These stories from the life and medical career of a Navy SEAL - turned doctor - are surprising, riveting, and inspiring. A family physician delivering babies, managing disease and trauma, and dealing with death - discovers new dimensions when he goes to war in Iraq. Treating the military, civilians and their families, “Dr. Bob” experienced tremendous joy, unbearable heartache, and deep gratitude. He shares those emotional experiences in this deeply personal memoir.If you want to be...

When the Witchmen caused the earth to move and called forth the fires from the mountain's inner depths, the Moon Maidens, Ahrmehnee, and Thoheeks Bili's troops barely escaped with thier lives. Driven by the flames into territory said to be peopled by monstrous half-humnas, Bili was forced to choose between braving the dangers of nature gone mad or fighting the savage natives on their own ground. But before he could decide, his troops were spotted by the beings who claimed this eerie land a...

Hell Week has never been described so effectively. Six days in hell define every SEAL that moves past the point of no return in their minds. Robert Adams, MD, brings the experiences of his classmates into view with real, difficult to believe experiences, described in frightening detail by the men that lived through the frigid cold, filthy muddy days, and body-destroying events of a winter Hell Week. Eleven of 70 men went on to graduate and serve over 40 years in almost every SEAL or UDT te...

Time conquers all and in the far-distant future, in the war-torn lands once known as the United States of America, all that remains are scattered tribes like the Horseclans and city-states ruled by the Ehleenee, the decadent practitioners of an ancient religion. Led by Lord Milo Undying One, a twentieth-century mutant gifted with immortality, the men of the Horseclans are slowly reuniting the continent through the strength of their swords and their dreams of power - dreams that have led th...

There are some days when you just don’t want to get out of bed. You lie there trying to feel inspired, but nothing seems to motivate you. Why this happens is not as important as acknowledging your feelings and doing something to change your life. We all want to live full, happy lives, but in order to do so we have to take control of our lives. In this book, you will discover a variety of specific things you can do to live life to the fullest every day. Whether you want to lose weight, ove...

The Civil War Comes Alive in Letters Home!Corporal Edwin J. Barden (Ned) wrote letters to his girl Sara (and later his wife) while assigned to General Grant's headquarters from 1861-1865.As a soldier in the 7th Connecticut Infantry Regiment, he documented Union army and navy battles, weapons, travels, and movements. These letters provide an up-close soldier's view of life on the front lines, and include officer assessments, horrid weather, transient housing, poor food, hung...

"Das Erste, was du dir vergegenwärtigen sollst, ist: Du wirst nie verschwinden oder sterben, weil du nie geboren wurdest. Du hast immer als Bewusstsein existiert und wirst immer als Bewusstsein existieren. Du gehst nirgendwohin und kommst von nirgendwo zurück. Du bist einfach. Du bist das Selbst, du bist Allgegenwärtigkeit." Auf verschiedenste Weise, aus verschiedenster Perspektive sagt uns Robert Adams immer wieder nur dies. So eindringlich, so klar, so direkt, dass der Teil in uns, der d...

"Das Erste, was du dir vergegenwärtigen sollst, ist: Du wirst nie verschwinden oder sterben, weil du nie geboren wurdest. Du hast immer als Bewusstsein existiert und wirst immer als Bewusstsein existieren. Du gehst nirgendwohin und kommst von nirgendwo zurück. Du bist einfach. Du bist das Selbst, du bist Allgegenwärtigkeit." Auf verschiedenste Weise, aus verschiedenster Perspektive sagt uns Robert Adams immer wieder nur dies. So eindringlich, so klar, so direkt, dass der Teil in uns, der d...

Every year, Robert Adams prepares a series of five reviews of contemporary novels, to be delivered alone on a theatre stage to sold-out audiences in Toronto and Montreal. In A Love of Reading Adams has now gathered 18 of his most brilliant reviews, from Jack Maggs by Peter Carey and The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, to A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry and Barney’s Version by Mordecai Richler. In them he skillfully interweaves a nimble...

Loving, The Key to Happiness and Blessings is really three books in one. Each one can individually bring happiness and blessings into the life of the reader. The first book is chapter one and two. Chapter one tells us who God says we should love if we are one of his children. Because of what God and Jesus did in loving us, chapter two teaches what the Bible says are the prerequisites and requirements for becoming one of God‘s children and having the Holy Spirit to help us do what is in cha...

Fourteen brilliant new reviews from the author of A Love of Reading*. Passionate, thought provoking, and witty.A Love of Reading, the Second Collection* contains 14 new reviews of modern classics from a discriminating, highly entertaining, and prodigiously well-read guide.In a stimulating selection, ranging from Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace to Zadie Smith’s White Teeth, and from Charles Frazier’s Cold Mountain to Sheri Holman’s ...

Hell Week has never been described so effectively. Six days in Hell define every SEAL that moves past the point of no return in their minds. Robert Adams, MD, brings the experiences of his classmates into view with real, difficult to believe experiences, described in frightening detail by the men that lived through the frigid cold, filthy muddy days, and body destroying events of a winter Hell Week. Eleven of seventy men went on to graduate and serve over forty years in almost every SEAL o...