The story is set in an English choir school, focusing on the lives of the boys who are students there. The novel delves into the daily experiences, challenges, and personal growth of the boys as they navigate their education and life in the school."The Choir School of St. Bede's" explores themes of discipline, faith, and camaraderie within the context of the choir school environment. The narrative provides insight into the rigorous training and the moral and ethical teachings that are part...

Without resorting to caricature, and with a comprehension of jihad and strategy that's alarming in its real-world implication, the author logically implements a plotline that underscores how easy it would be to pull-off another 9/11 terror strike. At the same time, Harrison's depiction of coordination efforts---and frequent animosity--among the White House, CIA, FBI, Department of Homeland Security, police and the National Guard will inspire awe- --Kirkus DiscoveriesThe busy intell...

This memoire, I Was An ASA Vietnam War Resister, Former ASA Soldier is a continuation of my first memoire, “I Was An ASA Vietnam War Resister, ASA Soldier”, released in July, 2025. At the conclusion of that memoire, I promised my readers that I would write another memoire about my efforts as a civilian, to stop the war in Vietnam.My time in ASA service occurred during the presidency of Lyndon Banes Johnson. When Johnson left office in January, 1969, there were approximately 580,000...

With Thirteen Illustrations By Emily A. CookThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. ...

When Advanced Project Management first appeared it quickly acquired a reputation for excellence on both sides of the Atlantic as a book that successfully bridges the gap between introductory texts on project management and specialist works on professional practice. Its aim is twofold: to provide a guide for managers, engineers, accountants and others involved in project work, and a reference for advanced students of project and construction management. This fourth edition of the book has b...

In a bold and deeply personal memoir, “I WAS AN ASA VIETNAM WAR RESISTER”, Frederick H. Chard breaks decades of silence in his new audiobook, to reveal many buried truths about the Vietnam War — those lived not on the front lines, but in the shadows of military intelligence.This newly released audiobook recounts Chard’s service in the United States Army Security Agency (ASA), a secretive military intelligence branch, tasked with intercepting enemy communications during the height o...

Although Positivism has been pretty widely discussed of late, not only by those interested in philosophy and religion, but by the general reader and the public press, perhaps but few of them, whether readers or critics, have exactly grasped the full meaning of it as a system at once of thought and of life. The vast range of the ground it covers and the technical, allusive, and close style of Comte’s writings in the original have made it difficult to master the subject as a whole. It has ac...

This anthology is dedicated to honor and preserve from oblivion the great courage, the sacrifices and the ultimate devotion of all Americans during the Civil War - the soldiers, the volunteers, the medical stuff and the civilians who supported the troops. In the hope this great divide and bloodthirsty hatred never emerges again in our nation, we honor the people who gave their lives or sacrificed everything they could offer in order to serve the greater good in which they believed. The edi...

‘I was sitting upon a low bench, made of rough boards, and without coat or hat. I was handcuffed. Around my ankles also were a pair of heavy fetters. One end of a chain was fastened to a large ring in the floor, the other to fetters on my ankles . . . Then did the idea begin to break upon my mind, at first dim and confused, that I had been kidnapped.’Solomon Northup’s kidnap in 1841 tore him away from a life of relative comfort as a free-born African-American farmer and violinist i...

Shadowed by a dark past, a father seeks a new life with his three children in the wild Hartz mountains. After a time, he marries a mountain maid named Kristina. At first his new wife is friendly and accommodating. But soon it becomes evident that darker designs are in the wind.Buried amongst the pages of his gothic novel, The Phantom Ship, this supernatural tale of lupine terror deftly blends many classic elements of horror with chilling aplomb.

One day Krantz comes home to witness his wife being unfaithful to him. In a fit of anger he kills both his wife and her lover, who is also Krantz's lord. Krantz fears the punishment he will surely receive, so he flees with his three children. His safe haven is the Hartz Mountains. There he meets a beautiful young lady who he marries shortly after. Their marriage however does not go as expected. The bride's night-outs raise Krantz's suspicions. Will the story repeat itself or will be taken ...

The Black Chicago Renaissance emerged from a foundational stage that stretched from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition to the start of the Great Depression. During this time, African American innovators working across the landscape of the arts set the stage for an intellectual flowering that redefined black cultural life.Richard A. Courage and Christopher Robert Reed have brought together essays that explore the intersections in the backgrounds, education, professional affiliati...