In the harrowing days after September 11, 2001, the President of the United States reached out to one man to help guide the nation in its quest to shore up domestic security.In this candid and compelling memoir, Tom Ridge describes the whirlwind series of events that took him from the state capital of Pennsylvania, into the fray of Washington, D.C., and onto the world stage as a new leader in the fight against international terrorism.A Washington outsider, R...

The size and scope of the global forced migration crisis are unprecedented. Almost 66 million people worldwide have been forced from home by conflict. If recent trends continue, this figure could increase to between 180 and 320 million people by 2030. This global crisis already poses serious challenges to economic growth and risks to stability and national security, as well as an enormous human toll affecting tens of millions of people. These issues are on track to get worse; without signi...

Fourteen true, amazing and inspiring stories of some of the bravest men and women you'll ever meetSo Others May Live is the untold story of the U.S. Coast Guard's quiet but resolute rescue swimmers. From deep ocean caves on the Oregon coast to the panicked and chaotic streets of post-Katrina New Orleans, here are their stunningly heroic stories - some of the greatest maritime rescues attempted since the program was started in 1985. These feats, told through the eyes of the...

Mike Sullivan and company are at Kennedy Airport to pick up a shipment of cocaine. Sullivan soon realises he has been set up and must find a way out! Millionare businesman Calvin Mitchell and family are traveling by private plane to bound for a wedding in Arizona. Sullivan's gang hijacks the family and plane! The next twenty-four hours take the reader from New York to Tucson to Midland Texas and Las Cruces, New Mexico. The Ridge is a novel where crime and evil clash with family, freindship...

Regina calls off her wedding at the last minute—she can't marry a man she loves but isn't in love with. Unfortunately, the only man who fits that description is Buck. After their one and only kiss years ago, he turned tail and ran, leaving her confused, heartbroken, and wondering what might have been.A few days after retiring from the military, Buck receives an unexpected inheritance—a ski resort in his hometown of Largo Ridge. It solves the problem of what to do next, but it also ...

The battle for Vimy Ridge one hundred years ago has been characterized as a defining moment in Canadian history. The idea of thousands of Canadian young men dying together in the mud and tangled wire of northern France was, and still is, considered by many as nation-building.Tom Goodman generally accepted this view until he discovered a rich trove of letters between his grandmother and Archie Polson, the uncle he has never met. Reading through the exchanges, Goodman came to realize that wa...

First published in 1985. Information technology can offer huge benefits to the disabled. It can help many disabled people to overcome barriers of time and space and to a much greater extent it can help them to overcome barriers of communication. In that way new information technology offers opportunities to neutralise the worst effects of many kinds of disablement.This book reviews the possibilities of using information technology in the education of the disabled. Commencing with a...

Britt Steele is fiercely protective of what he loves. Even if it means putting his own ambitions aside. He's worked too hard keeping a red wolf pack from extinction to let some city girl auction off their sanctuary. But Randi is no pushover. He's watched—and wanted—her from behind a whiskey glass for months. She's determined, much too tempting, and quickly turning Britt's attempts at persuasion into seduction. And he'll need every weapon in the Steele arsenal to change her mind.Mir...

She escaped – now he wants her back. Refusing could be deadly…Tony Nazario is a successful businessman, a loner with a gypsy spirit, and a sucker for a woman in need. When he moved to Mount Haven, he didn’t expect to meet a desperate and fiercely independent woman that would change his life forever. Immanent death? Yeah, she’s worth the risk.Theresa Regan is in trouble — big trouble — and the threat is more sinister and powerful than she ever imagined. A la...

It was a crime that captured national attention. In the idyllic suburb of Glen Ridge, New Jersey, four of the town's most popular high school athletes were accused of raping a retarded young woman while nine of their teammates watched. What went wrong in this seemingly flawless American town? In search of the answer, Bernard Lefkowitz takes the listener behind Glen Ridge's manicured façade into the shadowy basement that was the scene of the rape, into the mansions on "Millionaire's Row," i...

In the rugged hills of Gold Creek, fortune favors the bold — and buries the foolish. When an unexpected gold strike sets off a frenzy, old grudges, desperate men, and deadly schemes come to the surface.Clem Connolly, a weathered prospector with nothing left to lose, and his trusty burro find themselves caught in a high-stakes gamble where the prize is more than gold — it's survival. In a land where every handshake hides a blade and every bet could be your last, Clem has to outwit c...

In 1963, Jim Whittaker became the first American to summit Everest via the South Col route. Roughly two weeks after Whittaker's achievement, Tom Hornbein and Willi Unsoeld, fellow American mountaineers on the same expedition, became the first climbers ever to summit the world's highest peak via the dangerous and forbidding West Ridge—a route on which only a handful of climbers have since succeeded.This special fiftieth anniversary edition reintroduces the adventure in a larger form...