The story of the P-51B Mustang aircraft from its development prior to the American entry into the war through to D-Day in June 1944.During World War II, the United States Army Air Corps was led by a cadre of officers who believed implicitly that military aviation, particularly fast heavy bombers at high altitude, would be able to destroy strategic enemy targets during daylight with minimal losses. However, by 1942 the Flying Fortress was proving vulnerable to Luftw...

Many people have wondered what the future will be like. The Future Revealed answers that question and many more. The question should be, Are you ready for what will happen in the future? It is not Are you physically ready? Rather, it is, Are you spiritually ready?

Gideon McGee, unlike Jonas of Lois Lowry’s, The Giver, longs not for the perfect world, but for a world of total fairness. Fourteen year old Gideon is the quintessential woe-is-me teenager until the day he falls through the ice of a frozen pond while trying to save his sister, Prudence. Gideon is like many youngsters (and adults) who wonder why the world is put together in such a way that it is so emotionally difficult to navigate. He blames bad luck, others and an unfair world for all his...

This is the first full-length monograph in English about one of France's most important contemporary filmmakers, perhaps best known in the English speaking world for his award winning Les Roseaux sauvages/Wild Reeds of 1994. This study locates André Téchiné within historical and cultural contexts that include the Algerian war, May 1968 and contemporary globalisation, and the influence of Roland Barthes, Bertolt Brecht, Ingmar Bergman, William Faulkner and the cinematic French wave. The ori...

What is this thing called 'life' all about? If it's all just an accident, a cosmic hiccup, where in some strange way matter became conscious, then Aristotle and Plato and Hume and Kant and all the great idea makers of humanity were just blowing in the wind. They would have been better off amassing great fortunes, consuming vast quantities of matter and making hordes of babies. Why bother with thinking other than as it pertains to the acquisition of food and the continuation of the species?...

Augusto DeRosa PhD is a psychotherapist and a professor of psychology at Columbia University. Like most shrinks he thinks he has his mind pretty much figured out. At least that's what he believed until he went to sleep one December night in 2009. Before that night he was a man driven by invisible beliefs that directed his every act. In that sense he wasn't any different than the rest of us navigating our worlds on auto pilot. That December night switched off Augusto's auto pilot and sent h...

Coloreds to blacks, queers to gays, tits to boobs, Miss and Mrs to Ms, Indians to Native Americans, retards to mentally challenged...these are just a few of the language and conceptual changes the Baby Boomers have gone through. As Billy DeRosa begins his life story from his vantage point of a sixty-six year old liberal Democrat, he feels cheated by his exclusion from the generation that spawned the Summer of Love. A wannabe Boomer, Billy DeRosa, bemoans his fate of being born One Year Sho...

The Nature of My Game follows the four central characters from their early years growing up in Jersey City, new Nersey in the 1950's, through their Vietnam experience and ultimately though their redemption of Stanley Kronicki Jr., the central character of the novel. Kronicki, whose marred soul is etched into the contours of his deformed face, enters the belly of Jonah's whale as an adult through the murder of men that physically resemble his abusive father, who awaits his lethal injection ...

Three decades after its first publication, The New Wave is still considered one of the fundamental texts on the French film movement of the same name. Led by filmmakers as influential as Truffaut and Godard, the New Wave was a seminal moment in cinematic history, and The New Wave has been hailed as the most complete book ever written about it.The New Wave tells the story of the New Wave through examinations of five of the most important directors of the era: Truffaut, Godard, Chabr...

This book explains the true nature of death, why it is necessary for continuing life. I explain what happens when you die, what new dimension you will enter and what to expect when you no longer have a physical body.I explain what it is like in the "After Death Dimension", how you will materialize a new body, appearing much like the body you left behind, but with far more freedoms and capabilities.I also talk about how the survival personality can perceive and in many cases...

If you think you’re going to die, then you’re in for a big surprise. This book will not only challenge your assumptions, it will give you the proof that you never thought existed. Not only are there substantial scientific studies indicating that our consciousness survives death, but those on the “other side” have come back time and time again with evidential messages for their loved ones. Josie Varga has assembled an incomparable collection of what she terms “visits from heaven” from aroun...

**Spirited and whip-smart, these laugh-out-loud autobiographical essays are "a masterpiece" from the Emmy Award-winning actress and comedy writer known for 30 Rock, Mean Girls, and SNL" (Sunday Telegraph).Before Liz Lemon, before "Weekend Update," before "Sarah Palin," Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she would be a come...