Journey through the war-torn landscapes of Normandy, Stalingrad, and Midway. Witness the power struggles and tactical genius of leaders like Churchill, Roosevelt, Hitler, and Stalin. Understand the profound sacrifices of the ordinary men and women who fought on the front lines and the home front, whose resilience shaped the fate of nations.From the blitzkrieg assaults that thundered across Europe to the epic naval battles in the Pacific, this book delves into the strategic decision...

'We shall go to the ocean, Oddsock. They said that it is very, very big, as big as the sky.' The donkey nodded its head, then shook it, watching the young boy, looking for guidance, a restlessness twitching in its body. He knew they should move on, get away from this place, but he was bound to the boy. They were twins, born of different mothers, he with one leg black to the knee, the only blemish on a grey coat, while the boy carried a strange pigmentation disorder that left one arm a pale...

When Deon Scott and Simon Tshabalala get stuck in a lift one Friday evening during a power cut in post apartheid South Africa, they are forced to face their demons of a traumatic time not only for the country, but in their own lives. Deon is a well off white businessman while Simon is a black security guard. Despite their different backgrounds, upbringings and current status, they were both touched by the violence that gripped the country as it fumbled towards democracy. As they begin to b...

A BBC Radio 4 production of Wynyard Browne’s classic play about a 1950s family homecoming at Christmas.It is Christmas Eve and the family are gathering at Reverend Martin Gregory’s Norfolk vicarage. A soldier son destined for Oxbridge, two elderly aunts with a passion for chatter, a cousin with a military background and a pair of daughters who are both hiding secrets join the vicar to celebrate the festive season.But family tensions soon come to the fore, and as skeletons tum...

In this dazzling debut collection of realistic, speculative, and New Fabulist stories, Pushcart-Prize-nominated author Rin Kelly introduces readers to wax boys, sentient sex dolls, angels doing market research, gods transformed into sheep, and a man whose painful breakup is reported minute by minute by the 24-hour media cycle. Filled with wry humor, satire, and heart, Kelly's fiction depicts moments of estrangement from a reality that no longer feels real, warns us of near-future technolog...

The Orvis**Ultimate Book of Fly Fishing is a grand tour of the world of fly-fishing strategies and techniques, from Orvis's world-famous team of experts and advisors. In large format with rich and helpful color photos and drawings, the book covers everything from basic fishing knots and casts to expert techniques you won't see in standard books. Besides trout technique and secrets for rivers and lakes, the book also covers the worlds of fly fishing for bonefish, striped bass, perm...

The author, at the age of 88, wrote this meditation booklet as a help for all her aging brethren in the world. The meditations are based on matching the journey of aging with the journey of Jesus to His Death and Resurrection. They are heartfelt, realistic, and profound. They have been privately circulating among the faithful for a year with consistent acclaim. This devotional is intended for personal prayer, group study, and ministry to seniors. Its central message is one of faith, courag...

This book explores the sea change in thinking about how to educate students of entrepreneurship, uses extant theory to develop a conceptual model of entrepreneurship skill development, describes an assessment tool for operationalizing this model, discusses how this tool can be utilized to develop entrepreneurship skills, and offers examples from the application of our approach in educational settings. It concludes with implications of this methodology for furthering both entrepreneurship e...

Featured in USA TODAY, Uke ‘n’ Roll provides an alternative teaching method to refresh the music program in school systems and inspire the community using the world’s easiest, most engaging and addictive instrument — the ukulele. Whether you’re a ukulele enthusiast looking for the next level or a music educator searching for uke curriculum reso...

Featured in USA TODAY, Uke ‘n’ Roll provides an alternative teaching method to refresh the music program in school systems and inspire the community using the world’s easiest, most engaging and addictive instrument — the ukulele. Whether you’re a ukulele enthusiast looking for the next level or a music educator searching for uke curriculum resources, this clear and concise method will bring your goals within reach the fun and easy way. Utilizing a broad range of m...

A detailed history and analysis of the most controversial amphibious operation in the Pacific during WWII: the Battle for Peleliu.On September 15, 1944, the United States invaded the tiny Pacific island of Peleliu, located at the southern end of the Palau Islands. Boasting a large airfield from which the Americans could mount bomber campaigns, Peleliu was a strategically essential part of Gen. MacArthur's long-awaited liberation of the Philippines. With the famed 1...

The Battle of Midway is traditionally held as the point when Allied forces gained advantage over the Japanese. In Islands of Destiny, acclaimed historian and military intelligence expert John Prados points out that the Japanese forces quickly regained strength after Midway and continued their assault undaunted.Taking this surprising fact as the start of his inquiry, he began to investigate how and when the Pacific tide turned in the Allies’ favor. Using ar...