Author: Robert Grant Wealleans
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359218482
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 605
Book Description
Gillian Louise Douglas has taken over $400 Million from the Russians and the Russian Mob after a dramatic shootout in TRIPLE PLAY in which the head mobster Nikolai Startsev is killed. Shanice Walker, Director of CIA Anti-Terrorism arrives & Jill finds out just who she has been working for. After tending to family matters, Doctor Moreland returns with Allison Dunn & Gillian focuses on adding yet another wife to her superfamily. Gillian prepares for her ultimate operation to defeat the Sicilian & Mafia drug lords and the North African terrorists who sell raw opium for money to buy weapons. The thermonuclear blond must first convince the Joint Chiefs of the US Military that her plan is sound & that she is fully capable of leading this complex black ops mission. It's vintage Jill as she cruises in an eighty meter yacht, a disguised command center, & makes war in the Mediterranean with the help of her friends & a giant gunship called "Spooky."
GILLIAN DOUGLAS: WAR GODDESS
Author: Robert Grant Wealleans
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359218482
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 605
Book Description
Gillian Louise Douglas has taken over $400 Million from the Russians and the Russian Mob after a dramatic shootout in TRIPLE PLAY in which the head mobster Nikolai Startsev is killed. Shanice Walker, Director of CIA Anti-Terrorism arrives & Jill finds out just who she has been working for. After tending to family matters, Doctor Moreland returns with Allison Dunn & Gillian focuses on adding yet another wife to her superfamily. Gillian prepares for her ultimate operation to defeat the Sicilian & Mafia drug lords and the North African terrorists who sell raw opium for money to buy weapons. The thermonuclear blond must first convince the Joint Chiefs of the US Military that her plan is sound & that she is fully capable of leading this complex black ops mission. It's vintage Jill as she cruises in an eighty meter yacht, a disguised command center, & makes war in the Mediterranean with the help of her friends & a giant gunship called "Spooky."
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359218482
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 605
Book Description
Gillian Louise Douglas has taken over $400 Million from the Russians and the Russian Mob after a dramatic shootout in TRIPLE PLAY in which the head mobster Nikolai Startsev is killed. Shanice Walker, Director of CIA Anti-Terrorism arrives & Jill finds out just who she has been working for. After tending to family matters, Doctor Moreland returns with Allison Dunn & Gillian focuses on adding yet another wife to her superfamily. Gillian prepares for her ultimate operation to defeat the Sicilian & Mafia drug lords and the North African terrorists who sell raw opium for money to buy weapons. The thermonuclear blond must first convince the Joint Chiefs of the US Military that her plan is sound & that she is fully capable of leading this complex black ops mission. It's vintage Jill as she cruises in an eighty meter yacht, a disguised command center, & makes war in the Mediterranean with the help of her friends & a giant gunship called "Spooky."
GILLIAN DOUGLAS: LONDON CALLING
Author: Robert Grant Wealleans
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359160212
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Dr. Lawrence Titus Moreland, billionaire psychiatrist, is also the dark web's notorious assassin for hire, Angel Eyes. While he negotiates with a new client, his wife, Dr. Patricia Moreland hires Gillian Douglas & Lorraine King to kill her husband in return for fifty million dollars apiece and forty percent of the business. In London, the newly appointed ambassador to the USA is unwittingly negotiating for her husband's death with Angel Eyes. The Morelands' hated UK rival, billionaire Rupert Anderson Browning, has swindled them out of several multi-billion dollar real estate contracts. Browning does business with a porn producer and human trafficker, the former porn actress Lindsay "Sweet" Thayer. There are multiple targets & multiple agendas in play and the brilliant Gillian Douglas must battle the British government and their security services & defeat all, including Patricia Moreland.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359160212
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Dr. Lawrence Titus Moreland, billionaire psychiatrist, is also the dark web's notorious assassin for hire, Angel Eyes. While he negotiates with a new client, his wife, Dr. Patricia Moreland hires Gillian Douglas & Lorraine King to kill her husband in return for fifty million dollars apiece and forty percent of the business. In London, the newly appointed ambassador to the USA is unwittingly negotiating for her husband's death with Angel Eyes. The Morelands' hated UK rival, billionaire Rupert Anderson Browning, has swindled them out of several multi-billion dollar real estate contracts. Browning does business with a porn producer and human trafficker, the former porn actress Lindsay "Sweet" Thayer. There are multiple targets & multiple agendas in play and the brilliant Gillian Douglas must battle the British government and their security services & defeat all, including Patricia Moreland.
