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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Description: In a world where corporations pull the strings of power, a single journalist stumbles upon a conspiracy so vast it threatens the very foundation of global stability. When Daniel Whitaker uncovers Blackridge, a shadowy organization manipulating governments and fueling conflicts for profit, his life takes a harrowing turn. Teaming up with a resourceful whistleblower, a fearless soldier, and a hacker burdened by his own past, Daniel dives headfirst into a dangerous game of cat and mouse.As they race to expose the truth, the group must navigate a maze of betrayal, high-stakes sabotage, and ruthless adversaries who will stop at nothing to protect their empire. With every revelation, the stakes climb higher, forcing them to question not only their mission but the cost of victory itself.Shadows Unveiled is a gripping tale of courage and resistance, a high-octane thriller that peels back the layers of corruption to reveal a battle not just for survival, but for the soul of a fractured world. Can a handful of brave individuals dismantle a global power, or will they be consumed by the very darkness they seek to destroy For those who love stories of conspiracies, moral dilemmas, and heroes forged in the fire of adversity, Shadows Unveiled will keep you on the edge of your seat until the very last page.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Real Roswell UFOSecrets, Myths, and the Cold War TruthIn the summer of 1947, debris fell near Roswell, New Mexico-and a legend was born.For nearly eighty years, the Roswell incident has been framed as a mystery too extraordinary to explain: alien craft, hidden bodies, and a government cover-up that refuses to die. But what if the truth was not stranger than fiction-just revealed too late to be believed The Real Roswell UFO offers a calm, evidence-based reexamination of the incident, grounded in Cold War history, early nuclear surveillance technology, and the human cost of secrecy. Drawing on declassified records, historical context, and witness accounts, this book traces the origins of Project Mogul-a classified high-altitude balloon program designed to detect Soviet nuclear tests-and explains how its failure collided with public curiosity at exactly the wrong moment.Rather than mocking witnesses or embracing speculation, this book explores why intelligent people encountered debris that did not match their expectations, why official explanations failed to persuade, and how ridicule and silence transformed a recoverable misunderstanding into a permanent mystery.This is not a book about extraterrestrials.It is a book about timing, trust, and how institutions lose control of the narrative when explanation lags behind experience.Clear, restrained, and deeply researched, The Real Roswell UFO reframes one of America's most enduring legends-not by dismissing it, but by finally placing it in its proper historical context. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Every day, millions of people step into elevators without thinking about the hidden world that keeps them moving. What feels ordinary to the public is, in truth, one of the great quiet achievements of modern life. In The Ordinary Miracle, Elias Ward tells the story of the elevator not just as a machine, but as a trade, a public promise, and an invisible system that helped make vertical life possible. From Elisha Otis and the first trust problem, to union halls, code books, modernization crews, digital diagnostics, and the future of smart buildings, this book follows the people who turned danger into routine confidence. Blending historical research with more than three decades of field perspective, Ward explores the craft, conscience, and hidden labor behind one of the safest public rides in the world. He writes about the elevator trade as the people inside it know it: demanding, technical, moral, and too often invisible. For readers who love narrative nonfiction about hidden systems, skilled work, infrastructure, and the unseen labor behind daily life, The Ordinary Miracle opens the machine room door.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Some mysteries survive because they are unsolved.In 1966, two men climbed a quiet hill outside the Brazilian city of Niterói and never returned. When their bodies were discovered days later, the scene made little sense: matching formal suits beneath raincoats, strange handwritten instructions, no signs of violence, and peculiar lead masks lying beside them. No clear cause of death. No witnesses. No explanation.The case became known as the Lead Masks Mystery-one of the strangest unsolved deaths of the twentieth century. But it is far more than an isolated enigma.Blending investigative journalism, history, psychology, and the enduring human fascination with the unknown, The Shape of the Unsolved explores why certain mysteries refuse to die. From contradictory theories and forgotten evidence to the unsettling possibility that some questions remain permanently unanswered, this book journeys into a world where certainty dissolves and ordinary landscapes suddenly feel foreign.What happened on that hill in Brazil Decades later, the answer remains elusive.And perhaps that is the most unsettling mystery of all. