Books with author William E. Manci

New York Times Bestseller • Edgar Award winner for Best Fact CrimeThe Day of the Locust meets The Devil in the White City and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in this juicy, untold Hollywood story: an addictive true tale of ambition, scandal, intrigue, murder, and the creation of the modern film industry.By 1920, the movies had suddenly become America’s new favorite pastime, and one of the nation’s largest industries. Never before had a medium possessed such power to influence. Yet Hollywood’s glittering ascendency was threatened by a string of headline-grabbing tragedies—including the murder of William Desmond Taylor, the popular president of the Motion Picture Directors Association, a legendary crime that has remained unsolved until now.In a fiendishly involving narrative, bestselling Hollywood chronicler William J. Mann draws on a rich host of sources, including recently released FBI files, to unpack the story of the enigmatic Taylor and the diverse cast that surrounded him—including three beautiful, ambitious actresses; a grasping stage mother; a devoted valet; and a gang of two-bit thugs, any of whom might have fired the fatal bullet. And overseeing this entire landscape of intrigue was Adolph Zukor, the brilliant and ruthless founder of Paramount, locked in a struggle for control of the industry and desperate to conceal the truth about the crime. Along the way, Mann brings to life Los Angeles in the Roaring Twenties: a sparkling yet schizophrenic town filled with party girls, drug dealers, religious zealots, newly-minted legends and starlets already past their prime—a dangerous place where the powerful could still run afoul of the desperate.A true story recreated with the suspense of a novel, Tinseltown is the work of a storyteller at the peak of his powers—and the solution to a crime that has stumped detectives and historians for nearly a century.

New York Times Bestseller • Edgar Award winner for Best Fact CrimeThe Day of the Locust meets The Devil in the White City and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in this juicy, untold Hollywood story: an addictive true tale of ambition, scandal, intrigue, murder, and the creation of the modern film industry.By 1920, the movies had suddenly become America’s new favorite pastime, and one of the nation’s largest industries. Never before had a medium possessed such power to influence. Yet Hollywood’s glittering ascendency was threatened by a string of headline-grabbing tragedies—including the murder of William Desmond Taylor, the popular president of the Motion Picture Directors Association, a legendary crime that has remained unsolved until now.In a fiendishly involving narrative, bestselling Hollywood chronicler William J. Mann draws on a rich host of sources, including recently released FBI files, to unpack the story of the enigmatic Taylor and the diverse cast that surrounded him—including three beautiful, ambitious actresses; a grasping stage mother; a devoted valet; and a gang of two-bit thugs, any of whom might have fired the fatal bullet. And overseeing this entire landscape of intrigue was Adolph Zukor, the brilliant and ruthless founder of Paramount, locked in a struggle for control of the industry and desperate to conceal the truth about the crime. Along the way, Mann brings to life Los Angeles in the Roaring Twenties: a sparkling yet schizophrenic town filled with party girls, drug dealers, religious zealots, newly-minted legends and starlets already past their prime—a dangerous place where the powerful could still run afoul of the desperate.A true story recreated with the suspense of a novel, Tinseltown is the work of a storyteller at the peak of his powers—and the solution to a crime that has stumped detectives and historians for nearly a century.

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.Get ready to ace your AP Calculus Exam with this easy-to-follow, multi-platform study guide The immensely popular test prep guide has been updated and revised with new material and is now accessible in print, online, and mobile formats. 5 Steps to a 5: AP Calculus 2020 introduces an easy to follow, effective 5-step study plan to help you build the skills, knowledge, and test-taking confidence you need to reach your full potential. The book includes hundreds of practice exercises with thorough answer explanations and sample responses. You’ll learn how to master the multiple-choice questions and achieve a higher score on this demanding exam. Because this guide is accessible in print and digital formats, you can study online, via your mobile device, straight from the book, or any combination of the three. This essential guide reflects the latest course syllabus and includes 4 full-length practice exams (2 in the book and 2 online), plus proven strategies specific to each section of the test. 5 Steps to a 5: AP Calculus AB 2020 features: •4 Practice Exams (2 in the book + 2 online)•Access to the entire Cross-Platform Prep Course in Calculus AB 2020•Step-by-step explanations for nearly 800 AP Calculus AB problems •An appendix of common formulas and theorems frequently tested on the exam •Powerful analytics you can use to assess your test readiness•Flashcards, games, and more

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.Get ready to ace your AP Calculus BC Exam with this easy-to-follow study guide!5 Steps to a 5: AP Calculus BC introduces an easy to follow, effective 5-step study plan to help you build the skills, knowledge, and test-taking confidence you need to achieve a high score on the exam. This wildly popular test prep guide matches the latest course syllabus and the latest exam. You'll get three full-length practice tests, detailed answers to each question, study tips, information on how the exam is scores, and much more. 5 Steps to a 5: AP Calculus BC 2020 features: • 3 full-length practice exams with thorough answer explanations• Comprehensive overview of the AP Calculus BC exam format• Cumulative review sections at the end of each chapter provide continuous practice that builds onpreviously-covered material• An appendix of common formulas and theorems frequently tested in the AP Calculus BC exam• AP-style scoring guidelines for free-response practice questions