Weird John Brown
Author: Ted A. Smith
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 080479345X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Combining theology, politics and historical analysis, “theorizes what might be at stake—ethically—for America’s current political life” (Andrew Taylor, Journal of American History). Conventional wisdom holds that attempts to combine religion and politics will produce unlimited violence. Concepts such as jihad, crusade, and sacrifice need to be rooted out, the story goes, for the sake of more bounded and secular understandings of violence. Ted Smith upends this dominant view, drawing on Walter Benjamin, Giorgio Agamben, and others to trace the ways that seemingly secular politics produce their own forms of violence without limit. He brings this argument to life—and digs deep into the American political imagination—through a string of surprising reflections on John Brown, the nineteenth-century abolitionist who took up arms against the state in the name of a higher law. Smith argues that the key to limiting violence is not its separation from religion, but its connection to richer and more critical modes of religious reflection. Weird John Brown develops a negative political theology that challenges both the ways we remember American history and the ways we think about the nature, meaning, and exercise of violence. “Powerfully combines theology and political theory. . . . Recommended.” —R. J. Meagher, Choice “Smith illustrates how an ethical and philosophical reading of history can help us to better understand the world we live in.” —Franklin Rausch, New Books in Christian Studies “A brilliantly original and compelling book.” —John Stauffer, Harvard University “A very sophisticated philosophical and theological reflection on John Brown and the question of divine violence.” —Willie James Jennings, Duke University
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 080479345X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Combining theology, politics and historical analysis, “theorizes what might be at stake—ethically—for America’s current political life” (Andrew Taylor, Journal of American History). Conventional wisdom holds that attempts to combine religion and politics will produce unlimited violence. Concepts such as jihad, crusade, and sacrifice need to be rooted out, the story goes, for the sake of more bounded and secular understandings of violence. Ted Smith upends this dominant view, drawing on Walter Benjamin, Giorgio Agamben, and others to trace the ways that seemingly secular politics produce their own forms of violence without limit. He brings this argument to life—and digs deep into the American political imagination—through a string of surprising reflections on John Brown, the nineteenth-century abolitionist who took up arms against the state in the name of a higher law. Smith argues that the key to limiting violence is not its separation from religion, but its connection to richer and more critical modes of religious reflection. Weird John Brown develops a negative political theology that challenges both the ways we remember American history and the ways we think about the nature, meaning, and exercise of violence. “Powerfully combines theology and political theory. . . . Recommended.” —R. J. Meagher, Choice “Smith illustrates how an ethical and philosophical reading of history can help us to better understand the world we live in.” —Franklin Rausch, New Books in Christian Studies “A brilliantly original and compelling book.” —John Stauffer, Harvard University “A very sophisticated philosophical and theological reflection on John Brown and the question of divine violence.” —Willie James Jennings, Duke University
Managing Death Investigations
Author: Arthur E. Westveer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal investigation
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Criminal investigation
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
Unconventional Warfare (Special Forces, Book 1)
Author: Chris Lynch
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545861632
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
"All the sizzle, chaos, noise and scariness of war is clay in the hands of ace storyteller Lynch." -- Kirkus Reviews for the World War II series Discover the secret missions behind America's greatest conflicts.Danny Manion has been fighting his entire life. Sometimes with his fists. Sometimes with his words. But when his actions finally land him in real trouble, he can't fight the judge who offers him a choice: jail... or the army.Turns out there's a perfect place for him in the US military: the Studies and Observation Group (SOG), an elite volunteer-only task force comprised of US Air Force Commandos, Army Green Berets, Navy SEALS, and even a CIA agent or two. With the SOG's focus on covert action and psychological warfare, Danny is guaranteed an unusual tour of duty, and a hugely dangerous one. Fortunately, the very same qualities that got him in trouble at home make him a natural-born commando in a secret war. Even if almost nobody knows he's there.National Book Award finalist Chris Lynch begins a new, explosive fiction series based on the real-life, top-secret history of US black ops.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545861632
