Global air mobility is an American invention. During the twentieth century, other nations developed capabilities to transport supplies and personnel by air to support deployed military forces. But only the United States mustered the resources and will to create a global transport force and aerial refueling aircraft capable of moving air and ground combat forces of all types to anywhere in the world and supporting them in continuous combat operations. Whether contemplating a bomber campaign...

Do you ever wish that you could understand why you do the things you do? Especially why you do the things you absolutely do not want to do? Your attachment style could be causing you more pain than you know!Understanding Attachment Disorders in Adults: How Adult Attachment Styles and Disturbances in Adults Affect Relationships' by Robert Owens, provides an in-depth look into the world of adult attachment disorders. The book examines the psychological and social aspects of attachmen...

Transform Your Relationship with OCD Through Internal Family SystemsWhat if the exhausting battle against your OCD symptoms could become a collaborative conversation with parts of yourself that are actually trying to help? In this groundbreaking book, Robert C. Owens reveals why traditional treatments that position symptoms as enemies to defeat often fail—and offers a revolutionary approach based on Internal Family Systems therapy that works with your protective pa...

The Lie of Lazy exposes the twenty-billion-dollar lie that's keeping millions of intelligent, capable people trapped in cycles of shame, optimization, and self-blame. If you've ever spent more time perfecting your productivity system than actually producing work, this book will fundamentally change how you understand human functioning.Robert C. Owens spent two decades interviewing chronic procrastinators, studying neuroscience research, and documenting his own spec...

If you are in a happy relationship, or a perfect person, this book isn't for you.If you've ever wondered why smart, capable people repeatedly fail at relationships despite reading every book and attending every workshop, this groundbreaking guide has your answer. Most relationship advice assumes you're emotionally available, neurotypical, and have infinite energy for processing feelings. Reality check: most of us are running on emotional fumes, managing anxiety or ...

What if your "procrastination problem" is actually your brain working exactly as designed—just in an environment it wasn't built for?Twenty-five percent of adults identify as chronic procrastinators. Among students, that number hits 95%. These aren't statistics about lazy people. They're about millions trapped in cycles of shame and self-hatred based on a fundamental misunderstanding of how human brains actually work. Every productivity guru selling discipline and ...

Is it possible for two combatants who possess equally strong air forces to conduct limited warfare by restraining air operations? In Restraining Air Power, Robert C. Owen and contributing authors aim to answer this question by providing theoretical and empirical assessments of restrained air warfare through five historical case studies since 1945. Through an objective analysis of the past, this collection evaluates the principles of escalation and escalation management in conventi...

This text offers a major reassessment of the life and thought of the distinguished 19th century industrial philanthropist and educational reformer, Robert Owen. In a period when Owen's radical new visions for learning and teaching, adult and vocational pedagogy and social transformation are receiving fresh and global attention, Robert Davis and Frank O'Hagan place Owen's thought right at the heart of the Enlightenment advocacy of popular, democratic mass education. Tracing both the ancestr...

Robert Owen was a Welshtextile manufacturer, philanthropic social reformer, and one of the founders of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement. Owen is best known for his efforts to improve the working conditions of his factory workers and his promotion of experimental socialistic communities. In the early 1800s Owen became wealthy as an investor and eventual manager of a large textile mill at New Lanark, Scotland. (He initially trained as a draper in Stamford, Lincolnshire, and wor...

A modern retelling of the Medusa myth set in a snake-handling church in Tennessee in the summer of 1920 as they vote to ratify women's suffrage for the entire United States.It's the summer of 1920 and the hollers of Tennessee are dripping with humidity and tension, the electricity in the air broken only by storms and, if you're lucky, a travelling revival. The most famous features a lady preacher-who bestows the power on her listeners to become greater tha...

‘The End of the World is Nigh’ has been seen, heard and quoted ad infinitum all of our lives. In the comfort zone of our own arrogance and the resources that we humans have at our disposal it seems we are both inviolable and invincible. All is safe. We are in control.But Nature has a way of sending earthquakes, eruptions, fires and flood, and much else besides, at the most inopportune times and, in these more modern days, with increasing frequency and extremes.In this volum...

An in-depth account of one of the greatest aviation bombing operations in World War II history: the RAF's Dambusters Raid against Nazi Germany."This was Der Tag for 617 Squadron [. . .] from eight o'clock onwards the scenes outside the crew rooms were something to be remembered."On the evening of Sunday 16 May, 1943, the sound of Lancaster bombers fills the night air around Lincolnshire as two waves of Allied aircraft start their engines and take off...