Download or read book The Rock Squad written by Des O'Gorman and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rock Squad are a group of young dinosaurs intent on solving a rocky problem. Follow them as they pursue their passion, inspire their community, and achieve out-of-this-world results. A fun story with interesting characters, packed with wacky pictures for kids. This book tries to spark some ideas and interest in dinosaurs and following your passion.
Download or read book The Rock History Reader written by Theo Cateforis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eclectic compilation of readings tells the history of rock as it has been received and explained as a social and musical practice throughout its six decade history. This third edition includes new readings across the volume, with added material on the early origins of rock 'n' roll as well as coverage of recent developments, including the changing shape of the music industry in the twenty-first century. With numerous readings that delve into the often explosive issues surrounding censorship, copyright, race relations, feminism, youth subcultures, and the meaning of musical value, The Rock History Reader continues to appeal to scholars and students from a variety of disciplines. New to the third edition: Nine additional chapters from a broad range of perspectives Explorations of new media formations, industry developments, and the intersections of music and labor For the first time, a companion website providing users with playlists of music referenced in the book Featuring readings as loud, vibrant, and colorful as rock ‘n’ roll itself, The Rock History Reader is sure to leave readers informed, inspired, and perhaps even infuriated—but never bored.
Download or read book A Visit from the Goon Squad written by Jennifer Egan and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-06-08 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE WINNER • With music pulsing on every page, this startling, exhilarating novel of self-destruction and redemption “features characters about whom you come to care deeply as you watch them doing things they shouldn't, acting gloriously, infuriatingly human” (The Chicago Tribune). One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century • One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years Bennie is an aging former punk rocker and record executive. Sasha is the passionate, troubled young woman he employs. Here Jennifer Egan brilliantly reveals their pasts, along with the inner lives of a host of other characters whose paths intersect with theirs. “Pitch perfect.... Darkly, rippingly funny.... Egan possesses a satirist’s eye and a romance novelist’s heart.” —The New York Times Book Review
Download or read book The Path to Power written by Robert A. Caro and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-11-23 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Years of Lyndon Johnson is the political biography of our time. No president—no era of American politics—has been so intensively and sharply examined at a time when so many prime witnesses to hitherto untold or misinterpreted facets of a life, a career, and a period of history could still be persuaded to speak. The Path to Power, Book One, reveals in extraordinary detail the genesis of the almost superhuman drive, energy, and urge to power that set LBJ apart. Chronicling the startling early emergence of Johnson’s political genius, it follows him from his Texas boyhood through the years of the Depression in the Texas hill Country to the triumph of his congressional debut in New Deal Washington, to his heartbreaking defeat in his first race for the Senate, and his attainment, nonetheless, of the national power for which he hungered. We see in him, from earliest childhood, a fierce, unquenchable necessity to be first, to win, to dominate—coupled with a limitless capacity for hard, unceasing labor in the service of his own ambition. Caro shows us the big, gangling, awkward young Lyndon—raised in one of the country’s most desperately poor and isolated areas, his education mediocre at best, his pride stung by his father’s slide into failure and financial ruin—lunging for success, moving inexorably toward that ultimate “impossible” goal that he sets for himself years before any friend or enemy suspects what it may be. We watch him, while still at college, instinctively (and ruthlessly) creating the beginnings of the political machine that was to serve him for three decades. We see him employing his extraordinary ability to mesmerize and manipulate powerful older men, to mesmerize (and sometimes almost enslave) useful subordinates. We see him carrying out, before his thirtieth year, his first great political inspiration: tapping-and becoming the political conduit for-the money and influence of the new oil men and contractors who were to grow with him to immense power. We follow, close up, the radical fluctuations of his relationships with the formidable “Mr. Sam” Raybum (who loved him like a son and whom he betrayed) and with FDR himself. And we follow the dramas of his emotional life-the intensities and complications of his relationships with his family, his contemporaries, his girls; his wooing and winning of the shy Lady Bird; his secret love affair, over many years, with the mistress of one of his most ardent and generous supporters . . . Johnson driving his people to the point of exhausted tears, equally merciless with himself . . . Johnson bullying, cajoling, lying, yet inspiring an amazing loyalty . . . Johnson maneuvering to dethrone the unassailable old Jack Garner (then Vice President of the United States) as the New Deal’s “connection” in Texas, and seize the power himself . . . Johnson raging . . . Johnson hugging . . . Johnson bringing light and, indeed, life to the worn Hill Country farmers and their old-at-thirty wives via the district’s first electric lines. We see him at once unscrupulous, admirable, treacherous, devoted. And we see the country that bred him: the harshness and “nauseating loneliness” of the rural life; the tragic panorama of the Depression; the sudden glow of hope at the dawn of the Age of Roosevelt. And always, in the foreground, on the move, LBJ. Here is Lyndon Johnson—his Texas, his Washington, his America—in a book that brings us as close as we have ever been to a true perception of political genius and the American political process.
