Most Popular Books by Evan Wright

Based on Evan Wright''s National Magazine Award-winning story in Rolling Stone, this is the raw, firsthand account of the 2003 Iraq invasion that inspired the HBO® original mini-series. Within hours of 9/11, America’s war on terrorism fell to those like the twenty-three Marines of the First Recon Battalion, the first generation dispatched into open-ended combat since Vietnam. They were a new pop-culture breed of American warrior unrecognizable to their forebears—soldiers raised on hip hop, video games and The Real World. Cocky, brave, headstrong, wary and mostly unprepared for the physical, emotional and moral horrors ahead, the “First Suicide Battalion” would spearhead the blitzkrieg on Iraq, and fight against the hardest resistance Saddam had to offer. Hailed as “one of the best books to come out of the Iraq war”(Financial Times), Generation Kill is the funny, frightening, and profane firsthand account of these remarkable men, of the personal toll of victory, and of the randomness, brutality and camaraderie of a new American War.

The true story of super-criminal Jon Roberts, star of the documentary Cocaine Cowboys. American Desperado is Roberts’ no-holds-barred account of being born into Mafia royalty, witnessing his first murder at the age of seven, becoming a hunter-assassin in Vietnam, returning to New York to become--at age 22--one of the city’s leading nightclub impresarios, then journeying to Miami where in a few short years he would rise to become the Medellin Cartel’s most effective smuggler. But that’s just half the tale. The roster of Roberts’ friends and acquaintances reads like a Who’s Who of the latter half of the 20th century and includes everyone from Jimi Hendrix, Richard Pryor, and O.J. Simpson to Carlo Gambino, Meyer Lansky, and Manuel Noriega. Nothing if not colorful, Roberts surrounded himself with beautiful women, drove his souped-up street car at a top speed of 180 miles per hour, shared his bed with a 200-pound cougar, and employed a 6”6” professional wrestler called “The Thing” as his bodyguard. Ultimately, Roberts became so powerful that he attracted the attention of the Republican Party’s leadership, was wooed by them, and even was co-opted by the CIA for which he carried out its secret agenda. Scrupulously documented and relentlessly propulsive, this collaboration between a bloodhound journalist and one of the most audacious criminals ever is like no other crime book you’ve ever read.

Rolling Stone writer Wright offers 12 tales of outsiders, people more or less living off the grid in mainstream America. He profiles, for example, a member of Delta Company in Kandahar in southeastern Afghanistan dueling with the Taliban; a fun-loving regular at a dance hall; a committed local anarchist engaging in street theater at a global trade conference; a pastor of the Aryan Nation preaching against the evils of blacks and Jews; and two HIV-infected former porn stars.

Prawdziwy gangster to prawdopodobnie najlepsza, najbardziej szokująca i mroczna oraz wypełniona adrenaliną autobiografia, jaka się ukazała w tym stuleciu. Prawdziwy gangster to wyprawa w głąb prawdziwego jądra ciemności. Prawdziwy gangster to spowiedź kokainowego kowboja JONA ROBERTSA, który w pewnym momencie był jedną z najpotężniejszych osób w USA.

Couturier''s Occupational and Environmental Infectious Diseases is now available in an entirely updated new Second Edition! In this current era of global connections and potential for the global spread of disease, practitioners need to be vigilant, aware, and educated about the infectious disease risks to working populations. This book is a valuable resource to assist you in protecting employees in a wide variety of work environments. Employee health, preventive services, threats of bioterrorism, sheltering in place, plans for emergency preparedness, business recovery plans, and continuity of operations plans are just some of the topics covered. Expanded sections on employee education, travel issues, migrant/immigrant health, as well as new appendices and resource lists will help support the reader in their practice, in employee education, and in the planning of services. Contributing authors from occupational health, infectious disease, and public health specialties have combined their experience and expertise under the guidance of Editor William E. Wright, MD, MSPH to provide practical information on the evaluation, treatment, and prevention of occupational and environmental infectious diseases. Use this new edition to address the important issues facing today''s global workforce and to customize plans for your medical practice, your clients, and the workers you serve. Topics Covered Include: Epidemiology Legal issues Vaccination programs Approaches to employee education Occupations at risk Disease recognition and treatment Personal protective equipment Proper removal of ticks Applying and reading PPDs TB-gold information Disease reporting and data resources Pest and vermin abatement Indoor air quality Food and water issues Staying healthy during travel Bioterrorism Emerging infections International resources Expanded Coverage of Specific Disease Topics: Influenza, Avian flu Monkeypox Malaria Dengue, West Nile virus

