Find out what boxing, self-defense and training looked like in the 18th century. Published in 1888, this book will take you back in time to discover where it all began. Get some 'old-school' tips and inspiration on how training and diet was done before the days of modern gyms and supplements.

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. In 2003, Major William Edwards and Lt. Col. Robert P. Walters of the 165th Military Intelligence Battalion were given the near-impossible task of improving the U.S. Army's security posture at Abu Ghraib prison under unfathomable conditions. With input from officers who served with them, their candid firsthand accounts of life at the notorious prison reveal unpublished detai...

Author's Foreword: What! another book? Certainly, why not? Is there not more sin? Shall we not do all in our power to counteract it? We preach a sermon to a congregation of a few hundred, and a certain amount of good may be accomplished; but in preaching through a book we have a congregation of thousands. Hence, we take pleasure in adding to the number of books already in circulation. A goodly number of years ago the author was conducting revival services in a southern Iowa...

Author's Preface: Our apology for writing this book is, the people need it. We are placing it before the public, because we know its truths will be eye-openers along lines much neglected, yet greatly needed. We have endeavored to stick to the text, making the work to correspond with its title. We expect criticism, censure and possibly hatred from some sources; but we have the satisfaction, that we have written conscientiously and carefully, with the object in view to help i...

Author's Preface: We send forth these pages with the prayer that all that meets the approval of Christ may be blest to the upbuilding of His Zion, and that all mistakes may be overruled and may not make any lasting impression upon the reader’s mind. If any one is disposed to seek for mistakes, we can save him the trouble of looking, for they are here, and one can generally find what he is looking for. So let the critical mind save itself time and labor by handing the book to some h...

A spy thriller that will change your view of the Cold War forever, by a former special forces officer and 'the thinking person's John le Carre'**'The thinking person's John le Carré' Tribune'Edward Wilson seems poised to inherit the mantle of John le Carré' Irish Independent**'More George Smiley than James Bond, Catesby will delight those readers looking for less blood and more intelligence in their spy thrillers' Publi...

The history of England, like the land and its people, has been specially insular, and yet no land has undergone deeper influences from without. No land has owed more than England to the personal action of men not of native birth. Britain was truly called another world, in opposition to the world of the European mainland, the world of Rome. In every age the history of Britain is the history of an island, of an island great enough to form a world of itself. In speaking of Celts or Teutons in...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.This collection of williamshakespeare's works includes all of williamshakespeare's poems and plays in an elegant souvenir edition and has been split into multiple books as the author's unrevised works could not be summed up in one book.Whether it's a shakespeare fan or someone discovering it now, this is the perfect collection to experience the drama of shakespeare's words.Inside you will read ab...

Edward M. Kennedy is one of the most influential senators in Congress. For the last 35 years, he′s played a major role in events ranging from the Vietnam War to Supreme Court confirmations. He′s also been closely associated with issues such as health care, civil rights and campaign finance reform. More than the foremost lawmaker and best orator in the Senate, he′s enthralled (and disappointed) a generation who saw him as the keeper of his famous brothers′ flame. He′s seen America -- and he...

"A compelling slice of mid-century espionage that expertly blends history with possibility. All comparisons that will inevitably be made with le Carré are entirely apt" Tim Glister'Edward Wilson seems poised to inherit the mantle of John le Carré' Irish Independent1949: William Catesby returns to London in disgrace, accused of murdering a 'double-dipper' the Americans believed to be one of their own. His left-wing sympathies have h...

A gripping espionage thriller about an establishment plot to take control of 1970s Britain, by a writer who is 'poised to inherit the mantle of John le Carre'**'The thinking person's John le Carré' Tribune'Edward Wilson seems poised to inherit the mantle of John le Carré' Irish Independent**'More George Smiley than James Bond, Catesby will delight those readers looking for less blood and more intelligence in their spy thril...

A captivating spy thriller taking the reader from 60s sex scandals to the Vietnam War, by a former special forces officer w****ho is 'poised to inherit the mantle of John le Carre'**'The thinking person's John le Carré' Tribune'Edward Wilson seems poised to inherit the mantle of John le Carré' Irish Independent'More George Smiley than James Bond, Catesby will delight those readers looking for less blood and more intelligence in the...