Download or read book However Many Must Die written by Phil Williams and published by Rumian Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An impressive writer" – Mark Lawrence, Gemmell Award Winner and international bestselling author "I freaking bloody loved the Blood Scouts" – Julia Sarene, The Fantasy Hive "A unique, compelling story with plenty of action and vivid characters." – Patrick Samphire, author of Shadow of a Dead God Wild Wish was trained to do one thing: kill. Saved from a lonely backwater existence by a global war, Wish couldn’t believe her luck when she got into the Blood Scouts. Now she gets to share tents with an all-female platoon of night-stalking, giant-slaying, boat-sinking, battle-swaying legends in the making. The problem is, they keep dying. And they’ve been given their worst assignment yet. The enemy Dread Corps are combining magics deep within the nightmare lands of Low Slane, to unleash a weapon that could sway the entire war. It’s up to the Blood Scouts to stop them – with a journey that gets more dangerous with every step. Far behind enemy lines, death hangs in the air. Monsters lurk around every corner. Are Wish’s skills – and positive attitude – enough to keep her Blood Scouts alive? Or will the cost of survival finally break her? Get ready for the first epic entry in a new series, and a new world, of dark military fantasy from Phil Williams. Start reading today!
Download or read book FrAGILE written by Christian Hammer and published by Christian Hammer. This book was released on 2024-08-11 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "FrAgile," tech industry veteran Christian Hammer pulls back the curtain on the digital revolution, revealing both its dazzling triumphs and its hidden pitfalls. This isn't just another tech book—it's a wake-up call and a roadmap for our digital future. Are you ready to confront the uncomfortable truths about our software-driven world? Hammer, with decades of experience at the forefront of digital transformation, offers an insider's perspective on: - The unseen costs of our "move fast and break things" culture - Why Agile, once hailed as the ultimate solution, is now showing dangerous cracks - How AI and emerging technologies are reshaping the innovation landscape - Practical strategies for ethical, sustainable, and human-centered software development "FrAgile" bridges the gap between tech hype and real-world implementation, offering a nuanced view of where we've been, where we are, and where we need to go. It's a clarion call for mindful innovation and a guide to building a more responsible digital future. Whether you're a seasoned developer, a business leader navigating digital transformation, or simply a citizen of our increasingly digital world, "FrAgile" will challenge your assumptions and inspire you to demand more from our technological future. Don't just ride the wave of innovation—learn how to shape it responsibly. Dive into "FrAgile" and join the crucial conversation about the code that's shaping our tomorrow. Because the digital world we build today is the one we'll all inhabit tomorrow. Let's make it a world we're proud of.
Download or read book Saint written by Zoe Dawson and published by Blue Moon Creative. This book was released on 2021-06-27 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zach “Saint” Bartholomew has always followed the rules—does what’s right. But when Special ATF Agent Aella Mikos is captured and held by a Somalian warlord, all bets are off. As he and his team navigate the ranks of the brass, the mission to release her hits several snags and is called off. Saint is ordered to stop his reconnaissance and return to the team. An order he disobeys. He cuts all communication and goes after Aella himself, right into the jaws of the enemy. He will rescue her or die, risking his life, his career and his honor. Against all the odds, he will rescue the woman he hasn’t been able to forget. Aella, in the tight grasp of the warlord, is forced to fight against many opponents to keep control over her body. If she loses, she forfeits her right to say no. While in captivity, she discovers that the warlord has taken hostage three young girls, kidnapped from a grade school to serve his lascivious intent. Aella desperately needs to escape, but she won’t leave the girls behind. When Saint finds her, they team up to get the girls back to their village and parents, even as the ruthless warlord pursues them. As they fight for their safety and the safety of the girls, they discover a deep bond that each had ignored, but are their complications too numerous to allow love to claim them and lead them into a forever after.
