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Umberto "Albert" Anastasia was born in Italy at the turn of the century. Five decades later, he would be gunned down in a barber shop in New York City. What happened in the years in between is one of the most brutal and fascinating stories in the history of American organized crime. This in-depth account of the man who became one of the most powerful and homicidal crime bosses of the 20th century from Mafia insider Frank Dimatteo is the first full-length book to chronicle Anastasia's bloody rise from immigrant to founder of the notorious killer's club Murder, Inc.

Joey "Crazy Joe" Gallo and his President Street mob waged a deadly Mafia civil war with the Colombo crime family, and in particular, Carmine "the Snake" Persico. And on that fateful night of April 7, 1972, in a Little Italy restaurant, Gallo was assassinated...by Carmine "Sonny" DiBiasi. This is the true story of who really whacked "Crazy Joe" Gallo on that fateful night of April 7, 1972.

As you know, running a successful chiropractic practice is a juggling act. You need clinical expertise to provide impeccable care to your patients. You also need the know-how to run a small business. You've probably been well prepared by your education and experience for the technical ins and outs of chiropractic practice. Yet, what training has prepared you to run a business? The E-Myth Chiropractor fills this knowledge gap, giving you a complete toolkit for either starting a successful practice from scratch or maximizing an existing practice's performance.

With nearly a century of life behind her, Stella Levi had never before spoken in detail about her past. Then she met Michael Frank. He came to her Greenwich Village apartment one Saturday afternoon to ask her a question about the Juderia, the neighborhood in Rhodes where she’d grown up in a Jewish community that had thrived there for half a millennium. Probing and courageous, candid and sly, Stella is a modern-day Scheherazade whose stories reveal what it was like to grow up in an extraordinary place in an extraordinary time—and to construct a life after that place has vanished.

It was once a utopian dream. But today’s internet, despite its conveniences and connectivity, is the primary cause of a pervasive unease that has taken hold in the U.S. and other democratic societies. The roots of this crisis, argue Frank McCourt and Michael Casey, lie in the prevailing order of the internet. In plain but forceful language, the authors—a civic entrepreneur and an acclaimed journalist—show how a centralized system controlled by a small group of for-profit entities has set this catastrophe in motion and eroded our personhood.

In this blistering street-level account, "Mafia survivor" Frank DiMatteo teams up with true-crime master Michael Benson to take down one of the most notorious figures in the American La Cosa Nostra. This is the real inside story of Carmine "The Snake" Persico, from his crime-filled childhood on the streets of Brooklyn to the long-term jail sentences that didn't stop him from controlling his criminal empire, with the help of his brother - the equally kill-crazy Alphonse "Allie Boy" Persico.

The son of Sicilian immigrants, Camillo Carmine Galante was raised in Manhattan's Little Italy and by all accounts born bad. By fifteen he was terrorizing the streets of New York's Lower East Side, scoring high marks for the "errands" he was running for his La Cosa Nostra elders. When he turned twenty, Galante was already one of the mob's top enforcers­-a sadistic thrill killer and clinically diagnosed psychopath with big dreams.

Archie's Madhouse collects four stories from the terrifying horror series that tears through Riverdale's cast of characters.

Irreverent, charming, and eminently quotable, this handbook - an eccentric etiquette guide for the human race - contains 69 aphorisms, anecdotes, whimsical suggestions, maxims, and cautionary tales from Mark Twain’s private and published writings. It dispenses advice and reflections on family life and public manners; opinions on topics such as dress, health, food, and childrearing and safety; and more specialized tips, such as those for dealing with annoying salesmen and burglars.

Jughead Jones has always had an insatiable appetite...but what if his hunger came from a sinister place? When a murderous menace is on the prowl, taking the lives of some of the most well-known and esteemed inhabitants of Riverdale, Jughead and his family's dark legacy comes to light. Join writer Frank Tieri (Wolverine) and artists Michael Walsh (Secret Avengers) and Pat & Tim Kennedy (Death of Archie) for this horrifying audiobook series.

