Serving a twenty-six-year career in the US Coast Guard, you see things develop that you know can become volatile. Being conventional, or routine, we always conduct business as usual. That’s when our enemies can start being unconventional.In World War II, German naval forces brought many nations to their knees doing just that. “The Grey Wolf” refers to a submarine. Their destructive power was amplified by using it in a very unconventional method, attacking “soft targets.” The type X...

All over town, people could hear the explosive roar as smoke shot upward from the old abandoned warehouse. All eyes were looking toward the deafening roar and a long bright flame and smoke trail of the slow climbing rocket gaining speed. There were fearful shouts of Its a nuclear missile launch! In ten minutes, Russian missiles will be reaching us! That started a panic, and everyone started running for shelter or trying to reach home to say goodbye to loved ones. In the sky overhead, the r...

'Penguin's fine pandemic audio festival delivers hours of laughs from comedy's most creative talents.' - The Observer'An absolutely cracking lineup' - The Guardian'A marvellous wheeze, almost like attending a private stand-up gig' - The IBrought to you by Penguin.The show has been called off. The show must go on....

Worlds depicts four generations of the Logan family from Ireland in 1870 to New York City in 1998. In a series of episodes arranged by theme, Worlds portrays a family through poetic shards of narrative: • Seamus Logan: a broken-hearted lover who flees his home in 1870 County Mayo, Ireland for Connemara and New York. Seamus eventually makes his way to Philadelphia where he founds a new family and a construction dynasty. • Reverend Sarsfield Logan, S.J.: a Jesuit priest who teaches French at...

Climate Change across the Curriculum examines ways of thinking and conveying information about climate change across university curricula and within academic disciplines. The contributors provide methods, strategies, rationales, and theoretical justifications for teaching climate issues at the university level. The content of this book aims to introduce climate change to classes outside of the sciences, as it will take a wide range of disciplines, broader institutional thinking, and experi...

Historian Nora Titone takes a fresh look at the strange and startling history of the Booth brothers, answering the question of why one became the nineteenth-century’s brightest, most beloved star, and the other became the most notorious assassin in American history.The sceneof John Wilkes Booth shooting Abraham Lincoln in Ford’s Theatre is among the most vivid and indelible images in American history. The literal story of what happened on April 14, 1865, is familia...

“I…am the Whistler...and+AA2I know many things...for I walk by night. I know many strange tales hidden in the hearts of men and women who have stepped into the shadows.”Radio Spirits brings you classic tales of mystery, crime and suspense featuring everyday individuals caught in a web of their own making, and tripped up by a twist of fate in the end. And heard throughout each radio play, as the events become a tangled web of crime, is that shadowy voice-of-fate, your host… The Whistler!Dri...

It has been known at least since the end of the century that the polar areas play a very important role in the formation of the Earth’s climates. It is also known today that they are the most sensitive regions to climatic change, and are thus perfect case studies for the detection of such changes. The most serious obstacle to the study of climatic and other geographical elements of the polar areas (including the Arctic) has always been the severe climatic conditions which prevail in these ...