The Texans' defeat at the Alamo had embittered their bloody rebellion with the gall of revenge. But Major General Sam Houston was determined to meet Santa Anna's superior forces on his own terms. While the Mexican Army--fifteen hundred strong--camped on the banks of the San Jacinto, it fell to three men of the Texas Light Cavalry to even the odds. At their lead was the "Ole Devil" himself, Jackson Baines Hardin. If anybody could pull off a behind-the-lines mission--an impossible victory in...

Love, Well is a lyrical personal essay about what it means to love another person without disappearing inside the relationship.After more than a decade together, with children, pets, memories, regrets and a life built between them, the author examines the distance between loving someone and loving them well.Moving between tenderness, humour and unflinching self-reflection, Love, Well explores the ordinary architecture of long-term intimacy: the arguments th...

**Winner of the Asian/Pacific American Award for LiteratureLonglisted for the National Book AwardWinner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Fiction AwardFrom the author of the National Book Award finalist Patron Saints of Nothing comes an emotionally charged, moving novel about four generations of Filipino American boys grappling with identity, masculinity, and their fraught father-son relationships.**Watsonville, 1930. Francisco Maghabol b...

These flashcard books are designed with large, engaging pictures to help your little one learn Portuguese - one fun, easy lesson at a time.  In this lesson, we focus on learning months, days and seasons.  The "Learn Months", "Learn Days" and "Learn Seasons" sections have everything you need to teach your child these new Portuguese words including: - The English word - A large picture of the object - The Portuguese word Then, to test how much your ch...

How street vendors tangle with the law in São Paulo, Brazil.With a little initiative and very little startup money, an outgoing individual might sell you a number of delights and conveniences familiar to city dwellers—from cold water bottles while you're sitting in traffic to a popsicle from a cart on a summer afternoon in the park. Such vendors form a significant share of the workforce in São Paulo, Brazil, but their ubiquity belies perpetual struggle. Some have t...

In naval warfare, hesitation is defeat. Opportunity favors those willing to act.When conflict escalates and the balance of power shifts, commanders are forced to make decisions that will define not only their missions—but their survival.In Prizes of Opportunity, strategy and instinct collide on the open sea. Every engagement is a test of leadership. Every maneuver carries consequences. And every victory comes at a cost.This is not a story o...

Edmund Radcliffe's two greedy brothers convinced their father, Malcolm Radcliffe, to exile Edmund to Martinique to save the family from financial ruin and further embarrassment. There, he finds work as an accounting clerk. Still, Edmund wanted to go to sea. After being hired as a second officer on a merchant ship, he discovers the captain is stealing from the ship's owner.With France consumed by its revolution, the Marquis de Fontaine and his family board Edmund's ship in Bordeaux....

Amongst the "jewels of the CIA," the most secret, the deepest, the most compartmentalized operations and that, de facto, violated the supposed limits established for covert operations, we find from attempts on the Head of State´s life to actions of psywar. All these terrorist action will be seen in The Cuba Project, which subsequently would take codified name of Mongoose, the most spectacular and tenebrous plan of covert operations that an American administration has ever carried out again...

Based on the blockbuster Xbox game, this is the stunning story of the men and women who stood between a planet and total destruction—and now have to face the consequences of their actions.After a brutal fifteen-year war for survival, the Coalition of Ordered Governments is forced to destroy mankind’s last city in a final bid to stop the Locust Horde. As the survivors flee Jacinto, they must contend with the last of the Locust, bent on vengeance, as they struggle to...

On an April afternoon in 1836, the Battle of San Jacinto took place just east of what is today Houston, Texas. With that clash, a crucial phase of the westward expansion of the United States began. That single, swift, and surprising confrontation - amidst the cries of "Remember the Alamo! - set Texas free from Mexico. It also led to the shaping of much of the American West as we know it today. Here, in this short-form book, is the story of how Sam Houston and his rag-tag army crushed Santa...

This book constitutes the refereed joint proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Reconstruction and Analysis of Moving Body Organs, RAMBO 2018, the Fourth International Workshop on Breast Image Analysis, BIA 2018, and the First International Workshop on Thoracic Image Analysis, TIA 2018, held in conjunction with the 21st International Conference on Medical Imaging and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2018, in Granada, Spain, in September 2018.The 5 full papers (out...

An alternative to conventional, varietyless main-course cooking, Cindy's small plate recipes deliver the inspiration and reliability that make this new way of eating—and entertaining—practical at home.In Big Small Plates, Cindy brings home the biggest trend in eating out, with generously scaled recipes that promise less fuss and more flavors than traditional appetizers. The wide-ranging collection of universally appealing recipes spans soups, finger foods,...