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Written by the team of Special Operations veterans at SOFREP, THE SYRIA REPORT is a behind-the-scenes look at the roots of the drama and unrest that is unfolding in Syria. Based on information from sources within the intelligence community, using historical case studies and on-the-ground assets, author...

In this edition of Tony Hawk: Live2Skate, skater Nate Kreece is known for his movie-making skills. So when he loses his computer with all his footage in a fire, he is devastated. But giving up is not an option. Armed with his camera, Nate is set to rise above it all to accomplish more than he could have dreamed.

Common Sense is Not Always Common Practice as Anne Baxter 's story shows. This book is your ultimate resource for Anne Baxter. Here you will find the most up-to-date 189 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all...

A look at the dark side of life, Victorian-style, when nothing was quite as it seemed and a public execution could be an entertaining family day out. Murderers, poachers, thieves, pickpockets and vagabonds all went about their business with impunity. Crime took place on the streets, on public transport,...

A collection of spine-chilling true-life tales of paranormal activity across Britain's railways, based on hundreds of first person and historical accounts Some of the strange and unexplained hauntings across Britain's railway network that are collected here include signals and messages sent from empty...

On the south bank of the Thames and demarcated by Blackfriars and Tower Bridges lies the district known as Bankside, the Borough and Southwark. Its origin was in a Roman settlement nestling around the southern end of London Bridge, until the eighteenth century the only bridge across the Thames in...

"This book is about my journey through the Australian prison system. You'll have heard a few of these stories before, but not like this. It's a step-by-step history of my twenty three years behind bars; what day to day life was really like in jail, what I did to survive and why I'll never go...

The President recently announced that we don't have a strategy for dealing with ISIS. "It's too soon to say what steps the United States will take against ISIS. I don't want to put the cart before the horse," Obama told reporters during a White House news briefing. "We don't...

Experience Jamie Foxx. This book is your ultimate resource for Jamie Foxx. Here you will find the most up-to-date 40 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Jamie Foxx's Early life, Career...

“A gripping novel” of two North Korean teenage girls, and their harrowing journey as they escape the authoritarian state (O, The Oprah Magazine). Before she met Il-sun in an orphanage, Gi was a hollow husk of a girl, broken from growing up in one of North Korea’s forced-labor camps. A...

Written by a former 75th Ranger Regiment soldier, "Marty" will take you inside the Ranger Assessment and Selection Program and the Special Forces Assessment and Selection Program to teach prospective Special Operations soldiers the ins and outs of each unit's selection program. As someone...

George Washington comes alive in this fascinating activity book that introduces the leader to whom citizens turned again and again-to lead them through eight long years of war, to guide them as they wrote a new Constitution, and to act as the new nation’s first executive leader. Children will learn...

A groundbreaking account of London’s relationship with death, this book covers the afterlife, execution, bodysnatching, murder, fatal disease, spiritualism, bizarre deaths, and cemeteries. Taking the reader from Roman London to the "glorious dead" of World War I, this is the first systematic...

This probing analysis of three of Giotto’s major works and the patrons who commissioned them goes beyond the clichés of Giotto as the founding figure of western painting. It traces the interactions between Franciscan friars and powerful bankers and illuminates the complex interactions between mercantile wealth and the iconography of poverty.