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Download or read book Elite Bastards written by Edward L Dvorak and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quintessential first-person combat memoir of a special forces soldier fighting in the jungles of Vietnam. This is the quintessential first-person combat memoir of a special forces soldier at war. Edward Dvorak joined the 173rd Airborne Brigade in Vietnam in the summer of 1967. He then joined Company F, 51st Infantry, Long Range Patrol, Airborne. For Dvorak and his buddies of Company F, LRP, their real training started with the MACV (Military Assistant Command Vietnam) Recondo School at the 5th Special Forces Compound in Nha Trang, South Vietnam. That training culminated with an actual Combat LRP mission. If you lived through the patrol, you graduated. Dvorak would remain with Company F for 19 months going on dozens of combat patrols deep behind enemy lines.
Book Synopsis Gentlemen Bastards by : Kevin Maurer
Download or read book Gentlemen Bastards written by Kevin Maurer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of No Easy Day comes an insightful, inside look at the Green Berets—a legendary corps of soldiers whose exploits made military history. But now, its very identity and role as a fighting force may be forever changed. Until the war in Iraq, Special Forces were the military’s counterinsurgency experts. Their specialty was going behind enemy lines and training insurgent forces. In Afghanistan, they toppled the Taliban by transforming Northern Alliance fighters into cohesive units. But since that time, Special Forces units have focused on offensive raids. With time running short, the Green Berets have now gone back to their roots. Award-winning journalist Kevin Maurer traveled with a Special Forces team in Afghanistan, finding out firsthand the inside story of the lives of this elite group of highly trained soldiers. He witnessed the intense brotherhood, the rigorous selection process, and the arduous training that makes them the best on the battlefield. Here, Maurer delivers a compelling account of modern warfare and of a fighting force that is doing everything in its power to achieve victory.
Book Synopsis In Defense of Elitism by : Joel Stein
Download or read book In Defense of Elitism written by Joel Stein and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Thurber finalist and former star Time columnist Joel Stein comes a "brilliant exploration" (Walter Isaacson) of America's political culture war and a hilarious call to arms for the elite. "I can think of no one more suited to defend elitism than Stein, a funny man with hands as delicate as a baby full of soft-boiled eggs." —Jimmy Kimmel, host of Jimmy Kimmel Live! The night Donald Trump won the presidency, our author Joel Stein, Thurber Prize finalist and former staff writer for Time Magazine, instantly knew why. The main reason wasn't economic anxiety or racism. It was that he was anti-elitist. Hillary Clinton represented Wall Street, academics, policy papers, Davos, international treaties and the people who think they're better than you. People like Joel Stein. Trump represented something far more appealing, which was beating up people like Joel Stein. In a full-throated defense of academia, the mainstream press, medium-rare steak, and civility, Joel Stein fights against populism. He fears a new tribal elite is coming to replace him, one that will fend off expertise of all kinds and send the country hurtling backward to a time of wars, economic stagnation and the well-done steaks doused with ketchup that Trump eats. To find out how this shift happened and what can be done, Stein spends a week in Roberts County, Texas, which had the highest percentage of Trump voters in the country. He goes to the home of Trump-loving Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams; meets people who create fake news; and finds the new elitist organizations merging both right and left to fight the populists. All the while using the biggest words he knows.
Book Synopsis The gentleman's mistress by : Tim Thornton
Download or read book The gentleman's mistress written by Tim Thornton and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores pre- and extra-marital relationships among the gentry and nobility of the north of England from 1450 to 1640: the keeping of mistresses, the taking of lovers, the birth of illegitimate children and the fate of those children. It challenges assumptions about the extent to which such activities declined in the period, and hence about the impact of Protestantism and other changes to the culture of the elite. A major contribution to the literature on marriage and sexual relationships, family, kinship and gender, it is aimed at an academic readership in the fields of social and political history.
Download or read book Stratification in Grenada written by and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book ''The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion'' written by and published by PediaPress. This book was released on with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Choosing the Tory Leader by : Timothy Heppell
Download or read book Choosing the Tory Leader written by Timothy Heppell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-11-28 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The means by which the Conservative Party have determined their party leadership has produced some of the most dramatic political theatre of the last four decades. The disputed succession to Harold Macmillan and the discrediting of the magic circle, the procedural changes designed to evict Edward Heath, the brutal political assassination of Margaret Thatcher, the bizarre resignation and immediate re-election of John Major, the putsch against lain Duncan-Smith and the ritual acclamation of Michael Howard, only to have him replaced by the unexpected election of David Cameron have demonstrated the capacity of the Conservatives for political intrigue.In this new evaluation Timothy Heppell assesses the way in which the Conservative Party have determined their leadership since the 1960s. By considering the events that led to each leadership election, the candidates standing and their campaigning strategies, he explains how and why respective victors were elected. He argues the Conservatives have been maladroit when constructing their electoral procedures, they have returned unexpected party leaders, many of whom were to suffer from crises of legitimacy and accusations that they were default leaders. He observes how the dominance of ideology, as a destabilising influence on incumbents and a voting determinant in leadership elections, has been immensely disadvantageous to post-Thatcherite Conservatism.Rather than empowering incumbents to project their leadership credentials outwards to the electorate and against their Labour counterpart, successive post-Thatcherite Conservative party leaders have been forced to look inwards, devoting crucial time to the complexities of intra-party management and the threats against them from rivals from within the parliamentary party. Heppell concludes by asking whether the undisputed mandate and ideological pragmatism of David Cameron indicates that the Conservatives are learning from these mistakes in their own recent past.
