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In 2006, when the Iraq War was all but lost, a new strategy was implemented - with combat troops across Iraq, the US would systematically hunt down every terrorist and insurgent group operating in the country. However, that strategy relied upon the success of a small interrogation unit within Task Force 134 to find, locate, and eliminate threats to peace and stability within Iraq. Interview with a Terrorist follows James Rosone’s true-life story as he joined the interrogation team to try and make a difference in the conflict in Iraq.

Unlock the full potential of AI in education and transform your classroom into a personalized, efficient learning environment! Our book offers proven strategies, ethical considerations, and cost-effective tools to successfully integrate AI into your educational scenario. Gain comprehensive access to an ever-evolving resource page that alone exceeds the cost of the book.

Unlock muscle growth through recovery, not exhaustion. In Beyond the Pump, you’ll discover the radical, evidence-backed system pioneered by Mike Mentzer—an approach that shattered the myths of volume training and reshaped bodybuilding’s core assumptions. With surgical clarity and zero fluff, this book explains how growth actually happens after you leave the gym—and why most lifters interrupt it with chronic overtraining. Drawing on decades of clinical insight and real-world case studies, this no-nonsense guide exposes why muscles don’t read volume, how hormonal health collapses ...

Matheus believes that getting Quin back will help him deal with the pressures of a vampiric war, but his hopes crumble after his soulmate fails to remember him. The tattered remnant of their mystical connection appears to drive Quin's erratic suicidal behavior, threatening their bond and their very existence. While Matheus pines for his former love, a hurt and betrayed Alastair must watch the man he loves chase another. Feeling inadequate as a leader, Matheus searches for a way to make Quin remember him, no matter the cost.

With candid, witty, and compelling experiences of yoga from renowned memoirists, including Cheryl Strayed (author of the number one New York Times best-seller Wild), Claire Dederer (author of national best-seller Poser: My Life in 23 Yoga Poses), Dinty W. Moore (author of The Accidental Buddhist), Neal Pollack (author of Stretch: The Making of a Yoga Dude) and many others, Going Om shares a range of observations about this popular practice.

In the spirit of Evicted, Bait and Switch, and The Big Short, a shocking, heart-wrenching investigation into America’s housing crisis and the modern-day robber barons who are making a fortune off the backs of the disenfranchised working and middle class - among them, Donald Trump and his inner circle.

Create a Life You Love—One Choice at a Time What really makes us happy? Is it money, success, relationships, or something deeper? In a world filled with distractions and pressure, lasting happiness can feel out of reach. But the truth is—happiness is not something you find; it’s something you create. Create Happiness is a transformative, science-based self-help guide that uncovers the real truth about happiness and gives you the tools to build a joyful, fulfilling life. Drawing from the latest research in positive psychology, neuroscience, mindfulness, nutrition, and personal ...

Discover the four core drives that drive every woman. With that, you can win over any woman, anywhere, any time. Ms. Gross has combined 10 years of academic research, along with interviewing over 20,000 men, to make dating and relating as simple and effective as possible.

Quando os alemães invadem os Países Baixos em 1940, Hannie Schaft é uma jovem estudante de Direito cheia de planos para o futuro. À medida que a ameaça nazista avança, colocando em risco a vida de suas melhores amigas, ambas judias, ela sente que não pode ficar parada e se junta à Resistência.

Dive into a whirlwind of mind-bending trivia and say hello to unforgettable conversations without ever leaving the comfort of your armchair! Are you constantly searching for facts that will astound your friends and family? Are you eager to explore the world's oddities yet overwhelmed by dull, dry, and jargon-filled resources? If any of these questions ring true, rest assured that your quest for a perfect treasure trove of mind candy and factoids is inside this crazy-fun book!

Brittany Cavill is a young girl who has a very active imagination. She likes to dream a lot. Sometimes, she dreams too much, and it gets in the way of real life. One day, she gets lost in her world of dreams and ends up facing suspension from school. Her parents are desperate to find a way to get her back in school before summer break starts, or else she might fall behind a grade level in school.

Madagascar's lost pirate utopia represents some of the first stirrings of Enlightenment political thought. In this jewel of a book, he offers a way to 'decolonise the Enlightenment', demonstrating how this mixed community experimented with an alternative vision of human freedom, far from that being formulated in the salons and coffee houses of Europe. Its actors were Malagasy women, merchants and traders, philosopher kings and escaped slaves, exploring ideas that were ultimately to be put into practice in by Western revolutionary regimes a century later.

Ancient Irish shoes, two scientists, and a biotech race to preserve our future. Alex Winthrop M.D. and Olivia Nilsson Ph.D. have their long-awaited sabbatical harshly interrupted by Chinese MSS agents on a revenge mission. Extracted by special forces, they’re ordered back to Mount Weather’s secret lab to work on an antidote to BN27, the highly effective antiviral that saved millions. The pandemic has passed but the US is reeling in post-apocalyptic chaos. When the public learns that BN27 causes miscarriage, women riot in the streets, burning research facilities to the ground. Ex-...

The author of The Celebration Chronicles - an exposé of Disney’s small town community development - returns to the outskirts of the Magic Kingdom with Sunbelt Blues, an eye-opening investigation of America’s rural and suburban homelessness crisis, told through a searing portrait of precarious living in Disney World’s backyard.

David, a lonely young boy, learns the secret of walking over the glimmering sea path to the happy garden behind the moon. As David grows to manhood, he follows the Moon Angel's urging and starts on a hero's journey to bring lost treasure home to Earth. And therein lies a tale of high adventure and danger.

This is part of a series (look for box set), and this is Journal set 4 of the private journal of Ian James Salvador Grey Dragonovich. His continuing travels with the Angry Brothers TV host who claim to be undead monks. They join with Emily who is having an unnatural run of bad luck. No good deed goes unpunished seems to be the standard operating procedure. Parental Warning!, sex, magic, and the occasional dead body. Yes, these are more of the acquired (sounds better than ) stolen private journal of Ian James Salvador Grey Dragonovich. Using the given name of James, who after crashing in a C...

Recruited from Earth and tasked with putting his gaming skills to work commanding vast fleets of starships, Evan secured a victory considered impossible. Now, the Hegemony is asking him to repeat that accomplishment before the deadly forces of the Children consume their empire. Whilst searching for a suspected enemy base, Evan discovered a secret the Children are desperate to hide. One that will determine the entire course of the war. Victory will require winning in an entirely new theatre of battle. With a new suite of units at his fingertips, the ground assault begins!

The zombie has had a bit of a renaissance over the last decade. Hollywood churns out films like World War Z and TV shows like The Walking Dead, and communities throughout the country hold zombie runs and races. So what’s driving the zombie obsession? Where did the fear of this creature originate? In this audiobook, The Real Zombies of Nature, we look at the myth of the zombie versus real instances of zombification in the natural world and engage in some scientific speculation about what would happen if myth ever became reality.

Big Data teaches you to build big data systems using an architecture designed specifically to capture and analyze web-scale data. This book presents the Lambda Architecture, a scalable, easy-to-understand approach that can be built and run by a small team. You'll explore the theory of big data systems and how to implement them in practice. In addition to discovering a general framework for processing big data, you'll learn specific technologies like Hadoop, Storm, and NoSQL databases.

Songs on Bronze is the first major retelling of Greek mythology in half a century; a set of lively, racy, dramatic versions of the great myths, which, in a multicultural society, are recognized more than ever as stories without equal.