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In the monotheistic traditions, there are people who report having special experiences that justify their monotheistic beliefs. They see, hear, or otherwise experience directly the one true God, ruler of the universe. In order to understand what is going on in these experiences and how we should respond to reports of these experiences, it is important to understand what religious experiences can and can't be, what the claim of monotheism entails, and therefore how what reports of such experiences mean, both for the experiencer and for the recipient of the report.

The Nigerian Dwarf Goat is a miniature goat breed reared by goat lovers across the globe. You can accommodate the Nigerian Dwarf Goat in your backyard reasonably easy. The feeding costs are affordable as they are less than the feeding costs of other barn goats. It is important to understand when you are bringing home a pet goat that this animal needs special care and attention. If you are planning to bring home a goat you must invest a lot of time doing your homework and research about this animal. You must be sure that you can take on this responsibility before you make a commitment. This book covers all the subjects including choosing your goats, how to take care of your goats, how to feed them and how to ensure that they are always healthy. This book is perfect for a first time Nigerian Dwarf Goat owner. Covered in this book: - History - Things you must know - Where to buy - Making a home for your goats - First days at their new home - Housing - Daily care - Seasonal care - Feeding - Grooming - Understanding goat behavior - Training - Transport - Milking - Breeding - Health and well being .... and a lot more.

David and Robert grew up thinking that Calvandrian was a land of fairy tales. Neither of them knew that Robert was the heir to the throne, living in exile, on Earth. When thirteen-year-old Robert was abducted from his home on earth, his parents couldn't tell anyone who the real abductors were. They knew it was the work of Varlusk, the man that had betrayed the king and taken over Calvandrian. Four years later, when the beasts, sent by Varlusk, returned for the now thirteen-year-old David, he couldn't leave his father to fight them alone. During the fight, he ascended to the throne of Calvandrian. Now, with the possibility of his brother being dead, he has to return to Calvandrian in order to try to win back the throne. Robert struggles with his identity under the mind control of Varlusk, and when his family shows up, in Calvandrian, he doesn't know what to believe. David struggles as he comes to grips with being the King and is the last hope of a struggling kingdom.

In the sea of Business Analysis knowledge, don't go crazy trying to find all the good bits... Business Analysis Wisdom contains gems of inspiring, thought-provoking, Business Analysis wisdom. Each distilled from the writings and conversations of more than fifty well-known Business Analysts including: Laura Brandenburg, Roxanne E Miller, Ellen Gottesdiener, Stephen White, Michael Sampson, Howard Podeswa, ... and more Matched with each piece of wisdom is a beautiful full-page image that enhances the value of the quote. You can read Business Analysis Wisdom: From cover to cover, By searching for quotes from your favorite Business Analyst, By searching for wisdom relevant to specific areas within business analysis, Or just by opening the book to a random page It doesn't matter which method you use.... You'll find awesome words of wisdom, and images, that are relevant to you and your work, as a Business Analyst.

How does one engage in the study of strategy? Strategy: Context and Adaptation from Archidamus to Airpower argues that strategy is not just concerned with amassing knowledge; it is also about recognizing our imperfect understanding of the environment and respecting the complex nature of adaptation to the unforeseen or unexpected. In essence, the strongest strategists are those who commit to an education that cultivates a more holistic and adaptive way of thinking. With that thought in mind, the contributors to Strategy, each a current or former professor at the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, widely considered the Department of Defense's premier school of strategy, offer ways of thinking strategically about a variety of subject matters, from classical history to cyber power. Practitioners in the profession of arms, perhaps more than any other profession, must employ critical thinking where the application of power on land, at sea, in the air, and in space and cyberspace are concerned. Strategy examines various sub-disciplines regarding the use of power, and illuminates different approaches to thinking which have implications beyond the implementation of force.

Recounts definitive moments from the author's career as a Navy SEAL, discussing the missions that had the greatest personal meaning for him and explaining the lessons and values he hopes to pass on to the next generation.

Mark Bisonette var gruppchef för specialstyrkan som dödade Usama bin Ladin. Med detta uppdrag som utgångspunkt skrev han boken Ingen lätt dag under pseudonymen Mark Owen. Det blev en minst sagt explosiv bok och en bästsäljare såväl i Sverige som hela världen. I Ingen hjälte fortsätter Mark Owen berättelsen om sitt liv i Navy Seals. Ingen hjälte handlar inte om de mest kända insatserna som Mark Owen deltagit i. Här är han mer personlig och berättar om de uppdrag som på olika sätt betytt mest för honom. De som han tyckt varit mest meningsfulla och som haft störst påverkan på honom. Boken tar med sig läsaren till träningsläger och krigshärdar över hela världen. Mark Owen ger ett närbild av tuffa krigssituationer och delar med sig av erfarenheter och insikter han samlat på sig längs vägen.

