He isn’t black, he isn’t white, not Latino, not Asian. “Other,” he thought with a chuckle. “I am an other”, he said out loud. “Other than what? Other than black, Asian, Latino, and white or other than human? Other than what?  JUST OVER 20 YEARS AGO SOMETHING CHANGED ORDIN’S LIFE AND SET A COURSE OF CHANGE FOR MANY OTHERS.    For each, these three days represents a point in the path of their life in which all they have known for the past 20 years can change… or not. &...

"Love Letters" shares the powerful story of Anna Gordon. When she was a twenty-one-year-old senior at the University of Alabama in 2009, she received a cancer diagnosis of Acute Myeloid Leukemia eight weeks prior to her graduation. As harrowing as the Gordon family's saga was, its effect on hundreds of people in West Alabama, and beyond, who became wrapped in the drama of their journey's ups and downs, serves as a dramatic and heart-warming demonstration of the best attributes of human nat...

Life isn't like a superhero movie. There isn't a script, and while you don't plan for bad things to happen, they happen anyway. Sometimes, they keep on happening without a break in the action, and if you look up in the sky, you may see a bird or a plane, but that's it. In these times of despair, it's easy to let negative thoughts invade your mind and darken your mindset, enticing you to take actions that might hurt yourself or others.But it doesn't need to be that way.Withi...

In the electrifying world of Microphone Showdown, the battle for supremacy rages on. As the third installment of this epic series unfolds, prepare for an explosive clash of lyrical titans. From the underground depths to the glittering stages, Microphone Showdown 3 (Unabridged) brings together the most formidable rappers, each armed with their own unique flow and undeniable charisma. With each verse, they unleash a torrent of words that ignite the crowd and leave an unforgettable mark on th...

**'He is the David Attenborough of mountaineering . . . Bonington's most personal memoir yet' The Times'This is a compelling tale of fortitude and endurance' The Sunday Times**Chris Bonington is Britain’s best-known climber, having spent a lifetime among the world’s highest and wildest mountains.In the 1960s, he made the first British ascent of the north face of the Eiger. In the 1970s, he led some of the most important fi...

A detailed study of the brutal and pivotal battle at Spotsylvania Court House, May 8–21, 1864. May 1864. The Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia spent three days in brutal close-quarter combat in the Wilderness that left the tangled thickets aflame. No one could have imagined a more infernal battlefield—until the armies moved down the road to Spotsylvania Court House. Even the march itself was unprecedented. For three years the armies had fought battles and disengaged aft...

From their promising beginnings at Stanford to their founding of Google and beyond, this fascinating biography charts the extraordinary rise of tech duo Sergey Brin and Larry Page.As PhD students at Stanford University, Larry Page and Sergey Brin devised a powerful search engine. Google, the company they founded in 1998 became a brand, the world's pre-eminent search engine, a centre of artificial intelligence and a source of data collection. This fascinating biogra...

When Ben Underwood became blind at the age of two, anyone would have thought he faced a life full of hardship and uphill challenges—a world full of things he’d never be able to see and activities he’d never be able to enjoy. But as far as his mom, Aquanetta Gordon, was concerned, nothing was impossible for Ben . . . and so he accomplished the incredible. Known as “the boy who could see with sound,” Ben mastered human echolocation—the ability to detect the size, shape and location of object...

For the first time ever, a former Special Forces officer delivers an inside look at modern military police units and their role in defending our freedom.America has been at war on several fronts since the 9/11 attack. While public attention has focused on Marines, conventional Army units, and Special Operations Forces, a lion's share of the war-fighting has been done, under media radar, by Military Police units. These squad and platoon-sized units patrol dangerous ...

There are, in simple terms, three principal kinds of capital that come necessarily into play when a society is evolving towards improving the lives, livelihoods, and qualities of life of its people. The first form of capital is financial – this normally includes physical forms of invested money in plant, buildings, and infrastructure. The second form of capital is human – seen simply as the level and range of skills and capabilities that are available for use in the socie...

Emmaus: The Nature of the Way is a series of journal entries from 22 Jesuit Priests as they recount personal stories of doubt, death, addiction, love, and peace.

**Shortlisted for the first ever Booker Prize'A masterpiece' – Douglas Stuart, author of Shuggie Bain*'*An extraordinary novel' – Michael Magee, author of *Close to Home'*It deserves its modern classic status' – The TimesIt’s the west of Scotland in the 1950s. New houses are going up. Factories are opening.**But Dunky Logan, a 15-year-old brought up in a tenement flat in working-class Kilcaddie, is ditching school to be a labourer o...