King of the Battlefield is an autobiography written by Mark Pittman shortly before his death from cancer in 2023. He details his midwestern upbringing, relationships, and education. Planning to follow his father into an academic career, his life is interrupted by the war in Vietnam. When he returns from a tour of duty in the Marine Corps, he is a different person. He spends the rest of his life grappling with these changes and in a love-hate relationship with the system that creat...

It’s the cold war. Fidel Castro is clinging to power in Cuba as the CIA, the Mafia and counter revolutionaries try to take him out. His gorgeous go-to girl assassin Pilar Rivera is all that stands between him and the graveyard while he sneaks nuclear time bombs into the United States. This is Part 2 of the Cold War spy trilogy....She’s The Girl Who Came Calling. a beautiful Cuban agent who assassinates JFK then covers up Castro's connection with a killing spree claiming the lives of Dorthy...

An action packed Cold War Spy Novel about a beautiful Cuban girl becoming an assassin for Fidel Castro, the Mafia and the CIA, after she’s forced into prostitution as a virgin, de-flowered by JFK in 1957 Havana and finally gets her revenge one November day in Dallas…but not before a killing spree claiming the lives of mobsters and CIA operatives. Meanwhile, after Jack Ruby kills Lee Harvey Oswald, she fakes his death, helping him escape to a Cuban island.He’s the last man standing, ...

Pilar Rivera is a beautiful young woman who emerged from the Cuban Revolution as one of the elite assassins Fidel Castro used to stay in power. Pilar is a shadowy figure who had served as a sniper during the revolution. After the war ended, she is sent to Russia for extensive training in espionage and political assassination. When she first comes to the U.S. at the age of 21, she is well schooled in killing with guns, knives and poisons. She has the authority to kill at will. She is first ...

It's the Cold War. Fidel Castro is clinging to power in Cuba as the CIA, the Mafia and counter-revolutionaries try to take him out. His gorgeous go-to girl assassin, Pilar Rivera, is all that stands between him and the graveyard. The Cuban Missile Crisis is winding down, and Russia removes their nuclear missiles. Or do they? Rogue Russian agents help Fidel Castro smuggle nuclear warheads into the US. Now, five ticking nuclear timebombs are just waiting to be detonated whenever Castro feels...

What if the JFK assassination wasn't the act of a lone gunman... but the final move in a shadowwar of spies, mobsters, and double agents?Cold Heart is a Cold War espionage thriller that blends real history with gripping fiction. At itscenter is Pilar Rivera - a beautiful, ruthless Cuban spy whose path collides with Fidel Castro,the CIA, and the American underworld. From Havana's smoky nightclubs to Washington'smarble corridors of power, Pilar is the ...

She's a jewel thief, art scammer and turncoat Cuban spy who helps avert a nuclear war. She's smart, beautiful and kills with impunity. Pilar Rivera has more skeletons in her closet than Jack the Ripper: JFK's assassination, the hit on mob boss Lucky Luciano, the murder of news reporter Dorothy Kilgallen and more. Pilar knows Bobby Kennedy had Marilyn Monroe murdered because she has Marilyn's diary filled with dirty secrets about the Kennedys and their dealings with Frank Sinatra and the Ma...

The H. G. Wells Collection includes five novels: The Time Machine, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Invisible Man, The War of the Worlds, and The First Men in the Moon. This set is limited to 1000 copies. H. G. Wells is credited with the popularisation of time travel in 1895 with The Time Machine, introducing the idea of time being the "fourth dimension" a decade before the publication of Einstein's first Relativity papers. In 1896, he imagined a mad scientist creating human-like beings fr...

This collection theorizes the intersections between race, Shakespearean adaptation and pop culture. Chapters take a range of investigative approaches, some centring Shakespeare and others using Shakespeare to theorize pop culture, but all focusing on the ethical implications of the triangulation between Shakespeare, pop culture and race.Chapters explore the tensions between the 'low', racialized status of a pop culture form and Shakespeare's 'high' status; the ways...

′This new edition helps the reader better understand their role in the school and classroom, in the complex and constantly changing world of education. It provides excellent support for helping the reader develop greater effectiveness in their classroom practice, both through exploring the theory that underpins the topics covered and by providing practical support and advice′ - Gianna Knowles, Co-ordinator for the Foundation Degree in Teaching and Learning Support and Primary Senior Lectur...

Between good intentions and great results lies a program theory-not just a list of tasks but a vision of what needs to happen, and how. Now widely used in government and not-for-profit organizations, program theory provides a coherent picture of how change occurs and how to improve performance. Purposeful Program Theory shows how to develop, represent, and use program theory thoughtfully and strategically to suit your particular situation, drawing on the fifty-year history of program theor...

If you are committed to helping young adolescents become successful, responsible, global citizens, the Association for Middle Level Education, formerly National Middle School Association, invites you to read and implement This We Believe: Keys to Educating Young Adolescents. This book describes the 16 vital characteristics of successful middle grades schools, and is a critical resource for everyone involved in the education, health, and well being of today’s young adolescents. Now in its f...