"This is a compilation of stories that cumulatively have become an explanation of how lucky and unlucky a person like me can be," Mark Owen Cope Sr. writes in the introduction to this book. In his seventy years of life, he has witnessed over and over again the manic whims of Fortune-often with hilarious consequences. Whether it's the baseball bat he'd always wanted leading to the near-drowning of an old lady ("A Lovely Little Baseball Bat") or a former circus performer's mobile home falling literally under the Arkansas Guarantee ("The Dog Poop Lady and the Arkansas Guarantee"), each story turns on those real-life twists of irony that are always stranger than fiction. Some of these anecdotes are jokes, others probe at darker points in Mr. Cope's life, but throughout this collection of stories, as in life, the author never loses his sense of humor. Mark Owen Cope Sr., originally from Idaho, has lived across the United States, in California, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and North Carolina. Since his teenage years, he's worked a number of jobs, from electrician's helper to air-conditioning repairman to mobile-home salesman to plumber (and everything in between)-jobs which have brought him into contact with the comical cast of characters that populates this book. In his youth, Mr. Cope spent two terms enlisted in the Air Force, working primarily in radio repair, photo interpretation, and intelligence. Mr. Cope has four children and survives his late wife, Betty, to whom he was married for more than forty-five years and to whom this book is dedicated.

"Harmony... is a most wonderful thing. Within harmony everything has balance. Good and evil, joy and sadness are all in tune and perfectly aligned. Yet harmony is difficult to achieve in a world of constant change"."Love and Other Poems", is a collection of poems by British born poet, Mark Williams. This is Mark's fourth collection of published works and his first to explore poetry within a classical Japanese context. Having a modern, philosophical feel, each poem is accompanied by an explanation, as well as both English and Kanji translations. Yet, while having the elements of classical Japanese styling, Mark's poems are still very approachable and easy to relate to, covering a wide range of issues placed into three broad categories - wisdom, love, and life. Within each category is a plethora of ideas and concepts, some full of joy, others, torrid despair. These poems will touch and guide you on a pathway, a pathway perhaps to... harmony itself.

Mark Owen protagonizó la misión de los SEAL Team Six que mataron a Osama bin Laden, y la relató después, con un éxito extraordinario, en Un día difícil. Este nuevo libro suyo, No hay héroes, nos sumerge en la experiencia de las nuevas formas de la guerra: de las operaciones especiales planeadas a partir de las informaciones de los «drones» no tripulados, realizadas en rápidos despliegues, de una intensidad que sólo se puede soportar con un entrenamiento extraordinario. Sus protagonistas no son héroes, sino hombres que han recibido una preparación especial y que han aprendido a actuar en equipo. Owen no pretende narrar hazañas bélicas, sino aproximarnos a la experiencia íntima de los combatientes, de sus luchas y dificultades personales. Los relatos que nos ofrece de las acciones vividas por él y por su equipo tienen una verdad y una fuerza como muy pocas veces se ha visto en la literatura de guerra. Una veracidad que explica que el gobierno norteamericano haya secuestrado este libro y le haya impuesto algunos recorte.

Bereit zum Kampf – ein Elitesoldat enthüllt, was wirklich zählt Mission erfüllt war ein Millionenerfolg. Aber Mark Owen war nicht nur dabei, als Osama bin Laden starb, er nahm während seiner 13 Jahre als Navy SEAL an über 100 wichtigen Einsätzen teil. Zum ersten Mal bietet Owen jetzt exklusive Einblicke in den Alltag eines Navy SEALs und enthüllt, wie er zum Teamleiter einer der besten Elitetruppen der Welt wurde: dem SEAL Team 6. Spannend, packend, aufsehenerregend! Nach wie vor sind unendlich viele Legenden in Umlauf über die Navy SEALs – Grund genug für Mark Owen, erstmals von seinen zutiefst persönlichen Erfahrungen und von den vielen Missionen jenseits der Schlagzeilen zu erzählen: »Mit Kein Held für einen Tag möchte ich die persönliche Seite des Krieges zeigen, die Herausforderungen, Entbehrungen und alles, was ich während meiner Zeit als Navy SEAL fürs Leben lernte. Als SEALs sind wir dazu angehalten, diese Werte und alles, was wir gelernt haben, weiterzugeben, damit andere das Gleiche für die nächste Generation tun können. Mit Kein Held für einen Tag möchte ich dies auch für meine Leser tun.« Von der Härte der Trainings bis zum Einsatz auf dem Schlachtfeld: Mark Owen nimmt uns mit in den Alltag eines Navy SEALs – Kampfgeist, Teamgeist, Nervenkitzel hautnah!

