Brace for impact. Your comeback starts now.We all will face a monster storm at some point in our lives. In 2024, Jim Olson's beautiful life and high-flying career rolled into a perilous nosedive with a Stage 4 cancer diagnosis and the loss of his sight. Jim was terrified his life was over.Then he recalled the Aviate-Navigate-Communicate protocol Captain Sully Sullenberger followed to safely land US Airways Flight 1549 on New York's Hudson River. At the ti...

In this exciting adaptation of the novel by H.G.Wells set in 1900 we join the eccentric professor Cavor (Sir Donald Sinden) and the rakish free loading Charles Bedford (James Bolam) on their extraordinary journey to the moon in a huge metal sphere resplendent with drape curtains, gentleman’s arm chairs and brass fittings.Once upon the moon’s surface they discover more than they bargained for - within the centre of the moon there is life! Taken prisoner by the calculating Selenites,...

This Bible Study Is Easy To Understand And Enjoyable To Read Because it isWritten by Someone Like YouAuthor Kurt Olson is not a Bible scholar, he is not a Preacher and he is not even a teacher.He is Someone Like YOU. He writes in a style like you talk and think.Too many Bible Study writers assume that Everyone knows and understands the Bible#1. Reading the Bible without help can be Intimidating#2. Biblical scholars often don’t speak in simple ...

Casusu Yakalamak: Karşı İstihbarat Sanatı’nda, CIA'in eski karşı istihbarat şefi James M. Olson, Amerikan halkı için bir uyandırma çağrısı niteliğinde olan ve aynı zamanda ülkesinin ulusal güvenliğini korumak için nasıl daha iyi bir iş çıkarılabileceği konusunda meslek sırlarını paylaşmaktadır.Olson, okuyucuyu CIA'deki otuz yıllık kariyeri boyunca deneyimlediği karşı istihbaratın gizemli dünyasına götürmektedir. Çin, Rus ve Küba casus servislerinin Amerika Birleşik Devletleri'ne ne...

After the surprising publishing success of the so-called New Atheists it has become clear that there is a market for critical discussions about religion. A religion is much more complex than a set of beliefs which cannot be proven, as the New Atheists argue. There is, in fact, much more to religion and much more to the arguments about its truth claims.This book seeks to bring together a range of discussions, both critical and apologetic, each of which examines some part of religion...

An absorbing and unsettling history of breast cancer told through the stories of women who have confronted it from ancient times to the present.A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the YearIn 1967, an Italian surgeon touring Amsterdam's Rijks museum stopped in front of Rembrandt's Bathsheba at Her Bath and noticed an asymmetry to Bathsheba's left breast; it seemed distended, swollen near the armpit, discolored, and marked with a distinct...

Feeling discouraged and need some encouragement?Read 31 Devotions for Writers, written by published authors who want to help encourage you in your writing through God’s written Word.Writing can often be discouraging. Some writers have spouses or children who don’t understand why they spend so much time on the computer. You may face a multitude of rejection from agents or publishers. Or you may not get encouragement in the form of reviews or be nominated for an award. So why...

Intelligence and the National Security Strategist: Enduring Issues and Challenges presents students with a useful anthology of published articles from diverse sources as well as original contributions to the study of intelligence. The collection includes classic perspectives from the history of warfare, views on the evolution of U.S. intelligence, and studies on the delicate balance between the need for information-gathering and the values of democratic societies. It also includes...

National service and volunteerism enjoy a rich history in the United States and an emergent future in other parts of the world. However, there remains relatively scant evidence of overall impact of national service programs and volunteer effectiveness. This condition continues to threaten national service and volunteer programs with the risk of defunding and/or the risk of not investing sufficiently from the start. This book brings together a selection of diverse chapters written by a comb...

The two sides of the brain have different perspectives of the world and they lead us to make very different choices. Olson’s research shows that we need to blend these two for three-dimensional thinking. He discusses how we can tell when we are functioning from our right brain or our left brain.

The child in many post-apocalyptic films occupies a unique space within the narrative, a space that oscillates between death and destruction, faith and hope. The Child in Post-Apocalyptic Cinema interrogates notions of the child as a symbol of futurity and also loss. By exploring the ways children function discursively within a dystopian framework we may better understand how and why traditional notions of childhood are repeatedly tethered to sites of adult conflict and disaster, a connect...

This volume serves as an invaluable guide to key political, social, and cultural concepts of the 1950s.This volume covers the entire decade of the 1950s, from the uneasy peace following World War II to the beginnings of cultural discontent that would explode in the 1960s. It highlights key historical, social, and cultural elements of the period, including the Cold War and perceived communist threat; the birth of the middle class and establishment of consumer cultur...