Author: Todd Strasser
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416905820
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Kennin is determined to go legit despite the popularity he has gained with racing, but when his sister's boyfriend starts causing trouble, Kennin decides he must put his family first and accept the risks involved.
Battle Drift
Author: Todd Strasser
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416905820
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Kennin is determined to go legit despite the popularity he has gained with racing, but when his sister's boyfriend starts causing trouble, Kennin decides he must put his family first and accept the risks involved.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416905820
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Kennin is determined to go legit despite the popularity he has gained with racing, but when his sister's boyfriend starts causing trouble, Kennin decides he must put his family first and accept the risks involved.
The Defence of Duffer's Drift
Author: Ernest Dunlop Swinton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Guerrilla warfare
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Guerrilla warfare
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Drift
Author: Rachel Maddow
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307461009
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
The #1 New York Times bestseller that charts America’s dangerous drift into a state of perpetual war. Written with bracing wit and intelligence, Rachel Maddow's Drift argues that we've drifted away from America's original ideals and become a nation weirdly at peace with perpetual war. To understand how we've arrived at such a dangerous place, Maddow takes us from the Vietnam War to today's war in Afghanistan, along the way exploring Reagan's radical presidency, the disturbing rise of executive authority, the gradual outsourcing of our war-making capabilities to private companies, the plummeting percentage of American families whose children fight our constant wars for us, and even the changing fortunes of G.I. Joe. Ultimately, she shows us just how much we stand to lose by allowing the scope of American military power to overpower our political discourse. Sensible yet provocative, dead serious yet seriously funny, Drift reinvigorates a "loud and jangly" political debate about our vast and confounding national security state.
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307461009
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
The #1 New York Times bestseller that charts America’s dangerous drift into a state of perpetual war. Written with bracing wit and intelligence, Rachel Maddow's Drift argues that we've drifted away from America's original ideals and become a nation weirdly at peace with perpetual war. To understand how we've arrived at such a dangerous place, Maddow takes us from the Vietnam War to today's war in Afghanistan, along the way exploring Reagan's radical presidency, the disturbing rise of executive authority, the gradual outsourcing of our war-making capabilities to private companies, the plummeting percentage of American families whose children fight our constant wars for us, and even the changing fortunes of G.I. Joe. Ultimately, she shows us just how much we stand to lose by allowing the scope of American military power to overpower our political discourse. Sensible yet provocative, dead serious yet seriously funny, Drift reinvigorates a "loud and jangly" political debate about our vast and confounding national security state.
Battle Drift
Author: Todd Strasser
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Kennin Burnett, 15, is a tall, broad-shouldered, intensely handsome young man of mixed Japanese and Caucasian ancestry. He and his sister Shinchou, 18, live in a seedy trailer park on the outskirts of Las Vegas where they can be near their father, Mason Burnett, a good-natured small-time crook currently serving time at the minimum security Nellis Federal Prison camp. Kennin and his friend Edwin Rivera work as car washers (an amenity for high rollers) at the Babylon Casino. Edwin is a gearhead and computer geek who is saving for a car. Kennin's aspirations are more immediate. He needs money so he and his sister can move to a better home and she can start a business. When Kennin discovers that he has a natural talent for drifting, and that he can make lots of fast cash in the world of illegal street racing, he and Edwin team up to buy a car. And as word of Kennin's talent spreads, every drifter west of the Mississippi wants a shot at him.
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Kennin Burnett, 15, is a tall, broad-shouldered, intensely handsome young man of mixed Japanese and Caucasian ancestry. He and his sister Shinchou, 18, live in a seedy trailer park on the outskirts of Las Vegas where they can be near their father, Mason Burnett, a good-natured small-time crook currently serving time at the minimum security Nellis Federal Prison camp. Kennin and his friend Edwin Rivera work as car washers (an amenity for high rollers) at the Babylon Casino. Edwin is a gearhead and computer geek who is saving for a car. Kennin's aspirations are more immediate. He needs money so he and his sister can move to a better home and she can start a business. When Kennin discovers that he has a natural talent for drifting, and that he can make lots of fast cash in the world of illegal street racing, he and Edwin team up to buy a car. And as word of Kennin's talent spreads, every drifter west of the Mississippi wants a shot at him.
Sidewayz Glory
Author: Todd Strasser
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 143912101X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
The cops cracked down on illegal races, and now the only street racing around is at the hottest casino on the strip. The casino owner is starting his own high-stakes, high-payoff drift team -- and there's little he wouldn't do to have Sin City's best drifter. Kennin's under pressure to quit the scene and get his life back on track. But when he's offered five grand to fix his ride -- and the promise of enough cash to take care of his problems -- Kennin knows exactly what he has to do. No matter what the catch.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 143912101X
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
The cops cracked down on illegal races, and now the only street racing around is at the hottest casino on the strip. The casino owner is starting his own high-stakes, high-payoff drift team -- and there's little he wouldn't do to have Sin City's best drifter. Kennin's under pressure to quit the scene and get his life back on track. But when he's offered five grand to fix his ride -- and the promise of enough cash to take care of his problems -- Kennin knows exactly what he has to do. No matter what the catch.
Sea Spray and Smoke Drift
Author: Adam Lindsay Gordon
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385515335
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385515335
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Armor
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armored vehicles, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armored vehicles, Military
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
The Second Boer War, 1899-1900
Author: John Philip Wisser
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : South African War, 1899-1902
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : South African War, 1899-1902
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Rorke's Drift
Author: Adrian Greaves
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 1780224974
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
The story of the bravest battle ever fought. On 22nd January 1879 a force of 20,000 Zulus overwhelmed and destroyed the British invading force at Isandlwana, killing and ritually disemboweling over 1200 troops. That afternoon, the same Zulu force turned their attention on a small outpost at Rorke's Drift. The battle that ensued, one of the British Army's great epics, has since entered into legend. Throughout the night 85 men held off six full-scale Zulu attacks at the cost of only 27 casualties, forcing the Zulu army to withdraw. Eleven Victoria Crosses were awarded for bravery shown on that night, the largest number for any one engagement in history. But as Adrian Greaves's new research shows there are several things about the myth of Rorke's Drift that don't add up. While it was the scene of undoubted bravery, it was also the scene of some astonishing cases of cowardice, and there is increasing evidence to suggest that the legend of Rorke's Drift was created to divert attention from the appalling British mistakes which caused the earlier defeat at Isandlwana.
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 1780224974
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 529
Book Description
The story of the bravest battle ever fought. On 22nd January 1879 a force of 20,000 Zulus overwhelmed and destroyed the British invading force at Isandlwana, killing and ritually disemboweling over 1200 troops. That afternoon, the same Zulu force turned their attention on a small outpost at Rorke's Drift. The battle that ensued, one of the British Army's great epics, has since entered into legend. Throughout the night 85 men held off six full-scale Zulu attacks at the cost of only 27 casualties, forcing the Zulu army to withdraw. Eleven Victoria Crosses were awarded for bravery shown on that night, the largest number for any one engagement in history. But as Adrian Greaves's new research shows there are several things about the myth of Rorke's Drift that don't add up. While it was the scene of undoubted bravery, it was also the scene of some astonishing cases of cowardice, and there is increasing evidence to suggest that the legend of Rorke's Drift was created to divert attention from the appalling British mistakes which caused the earlier defeat at Isandlwana.
Famous Modern Battles
Author: Andrew Hilliard Atteridge
Publisher: London : T. Nelson
ISBN:
Category : Battles
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Publisher: London : T. Nelson
ISBN:
Category : Battles
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description