Mark Owens veel geroemde Geen makkelijke dag, over de door hem geleide missie die de wereld verloste van Osama bin Laden, was een onmiddellijke bestseller. Maar in de dertien jaar dat Mark Owen leiding gaf aan seal Team Six, nam hij deel aan veel meer en veel grotere missies die ook van grote invloed waren op de wereldgeschiedenis. Niet alle missies waren even succesvol, maar zowel de successen als de mislukkingen dragen volgens Owen bij aan de perfect geoliede machine van de Seals, het elitekorps dat leeft bij het motto: ‘De enige makkelijke dag was gisteren.’ Al deze missies en ervaringen beschrijft Owen – op de openhartige manier die we van hem kennen – in dit nieuwe, spannende boek.

​This book takes a theoretical enterprise in Christian philosophy of religion and applies it to Buddhism, thus defending Buddhism and presenting it favorably in comparison. Chapters explore how the claims of both Christianity and Theravada Buddhism rest on people’s experiences, so the question as to which claimants to religious knowledge are right rests on the evidential value of those experiences. The book examines mysticism and ways to understand what goes on in religious experiences, helping us to understand whether it is good grounds for religious belief. The author argues that religious language in both Christian and Buddhist traditions is intelligible as factual discourse, and so reports of mystical experience are true or false. The book contends that those experiences can be fruitfully thought of as perceptual in kind and that they are therefore good prima facie grounds for religious belief, in the absence of defeating conditions. The work goes on to explore Christian and Buddhist testimony and how the likelihood of self-deception, self-delusion, imaginative elaboration and the like constitutes a defeating condition. It is shown that this defeater has less scope for operation in the Buddhist case than in the Christian case, and therefore Theravada Buddhism is better grounded. This work will appeal to students and scholars of philosophy and philosophy of religion, and those interested in the study of religious experience.

A New York Times BestsellerA Publishers Weekly BestsellerA Washington Post BestsellerA Wall Street Journal BestsellerFor the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moments.From the streets of Iraq to the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian Ocean, and from the mountaintops of Afghanistan to the third floor of Osama bin Laden's compound, operator Mark Owen of the U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group -- commonly known as SEAL Team Six -- has been a part of some of the most memorable special operations in history. No Easy Day puts readers alongside Owen and the other handpicked members of the twenty-four-man team as they train for and execute the biggest mission of their lives.

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« Cela faisait huit ans que je traquais Ben Laden et les leaders d’Al Qaida. Et là, j’étais à quelques minutes de sauter de l’hélicoptère pour atterrir dans la cour de sa résidence surveillée. J’ai attrapé le filin relié au fuselage du Faucon Noir. Le sniper à côté de moi s’est posté, une jambe dans l’hélico, une dehors pour dégager de la place dans l’habitacle. Avec son arme il scannait les cibles dans la résidence. Il devait couvrir le côté sud pendant que l’équipe d’assaut se glissait dans la cour du bâtiment principal avant de se séparer, chacun allant accomplir la tâche qui lui était impartie. La veille seulement, aucun de nous pensait que Washington donnerait le feu vert pour cette mission. » Lorsque Mark Owen survole Abbottabad en hélicoptère en ce 2 mai 2011, il sait que cette mission sera la bonne. La cible : nom de code « Geronimo ». Alias Oussama Ben Laden, recherché par toutes les polices depuis les attentats du 11 septembre 2001.

Den 1 maj 2011 stormade en amerikansk specialstyrka huset i Pakistan där Usama bin Ladin befann sig. Ett ögonblick senare var han död. En av soldaterna som deltog i operationen var Matt Bissonette som under pseudonymen Mark Owen skrivit boken Ingen lätt dag. Owen var gruppchef under Operation Neptune Spear i Abbottabad i Pakistan den militärinstats som resulterade i Usama bin Ladins död. Han var en av de första som tog sig in på tredje våningen i terroristens gömställe och han bevittnade där bin Ladins död. I Ingen lätt dag ger Mark Owen sin bild av hur det hela gick till. Läsaren följer honom och de övriga tjugotre SEAL-soldaterna i den handplockade gruppen när de tränar inför uppdraget. Berättelsen, som slutar med bin Ladins död, är en viktig pusselbit i vår moderna historia. Den börjar med en helikopterkrasch (som Owen med knapp nöd överlever)och beskriver detaljerat skeendet fram till anropet som meddelar världen att terroristledaren är död. Mark Owen var i många år medlem i United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group, mer känt som SEAL Team Six. Som SEAL-soldat deltog han i hundratals uppdrag över hela världen, bland annat den spektakulära fritagningen av kapten Richard Phillips på Indiska oceanen 2009, men också i många andra som inte tidigare kommit till allmänhetens kännedom. I Ingen lätt dag låter han läsaren ta del av livet på slagfältet och redogör för hur elitsoldaterna väljs ut och tränas inför sina uppdrag. Mark Owen berättar också om hur soldaterna i SEAL förväntas prestera på toppen av sin fysiska och mentala förmåga. Med sinne för detaljer beskriver han elitstyrkans många uppdrag och ger en mycket levande bild av hur gruppen formats efter den 11 september 2001. Mark Owen vill med sin bok hedra de soldater som deltagit i kampen mot terrorismen. Alla namn i boken har ändrats för att skydda identiteterna på alla iblandade. Namnet Mark Owen är en pseudonym och det var författarens avsikt att även hålla sin egen identitet hemlig. Efter det att boken kom ut avslöjades emellertid hans verkliga identitet av amerikanska Fox News och författaren trädde fram i bl.a. tv-programmet 60-minutes. Mark Owens medförfattare Kevin Maurer har rapporterat om militära specialstyrkor i nio år. Han har rest som inbäddad tillsammans med specialstyrkorna i Afghanistan sex gånger, tillbringat en månad hos specialenheter i Östafrika 2006 och rest som inbäddad tillsammans med amerikanska styrkor i Irak och Haiti. Han har skrivit fyra böcker, varav flera om specialstyrkor.

