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Pascucci, John: THE MANHUNTER, New York Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group 1996
0-671-88518-9 New Condition

For eleven years, John Pascucci tracked down the most evil people on earth. He was better at it than anyone else in the U.S. government -- because he made himself think like the people he was tracking. Ultimately Chief of International Operations for the U.S. Marshals Service, he hunted Nazis, neo-Nazis, murderers, bombers, drug smugglers, terrorists, and spies. And he always got his man. John used what some policemen call "aggressiveness" and "imagination" -- in other words, he broke every law in the book. With just two weapons -- a modem-equipped computer and a gun -- he brought back his man, dead or alive. A one-of-a-kid story that tears through America's fugitive underworld like a roller coaster jumping the tracks, The Manhunter is stunning reading -- thrilling, shocking, revealing -- and all true. Is John Pascucci a renegade cop or a great American hero? Read his story and decide for yourself. James S. Howard Pascucci's story is the stuff of a "Dirty Harry" movie. It has a fast-paced cop-talk style full of blood, guts, and violence...shockingly honest.... <p><b>A hard-boiled U.S. marshal stalks fugitive criminals. (July) Library Journal Allowed to ignore the rules that most cops must abide by since his quarry had already been convicted, Pascucci has helped track down some of the worst criminals of his generation. Here, he tells of some of his more famous hunts. Kirkus Reviews A trash-talking exUS marshal presents his vision of what he calls "the real world." Pascucci, an old-school proponent of law and order and a Reagan devotee, was a US marshal from 1978 to 1989. He tracked down a Nazi in Costa Rica, found The Falcon and the Snowman spy Christopher Boyce, and helped recover Dr. Josef Mengele's skeleton from its swampy grave. Coauthor Stauth (The Franchise, 1990, etc.) here uses his ability to let subjects speak in their own voice to devastating effect: Pascucci is crude, unreflective, and egotistical. The book begins with a look inside the tracking of Bodhan Koizy, nicknamed "The Child Killer," a Nazi who had spent much of the period after WW II living in New York and Florida, and who quickly disappeared for parts unknown when the government finally took an interest in him. (Beginning in the early 1980s the underutilized marshals were given the job of tracking down international fugitives.) Pascucci takes readily to the Koizy assignment (his preference, he says, would be to "track him, whack him, and sack him"). The fugitive is duly discovered in Costa Rica and turned over to local authorities, who seem not to care, and Pascucci zooms back to the US without revealing anything about his methodology, though he does discuss his passion for Coke Classic. Pascucci tracks other creeps, including Boyce, terrorist types, and a CIA turncoat, and when he isn't speeding somewhere in his Corvette, he's complaining about the modern legal system and pining for the warrantless days of Reagan. The story ends after Pascucci is fired for harassing the ex-boyfriend of his sometime mistress, and however welcome his remorse and ashamed hindsight are, they're too little, too late. While the occasional passage of soul-searching provides some insight into the mind of a tracker, this rant is sadly weighed down by cheerless bravado. What People Are Saying Thomas Keneally What a life! [The Manhunter is] extraordinarily compelling and engaging. Richard Marcinko John Pascucci has the guts and the drive of a true and tested warrior! A great read on what makes a hunter survive the hunt! Anthony Pellicano This is as close as you can get to the criminal world without getting dead. <p><b> For eleven years, John Pascucci tracked down the most evil people on earth. He was better at it than anyone else in the U.S. government -- because he made himself think like the people he was tracking. Ultimately Chief of International Operations for the U.S. Marshals Service, he hunted Nazis, neo-Nazis, murderers, bombers, drug smugglers, terrorists, and spies. And he always got his man. J Hardcover 6- 1/2 x 9-1/2"

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Horatio George Broke: With Sack and Stock in Alaska, Nabu Press 03/01/2010 ISBN: 1147018278

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Broke, Horatio George. With sack and stock in Alaska, Pranava Books 2008

191 pages New. 2008. Reprinted from 1891 edition. PRANAVA BOOKS edition. This is a quality reprint of an old book of historical value. This is an exact/strict reproduction, no changes has been made in respect to the original text. A lot of effort has been made to check and improve each page/scan manually for its quality of text and illustrations (if any, are in b/w). This is not a retyped or an ocr'd book. The title of the book, on the cover, is in gold lettering. New

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SCHOPENHAUER, Arthur. Portrait, by Ernst Hader, pinxit, photographed by Sophus Williams.

