What does it mean to live with honour in the modern world?In an age of distraction, comfort and uncertainty, The Modern Knight offers a practical and spiritual code for men who want to live with discipline, courage, strength and service.This is not a book about fantasy, costume or nostalgia. It is a handbook for real life: work, family, friendship, pressure, failure, physical training, self-mastery, faith, duty and legacy. Drawing on the timeless i...

SHORTLISTED, NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARDS, CREATIVE NONFICTIONWINNER, DA VINCI EYE AWARD FOR COVER DESIGN, THE ERIC HOFFER BOOK AWARDSHONORABLE MENTION, E-BOOK NONFICTION, THE ERIC HOFFER BOOK AWARDSFINALIST, E-BOOK NONFICTION, THE NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARDSFINALIST, MEMOIRS (Overcoming Adversity), THE NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARDSFrom 1854 to the early 1930s, the American Orphan Trains transported 250,000 children from the streets and orph...

It seems important to emphasize the fact that Charles Dickens was in a very special sense a social reformer. It was not simply that he loathed shams. With him it was not merely a case of creating characters at which the whole world laughed, humbugs who excited its wrath and impostors who provoked its derision. He was at heart and by conviction a reformer. He looked out upon his age and found corruption in public places and cynicism displayed towards the vital things in national life and ch...

William Walter Atkinson explores the mental forces needed for success in business in everyday life. Included are such topics as "How the Thought Force Can Aid You," "Direct Psychic Influence," "The Power of the Eye," The Magnetic Gaze," "Character Building by Mental Control," "The Art of Concentering," and much, much more. A New Thought Classic.

The people of Earth went to sleep concerned only with their owndreams of tomorrow. Little did they know that tomorrow would onlybring nightmares, and no hopes for the future of the Human race.Bill sat at the fi re burning in the pit, enjoying a cool October night. Hebuilt his hideaway in the Colorado mountains to escape the problemsof the crazy world around him. Little did he know that the problems ofthe entire galaxy would soon be dropped right in...

This important collection examines deportation as an increasingly global mechanism of state control. Anthropologists, historians, legal scholars, and sociologists consider not only the physical expulsion of noncitizens but also the social discipline and labor subordination resulting from deportability, the threat of forced removal. They explore practices and experiences of deportation in regional and national settings from the U.S.-Mexico border to Israel, and from Somalia to Switzerland. ...

Vehicles, their infrastructures, and the environments they traverse are fundamental to the movement of migrants and states' attempts to govern them. This volume's contributors use the concept of viapolitics to name and foreground this contested entanglement and examine the politics of migration and bordering across a range of sites. They show how these elements constitute a key site of knowledge and struggle in migratory processes and offer a privileged vantage point from which to interrog...

Foucault's thoughts on governmentality have made a significant impact on the studies of power and governance in modern societies. However, most studies of governmentality confine themselves to the exploration of power within nation-states. Global Governmentality extends Foucault's political thought towards international studies, exploring the governance of the global, the international, the regional and many other extra-domestic spaces.Combining historical and contemporary ...

In State Secrecy and Security: Refiguring the Covert Imaginary, William Walters calls for secrecy to be given a more central place in critical security studies and elevated to become a core concept when theorising power in liberal democracies.Through investigations into such themes as the mobility of cryptographic secrets, the power of public inquiries, the connection between secrecy and place-making, and the aesthetics of secrecy within immigration enforcement, Walters ch...

If necessity is the mother of invention, the AC-130 gunship was definitely her offspring.Ghostriders: Mors De Caelis is a comprehensive history of AC-130 gunship combat operations in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. The story begins with the first AC-130 in 1968, and ends in 1975 at the end of the war in Vietnam. It tells the life and death stories of Spectre crews, who faced extreme danger while hunting trucks on the Ho Chi Minh Trail and providing fire suppo...

Resistance is futile. You can run, but you’ll only die tired.The AC-130 Gunship was quickly developed in 1968 to provide fire support for ground forces in Vietnam. Twenty-eight C-130 cargo aircraft were converted into AC-130s for night attack operations. The AC-130 was crude, ugly, ad hoc, and detested by many within the USAF…but it worked, and it worked well. Likewise, AC-130 crews were deemed unruly “biker gangs,” but performed magnificently in every major US mil...

It is so easy to fill pages of paper with good advice - it is so much easier to say things than to do them - so much easier to formulate a code of precepts than to get out into the field of active endeavor and put into practice the same percepts. But there is besides the mere recital of a List of Good Qualities Leading to Success - a list with which every schoolboy and reader of the magazines is acquainted - a Something Else; and that Something Else, is a suggestion that the Seeker for Suc...