Drawing from hundreds of interviews with WWII veterans who survived Japan’s terrifying kamikaze strikes, acclaimed author and former U.S. Navy Officer David Sears vividly portrays what it was like to experience this tactic, capturing the real-life dramas behind America’s first confrontation with the psychology and devastating impact of suicide warfare.In the last days of World War II, a new and baffling weapon terrorized the United States Navy in the Pacif...

"[An] excellent volume on the navy's air war in the Pacific during WWII . . . the author has almost certainly created the best one-volume study of the subject" ( Booklist).In a grand sweeping narrative, Pacific Air tells the inspiring story of how, despite initial disastrous defeats, a generation of young naval aviators ultimately vanquished a superior Japanese air force and fleet in the Pacific. The instruments of the United States aviators' trium...

In the last days of World War II, a new and baffling weapon terrorized the United States Navy in the Pacific. To the sailors who learned to fear them, the body-crashing warriors of Japan were known as "suiciders"; among the Japanese, they were named for a divine wind that once saved the home islands from invasion: kamikaze.Told from the perspective of the men who endured this horrifying tactic, At War with the Wind is the first book to recount in nail-biting detai...

A history of U.S. Navy aviators in the Korean War that "brings readers face-to-face with a group of servicemen who never received the recognition they deserved" ( Tuscon Citizen )."Taut and riveting. . . . A magnificent and moving tribute to their valor and sacrifice." —Robert J. Mrazek, former U.S. congressman and author of A Dawn Like ThunderIn 1951, James Michener went...

Living with Hope A True Story of Love, Courage, and Resilience in the Face of Incurable Cancer When life changes in an instant, how do you hold on to hope? Living with Hope is the moving true story of one couple’s journey after an incurable cancer diagnosis. From the initial shock of diagnosis to navigating treatments, clinical trials, and the unpredictability of remission and relapse, this intimate memoir offers an honest and heartfelt look at the emotional and physical challenges of livi...

From US Navy SEAL Commander (ret.) David Sears comes Smarter Not Harder, the ultimate guide to reframing thinking, navigating complexity, and excelling in all facets of life, informed by seventeen tried and true Navy SEAL maxims. Using his twenty-plus years of tactical, operational, and strategic knowledge as a leader in the SEAL Teams, David Sears pulls from his vast experience to draw fresh insights on some familiar―and not so familiar―sayings that will have you thinking differently, del...

The original teachings of the Baal Shem Tov, the founder of chasidism, on more than fifty subjects.

A World War II naval history of the aging destroyer Borie**’s desperate Halloween Eve battle with a German U-boat.**In Autumn 1943 the Battle of the Atlantic, World War II’s longest seagoing campaign, reached a new crescendo. Anti-submarine aircraft and ships using new tactics, technologies, and weaponry dominated a seascape where German U-boats once ruled supreme. But then unexpectedly, in eerie, mid-ocean darkness, an elemental hull-to-d...

The civil rights movement and immigration reform transformed American politics in the mid-1960s. Demographic diversity and identity politics raised the challenge of e pluribus unum anew, and multiculturalism emerged as a new ideological response to this dilemma. This book uses national public opinion data and public opinion data from Los Angeles to compare ethnic differences in patriotism and ethnic identity and ethnic differences in support for multicultural norms and group-conscious poli...

Political psychology applies what is known about human psychology to the study of politics. It examines how people reach political decisions on topics such as voting, party identification, and political attitudes as well as how leaders mediate political conflicts and make foreign policy decisions. In this updated third edition of The Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology, Leonie Huddy, David O. Sears, Jack S. Levy, and Jennifer Jerit have gathered together an international group...

The Los Angeles riots in the Spring of 1992 were among the most violent and destructive events in twentieth-century urban America. This collection of original essays by leading urban experts offers the first comprehensive analysis of the unrest that took place after a jury acquitted the police officers who were accused of using excessive force in t

From the author of the acclaimed, award-winning debut novel Black Fridays, comes a story of murder, greed, and corruption-and the lengths to which one man will go for his family. He approached me in the street-bone-thin, gray-bearded, holding out a small envelope. "The man said you'd give me five bucks for it." Inside was a one-word message: RUN. Two years in a federal prison has changed Jason Stafford, is still changing him, but one thing it has taught him as a financial investigator is h...