Three decades of Coast Guard service, one powerful lesson: do what's right, no matter what the cost.Close's book pulls readers into the heart of the Coast Guard experience-covering lifesaving rescues, the 9/11 attacks, environmental crises, and a hurricane that forever changed the lives of so many."During my career, I developed what I call the 'Coast Guard option,'" said Close, a U.S. Coast Guard Academy graduate who served as Captain of the Port in St. Petersburg/Tampa, Fl...

Reviews key developments in understanding crop physiology and genetic diversity and how they have informed advances in breeding new varietiesCoverage of advances across the value chain for grain legume cultivation, from variety selection to post-harvest storageDiscusses the latest trends in disease, insect pest and weed management

Embark on a riveting exploration of prophecy, current world events, and spiritual urgency with "The Endtimes Prophecies: How Close Is The End?", a transformative exposition that delves deep into one of humanity's oldest and most compelling questions.Discover the profound truths about the Bible's endtime prophecies in "The Endtimes", a compelling guide through the scriptures' most mysterious and powerful predictions. Explore key passages from Daniel, Revelation, and the Gos...

The United States is in the grips of a major constitutional crisis, an election too-close- to call, in which even the Electoral College fails to select the President. The unabashedly ambitious and stunningly beautiful democrat Vice President Charlotte Reid, Harvard law grad and spouse to the world's richest software magnate, rose to the top of the ticket when the sitting President mysteriously announced he would not seek reelection for a second term. But she has fallen a mere three votes s...

Are we really losing at trade with China? A thirty-year insider says the answer will surprise you.Timothy Brantingham has spent his career in the space between America and China, in the supply chain trenches where theory meets reality. As a fluent Mandarin speaker born in Taiwan, he built factories in Shenzhen and negotiated with suppliers in Ningbo. He saw firsthand how one billion people joined the global marketplace in barely two decades. He also watched as some...

This Book is the result of a Father and Son who embarked on a Spontaneous poetic journey of healing Laughter, thought, uncertainty, creativity and the plain and simple Joy of communicating. While Transcontinental in Body (Father in America Son in Japan) we were right next to each other in Spirit and created a series of passages every day for two months(while he recovered from a surgery) never revealing the contents of our work until written the end of each day. What transpired was a synchr...

Embark on a riveting exploration of prophecy, current world events, and spiritual urgency with "The Endtimes Prophecies: How Close Are We Really?", a transformative exposition that delves deep into one of humanity’s oldest and most compelling questions. Every generation has claimed to be the last, and so far they have all been wrong. Are we any different? This comprehensive work guides readers through the dramatic landscape of biblical end times prediction, analyzing ancient scriptures alo...

Eighteen-year-old Aaron is charismatic, resourceful and addicted to heroin. His mum has kicked him out of home in a last-ditch move to help him get straight, and he wanders the streets of South Melbourne, living on his wits and sleeping rough - all the while chasing drugs, dreams and love.Desperate to fund his addiction, Aaron climbs into the car of The Man, a distinguished elderly gentleman willing to pay for a certain kind of relationship. This regular cash could be the lifeline ...

The baronial civilization that ruled post-apocalyptic America stands on the threshold of a much more sinister plot: the complete domination of Earth. These oppressors are determined to relegate humanity to the status of slavery and crush the nascent force of freedom fighters who've dared to rebel against a powerful alien race.Rumors of an ancient doomsday device come to the attention of the Cerberus rebels win it's stolen by an old enemy, Gilgamesh Bates. The preDark mogul who engi...

Video Games, Literature, and Close Playing: A Practical Guide offers 24 case studies of mainstream and independent video games from Tetris to The Sims, Undertale to Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and Assassin’s Creed to Gone Home in order to introduce key video game and literary studies concepts, ideas, definitions, and possibilities. This book also includes a brief history of video games and literature, critical questions and ...