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The title reflects many nights that I had to slow down and evaluate things. I was affected by the flood of 2016 in Louisiana. When a life experience of dramatic proportion hits you, just like in baseball, you take first base. Once you get there, you have to evaluate if you're staying put, or will you steal a base or two? Everyone's objective in life is to make it home one way or another. Me? I am taking second base and going for more.

Le diagnostic de John G. Miller sur le monde de l'entreprise est sans appel : une singulière absence de responsabilité personnelle mine la cohésion interne, pourrit l'atmosphère et, en définitive, sape les performances individuelles et collectives.

James Strang was a lawyer, a newspaper editor, and a failed politician before he found his true calling as a self-declared Mormon prophet. Following the shocking murder of Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, Strang lost a power struggle to Brigham Young. He went on to form a dissident sect and build a personal theocracy on Beaver Island in Lake Michigan.

Kirstin Beck está decidida a escapar a Occidente. Desde la ventana de su casa adosada, a sus espaldas, una alambrada que cruza un cementerio, ve cómo cierran la frontera con Berlín Oeste, donde Tony Marino, un escritor norteamericano que allí trabaja, observa en la cercanía el progreso del levantamiento, al tiempo que ve a una atractiva mujer en su ventana. Kirstin sujeta una pizarra con ayuda para que este la vea, lo que los lleva a un plan, aunque difícil empresa, para que ella cruce la frontera.

East Berlin, 1961. Kirstin Beck is determined to escape to the West. She watches from her townhouse window as the border with West Berlin is closed and a barbed wire fence strung through the cemetery behind her house. With a grandmother in West Berlin who needs her, Kirstin knows she has to go. Tony Marino is an American writer living in West Berlin.

Als Captain Christopher Pike vom Ausbruch der Feindseligkeiten zwischen der Vereinigten Föderation der Planeten und dem Klingonischen Reich hört, versucht er, die U.S.S. Enterprise nach Hause zu bringen und sich dem Kampf anzuschließen. Doch in dem höllischen Pergamon-Nebel findet der unerschütterliche Kommandant einen ganz eigenen epischen Kampf vor, bei dem sich uralte Feinde miteinander messen - und nicht nur die Enterprise wird zur Kriegsbeute, sondern auch ihre Besatzung.

Take a trip through the imaginations of 18 visionary writers as they explore the future of trucking in this new science fiction anthology! There's something for every genre fiction fan in this follow-up to the hit 18 Wheels of Horror: A Trailer Full of Trucking Terrors. The highways of the universe will never be the same!

Das Klingonische Reich steht am Abgrund. Im Nachhall der Gewalt des Unbesungenen-Kults droht Paranoia Kanzler Martoks Regierung zu entzweien. Immer lauter wird der Ruf der Klingonen nach einer stärkeren Hand, die Kontrolle zu übernehmen und der meisterhafte Ränkeschmied, Lord Korgh, ist nur zu gerne bereit, diesem Ruf zu folgen. Aber mittlerweile haben sich auch andere Mächte in Bewegung gesetzt. Mit Hilfe eines hinterlistigen Agenten verbünden sich die Feinde des Reichs im Verborgenen, um die Situation zu ihrem Vorteil zu nutzen.

Als 2285 der klingonische Commander Kruge im Kampf gegen James T. Kirk auf dem Genesis-Planeten fiel, stürzte das ein mächtiges Haus ins Chaos - und es blieben einige tickende Zeitbomben zurück: Das Phantomgeschwader, eine geheime Einheit fortschrittlicher Bird-of-Preys; eine verschworene Gruppe loyaler Offiziere, die sein Erbe bewahren wollten; und der junge Korgh, sein abgesetzter Erbe, der bereit war, ein ganzes klingonisches Leben lang auf seine Vergeltung zu warten.

Eine neue, epische Trilogie, die ihren Anfang während dem Film mit der Originalbesatzung - "Auf der Suche nach Mr. Spock" - nimmt, und sich bis in "The Next Generation" erstreckt! In dieser ein Jahrhundert umspannenden Trilogie ist Rache wirklich ein Gericht, das am besten kalt serviert wird. Die Allianz zwischen den Klingonen und der Föderation steht auf Messers Schneide. Die Unbesungenen, ein klingonischer Kult, wüten durch die Galaxis, schlagen im Schutz ihrer getarnten Bird-of-Preys zu.

Continuing the milestone 50th anniversary celebration of Star Trek—an epic new trilogy that stretches from the events of The Original Series movie The Search for Spock to The Next Generation! The Klingon Empire stands on the precipice. In the wake of violence from the cult known as the Unsung...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The Republic has fallen. Sith Lords rule the galaxy. Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi has lost everything . . . everything but hope. Tatooine—a harsh desert world where farmers toil in the heat of two suns while trying to protect themselves and their loved ones from...

Continuing the milestone 50th anniversary celebration of Star Trek—an epic new trilogy that stretches from the events of The Original Series movie The Search for Spock to The Next Generation! When Klingon commander Kruge died in combat against James T. Kirk on the Genesis planet back in 2285...

Continuing the milestone 50th anniversary celebration of Star Trek—an epic new trilogy that stretches from the events of The Original Series movie The Search for Spock to The Next Generation! The Klingon-Federation alliance is in peril as never before. Lord Korgh has seized control of the...

"Outstanding! hits the nail on the head in every way: Practical content, terrific stories, and an easy read. Miller has provided a road map for organizations to become exceptional--just follow the path laid out. Definitely a must read!" --Dave Ramsey, author of Total Money Makeover and host of...

In New York City, a a handful of veteran FBI agents, police officers and investigative journalists had known for years that a terrorist event on the scale of 9/11 was likely. Ironically, one of the men who had been most aware of the threat posed by Osama bin Laden had recently left the FBI...

On Easter morning, 1972, Marine captain John Ripley braved intense enemy fire to blow up a bridge during the North Vietnamese "Easter Offensive." Ripley became a legend within the Marine Corps for his daring act of heroism. His story is described here by fellow Marine John Grider Miller. Miller lays bare Ripley's innermost thoughts during the 3 hours it took to place and set the fuses while some 30,000 enemy troops and 200 tanks prepared to cross just yards away. Such a compelling act of raw courage and personal resolve is rarely encountered.

With a single daring leap from an Italian train carrying prisoners of war, John Miller jumped out of the war of soldiers and into the war as lived by Italian civilians - many of whom risked their lives to help him. The year was 1943 and Captain Miller had been in captivity for over a year. Italian anti-fascists harboured and fed him, first in a remote mountain village, then in Rome itself.

Joshua Brandt cuts ties in Tennessee and goes in search of his brother in the Wyoming Territory. Along the way he finds old friends and new enemies. A Texas judge lets him forge an unlikely team of U.S. Marshals. He leads them against train robbers and land-grabbers, and finds some unexpected ways to bring law, order, and justice to the West.

When attending Georgetown University, in DC, I enrolled in a basic psychology course to get an A, as many of us did, to raise our grade point average. Halfway through the course, our professor spent an hour on "Automatic-Writing". This book will explain the consequences of such action. It'll be short and sweet, right to the point. It's an extraordinary story, enjoy the experience, and benefit from it.