"Love Letters" shares the powerful story of Anna Gordon. When she was a twenty-one-year-old senior at the University of Alabama in 2009, she received a cancer diagnosis of Acute Myeloid Leukemia eight weeks prior to her graduation. As harrowing as the Gordon family's saga was, its effect on hundreds of people in West Alabama, and beyond, who became wrapped in the drama of their journey's ups and downs, serves as a dramatic and heart-warming demonstration of the best attributes of human nat...

It is a sad fact that on this earth something dreamed remains forever just that — a dream. It has nothing of reality, solidity, tangibility about it. It has nothing of a satisfying substance to it which either engenders individual or shared memories to be relished and, if the dream is a pleasantly fulfilling one, enjoyed to the full.So it is with this story — of a theatre director's passion for a ballet and later a passion for one of his colleagues. Though neither of these passions...

He isn’t black, he isn’t white, not Latino, not Asian. “Other,” he thought with a chuckle. “I am an other”, he said out loud. “Other than what? Other than black, Asian, Latino, and white or other than human? Other than what?  JUST OVER 20 YEARS AGO SOMETHING CHANGED ORDIN’S LIFE AND SET A COURSE OF CHANGE FOR MANY OTHERS.    For each, these three days represents a point in the path of their life in which all they have known for the past 20 years can change… or not. &...

For the first time ever, a former Special Forces officer delivers an inside look at modern military police units and their role in defending our freedom.America has been at war on several fronts since the 9/11 attack. While public attention has focused on Marines, conventional Army units, and Special Operations Forces, a lion's share of the war-fighting has been done, under media radar, by Military Police units. These squad and platoon-sized units patrol dangerous ...

In the electrifying world of Microphone Showdown, the battle for supremacy rages on. As the third installment of this epic series unfolds, prepare for an explosive clash of lyrical titans. From the underground depths to the glittering stages, Microphone Showdown 3 (Unabridged) brings together the most formidable rappers, each armed with their own unique flow and undeniable charisma. With each verse, they unleash a torrent of words that ignite the crowd and leave an unforgettable mark on th...

Quantum-Touch 2.0—The New Human endeavors to significantly enlarge the possibilities of what humans can be and do. In clear, step-by-step instructions, the reader will learn to easily demonstrate that human limits are as yet unknown.Readers can learn to do healing on multiple people at once to reduce their pain in minutes, work on multiple conditions at once, help people shift their own beliefs with the use of energy, and work across time and space. Readers will even learn...

Marine Maxims is a collection of fifty principle-based leadership lessons that Thomas J. Gordon acquired commanding Marines over a career spanning three decades of service. Dealing with the complexities and challenges of the contemporary operating environment requires an internal moral compass fixed true. These maxims focus on developing inner citadels of character, moral courage, and the resilience to persevere in a contested domain where information is key. Its purpose is to pro...

A detailed study of the brutal and pivotal battle at Spotsylvania Court House, May 8–21, 1864. May 1864. The Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia spent three days in brutal close-quarter combat in the Wilderness that left the tangled thickets aflame. No one could have imagined a more infernal battlefield—until the armies moved down the road to Spotsylvania Court House. Even the march itself was unprecedented. For three years the armies had fought battles and disengaged aft...

Life isn't like a superhero movie. There isn't a script, and while you don't plan for bad things to happen, they happen anyway. Sometimes, they keep on happening without a break in the action, and if you look up in the sky, you may see a bird or a plane, but that's it. In these times of despair, it's easy to let negative thoughts invade your mind and darken your mindset, enticing you to take actions that might hurt yourself or others.But it doesn't need to be that way.Withi...

From their promising beginnings at Stanford to their founding of Google and beyond, this fascinating biography charts the extraordinary rise of tech duo Sergey Brin and Larry Page.As PhD students at Stanford University, Larry Page and Sergey Brin devised a powerful search engine. Google, the company they founded in 1998 became a brand, the world's pre-eminent search engine, a centre of artificial intelligence and a source of data collection. This fascinating biogra...

The Sports Pages, the third volume in Jon Scieszka's Guys Read Library of Great Reading, features ten short stories guaranteed to put you in the ring, under the basket, and right behind home plate.From fiction to nonfiction, from baseball to mixed martial arts and everything in between, these are a collection of stories about the rush of victory and the crush of defeat on and off the field.Authors include Dustin Brown, James Brown, Joseph Bruchac, Chris Crutcher, Tim Green,...

Algebraic graph theory is a combination of two strands. The first is the study of algebraic objects associated with graphs. The second is the use of tools from algebra to derive properties of graphs. The authors's goal has been to present and illustrate the main tools and ideas of algebraic graph theory, with an emphasis on current rather then classical topics. While placing a strong emphasis on concrete examples they tried to keep the treatment self-contained.