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At the age of seventeen, Samuel L. Broadnax, enamored with flying, enlisted and trained as a pilot at the Tuskegee Army Air Base. Although he left the Air Corps at the end of the Second World War, his experiences inspired him to talk with other pilots and black pioneers of aviation. "Blue Skies, Black Wings" recounts the history of African Americans in the skies from the very beginnings of manned flight.From Charles Wesley Peters, who flew his...

The splendor and the excesses of the 400 Families Even after a hundred years, New York's 400 Families continue to captivate readers. This book brings to life this extraordinary era, from the people and their delicious scandals to their extravagant palaces and opulent balls--a time when Mrs. Astor held sway, the Vanderbilts rebuilt society, and New York was the most glamorous, most envied, and most condemned city in America. Greg King (Everet...

Senior management and leaders within companies embroiled in crisis, have learned the hard way what happens when the unthinkable becomes a reality - an accident results in death or injury, a failed company takeover causes share prices to plummet, or toxic food, medicines and drinks leads to mass hysteria. All attention focuses on the guilty parties - and the media can be expected to make this crisis headline news within a matter of hours. No ...

Mixed from egg whites and vegetable tints, water and soot, oils and rare minerals and applied to bone, wood, metal and canvas, the plastic and expressive properties of paint have stirred artists and their admirers throughout history. The holdings of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston have grown into a formidable appraisal of one of humankind's oldest and most diverse forms of artistic expression--from its first acquisition, Washington Allston's "...

In April 1865, as Confederate President Jefferson Davis fled to Richmond, a navy paymaster, James S. Semple, was entrusted with all that was left of the Confederate treasury--and he and the gold soon disappeared. Millett and White reveal for the first time what happened.

Through the redemptive relationships that Jews have had with the gentile world, something truly does happen. Sacred molecules travel back and forth between the precious metals of our lives. That is why it is important that gentiles, no less than Jews, engage these worthy biblical characters. Their stories testify to the power and possibility of redemptive relationships between all people of faithand this lesson becomes more important with ever...

Based on ten years of extensive research and interviews with thousands of top sales performers in a variety of industries, "Silver Bullet Selling" reveals the secrets all great sales professionals have in common. It's not what you say that determines your success in sales, it's how you execute the sales process to create a unique buying experience for customers. This book shows you how to apply the silver bullet selling method to launch your s...

They are here among us. . . Far from home, gifted with special abilities, hunted for their powers. And they are desperate to find their other, the one who completes them. . .before it's too late. . . When you least expect it, love finds you. . . Lately, Claire Edwards feels like she's floundering. A ho-hum teaching job, a string of terrible dates, nights spent with only Netflix and bizarre dreams of spaceships for company. . .life isn't workin...

More than 24 million people run in the United States alone, but 65 percent will have to stop at least once this year because of injury. Still others will choose to run through the pain. But in this groundbreaking book, ultramarathoner Danny Dreyer teaches us the running technique he created to heal and prevent injuries and also to run faster, farther, and with much less effort at any age. ChiRunning employs the deep power reserves in the core ...

In this follow-up to "My Immortal Protector, " Holling pens a captivating andsensual story of a blood witch whose powers attract an elusive man. Original.

Already well known for the fierce confessional imagery of her first three books, The Treekeeper's Tale points towards another facet of Pascale Petit's gift, an intense feeling for the natural world, allied with a personal response to historical incidents and to other lands.

Digital media are rapidly changing the world in which we live. Global communications, mobile interfaces and Internet cultures are re-configuring our everyday lives and experiences. To understand these changes, a new theoretical imagination is needed, one that is informed by a conceptual vocabulary that is able to cope with the daunting complexity of the world today. This book draws on writings by leading social and cultural theorists to assemb...

Sarah Shawa (TM)s lively introduction to Buddhist meditation offers students and practitioners alike a deeper understanding of what meditation is, and its purpose and place in the context of different Buddhist schools. She describes the historical background to the geographical spread of Buddhism, and examines the way in which some meditative practices developed as this process occurred. Other chapters cover basic meditative practice, types of...

By turns funny, disquieting, and moving, "Fight Scenes" takes an unsparing look at juvenile disaffection and the dark side of white, working-class masculinity. In a pared-down, highly readable style, Bottoms shows how even the most accepted forms of "toughness" can be damaging.

Not every baker wants to re-create Grandma's pound cake or cherry pie. Lewis and Poliafito certainly didn't when they left their advertising careers behind and opened their dream bakery, Baked. The visions that danced in their heads were of new kinds of confections, many featured in this lavish cookbook.

Great cooking--using fresh, seasonal, local ingredients--is at the heart of the experience offered by Rancho La Puerta, Baja California's premier resort spa. Cooking with the Seasons transports that regenerative experience to your own home kitchen, changing the way you think about food and cooking--and, just possibly, changing your life. This is no "diet cookbook, " however. For Rancho's founder, Deborah Szekely, and co-author Deborah Schneide...

Time and again, as his life unfolds to reveal his failings and foibles to those around him--Keeler's academic parents, his genius brother, his motley friends--he returns to the fish, which cast him a lifeline of their own.

There's more to New Jersey than casinos, diners, and discount malls. Many of its attractions are of a decidedly less earthly, far more ethereal nature. Most famous, perhaps, is the terrifying Jersey Devil, a winged, hooved creature that haunts the town of Pine Barrens and whose eyes, it is said, can paralyze a grown man. In Atco, the ghost of a small boy wanders the streets at night. Wraiths and demons frequent Annie's Road in Totowa and West ...

Volume focusing on a multitude of incarnations and meanings of "masculinity" in German culture from medieval times to the present.

MBA students are chronically risk-averse. Their risk aversion prevents them from seeking and living a life of meaning and purpose. Yet we all want to lead a meaningful life, one that comes from being part of something bigger a bigger story than one life, one person, one family. This book redefines risk as a business proposition. It shows students that the choices they think of as "safe" (e.g. lucrative jobs that fulfill no personal aspirations...