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Skating, superpowers, and traveling around the world feature in this collection of short stories created by students enrolled in a Kids Tales creative writing workshop at COA''s Riverwest Center.Fueled by their creativity and enthusiasm, these Kids Tales student writers brought their incredible stories to life.This book is not only an anthology of their stories, but also an anthology of their creativity, hard work, and dedication.

The complete understanding of this short handbook will provide the foundation for attaining desires and happiness through the development and sharing of a positive attitude.

Peptides represent a source of novel therapeutics for recalcitrant human diseases, but screening for bioactivity from natural or synthetic sources can be uneconomic. In contrast, in vivo expression of peptides from DNA libraries in a heterologous host such as Escherichia coli may combine production with screening. This dissertation aimed to use such an approach to discover novel bioactive peptides in a high throughput and cost-effective manner, with a focus on antimicrobials and antiaggregants as proof-of-principle. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are innate defence effectors that may combat antibiotic-resistant pathogens. An inducible, autocleaving fusion tag was utilised to produce the model murine cathelicidin K2C18, along with a number of variants, which exhibited varying degrees of antimicrobial activity against a panel of microbes. Importantly, K2C18 also exhibited a bacteriostatic effect in vivo when secreted to the periplasm. This allowed for the implementation of an in vivo whole cell screen for novel AMPs, using genomic DNA libraries as an input. One putative hit, the peptide S-H4, showed similar in vivo behaviour to K2C18 and was active when added exogenously to microbial cultures. A second in vivo screen was constructed to search for inhibitors of A[beta]42 aggregation, a process implicated in Alzheimer''s disease. The aggregation state of A[beta]42 was coupled to the fluorescence of a chromophore fusion partner, and used to screen co-expressed peptides from a random DNA library for putative antiaggregants. Additionally, the system incorporated an internal fluorescent reference to allow ratiometric comparison between samples. Several hits were identified and further validated using flow cytometry, with work ongoing to assess their activity in vitro. Proof-of-principle of these two screens was achieved, indicating that such in vivo approaches to bioactive peptide discovery could lead to the development of new and useful therapeutics.

Imagine if your life were an art museum. Your family life could be a warm portrait, your sense of humor an abstract sculpture. Now think about your finances. What type of portrait or picture manifests when you think about the role that money plays in your life? We all will have a different picture come to mind when we think about money. Some of us may be able to come up with masterful pieces that could rival even the most intricate Monet paintings. We might be sitting in a luxurious house with anything we want, various investments that add splashes of exotic color, and a full bank account that puts a lot of green onto our painting. Others could see paintings that contain only a few colors, but plenty of red. Letters stamped with past due or late fee in crimson could create a hue on our financial portrait that is only rivaled by the red we see when we feel anger, anger over past mistakes or poor financial decisions. Still others may have a simpler picture. Our finances could consist of nothing more than a child like picture scrawled in crayon. This could be only a very early draft of what our long term finances can look like. I want to help you bring some bold, new pieces into your financial life. Some masterpieces can take years to complete, but it will be worth it to see something similar to the Sistine Chapel where a hollowed out building used to be. I have a palette full of tools that you can use in order to create your own individual financial masterpiece. A wallet that is fully under your control will be a brush that you can use for delicate strokes. Exercising self control will be the chisel that allows you to turn a block of money into a sculpture of financial success. When you discover the most involved and advanced money saving tactics from this palette, you will be able to add splashes of color to bring your financial world to life. It doesn''t matter what your past financial life has looked like. It could be marred with a dark and grim portrait, filled with strife and grief. You might have something that could be a masterpiece, but it just needs a little extra something. From the moment you turn this page I am giving you a clean slate, a new canvas. I will give you the artist''s tools, piece by piece. By the time you are finished you will not have something that I have created. You will be looking at your own self-created financial masterpiece. Clear out any old ideas and put them into storage, it is time to craft a brand new centerpiece for your financial life, and it starts now...