words what it was like to be a Jew in such a world and under such conditions. The recollections related in this book provide an interesting, enlightening and informative panorama of the varied Jewish experiences in the twentieth century. Let Them Journey: True Stories Uniting the Past With the Future
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