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After an introduction to the world of Pangolins, this book focusses on one Pangolin family who are disturbed by a gang of animal smugglers while feeding in the jungle one night. The two Pangolin youngsters, Timmie and Toby are kidnapped and imprisoned in a suitcase, destined to be trafficked and sold. After a frightening journey the little Pangolin brothers engineer their own escape from captivity, encountering kind support from animal conservation workers who return them to their jungle home. The smugglers get their just desserts.

In Govzilla, economist Stephen Moore details how out-of-control spending and expansion has turned our government into a monster that must be stopped.

The rousing, illustrated story of the Birchmere music hall by founder and operator Gary Oelze with music writer Stephen Moore. Performers, staff, journalists, and patrons share their stories of bluegrass, folk, blues, jazz, r&b, and more.

A dark fantasy myth steeped in spiritual allegory that follows a single soul on his path toward the light. A graphic novel retelling the classic tale originally written by John Bunyan in 1678. This rich Spiritual allegory is the epic journey of one soul on his pilgrimage from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City.

Back during the Vietnam War the Phoenix Project was a CIA driven program of torture and assassination of any NVA sympathizers. Over 150,000 people were killed. Their unspeakable tactics make water-boarding look like drinking from a water fountain.In the early to mid-1970's word gets to the American public and the US Congress. Not wanting this terrible publicity the congress puts a halt to this project. But the ultra-hawks somehow rename it and raise it from the ashes, Our story is about the modern day renewal of the Phoenix Project designed to torture and assassinate political adversaries at home and around the world. They even go as far to assassinate the President of the United States and replace him with a man who falls in line with their political thinking about going to war with North Korea. The FBI director calls in three unknown people and given the task to seek out who killed the President and to find ways to keep it from happening again. But these three are met with obstacles at every turn. Someone knows their every step even before they make it. Their investigation takes them from DC to California and back in search for the truth. With the help of some honorable Japanese friends and Navajo code talkers... they try to find their way back to DC with the answers before the Phoenix Operatives do their evil duty.

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The Little Alien Explorers absolutely love adventures in the wilds of planet Earth. First Stop - The Congo Jungle! Join our explorers as they meet amazing animals like jungle elephants, dwarf crocodiles, pangolins and Olivier the okapi! Olivier tells them about beautiful, rare gorillas, but will they find one?

The last Pacific campaign of World War II was the most violent on record. Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher’s Task Force 58 carriers had conducted air strikes on mainland Japan and supported the Iwo Jima landings, but his aviators were sorely tested once the Okinawa campaign commenced on 1 April 1945. Rain of Steel follows Navy and Marine carrier aviators in the desperate air battles to control the kamikazes directed by Vice Admiral Matome Ugaki. The latter would unleash ten different Kikusui aerial suicide operations, one including a naval force built around the world’s most powerful battleship, the 71,000-ton Yamato. These battles are related largely through the words and experiences of some of the last living U.S. fighter aces of World War II. More than 1,900 kamikaze sorties—and thousands more traditional attack aircraft—would be launched against the U.S. Navy’s warships, radar picket ships, and amphibious vessels during the Okinawa campaign. In this time, Navy, Marine, and Army Air Force pilots would claim some 2,326 aerial victories. The most successful four-man fighter division in U.S. Navy history would be crowned during the fight against Ugaki’s kamikazes. The Japanese named the campaign tetsu no ame (“rain of steel”), often referred to in English as “typhoon of steel.”

In real estate the three rules of buying a home are location, location, location. This explains the seismic change in America in terms of where families are choosing to live, where businesses are choosing to locate, and where investors are choosing to invest. America is experiencing the most profound geographical shift in economic and political center of gravity in at least half a century. Why? Because the red (conservative) states are getting redder and the blue (liberal) states are getting bluer. Red states like Texas, Florida, Arizona and Utah are cutting tax rates, slashing regulations, reducing debt, promoting energy development, allowing labor the right to work, while the blue states (New Jersey, New York, California, and Illinois) are doing the opposite. The results are stunning: for every new job in blue states, red states are producing three. Every year a net three million people are voting with their feet and relocating out of blue states into red states. Big companies like Toyota are doing the same. Americans are saying: who needs New Jersey, or New York. The last person left in Rhode Island will have to turn off the lights.

