What makes a man risk his life, over and over again, for a few moments of pleasure?Young Marc lives in an emotionally charged and volatile home environment that sets him on a path to psychological chaos and drug addiction. As a balm for his low self-esteem he develops a need for danger and puts himself in dangerous, sometimes deadly situations. He is just seventeen when he steals his first aircraft. A year later he joins the Air Force where he takes a helicopter for a joyride. He i...

One of the most powerful books ever published about the power of belief in achieving massive success was written by Claude Bristol. Legendary celebrities like Liberace and Phyllis Diller attribute their success to reading the book.“I didn’t get my start until I was 37. It was very, very difficult for me.I had a frequently unemployed husband and a house full of kids. My first advice to anyone is to read The Magic of Believing. It changed my life. Read it and absorb the ideas ...

A collection of correspondence between Claude Eatherly, a former air force pilot, and Günther Anders, a German philosopher.Eatherly was the pilot who gave the all-clear for the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima: an action the implications of which he had not known at the time. Returning from the mission and learning of the devastating impact of the atomic bomb Eatherly was unable to calmly accept his role. Though he was treated as a hero in the press, Eatherly was morally dis...

In 1972, The Limits to Growth introduced the idea that world resources are limited. Soon after, people became aware of the threats to the world’s rainforests, the biggest terrestrial repositories of biodiversity and essential regulators of global air and water cycles. Since that time, new research and technological advances have greatly increased our knowledge of how rainforests are being affected by changing patterns of resource use. Increasing concern about climate change has ma...

Do You Want To:Study better?Be able to read faster and retain more information?Make more efficient notes?Pass tests more successfully?Be more creative?Engage in business armed with great focus and full comprehension?Be able to read one book a day?The solution is speed reading!What You Will Learn:What Is Speed Reading?The History Of Speed Reading...

**The pioneering novel of physical disability, transatlantic travel, and black international politics. A vital document of black modernism and one of the earliest overtly queer fictions in the African American tradition. Published for the first time.A Penguin ClassicA New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice/Staff PickVulture's Ten Best Books of 2020 pick**Buried in the archive for almost ninety years, Claude McKay's Romance in Marseil...

Although “Scientific Advertising” was published in 1923, it is still as relevant today as it was 80 years ago. It is a must read book for anyone serious to improve his advertising skills. In “Scientific Advertising”, Hopkins describes an advertising approach that is based on testing and measuring. It reveals a powerful and scientifically tested advertising system that is still sound and solid and needed for anyone entering the world of the advertising industry.Read this classic adv...

What additional challenge is there to HF communications besides:Overcoming often adverse propagation conditions;Establishing solid contacts in the cacophony of pileups when conditions are good;Acquiring the necessary operating skills?Finding space to install a large HF antenna, that's what!This e-book, with its many illustrations, will supply some of the most viable HF antenna solutions for restricted spaces, and exp...

Create simple and elegant papercraft models with this classic origami book.The ABC's of Origami is the ideal educational origami paper craft book for children. Arranged in the traditional ABC book sequence, this charming book displays a key word in English along with an origami folding exercise. Japanese translations of each featured word teach some Japanese language, as well.This easy origami book contains:31 page,...

A look at the forgotten ancestors of the modern-day vampire, many of which have very different characteristics• Looks at the many ancestoral forms of the modern vampire, including shroud eaters, appesarts, and stafi• Presents evidence for the reality of this phenomenon from pre-19th-century newspaper articles and judicial recordsOf all forms taken by the undead, the vampire wields the most powerful pull on the modern imagination. But the countless movies and books i...

Spring, 1892. A series of anarchist bombings have struck terror across Paris. In the chaos, the city's beloved Elzévir bookshop suffers a break-in: but the thief runs away with only a worthless decorative goblet. Then, the aristocratic Englishwoman who entrusted it to the bookshop is murdered.It seems this goblet has a secret worth killing for. As the body count rises, Victor Legris and the Elzévir booksellers track the murderer across a city wracked by political turmoil in a deadly...

A gripping political and romantic thriller set in Sydney's expatriate Vietnamese community in 1995, 20 years after the end of the Vietnam War.Australian Paul Quinn, former spy and old Indochina hand, had served in Saigon in the last stages of the war, and later seen its after-effects among the refugees who fled by boat after the communist victory, the original boat-people. Now retired from the intelligence game, he lives an uneventful life in Sydney. But when the beautiful, vulnera...