David Price

The Crew recounts the intimate, personal testimonies to the author of Wing Commander Ken Cook who served as Bomb Aimer with the Comans crew. The Crew specifically follows Flying Officer Jim Comans and his crewmen from their enlistment as volunteers, through training and into operational service. The Comans crew flew forty-five hazardous bombing missions – mostly deep into Germany at night – through the winter of 1943 to the summer of 1944. At ninety-five Ken Cook is the crew's last survivor. Enlisting in RAF Bomber Command at nineteen his extraordinary story brings a moving insight into the bombing campaign. His experiences, particularly during the Battle of Berlin, highlight the extreme danger each bomber crew faced. With Bomber Command's casualty rate of over 44%, the book describes how the airmen overcame immense physical and mental challenges to survive. There are now very few surviving RAF Bomber Command airmen from the Second World War. The Crew will be one of the final eyewitness testimonies to a momentous time in our history.

The Story of a Lancaster Bomber Crew

The Crew

Alison Price

Introducing Leadership

An INTRODUCING PRACTICAL GUIDE to getting what you want in life. Occupational Psychologist Alison Price explores both how successful people think, and how the organizations in which they work foster a culture of success, in this easy-to-read and jargon-free INTRODUCING PRACTICAL GUIDE. With numerous real-life case studies, practical strategies to implement and easy-to-remember points to remember and work towards, this book could be your first step on the road to a more successful life.

A Practical Guide

Introducing Psychology of Success

College girls just want to have fun. That's all Kim French wanted to do...have a little fun. Sure, inviting a male stripper back to her place was risky, but you only live once, right? But when that stripper turns out to be a deranged serial killer, it becomes the last risk Kim will ever take.

Dead in the USA

The Battle of Harlem Heights is an underappreciated milestone in American military history. The engagement on upper Manhattan Island on September 16, 1776, was the first successful battle for George Washington's troops in the quest for independence from Great Britain and presaged the emergence of an effective fighting force among the citizen-soldiers who made up the Continental Army. The cooperative effort of regiments from New England, Maryland, and Virginia--whose men lacked any sense of national identity before the Revolution--indicated the potential for this fledgling army to cohere around a common national purpose and affiliation and become the primary instrument for securing America's right to self-rule. The action began when a contingent of rangers led by Col. Thomas Knowlton of Connecticut encountered British light infantry while conducting a reconnaissance mission on Washington's orders. What began as a skirmish transformed into a full-fledged battle as both sides reinforced, and a heavy engagement continued for several hours until, with ammunition running low, the British withdrew. Washington decided not to pursue and risk confrontation with a larger force, thereby keeping his army intact. In The Battle of Harlem Heights, 1776, David Price conveys the significance of the Continental Army's first victory and highlights the role of one of its key participants, the largely forgotten Knowlton--the "father of American military intelligence"--who gave his life during the action while urging his rangers forward. No matter how many times U.S. Army troops have recorded a battlefield success over the past two and a half centuries--whether on American soil, in a European wood, across a Middle Eastern desert, or on a Pacific island--one thing about that history remains indisputable. They did it first at Harlem Heights. Small Battles: Military History as Local History Mark Edward Lender and James Kirby Martin, Series Editors Small Battles offers a fresh and important new perspective on the story of America's early conflicts. It was the small battles, not the clash of major armies, that truly defined the fighting during the colonial wars, the American Revolution, the War of 1812, and the hostilities on the frontiers. This is dramatic military history as seen through the prism of local history--history with a depth of detail, a feeling for place, people, and the impact of battle and its consequences that the story of major battles often cannot convey. The Small Battles series focuses on America's military conflicts at their most intimate and revealing level.

The Battle of Harlem Heights, 1776

"Authors experiences with British Antarctic expedition 1957-1960 during International Geophysical Year (IGY)"--Publisher.

Tip of the Iceberg

This lavishly illustrated book provides a fresh and challenging new perspective on the life and Work of Dürer

Humanism, Reformation, and the Art of Faith

Albrecht Dürer's Renaissance

If you?re looking to reach your full potential whether it?s making a personal change, achieving a sporting goal, or putting a business plan into practice this book will give you the map to changing your life, and enjoying the journey. This A-Z guide distills the top tips and guidance from a range of disciplines, including positive psychology, motivational coaching, neurolinguistic programming (NLP) and sports psychology. Whatever your goal or ambition whether its improving your quality of life, making a career change, or training for a sporting endeavor this guide will help you first to recognize and define your goals, then to set out a plan for achieving them, with day-to-day strategies to reach your goals and overcome obstacles. Moreover, this book will help you learn to enjoy the process of goal-setting and to enjoy the success you achieve.

Your A-Z Map to Achieving Your Goals and Enjoying the Journey

Psychology of Success

Containing an Excellent Collection of Words of All the Various Terminations, Carefully Arranged in Progressive Order, and on Practical Principles with Explanatory Notes

The English Speller

Chronological Retrospect, Or Memoirs of the Principal Events of Mahommedan History

The purpose of this monograph is to demonstrate that good theology makes a rich, multi textured and authoritative contribution to a fuller understanding of the intricacies and complexities of a disordered existence, and the origins, experiences and cures of madness. I will argue that the Bible speaks intelligently, practically and candidly about the inner life, how it goes wrong and what can be done to restore it. It communicates a hopeful, fresh, and compelling outlook about man's potential for radical positive transformation (metanoia) and psychological growth despite his long-standing penchant for toxic living and unhealthy responding. In this disquisition the commonly held view that affective and behavioral disturbances are primarily contingent on genetic, chemical or biological substrates will be reviewed and critiqued. It will be demonstrated that no psychiatric disorder has an authentically provable medical etiology.

