Download or read book Mad Dog and the Call to Duty written by Dennis Perry and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2021-12-27 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mad Dog and the Call to Duty begins when Filer is contacted by Charlie Boyd, a former Seabee who served with Filer in Vietnam. Charlie offers Filer a job to retrieve a Mini bulldozer they used on a dangerous mission to repair a Marine Corps helo pad at firebase Foxtrot. Charlie wants the Mini for his personal Museum. Filer has doubts bout accepting the job, but after consulting his Coffee Crew buddies and his female pal Hoops, he accepts the job. Now Filer recruits Ted Johns, a gaffer, he met when he was a stuntman on the Copper Thieves, a movie made in part about his first job as a lineman. Next, they recruit Jordan Cross, an independent film and documentary producer who used the two as security for her Burning Man Festival filmed at Black Rock City in the Nevada desert. The last member of the team is Erica Franklin, a Fresno school teacher, Filer met at the Burning Man. After landing in Chu Lai, Vietnam where Filer was stationed in Vietnam Filer meets up with Michael, a renegade Frenchman, living by his wits in a country that expelled his grandparents and parents. Michael advises Filer to hire a Filipino crew to help retrieve the Mini. Once the Mini is found and prepared for transport to the states by a cargo plane Filer and his team make plans to visit Angor Wat in Cambodia and finally a well-earned beach vacation in Thailand-job over and done. But their adventures are not over.

Download or read book Don t Run Over a Snake s Tail Slowly written by Dennis Perry and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My name is Dennis Perry. During my first year of Peace Corps service in Benin. I survived a revolution, participated in a land-grab, and ethnic cleansing. In my second year of service, I accepted an invitation to experience life as the old, old Africans lived it. Besides my duties, as an Animal Traction Volunteer, to train and provide health care for thirty-five pairs of bulls I helped the villagers of Kolokonde, Benin obtain a grant of $5000.00 to rebuild their market place. Finally, in 1973, I sat in on a meeting between Benin agricultural officials and the Red Chinese.

Download or read book Call Sign Chaos written by Jim Mattis and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A clear-eyed account of learning how to lead in a chaotic world, by General Jim Mattis—the former Secretary of Defense and one of the most formidable strategic thinkers of our time—and Bing West, a former assistant secretary of defense and combat Marine. “A four-star general’s five-star memoir.”—The Wall Street Journal Call Sign Chaos is the account of Jim Mattis’s storied career, from wide-ranging leadership roles in three wars to ultimately commanding a quarter of a million troops across the Middle East. Along the way, Mattis recounts his foundational experiences as a leader, extracting the lessons he has learned about the nature of warfighting and peacemaking, the importance of allies, and the strategic dilemmas—and short-sighted thinking—now facing our nation. He makes it clear why America must return to a strategic footing so as not to continue winning battles but fighting inconclusive wars. Mattis divides his book into three parts: Direct Leadership, Executive Leadership, and Strategic Leadership. In the first part, Mattis recalls his early experiences leading Marines into battle, when he knew his troops as well as his own brothers. In the second part, he explores what it means to command thousands of troops and how to adapt your leadership style to ensure your intent is understood by your most junior troops so that they can own their mission. In the third part, Mattis describes the challenges and techniques of leadership at the strategic level, where military leaders reconcile war’s grim realities with political leaders’ human aspirations, where complexity reigns and the consequences of imprudence are severe, even catastrophic. Call Sign Chaos is a memoir of a life of warfighting and lifelong learning, following along as Mattis rises from Marine recruit to four-star general. It is a journey about learning to lead and a story about how he, through constant study and action, developed a unique leadership philosophy, one relevant to us all.

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Download or read book The Transcendentalists and Their World written by Robert A. Gross and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of The Wall Street Journal's 10 best books of 2021 One of Air Mail's 10 best books of 2021 Winner of the Peter J. Gomes Memorial Book Prize In the year of the nation’s bicentennial, Robert A. Gross published The Minutemen and Their World, a paradigm-shaping study of Concord, Massachusetts, during the American Revolution. It won the prestigious Bancroft Prize and became a perennial bestseller. Forty years later, in this highly anticipated work, Gross returns to Concord and explores the meaning of an equally crucial moment in the American story: the rise of Transcendentalism. The Transcendentalists and Their World offers a fresh view of the thinkers whose outsize impact on philosophy and literature would spread from tiny Concord to all corners of the earth. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the Alcotts called this New England town home, and Thoreau drew on its life extensively in his classic Walden. But Concord from the 1820s through the 1840s was no pastoral place fit for poets and philosophers. The Transcendentalists and their neighbors lived through a transformative epoch of American life. A place of two thousand–plus souls in the antebellum era, Concord was a community in ferment, whose small, ordered society founded by Puritans and defended by Minutemen was dramatically unsettled through the expansive forces of capitalism and democracy and tightly integrated into the wider world. These changes challenged a world of inherited institutions and involuntary associations with a new premium on autonomy and choice. They exposed people to cosmopolitan currents of thought and endowed them with unparalleled opportunities. They fostered uncertainties, raised new hopes, stirred dreams of perfection, and created an audience for new ideas of individual freedom and democratic equality deeply resonant today. The Transcendentalists and Their World is both an intimate journey into the life of a community and a searching cultural study of major American writers as they plumbed the depths of the universe for spiritual truths and surveyed the rapidly changing contours of their own neighborhoods. It shows us familiar figures in American literature alongside their neighbors at every level of the social order, and it reveals how this common life in Concord entered powerfully into their works. No American community of the nineteenth century has been recovered so richly and with so acute an awareness of its place in the larger American story.