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - On a scorching January afternoon in 1966, three children walked to the beach and never came home.The disappearance of the Beaumont children transformed Australia forever. Before that summer, doors were left unlocked, children wandered freely, and danger felt distant-something that happened elsewhere. Afterward, something invisible shifted. Trust fractured. Fear moved in quietly.But this is not simply the story of an unsolved case.Part investigation, part cultural history, and part meditation on why certain mysteries refuse to die, The File Was Thinner Than Expected explores the Beaumont case not only as a crime, but as a wound in the modern imagination. Moving through police files, faded witness statements, rumours, false leads, and the strange persistence of collective memory, it asks why some disappearances remain painfully alive long after evidence has thinned and answers have vanished.What draws us to mysteries we cannot solve Why do some stories fade while others haunt generations And what happens to a society when innocence disappears in broad daylight Atmospheric, deeply researched, and psychologically compelling, The File Was Thinner Than Expected is a haunting examination of absence, memory, and the unfinished sentences history leaves behind.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - On the night of November 22, 1987, Chicago television was interrupted by something impossible.For eighty-seven seconds, a grinning figure in a rubber mask hijacked the airwaves, speaking in fragments, mocking authority, and exposing a vulnerability no one thought existed. The incident became known as the Max Headroom hijacking-an unsolved act of broadcast intrusion so bizarre it felt less like a crime and more like a rupture in reality.But the deeper mystery was never simply who did it.In Hijacking the Signal, Elias Ward revisits one of the strangest unsolved media events in American history, uncovering the forgotten world of analogue television, pirate transmissions, underground technologists, and a city briefly haunted by the sense that something sealed had come undone. Through investigation, cultural history, and the uneasy psychology of unsolved mysteries, this book explores why a prank lasting less than ninety seconds continues to disturb us nearly four decades later.Because some mysteries are never solved.They linger.And sometimes, the most frightening thing is realising the system was never closed to begin with.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Voynich Manuscript should not exist.Written in an unknown script, illustrated with impossible plants, astronomical diagrams, and scenes no one fully understands, the Voynich Manuscript has resisted every attempt at explanation for more than six centuries. Cryptographers have attacked it. Linguists have dissected it. Historians, codebreakers, artificial intelligence systems, and conspiracy theorists have all claimed victory over its silence. All have failed.But this is not merely the story of an unsolved book.in the Omen Before the Fire, the mystery of the Voynich Manuscript becomes something stranger: a journey into the limits of human understanding itself. Why does one unreadable object exert such power over the imagination What happens when a problem refuses to behave like an ordinary mystery-when time, technology, and expertise only deepen the enigma And what does our obsession with solving it reveal about the human mind Moving through rare-book libraries, forgotten archives, fires, frauds, wartime codebreaking, medieval history, and modern computational science, this book uncovers not only the story of the world's most baffling manuscript, but the unsettling truth hidden beneath it: the frightening thing about mystery is not that the world hides monsters. It is that some things may simply resist being understood.Part intellectual history, part psychological investigation, and part detective story The Omen Before the Fire, is a gripping exploration of the greatest unread book ever written-and of humanity's enduring refusal to stop trying to read it. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - On a summer morning in 2014, airport security cameras in Bulgaria captured footage that would haunt millions: a man running barefoot out of an airport and into uncertainty. He was never seen again.But some disappearances refuse to stay contained within police files and news reports. They linger. They unsettle. They expose something uncomfortable about the fragile agreement we call reality.In The Anatomy of Disappearance, Elias Ward investigates the strange psychology of disappearance - from baffling vanishings in broad daylight to the stories that refuse to let us look away. Through true cases, forgotten details, eyewitness contradictions, and the unsettling patterns hidden inside human behaviour, this book asks a question far deeper than what happened Why do certain disappearances haunt us while others fade Why are we drawn toward mysteries that may never resolve And what happens when someone seems to step, suddenly and inexplicably, out of the world we thought we understood Blending investigative nonfiction, psychology, philosophy, and cultural history, The Anatomy of Disappearance is a haunting exploration of unfinished endings - and of the uneasy feeling that the ordinary world is far stranger than we dare admit.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. Original b/w illustrated wraps 22x28cm. Printed in Beirut by the Middle East Export Press. 40pp with colour and b/w photos and drawings. Near fine. The cover story profiles foreign correspondents covering the Arab world and the stories and personalities they have been working on. These include LA Times Middle East Bureau Chief Joe Alex Morris (pictured on the cover), Tom Brady, Milan Kubic, Elias Antar, Paul Delifer, John Lawton, and others. Other content includes the Dhahran Fashion Show hosted by Aramco women of Dhahran, Abqaiq and Ras Tanura; wildlife on Juraid Island; Jordan's efforts to promote camel camping tourism in Wadi Ram in the wake of the occupation of Jerusalem and the West Bank; ancient Egyptian humour; and the 3rd installment from Wallace Stegner's "Discovery! The Story of Aramco Then" with illustrations by Donald Thompson. Photographers include Aramco's own Khalil Abou El-Nasr and Burnett Moody. Khalil Abou El-Nasr; Burnett H. Moody; et al (illustrator).…