Without resorting to caricature, and with a comprehension of jihad and strategy that's alarming in its real-world implication, the author logically implements a plotline that underscores how easy it would be to pull-off another 9/11 terror strike. At the same time, Harrison's depiction of coordination efforts---and frequent animosity--among the White House, CIA, FBI, Department of Homeland Security, police and the National Guard will inspire awe- --Kirkus DiscoveriesThe busy intell...

The story is set in an English choir school, focusing on the lives of the boys who are students there. The novel delves into the daily experiences, challenges, and personal growth of the boys as they navigate their education and life in the school."The Choir School of St. Bede's" explores themes of discipline, faith, and camaraderie within the context of the choir school environment. The narrative provides insight into the rigorous training and the moral and ethical teachings that are part...

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Although Positivism has been pretty widely discussed of late, not only by those interested in philosophy and religion, but by the general reader and the public press, perhaps but few of them, whether readers or critics, have exactly grasped the full meaning of it as a system at once of thought and of life. The vast range of the ground it covers and the technical, allusive, and close style of Comte’s writings in the original have made it difficult to master the subject as a whole. It has ac...

When Advanced Project Management first appeared it quickly acquired a reputation for excellence on both sides of the Atlantic as a book that successfully bridges the gap between introductory texts on project management and specialist works on professional practice. Its aim is twofold: to provide a guide for managers, engineers, accountants and others involved in project work, and a reference for advanced students of project and construction management. This fourth edition of the book has b...

In a bold and deeply personal memoir, “I WAS AN ASA VIETNAM WAR RESISTER”, Frederick H. Chard breaks decades of silence in his new audiobook, to reveal many buried truths about the Vietnam War — those lived not on the front lines, but in the shadows of military intelligence.This newly released audiobook recounts Chard’s service in the United States Army Security Agency (ASA), a secretive military intelligence branch, tasked with intercepting enemy communications during the height o...

This “roller-coaster, edge-of-your-seat thriller” (Star-Tribune, Minneapolis) in the #1 New York Times bestselling Mitch Rapp series follows the CIA’s top operative as he must stop a massacre in Washington, DC, and save the president before terrorists reach the White House.The stately calm of a Washington morning is shattered when a group of terrorists descends, killing dozens and taking nearly one hundred hostages as they try to infiltrate the Wh...

Taking America back...one politician at a time TERM LIMITS In one bloody night, three of Washington's most powerful politicians are executed with surgical precision. Their assassins then deliver a shocking ultimatum to the American government: set aside partisan politics and restore power to the people. No one, they warn, is out of their reach -- not even the president. A joint FBI-CIA task force reveals the killers are elite military commandos, but no one knows exactly who they are or whe...

Use your next three-day weekend to develop valuable Lean Six Sigma skillsWith the integration of Lean and Six Sigma, businesses have a potent tool in the never-ending drive to deliver top-quality service and products. But you don’t need to be a Black Belt to build quality and efficiency into all areas of your operation; you just need The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course: Lean Six Sigma.Sheila Shaffie and Shahbaz Shahbazi, leading Six Sigma experts and tr...

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the electrifying Mitch Rapp series “knows how deliver action in his novels” (St. Paul Pioneer Press) and does so again with this thrilling follow-up to The Third Option.The confirmation of Dr. Irene Kennedy as the CIA’s new director explodes into chaos as a deadly inside plot to destroy her and prematurely end the president’s term emerges. Meanwhile, a dangerous world leader gains power in the n...

In this blistering thriller by New York Times bestselling author and “king of high-concept political intrigue” (Dan Brown, #1 New York Times bestselling author), CIA operative Mitch Rapp becomes a target of bloodthirsty vengeance for a deceased terrorist’s father.For more than a decade, CIA superagent Mitch Rapp has been on the front line of the war on terror. Now, he’s on a race against time to save one more life—his own—in this “fast, fun read” ...

Counterterrorist agent Mitch Rapp is on a collision course with America’s most feared enemy in this white-knuckle political thriller from “the best pure adrenaline-charged action writer out there” (The Providence Journal) and #1 New York Times bestselling author of American Assassin.No longer willing to wait for the international community to stop its neighboring enemy, Israel brings down Iran’s billion-dollar nuclear program in an ingeni...