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...

In 1970, Elton John, formerly Reginald Kenneth Dwight, stepped from the obscurity of suburban Pinner, Middlesex, England, into a pop culture reeling from post-Beatles fallout, to become one of the biggest-selling recording artists in the world. To date he has sold over 300 million records from a discography of 30 studio albums, four live albums, over 100 singles, and a multitude of compilations, soundtracks and collaborations. He is the recipient of six Grammys and ten Ivor Novello awards,...

When Sonicbond Publishing produced its first books in 2018, we didn’t expect that by 2024, we would have published over 120 new titles in our flagship On Track series. To celebrate we are pleased to present our very first printed, pocket-sized sampler. This represents a brief dive into eight of our titles in the series across a wide range of music genres, including progressive rock, indie, classic rock, folk rock, singer-songwriter and metal.Yes’ seminal Fragile album finds the band...

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...

'God is doing something different. God isn'tjust concerned with the popular and thepowerful, the rich and the important, Godcares about the weird and odd people, thesmelly ones, and the ones no one else trusts.Not only that: God has a really special mission for them.'Right from the start of his...

Sharp-suited sharpies, slick-talking slicksters, high-rolling gamblers, and habitués of the racetrack -- they're all here, and it's all in fun! Straight from the imagination of the legendary Broadway raconteur Damon Runyon, here is another rollicking collection of stories about bets and debts, lovers and losers, con men and wise guys.Gerald Mohr, Eve Arden, William Conrad, Joseph Kearns, Alan Reed, Parley Baer, Willard Waterman, Frances Robinson, and more play guys and dolls who speak only...

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...

For years the legendary John Seigenthaler hosted A Word on Words on Nashville's public television station, WNPT. During the show’s four-decade run (1972 to 2013), he interviewed some of the most interesting and most important writers of our time. These in-depth exchanges revealed much about the writers who appeared on his show and gave a glimpse into their creative processes. Seigenthaler was a deeply engaged reader and a generous interviewer, a true craftsman. Frye Gaillard and P...

“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...