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SKORZENY: Dancing with the Devil
by Hugo N. Gerstl
The tide of the War has turned against Hitler. Mussolini is deposed, imprisoned, and hidden. 1943: single commando leads gliders to the top of the highest peak in the Apennines to rescue the Duce.October 1944: Hungary’s Admiral Horthy is about to defect to the Soviets. Hitler’s man kidnaps Horthy’s son, and advises him it’s time to “retire” if he ever wants to see his son again .December 1944: The Battle of the Bulge. Hitler’s favorite soldier, using 2,000 stolen American Army uniforms, leads a group of English-speaking Germans behind enemy lines and wreaks havoc throughout the front.That same man helps former SS members get to South America; becomes Juan Péron’s security chief and Eva Péron’s secret lover; trains Arab forces and Yasser Arafat for the next Israeli war; sells arms to both sides of wars throughout Africa; and ultimately, as a Mossad agent, “takes out” the very group of nuclear scientists Egypt recruited to destroy Israel!The same man, Otto Skorzeny, did all these things and more. Unrepentant Nazi, this ultimate predator, the most dangerous man in the world, lived more lives than a dozen James Bonds.International best-selling author Hugo N. Gerstl, brings the life of this amazing hero/villain, now almost forgotten, back onto the world’s stage where, during the time he lived, he made the world a much more exciting – and scary – place. Published by Pangæa Publishing Group 354 pages – 23 cm x 15 cm
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FictionAndreaa Constantin
by Esteban Torres Lana
A dangerous challenge at sea through a rock arch battered by strong waves. She ends up seriously injured in a leg when her friend Aurelio arrives at the cove. Overcoming her pain, she hides her injuries from Aurelio and tells him the extraordinary story of her mother, which propelled her to undertake such a madness. The story begins 6 years ago in Tenerife, with Nayra's expulsion from Philosophy class for the third time in a week, causing Pablo, her father, to pick her up from school and embark on a long day of disputes, confessions, and finally, complicities between them. Walking around Santa Cruz, canceling classes and professional commitments, Pablo and Nayra spend the day discovering a personal and sentimental reality that surprises them. The problems Nayra mentions with a group of immigrant classmates, along with the aggression Nayra shows towards her mother, Lola, prompt Pablo to tell her the unfinished story with Andreea, a high-class Romanian prostitute. Pablo cannot control the level of intimacy of the tale despite his own amazement, hearing himself say things he thought were unspeakable. Nayra responds, between disputes and affection, interspersing her own confidences, some of them having a strong impact, like the adventure with an immigrant who arrived on the beaches of Fuerteventura during a summer excursion. Neither tells the most intimate details of their stories truthfully, but they are accessible to the reader. Despite frequent arguments due to the teenager's incisive and groundbreaking language, their complicity grows and they end up spending the day together, walking through different places in the city. The story with Andreea takes on dramatic tones that completely captivate the young woman. Two suicides, the chase by Romanian mafia, returning to her hometown, searching for Pablo, Andreea’s struggle to regain her dignity and her artistic capacity through painting, and the apparent disappearance of her father's life, capture Nayra’s attention. Despite the narrative tricks used by Pablo, when night falls and they reach home, Nayra connects the dots and is surprised to discover that her perfectionist and successful mother, a recognized painter from Santa Cruz, with whom she has had a very conflictive season, is Andreea Constantin, the Romanian immigrant her father met as a high-class prostitute. After an initial reaction of rejection due to the ignorance in which she was kept, she understands her mother's situation. All the questions she always had about many details of her life arise with the discovery. A few years after discovering her identity, Andreea disappears from home. A call from Romania alerts them to the discovery of two charred bodies near her birthplace and the presence of her old exploiter nearby, who cursed her for life through a Transylvania ritual when she abandoned prostitution. Knowing she was discovered in Tenerife, Andreea tried to keep her family away from danger and returned to her country, where she was easy prey for the mafia. Pablo and his daughter Nayra fly to Bucharest to identify Andreea’s body, which may have been brutally murdered and burned. When it seems the identification will be negative, a small detail of the clothing makes them doubt. Desolate, they receive medical and psychological support from the Romanian team, but it turns out to be a false lead. Andreea is rescued from a hideout and has survived due to a misunderstanding by her captors. Protected by the Romanian police, she later becomes a key witness whose testimony ends the dangerous band of her pimp. But that bravery comes at a price; 2 years later, she does not return from an art exhibition in Paris. The police believe that her exploiter’s curse was fulfilled by a nephew who visited him in prison shortly before his death and was seen in Paris during the days Andreea had the exhibition. After a year of anguish, Nayra can no longer bear the situation and decides to mourn her mother at the cove where she painted her last picture. It had as its background the rock arch symbolizing the risk of living and facing life’s challenges. Nayra considers her mother lost and throws Andreea’s ashes into the sea, symbolized by those of a magnolia branch she planted many years ago. With this, she internalizes the loss and the fighting values Andreea taught her. The exit from the volcanic cove is a song to the life that continues and to the young woman who represents it. The novel is dedicated to the memory of Andreea Constantin and the thousands of women sexually exploited around the world.
