Western education has often employed the bluntest of instruments in colonizing indigenous peoples, creating generations caught between Western culture and their own. Dedicated to the principle that leadership must come from within the communities to be led, Voices of Resistance and Renewal applies recent research on local, culture-specific learning to the challenges of education and leadership that Native people face.Bringing together both Native and non-Native scholars wh...

Operation Osoaviakhim is the Cold War secret history that changes what you think you know about the Space Race, the nuclear arms race, and the world you are living in right now.On October 22, 1946, at three in the morning, thousands of German scientists and their families woke to fists hammering on their doors across the Soviet occupation zone of Germany. Armed soldiers were in the hallways. Families were given one hour to pack. Telephone lines had been cut. Public transportation h...

Cold War history buried the truth for thirty-one years. On a freezing February night in 1950, a massive Convair B-36 Peacemaker bomber staggered across the dark sky over Canada's Pacific coast, crippled by icing, fire, and failing engines. Somewhere over the cold waters of the Pacific, its crew made a decision that would remain classified for decades. They jettisoned a nuclear weapon into the sea below and then fought to keep the dying aircraft in the air long enough for the crew to surviv...

1966 Palomares hydrogen bomb accident, the day four thermonuclear weapons fell from a clear blue Spanish sky and turned one forgotten farming village into the most dangerous square mile of the Cold War. This book drops you into the cockpit of the doomed B-52, the cramped belly of the KC-135 tanker, the tomato fields dusted with invisible plutonium, and the classified conference rooms in Washington and Madrid where men in suits tried to bury what really happened. You are not reading a dry s...

Operation Paperclip (Operation Overcast) is a classified American program that turned Nazi war criminals into national heroes, and buried the evidence for forty years.In April 1945, American soldiers liberated the concentration camps and found thousands of corpses. In the same weeks, other Americans were moving through the ruins of the Third Reich with a different mission. They were not looking for survivors. They were looking for scientists.More t...

Toadsuck isnt a town. Its not even a village. Its a place located on the bank of the Arkansas River. But, as a child, author John J. Dub Black grew up in the area. In this memoir, he narrates a patchwork of stories that re? ect the adventures of his youth near Toadsuck.Tales from Toadsuck follows four years of Blacks life beginning at age ten, when he fought the two asylum attendants as they dragged his screaming mother from their house, locked her in a van, and left. His ...

When A B-52 Fell from the Sky is a military aviation history book based on the true story of the 1961 Yuba City crash, when a B-52 Stratofortress carrying nuclear weapons crashed during the Cold War, nearly triggering a nuclear catastrophe.On March 14, 1961, a fully armed United States Air Force B-52 Stratofortress carrying two thermonuclear bombs began what should have been a routine Strategic Air Command mission. More than twenty...

John Black has been a missionary to Africa for a number of decades, and has sent hundreds of letters to the churches he has worked with there, full of Bible teaching and encouragement. The recipients have valued these so highly that they have been kept for future use; now 143 letters, spanning an eighteen-year period have been collated and published in one volume for the first time.

In a world where we are drowning in information and yet starving for wisdom, every now and then someone comes along who understands Life so well, that theyre able to explain it simplyBad things dont happen to us because we are bad. Its not like we are being punished. All That Is is for anyone who has ever wondered who we truly are, why we are here and what were meant to be doing.Based on a series of light bulb moments, this intriguing compilation of insightful oneliners con...

We took in eight Months Provisions each, at Portsmouth; Stores, Careening-Geer, and Necessaries requisite to continue us a double Voyage down the Coast of Guinea, for meeting, if possible, with the Pyrates; who did then very much infest those Parts, and destroy our Trade and Factories. Accordingly the Company’s Governors for Gambia and other Places, embark’d under our Convoy, and were to have what Support we could give them, in restoring the Credit of the Royal African Company; which begun...

Transform Your Work Environment with Emotional IntelligenceStep into a world where your emotions do not merely exist; they thrive, guiding your professional journey to new heights. In today's ever-evolving workplace, emotional intelligence is no longer a luxury but a necessity. This groundbreaking book, Mastering the Mind: Harness Emotional Intelligence at Work, offers you the key to unlocking your potential through an immersive understanding of emotional dynamics in the workplace....

Operation Eagle Claw: The failed US hostage rescue mission in Iran tells the full, cinematic story of one of the most consequential nights in U.S. military history, the night eight American servicemen died on an Iranian salt flat before a single enemy soldier had been encountered, and the night that forced the United States to rebuild how it fights its most dangerous wars.On November 4, 1979, Iranian student militants stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and seized 66 American diplom...