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Hero Dogs

How a Pack of Rescues, Rejects, and Strays Became America's Greatest Disaster-Search Partners

par Wilma Melville, Paul Lobo ...

A true story of "unadoptable" dogs who became search-and-rescue heroes: "[Readers will] delight in the personalities of both the people and the animals." — Library JournalLola was a buckshot-riddled stray, lost on a Memphis highway. Cody was rejected from seven different homes. Ace had been sprayed with mace and left for dead on a train track. They were deemed unadoptable. Untrainable. ... En savoir plus

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A true story of "unadoptable" dogs who became search-and-rescue heroes: "[Readers will] delight in the personalities of both the people and the animals." — Library JournalLola was a buckshot-riddled stray, lost on a Memphis highway. Cody was rejected from seven different homes. Ace had been sprayed with mace and left for dead on a train track. They were deemed unadoptable. Untrainable.
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Crossing the Bar

The Adventures of a San Francisco Bay Bar Pilot

par Paul Lobo ...

There is nothing placid about San Francisco Bay. Its raucous waters have hosted brutal storms, daring rescues, horrendous accidents, and countless hours of drama and tension. Captain Paul Lobo knows that better than most people. As a licensed harbor pilot in those treacherous waters, Lobo captained nearly 6,500 boats in a thirty-one year career-everything from mega-yachts to the USS Enterprise to ... En savoir plus

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There is nothing placid about San Francisco Bay. Its raucous waters have hosted brutal storms, daring rescues, horrendous accidents, and countless hours of drama and tension. Captain Paul Lobo knows that better than most people. As a licensed harbor pilot in those treacherous waters, Lobo captained nearly 6,500 boats in a thirty-one year career-everything from mega-yachts to the USS Enterprise to
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Hero Dogs

How a Pack of Rescues, Rejects, and Strays Became America's Greatest Disaster-Search Partners

par Paul Lobo, Wilma Melville ...

Lu par Will Damron, Xe Sands ...

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6 heure 29 min

Lola was a buckshot-riddled stray, lost on a Memphis highway. Cody was rejected from seven different homes. Ace had been sprayed with mace and left for dead on a train track. They were deemed unadoptable. Untrainable. Unsalvageable. These would become the same dogs America relied on when its worst disasters hit.In 1995, Wilma Melville volunteered as a canine search-and-rescue (SAR) handler with ... En savoir plus

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Lola was a buckshot-riddled stray, lost on a Memphis highway. Cody was rejected from seven different homes. Ace had been sprayed with mace and left for dead on a train track. They were deemed unadoptable. Untrainable. Unsalvageable. These would become the same dogs America relied on when its worst disasters hit.In 1995, Wilma Melville volunteered as a canine search-and-rescue (SAR) handler with
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Nothing But the Truth

Secrets From Top Intelligence Experts to Control Conversations and Get the Information You Need

par Maryann Karinch ...

Lu par Karen Saltus ...

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6 heure 52 min

To get the truth from someone, you need two sets of skills. The first are the interpersonal skills necessary to get the facts. But the second group of skills is equally if not more important: they enable you to assess whether the facts actually fit together--whether they are true--and identify the emotions that shaped them.In Nothing But the Truth, top intelligence experts from the worlds of ... En savoir plus

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To get the truth from someone, you need two sets of skills. The first are the interpersonal skills necessary to get the facts. But the second group of skills is equally if not more important: they enable you to assess whether the facts actually fit together--whether they are true--and identify the emotions that shaped them.In Nothing But the Truth, top intelligence experts from the worlds of
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Grant and Sherman

The Friendship That Won the Civil War

par Charles Bracelen Flood ...

Lu par Charles Bracelen Flood ...

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5 heure 57 min

""We were as brothers,"" William Tecumseh Sherman said, describing his relationship with Ulysses S. Grant. They were incontestably two of the most important figures in the Civil War, but until now there has been no book about their victorious partnership and the deep friendship that made it possible.Heeding the call to save the Union, each struggled past political hurdles to join the war effort. ... En savoir plus

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""We were as brothers,"" William Tecumseh Sherman said, describing his relationship with Ulysses S. Grant. They were incontestably two of the most important figures in the Civil War, but until now there has been no book about their victorious partnership and the deep friendship that made it possible.Heeding the call to save the Union, each struggled past political hurdles to join the war effort.
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How to Listen and How to Be Heard

Inclusive Conversations at Work

par Alissa Carpenter ...

Lu par Alissa Carpenter ...

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7 heure 10 min

For anyone who has ever felt their voice isn't heard at work. This is a guide on how to empower yourself and others to communicate with people who think, act, and experience things differently than you do, and do so with more confidence, candor, and authenticity.Too often, people avoid difficult conversations; but these discussions often need to happen to bring people together so we can all ... En savoir plus

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For anyone who has ever felt their voice isn't heard at work. This is a guide on how to empower yourself and others to communicate with people who think, act, and experience things differently than you do, and do so with more confidence, candor, and authenticity.Too often, people avoid difficult conversations; but these discussions often need to happen to bring people together so we can all
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The Darkest Summer

Pusan and Inchon 1950: The Battles That Saved South Korea---and the Marines---from Extinction

par Bill Sloan ...

