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Safecracker reveals a shadowy world where tumblers are twirled, skeletons are exposed, and longstanding mysteries are solved. You'll ride shotgun with Dave for one crazy week, beginning with an impenetrable vault in Vegas with a midnight deadline, and ending with Prince's ultra-secure music vault in the basement of Paisley Park.
In between are factual stories that read like fiction: drilling the same model ATM from the notorious episode of Breaking Bad, meeting a mystery man from the Department of Defense at a remote location to crack two high-security safes, chronicling the corruption and ineptitude that dogged efforts to develop the first electronic safe lock to guard our national secrets, tackling a hundred-year-old antique bank vault in downtown Salt Lake City, and more.

"Sapeurs Pompiers de Paris des Origines a Nos Jours" written in the French Language, this is a vast and colorful history of firefighting in the "City of Lights" Paris, France. Illustrations of the earliest brigades, then with historic photographs, and finally pictures of present day. Heroes, equipment, great fires, and station houses are all here.

Clear and concise translation. Appropriate for Western understanding. Deals well with spiritual, mystical, and scientific ideas which, in most translations, tend to get mixed-up and vague because of the subject matter. Mr. Taimni has done a great service for those interested in Spiritual Enlightenment.

Volume #3 of the "Gonzo Papers." With insight and integrity, brilliance and savagery, Hunter Thompson charts America's long, strange trip from the Kennedy era to the Bush's.

More than two decades have passed since Youngstown lost its beloved Strouss' Department Store. But Youngstowners can still taste those incomparable chocolate malts, see the dramatic view from the store's mezzanine and feel the excitement of the annual Thanksgiving Day parade.
The story of Strouss' kept pace with the powerful trends that defined Youngstown as a whole. This was especially true during the boom years of the early twentieth century, when the store was the shopping hub in a community known as America's Ruhr Valley."
But the city changed, and Strouss' changed with it. In this unprecedented historical narrative, Welsh and Geltz dig deep into Strouss' past to uncover a dramatic story that will surprise--and delight--Youngstowners of all ages."