Download or read book Semper Fi Do Or Die written by Keith Laufenberg and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-08-29 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow a group of young men as they go through Marine Corps boot camp in 1962, at Parris Island, South Carolina, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, in October of that year, 1962, and then on to their duty stations and, for some, Vietnam. If you want to know what the Marine Corps was really like in the 1960's and those that served during this tumultuous time in history this is the book for you!

Download or read book Chicken Soup for the Soul My Very Good Very Bad Dog written by Amy Newmark and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What has that dog done now? You’ll recognize your own canine companion in this collection of 101 stories about how very good and very bad our dogs can be. From clever dogs that sneak food to heroic dogs that save lives—from mischievous dogs that chew shoes to intuitive dogs that repair families—from goofy dogs that crack us up to nurturing dogs that act like therapists—you’ll have a new appreciation for your own dog’s unique skills. With a special emphasis on the joy of adopting dogs from shelters, these stories will make you laugh out loud and maybe even shed a tear or two. And your purchase will help support the great work of the American Humane Association!

Download or read book The Hype written by Serena Malcolm and published by . This book was released on 2013-12-28 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Welcome to Pryhill..." Special investigator Alicia Vaughan is assigned a new partner, west London transferee Dan Church. When she's asked to show him the ropes, she chooses a low level gang nominal to ease him into the unit. But the case is not as straightforward as it first appears and they soon find themselves embroiled in a tale of drugs, murder, betrayal and revenge that spans two generations and three cities. Each lead leaves them with more questions than answers and with the body count climbing, they desperately battle to separate the truth from the hype.

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Download or read book The Dissident written by Paul Goldberg and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A feast for serious fiction readers.” —Wendy Smith, The Washington Post “A dead-serious, dead-funny, no-he-didn't marvel.” —Joshua Cohen, author of The Netanyahus A thrilling, witty, and slyly original Cold War mystery about a ragtag group of Jewish refuseniks in Moscow. On his wedding day in 1976, Viktor Moroz stumbles upon a murder scene: two gay men, one of them a U.S. official, have been axed to death in Moscow. Viktor, a Jewish refusenik, is stuck in the Soviet Union because the government has denied his application to leave for Israel; he sits “in refusal” alongside his wife and their group of intellectuals, Jewish and not. But the KGB spots Viktor leaving the murder scene. Plucked off the street, he’s given a choice: find the murderer or become the suspect of convenience. His deadline is nine days later, when Henry Kissinger will be arriving in Moscow. Unsolved ax murders, it seems, aren’t good for politics. A whip-smart, often hilarious Cold War thriller, Paul Goldberg’s The Dissident explores what it means to survive in the face of impossible choices and monumental consequences. To help solve the case, Viktor ropes in his community, which includes his banned-text-distributing wife, a hard-drinking sculptor, a Russian priest of Jewish heritage, and a visiting American intent on reliving World War II heroics. As Viktor struggles to determine whom to trust, he’s forced to question not only the KGB’s murky motives but also those of his fellow refuseniks—and the man he admires above all: Kissinger himself. Immersive, unpredictable, and always ax-sharp, The Dissident is Cold War intrigue at its most inventive. It is an uncompromising look at sacrifice, community, and the scars of history and identity, from an expert storyteller.

Download or read book Mad Dog They Shot Me in the Head They Gave Me Cyanide and They Stabbed Me But I m Still Standing written by Johnny Adair and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2009-07-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johnny "Mad Dog" Adair earned his reputation as a paramilitary leader seeking freedom and peace in Northern Ireland. The authorities hold him responsible for 41 murders and he became known as the most feared and infamous terrorist of them all. Now, he breaks his silence to tell his true story about fighting for what he truly believes in--peace in Northern Ireland, a lifelong struggle in which he became known as the toughest man in the UK.

Download or read book Bad Dog written by Warren Murphy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-12-11 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lou MacMayor, president of the Institute of Nationalized Humane Health Care, has the solution to America’s health insurance problems. He’s figured out how to take a huge bite out of costs by using brilliantly trained Swedish Elkhounds to sniff out, then snuff out, those costly, disease-carrying people who send premiums skyrocketing. Though the cost benefit of culling the herd of humanity looks great on paper, in reality it’s fairly messy business, and the dog attacks plaguing the U.S. have come to the attention of CURE. Harold Smith wants to know who let the dogs out, and why they are attacking the elderly and infirm. Remo’s happy to turn MacMayor and his Scandinavian breeder into hamburger – but it’s the elusive, mysterious dog handler known as The Foreman whose extraordinary skills give new meaning to the phrase “dog eat dog.” Breathlessly action-packed and boasting a winning combination of thrills, humour and mysticism, the Destroyer is one of the bestselling series of all time.

Download or read book Treasury of David written by Charles Haddon Spurgeon and published by Bible Study Steps. This book was released on 2016-02-16 with total page 5872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: C.H. Spurgeon, the "Prince of Preachers," first published in weekly installments over a twenty-year period in the periodical The Sword and the Trowel. Originally published in seven volumes all of which are included here.

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Download or read book Ambrose Bierce written by Roy Morris and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1998 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Chronicles the life and career of the acerbic author, from his youth, through his experiences during the Civil War, to his 1913 disappearance in revolution-torn Mexico"-OCLC

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