Best Selling Books by MARK OWEN

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.

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.

This book introduces the basic theory of digital signal processing, with emphasis on real-world applications.

If you''ve ever been lucky enough to experience the Public School System in suburban America, then you will empathize with Marty Mason and delight at his teenage experiences in the sleepy town of Kappaqua Falls. While most people never have the opportunity to use what they learned in High School, Marty leverages the teachings from his classes in real-time to outwit and defeat several abusive bullies. His victory celebration is short lived as he is brought before the ruthless Principal of the school and subjected to a ground breaking behavior modification treatment. Military high technology has invaded the high school, and Marty is the unsuspecting and unlucky first test subject of a strange new supercomputer-driven brain stimulation system. FIRST CHANCE provides exciting, page-turning entertainment from the beginning to the end. His FIRST CHANCE Could Be His LAST From the sleepy city of Merida, Mexico to the Castle of Kukulcan at the Mayan ruins of Chichen-Itza on the Yucatan Peninsula, to the quaint town of Kappaqua Falls, New York, FIRST CHANCE provides an entertaining and suspenseful ride. Author Mark Owen paints a visually compelling tale of an American teenager caught in the gears of th American Public School system, struggling against his oppressors: Man and Machine.

u200bThis 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.

There''s a new breed of terrorist living in America. He''s a nationalized citizen educated at a prestigious university, trained by a high-tech corporation, and all the while he''s been biding his time, building his army, waiting to strike. When he sets his diabolical plans in motion, there''s only one man and one organization that can stop him. Jason Talbot is the leader of Strike Squad Alpha, an elite fighting force in the Terrorism Prevention Agency (TEPA), a secret organization within the Department of Homeland Security. He is authorized to operate outside the law to put a stop to terrorist attacks before they occur. But now he faces his greatest challenge. From a hijacked oil tanker in the Mediterranean Sea, to a castle in the woods of Northern Virginia, to an abandoned missile base in Washington State, Jason Talbot, aided by the capable Sarah Ruger of the NTSB, races to stop a modern-day Armageddon. ''Engineering Evil grips you from the beginning and will not let you go! This author knows his way around the guarded world of special operations. You will not be disappointed!"-Lieutenant Colonel Storm Savage, U.S. Army

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.

Het unieke insidersverslag van de aanval op Osama bin Laden, verteld door de man die hem zag sterven. In Geen gemakkelijke dag vertelt Mark Owen het verhaal van de belangrijkste missie van SEAL Team Six tot nu toe. Mark en drieëntwintig andere mannen van het eliteteam SEAL Team Six werden allemaal met grote zorg uitgezocht door de hoogste legerleiding om een van de gevaarlijkste mannen in de wereldgeschiedenis uit te schakelen. In een verslag van minuut tot minuut vertelt Mark het verhaal van die 1ste mei 2011: van de helikoptercrash die Mark al bijna het leven kostte voordat ze Bin Ladens schuilplek ook maar bereikt hadden tot het radiocontact dat de wereld liet weten dat Osama bin Laden dood was... Mark Owen is een voormalig lid van de U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group, beter bekend als SEAL Team Six. In de vele jaren dat hij actief was, heeft hij ontelbare missies tot een succesvol einde gebracht, waarvan de meeste het nieuws nooit haalden. Owen was de leider van Operation Neptune Spear in Abbottabad, Pakistan, de uiterst geheime missie die de dood van Osama bin Laden tot gevolg had. Mark Owen is een pseudoniem, net als de andere namen in het boek. Kevin Maurer is schrijver en onderzoeksjournalist. Hij was als embedded verslaggever betrokken bij vele speciale missies in Irak, Afghanistan, Afrika en Haïti.Hij heeft eerder vier boeken geschreven over geheime militaire operaties.

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.

« 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.

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.

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.

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!

"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.

The principles of signal processing are fundamental to the operation of many everyday devices. This book introduces the basic theory of digital signal processing, with emphasis on real-world applications. Sampling, quantisation, the Fourier transform, filters, Bayesian methods and numerical considerations are covered, then developed to illustrate how they are used in audio, image, and video processing and compression, and in communications. The book concludes with methods for the efficient implementation of algorithms in hardware and software. Intuitive arguments rather than mathematical ones are used wherever possible, and links between various signal processing techniques are stressed. The advantages and disadvantages of different approaches are presented in the context of real-world examples, enabling the reader to choose the best solution to a given problem. With over 200 illustrations and over 130 exercises (including solutions), this book will appeal to practitioners working in signal processing, and undergraduate students of electrical and computer engineering.

''Não Há Dia Fácil'' é um retrato da vida das equipes do Seal e um relato da Operação Lança de Netuno, realizada em 1o de maio de 2011, que resultou na morte do terrorista Osama Bin Laden. Desde a pane no helicóptero Black Hawk - que quase fez com que a missão fosse abortada - até o comunicado pelo rádio via satélite confirmando que o alvo estava morto, a operação dos vinte e quatro Seal na propriedade secreta de Bin Laden deve ser recontada em detalhes. Das ruas de Badgá ao resgate do capitão Richard Phillips no Oceano Índico; das montanhas ao leste de Cabul ao terceiro andar do esconderijo de Osama Bin Laden em Abbottabad, no Paquistão, ''Não Há Dia Fácil'' coloca o leitor dentro da tropa de elite Equipe Seis do Seal.