A gripping account of PTSD, and a stark reminder that, for many, wars go on long after the last shot is fired.In the shadows of army life is a world where friends become monsters, where kindness twists into assault, and where self-loathing and despair become constant companions. Whether you know it by old names like “soldier’s heart,” “shell shock,” or “combat fatigue,” post-traumatic stress disorder has left deep and silent wounds throughout history in the ranks o...

Si l’on se fie à tous les principes de la guerre et à la logique militaire, le soutien logistique de la force opérationnelle Orion du Canada aurait dû s’écrouler en juillet 2006. Peu de pays posent un défi logistique aussi important que l’Afghanistan, et pourtant les soldats canadiens l’ont relevé avec brio, en 2006, dans ce dangereux théâtre international. Cette réussite représente un accomplissement militaire monumental. Les opérations de combat du Canada couvraient le sud de l’Afghanist...

The beliefs and faith of a young priest and professor at American University, Father William Evers, are threatened upon learning the truth of his own sister's abortion and the news of her devastating suicide.In an effort to help the young cleric cope with his grief and meet the test of his faith, his mentor recommends him for an assignment as the Vatican's representative to investigate the reappearance of several lost burial sites found among the archaeological digs in Germany, Fra...

By every principle of war, every shred of military logic, logistics support to Canada's Task Force Orion in Afghanistan should have collapsed in July 2006. There are few countries that offer a greater challenge to logistics than Afghanistan, and yet Canadian soldiers lived through an enormous test on this deadly international stage - a monumental accomplishment. Canadian combat operations were widespread across southern Afghanistan in 2006, and logistics soldiers worked in quiet desperatio...

In the Service of Peace simple words that adorn the obverse of every United Nations medal, yet behind this eloquence lurks violence and an unheralded heroism invisible to an often misunderstood quarter of Canadas military history. The Canadian contribution to peacekeeping is enormous but ensnared in a lethal mythology that has seen it abandoned to popular folklore. From the early and intrinsic Canadian contribution to the U.N. Emergency Force in 1956, through the blur of the frenetic 1990s...

Through vivid storytelling and engaging illustrations, "Maggie Moo and the Golden Eyes" takes young readers on a memorable adventure where they will witness the power of kindness, empathy, and the importance of taking action. As children follow Maggie Moo's journey, they will explore the value of understanding one's own emotions and how they can positively impact the lives of others.To facilitate meaningful conversations between parents andchildren, the book includes a spec...

Heart of Darkness is a novella written by Joseph Conrad. It is widely regarded as a significant work of English literature and part of the Western canon. The story tells of Charles Marlow, an Englishman who took a foreign assignment from a Belgian trading company as a ferry-boat captain in Africa. Heart of Darkness exposes the myth behind colonization while exploring the three levels of darkness that the protagonist, Marlow, encounters--the darkness of the Congo wilderness, the darkness of...

At the age of twenty-six , the religious pilgrim and maverick Kurata Hyakuzō wrote a profoundly philosophical play called "The Priest & His Disciples" . This stage play is based on the life and teachings of the 13th century Buddhist priest Shinran and quickly became immensely popular. Shinran, the historical founder of the True Pure Land School of Buddhism , encounters the poor family of Hino Saemon and his wife Okane, and converses with them about how to live in circumstances of change an...

Revisados y actualizados, contienen un índice de contenidos al inicio del libro que permite acceder a cada tíltulo de forma fácil y directa.El Gran Gatsby por Francis Scott FitzgeraldEl Mago de Oz por Lyman Frank BaumCanción de Navidad por Charles DickensLos Muchachos de Jo por Louisa May AlcottEl Convivio por Dante AlighieriPersuasión por Jane AustenMansfield Park por Jane AustenEl Diccion...

Timeless insights into military logistics sprang out of the hardship and sacrifices of Canadians who fought in Afghanistan.Good battlefield logistics have always been more about people than things. Military logistics in the Canadian Armed Forces have long suffered in a dry cellar, as the under-appreciated bottom heap of the institution. Yet Canadian logistic soldiers were called upon mightily in the summer of 2006 to sustain an infantry battle group in one of the w...

In 1929, nearly four hundred years after the deaths of Saints Thomas More and John Fisher, G.K. Chesterton observed in words equally attributable to Fisher, “Blessed Thomas More is more important at this moment than at any moment since his death, even perhaps the great moment of his dying; but he is not quite so important as he will be in a hundred years.” Judge Robert J Conrad, Jr. anticipates Chesterton’s one-hundred-year mark in a collection of stories from the lives of More and Fisher,...

About this AudiobookCover Design by David Earl DeWitt | ZacaPublishing.comNarrated by Kennedy Center Award Winning actor Dennis Edward Delaney.-Welcome to a collection that spans nearly two centuries of human imagination, from the gothic depths of the 19th century to modern-day suspense.In this anthology, you will encounter the relentless forces of nature—from the swirling vortex of Poe’s Maelstrom to the claustrophobic dread of Th...