Lu par Michael Prichard ...

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14 heure 11 min

The outcome of the Korean War was decided in the first three months. The Darkest Summer is the hour-by-hour, casualty-by-casualty story of those months—a period that saw American and UN forces almost driven into the sea by the North Korean invaders, then stage an incredible turn-around that reversed the entire course of the war. Drawing on exclusive author interviews, unpublished memoirs, and oral ... En savoir plus

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The outcome of the Korean War was decided in the first three months. The Darkest Summer is the hour-by-hour, casualty-by-casualty story of those months—a period that saw American and UN forces almost driven into the sea by the North Korean invaders, then stage an incredible turn-around that reversed the entire course of the war. Drawing on exclusive author interviews, unpublished memoirs, and oral
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If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now

Why We Traded the Commuting Life for a Little House on the Prairie

par Christopher Ingraham ...

Lu par Josh Bloomberg ...

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7 heure 4 min

The hilarious, charming, and candid story of writer Christopher Ingraham’s decision to uproot his life and move his family to Red Lake Falls, Minnesota, population 1,400—the community he made famous as “the worst place to live in America” in a story he wrote for the Washington Post.Like so many young American couples, Chris Ingraham and his wife Briana were having a difficult time making ends meet ... En savoir plus

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The hilarious, charming, and candid story of writer Christopher Ingraham’s decision to uproot his life and move his family to Red Lake Falls, Minnesota, population 1,400—the community he made famous as “the worst place to live in America” in a story he wrote for the Washington Post.Like so many young American couples, Chris Ingraham and his wife Briana were having a difficult time making ends meet
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White Robes and Broken Badges

Infiltrating the KKK and Exposing the Evil Among Us

par Joe Moore ...

Lu par Roger Wayne ...

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8 heure 51 min

In this shocking memoir, a former FBI informant reveals what he learned from successfully infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan in the backwoods of the Sunshine State, uncovering details about the hate group’s structure and its modern far-right spinoffs which are operating to achieve the same goal: inciting a second civil war by whatever violent means necessary.“We need you back.”It was a call FBI ... En savoir plus

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In this shocking memoir, a former FBI informant reveals what he learned from successfully infiltrating the Ku Klux Klan in the backwoods of the Sunshine State, uncovering details about the hate group’s structure and its modern far-right spinoffs which are operating to achieve the same goal: inciting a second civil war by whatever violent means necessary.“We need you back.”It was a call FBI
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Genetics in the Madhouse

The Unknown History of Human Heredity

par Theodore M. Porter ...

Lu par Mike Chamberlain ...

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14 heure 1 min

In the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physicians in insane asylums began to record causes of madness in their admission books. Almost from the beginning, they pointed to heredity as the most important of these causes. As doctors and state officials steadily lost faith in the capacity of asylum care to stem the terrible increase of insanity, they began emphasizing ... En savoir plus

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In the early 1800s, a century before there was any concept of the gene, physicians in insane asylums began to record causes of madness in their admission books. Almost from the beginning, they pointed to heredity as the most important of these causes. As doctors and state officials steadily lost faith in the capacity of asylum care to stem the terrible increase of insanity, they began emphasizing
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No Better Friend

One Man, One Dog, and Their Extraordinary Story of Courage and Survival in WWII

par Robert Weintraub ...

Lu par Dan Woren ...

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14 heure 42 min

The extraordinary tale of survival and friendship between a man and a dog in World War II.Flight technician Frank Williams and Judy, a purebred pointer, met in the most unlikely of places: an internment camp in the Pacific. Judy was a fiercely loyal dog, with a keen sense for who was friend and who was foe, and the pair's relationship deepened throughout their captivity. When the prisoners ... En savoir plus

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The extraordinary tale of survival and friendship between a man and a dog in World War II.Flight technician Frank Williams and Judy, a purebred pointer, met in the most unlikely of places: an internment camp in the Pacific. Judy was a fiercely loyal dog, with a keen sense for who was friend and who was foe, and the pair's relationship deepened throughout their captivity. When the prisoners
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Bombing Hitler's Hometown

The Untold Story of the Last Mass Bomber Raid of World War II in Europe

par Mike Croissant ...

Lu par J. Rodney Turner ...

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10 heure 25 min

In April 1945, Linz was one of Nazi Germany's most vital assets. It was a crucial transportation hub and communications center, with railyards brimming with war materiel destined for the front lines. Linz was also the town Hitler claimed as home and had long intended to remake as the cultural capital of Europe, filling its planned Fuehrermuseum with world-famous art stolen from his conquered ... En savoir plus

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In April 1945, Linz was one of Nazi Germany's most vital assets. It was a crucial transportation hub and communications center, with railyards brimming with war materiel destined for the front lines. Linz was also the town Hitler claimed as home and had long intended to remake as the cultural capital of Europe, filling its planned Fuehrermuseum with world-famous art stolen from his conquered
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