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
"All the sizzle, chaos, noise and scariness of war is clay in the hands of ace storyteller Lynch." -- Kirkus Reviews for the World War II series Discover the secret missions behind America's greatest conflicts.Danny Manion has been fighting his entire life. Sometimes with his fists. Sometimes with his words. But when his actions finally land him in real trouble, he can't fight the judge who offers him a choice: jail... or the army.Turns out there's a perfect place for him in the US military: the Studies and Observation Group (SOG), an elite volunteer-only task force comprised of US Air Force Commandos, Army Green Berets, Navy SEALS, and even a CIA agent or two. With the SOG's focus on covert action and psychological warfare, Danny is guaranteed an unusual tour of duty, and a hugely dangerous one. Fortunately, the very same qualities that got him in trouble at home make him a natural-born commando in a secret war. Even if almost nobody knows he's there.National Book Award finalist Chris Lynch begins a new, explosive fiction series based on the real-life, top-secret history of US black ops.
Rerolling Boardgames
Author: Douglas Brown
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476639272
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Despite the advent and explosion of videogames, boardgames--from fast-paced party games to intensely strategic titles--have in recent years become more numerous and more diverse in terms of genre, ethos and content. The growth of gaming events and conventions such as Essen Spiel, Gen Con and the UK Games EXPO, as well as crowdfunding through sites like Kickstarter, has diversified the evolution of game development, which is increasingly driven by fans, and boardgames provide an important glue to geek culture. In academia, boardgames are used in a practical sense to teach elements of design and game mechanics. Game studies is also recognizing the importance of expanding its focus beyond the digital. As yet, however, no collected work has explored the many different approaches emerging around the critical challenges that boardgaming represents. In this collection, game theorists analyze boardgame play and player behavior, and explore the complex interactions between the sociality, conflict, competition and cooperation that boardgames foster. Game designers discuss the opportunities boardgame system designs offer for narrative and social play. Cultural theorists discuss boardgames' complex history as both beautiful physical artifacts and special places within cultural experiences of play.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476639272
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Despite the advent and explosion of videogames, boardgames--from fast-paced party games to intensely strategic titles--have in recent years become more numerous and more diverse in terms of genre, ethos and content. The growth of gaming events and conventions such as Essen Spiel, Gen Con and the UK Games EXPO, as well as crowdfunding through sites like Kickstarter, has diversified the evolution of game development, which is increasingly driven by fans, and boardgames provide an important glue to geek culture. In academia, boardgames are used in a practical sense to teach elements of design and game mechanics. Game studies is also recognizing the importance of expanding its focus beyond the digital. As yet, however, no collected work has explored the many different approaches emerging around the critical challenges that boardgaming represents. In this collection, game theorists analyze boardgame play and player behavior, and explore the complex interactions between the sociality, conflict, competition and cooperation that boardgames foster. Game designers discuss the opportunities boardgame system designs offer for narrative and social play. Cultural theorists discuss boardgames' complex history as both beautiful physical artifacts and special places within cultural experiences of play.
The Last Protector (James Marwood & Cat Lovett, Book 4)
Author: Andrew Taylor
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0008325537
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
From the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Ashes of London comes the next book in the phenomenally successful series following James Marwood and Cat Lovett.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0008325537
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
From the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of The Ashes of London comes the next book in the phenomenally successful series following James Marwood and Cat Lovett.