Noetic Hamartiology: a Theological, Canonical and Historical Vision of the Causes, Mechanisms, and Artifacts of Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Pathology

In November 1940, a remarkable prototype aircraft made its maiden flight from an airstrip north of London. Novel in construction and exceptionally fast, the new plane was soon outpacing the Spitfire, and went on to contribute to the RAF's offensive against Nazi Germany as bomber, pathfinder and night fighter. The men who flew it nicknamed this most flexible of aircraft 'the wooden wonder' for its composite wooden frame and superb performance. Its more familiar name was the de Havilland Mosquito, and it used lightning speed and agility to inflict mayhem on the German war machine. From the summer of 1943, as Bomber Command intensified its saturation bombing of German cities, Mosquitos were used by the Pathfinder Force, which marked targets for night-time bombing, to devastating effect. Mosquito Men traces the contrasting careers of the young men of 627 Squadron, including that of Ken Oatley – last living member of an illustrious group – who flew twenty-two operations in Mosquitos as a navigator. David Price's atmospheric narrative interweaves the human stories of the crews of 627 Squadron with events in the wider war as the Allies closed in on Germany from the summer of 1944. Mosquito Men is rich in evocative and technically authoritative accounts of individual missions flown by an aircraft that ranks alongside the Spitfire, the Hurricane and the Lancaster as one of the RAF's greatest ever flying machines – and perhaps the most versatile warplane ever built.

The Elite Pathfinders of 627 Squadron

Mosquito Men

This is the story of Colonel John Haslet, an Irish immigrant to the American colonies who made the ultimate sacrifice while fighting for his adopted country. During this pivotal moment in America’s war for independence against Great Britain, a newborn nation struggled to survive against a militarily superior force deployed by a mighty empire. This is also a chronicle of the inspirational leadership and service of the Delaware Regiment that Haslet formed and guided, told as part of a more wide-ranging narrative about the 1776 campaign of Washington’s army. That battered but resilient force faced the prospect of total defeat in the winter of 1776–1777 as the quest for American independence hung in the balance.

An Ardent Patriot, the Delaware Blues, and the Spirit of 1776

John Haslet’s World

Introducing Entrepreneurship: A Practical Guide reveals the stories of the world’s greatest entrepreneurs, distilling the key points into down-to-earth, realistic advice to help you turn any business opportunity into a successful venture – while avoiding the pitfalls of pursuing a pipe dream.

Be Your Own Boss

A Practical Guide to Entrepreneurship

Organ transplantation raises singularly difficult ethical and legal issues in its requirement for donated organs. Strategies to facilitate supply in the face of increasing demand must be ethically sound and subject to an appropriate and effective regulatory framework. Professor David Price reviews the ethical principles and positions underpinning such law and policies, probing for coherence, consistency and justification. The book incorporates a comprehensive analysis of existing laws and policies governing transplantation practices around the world. It examines the meaning of death, cadaver organ procurement policies, use of living donors, trading in human organs, experimental transplant procedures and xenotransplantation. Drawing upon a wide range of disciplinary and empirical materials Price explores the balance between the interests of donors, recipients, clinicians, and society, identifying the specific challenges of this subject and seeking to guide current practices and future developments in the context of cultural diversity and pluralistic societies.

Legal and Ethical Aspects of Organ Transplantation

From the Death of the Arabian Legislator to the Accession of the Emperor Akbar and the Establishment of the Moghul Empire in Hindustaun : from Original Persian Authorities

Mahommedan History

Chronological Retrospect, Or Memoirs of the Principal Events of Mahommedan History from the Death of the Arabian Legislator to the Accession of the Emperor Akbar and the Establishment of the Moghul Empire in Hindustaun. From Original Persian Authorities

What if all the gods of the earth once existed? Long ago a superior race once came to earth and became humanity’s gods. The story is set on a post cataclysmic earth. Technology has vanished and been replaced by magick. Myths and monsters once again roam the land. Blending H. P. Lovecraft’s mythos, with the numerous mythologies of the earth created a rich mythic landscape. Two groups of gods once descended on the earth, Lovecraft’s horrific alien, inhuman beings and the superior, god-like race, known as the Watchers, (the Elder Gods described by August Derleth). Lightbringers is a Grimdark Fantasy set on a dying earth, twenty thousand years from now. The stars are right and the Great Old One asleep at the bottom of the world finally stirs in his terrible slumber. One reluctant hero, a half-breed child of the Elder gods, and his companions set out on a globe-spanning quest, populated by creatures of myth and beings of legend, to save the Earth from the evil that threatens to destroy it.

The Age of Myths and Legends

Lightbringers

Organ transplantation has been one of the miracles of modern-day medicine but, in addition to presenting enormous technical and clinical challenges, it throws up major ethical and legal issues principally from the perspective of the donor. Evolving capabilities in the spheres of both organ and tissue transplantation, coupled with rapidly-escalating demand, assert consistent and critical pressure on our ethical and legal principles and frameworks, including the expansion of the potential donor pool beyond the conventional categories of donor. This volume brings together seminal papers analyzing such matters in the context of an ever-increasingly important area of clinical practice.

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