Download or read book Resilience Is Futile written by Julie S. Lalonde and published by Between the Lines. This book was released on 2020-02-27 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over a decade, Julie Lalonde, an award-winning advocate for women’s rights, kept a secret. She crisscrossed the country, denouncing violence against women and giving hundreds of media interviews along the way. Her work made national headlines for challenging universities and taking on Canada’s top military brass. Appearing fearless on the surface, Julie met every interview and event with the same fear in her gut: was he there? Fleeing intimate partner violence at age 20, Julie was stalked by her ex-partner for over ten years, rarely mentioning it to friends, let alone addressing it publicly. The contrast between her public career as a brave champion for women with her own private life of violence and fear meant a shaky and exhausting balancing act. Resilience sounds like a positive thing, so why do we often use it against women? Tenacity and bravery might help us survive unimaginable horrors, but where are the spaces for anger and vulnerability? Resilience is Futile is a story of survival, courage and ultimately, hope. But it’s also a challenge to the ways we understand trauma and resilience. It’s the story of one survivor who won’t give up and refuses to shut up.
Download or read book Snackation written by Sara Baunoch and published by . This book was released on 2019-03-18 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Snackation" was written and illustrated by teen siblings, Sara and Sammy Baunoch, who also hosts of their own cooking and culture web-series called Sup! (www.supkidscooking.com) where they make recipes from around the world. They were also contestants on an episode of Food Network's "Chopped" called "It's a Sibling Thing". Sara and Sammy want this book to serve as your snack travel guide as they take you on 10 of their favorite snackations like Hawaii, Tanzania, Denmark, Spain and more! Through the snacks, you will learn some history, geography, language, and culture and hopefully be inspired to take your own snackations!
Download or read book AWOL written by Kathy Roth-Douquet and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This impassioned, convincing manifesto” from two policy experts with military family “calls for class integration of the military” (Publishers Weekly). Military service was once a natural part of good citizenship, with Americans of all classes serving during wartime. Not anymore. As Kathy Roth-Douquet and Frank Schaeffer assert in this groundbreaking work, there is a growing disconnect between the cultural “elite” who guide military policy and the rank-and-file servicemembers charged with carrying it out. While the privileged lack the benefits and perspective gained through military service, those who do serve feel under-supported and morally distanced from the rest of the country. And when only a handful of congressmembers have military experience, it can become too easy—or too hard—to send soldiers into combat. Based on extensive research and firsthand accounts of service, AWOL is both informative and personal. As the father of a former Marine, Frank Schaeffer knows the anguish and pride of seeing a child deployed into combat. Kathy Roth-Douquet, wife of a career officer, knows struggle of keeping a family together with a husband at war, as well as the satisfaction of raising children in an ethic of service. Intimately acquainted with the glory and the sacrifice of military service, these co-authors offer the urgent wake-up call that America needs.
Download or read book South of Heaven written by Daniel Flores and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-07-27 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In late 2005, the total casualties in Afghanistan were just barely over one hundred; meanwhile, the news agencies were publicizing, each day, the thousands of American soldiers who were dying in Iraq. There was rarely any mention at all of the conflict going on in Afghanistan. Little did Daniel Flores know that one year later he would be witness to the Taliban resurgence and lose some of his friends in the war. He was locked in a battle for his life against a determined enemy, in one of the most notorious and highly contested valleys in the Hindu Kush, in his Apache gunshipwithout bullets. South of Heaven is the searing memoir of Floress year-long tour of duty in Afghanistan. One of his missions was featured in a segment on the Military Channels My War Diary program. The segment was based on the rescue of an American Convoy in the Tagab Valley in Afghanistan. The video and audio footage of the actual battle that he shot with his own equipment was used in the production. The final week of his rotation in-country was a true test of his faith and his daughters faith that he would return home unharmed.