A PERFECT PLAN FOR THE PERFECT SCORE Score-Raising Features Include:•3 full-length practice exams with thorough answer explanations•Comprehensive overview of the AP Calculus BC exam format•Cumulative review sections at the end of each chapter provide continuous practice that builds on previously-covered material•An appendix of common formulas and theorems frequently tested in the AP Calculus BC exam•AP-style scoring guidelines for free-response practice questionsFREE AP Planner app that delivers a customizable study schedule for tests in the book, and extra practice questions to your mobile devices (see the last page of the books for details)The 5-Step Plan:Step 1: Set up your study plan with three model schedulesStep 2: Determine your readiness with an AP-style Diagnostic ExamStep 3: Develop the strategies that will give you the edge on test dayStep 4: Review the terms and concepts you need to achieve your highest scoreStep 5: Build your confidence with full-length practice exams

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.Get ready to ace your AP Calculus BC Exam with this easy-to-follow study guide!Teacher-recommended and expert-reviewed5 Steps to a 5: AP Calculus BC 2021 introduces an easy to follow, effective five-step study plan to help you build the skills, knowledge, and test-taking confidence you need to achieve a high score on the exam. This wildly popular test prep guide matches the latest course syllabus and the latest exam. You'll get three full-length practice tests, detailed answers to each question, study tips, information on how the exam is scores, and much more. 5 Steps to a 5: AP Calculus BC 2021 features: 3 full-length practice exams with thorough answer explanationsComprehensive overview of the AP Calculus BC exam formatCumulative review sections at the end of each chapter provide continuous practice that builds on previously-covered materialAn appendix of common formulas and theorems frequently tested in the AP Calculus BC examAP-style scoring guidelines for free-response practice questions

This book examines a very important period of recent American foreign international relations history. The post Cold War period, 1989-2004, is scrutinized very closely with several key questions in mind. What has been gained by the United States "winning" the Cold War? First and foremost, many people besides Americans and quite possibly the academic world including the young, and elderly may be wondering what the answers to this question really is, or is there even an answer? Secondly, I asked myself what better way to judge the security of a nation than by its record regarding human rights? Thirdly, can the United States Congress be influenced to make a policy for the US president to enter conflicts around the world in the name of human rights? How much does a country's human rights record matter to foreign policy makers before the United States takes a firm hand with that country? Why do some countries get away with blatant human rights abuses, while others remain unscathed? How do human rights abuses become congressional resolutions and possibly implicate international relations positively or negatively around the world? If you are interested in any of these questions, you have picked up the right book. By utilizing research methods utilized by political scientists all around the world, I was bale to compile fifteen years worth of detailed history in to an easy to read book that will offer some insights into how nongovernmental organizations(NGO'S) can influence the United States that something has to be done, or do nothing at all ever, to put off the resolution against the offending country until the next or a subsequent congressional session. It is all here for you to read. I hope you get as much out of this book as I have put into it. I plan to do a similar title that will explore further the US Congress, NGO;s, and international foreign policy implications further as the turn of the century has watched the Middle East practically implode, as I dare say, much a result of the end of the Cold War, which destabilized the entire region mostly attributed to human rights abuses, and, of course many other factors.

Get ready to ace your AP Calculus Exam with this easy-to-follow, multi-platform study guide The immensely popular test prep guide has been updated and revised with new material and is now accessible in print, online and mobile formats. 5 Steps to a 5: AP Calculus 2020 introduces an easy to follow, effective 5-step study plan to help you build the skills, knowledge, and test-taking confidence you need to reach your full potential. The book includes hundreds of practice exercises with thorough answer explanations and sample responses. You’ll learn how to master the multiple-choice questions and achieve a higher score on this demanding exam. Because this guide is accessible in print and digital formats, you can study online, via your mobile device, straight from the book, or any combination of the three. This essential guide reflects the latest course syllabus and includes 4 full-length practice exams (2 in the book and 2 online), plus proven strategies specific to each section of the test. 5 Steps to a 5: AP Calculus AB 2020 features: 4 Practice Exams (2 in the book + 2 online) Access to the entire Cross-Platform Prep Course in Calculus AB 2020 Step-by-step explanations for nearly 800 AP Calculus AB problems An appendix of common formulas and theorems frequently tested on the exam Powerful analytics you can use to assess your test readiness Flashcards, games, and more

