In Hammer Spade's third South American adventure, Lady Margot Fisher lies in an unmarked grave on a desolate Andean mountain. Hammer is assigned to find the man who ordered her death and exact retribution.--Source other than Library of Congress.

In this ninth book of the Hammer Spade series Hammer and his friends are assigned to infiltrate a shadowy group who call themselves The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Their mission is nothing less than the destruction of Western Civilization. In volume one, Michael Clover infiltrates the Four Horsemen leadership council, Jack Kane and Clare Davis are assigned to the Black Horse of Famine group whose mission is to reduce the world¿s food supply. Dave Quigley and Jim Travis are sent to Algeria on a mission by Red Horse of War group, whose aim is to foment armed conflict. In volume two, Tim Whealton and Jerrel Neuhaus are dispatched to Papua, New Guinea where Willie Wanderer leads them to a plant that produces the world¿s most deadly natural poison. Hammer Spade and Shidee Callaway are sent to Tibet to learn from Tibetan wise man, Annyl Slohcin, how to destroy the souls of men. Then they all meet in Casablanca, Morocco where Michial Clover, aka Lord Phillip Norwich, has a surprise waiting for everybody.

"In his last adventure Hammer's mission is to learn whether the White Horseman of the Apocalypse, Loredano Ziff, is dead or alive. If he is dead, Hammer must obtain proof that he is dead. If he is alive, Hammer is ordered to kill him"--Page 4 of cover.

"The Book of Buried Treasure" by Ralph Delahaye Paine. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx. Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has organized the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation. Thus he is concerned with gold and silver, cacao and cotton, rubber and coffee, fruit, hides and wool, petroleum, iron, nickel, manganese, copper, aluminum ore, nitrates, and tin. These are the veins which he traces through the body of the entire continent, up to the Rio Grande and throughout the Caribbean, and all the way to their open ends where they empty into the coffers of wealth in the United States and Europe. Weaving fact and imagery into a rich tapestry, Galeano fuses scientific analysis with the passions of a plundered and suffering people. An immense gathering of materials is framed with a vigorous style that never falters in its command of themes. All readers interested in great historical, economic, political, and social writing will find a singular analytical achievement, and an overwhelming narrative that makes history speak, unforgettably. This classic is now further honored by Isabel Allende's inspiring introduction. Universally recognized as one of the most important writers of our time, Allende once again contributes her talents to literature, to political principles, and to enlightenment.

Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 - from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely, to the time when such people began to be considered a threat, asylums were first built, and walls were erected between the "insane" and the rest of humanity.

Only once we understand the long history of human efforts to draw sustenance from the land can we grasp the nature of the crisis that faces humankind today, as hundreds of millions of people are faced with famine or flight from the land. From Neolithic times through the earliest civilizations of the ancient Near East, in savannahs, river valleys and the terraces created by the Incas in the Andean mountains, an increasing range of agricultural techniques have developed in response to very different conditions. These developments are recounted in this book, with detailed attention to the ways in which plants, animals, soil, climate, and society have interacted. Mazoyer and Roudart’s A History of World Agriculture is a path-breaking and panoramic work, beginning with the emergence of agriculture after thousands of years in which human societies had depended on hunting and gathering, showing how agricultural techniques developed in the different regions of the world, and how this extraordinary wealth of knowledge, tradition and natural variety is endangered today by global capitialism, as it forces the unequal agrarian heritages of the world to conform to the norms of profit. During the twentieth century, mechanization, motorization and specialization have brought to a halt the pattern of cultural and environmental responses that characterized the global history of agriculture until then. Today a small number of corporations have the capacity to impose the farming methods on the planet that they find most profitable. Mazoyer and Roudart propose an alternative global strategy that can safegaurd the economies of the poor countries, reinvigorate the global economy, and create a livable future for mankind.