Bob Kasper had that rarest of qualities among self-defense instructors: real-world "street smarts," as opposed to the much more common "dojo smarts." A former Marine and student of personal-defense pioneer Charles Nelson, Kasper had picked up his experience in close-quarter self-defense the hard way[...]
Throughout the twentieth century, from the furor over Percival Lowell?s claim of canals on Mars to the sophisticated Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, otherworldly life has often intrigued and occasionally consumed science and the public. Does ?biological law? reign throughout the universe? [...]
This book shows that astronomical discovery is a complex and ongoing process comprising various stages of research, interpretation, and understanding.[...]
The Navy SEALs have been fighting terrorists around the world for more than a decade. And for all that time, the Bandito Platoon from SEAL Team Seven has been on continuous combat rotation. Now they have drawn a shipboard assignment off Central America ? an easy day. But for a Navy SEAL, the only ea[...]