The Christmas Adventure It's Christmas Eve night. Neatly wrapped presents are under the tree that is laden with decorations. The kitchen is well stocked for tomorrow's feast. The halls are decked. The fire is fading as silence settles in the living room. All is warm and cozy in the house while outside, a winter storm rages and the north wind howls as if demanding to get inside out of the cold. The scene is set. Now is the perfect time for the others who live in the house to make their own arrangements to enjoy seasonal merriment and a festive feast. With the family nestled all snug in their beds, two mice get stirring. Murgatroyd, a member of the elite M.I.N.U.T.E. (Mice International Network Unit Team Elite) tactical team and his young cousin, Archimedes, set off on a Christmas Eve raid on the refrigerator. This annual Yuletide Caper had been meticulously planned earlier by senior mice but, as the poet Robbie Burns once said, "Best laid schemes of mice and men often go awry." Following the plan to the letter, Archimedes and Murgatroyd discover only fridge tracks. Horror of horrors, it's been stolen! Join our intrepid adventurers on their quest to find the missing appliance and steal it back. It's an adventure that brings out the light of the holiday season. Through it all, one little mouse will need to stand tall to save Christmas. With a little help from Santa, of course.

John Duffey's Bluegrass Life: Featuring The Country Gentlemen, Seldom Scene and Washington, D.C. is the definitive biography of one of bluegrass music's most important artists in the history of the genre. His work as a founding member of these two pioneering bands, John Duffey urbanized bluegrass and introduced it to a broad new audience.

Satan was bold and determined-"Stretch out your hand and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse you to your face!" Thus begins one of the most famous cases of suffering in history. But is there more to the story than suffering and patience? In Satan''s Wager, Stephen Moore shares the amazing story of a bad bet and the priceless faith lessons you can glean from it. Would you like to know the true and missed message of Job, the one that will transform your view of God and of everyday life? Dive into the surprising story of Satan''s Wager-your faith will never be the same!

Conservative economists offer a well-informed defense of Trump’s approach to trade, taxes, employment, infrastructure, and other economic policies. Donald Trump promised the American people a transformative change in economic policy after eight years of stagnation under Obama. But he didn’t adopt a conventional left or right economic agenda. His is a new economic populism that combines some conventional Republican ideas—tax cuts, deregulation, more power to the states—with more traditional Democratic issues such as trade protectionism and infrastructure spending. It also mixes in important populist issues such as immigration reform, pressuring the Europeans to pay for more of their own defense, and keeping America first. Coauthors Stephen Moore and Arthur B. Laffer worked as senior economic advisors to Donald Trump in 2016. They traveled with him, frequently met with his political and economic teams, worked on his speeches, and represented him as surrogates. They are currently members of the Trump Advisory Council and still meet with him regularly. In Trumponomics, they offer an insider’s view on how Trump operates in public and behind closed doors, his priorities and passions, and his greatest attributes and liabilities.

Welcome to the all-new second edition of Navigating the Digital Age. This edition brings together more than 50 leaders and visionaries from business, science, technology, government, aca¬demia, cybersecurity, and law enforce¬ment. Each has contributed an exclusive chapter designed to make us think in depth about the ramifications of this digi-tal world we are creating. Our purpose is to shed light on the vast possibilities that digital technologies present for us, with an emphasis on solving the existential challenge of cybersecurity. An important focus of the book is centered on doing business in the Digital Age-par¬ticularly around the need to foster a mu¬tual understanding between technical and non-technical executives when it comes to the existential issues surrounding cybersecurity. This book has come together in three parts. In Part 1, we focus on the future of threat and risks. Part 2 emphasizes lessons from today''s world, and Part 3 is designed to help you ensure you are covered today. Each part has its own flavor and personal¬ity, reflective of its goals and purpose. Part 1 is a bit more futuristic, Part 2 a bit more experiential, and Part 3 a bit more practical. How we work together, learn from our mistakes, deliver a secure and safe digital future-those are the elements that make up the core thinking behind this book. We cannot afford to be complacent. Whether you are a leader in business, government, or education, you should be knowledgeable, diligent, and action-oriented. It is our sincerest hope that this book provides answers, ideas, and inspiration.If we fail on the cybersecurity front, we put all of our hopes and aspirations at risk. So we start this book with a simple proposition: When it comes to cybersecurity, we must succeed.

Uncommon Valor is a look into the formation and operation of an advanced Special Forces recon company during the Vietnam War. Code-named the Studies and Observations Group, SOG was the most covert U.S. military unit in its time and contained only volunteers from such elite units as the Army''s Green Berets, Navy SEALs, and Air Force Air Commandos. SOG warriors operated in small teams, going behind enemy lines in Laos and Cambodia and along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, tasked with performing special reconnaissance, sabotaging North Vietnamese Army ammunition, attempting to rescue downed U.S. pilots, and other black ops missions. During that time, Forward Operating Base-2''s (FOB-2''s) recon company became the most highly decorated unit of the Vietnam War, with five of its men earning the Medal of Honor and eight earning the Distinguished Service Cross-America''s second highest military award for valor. Purple Hearts were earned by SOG veterans at a pace unparalleled in American wars of the twentieth century, with casualties at times exceeding 100 percent. One, Bob Howard, was wounded on fourteen different occasions, received eight Purple Hearts, was written up after three different missions for the Medal of Honor, and emerged from Vietnam as the most highly decorated soldier since World War II''s Audie Murphy.

