Turk: 60 books

Le dollar et l'euro ont de plus de plus de difficultés. L'euro a même failli exploser le 12 juillet 2011. La vraie dette des États-Unis est de 210.000 milliards de dollars. Celle de l'Europe n'est guère mieux. Depuis sa création en 1917, le dollar a perdu 98% de sa...

In Balapasar (a fictional nation near Indonesia), nationalist forces begin a civil war in order to end foreign influences. The American ambassador and his family (Raymond Weston, wife Ellen, and their children, Connie [17] and Jerry [16]) must flee. Traveling a dangerous route through the rain forest,...

What's better than a naked man? A naked man covered in chocolate. Erin is a busty woman who has an obsession with chocolate and a fellow worker named Rob.  Together, one day at work in a chocolate factory, they get locked inside.  Will Erin’s fantasies come true...

This classic Christmas story of rekindled spirit is the inspiration behind the 2013 holiday film Angels Sing, starring Harry Connick Jr., Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, and Lyle Lovett. This is the tale of Michael, who was eight years old on the Christmas Day he lost his brother David....

On an otherwise quiet summer evening, Jake Greenberg, an American expatriate, is nearly gunned down on the steps of his fashionable casino. Inches away, a powerful and influential warlord is killed. The warlord had just left a secret meeting with Sun Yat-sen, the George Washington of China, aimed...

Jake Greenberg, an ex-pat who lived in Shanghai before the Japanese Army marched in, is now a major in the US Army Air Corps serving in China. He is ordered to go behind the lines into the occupied city. Some thing has gone wrong with the escape line that has saved downed American airmen. He is to...

Shanghai 1937. One sultry evening, Jake Greenberg, an American expatriate and owner of a fashionable casino, leaves a restaurant in a section of the city filled with Jewish refugees who have fled from Hitler. The refugees, made homeless and destitute by the Nazis, have come to Shanghai because it...

Mao-lin, China, October, 1921. China is in chaos. Warlords have carved the country into warring fiefdoms. Treachery and slippery loyalties are everywhere. Jake Greenberg, a wounded veteran of WWI, and his Chinese partner, Chen, have just run a boat full of weapons up the Yangtze to Mao-lin. The port...

Here is one of the few books that elucidates the wide range and complexity of special concerns intrinsic to the assessment of terminally ill patients and their families. Health care experts discuss psychosocial assessment and measurement and the ability of clinicians to accurately assess and track...

Whiplash Injury: A Model for Development of Chronic Pain compiles the proceedings of the March, 2014 IASP Research Symposium into one convenient volume, providing state-of-the-art information on the biopsychosocial factors involved in the development and course of chronic pain after whiplash. Global...

Shanghai, 1941. Invasion fears grip the International Settlement. The Japanese Army, which controls all of Shanghai except for the International Settlement and the French Concession, is on the move. Jake Greenberg, an American expatiate, and his Chinese partner run a boutique casino in the Settlement...

Shanghai, 1929. War in Asia is on the horizon. Great Britain, Japan, and Russia, the biggest players in the city, are already fighting secret battles, each trying to gain the advantage and willing do anything to get it.  The British Secret Service has hatched a daring plan to steal the...

China, 1926. Jake Greenberg, an American expatriate and owner of a fashionable casino in Shanghai, arrives in Manchouli, a dusty little city straddling the Chinese-Russian border. Posing as a wine salesman and using a false passport supplied by British Intelligence, his mission is to smuggle two Russian...

Shanghai, 1932 The city is booming. It's the Paris of Asia—wealthy, sophisticated, and fun—the most international city in the Far East. But beneath the surface fear of war is mounting. With spies and counterspies on every side and their masters pressing hard for information, violence is...