A detailed look at the day-to-day life of a pilot serving during the Persian Gulf War against Iraq.This book is based upon a journal Jim Schreiner kept during his deployment to the Persian Gulf region for Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Building upon that record and the recollections of other F-4G Wild Weasel aircrew, the authors show a slice of what life and war was like during that time. The pawns in the game, the ones that actually had to do the fight...

Academic Culture introduces students to the demands of university study in a clear and accessible way, and helps them understand what is expected of them. Chapters equip students with the skills to recognise opinions, positions and bias in academic texts from a range of genres, think critically, develop their own 'voice', and refer to others' ideas in an appropriate way. Having established a foundation for successful university study, the final part provides guidance on approachin...

Sixty Years of Hurt: England and the England Football Team is a story of football, politics and how the two worlds have met or collided since 1966.By Jonny Brick, author of the acclaimed From Kids to Champions: The History of the FA Youth Cup.Sir Geoff Hurst is the sole surviving player from England’s 1966 World Cup-winning side, but the importance of the victory still has a hold on the national mood, for matters both on and off the pitch....

Someone is killing young men at the University of Washington. Our friends are asked to investigate when a co-worker's son is the latest victim. Along the way, a nemesis from the past makes trouble!

The Covenant of Attention — 48 ObservablesThis book does not promise success.It promises clarity.The Covenant of Attention is a field manual for disciplined perception. It is built on a simple premise: failure rarely arrives without warning. Before collapse, there are signals. Before conflict, there are shifts. Before consequence, there is structure revealing itself.Most people react when pressure becomes visible. This book trains you to see before pressure ...

A conversation between The Fates with their younger triplet siblings, The Three Graces and the Three Furies. In three parts, The Three Fates and the Three Graces; The Three Fates and The Three Furies; and finally, The Three Furies and The Three Graces. They discuss happenings around Mt. Olympus, the Gods and Goddesses.

When Claudette McPhearson died, she left eight foster children to fend for themselves after they discovered the truth about her secret life. She was the leader of the Syndicate, a criminal enterprise that had a stronghold on the underworld. Much to her children’s chagrin, it was up to one of them to step up and take the lead. Javon, her oldest and most trusted son, took on that mantle. It was a role he had never wanted, but with threats to his family coming from every direction, he had no ...

In Brick & Storm's Hood Misfits series, the motto is ENGA: Every nigga got an agenda, and in this tale, things are no different. Everyone has a secret. There were two things of which Auto, leader of the elusive Eraserheads, was certain: Code, his partner and best friend, had betrayed him, and Caltrone Orlando, the biggest crime lord in North America, had marked him and his team for death. Crossing Caltrone Orlando had come with a steep price. Auto had suffered fatal losses to his team and ...

"Highlights the mental strategies elite athletes employ to get an edge on their competition."— The New York TimesWith an all-new foreword: competition-tested cognitive strategies to help triumph over any obstacleIf you ask research psychologist Noel Brick and bestselling fitness writer Scott Douglas, the "dumb jock" stereotype is way out of bounds. No world-class athlete succeeds without a strong mental game, including unique ways of analyz...

Sixteen-year-old Diamond "Ray-Ray" Jenkins has it made in the shade, until one wrong move by her parents turns their lives upside down. Their secret of taking from the wrong street King in the Trap, Damien Orlando, has now put her in peril. The death of her parents signals an end to Diamond's semi-perfect life, putting her in the hands of evil. Her only salvation is to learn the game, and to put her trust in a kid wearing a hoodie. Trigga has been a survivor and a killer in the streets of ...

Shelley, a high class call girl, and Ann Li, her best friend in the business, discover blackmail and revenge against clients. After many years, Shelley gets her chance to get out of the business and catches the eye of Gerald Johnson, a philandering, embezzling bank executive. What happens when they meet? Blackmail, marriage, revenge and murder.When pools of blood are found in their home instead of Mrs. Shelley Johnson, it's up to Joan, the bank's investigator, and Detective McIntir...

Against their parents' wishes, Gilbert and Bobby trespass into an abandoned old house, unaware of the horrors that lurk inside. With Bobby's sudden disappearance, Gilbert finds himself caught up in an adventure that only starts with the ghosts who reside in the house.After stepping through a door into the Sectors, Gilbert is confronted with an entirely new and mysterious world populated with robots, creatures that he only thought existed in movies and myths, and a cannibal…...