New York Times BestsellerEdgar Award winner for Best Fact CrimeThe Day of the Locust meets The Devil in the White City and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil in this juicy, untold Hollywood story: an addictive true tale of ambition, scandal, intrigue, murder, and the creation of the modern film industry.By 1920, the movies had suddenly become America’s new favorite pastime, and one of the nation’s largest industries. Never before had a medium possessed such power to influence. Yet Hollywood’s glittering ascendency was threatened by a string of headline-grabbing tragedies—including the murder of William Desmond Taylor, the popular president of the Motion Picture Directors Association, a legendary crime that has remained unsolved until now.In a fiendishly involving narrative, bestselling Hollywood chronicler William J. Mann draws on a rich host of sources, including recently released FBI files, to unpack the story of the enigmatic Taylor and the diverse cast that surrounded him—including three beautiful, ambitious actresses; a grasping stage mother; a devoted valet; and a gang of two-bit thugs, any of whom might have fired the fatal bullet. And overseeing this entire landscape of intrigue was Adolph Zukor, the brilliant and ruthless founder of Paramount, locked in a struggle for control of the industry and desperate to conceal the truth about the crime. Along the way, Mann brings to life Los Angeles in the Roaring Twenties: a sparkling yet schizophrenic town filled with party girls, drug dealers, religious zealots, newly-minted legends and starlets already past their prime—a dangerous place where the powerful could still run afoul of the desperate.A true story recreated with the suspense of a novel, Tinseltown is the work of a storyteller at the peak of his powers—and the solution to a crime that has stumped detectives and historians for nearly a century.

The award-winning author presents a provocative, thoroughly modern revisionist biographical history of one of America’s greatest and most influential families—the Roosevelts—exposing heretofore unknown family secrets and detailing complex family rivalries with his signature cinematic flair.Drawing on previously hidden historical documents and interviews with the long-silent "illegitimate" branch of the family, William J. Mann paints an elegant, meticulously researched, and groundbreaking group portrait of this legendary family. Mann argues that the Roosevelts’ rise to power and prestige was actually driven by a series of intense personal contest that at times devolved into blood sport. His compelling and eye-opening masterwork is the story of a family at war with itself, of social Darwinism at its most ruthless—in which the strong devoured the weak and repudiated the inconvenient. Mann focuses on Eleanor Roosevelt, who, he argues, experienced this brutality firsthand, witnessing her Uncle Theodore cruelly destroy her father, Elliott—his brother and bitter rival—for political expediency. Mann presents a fascinating alternate picture of Eleanor, contending that this "worshipful niece" in fact bore a grudge against TR for the rest of her life, and dares to tell the truth about her intimate relationships without obfuscations, explanations, or labels.Mann also brings into focus Eleanor’s cousins, TR’s children, whose stories propelled the family rivalry but have never before been fully chronicled, as well as her illegitimate half-brother, Elliott Roosevelt Mann, who inherited his family’s ambition and skill without their name and privilege. Growing up in poverty just miles from his wealthy relatives, Elliott Mann embodied the American Dream, rising to middle-class prosperity and enjoying one of the very few happy, long-term marriages in the Roosevelt saga. For the first time, The Wars of the Roosevelts also includes the stories of Elliott’s daughter and grandchildren, and never-before-seen photographs from their archives.Deeply psychological and finely rendered, illustrated with sixteen pages of black-and-white photographs, The Wars of the Roosevelts illuminates not only the enviable strengths but also the profound shame of this remarkable and influential family.

Get ready to ace your AP Calculus AB Exam with this easy-to-follow, multi-platform study guide5 Steps to a 5: AP Calculus AB introduces an easy to follow, effective 5-step study plan to help you build the skills, knowledge, and test-taking confidence you need to achieve a high score on the exam. This wildly popular test prep guide matches the latest course syllabus and the latest exam. You'll get online help, four full-length practice tests (two in the book and two online), detailed answers to each question, study tips, information on how the exam is scores, and much more. Because this guide is accessible in print and digital formats, you can study online, via your mobile device, straight from the book, or any combination of the three. 5 Steps to a 5: AP Calculus AB 2018 features: • New: Access to the entire Cross-Platform Prep Course in Calculus AB• 4 Practice Exams (2 in the book + 2 online)• An interactive, customizable AP Planner app to help you organize your time • Powerful analytics you can use to assess your test readiness• Flashcards, games, and more

A PERFECT PLAN FOR THE PERFECT SCOREScore-Raising Features Include:•4 full-length practice exams, 2 in the book + 2 on Cross-Platform•Comprehensive overview of the AP Calculus BC exam format with step-by-step explanations for nearly 800 Calc AP problems•Clear demonstrations for using the TI-89 calculator to solve Calculus AB problems•Cumulative review sections at the end of each chapter provide continuous practice that builds on previously-covered material•An appendix of common formulas and theorems frequently tested on the AP Calculus AB exam•AP-style scoring guidelines for free-response practice questionsBONUS Cross-Platform Prep Course for extra practice exams with personalized study plans, interactive tests, powerful analytics and progress charts, flashcards, games, and more! (see inside front and back covers for details)5 MINUTES TO A 5 section: 180 Questions and Activities that give you an extra 5 minutes of review for every day of the school year, reinforcing the most vital course material and building the skills and confidence you need to succeed on the AP exam The 5-Step Plan:Step 1: Set up your study plan with three model schedulesStep 2: Determine your readiness with an AP-style Diagnostic ExamStep 3: Develop the strategies that will give you the edge on test dayStep 4: Review the terms and concepts you need to achieve your highest scoreStep 5: Build your confidence with full-length practice exams