The family is uncommonly close: Michael's childless Auntie Hankie and Uncle Irving, glamorous Hollywood screenwriters, are doubly related— Hankie is his father's sister, and Irving is his mother's brother. The two families live near each other in Laurel Canyon. In this strangely intertwined world, even the author's grandmothers—who dislike each other—share a nearby apartment.

Was kann digitales Employer Branding? Wie wichtig ist digitales Recruiting? In diesem Podcast sprechen wir mit Experten über aktuelle und erfolgreich umgesetzte Cases und geben konkrete praxisnahe Tipps, um die Arbeitgebermarke zu stärken und dem Fachkräftemangel erfolgreiche Lösungen entgegenzusetzen. Wir richten uns an Menschen, die im HR, Personalmarketing und Employer Branding tätig sind sowieso an Geschäftsführende von KMUs und Studierende. Wir, das sind Michael Lorenz (Gründer und Geschäftsführer der Bielefelder Social Media & Podcast Agentur KUNDENFOKUSSIERT) und Frank ...

Costanza Ansaldo, a half-Italian and half-American translator, is convinced that she has made peace with her childlessness. A year after the death of her husband, an eminent writer, she returns to the pensione in Florence where she spent many happy times in her youth, and there she meets, first, Andrew Weissman, an acutely sensitive 17-year-old, and, soon afterward, his father, Henry Weissman, a charismatic New York physician who specializes in - as it happens - reproductive medicine.

Lutetia II General Labienus hat ein großes Kaufhaus bauen lassen - Lutetia II. Dort sollen von nun an alle Lutetianer die Dinge des täglichen Lebens kaufen. Da die normalen, kleinen Läden dadurch natürlich kaputtgehen würden, sabotieren die Unbeugsamen alle Geschäfte mit Lutetia II und haben Erfolg. Das normale, gemütliche Leben in Lutetia geht weiter. Der Wecker von Lutetia Wie immer weckt der Hahn Sinfonix ganz Paris am Morgen auf. Leider stört das Monalisa, weshalb sie sich wünscht, Sinfonix als Festmahl vorgesetzt zu bekommen.

Bor Toth (gesprochen von Jo Weil, "Verbotene Liebe", "Bodyguard - Das Musical") und seine Freunde von der Widerstandsbewegung Serhildan sind ihren Feinden aus Sanruhn entkommen. Doch sie kommen nicht weit. Hoch über einem vereisten Gebirgszug geht ihrem Flugzeug langsam der Treibstoff aus. Meister Kentoka (gesprochen von Bernd Rumpf) hat zwar versprochen, sie mit Shrill-Itzu Magie zu retten, aber das Funkgerät schweigt. Da kommt Bor der rettende Einfall: Eine Herde Monguloons, riesige Gasblasenwesen, kreuzt ihre Flugbahn.

In this volume, what you will find in the sections that follow are twenty-one amazing stories of death and wealth set around a wandering cousin far out in the cold edges of our solar system. You will find Vikings, knights, warriors defending home and hearth, of triumph and tragedy, and, yes, even the god himself. You will listen to tales of great courage and great loss. Of sacrifice for a greater good and of justice delivered to the overly greedy. You will even find the aforementioned Walt Disney himself.

Irgendwo in den Tiefen des Alls findest du einen einsamen grauen Planeten. Eine Welt namens... Cungerlan...

Irgendwo, in den Tiefen des Alls, findest Du einen einsamen, grauen Planeten. Eine Welt namens... Cungerlan! - Die erste Folge der aufwendig produzierten Science-Fiction Hörspielserie...

Irgendwo, in den Tiefen des Alls, findest Du einen einsamen, grauen Planeten. Eine Welt namens... Cungerlan! - Die zweite Folge der aufwendig produzierten Science-Fiction Hörspielserie...

Tarwilder (Mirco Leibig) und Knave Messa (Stephanie Seupke) brechen mit dem exzentrischen Charismatiker Charra Le-Duf (Sascha Mohme) ins gefährliche Gingoland auf. Dort soll ein riesiger Schatz verborgen sein, der sie unendlich reich machen könnte. Aber der Schurke Viz Apeza (Simon Hellmich) ist ihnen mit ein paar Handlangern, darunter das hünenhafte Monster "Vertilger", der Zwillingsbruder des "Vernichters", auf der Spur.