This ain't your daddy's spy story. In a memoir written as a series of narrative vignettes, a former CIA operations officer recounts his years of danger, intrigue, and adventure. This candid and darkly witty memoir recounts an exhilarating life --and a few close brushes with death. With remarkable sangfroid and a humorist's eye for absurdity, H. K. Roy describes his many strange and risky exploits in his long career with the CIA. Whether he was pursuing Soviet and Cuban spies, running "deni...

The Botanist's Bookshelf: 8 Books on Plant Identification gathers a practical and historically resonant body of writing devoted to the art and science of recognizing plants. Across field-guide prose, systematic descriptions, diagnostic keys, and habitat-centered observation, the volume demonstrates that identification is both an intellectual discipline and a cultivated way of seeing. Its selections range from accessible guidance for the amateur naturalist to more exacting taxonomic treatme...

Saint Paul declares, "Live by the Spirit" (Gal 5:6). This means our way of living ought to be guided by the Holy Spirit. Through a series of theoretical reflections, questions, and directed activities, this activity book will help you understand the relationship between spirituality and ethics, provide you some theoretical tools and practices for doing ethics and living spiritually, and encourage you to clarify your own manner of approaching ethical questions, founding moral values, and th...

This ain’t your daddy’s spy story. In a memoir written as a series of narrative vignettes, a former CIA operations officer recounts his years of danger, intrigue, and adventure.This candid and darkly witty memoir recounts an exhilarating life—and a few close brushes with death. With remarkable sangfroid and a humorist’s eye for absurdity, H. K. Roy describes his many strange and risky exploits in his long career with the CIA. Whether he was pursuing Soviet...

In The Six Disciplines of Breakthrough Learning: How to Turn Training and Development into Business Results, renowned instructors and consultants Dr. Roy Pollock, Andrew Jefferson, and Calhoun Wick deliver a complete blueprint to maximize the effectiveness and ROI of training and development programs within any organization. In this newly revised and extensively updated Fourth Edition, listeners will find tools to implement meaningful strategies immediately, supported by the lates...

The book traces the role of Judaism and the Jewish people in God's plan for the salvation of mankind, from Abraham through the Second Coming, as revealed by the Catholic faith and by a thoughtful examination of history. It will give Christians a deeper understanding of Judaism, both as a religion in itself and as a central component of Christian salvation.To Jews it reveals the incomprehensible importance, nobility and glory that Judaism most truly has. It examines the unique and c...

The problems related to clinical distractions have grown in a brief amount of time. In addition to the expended use of electronic medical records, handheld technologies, and AI, staffing issues are reaching crisis levels. There is a considerable threat to patient safety, professional performance, and wellness.This book exposes the breadth or risks covered in the previous edition while expanding into new topics. The team of authors represents a diverse group of experts that offer di...

In this issue of MRI Clinics, guest editors Drs. Carlos Torres and Roy Riascos bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Spine Imaging. Top experts in the field offer a comprehensive review of the use of spine imaging to detect major issues, with articles on anatomy and pathology of the cranio-cervical junction, artificial intelligence, degenerative disease, marrow imaging, and many more. - Contains 12 relevant, practice-oriented topics including AI in spine imaging; MR imaging in...

Awards: Wall Street Journal #1 Bestseller 1999 Business Book of the Year In 100 chapters full of wit, wisdom and uncommon good sense, Secret Formulas conjures up more of the Wizard’s provocative observations on advertising, business, and life that won The Wizard of Ads 1998 Business Book of the Year Award—only this time, the book has nuts, bolt, and even more bite! The Wizard’s secret formulas will show you: • How to find a champion to sell your ideas • Why targeting your market can be a b...

Ethics in the West too often equates morality with universal moral principles, thus imposing lifestyles and moral criteria that do not respect differences and local histories. Even Christianity proposes ethics that is based on eternal, absolute and universal truths or principles, independent of sociocultural and historical contexts. The problem is that these universal moral laws become a means of social control to exclude those who are different: non-Christian religions, nonwhite races, no...

When you think of the pulp magazines that flourished in the first half of the 20th century, it’s hard not to think of adventure—the term “pulp fiction” these days has come to mean slam-bang action. That’s what this volume of our MEGAPACK® is here to celebrate: great adventure stories.Included are:HE SWALLOWS GOLD, by H. Bedford-JonesPLANE JANE by Frederick C. DavisARCTIC ANGELS, by A. DeHerries SmithTHE TAKING OF CLOUDY McGEE, by W.C. TuttleESPEC...

The NIV Application Commentary helps you communicate and apply biblical text effectively in today's context.To bring the ancient messages of the Bible into today's world, each passage is treated in three sections:Original Meaning. Concise exegesis to help readers understand the original meaning of the biblical text in its historical, literary, and cultural context.Bridging Contexts. A bridge between the worl...