What is common sense? Whatever you want to learn about common sense this book has it. It's the complete common sense education. There're common sense examples, lack of common sense examples and common sense quotes. You'll learn what common sense is, how to improve common sense and logic, and how to make common sense decisions. If you want to improve common sense, or understand it better, this book will help you. Common sense, no nonsense, horse sense, moral sense, what is common sense? It'...

"Victory Over Chaos: U.S. Marines Battle for Khafji" tells a true story that has never been told before. It's a story about adversity, overcoming overwhelming odds, and shear tenacity. When the situation was at its worst, the Marines were at their best.

Cyber Crisis Response introduces The SONAR Method™, a proven, proprietary framework for responding to and managing a range of cyber incidents, from singular events to the most complex cyber breaches and crises. Crisis response is a complex undertaking that requires the coordination of multiple, often conflicting, activities. No playbook replaces experience and critical thinking. Using The SONAR Method™ will help any practitioner:Understand how to stabilize an environment during a c...

The Levity Effect uses serious science to reveal the remarkable power of humor and fun in business. Science proves it?fun is good for business! Based on ten years of extensive research, the authors argue against business tradition to reveal the powerful bottom-line benefits of leading with levity. With interviews, exercises, and case studies, the book reveals how humor in the workplace will help you communicate messages, build camaraderie, and encourage creativity for a better wor...

Screw it! Let's ride!How do you find a way to get past the stress of working almost thirty years as a cop? You buy a Harley and hit the road. In this truth-telling memoir, Riding the Blue Line, you will find out what it is to explore some of the best riding in the United States while dealing with society's worst, along with department politics and the emotional stress as a career officer and detective.The adventure of the open road is here with stories involving fun, frustr...

Aquinas on Beauty explores the nature and role of beauty in the thought of Thomas Aquinas. Beginning with a standard definition of beauty provided by Aquinas, it explores each of the components of that definition. The result is a comprehensive account of Aquinas’s formal view on the subject, supplemented by an exploration into Aquinas’s commentary on Dionysius’s Divine Names, including a comparison of his views with those of both Dionysius and those of Aquinas’s mentor, Albert the Great. T...

Common Sense by Thomas Paine is the most compelling case for freedom ever made. It's the most influential book in American History. It's not just a book for Americans but a case for humanity and it's ideas are as relevant today as ever. There's just one problem. Published in 1776 it was written in Old English and it could very well be another language for someone trying to read it today. The original manuscript is nearly impossible to understand. For the first time ever it's been translate...

Steamships once plied the waters of Narragansett Bay, carrying thousands of guests to feasts of clams prepared in every way imaginable at scenic spots like Rocky Point and Crescent Park. After hurricanes and pollution destroyed Rhode Island's soft-shell clam and oyster beds, the quahog became the state's favorite bivalve, and Rhode Islanders took to their automobiles and drove to the beach for clam cakes and chowder at the shacks and chowder houses that carried on the old traditions. Quaho...

The tragedies of our past can become the baggage of our future. In a small town in the Appalachians, tragedy hit James Morgan and his family when he was a young boy. Losing his sister so suddenly really shook his faith.As James enters adulthood he encounters some crossroad momentswhich not only have an immediate impact on himbut also significantly impact his future. The woman he loves has given him an ultimatum. Is James willing to make the commitment shes asking of him? What about...

Chris took a long time to learn something wonderful . . .In an honest and intimate storytelling style, Chris relives triumphs, catastrophes, and plenty of moments that fell somewhere in between. With a friendly and nostalgic voice, he unfolds his adventures and misadventures one by one, has us laughing at times and choking back a tear at others, and shows us a good time along the way.From a lonely playground sandbox to a high, snowy mountaintop; from raging whitewater, exci...

Thomas Hobbes argues that the fear of violent death is the most reliable passion on which to found political society. His role in shaping the contemporary view of religion and honor in the West is pivotal, yet his ideas are famously riddled with contradictions. In this breakthrough study, McClure finds evidence that Hobbes' apparent inconsistencies are intentional, part of a sophisticated rhetorical strategy meant to make man more afraid of death than he naturally is. Hobbes subtly undermi...

This pioneering monograph integrates the major research findings of the past four decades and offers a new model for the study of human sexuality. The author examines the empirical literature on sexuality for the developmental stages of childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood and for experiences of sexual aggression. He then uses symbolic interactionism to develop a theoretical model which integrates the research across the developmental periods and for instances of sexual aggression, ...