A naval history of the ships and personalities of the Nelson period.Light, swift, and daring, frigates were the cruisers of Nelson's navy, commanded by bold, brave officers, ranging the oceans of the world alone or in packs, seeking the enemy—and usually finding him. Although much of the swashbuckling spirit of these courageous sea adventures has been captured in fiction, the story of the frigates of 1793-1815, has rarely been told as a historical narrative.

In 8100 BC Egypt, the God Amunna yanked 15-yearold Miko’s soul from his body to save him from an early death. Miko is now Jebel Barkal, a vampire living in the United States of America with his vampire family. Using his mind to slip in and out of times and dimensions of space, sometimes bringing people with him, Jebel has been waging a battle against evil since the days of the pharaohs in Egypt. Now his greatest conflict will be holding on to love and life.

On the morning of the 14th of April, we discovered the high peaks of three of the Canary Islands at a great distance, Grand Canary bearing south-west, and Lanzarote and Fortaventura south-east. The world of waters which had hitherto, from its varied and sometimes terrific agitation, filled the imagination with awe, was now changed into a pacific, but grand expanse, that soothed and absorbed the mind with its tranquil magnificence; and the weather, which had been cold and gloomy, was change...

The credit card statement arrives in the first week of January, and it reads like a bill for joy. Millions of households open it with the same sick little feeling that nobody talks about. The dinners were delicious, the tree was beautiful, the kids' faces were bright, and yet the number on the page has turned the whole memory sour. This is the financial hangover this book is named for, and the hangover is not a character flaw. It is an engineering problem, and the distinction changes every...

You have sat through 100 presentations and remember 3. You have given talks that earned polite applause and vanished by lunch. The problem is not your slides. It is that being heard and being remembered are different skills, and you were only trained for the first.Audiences keep 3 things: 1 story they repeat, 1 image they see, and 1 line they quote. Everything else evaporates. The speakers you call unforgettable are not louder or funnier. They made better choices about what to leav...

This is not just another physics book. It’s a definitive, accessible guide for anyone fascinated by space, time, and the fabric of reality. With ten essential concepts every aspiring astrophysicist should master, and forward-looking insights into upcoming antimatter missions, you’ll gain both clarity and excitement for what lies ahead in the cosmos. Don’t just observe the universe—understand it. Pick up your copy of the antimatter enigma: from the big bang to black holes today and become p...

IN reading any history of the development of music as an art one must ever bear in mind the fact that music was also developing at the same time as a popular mode of expression, and that the two processes were separate. The cultivation of modern music as an art was begun by the medieval priests of the Roman Catholic Church, who were endeavoring to arrange a liturgy for their service, and it is due to this fact that for several centuries the only artistic music was that of the Church, and t...

In the seventeenth century, Catalina de Erauso, at age sixteen a renegade Basque nun, escaped from her convent and traveled to the New World, eventually reaching Peru. She became an outlaw and a crossdresser with a price on her head. Yet she ended her days absolved by both the King of Spain and the Pope, the latter of whom granted her permission to dress as a man for the remainder of her life. The Nun Ensign passed her final years guarding silver shipments on the Mexico City-Veracruz highw...

This history of Colombia's illegal drug trade--and of the extreme violence it created--describes how in the late 1960s narcotics traffickers from the United States convinced Colombians who had no previous involvement in the drug trade to grow marijuana for export to America. By the early '70s, foreign (mostly American) traffickers began requesting cocaine.This book focuses on the decades of crime and violence the illegal drug trade brought to Colombia and how this social upset was ...

This book provides educators with guidance on studying and practicing a curriculum problem solving artistry that is focused on deepening students’ subject matter understandings through democratic self and social understandings. The book begins with a discussion of seven principles of curriculum leadership, which provide a framework for the presentation of a theoretical platform that guides a four-phased process. The curriculum problem solving has four interrelated phases, and advice on stu...

This book is designed to provide the reader with a back to the basics look at tactical logistics, focusing on a more formal and detailed understanding of proper field and staff procedures, processes, relationships, and development that encompass the before, during, and after combat operations. So sit back and enjoy for Ive done all the long and exhausting research for you and placed all the pertinent information in one book rather than multiple documents. The book is written with a series ...

Th is book is designed to provide the reader with a diverse look at the di?erent logistical processes that make up the Science and Art of Logistics, focusing on old as well as new doctrine and theorys, and how to implement new ideas, procedures, and technology that can enhance the overall logistical capability of any operations.WARNING: Th e last three Chapters are conceptual and not under development, but I sure wish I would have had this functionality when I was in a uniform!...