This poignant, powerful, practical, and sometimes-funny book is written from the unique perspective of a veteran police officer and crisis intervention counselor, whose son, Adam, was shot and killed by another police officer, during an emergency mental health crisis. Adam Joshua Johnson was a gifted & talented musician and grass-roots humanitarian who suffered from mental illness. Yet, in spite of his own psychological and emotional pain, Adam never forgot to care for others. He believed ...

Retirement planning is tricky. From understanding the numerous products on the market to making practical decisions about highly emotional issues, the journey to financial security is filled with pitfalls. Instead of focusing on facts and figures, you need to consider your individual needs, taking the fear out of the future and finding confidence in what is ahead. In The People's Retirement Handbook, Joel Johnson draws on decades of experience in financial planning and real-life stories to...

Ivan the terrible remains one of the most feared and fascinating rulers in history—a man who forged an empire while drowning it in blood. Crowned as the first tsar of russia in 1547, ivan iv rose from a childhood marked by neglect, betrayal, and violence. Those early scars didn’t fade. They hardened into something colder. He ruled with sharp intelligence and brutal force. At first, he reformed laws, strengthened central authority, and expanded russian territory. Victories against the kazan...

The increasing use of composite materials over conventional materials has been a continual trend for over a decade. While the fundamental understanding of fiber reinforcement has not changed, many new material advancements have occurred, especially in manufacturing methods, and there is an ever-growing number of composite material applications across various industries. Polymer-Based Composites: Design, Manufacturing, and Applications presents the concepts and methods involved in ...

Under the veil of one of the oldest and most tragic myths known to humankind, a king is born. Magnus King, the son of a well-born English woman, continues his family’s aristocratic legacy on the frontier of the American West until the night a deadly shooting changes everything.Young Earl Ransom, a man found long ago on the Cheyenne prairie with no memory of his past or of how his destiny is linked to that of Magnus King, finds his way through a tale as old and tragic as the Greek m...

Problems of individual moral choice have always been closely bound up with the larger normative concerns of political theory. There are several reasons for this continuing connection. First, the value conflicts involved in private moral choice often find themselves reproduced on the public stage: for example, states may find it difficult to do right by both justice and mercy in much the same way individuals do. Second, we frequently find conflicts among the values at stake in individual li...

The author kept records of performances with rock bands from mid-sixties to present day. Later writings will focus on "day jobs" but the crux of this writing is to show the overall decisions a musician makes in early life, whether original or cover performance (or both) can bring overall satisfaction for you. We are only limited by our energy, vices and willingness to be a team player.

With epic sweep and breathtaking adventure, Sara Donati’s bestselling saga of an Early American family’s struggle for survival in the Northeast wilderness continues with the story of an indomitable woman and an unforgettable journey of redemption across a young nation threatened by the flames of war.The year is 1812 and Hannah Bonner has returned to her family’s mountain cabin in Paradise. But Nathaniel and Elizabeth Bonner can see that Hannah is not the same woman as when she left...

Only one man can mete out justice on the unforgiving frontier. First in the Preacher series from the New York Times bestselling western author.He’s known from the Northwest to the deserts of the Southwest as Preacher, though he’s as far from being a man of the cloth as you can get. But when he was a young greenhorn, he was caught by a marauding tribe and set to be burned alive, until he just started preaching and never stopped. Figuring he was as crazy as ...

Preacher is a wanted man in this straight-shooting Western adventure from the New York Times and USA Todaybestselling author of Absaroka Ambush**.**A Friendly Place . . .During a trip back east for a family reunion, Preacher learns that even the civilized Midwest can attract a motherlode of trouble . . . especially when a gang of local bully boys decides to pick a fight. Now, wealthy landowner Ela...

He rode hard and he rode tall, slamming his way along a wild Colorado trail, beset by Indians and tricked by a treacherous friend. Jody Storm fought with his fists and with his gun. He loved and lost and lived to love another day. He was a Storm down to the bottom of his boots, he challenged the world, thumbed his nose at danger and took on odds that would make a hero pale. 5th in the blazing cattlemen saga which the Daily Mirror in 1972 said of Matt Chisholm: "..has one of the biggest wor...

Now a major film directed by and starring Tommy Lee Jones and co-starring Meryl Streep, Hilary Swank, and John Lithgow, this classic Western novel captures the devastating realities of early frontier life through the eyes of one extraordinary woman.Now a major motion picture directed by Tommy Lee Jones, The Homesman is a devastating story of early pioneers in 1850s American West. It celebrates the ones we hear nothing of: the brave women whose hearts and m...