Book Synopsis In a Place of Darkness by : Stuart MacBride
Download or read book In a Place of Darkness written by Stuart MacBride and published by Random House. This book was released on 2024-06-20 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the gripping new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author of the Logan McRae series THE CLOCK IS TICKING... Detective Constable Angus MacVicar has just landed his dream job – transferred out of uniform and assigned to Oldcastle’s biggest ongoing murder investigation: Operation Telegram, hunting the 'Fortnight Killer'. Every two weeks another couple is targeted. One victim is left at the scene, their corpse used as a twisted message board. The second body is never seen again. This should be the perfect chance for Angus to prove himself, but instead of working on the investigation’s front line, he’s lumbered with the forensic psychologist from hell. A sarcastic know-it-all American, on loan from the FBI, who seems determined to alienate everyone while dragging Angus into a shadowy world of conspiracies, lies, and violence. It’s been twelve days since the Fortnight Killer last struck, and the investigation’s running out of time. Angus's shiny new job might just be the death of him... Praise For Stuart MacBride: ‘Fast, hard, authentic – and different’ Lee Child ‘A terrific writer’ The Times ‘MacBride is a damned fine writer – no one does dark and gritty like him’ Peter James ‘Dark and gripping. A riveting page-turner’ Independent on Sunday ‘Unmissable ... superb storytelling’ Sun Stuart MacBride, Number 1 Sunday Times bestseller, November 2023
Download or read book Bastards written by Matthew Gerber and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children born out of wedlock were commonly stigmatized as "bastards" in early modern France. Deprived of inheritance, they were said to have neither kin nor kind, neither family nor nation. Why was this the case? Gentler alternatives to "bastard" existed in early modern French discourse, and many natural parents voluntarily recognized and cared for their extramarital offspring. Drawing upon a wide array of archival and published sources, Matthew Gerber has reconstructed numerous disputes over the rights and disabilities of children born out of wedlock in order to illuminate the changing legal condition and practical treatment of extramarital offspring over a period of two and half centuries. Gerber's study reveals that the exclusion of children born out of wedlock from the family was perpetually debated. In sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France, royal law courts intensified their stigmatization of extramarital offspring even as they usurped jurisdiction over marriage from ecclesiastic courts. Mindful of preserving elite lineages and dynastic succession of power, reform-minded jurists sought to exclude illegitimate children more thoroughly from the household. Adopting a strict moral tone, they referred to illegitimate children as "bastards" in an attempt to underscore their supposed degeneracy. Hostility toward extramarital offspring culminated in 1697 with the levying of a tax on illegitimate offspring. Contempt was never unanimous, however, and in the absence of a unified body of French law, law courts became vital sites for a highly contested cultural construction of family. Lawyers pleading on behalf of extramarital offspring typically referred to them as "natural children." French magistrates grew more receptive to this sympathetic discourse in the eighteenth century, partly in response to soaring rates of child abandonment. As costs of "foundling" care increasingly strained the resources of local communities and the state, some French elites began to publicly advocate a destigmatization of extramarital offspring while valorizing foundlings as "children of the state." By the time the Code Civil (1804) finally established a uniform body of French family law, the concept of bastardy had become largely archaic. With a cast of characters ranging from royal bastards to foundlings, Bastards explores the relationship between social and political change in the early modern era, offering new insight into the changing nature of early modern French law and its evolving contribution to the historical construction of both the family and the state.
Book Synopsis The Sign of the Burger by : Joe L. Kincheloe
Download or read book The Sign of the Burger written by Joe L. Kincheloe and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sign of the Burger examines how McDonald's captures our imagination, both as a shorthand for explaining the power of American culture, and as a symbol of the strength of consumerism.
Book Synopsis Magic Born Book One by : Odette C. Bell
Download or read book Magic Born Book One written by Odette C. Bell and published by Odette C. Bell. This book was released on with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monique’s a broken witch on the run. Three years ago, she escaped being sacrificed at Vendex Academy for Magic. She’s been running since. Until now. Chance draws her back into her old world, and one man won’t let her leave. Monique is thrust into a world of violent intrigue, of old money and power, and of poisoned destinies. She has one chance. One man. And one way out. …. Magic Born follows a witch out for revenge and the brother of her ex fighting his family for freedom. If you love your urban fantasies with non-stop action, epic stakes, and a splash of romance, grab Magic Born Book One today and soar free with an Odette C. Bell series.
