A fascinating look at the United States’ conflicted relationship with news and the media, through the lens of the newsreelWhen weekly newsreels launched in the early twentieth century, they offered the U.S. public the first weekly record of events that symbolized “indisputable evidence” of the news. In News Parade, Joseph Clark examines the history of the newsreel and how it changed the way Americans saw the world. He combines an examination of the newsree...

The brutally honest story of an emergency medical technician.At 18, Joseph Clark started working as an ambulance attendant to pay his way through college. For the next seven years he worked New York City's most dangerous neighborhoods as an emergency medical technician (EMT), dealing with the medical emergencies from drug overdoses, gang fights, car crashes and worse, all while juggling schoolwork and a personal life.His stories are a graphic portrayal of the life of an amb...

Follow the conquests of Ptitell, a country with magic users and assassins unlike any that have come before. Learn of their high generals sins, their kings madness, the lives of their beloved fallen, and the mystery of those golden statues that crowd the throne. Kneel before the girl with the crown, fear the child that never ages, and remember to never harm the necromancers wife. Above all, dare not speak with one of those greater beings, lest you meet the fate of the kings predecessor or t...

Des leçons qui ont résisté à l’épreuve du temps sur la prospérité, l’avidité et la satisfaction. Il s’agit parfois de savoir combien vous savez gérer vos finances avec succès. Tout dépend de la façon dont vous vous conduisez. Et même les individus les plus intelligents peuvent être difficiles à instruire au sujet du comportement. Les calculs mathématiques, dans lesquels les données et les équations nous disent exactement quoi faire, sont souvent considérés comme nécessaires pour comprendre...

Que se passe-t-il quand un jeune banquier d’investissement de Wall Street paie une petite fortune pour déjeuner avec Warren Buffett? Il devient un investisseur de valeur légitime.Guy Spier parle de son parcours de carrière de gagner un MBA à Harvard à devenir un gestionnaire dans un fonds de couverture dans cette histoire intérieure fascinante. Cependant, la voie n'était pas exactement claire à suivre. Spier explique sa transition d'un wannabe Gordon Gekko qui était motivé par la c...

A room’s acoustic character seems at once the most technical and the most mystical of concerns. Since the early Enlightenment, European architects have systematically endeavored to represent and control the propagation of sound in large interior spaces. Their work has been informed by the science of sound but has also been entangled with debates on style, visualization techniques, performance practices, and the expansion of the listening public. Echo’s Chambers explores how archit...

Since the Korean War ended in 1953, a number of books and articles have been written about the air-to-air battles between the American F-86s and Russian MiGs. Some parts of the stories that appear in those publications are probably true, but many of them contain fantasies, exaggerations and even lies that are both preposterous and demeaning to the Air Force. Unfortunately much of what survives in the West as the history of those epic air battles is found in those partially flawed publicati...

Attention all families…When we began our journey as an adult, there are a few life lessons that we all wish we had known. In this genre-bending fictional story, a grandfather and his eighteen-year-old grandson hold a series of conversations about family, life, and the foundation for building a financial legacy.Joe refined the concept of the Retirement Runway during his thirty-five years as a certified financial planner, including his many appearances on CNBC and Fo...

THE REALISTIC FACTS ABOUT JAPAN'S CAPACITY—IN MANPOWER AND IN NATIONAL MORALE—TO FIGHT THE "HOLY WAR" HER MILITARY LEADERS HAVE SO LONG PLANNED FOR HERIn Japanese Military Masters: The Army in Japanese Life, author Hillis Lory answers fundamental questions in satisfactory detail. He describes the life and though of the peasant, the motives and personalities of the men close to the Throne. He traces the evolution of Japanese government from feudalism to modern power politics. He reco...

F-86E Sabre vs. Russian MiG-15Some Korean Air-to-Air War Tales RevisitedBy: Lt. Colonel Joseph R. ClarkSince the Korean War ended in 1953, several books and articles have been published about the air-to-air battles between the American F-86s and Russian MiGs in the skies over North Korea and China. Some parts of some of the stories that appear in those publications are true, but many of them contain fantasies, exaggerations, and lies that are both preposterous and de...

In the seventeenth century, Veracruz was the busiest port in the wealthiest colony in the Americas. People and goods from five continents converged in the city, inserting it firmly into the early modern world's largest global networks. Nevertheless, Veracruz never attained the fame or status of other Atlantic ports. Veracruz and the Caribbean in the Seventeenth Century is the first English-language, book-length study of early modern Veracruz. Weaving elements of environmental, social, and ...

NEW STORY ARC The road to RADIANT BLACK #50 begins here! An urgent mission awaits Radiant Black-but as Chicago spirals into civil war, where will Marshall turn his attention first?