From Boardroom to Blackboard is a candid, insightful examination of modern public education through the rare lens of a seasoned business professional who steps into the classroom. Drawing on years of leadership, operations, and strategic decision-making experience, the author chronicles the transition from the private sector to teaching in a public school system—revealing both the promise and the profound challenges facing today's educators.This book goes beyond theory and...

Nick Ryan spent six arduous years traveling amongst a huge array ofright-wing extremists. Winning the trust of the men and women at theheart of these movements - from bombers to presidential candidates,across Europe and the USA - Into A World Of Hate is the tale of hisgripping odyssey.

What do we really know as young marrieds? When Nick Ryan married Linda, his high school sweetheart, they were just beginning to make their way in the world. Add to the mix vastly different families of origin, fundamentally different personalities, and ill-formed visions of the life they each desired…what could go wrong?This book shares Nick's journey through discovering what he calls the art and science of love, marriage, and blending family. His stories may make you laugh, they ma...

Eight Amazing Engineering Stories reveals the stories behind how engineers use specific elements to create the material world around us. In eight chapters, the EngineerGuy team exposes the magnificence of the innovation and engineering of digital camera imagers, tiny accelerometers, atomic clocks, enriched uranium, batteries, microwave ovens, lasers, and anodized metals. In addition, short primers cover the scientific principles underlying the engineering, including waves, nuclear structure, ...

As Russian troops pour into northern Poland, an elite Platoon of American scouts in Stryker reconnaissance vehicles faces a dangerous assignment: they must clear the route ahead for a US Cavalry column preparing to counter attack the flank of the enemy spearhead before it reaches Warsaw.But the scouts' difficult mission is made even more complicated when a Company of Polish militia are added to the counter attacking force, and a vital bridge is found to be defended...

When the Russian Army invading northern Poland threatens to quickly overwhelm Warsaw, a lone Company of American Abrams tanks and a unit of Irish infantry are sent forward to the small village of Stare Lubiejewo and given an impossible mission: hold back the advancing Russian Army at all costs.Overwhelmed by enemy tanks and APCs, the American tankers and the Irish infantry heroically fight off one determined assault after another until it seems they must surely be ...

Russian High Command has a plan to smash NATOs forces arrayed along the Poland-Lithuania border with an assault that would punch a hole in the Allied lines and overrun the NATO perimeter along a ten-mile wide front.A triumph would turn the momentum of the war in Europe back in Russia's favour. Standing in the way of the Russian advance is an isolated American outpost, manned by a Platoon of veteran soldiers and a rookie Lieutenant.'Fort Suicide' is right on...

As fierce fighting across Poland and the Baltics captures the world's attention, a single squadron of American F-16 pilots deployed to Ukraine must battle against overwhelming odds and impossible conditions to take the war to the Russians.Shot down behind enemy lines on a dangerous sortie in the skies over Kiev, rookie pilot Steve 'Lone Wolf' McQuade is rescued by a group of Ukrainian refugees who are on a mission to rally patriotic resistance against the Russian i...

With only a sliver of hope remaining the allied forces must find a place to make a stand. Would the 173rd Airborne Brigade reach them in time?Colonel Karl Armstrong, a veteran soldier who has seen active duty around the world, has just landed a posting that has him steaming. Training a group of raw Polish recruits wasn't what he imagined he'd be doing at this point in his career. A war is approaching. He knows he could make a difference if he could just get a trans...

It was one of the most dangerous secret missions of the War in the Pacific: a coordinated US submarine attack against a Chinese arms shipment rumoured to be bound for Pakistan.But as USS Oklahoma City sails towards the Chinese coast, she stumbles onto an even greater threat to the West. Outnumbered, isolated and alone, with tension aboard the submarine at breaking point, the OKC and her exhausted crew must battle to outwit the Chinese navy and then finally...

During the disastrous Allied retreat north following the fall of Warsaw, a small group of American infantry from the 10th Mountain Division are cut off from the rest of their company while fighting a desperate rear-guard action.Abandoned and surrounded by Russians, Lieutenant Simon McLane and a handful of soldiers are aided in their escape by a Troop of British Challenger 2 tanks from the Royal Tank Regiment. The tankers and infantrymen forge an unlikely alliance a...

The Korean Peninsula saw some of the most savage fighting of the Third World War.Several American units covered themselves in fame and glory during the campaign, while some Companies went into battle with a black mark against their names.'Culprit' Company were troublemakers and misfits; outcast rebels with a reputation for ill-discipline and insubordination. But in the face of the enemy, they were the bravest of the brave.For the new recruits joinin...