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  Special Forces Pilot - A Flying...

  Richard Hutchings

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  In 1982, Royal Marine pilot Richard Hutchings flew some of the most dangerous covert missions of the Falklands War. As a Sea King captain with 846 Naval Air Squadron, he was tasked with inserting and extracting SAS and SBS teams deep behind enemy lines, often at night, in atrocious weather, skimming just feet above the sea and hostile terrain. Decorated for gallantry, Hutchings now delivers an unforgettable firsthand account of a conflict fought on the edge of possibility.From the legendary SAS raid on Pebble Island to pioneering night-vision operations that transformed modern military flying, this gripping memoir places listeners in the cockpit as covert missions unfold in real time. Through near-disasters, air attacks, and daring Special Forces insertions, Hutchings reveals the courage, ingenuity and split-second decision-making that defined Britain's campaign in the South Atlantic.At the heart of the story is the long-secret Operation MIKADO, the audacious and ill-fated plan to strike the Argentine mainland and destroy the Exocet threat. As captain of the Sea King chosen for the mission, Hutchings recounts the operation in extraordinary detail: a one-way flight into enemy territory, a crash landing in Chile, days evading capture, encounters with Chilean authorities, British diplomats and intelligence officers, and a remarkable return to Britain that ended in an MI6 safe house.Part combat memoir, part Special Forces thriller, Special Forces Pilot is a rare and riveting insider account of the Falklands War, revealing one of its most secretive chapters through the eyes of the man who lived it.

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  The Day Nina Simone Stopped Singing

  Darina Al Joundi, Mohamed Kacimi

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  The Homeland actress’s “recollections of her unconventional youth in war-torn Beirut are heartbreaking yet humorous . . . in this unique” memoir (Publishers Weekly).   Raised in 1970s Lebanon on Charles Baudelaire, A Clockwork Orange, and fine Bordeaux, Darina Al-Joundi was encouraged by her unconventional father to defy all taboos. She spent her adolescence defying death in Beirut nightclubs as bombs fell across the city. The more oppressive the country became, the more drugs and anonymous sex she had, fueling the resentment directed at her daily by the same men who would spend the night with her.   As the war dies down, she begins to incur the consequences of her lifestyle. On his deathbed, her father’s last wish is for his favorite song, “Sinnerman” by Nina Simone, to be played at his funeral instead of the traditional suras of the Koran. When she does just that, the final act of defiance elicits a catastrophic response from her surviving family members.   In this dramatic true story, Darina Al-Joundi is defiantly passionate about living her life as a liberated woman, even if it means leaving everyone and everything behind in this “beautifully taut and relentlessly unemotional” memoir (Kirkus).

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  The Untold Secret

  Mari Lyn

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  The silence has been kept for too long. Now, the truth demands to be told. In this raw and haunting fictionalized memoir, the author pulls back the curtain on a childhood riddled with secrets, suffering, and survival. She and her sister endured a world no child should ever know a life of fear, cruelty, and unimaginable pain, hidden behind closed doors. It was a hell they were forced to survive, with no escape and no one to save them. But even in the darkest moments, she found strength-strength to endure, to fight, and to rise above the horrors that tried to break her. With unwavering faith and resilience, she carried a truth too painful to speak-until now. This is not just a story of survival; it's a reckoning. A revelation of the shadows that shaped her past and the courage it took to finally break the silence. The questions may never have answers, the scars may never fade, but one thing remains certain: she refused to be defeated. Some stories are too painful to remember. This one is too powerful to forget

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  Leadership by the Number - Using...

  Jon E. Singletary

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  In Leadership by the Number: Using the Enneagram to Strengthen Educational Leadership, distinguished academic and leadership coach Dr. Jon Singletary walks you through how to use the ancient wisdom of the Enneagram of Personality with modern contemplative practices to transform how you lead your department, school, college, or university. You'll learn to effectively balance the conflicting demands of your role with greater patience, skill, and peace-of-mind by changing how you think, act, and feel every day. 
   
   
   
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  ● Explanations of the benefits of self-aware leadership, including the identification of competing forces and understanding stakeholders' strengths and weaknesses 
   
   
   
  ● Insights into the critical role of self-awareness in educational leadership 
   
   
   
  ● Concrete strategies for strengthening university, college, unit, and departmental leadership 
   
   
   
  A can't-miss resource for higher education administrators and other school leaders, Leadership by the Number also belongs in the hands of students of education and leaders-in-training who wish to maximize the impact they can have on the institutions they'll one day lead.

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  JD Vance and the Future of the...

  Frank DeVito, Knowles Michael

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  After Trump: The Republican Party’s Next Chapter 
  The Key to the Post-Trump World Lies in the Life, Thought, and Rise of Vice President JD Vance 
    
  Who is JD Vance? And why does it matter? 
    
  Before 2016, JD Vance was virtually unknown. A poor kid from a troubled family in Middletown, Ohio, he was lifted up by the fierce love of his grandmother and a few others who believed in him. From a broken home and community, he joined the Marines, graduated from Yale Law School, and entered the elite professional world of Silicon Valley, working alongside some of the world’s most powerful minds before moving back to his native Ohio. 
    
  Today, Vance is one of the most influential Republicans in America. But unlike many politicians, he is a public intellectual. Long before holding office, he was a prolific writer and speaker, wrestling with the core issues facing the GOP and the nation. 
    
  Legal and political analyst Frank DeVito examines JD Vance’s body of intellectual and political work, finding in Vance a leader with rare clarity about the Republican Party’s past and a vision for its future. Vance not only understands the Party’s internal tensions and shifting coalitions; he envisions how the Party can evolve into a truly pro-family, pro-worker movement rooted in the middle class. As the post-Trump era unfolds, Vance may be the most capable figure to guide the GOP—and the nation—into what comes next.

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  Poetics

  Aristotle

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  Aristotle's Poetics (Greek: Περὶ ποιητικῆς; Latin: De Poetica) is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory. In it, Aristotle offers an account of what he calls "poetry" (a term that derives from a classical Greek term, ποιητής, that means "poet; author; maker" and in this context includes verse drama – comedy, tragedy, and the satyr play – as well as lyric poetry and epic poetry). They are similar in the fact that they are all imitations but different in the three ways that Aristotle describes: Differences in music rhythm, harmony, meter and melody. Difference of goodness in the characters.Difference in how the narrative is presented: telling a story or acting it out. In examining its "first principles", Aristotle finds two: 1) imitation and 2) genres and other concepts by which that of truth is applied/revealed in the poesis. His analysis of tragedy constitutes the core of the discussion. Although Aristotle's Poetics is universally acknowledged in the Western critical tradition, "almost every detail about his seminal work has aroused divergent opinions". The work was lost to the Western world for a long time. It was available in the Middle Ages and early Renaissance only through a Latin translation of an Arabic version written by Averroes.Aristotle's work on aesthetics consists of the Poetics, Politics and Rhetoric. The Poetics is specifically concerned with drama. At some point, Aristotle's original work was divided in two, each "book" written on a separate roll of papyrus.

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