Cerphe’s Up is an incisive musical memoir by Cerphe Colwell, a renowned rock radio broadcaster for more than forty-five years in Washington, DC. Cerphe shares his life as a rock radio insider in rich detail and previously unpublished photographs. His story includes promotion and friendship with a young unknown Bruce Springsteen; his years at radio station WHFS 102.3 as it blossomed in a new freeform format; candid interviews with Little Feat’s Lowell George, Tom Waits, Nils Lofgren, Stevie Nicks, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Steven Van Zandt, Robert Plant, Danny Kortchmar, Seldom Scene’s John Duffey, and many others; hanging out with George Harrison, the Rolling Stones, Van Morrison, John Entwistle, Jackson Browne, and many more; testifying on Capitol Hill with friend Frank Zappa during the “Porn Rock” hearings; and managing the radio syndication of both G. Gordon Liddy and Howard Stern. Player listings and selected performances at legendary DC music clubs Childe Harold and Cellar Door are also chronicled. Cerphe’s Up is both historically significant and a fun, revealing ride with some of the greatest rock-and-roll highfliers of the twentieth century. Cerphe’s Up belongs on the reading list of every rock fan, musician, and serious music scholar.

Fossil fuel energy is the lifeblood of the modern world. Before the Industrial Revolution, humanity depended on burning wood and candle wax. But with the ability to harness the energy in oil and other fossil fuels, quality of life and capacity for progress increased exponentially. Thanks to incredible innovations in the energy industry, fossil fuels are as promising, safe, and clean an energy resource as has ever existed in history. Yet, highly politicized climate policies are pushing a grand-scale shift to unreliable, impractical, incredibly expensive, and far less efficient energy sources. Today, "fossil fuel" has become such a dirty word that even fossil fuel companies feel compelled to apologize for their products. In Fueling Freedom, energy experts Stephen Moore and Kathleen Hartnett White make an unapologetic case for fossil fuels, turning around progressives'' protestations to prove that if fossil fuel energy is supplanted by "green" alternatives for political reasons, humanity will take a giant step backwards and the planet will be less safe, less clean, and less free.

What happens when a leading conservative economist goes mano a mano with today’s most influential exponent of left-liberal economics, over free markets versus government interventionism? Here are highlights of that showdown between Stephen Moore of the Heritage Foundation and Paul Krugman, Nobel laureate. Moore and Krugman sparred over eight major economic issues in our national debate – from whether the policy response to the crisis of 2008 was successful, to the outlook for Obamacare, to the “red state / blue state” divide. The contest was cordial and spiced with wit. (Does air conditioning explain the migration from blue to red states? Is Houston still uninhabitable?) This high-powered matchup illuminates a clash of worldview that leads to opposing policy prescriptions. More important, it will help you draw conclusions about which economic policies work.

Covering Year 2 of A-level, this student book will help students master the knowledge and skills they need to excel in their study and engage with contemporary society.

Rogrig Wishard is a killer, a liar and a thief.

History of the First Baptist Church of Kingstowne, Virginia, published on its fifty-fifth anniversary. The book traces the church from its organization in 1960 as Arlington Missionary Baptist Church, through its time in Alexandaria as Landmark Missionary Baptist Church, and its move to Hayfield in 1970 to become First Baptist Church of Hayfield. In 1986, the church changed its name to First Baptist Church of Kingstowne.

Updated for the 2015 AQA sociology specifications, this book covers AS and Year 1 of A-level. It will help students master the knowledge and skills they need to excel in their study and engage with contemporary society.

A passionate, detailed, quantified argument for state-level tax reform An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of States explains why eliminating or lowering tax burdens at the state level leads to economic growth and wealth creation. A passionate argument for tax reform, the book shows that even states with small populations can benefit enormously with the right policies. The authors’ detailed exposition evaluates the impact state and local government policies have on a state’s relative performance and economic growth overall, backed up with economic data and analysis. Facts don’t lie. But they do point clearly to the failure of so-called progressive tax schemes designed more to curry favor with selected constituencies than to create an economic system that leads to individual wealth as the reward for hard work and entrepreneurial risk taking. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of States is a detailed and critical look at income taxation across the nation, and drills down into an analysis of the economic growth or malaise that results from tax policy. Arguing eloquently that a state cannot tax itself into prosperity, just as the impoverished cannot spend themselves into wealth, the authors point out what many inherently know but often fear to say out loud. The book provides detailed quantitative analysis, and discusses the policy variables that can have enormous effects on the financial well-being of states and individual residents, such as: Personal and corporate income tax rates Total tax burden as a percentage of personal income Estate and inheritance taxes Right-to-work laws An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of States shows everyone how to evaluate state-level fiscal and economic policies to become more competitive.