Download or read book Call Me Sergeant Rock written by Dan Rodgers and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sergeant Rock evolves from a native, baseball-playing, church-going Christian and skinny college kid to a well-trained killing machine in Vietnam. Leaving California to take part in the Tet Offensive in 1968, he finds the culture shock between the two overwhelming. Thrust into war and killing, he finds his approach to life and death must change quickly, but he holds fast to his beliefs. Though he saves others, his attitude toward killing and death changes for the worse, while his approach toward life improves. Sergeant Rock is a much better person for the choices he makes. In the course of a single Tet Offensive battle, his company loses all but 13 men, as 126 soldiers die in two hours. His faith increases when he meets his guardian angel during the battle. Sergeant Rock pushes his squad to their limits because he knows that death may lie just beyond the next bush. He may be only 20, but he thinks like an old veteran. With the body count in his mind, he wonders if he can ever be around normal people again. He experiences many horrors and watches friend after friend die as heroes. The hardships his squad must face, such as going without fresh water or clothes for 57 days, being shot down in a chopper, and just trying to stay alive are overwhelming. How much can our minds take before they crack? Sergeant Rock believes divine intervention is the only reason he is alive to tell his story.
Download or read book A Casualty of War written by Josh Gordon and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-09-22 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sterling McCabe dreams of being a United States Marine. When a war erupts with a mysteroius alien race, he learns that being a Marine isn't what he'd imagined. People die. Lives are shattered. War takes no prisoners. Beth Carlisle is one of Sterling McCabe's squadmates. She joined the Marine Corps to get out of backwoods Maine, only to discover herself in the middle of a war. She must come to terms with her family and her relationship with Sterling while under fire. Their squad becomes one of the best in the Marine Corps, but war takes its toll. Their friends die, and they must hold on to each other or they too will become casualties of war.
Download or read book GQ written by Zoe Dawson and published by Zoe Dawson. This book was released on 2023-07-16 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the shadowy organization still eluding capture, GQ and the team head to London where the next attacks are expected to occur. The SEALs, CIA and MI6 team up to discover the targets. GQ is still working at handling his mom’s death and the information that he has to the possible whereabouts of his father whom he thought was dead. He’s not sure he wants to confirm his mother’s bitter rantings impugning his dad’s character. With his own personal stuff clogging up his head, he’s disconcerted to find himself attracted to the reserved, quirky Dr. Celeste Potter, the cryptologist the NSA has sent to break the encryption on the laptop recovered from the NSH goons in Bolivia. GQ never hurts for female companionship, but his partners never seem to measure up to his expectations. He’s not sure he should even bother courting more disappointment, but the woman proves to be much more than meets the eye. Initially, Celeste is horrified and unbalanced when her boss assigns her to work not only in London, away from her comfortable home base and her perfect office, but he expects her to collaborate with people—a lot of people. It’s imperative she work alone and only rely on her own personal friend. Then he mentions NSH and everything changes. She does care about what the terrorist group is doing, all those deaths were definitely distressing, but her main interest in them is that they are hidden. There’s no information on the mastermind at all. That intrigues her immensely. She agrees to go. But the reality of interacting with so many causes her stress until Petty Officer Remington “GQ” Nash steps in and seems to know exactly what she needs. Men had never been on her radar—they took up too much time, were messy, and had needs she just didn’t want to understand. But she couldn’t seem to dismiss this particular man, who makes her think too hard and want too much. But she is going to need him when NSH reveals their catastrophic plan that chillingly includes her.
Download or read book Preacher written by Zoe Dawson and published by Zoe Dawson. This book was released on 2022-11-12 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preacher and the team are sent to Bolivia to investigate the next attacks on Americans on Foreign soil from the No Safe Haven terror group. He and the team are tasked to work with the CIA and DEA, including the woman he’s wanted since he met her. He hadn’t expected to see the beautiful, exotic Karasu again, but, nevertheless, she hasn’t been far from his thoughts. He’s still working through his own demons, still celibate. The question is does he want to remain that way as the tension inside him builds. Could his way be clearer with physical contact? What more could they hope to have in the secret and covert world they live in? Karasu hasn’t ever forgotten the man who had bested her in more ways than one. He still presented a huge challenge both physically and more terrifyingly, emotionally. Her past is fraught with ugly secrets and shameful acts that shaped her into the killing machine she has become. Can she break away from the shadowy world she has pledged her life and energy to for so long? How does a woman who has given everything for the agency find another path?