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MusicFebruary 2024Les lyrics de kharYsma Arafat NZABA (2006-2019)
Inattendu, Des rimes en or,Que ta volonté se fasse
by NZABA Arafat
Artiste, Entrepreneur et fonctionnaire d’état ; ce livre retrace les lyrics de celui que l’on appelle musicalement et affectueusement : kharYsma Arafat NZABA. De son vrai nom de naissance : NZABA MOUNGUENGUE Bouesse Arafat, né en 1989 au Congo Brazzaville, les mélomanes qui se sont souvent trompé sur les paroles de ses titres cultes auront l’occasion de revisiter l’essentiel de ses textes de 2006 à 2019.
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The ArtsJanuary 2024Miracle orchestral
Le livre de musique graphique
by NZABA Arafat
Bestseller Music sales on amazon ; this is Miracle orchestral graphic book from kharYsma Arafat NZABA
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The ArtsDecember 2018DES RIMES EN OR (I'm Back)
by NZABA Arafat
C'est un roman de musique graphique intitulé: des rimes en or; écrit par l'auteur: kharYsma Arafat NZABA Vous aimerez ce livre si vous appréciez ou jouez de la musique classique/ symphonique. Les novices sont les bienvenus. Nous sommes sûr que vous allez aimer cette déclinaison graphique de l'album musical: I'm back des rimes en or; dont le livre est illustré par une couverture d'un graphisme impressionnant et en couverture arrière, un tableau peint dans le style des grands peintres de l'histoire; dans le style de van gogh....découvrez les compositions originales de kharYsma Arafat-NZABA et jouez à votre tour être le maestro.
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"Tales of Khanka"
by Yasser Allam
The novel "Tales of Khanka" provides us with a synthesis of the history of an Egyptian family that emigrates from their village to find themselves leading the establishment of a "leprosy colony" in Khanka. The immigration adventure turns into a leap into a new world ruled by bureaucracy they will have to face in order to build their community. Without advancing officially in the formal ranks, the women of the family lead the establishment of this new world: building houses, marrying children, and determining the fate of husbands. Grandmothers and mothers appear strong and practical, while men are dreamy and adventurous, going through life as if it was a game to win by simply playing it and taking chances. The Stories cover more than six decades: starting before the 1919 revolution until 1973 war, which opens the door for new events.The author takes us in a narrative adventure that leaves us full entertained, amused and challenged to ask question. He does that using a writing style closest to the verbal story telling: one that ranges between the personal and the general, between the subjective and the collective,. Yasser Allam is a writer, theater critic and lecturer at the Academy of Arts. He has published several plays that have been translated into more than one language. He participated in training and founding more than one creative writing workshop. He participated in many local and international scientific conferences with research papers on the techniques of writing and the function of creative practice, and "stories of Khanka" is His first novel.
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Literature & Literary StudiesJanuary 2024PREMICES D'AMOUR SANS DETOUR
LES POEMES ET BIOGRAPHIE
by NZABA Arafat
Au fond de son cœur, là où seul le secret règne et la sérénité est absolue, il dit ressentir un feu brûler en lui. Cette flamme qui lui a donné l’envie d’écrire, l’a aujourd’hui amené à éditer ce livre. Ce feu qui l’a poussé à aimer les arts a fait naître en lui le goût de la musique, puis de la littérature. Ainsi, cette œuvre intitulée « Prémices d’Amour sans détour » est un recueil de 30 poèmes, dans lequel Arafat-NZABA nous fait découvrir ses vers et la beauté de la vie à travers des thèmes variés, mais aussi avec un sursaut de tristesse et d’amour. En effet, «Prémices d’Amour sans détour» est une œuvre destinée à ceux qui veulent parler de sentiments à leur conjoint(e), découvrir l’univers de l’artiste/écrivain, et à tous les amoureux de la légèreté que procure la poésie française. De ses différents poèmes, en passant par sa biographie, laissez-vous bercer par la chaleur émanant du livre d’un poète venant de la zone équatoriale.
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FictionThe migrant
by D. Agnès Hill
by NZABA Arafat
I use my nickname: D. Agnès Hill for write this book, it's a novel about the migrant. A short history of African migrants who passed by the lybie to reach Europe.