I Survived the Battle of D-Day, 1944 (I Survived #18)
Author: Lauren Tarshis
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338317407
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
It was a battle that would change the course of World War II... New York Times bestselling author Lauren Tarshis commemorates the Normandy landings in this pulse-pounding story of the largest seaborne invasion in history. Eleven-year-old Paul’s French village has been under Nazi control for years. His Jewish best friend has disappeared. Food is scarce. And there doesn’t seem to be anything Paul can do to make things better. Then Paul finds an American paratrooper in a tree near his home. The soldier says the Allies have a plan to crush the Nazis once and for all. But the soldier needs Paul’s help. This is Paul’s chance to make a difference. Soon he finds himself in the midst of the largest invasion in history. Can he do his part to turn horror into hope? New York Times bestselling author Lauren Tarshis tells the story of the battle that became the foundation for the Allied victory in World War II. Includes a section of nonfiction backmatter with more facts about the real-life event.
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 1338317407
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
It was a battle that would change the course of World War II... New York Times bestselling author Lauren Tarshis commemorates the Normandy landings in this pulse-pounding story of the largest seaborne invasion in history. Eleven-year-old Paul’s French village has been under Nazi control for years. His Jewish best friend has disappeared. Food is scarce. And there doesn’t seem to be anything Paul can do to make things better. Then Paul finds an American paratrooper in a tree near his home. The soldier says the Allies have a plan to crush the Nazis once and for all. But the soldier needs Paul’s help. This is Paul’s chance to make a difference. Soon he finds himself in the midst of the largest invasion in history. Can he do his part to turn horror into hope? New York Times bestselling author Lauren Tarshis tells the story of the battle that became the foundation for the Allied victory in World War II. Includes a section of nonfiction backmatter with more facts about the real-life event.
Talking to Strangers
Author: Malcolm Gladwell
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316535621
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers and why they often go wrong—now with a new afterword by the author. A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Press How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to one another that isn’t true? Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. He revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia scandal at Penn State University, and the death of Sandra Bland—throwing our understanding of these and other stories into doubt. Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don’t know. And because we don’t know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world. In his first book since his #1 bestseller David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell has written a gripping guidebook for troubled times.
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316535621
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Outliers, offers a powerful examination of our interactions with strangers and why they often go wrong—now with a new afterword by the author. A Best Book of the Year: The Financial Times, Bloomberg, Chicago Tribune, and Detroit Free Press How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to one another that isn’t true? Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. He revisits the deceptions of Bernie Madoff, the trial of Amanda Knox, the suicide of Sylvia Plath, the Jerry Sandusky pedophilia scandal at Penn State University, and the death of Sandra Bland—throwing our understanding of these and other stories into doubt. Something is very wrong, Gladwell argues, with the tools and strategies we use to make sense of people we don’t know. And because we don’t know how to talk to strangers, we are inviting conflict and misunderstanding in ways that have a profound effect on our lives and our world. In his first book since his #1 bestseller David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell has written a gripping guidebook for troubled times.
Criminal Poisoning
Author: John H. Trestrail, III
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1597452564
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
In this revised and expanded edition, leading forensic scientist John Trestrail offers a pioneering survey of all that is known about the use of poison as a weapon in murder. Topics range from the use of poisons in history and literature to convicting the poisoner in court, and include a review of the different types of poisons, techniques for crime scene investigation, and the critical essentials of the forensic autopsy. The author updates what is currently known about poisoners in general and their victims. The Appendix has been updated to include the more commonly used poisons, as well as the use of antifreeze as a poison.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1597452564
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
In this revised and expanded edition, leading forensic scientist John Trestrail offers a pioneering survey of all that is known about the use of poison as a weapon in murder. Topics range from the use of poisons in history and literature to convicting the poisoner in court, and include a review of the different types of poisons, techniques for crime scene investigation, and the critical essentials of the forensic autopsy. The author updates what is currently known about poisoners in general and their victims. The Appendix has been updated to include the more commonly used poisons, as well as the use of antifreeze as a poison.