Download or read book Easy written by Zoe Dawson and published by Zoe Dawson. This book was released on 2023-08-19 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The team is tasked with rescuing PAY-TV executive Jacqueline Devers in Caracas when she was sent to by her CEO to close a big deal for the company. She was being held falsely against her will. But when the team go in, Jack and Matthew “Easy” Hitchcock get separated from the team and they have to go on the run across a hostile country until they can be extracted. Jack has been through a terrible, terrifying ordeal, but Easy has to admire her resolve and cool-under-fire attitude. The more time he spends with her, the closer they draw together. Since Easy is the only thing that stands between her and her relentless, brutal captor, he does his best to resist her allure. He’s determined to get her out of the country safely. Jack has been battling for a promotion at her company and her assignment to Venezuela came with many promises of advancement. Her arrest came as a shock and the police who arrested her treated her in the worse way. She repeatedly told them she was an American and she was innocent of any wrongdoing., but they wouldn’t listen. Just when she thinks she might die in the hellhole they put her in, men storm into the prison and rescue her. She refuses to leave until they recover something that was stolen from her. The SEAL who broke open her cell, Easy, agrees while their CO demands they get her out. When the police respond, the SEALs are forced to fall back and Jack and Easy escape during the chaos. Now they’re being hunted down in a hostile country where her only survival is in the hands of the sexiest man she’s ever met.
Download or read book Tex written by Zoe Dawson and published by Zoe Dawson. This book was released on 2022-06-26 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael “Tex” Penn comes under fire when a mission goes bad and the Navy pilot embedded with the team is killed in action. The pilot's wife, the daughter of an influential senator, wants answers the Navy has forbidden him to give. The OP was as black as night and Top Secret classified. A JAG officer and her partner are assigned to investigate the case to determine what happened during the mission and why the pilot died. In steps Lieutenant Nora Wilson, blonde, blue-eyed and in charge, the kind of confident woman who stirs his blood. But she’s the enemy. She wants his team to spill the details which goes against everything he’s been taught. A former Super Hornet pilot and Navy aviator, Nora already knows she’s going to get push back, already understands that Navy SEALs usually take their secrets to the grave, but a man is dead, and she’s been directed to get the pilot's wife her answers. The minute she comes up against their steely-eyed, confident CO, she knows she has her work cut out for her. Clashing with him professionally, leads to getting closer to him personally than she should. Her mission and her career could be on the line if she were discovered sleeping with the enemy. But when they finally spill the beans, Nora finds herself taking that same fateful OP to finish out the mission that will take her deep onto foreign soil with only the SEALs at her back.
Download or read book Hazard written by Zoe Dawson and published by Zoe Dawson. This book was released on 2024-08-17 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After apprehending the money man who caters to cartels, Hazard and the team discover a connection to the Alzate Cartel and their leader Angel. The lead takes them to Bogota, Colombia, one of the roughest cities in South America where he comes up against US Attorney Leigh Waterford, a difficult, beautiful, and determined lawyer. Hazard chaffs against her presence, believing that civilians didn't have any business being embedded with a SEAL Team. He'd previously acted as her bodyguard while NCIS handled a volatile, dangerous, and intense investigation. Now that his team were on the trail of Alzate, the mission was clear. Take him and his organization down. Hazard finds himself distracted for the first time ever on a mission. His focus is always on duty when he’s deployed, but Leigh is giving him a run for his money. She makes him crazy…her beauty, toughness, competence, and a body to die for. Could this woman make him break his cardinal rule? Leigh has always been challenged in life by her parents, her significant others, and her bosses. She's not only out to prove everyone wrong, but to deliver one of the most wanted organizations on the planet. Alzate had ordered the deaths of government drug task force members in San Diego, and she was going to ensure that he didn't slip through any loopholes. As the special judicial attaché assigned to her only after she went to the mat for the job, she now has this mission on her shoulders, and failing isn't an option. She has always been on a mission and her personal life has always suffered, but she accepts that is the sacrifice she makes for justice. Except Hazard’s presence tempts her beyond belief and draws her closer and closer to breaking her one cardinal rule. Never get involved with anyone in uniform.