Book Synopsis Magic Born: The Complete Series by : Odette C. Bell
Download or read book Magic Born: The Complete Series written by Odette C. Bell and published by Odette C. Bell. This book was released on with total page 775 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete Magic Born series. Follow Monique on her quest for revenge in this four-book boxset. Monique’s a broken witch on the run. Three years ago, she escaped being sacrificed at Vendex Academy for Magic. She’s been running since. Until now. Chance draws her back into her old world, and one man won’t let her leave. Monique is thrust into a world of violent intrigue, of old money and power, and of poisoned destinies. She has one chance. One man. And one way out. …. Magic Born follows a witch out for revenge and the brother of her ex fighting his family for freedom. If you love your urban fantasies with non-stop action, epic stakes, and a splash of romance, grab Magic Born: The Complete Series today and soar free with an Odette C. Bell series.
Download or read book The Black Widow written by Jerry Travis and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-11-18 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colt Frazier, a Phoenix ex-cop, now a private investigator, is hired by Sarah Wilson, a black woman, to fi nd the person who killed her husband. She and her husband were being extorted for a million dollars from someone who called them, threatening that if they didnt wire the money to a Swiss account within twenty-four hours, someone dear to them would die. They didnt take the threat seriously and the husband was shot from long range and killed. Frazier and the woman track leads around the country, from Chicago to Louisville and fi nally to Las Vegas, where they find the killer and are nearly killed themselves. The plot ends in Omaha, Nebraska, in a final confrontation with the psychopathic extortionist involving Frazier and Sarah Wilson, Fraziers daughter and her husband, and a charming dog named Big Red.
Book Synopsis Gardens of Love and the Limits of Morality in Early Netherlandish Art by : Andrea Pearson
Download or read book Gardens of Love and the Limits of Morality in Early Netherlandish Art written by Andrea Pearson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Gardens of Love and the Limits of Morality in Early Netherlandish Art, Andrea Pearson charts the moralization of human bodies in late medieval and early modern visual culture, through paintings by Jan van Eyck and Hieronymus Bosch, devotional prints and illustrated books, and the celebrated enclosed gardens of Mechelen among other works. Drawing on new archival evidence and innovative visual analysis to reframe familiar religious discourses, she demonstrates that depicted topographies advanced and sometimes resisted bodily critiques expressed in scripture, conduct literature, and even legislation. Governing many of these redemptive greenscapes were the figures of Christ and the Virgin Mary, archetypes of purity whose spiritual authority was impossible to ignore, yet whose mysteries posed innumerable moral challenges. The study reveals that bodily status was the fundamental problem of human salvation, in which artists, patrons, and viewers alike had an interpretive stake.
Book Synopsis Tangled Webs Vol. IX by : Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn
Download or read book Tangled Webs Vol. IX written by Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn and published by PHOENIX SOURCE DISTRIBUTORS, INC.. This book was released on 1992 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tightrope written by Amanda Quick and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unconventional woman and a man shrouded in mystery walk a tightrope of desire as they race against a killer to find a top secret invention in this New York Times bestselling novel from Amanda Quick. Former trapeze artist Amalie Vaughn moved to Burning Cove to reinvent herself, but things are not going well. After spending her entire inheritance on a mansion with the intention of turning it into a bed-and-breakfast, she learns too late that the villa is said to be cursed. When the first guest, Dr. Norman Pickwell, is murdered by his robot invention during a sold-out demonstration, rumors circulate that the curse is real. In the chaotic aftermath of the spectacle, Amalie watches as a stranger from the audience disappears behind the curtain. When Matthias Jones reappears, he is slipping a gun into a concealed holster. It looks like the gossip that is swirling around him is true—Matthias evidently does have connections to the criminal underworld. Matthias is on the trail of a groundbreaking prototype cipher machine. He suspects that Pickwell stole the device and planned to sell it. But now Pickwell is dead and the machine has vanished. When Matthias’s investigation leads him to Amalie’s front door, the attraction between them is intense, but she knows it is also dangerous. Amalie and Matthias must decide if they can trust each other and the passion that binds them, because time is running out.
Book Synopsis The Nostradamus Mission by : Dan Berghoff
Download or read book The Nostradamus Mission written by Dan Berghoff and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nostradamus Descendant Pierre Damus discovers a global order conspiracy that has the human race on the precipice of World War III. To save mankind he embarks on a mission to expose the sources behind a economic battle between two rival secret societies on a collision course with a U.S. military/alien force whose beginnings are traced to a place in southern Nevada called Area 51.
