You are about to experience my life through insanity, addiction, recovery, success, and reinvention from 1984 to 2026. This is a raw and unfiltered account of what actually happened. I tell you how chaotic my life was, how badly I unraveled at times, the reckless choices I made, how deep my alcoholism went, and how constantly I tried to escape from myself. You will follow my childhood, college years, time as a police officer, graduate school, marriage and fatherhood, getting sober through ...

A Prussian soldier and writer, Clausewitz is said to have distilled Napoleon into theory. Perhaps best known among his numerous pronouncements is that war is a continuation of politics by other means. His theories and observations in this work have been heeded by military strategists for nearly two hundred years. Many have considered this to be the Bible of military strategy and tactics.This abridged version of Clausewitz’s magnum opus follows the text of the New and Revised Editio...

In 1974, renowned Belgian arms company Fabrique Nationale brought out a ground-breaking new light machine gun, the Minimi. Its success has been meteoric, arming more than 45 countries around the world.The Minimi offers the ultimate in portable firepower. Firing the high-velocity 5.56×45mm round, the Minimi is a gas-operated, lightweight, belt- or magazine-fed weapon, able to burn through cartridges at a cyclical rate of up to 1,150 rounds per minute, making it the ...

Can one summer change everything?While his first job at a grocery store isn't exactly glamorous, at least Neil will earn a paycheck. Just when the 15-year-old is resigned to a boring summer asking customers if they prefer paper or plastic, he meets his good-looking coworker Carter Ford.Popular Carter and socially awkward Neil are equals at the store. Coworkers. And maybe more? Getting Carter's attention feels like a dream come true, but the time to wake up i...

For six decades, the 7.62mm FN MAG has been a dominant general-purpose machine gun (GPMG) in worldwide arsenals.Three qualities have guaranteed this enduring status – reliability, ease of operation, and firepower. Several nations have license-produced the weapon as their standard GPMG, including the British (as the L7) and the Americans (M240), and in total more than 80 nations have adopted the FN MAG. The machine gun has also been modified extensively for vehicula...

Through the Arch captures UGA’s colorful past, dynamic present, and promising future in a novel way: by surveying its buildings, structures, and spaces. These physical features are the university’s most visible—and some of its most valuable—resources. Yet they are largely overlooked, or treated only passingly, in histories and standard publications about UGA.Through text and photographs, this book places buildings and spaces in the context of UGA’s development over more th...

Before One Little Word brought a sarcastic nerd and clueless jock together, they were strangers…Ryan is a pretty interesting guy. He's smart, a decent baker, and other things too. But right now? He's on a busy farm in the middle of the day… and he's not wearing pants. Or any clothes at all. Plus, his nemesis, Luke the handsome jerk, is right over there, so he needs to take care of this situation. Fast. Without dying of embarrassment, if possible.

Written between 1944 and 1947, Minima Moralia is a collection of rich, lucid aphorisms and essays about life in modern capitalist society. Adorno casts his penetrating eye across society in mid-century America and finds a life deformed by capitalism. This is Adorno's theoretical and literary masterpiece and a classic of twentieth-century thought.

Thucydides’s History of the Peloponnesian War is one of the most famous, influential, and moving works of genuine history in our traditions. His brilliant account of the civil war among the Greeks redefined how we should analyze the past, driving a permanent wedge between accounts based on myth and folk traditions and those based on empirical investigation and a rational enquiry into human motives. The work is also a profoundly tragic illumination, not merely of the self-destructive events...

The classic book of strategy A Book of Five Rings is now available on CD.Miyamoto Musashi was renowned in his own time as an invincible warrior, a master artisan, an author, and philosopher. Today, his philosophy is still revered by the Japanese and used as a guide for daily decision-making—and business strategy. He wrote A Book of Five Rings not only as a thesis on doing battle, but also as a way to approach and ...

In this, the first prose history in European civilisation, Herodotus describes the growth of the Persian Empire with force, authority and style. Perhaps most famously, the book tells the heroic tale of the Greeks’ resistance to the vast invading force assembled by Xerxes, King of Persia. Here are not only the great battles Marathon, Thermopylae, Salamis but also penetrating human insight and a powerful sense of destiny at work.

First published in 1776, this work is the classic statement of economic liberalism or the policy of laissez-faire and is widely considered on of the hundred greatest books of all time. Several fundamental principles or “axioms” were introduced in this work, including the division of labor, supply and demand, and free market capitalism as some of the most obvious. Smith’s political economy is primarily individualistic: self-interest is the incentive for economic action. However, he shows th...