Science Crisis

On September 12th, 2012, Brandon Webb learned Glen Doherty, one of his closest friends and his former Navy SEAL teammate, was killed alongside Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and two other Americans when the U.S. State Department and CIA headquarters in Benghazi, Libya, were sieged in a shocking terrorist attack.

In this part heart-rending memoir, part expose of fundamentalist Islamic terrorism, finance expert Janet Tavakoli bears witness to the incompatibility of Western values and fundamentalist Islam. >In 1978, Janet Tavakoli moved to Tehran with her Iranian husband and witnessed the overthrow of the progressive Shah and the birth of the fundamentalist Islamic Republic of Iran.

காஷ்மீர் பிரச்னையின் முழுமையான வரலாறை விவரிக்கும் இந்நூல், இதைப் பிரச்னையாகவே வைத்திருக்கும் அரசியலின் ஆழங்களையும் ஆராய்கிறது.

国際紛争研究者が見て、感じ、考えた和解の現場殺しあいをしてきた人々は、どのように仲直りをするのか。闘いを通じて増殖され蓄積された憎しみ、悲しみ、怒り、憤りを当事者たちはどう処理するのか。

"தீவிரவாதம், நவீன யுகத்தின் புற்றுநோய். எப்படி இது தீவிரமடைகிறது? ஏன் தடுக்கவோ ஒழிக்கவோ முடிவதில்லை? அல் காயிதா முதல் ஐ.எஸ். வரை ஏராளமான இயக்கங்கள் மத்தியக் கிழக்கு நாடுகளில் செல்வாக்குப் பெற்றது எப்படி? இவர்களுக்கு ஆள்களும் பணமும் கிடைக்கும் வழியென்ன?

The human race is caught in the crosshairs of twin threats stemming from exponential advances in technology. In Crisis of Control, Peter Scott lays out the stark choices and consequences facing us in clear, provocative, and sometimes humorous language.

To keep from obsessing on his job when not there, Clint attempts to escape his reality in the VRMMO world of Unexplored. There, in the persona of the heroic and adventurous elf, Cleave, he joins with a smart-mouthed kobold named Tarka and a gentle half-giant, Krug - the best kind of friend an elf could have, one that would gladly stomp into jelly anyone attempting to hurt his friends or the innocent - in a grand quest to find a powerful ring.

As Powerhouse, Dave Johnson has become a local legend in Seattle, but choruses of voices advise him that he's wasting his time defending the Emerald City. He's urged to take on more ambitious goals, like defending New York, being a full-time comic book executive, or becoming a bat-breaking evangelist. These questions are pushed into the background when Powerhouse is confronted with an unprecedented crime wave launched by the interdimensional warlord Varlock as part of his effort to help King Bel conquer the Earth.

Thomas Hargrove's Long March to Freedom is a record of his 11 months as a hostage of Colombian guerillas and was the basis for the recent movie hit Proof of Life that starred Meg Ryan, Russell Crowe, and David Morse.

Con más de 200 entrevistas realizadas tanto a hombres como a mujeres, la autora desvela las problemáticas de la sexualidad a la que se enfrentan ambos géneros a partir de los 40 años.

The first sections of this audiobook are concerned with the development of a safety mindset and techniques to develop and hone intuition. This also includes what we can do to achieve a state of integrity and powerful calm. The author offers specific strategies, including a method of breathing, for the purpose of maintaining calm in crisis situations.

Le 8 janvier 2020, le vol 752 d'Ukraine International Airlines reliant Téhéran à Kiev s'écrase six minutes après le décollage entraînant la mort des 176 passagers et membres d'équipage. Ce crash survient dans un contexte de tensions extrêmes entre l'Iran et les États-Unis.

In March 1978, the Red Brigades kidnapped former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro, murdering his bodyguards. For nearly two months, they held him hostage while a shocked world looked on, before eventually killing him and dumping his body in the middle of Rome. But who were this terrorist group? What did they want? And how did they continue to operate for almost twenty years, terrifying a nation from 1970 to 1988? In John Foot’s remarkable new book, we learn how they became the most formidable left-wing terrorist organisation in post-war Western Europe.

Tom Daschle and Trent Lott are two of the most prominent senators of recent time. Both served in their respective parties' leadership positions from the 1990s into the current century, and they have almost 60 years of service between them. Their congressional tenure saw the Reagan tax cuts, a deadlocked Senate, the Clinton impeachment, 9/11 and the Iraq War. Despite the tumultuous times, and despite their very real ideological differences, they have always maintained a positive working relationship.

For far too long, the menace of concussions has been hidden in plain sight. On playing fields across America, lives are being derailed by seemingly innocuous jolts to the head. From the peewees to the pros, concussions are reaching epidemic proportions. This book brings that hidden epidemic and its consequences out of the shadows.

Essays written by a who's who of antifascist researchers, including Tal Lavin (Culture Warlords), Kim Kelly (Fight Like Hell), Geo Maher (A World Without Police), Hilary A. Moore (No Fascist USA!), and Daryle Lamont Jenkins (One People's Project). ¡No Pasarán! is an anthology of antifascist writing that takes up the fight against white supremacy and the far right from multiple angles.

When the United States government passed the Bill of Rights in 1791, its uncompromising protection of speech and of the press were unlike anything the world had ever seen before. But by 1798, the once-dazzling young republic of the United States was on the verge of collapse. Suddenly, the First Amendment, which protected harsh commentary of the weak government, no longer seemed as practical. So that July, President John Adams and the Federalists in control of Congress passed an extreme piece of legislation that made criticism of the government and its leaders a crime.

"These are the times that try men's souls." With these words, Thomas Paine began a series of 13 extraordinary pamphlets reporting on the American Revolution. Part newsfeed, part op-ed, these pieces were widely circulated in the States and in Britain during the war. They reported on the progress of the war, argued for the reasons for the war, made recommendations on the conduct of the war, and taught citizens of a new country just what their obligations and duties were in support of their new country. A sobering series of lessons on beginning American civics 101.

Born to Palestinian refugees, Kassem Eid grew up in the small town of Moadamiya on the outskirts of the ancient city of Damascus. The streets that he and his many siblings played on were perfumed with jasmine. A precocious child, he excelled at school and had a natural gift for languages. But it didn't take long for Kassem to realise that he was treated differently at school because of his family's resistance to the brutal government regime.

Returned from their banishment across the centuries, Steven Bauer and the forces of the White must now rescue their abducted loved ones from the forces of darkness. Across North America, the Black have come out of hiding, occupying one national landmark after another with hostages certain to attract their enemies’ attention. Backed into a corner, Steven and his friends have no other choice but to fight for their lives and the lives of everyone they love.