A compact volume that introduces modern gentlemen to some of the greatest pleasures in life, from the very best spirits to the most complex hot sauces to the suavest of accessories.The book is targeted to aspiring bon vivants, modern metrosexuals, millennials, and hipsters eager to become the new gentleman. Content not only includes quick guides to great drinks, foods, and cigars, but also makes the case for why every real gentleman needs a great flask, a ...

Few people read about the Philippine Insurrection in American History. At the treaty ending the Spanish American War, the US purchased the Philippine Islands. However, the Filipinos who fought alongside the Americans against the Spanish felt betrayed and declared war against the occupying American troops. From the period of early 1899 through 1908, the US fought a protracted war said to have been more brutal than the fighting in the Philippines during World War II. The Bluejacket’s Manual ...

In 1986 Brian Keenan and John McCarthy were forced to take a journey without maps. For the next four years they were incarcerated in a Lebanese dungeon. From the blank outlook of a tiny cell, with only each other and a few volumes of an ancient American encyclopaedia to sustain them, they could only wander the wide open spaces of their imagination. To displace the ugly confines of their existence, they envisaged walking in the High Andes and across the wastes of Patagonia.Five year...

She was born a slave—but her sword will shape history.1002, Attundaland, Sweden. A harsh winter grips the northern lands, where Norse warriors raid and powerful jarls scheme for dominance, their lives ruled by the sword and the old gods.Sot, rescued as a child from the brutality of Danish slave markets, grows up under the fierce protection of Roar Bjornsson, a famed warrior and trader. Known for her dark skin and amber eyes...

In this poetry collection, the author of Ghost Country deeply examines violent masculinity, driven by a yearning for more compassionate ways of being.McCarthy's flyover country is populated by a family strangled by silence: a father drunk and mute in the passenger seat, a mother sinking into bed like a dish at the bottom of a sink, and a boy whose friends play punch-for-punch for fun. He shows us a boy struggling to understand pain carried down through gene...

This gripping biography provides an inside look at John McCarthy's time as a nineteen-yearold gunship helicopter pilot in Vietnam. Always honest about what he experienced, McCarthy takes readers through a calendar of months to highlight the people he encountered, the grit of fighting battles, and the details associated with war, danger, trauma, and the sheer will to survive.

The original book was written eight years ago and some events in the original have become true today. There is a war in the Mideast. The Divine Powers become active in helping humans on earth to learn better ways to solve problems. Loved ones in the Afterlife actively help humans. The author's brother died as a young man decades ago, and his spirit still lives and helps people to cast out evil.

Who are we? Where do we come from? What is our purpose? These questions have been asked throughout our existence. Ever since the first campfire was lit, we have asked ourselves if we could do better. And we have wondered what lies in the future.Exposed is a collection of poetry written by John McCarthy, first as therapy and then as an outlet for a vast expanse of emotions. His perspective has been shaped by thirty years of police and investigation experience and by being a...

The Sexy Ugly Beautifuls is a rock 'n' roll collection of ocean infused adventures; so named after the colourful characters and exotic destinations John discovers in his global quest to ride the perfect wave. These stories share John's unique journey from youthful bodysurfer in South Africa to the thundering tubes of Hawaii's North Shore and into the wilderness of Namibia and Mozambique.Reviews"This book brims with a wanderlust that drives John...

The depth of evil found in Spain reveals the horror that awaits Israel and then Iran. The souls of loved ones and their spiritual guides will be needed to confront this evil. Rick and other courageous human spirits join forces with humans besieged by the evil incarnate to save mankind from further destruction. Rick died over forty years ago at the age of 19 after unsuccessful neurosurgery. His brother, George, was 16 then and loved Rick. Now George is a retired doctor visiting a conference...

Approaches to urban regeneration have changed dramatically throughout Europe and the USA over recent decades, drawing on notions of public-private partnership, growth coalitions and local spatial alliances. In this engaging book John McCarthy provides critical consideration of such theories in terms of their application to practice. He shows how these notions are used to explain the nature and underlying processes of urban development and to further objectives for urban regeneration. To te...

In 2003, the United States had about 60 craft distillers; today there are over 2,000 in all corners of the country, 500 of which are making whiskey. This book introduces the entrepreneurs and the companies behind this American craft whiskey movement.Whiskey Rebels is a collection of first-person accounts of the brilliant, brave, and slightly crazy innovators responsible for changing the whiskey landscape forever—people like Ralph Erenzo, recipient of the f...