Un día difícil es el relato en primera persona de la operación que condujo a la muerte de Osama bin Laden. Un testimonio que difiere en muchos aspectos del que dio al público el gobierno de los Estados Unidos; por el que el autor está amenazado de un proceso por revelación de secretos, y que le ha convertido en el objetivo más buscado por el terrorismo islámico. La narración de esta aventura real resulta fascinante, pero hay mucho más en estas memorias del miembro del SEAL Team Six que se esconde tras el nombre de Mark Owen: hay toda la vida de un hombre que, después de dejar su tranquilo medio familiar en Alaska, emprendió la dura tarea de formación necesaria para integrarse en la más arriesgada de las fuerzas especiales, lo que le llevó a participar en operaciones memorables, como el rescate del capitán Phillips, capturado por los piratas de Somalia, y en muchas otras que nunca llegaron al conocimiento del público. Resulta, además, un anticipo de lo que van a ser las formas de guerra en un futuro inmediato.

Die Wahrheit über die Jagd auf Osama bin Laden Die Welt kennt nur die Bilder aus dem Lagezentrum des Weißen Hauses: Präsident Barack Obama und sein Stab beobachten am Monitor den Zugriff der Navy Seals. Mit aufgerissenen Augen verfolgt Außenministerin Hillary Clinton das Geschehen. Erschrocken schlägt sie die Hand vor den Mund. Es ist der Moment, als Osama bin Laden, der Drahtzieher des globalen Terrors, von einer Kugel in den Kopf getroffen wird. Was genau der US-Präsident und seine Berater sahen, ist ein streng gehütetes Geheimnis. Einzig und allein die Männer, die den Auftrag ausführten, wissen, was in Pakistan wirklich geschah. Mark Owen ist einer von ihnen. Der authentische Bericht über die tatsächlichen Umstände des Todes von Osama bin Laden – die wahre Geschichte über die wohl spektakulärste Mission der Navy Seals.

For the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moments.

Simplified Chinese edition of No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden - a New York Times bestseller. In Simplified Chinese. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

« Cela faisait huit ans que je traquais Ben Laden et les leaders d’Al Qaida. Et là, j’étais à quelques minutes de sauter de l’hélicoptère pour atterrir dans la cour de sa résidence surveillée. J’ai attrapé le filin relié au fuselage du Faucon Noir. Le sniper à côté de moi s’est posté, une jambe dans l’hélico, une dehors pour dégager de la place dans l’habitacle. Avec son arme il scannait les cibles dans la résidence. Il devait couvrir le côté sud pendant que l’équipe d’assaut se glissait dans la cour du bâtiment principal avant de se séparer, chacun allant accomplir la tâche qui lui était impartie. La veille seulement, aucun de nous pensait que Washington donnerait le feu vert pour cette mission. » Lorsque Mark Owen survole Abbottabad en hélicoptère en ce 2 mai 2011, il sait que cette mission sera la bonne. La cible : nom de code « Geronimo ». Alias Oussama Ben Laden, recherché par toutes les polices depuis les attentats du 11 septembre 2001. Engagé dans les Navy SEAL en 2004, Mark Owen a sillonné les sentiers des montagnes du Pakistan, les côtes de Somalie, les rues et villages d’Irak et d’Afghanistan à la poursuite des Talibans. Toutes ces missions préparaient la dernière. Celle qu’il a menée. Celle où il a assisté en direct à la mort du leader d’Al-Qaida. Traduit de l’américain par Olivier Dow et Paule Lescar.