As a result of his dealings with the notorious Jovanni crime family, accountant Spencer Martin has been murdered. His widow, the young, quick-witted nurse, Reagan, is next on the hit list because she has discovered the whereabouts of the mob's money that her deceased husband was hiding. She is now on the run for survival assuming fraudulent identities along the way. Her lone ally is the very handsome Special Agent Hudson Garvey who is hot on the trail of the evil pursuing her. Can he catch them and save her before it's too late?
ABSOLUTE RECALL is about consequence. As a result of his dealings with the notorious Jovanni crime family, accountant Spencer Martin is about to be murdered. The young and newly widowed Reagan Martin is a quick-witted nurse blessed, or cursed, with an eidetic memory. She has inadvertently browsed through her now dead husband’s ledger that depicts his calculated shelter of the mob’s bounty, systematically scattered throughout four states and a dozen locations. Its deadly contents have been forever implanted in her mind. She now finds herself in mortal danger as the same ruthless people who murdered her husband want her silenced! When the program designed to protect her is compromised, she is forced on the run, hunted by relentless killers. Alone on a perilous journey, she assumes fraudulent identities to survive. The mob wants their money; she wants to live. Her lone ally, the brooding and protective Special Agent Hudson Garvey, is powerless to deny the sizzling connection between them. He dedicates his time and resources to find her, track the evil trailing her, and save her life—before it’s too late.
This enhanced edition of Total Recall holds 16 videos clips, including behind the scenes footage from Terminator 3, political speeches from the Governor years and clips from Pumping Iron. In this fully illustrated ebook, Arnold Schwarzenegger takes us through each of the 170+ photographs and narrates each image. In his signature larger-than-life style, Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Total Recall is a revealing self-portrait of his illustrious, controversial and truly unique life. Born in a small Austrian town in 1947, a year of famine, he was the son of an austere police chief. He dreamed of moving to America to become a bodybuilding champion and a movie star. By the age of 21, he was living in Los Angeles and had been crowned Mr Universe. Within five years, he had learned English and become the greatest bodybuilder in the world. Within ten years, he had earned his college degree and was a millionaire from his business enterprises in real estate, landscaping and bodybuilding. He was also the winner of a Golden Globe Award for his debut as a dramatic actor in Stay Hungry. But that was only the beginning. The Terminator spawned numerous sequels and made him one of Hollywood's biggest stars, as he had a series of hit films including Predator, Total Recall, True Lies and Twins. He married Maria Shriver, becoming part of the Kennedy clan, while going on to become the Republican governor of California, where he led the state through a budget crisis, natural disasters and political turmoil. It is the greatest immigrant success story of our time. His story is unique, and uniquely entertaining, and he tells it brilliantly in these pages. Until now, he has never told the full story of his life, in his own voice. Here is Arnold, with total recall.
Recall biases in retrospective survey data are widely considered to be pervasive and have important implications for effective agricultural research. In this paper, we leverage the survey design literature and test three strategies to attenuate mental anchoring in retrospective data collection: question order effects, retrieval cues, and aggregate (community) anchoring. We embed a survey design experiment in a longitudinal survey of smallholder farmers in Malawi and focus on anchoring bias in maize production and happiness exploiting differences between recalled and concurrent responses. We find that asking for retrospective data before concurrent data reduces recall bias by approximately 34% for maize production, a meaningful improvement with no increase in survey data collection costs. Retrieval cues are less successful in reducing the bias for maize reports and involve more data collection time, while community anchors can exacerbate the bias. Reversing the order of questions and retrieval cues do not help to ease the bias for happiness reports.
