BEFORE HE COULD FORGE A BAND OF ELITE WARRIORS... HE HAD TO BECOME ONE HIMSELF.Brandon Webb's experiences in the world's most elite sniper corps are the stuff of legend. From his grueling years of training in Naval Special Operations to his combat tours in the Persian Gulf and Afghanistan, "The Red [...]

This book explores everyday life in the Byzantine Empire, which covered much of the eastern Mediterranean in the Middle Ages. The author discusses general issues of everyday life, including Byzantine worldviews, how society and the economy functioned, and how families were structured, as well as spe[...]

The leader, and only survivor, of a team of U.S. Navy SEALs sent to northern Afghanistan to capture a well-known al Qaeda leader chronicles the events of the battle that killed his teammates and offers insight into the training of this elite group of warriors. Reprint.[...]

Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell returned from his star-crossed mission in Afghanistan with his bones shattered and his heart broken. So many had given their lives to save him-and he would have readily done the same for them. As he recuperated, he wondered why he and others, from America's founding to toda[...]

Four US Navy SEALS departed one clear night in early July 2005 for the mountainous Afghanistan-Pakistan border for a reconnaissance mission. Their task was to document the activity of an al Qaeda leader rumored to be very close to Bin Laden with a small army in a Taliban stronghold. Five days later,[...]

Apple's Core Animation framework enables Mac OS X, iPhone, and iPod touch developers to create richer, more visual applications--more easily than ever and with far less code. Now, there's a comprehensive, example-rich, full-color reference to Core Animation for experienced OS X and iPhone developers[...]

Marcus Pound's book develops a specifically theological form of psychotherapy rooted in liturgy and arising from engagement with postmodern psychoanalysis. Jacques Lacan's claim that 'the unconscious is structured like a language' radically challenged psychoanalysis and Pound uses this as the basis[...]

Ben Marcus achieved cult status and gained the admiration of his peers with his first book, "The""Age of Wire and String. "With Notable American Women he goes well beyond that first achievement to create something radically wonderful, a novel set in a world so fully imagined that it creates its own [...]

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"One of the great culinary stories of our time."--Dwight Garner, "The New York Times"
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It begins with a simple ritual: Every Saturday afternoon, a boy who loves to cook walks[...]

With the help of his servant and an orphan girl, a magician named Valerian searches graveyards, churches, and underground waterways for a book he hopes will save him from a pact he has made with evil. Reprint.[...]