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1997The Egyptian – French Relations 1923-1956
From cooperation to collusion
by Dr. Alaa Aldien Arafat
The Egyptian French relations in the period between ww1 and ww2 was never tackled before neither in Egypt nor in France. Anyone who studies political science or sociology or history of the middle east will definitely need this book, as its one of its kind. Egypt was the center of most of the libration movements all over the world starting from world war one all over the sixties. A well researched book about the Egyptian point of view concerning this topic.
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Agriculture & farmingMarch 2017Geomatics in Energy and Water Resources
by SM. Ramasamy & S.Thillai Govindarajan
Due to unprecedented growth in population and the resultant massive mining of energy resources, especially the non-renewable resources and also water resources, these resources have gradually become scarce commodities. Hence the geoscientists and the technocrats from all over the world have embarked into many fold research programmes for locating newer reservoirs of these resources and also to develop models to conserve and sustainably exploit them. remoAs this involves the total understanding of the rock types, tectonic architecture, geomorphology and reservoir conditions, the Geomatics technology comprising Remote Sensing, Geographic Information System (GIS), etc have been found to be vital tools in the inventory and management of these resources; While the former due to its synoptivity, multispectral nature and repeativity and the latter by virtue of its capability to store, manipulate and model huge volume of spatial and non-spatial data. Divergent geological provinces and processes are brought out deserving concepts and methods on geology, 3D visualization of subsurface lineaments, SRTM based lineament mapping, spatio-linear modeling of hard rock aquifer systems, 3D visualization of oil bearing structures, etc., both as field geologists and as researchers.
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Natural disastersDecember 2006Geomatics in Tsunami
by SM. Ramasamy, C.J.Kumanan, BRIG. R.Sivakumar & Bhoop Singh
The Asian "Mega Tsunami" (2004) has struck most of the territorial nations of South Asia including the East Coast of India. The NRDMS Division, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, New Delhi, has conceived and executed on All India Co-ordinated Programme on "Tsunami Disaster Assessment and Mitigation" through various institutions of expertise on Geomatics in Earth System Dynamics and the related natural disasters. The Geomatics technology which includes Arial Photography, Photogrammetry, Satellite Remote Sensing, Digital Image Processing, GPS Surveys, GIS modeling etc. was used in this programme, geo-spatial data bases were created on Tsunami disasters over Natural, Physical and Human Resources and futuristic mitigation strategies were evolved there from. The book illuminates the results of the studies carried out along the Indian Coast and a birds eye view on the tsunami studies in Norway. In addition, some special papers on the role of mangroves as Tsunami mitigator, Impacts o Tsunami over marine water quality, coral ecosystem etc; the administrators experience over the tsunami crisis management, NGOs perspective, certain societal issues triggered by the killer Tsunami and citizens perspective, etc. also find a place in this volume.
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War & combat fictionJanuary 2013Outrage
Author's Preferred Edition
by Dale A. Dye
In 1982-83, American Marines were stationed in Beirut with a vaguely defined mission to keep the peace. But once the PLO was evacuated and a new Lebanese president elected, Moslem terrorists assassinated President Gemayel and relentlessly pressed their guerrilla war, forcing the Marines to stay in "The Root" and to participate in an increasingly tense and dangerous mission. Written and now revised by a retired Marine Corps captain who served in Beirut, this brutal, fast-moving novel about the events that led to the massacre of the Marines is peopled with Moslem terrorists; Arabs wiling to lay down their lives to stop the fighting; tough Israeli soldiers who deride American peace efforts; wise-guy journalists; and--of course--the Marines. Outrage is a tribute to those Marines who gave their lives in Beirut and an expression of outrage at the events that occurred. Fast-paced, authentic, and at times disturbing, it is both an exhilarating testament to the sacrifice of those who served and an angry condemnation of the policies which led to the deaths of so many brave men.
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FictionI’m Probably Lost
by Sara Salar
A bold narration of a secret life in a woman’s head I’M PROBABLY LOST takes place in Tehran. It narrates a day of a middle-class woman’s life. She drives aimlessly in the streets playing with the idea of cheating on her husband. As she wanders in the city, she delves into her childhood and its odd happenings. She reviews her rough adolescence and also her platonic love for a man. And above all, she thinks of Gandom; an old friend who always seemed to be the opposite of her in terms of boldness, liveliness, and freedom of spirit, yet very much like her. The woman is now married and has a child. She is going through a great deal of emotional strain due to the abundance of memories and dilemmas. She lost touch with Gandom a long time ago and now on the verge of a rebellion begins to look for her. On the one hand, she wishes to be with another man; a man who was in love with Gandom years ago and probably has news of her now. On the other hand, norms, ethics, and even her child are giving her cold feet. What will be her decision? Where’s Gandom now and what has become of her?
