Author: Adam Blade
Publisher: Orchard Books
ISBN: 1408355639
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 51
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X-Men meets Beast Quest at the school for superheroes! An epic new adventure series from bestselling author Adam Blade - with amazing comic-book style illustrations. TEAM HERO VS THE AGENT! IT IS TIME FOR JACK, RUBY AND DANNY TO FACE THE DREADED AGENT. CAN THEY RESTORE THE SHARDS OF ETHER BEFORE THEY ARE USED FOR UNSPEAKABLE EVIL? There are FOUR thrilling adventures to collect in this series - don't miss out! Book 1: The Secret Jungle, Book 2: Ninja Strike, Book 3: The Night Thief, Book 4: An Army Awakens And don't forget Adam Blade's other series: Beast Quest and Sea Quest
Author: Bill Ardolino
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1612511295
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
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The cradle of an insurgency that plunged Iraq into years of chaos and bloodshed, Fallujah conjures up images of the brutal house-to-house fighting that occurred during the 2004 U.S. invasion of the iconic city. But attacks in the area actually peaked two years later, when American and Iraqi government forces struggled with a reinvigorated insurgency and the prospect of premature withdrawal by U.S. forces. Fallujah Awakens tells the story of the remarkable turnaround that followed. Journalist Bill Ardolino explains how local tribal leaders and U.S. Marines forged a surprising alliance that helped secure the famous battleground. It is one of the few books to recount events from both American and Iraqi perspectives. Based on more than 120 interviews with Iraqis and U.S. Marines, Ardolino describes how a company of reservists, led by a medical equipment sales manager from Michigan, succeeded where previous efforts had stalled. Circumstance combined with smart, charismatic leadership enabled Americans to build relationships with members of a Sunni tribe—once written off as dangerous and intractable— who pushed al Qaeda and other insurgents from their notoriously rebellious area. Accidental killings, intertribal rivalries, insurgents, and intrigue all conspired to undo the tenuous alliance forged between the Americans and tribesmen on Fallujah’s Peninsula. But the partnership was cemented after a Marine commander’s risky decision to welcome nearly 100 injured civilians onto a secure American facility after a ruthless chemical attack by al Qaeda. The book’s gripping storyline will appeal to readers of historical nonfiction. Its exhaustive documentation will prove valuable to military students, analysts, and historians and will help policy makers better understand what is possible in counterinsurgency. Photographs and maps further enhance the reader’s understanding of everything from tribal dynamics to the geography of firefights.
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 532
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Author: Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
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Category : Norwegian poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Author: Donald Pizer
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810885670
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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Since the 1960s, Donald Pizer has been writing about late-19th-century American literature, with an emphasis on the major fiction of Theodore Dreiser and Stephen Crane. Most academics whose interests lie primarily in the preparation of scholarly editions are attracted to the paradoxical mix of adherence to a rigorous process and an opportunity for speculative thinking that is distinctive to this branch of literary studies. And they often find appealing the notion that the end product of their labors is a book that, unlike much criticism, is sure to be used by others and to have a long lifespan. However, Pizer came to textual discussion from a different direction than most editors of scholarly editions, who seldom wrote criticism about the authors and works they were engaged in editing. Consequently, Pizer was drawn into the “text wars” of scholarly editions and during the last three decades of the 20th century he produced a number of essays tackling this sometimes contentious subject. The Editing of American Literature, 1890-1930 collects Donald Pizer’s essays and reviews that examine the issues associated with providing authoritative scholarly editions of major turn-of-the-century American authors. Divided into four sections—general essays on editing; essays and reviews on the editing of Theodore Dreiser; essays and reviews on the editing of Stephen Crane; and essays on the interplay of textual theory and critical interpretation in works by Crane and John Dos Passos—the volume expresses a distinctive position in the text wars that dominated the editing scene of the 1970-2000 period. This collection of essays will be of interest to textual editors of any persuasion as well as literary critics and scholars with a special interest in late 19th- and early 20th-century American literature.
Author: John Michael Chambers
Publisher: Outskirts Press
ISBN: 1977259391
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 287
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Do you trust our government, media, education, healthcare, technology, entertainment, banking, and investments? Should you? The small, untrustworthy group of people who own and control every one of those industries hope you will not even entertain the questions, let alone put in the time to explore the answers. These two volumes of The World Awakens are an encyclopedia of trusted sources who give their honest overview of our real history, the world today, and what lies ahead. You will get the forty-thousand-foot view from deep researchers, truth tellers, and patriots like myself, General Michael Flynn, Juan O Savin, Sidney Powell, General Thomas McInerney, Lin Wood, Patrick Byrne, Mike Lindell, Clay Clark, Praying Medic, Patel Patriot, Mike Adams, Laura Logan, the late Robert David Steele, and many many more. World war is not just on the way. This is no simulation. It is here. Today’s threat is real, making The World Awakens critically important for widely exposing uncomfortable truths. These two books are not about politics; instead, they put the evidence before you, showing how we are all participants in this conflict that continues the struggle of good against evil, life versus death. Many have woken up to the threat, but a large portion of the masses are still unaware, leaving everyone vulnerable to a relative few whose ultimate goal is complete control of the world—actually, they have had it for decades and longer—as they continue working at ways to slowly terminate us through methods that a busy, uninterested society will not stop to learn. Today’s covert battle involves a planet full of average, honorable people fighting a relatively-tiny group of world-controlling depopulationists. They desire to dominate. It’s us or them. Good people must help. Please join the fight. When your children and grandchildren ask: “What were you doing as global governance was being thrust down the throat of America and the world?” What will be your answer?
Author: Brian D Wright
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1639372180
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Breaking the Fray By: Brian D Wright In the vivid, sweeping tale of Breaking the Fray, the seven deadly sins are brought to horrifying life as our hero Rhett navigates his world and battles forward to the best of his ability, all in the hopes of once again returning to his peaceful home.
Author: S. Serhat Serter
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527572196
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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This book brings together various different analyses of the Star Wars movies, each of which approaches the films from a different point of view, such as history, music, advertisement, new media, ideology, economics, politics, and narration. The book will appeal to various audiences, from high school students to academicians, and from university students to fans of the Star Wars franchise.
Author: Gethin
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004644725
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 395
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This book is a study of a classic list of Buddhist teachings which includes such familiar items as the four establishings of mindfulness and the noble eightfold path. The complete list, already found in the Pali Nikāyas and the later referred to as 'the thirty-seven dhammas that contribute to awakening', is seen as the embodying Buddhist path itself. The present work gives a comprehensive exposition of the treatment of the list according to the Pali sources, while also making use of Buddhist Sanskrit material. Particular attention is paid to the development of the traditional interpretations of the Abhidhamma and commentaries. The study provides a detailed account of the evolution of the Theravādin theory of meditation, exploring just how the texts understand the process whereby the 'ordinary' unawakened mind transforms itself into the 'transcendent' awakened mind. The book, in addition to shedding new light on the ancient Buddhist theory of meditation and the development of the Abhidhamma, is a valuable source of reference on a topic that must be counted as fundamental to Buddhist thought.
