Conspiracy Theories: A Compendium of History’s Greatest Mysteries and More Recent Cover-Ups

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Louise Bagshawe This was probably the last book I read where I literally stayed up until three o’clock in the morning because I could not stop reading it.

Bored with their work, and after reading too many manuscripts about occult conspiracy theories, three vanity publisher employees (Belbo, Diotallevi and Casaubon) invent their own conspiracy for fun. As the story opens, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned unexpectedly to deliver an evening lecture in the U. If they can't prove, without a shadow of a doubt, that they are lost in their love for each other, the consequences will be horrifying.Lee's surrender are devised to fulfill Lincoln's dream of healing a divided nation, with the former Confederates allowed to reintegrate into American society.

In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. Actually, it is ten books, covering 1855 to 1897 (with a reconstruction of the missing journals of April 1858 to May 1862 – their disappearance being the cause of countless conspiracy theories! But then he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people did not live in fear and to a present.

A breathtaking tour de force, and Neal Stephenson's most accomplished and affecting work to date, Cryptonomicon is profound and prophetic, hypnotic and hyper-driven, as it leaps forward and back between World War II and the World Wide Web, hinting all the while at a dark day-after-tomorrow.

Storming through the crowds, the horsemen brutally attack anyone standing between them and their prize. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her. In a desperate race to save the Vatican from a powerful time bomb, Langdon joins forces in Rome with the beautiful and mysterious scientist Vittoria Vetra. This is an ongoing comic series (even the art makes reality seem haunted and insubstantial), so while there are already several collected editions, there’s no end in sight.In this explosive account of wrongful acts and ensuing cover-ups, Jesse Ventura offers a different side to the stories we’ve all heard and read about in the history books.