Berlin, Phot.u. Verlag Sophus Williams, 1894. Carte de visite, original photographic print, albumen print, 10,7 x 6,8 cm, with his in reproduction printed signature. Arthur Schopenhauer (22 February 1788 - 21 September 1860) was a German philosopher known for his pessimism and philosophical clarity. At age 25, he published his doctoral dissertation, On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, which examined the fundamental question of whether reason alone can unlock answers about the world. - Schopenhauer's most influential work, The World as Will and Representation, claimed that the world is fundamentally what we recognize in ourselves as our will. His analysis of will led him to the conclusion that emotional, physical, and sexual desires can never be fulfilled. Consequently, he eloquently described a lifestyle of negating desires, similar to the ascetic teachings of Vedanta and the Desert Fathers of early Christianity. - Schopenhauer's metaphysical analysis of will, his views on human motivation and desire, and his aphoristic writing style influenced many well-known thinkers including Friedrich Nietzsche, Richard Wagner, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Erwin Schrödinger, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Otto Rank, Carl Gustav Jung, Leo Tolstoy, and Jorge Luis Borges. - Arthur Schopenhauer was born in the city of Danzig (Gdansk) as the son of Heinrich Floris Schopenhauer and Johanna Schopenhauer, both descendants of wealthy German Patrician families. When the Kingdom of Prussia acquired the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth city of Danzig in 1793, Schopenhauer's family moved to Hamburg. In 1805, Schopenhauer's father might have committed suicide. Schopenhauer's mother Johanna shortly after moved to Weimar, then the centre of German literature, to pursue her writing career. After one year, Schopenhauer left the family business in Hamburg to join her. - Schopenhauer became a student at the University of Göttingen in 1809. There he studied metaphysics and psychology under Gottlob Ernst Schulze, the author of Aenesidemus, who advised him to concentrate on Plato and Kant. In Berlin, from 1811 to 1812, he had attended lectures by the prominent post-Kantian philosopher J. G. Fichte and the theologian Schleiermacher. - In 1814, Schopenhauer began his seminal work The World as Will and Representation (Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung). He would finish it in 1818 and publish it the following year. In Dresden in 1819, Schopenhauer fathered an illegitimate child who was born and died the same year. In 1820, Schopenhauer became a lecturer at the University of Berlin. He scheduled his lectures to coincide with those of the famous philosopher G. W. F. Hegel, whom Schopenhauer described as a "clumsy charlatan". However, only five students turned up to Schopenhauer's lectures, and he dropped out of academia. A late essay, "On University Philosophy", expressed his resentment towards university philosophy. - While in Berlin, Schopenhauer was named as a defendant in an action at law initiated by a woman named Caroline Marquet. She asked for damages, alleging that Schopenhauer had pushed her. According to Schopenhauer's court testimony, she deliberately annoyed him by raising her voice while standing right outside his door. Marquet alleged that the philosopher had assaulted and battered her after she refused to leave his doorway. Her companion testified that she saw Marquet prostrate outside his apartment. Because Marquet won the lawsuit, he made payments to her for the next twenty years. When she died, he wrote on a copy of her death certificate, Obit anus, abit onus ("The old woman dies, the burden flies"). - In 1821, he fell in love with nineteen-year old opera singer, Caroline Richter (called Medon), and had a relationship with her for several years. He discarded marriage plans, however, writing, "Marrying means to halve one's rights and double one's duties", and "Marrying means, to grasp blindfolded into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes." When he was forty-three years old, seventeen-year old Flora Weiss recorded rejecting him in her diary. - Schopenhauer had a notably strained relationship with his mother Johanna Schopenhauer. After his father's death, Arthur Schopenhauer endured two long years of drudgery as a merchant, in honor of his dead father. Afterward, his mother retired to Weimar, and Arthur dedicated himself wholly to studies in the gymnasium of Gotha. After he left it in disgust after seeing one of the masters lampooned, he went to live with his mother. But by that time she had already opened her infamous salon, and Arthur was not compatible with the vain, ceremonious ways of the salon. He was also disgusted by the ease with which Johanna had forgotten his father's memory. Therefore, he gave university life a shot. There, he wrote his first book, On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason. She informed him that the book was incomprehensible and it was unlikely that anyone would ever buy a copy. In a fit of temper Arthur told her that his work would be read long after the rubbish she wrote would have been totally forgotten. - In 1831, a cholera epidemic broke out in Berlin and Schopenhauer left the city. Schopenhauer settled permanently in Frankfurt in 1833, where he remained for the next twenty-seven years, living alone except for a succession of pet poodles named Atman and Butz. The numerous notes that he made during these years, amongst others on aging, were published posthumously under the title Senilia. - Schopenhauer had a robust constitution, but in 1860 his health began to deteriorate. He died of heart failure on 21 September 1860, while sitting on his couch at home. He was 72. (Wikipedia). KEYWORDS:germany

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