With its fleet of large transport aircraft, the United States military can put personnel and equipment anywhere on the globe within hours. In the Iraq and Afghanistan wars in particular, virtually every soldier, every bullet, every pint of blood, and every bite of food have arrived in the war zone by airlift.This book tells the story of one Air National Guard airlift wing as related by its members. The 167th Airlift Wing of the West Virginia Air National Guard consisted of a squadr...

Forensic science is in crisis and at a cross-roads. Movies and television dramas depict forensic heroes with high-tech tools and dazzling intellects who—inside an hour, notwithstanding commercials—piece together past-event puzzles from crime scenes and autopsies. Likewise, Sherlock Holmes—the iconic fictional detective, and the invention of forensic doctor Sir Arthur Conan Doyle—is held up as a paragon of forensic and scientific inspiration—does not "reason forward" as most people do, but ...

The Family Money Farm The CFO ProjectBy: Thomas W. Young“Tom Young lays out a solid approach for all of us. Many authors can write but Tom writes and thinks along with the reader. This is a must read.”- Jody, BOO YAA! MMP“With being a Former Congressman I have met Tom over the year through the people I work with. I have found that he has a great way of thinking about money, how to manage it and shows you that what he says can be mathematically proven. He is a...

Life Insurance: Will it Pay When I Die?By: Thomas W. Young“Tom’s book brings to light the proper information about money and financial products that we, the consumer, need to know. Tom is a consumer advocate and he truly will teach you through this book how to maximize your money decisions. This is a “must read” book for anyone wanting to get the most out of their money decisions.”–Jody Victor, Past President, IBOA“If there ever was a right book at the right t...

Thomas Young's exploration of the eye begins as a careful inquiry into how vision adapts to distance, but quickly widens into a sweeping study of optics, anatomy, and the mathematics of light. He revisits earlier theories of accommodation, argues that the crystalline lens changes shape, and sets out to explain vision by moving from general principles to exact calculations, experiments, and comparisons with other senses, especially hearing. The result is a rigorous portrait of the eye as bo...

Smart business leaders and managers know that companies with excellent processes get better results. Yet, most companies fail to follow a proven process or system for marketing on the Internet. Winning the Website War introduces business leaders to a Four-Step Process for getting results from their web marketing efforts. Discover how a company website and the Internet can drive success or failure when it comes to increasing sales, getting more leads, and retaining customers and clients.

Since the industrial revolution, automation has transformed our global economy and the way we work. Early forms of automation took the form of machines meant to replace humans who performed repetitive, manual labor on the assembly line or in agriculture. Blue collar jobs have since been on the edge of obsolescence as automation became more and more advanced.We now live in an information economy world running on advanced computing systems... and we are now in the midst of a new wave...

As a follow-up to his best-selling book, “Going Home - A Backpacker’s Journey,” Thomas Ashley Young continues his travels this time from everyday experiences that border on the insane. Ripe with peripheral invisibleness, Tom’s journeys could be your own; that is, if you jump ouside the box that others have crystallized for you. His expanded use of outside-the-writing-rules techniques have earned him raised eyebrows from even his closest friends. Said one, “Tom is a certified nut, but at le...

In the desolate wilderness of the Canadian Rockies, a fierce snowstorm rages, threatening to consume all in its path. Amidst the blinding snow and howling winds, a group of travelers find themselves stranded and fighting for survival. As the storm intensifies, tensions rise and secrets are revealed. A young woman haunted by a tragic past, a hardened trapper seeking redemption, and a mysterious stranger with a hidden agenda are thrown together in a desperate struggle against the unforgiving...

Welcome to a world depicting the kidnapping and rescue of a nation's queen in the forest called Filltroske. When an omen is about to occur, or similar oncoming fateful situation, seven individuals are chosen receiving stones that not only increase their strengths but those that join them. These individuals set out to rescue the queen in that forest where the trees endlessly sway. In a forest where any that enter do not leave unchanged, physically and/or mentally.

Since its discovery in 1857 in a room of the Pedagogium, a one-time imperial palace turned page school on the Palatine Hill in Rome, the Alexamenos Graffito has been one of the most widely known inscriptions attributed to early Roman attitudes toward Christianity. A sensation after its discovery, the Graffito was described by an international host of nineteenth-century writers and scholars; these descriptions of the Graffito's environment and the host of Latin and Greek graffiti served as ...

After the events of Pandora Black and witnessing the lives of the original individuals bearing the Stones of Virtue, Violet Diamond and others alongside her encounter unfortunate circumstances that spiral out of control. Sometimes living is a bad dream with a craving for a better one. The small-town tailor knows all too well that desire for good dreams when one is awake.