Download or read book Combat Focus Shooting written by Rob Pincus and published by Ice Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praised by experts and students alike for his practical approach to intuitive shooting techniques, Pincus has brought his program into a skillfully written dialogue featuring sections including: Working with what the body does naturally, Background and Philosophy of Combat Focus Shooting, Combat (or Defensive) Accuracy, Combat Focus Range Drills, The Critical Incident Reload, Volume of Fire, and The Balance of Speed and Precision. Pincus? book covers the content and underlying principles of the revolutionary Combat Focus? Shooting Course in their entirety.Combat Focus? Shooting is the intuitive shooting program that is designed to work with what the body and mind do naturally during a dynamic critical incident. This program helps the shooter to learn the ?Balance Between Speed & Precision? and use either sighted or unsighted fire as appropriate to get combat-accurate hits efficiently during a lethal force encounter.Pincus? Combat Focus? Shooting program has been incorporated into law enforcement and military training programs across the country and has been taught to security and police officers, military special operations personnel and instructors from around the world. In addition to these armed professionals, hundreds of self-defense students and beginner shooters are taught how to be safer through more efficient shooting in the Combat Focus? courses every year, both at Valhalla Training Center and other locations.
Download or read book Dear Adolf written by Daniel Scott Tysdal and published by . This book was released on 2012-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Straight Talk on Armed Defense written by Massad Ayoob and published by Gun Digest Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The nation's leading experts on personal protection, self-defense and concealed carry deliver authoritative guidance from their areas of expertise and personal experience."--Amazon.com
Download or read book The Ministry of Defense written by MR Pablo Birriel and published by Consuming Fire Inc. This book was released on 2007-12 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a guide into setting up security for places of worship. It provides sound protection doctrine that is currently used by the elite security forces of this world while providing information specific to the protection of a ministry.
Download or read book The 7 Elements of Combat written by Pablo Birriel and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-16 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 7 Elements of Combat is a book with many different facets. It redefines warfare and seeks to realign the believer to the heart of God. It teaches practical physical combat to address fear in the individual while teaching sound spiritual tactics. It also addresses the three dimensions of warfare (spiritual, soul/intellectual, and physical). It is not just a book about martial arts, it is a rediscovery of the essence of the warrior that God has called to reclaim and shape the world we know, and gives him tools to succeed in whatever combat is necessary.
Download or read book The Warrant Officer in the Volunteer Force written by Paul P. Coroneos and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because of its small size and a lack of uniform policy in its use and status across time and in the individual services the Warrant Officer Corps has developed serious career structure and identity problems. With forces reduction, higher technological dependence and the increased cost of manpower it is no longer possible to neglect a unique personnel component of the Armed Forces, especially when it possesses such a significant potential to alleviate serious personnel problems in the other components. As the Army turns to volunteers and reduces the officer ratio a redesigned warrant officer corps can help ease the transition and improve the quality of the Army. Our sister services are on different courses with their warrant officer programs. All programs are improvisations and Congress is insisting on uniform policies and equity across the services. (Modified author abstract).
Download or read book Warrant written by David R. Welsh and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2006 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new History of Warrant Officers centers around the history of the Army Warrant Officer from July 1918, the official Birthday of the Corps, and progress through the many changes and duties that the Warrant Officer has gone through up to September 2005 with the insignia changes and integration of the Army Warrant Officers into the various Army branches. We honor our fallen Warrant Officers since that fateful day of 9-11-2001 with a Memorial Listing of their names. The book also details the Warrant Officer Programs of the other U.S. uniformed services, histories of the various Warrant Officer Associations, Clubs, and Foundations including WOA U.S. Army, CWOA USCG, WOA of the U.S.A., C.H.A.N.W.O.S., USAWOA, USMC WO Association, USAWOA Scholarship Foundation, and WO Heritage Foundation. Included also are pictures and biographies and/or citations for WO Medal of Honor Winners, some selected WO of historical significant, and the Army's first and only WO Astronaut. The back section of the book features pictures and short biographies submitted by Warrant Officers for publication.
