In the heat of the Korean War, Allied forces have a problem: the North Korean army is using a network of old Japanese tunnels to run military operations against the South, with near impunity. Now, the U.S. military will turn to an elite, highly trained and fearless group of men to find out where these tunnels lie-and destroy them once and for all.The Hills Went Boom!, from Korean War veteran Hank Acker, follows this newly formed reconnaissance unit-consisting of 11 U.S. Marines and one U.S. Navy corpsman-as they prepare to airdrop into hostile territory in three separate and dangerous missions. The men couldnt be more different, with varied backgrounds, interests and skills. But in the process, theyll learn to rely on each other in ways they never thought possible-and form a kind of bond only known to those who have served their country under the most difficult circumstances. And with one final and most challenging directive to complete, theyll need every bit of support they can muster...Fast-paced, frankly realistic and action-packed, The Hills Went Boom! is a unique glimpse into men whose honor, determination and sheer guts has one objective: to serve their country. Hoorah!

Pearse Furlong and May-Belle Mulholland are two normal eleven year-olds meeting one summer in small town Antrim, Northern Ireland, in the early 1980s. They have little in common except a shared experience of violent, abusive parents. They form an unlikely alliance and as their games and shared fantasies spin out of control their friendship becomes something much darker, with theft, arson, sickening brutality - and eventually murder - all lying ahead. Janice Forsyth, presenter of BBC Radio Scotland's The Culture Studio

Written by one of his children, this book offers an unprecedented insider's view of oilman Will Buckley and his wife, and chronicles how the Buckley family have become the mainstays of American conservatism in politics and culture. b&w photos.

The author, a special agent for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, discusses his activities investigating the smuggling of wildlife, illegal commercialization of wildlife, illegal take of wildlife, and illegal commercialization of the parts and products of wildlife.

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Shepherd of the Hills" by Harold Bell Wright. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

A drawback of standard approaches to try and understand the world of feelings such as love, hate, fear, and anger plus consciousness via quantum concepts results from the old problem that Quantum Theory does not appear to be fully compatible with Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity. To overcome these difficulties, we explicitly tried to avoid "pushing" any existing theory into the comprehension of the human mind and all its derivatives. On the assumption that everything, including consciousness, may consist of attributes or properties and subjecting them to a general Hamilton extremal principle, we surprisingly ended up in generalized Einstein field equations with the whole ensemble having the characteristics of a Quantum Gravity Theory. The field of psychology has lacked a unified theory to support phenomenological observations until now, and it took a mathematical physicist to find it. With example concepts of group-think and quantum-gravity–based human thought processes given among many more, it provides a basis for understanding and mitigating and potentially even preventing socioeconomic debt cycles and war... ...and it shows why love can become the black hole in a universe of feelings.

William Woodruff had the sort of childhood satirised in the famous Monty Python Yorkshireman sketch. The son of a weaver, he was born on a pallet of straw at the back of the mill and two days later his mother was back at work. Life was extrememly tough for the family in 1920's Blackburn -- a treat was sheep's head or cow heel soup -- and got worse when his father lost his job when the cotton industry started its terminal decline. Woodruff had to find his childhood fun in the little free time he had available between his delivery job and school, but he never writes self-pityingly, leaving the reader to shed the tears on his behalf. At ten his mother takes him on his one and only holiday -- to Blackpool. He never wonders where they get the money to do so, only where she disappears to with strange men in the afternoons, before taking him to the funfair, pockets jingling an hour or two later. NAB END is certainly not all grime and gloom however, there's a cast of great minor characters from an unfrocked vicar to William's indomitable grandmother Bridget who lend some colour and humour -- and all against the strongly rendered social backdrop of the 1920s and 1930s.