Sarah Lemming feels lost. She's twelve years old and her life is a horrible mess! Her father is dead. She detests her mother's new boyfriend. And now they're all moving into an ancient ruined cottage, that's slap bang in the middle of nowhere!And then there's the Brugan! When he comes crashing into Sarah's world she just knows that nothing will ever be the same again. He's ugly. He's smelly. He's a vile shade of green. The grown-ups don't even believe he exists! And it's not that he means to be bad; it's just that the Brugan is lost too! And his mischief is more dangerous, more powerful, more deadly than anyone could have imagined.Can the Brugan ever find his way home? Can Sarah...?

Do you believe in faeries? Dangerous, real live, flesh and blood faeries? Thomas Dobson doesn’t. When the local glassworks closes down and the workers lose their jobs he thinks it’s just bad luck. When developers move in and bulldoze his favourite playground, the garden allotments that are his dad’s pride and joy, he thinks it’s just one of those things. When people get hurt, go missing and worse, it’s just the way things are. It’s got nothing to do with silly faeries... But what if he’s wrong? Maybe it’s time to start believing.

Popular economists Art Laffer and Stephen Moore expertly analyze how Obama''s policies have wrecked the economy, aggravating the worst economic recession since the Great Depression, and setting America on track for an epic and unavoidable crash. Laffer and Moore tell the stories you haven''t heard from the mainstream media about how Obama''s policies have utterly sabotaged the American economy, and in their trademark approachable and readable style describe the steps Americaneeds to take to get back on track.In Crash Landing, Laffer and Moore constrast Obamanomics with Reganomics, demonstrating how the Reagan Recovery worked-and took the opposite approach to virtually every policy Obama has implemented in his first term and plans to continue in his second. Laffer and Moore present complex economic data in a readable, accessible manner, so all readers can see how damaging Obama''s policies have been to the American economy. Laffer and Moore deliver indisputable evidence that: - Obama is ushering in inflation that rivals 1970s levels - The Obama Administration and its allies have calculatedly deceived voters about the role of tax cuts and deregulation in the recession - The EPA''s global warming crusade is little more than another costly tax - Obamacare will raise health costs, hitting Americans'' wallets when they''re already down for the count - The "welfare cliff" actually discourages people from finding work because taxes mean they''ll make less than they could on welfare when unemployedLaffer and Moore delve deeper into these issues by dissecting three "states of despair" as small-scale examples of what''s coming for the rest of America: the debt-plagued and financially strapped New York, California, and Illinois. Crash Landing is more than a diagnosis, however-it''s a prescription for how to get America back on the path to prosperity. In the final chapters Laffer and Moore describe in precise detail the changes we must make to reinvigorate our economy and keep it healthy.

The conventional understanding of Japanese wartime ideology has for years been summed up by just a few words: anti-modern, spiritualist, and irrational. Yet such a cut-and-dried picture is not at all reflective of the principles that guided national policy from 1931–1945. Challenging the status quo, Constructing East Asia examines how Japanese intellectuals, bureaucrats, and engineers used technology as a system of power and mobilization—what historian Aaron Moore terms a "technological imaginary"—to rally people in Japan and its expanding empire. By analyzing how these different actors defined technology in public discourse, national policies, and large-scale infrastructure projects, Moore reveals wartime elites as far more calculated in thought and action than previous scholarship allows. Moreover, Moore positions the wartime origins of technology deployment as an essential part of the country''s national policy and identity, upending another predominant narrative—namely, that technology did not play a modernizing role in Japan until the "economic miracle" of the postwar years.

President Obama has declared that the standard by which all policies and policy outcomes are judged is fairness. He declared in 2011 that "we''ve sought to ensure that every citizen can count on some basic measure of security. We do this because we recognize that no matter how responsibly we live our lives, any one of us, at any moment, might face hard times, might face bad luck, might face a crippling illness or a layoff." And that, he says, is why we have a social safety net. He says that returning to a standard of fairness where anyone can get ahead through hard work is the "issue of our time." And perhaps it is. This book explores what it means for our economic system and our economic results to be "fair." Does it mean that everyone has a fair shot? Does it mean that everyone gets the same amount? Does it mean the government can assert the authority to forcibly take from the successful and give to the poor? Is government supposed to be Robin Hood determining who gets what? Or should the market decide that? The surprising answer: nations with free market systems that allow people to get ahead based on their own merit and achievement are the fairest of them all.