Download or read book Shark written by Zoe Dawson and published by Blue Moon Creative. This book was released on 2024-02-26 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bale “Shark” Maddox, and the team are deployed to Haiti to the US Embassy in Port-au-Prince as an insurance policy for the protection of the ambassador, his family and the embassy. There’s a new leader, and although the country seems to be stabilizing, he’s convinced anything could set it off. His team is responsible for making sure the ambassador and his family are safe and if need be, evacuated if things get ugly. Shark is introduced to Ambassador Clay Towson, his wife, Kate, and their daughter, Dr. Madeline Towson. She’s there as a seismologist studying the area for research purposes. She’s the most beautiful woman he’s ever met and getting tangled up on an active mission isn’t smart, but the woman is giving him all the signals that she’s interested and he’s having a hard time putting on the brakes. Shark gets edgy once it’s discovered that the president is ill, according to the prime minister who’s barring the ambassador from contact with the president while he recovers. Maddy is blown away by Shark from the moment she meets him and hijacks the embassy limo by mistake. But she’s always been content to live in her own world and chooses to see everything as a glass half-full. Shark is the exact opposite, but Maddy has never met a man she couldn’t charm, and he’s no different. Before she knows it, he’s the one teaching her not only about relationships, but about herself. Her love life has been a wreck since the last eighteen months and getting involved again just wouldn’t be smart. Except as she gets to know the man, it becomes much more difficult to deny her growing feelings for him. As the danger mounts and her attraction to Shark simmers, it’s not clear what is going to blow first, the situation or the heat between them.
Download or read book Joker written by Zoe Dawson and published by Blue Moon Creative. This book was released on 2022-08-28 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.S. Navy SEAL Elias “Joker” Jackman had always chafed at his father’s yoke. He’s being groomed for an upper level military position, a career that was laid out for him before he was even born. After deploying to Niger, he has to endure a visit by his dad in an official capacity which includes all the pomp and circumstance. He reluctantly attends, but being under his father’s thumb provokes a reckoning he might not be able to stem. But when Joker gets a load of his father’s personal assistant, strait-laced and very beautiful Lt. Philippa Thompson, there’s more than havoc on his mind—there’s seduction. Pippa is thrilled to have been appointed as Admiral Jackman’s Flag Aide, handling the Admiral’s personal and administrative matters. It was a challenging but highly rewarding duty for a junior officer on her way to full Lieutenant. But a monkey wrench is thrown into her plans with the presence of the Admiral’s very gorgeous and flirtatious, irresistible son who entices her to let down her hair and loosen up her uniform. It’s going to be a battle to withstand the handsome Navy SEAL, but with her career hanging in the balance, it’s imperative. She’s glad to have Joker on hand when his father is the target of terrorists out to make a statement and which puts her squarely in the crosshairs. It’s pretty handy that Joker comes with seven steely, unyielding teammates who are all learning that their leader isn’t exactly what they thought.
Download or read book Film is Like a Battleground written by Marsha Gordon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-04 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film is Like a Battleground: Sam Fuller's War Movies is the first book to focus on the genre that best defined the American director's career: the war film. It draws on previously unexplored archival materials, such as Fuller's Federal Bureau of Investigation files and WWII-era 16mm films, to explore the director's lifelong interest in making challenging, thought-provoking, and often politically dangerous movies about war. After establishing the roots of Fuller's cinematographic schooling in the trenches during World War II, including careful consideration of his 16mm footage of a Nazi camp at the end of that war, Film is Like a Battleground explores Fuller's first forays into hot war representation in Hollywood with the pioneering Korean conflict films The Steel Helmet (1951) and Fixed Bayonets (1951). This pair of films introduced Fuller to his first run-ins with the American political machine when they triggered both FBI and Department of Defense investigations into his political sympathies and affiliations. Fuller's cold war films Pickup on South Street (1953) and, though it veers into hot war territory, Hell and High Water (1954) are Fuller's responses to the political pressures he had now personally experienced and resented. A chapter on Fuller's representation of pre-American-invasion Vietnam in China Gate (1957) alongside his unrealized Vietnam war screenplay, The Rifle (ca. late 1960s), illustrates the degree to which Fuller's representation of war and nation shifted even as he continued to probe war's impossible contradictions. Film is Like a Battleground would be incomplete without a thorough exploration of the films depicting the war Fuller personally experienced and spent a lifetime contemplating, WWII. Verboten! (1959), Merrill's Marauder's (1962), and The Big Red One (1980) demonstrate Fuller's representation of a morally justifiable war. Fuller's 1959 CBS television pilot--Dogface--offers a glimpse at one of Fuller's failed attempts to bring his WWII story into American living rooms. The book concludes with a chapter about a documentary film made late in the director's life that returns Fuller to the actual site of the Nazi's Falkenau camp, at which he discusses his experiences there and that powerful, unforgettable footage he shot in the spring of 1945.
