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Bobby Autry is one of the best in the world at what he does. An elite combat chopper pilot, Autry has been tested under fire and always come out on top. But his new assigment might change all that. He's been tasked to lead a new unit of the elite Night Stalkers, a unit that can outfly the rest of the pilots in SOAR (Special Operations Air Regiment), outshoot the best gunners in the SEALs or Deltas, and operate as indepdently as the most lawles...

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He played in casinos around the world with a plan to make himself richer than anyone could possibly imagine -- but it would nearly cost him his life.Semyon Dukach was known as the Darling of Las Vegas. A legend at age twenty-one, this cocky hotshot was the biggest high roller to appear in Sin City in decades, a mathematical genius with a system the casinos had never seen before and couldn't stop -- a system that has never been revealed until n...

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The main aim of this symposium was to bring together end-users and control system specialists to evaluate the possibilities for improvement of techniques, design procedures, components and instruments to encourage low cost automation, considering not only economic aspects but also improvements in productivity, reliability, flexibility and ease-of-application. Special emphasis was placed on small and medium sized enterprises. The technical sess...

Canada's wild frontier — a land unsettled and unknown, a land of appalling obstacles and haunting beauty — comes to life through seven remarkable individuals, including John Jewitt, the young British seaman who became a slave to the Nootka Indians, Dr. Wilfred Grenfell, the eccentric missionary, Sam Steele, the most famous of all Mounted Policemen, and Isaac Jorges, the 17th-century priest who courted martyrdom. Many of the stories of these fi...

Growing up the stepdaughter of Buck Abbott, a Champion Cowboy in the early 50's, Robin L. Schwarz was inspired to write this Children's book with co-author R.D. Sloan. The authors recognized the void in Children's literature for an inspiring story about a brave young boy who with hard work and determination became a little champion. Almost every child wants to be a cowboy or a cowgirl and ride a wild bronc. Ron and Robin's focus is to magicall...

In the late '60s, how could Andy Andrews have known that the lousy socks his aunt got him for Christmas would change him forever? Includes a CD with the author's performance of "Socks.

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This is a narrative of travels in Japan undertaken in 1878 by someone who is probably the most famous female traveller and writer of the Victorian era. Travelling alone as a woman, she was the first to enter parts of Japan which had had no cultural contact whatsoever with a European, let alone a woman on her own. The letters which make up this work give a real picture of Japan and Japanese life at the time.

Reminiscent of the best war literature, such as John Hersey's Hiroshima, Michael Herr's Dispatches, and Michael Kelly's Martyr's Day." --The Washington PostThe Fall of Baghdad is a masterpiece of literary reportage about the experience of ordinary Iraqis living through the endgame of the Saddam Hussein regime, its violent fall, and the troubled American occupation. In channeling a tragedy of epic dimensions through the stories of real people c...

Bringing an Eastern sensibility into contact with three most important themes in Western philosophy, investigates three important philosophers: Martin Heidegger - on being, Emmanuel Levinas - on ethics, and Ludwig Wittgenstein - on language. It is for philosophers and legal theorists, and for those who are interested in Zen Buddhism.

The book is characterised by methodological sophistication: it analyses the media both as texts (the news) and as technologies, it also includes a detailed audience ethnography (taking into account both reception and context).

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The artists, philosophers, art historians and cultural theorists contributing to this book address the complexity of interpreting art as research and suggest ways in which the visual and the verbal could engage in more productive and open discussions.

Genuine and heartfelt."-San Diego Union-Tribune Ronald Reagan's daughter writes with a moving openness about losing her father to Alzheimer's disease. The simplicity with which she reveals the intensity, the rush, the flow of her feelings encompasses all the surprises and complexities that ambush us when death gradually, unstoppably invades life. In this moving and illuminating portrait of a woman and her father, Patti Davis describes saying...

The enlargement of the EU is a major economic opportunity for all companies in Europe. This book answers the twenty most important questions on incentive funds, tax, labour and real estate law for each of the ten new member countries, and provides the facts and figures on their competitiveness. First published in German in 2004, it brings all the information up to date and compares the investment conditions in those countries so that readers c...