On The Brinks

Author : Sam Millar
Publisher : The O'Brien Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781847176561

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On the Brinks by Sam Millar Pdf

'Security guards told the police that they were surprised by assailants who had somehow evaded the sophisticated security system. They could not say how many robbers there were...it appears to be one of the biggest robberies in U.S. history.' New York Times, front page In 1993 $7.4 million was stolen from the Brink's Armored Car Depot in Rochester, New York, the fifth largest robbery in US history. Sam Millar was a member of the gang who carried out the robbery. He was caught, found guilty and incarcerated, before being set free by Bill Clinton's government as an essential part of the Northern Ireland Peace Process. This remarkable book is Sam's story, from his childhood in Belfast, membership of the IRA, time spent in Long Kesh internment camps and the Brinks heist and aftermath. Unputdownable.

Author : Parker J. Palmer
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781523095452

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On the Brink of Everything by Parker J. Palmer Pdf

“This impassioned book invites readers to the deep end of life where authentic soul work and human transformation become pressing concerns.” —Publishers Weekly 2019 Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medalist in the Aging/Death & Dying Category From bestselling author Parker J. Palmer comes a brave and beautiful book for all who want to age reflectively, seeking new insights and life-giving ways to engage in the world. “Age itself,” he says, “is no excuse to wade in the shallows. It’s a reason to dive deep and take creative risks.” Looking back on eight decades of life—and on his work as a writer, teacher, and activist—Palmer explores what he’s learning about self and world, inviting readers to explore their own experience. In prose and poetry—and three downloadable songs written for the book by the gifted Carrie Newcomer—he meditates on the meanings of life, past, present, and future. With compassion and chutzpah, gravitas and levity, Palmer writes about cultivating a vital inner and outer life, finding meaning in suffering and joy, and forming friendships across the generations that bring new life to young and old alike. “This book is a companion for not merely surviving a fractured world, but embodying—like Parker—the fiercely honest and gracious wholeness that is ours to claim at every stage of life.” —Krista Tippett, New York Times-bestselling author of Becoming Wise “A wondrously rich mix of reality and possibility, comfort and story, helpful counsel and poetry, in the voice of a friend . . . This is a book of immense gratitude, consolation, and praise.” —Naomi Shihab Nye, National Book Award finalist

Author : Gary Craig
Publisher : University Press of New England
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-02
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781512600629

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Seven Million by Gary Craig Pdf

On a freezing night in January 1993, masked gunmen walked through the laughably lax security at the Rochester Brink's depot, tied up the guards, and unhurriedly made off with $7.4 million in one of the FBI's top-five armored car heists in history. Suspicion quickly fell on a retired Rochester cop working security for Brinks at the time-as well it might. Officer Tom O'Connor had been previously suspected of everything from robbery to murder to complicity with the IRA. One ex-IRA soldier in particular was indebted to O'Connor for smuggling him and his girlfriend into the United States, and when he was caught in New York City with $2 million in cash from the Brink's heist, prosecutors were certain they finally had enough to nail O'Connor. But they were wrong. In Seven Million, the reporter Gary Craig meticulously unwinds the long skein of leads, half-truths, false starts, and dead ends, taking us from the grim solitary pens of Northern Ireland's Long Kesh prison to the illegal poker rooms of Manhattan to the cold lakeshore on the Canadian border where the body parts began washing up. The story is populated by a colorful cast of characters, including cops and FBI agents, prison snitches, a radical priest of the Melkite order who ran a home for troubled teenagers on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and the IRA rebel who'd spent long years jailed in one of Northern Ireland's most brutal prisons and who was living underground in New York posing as a comics dealer. Finally, Craig investigates the strange, sad fate of Ronnie Gibbons, a down-and-out boxer and muscle-for-hire in illegal New York City card rooms, who was in on the early planning of the heist, and who disappeared one day in 1995 after an ill-advised trip to Rochester to see some men about getting what he felt he was owed. Instead, he got was what was coming to him. Seven Million is a meticulous re-creation of a complicated heist executed by a variegated and unsavory crew, and of its many repercussions. Some of the suspects are now dead, some went to jail; none of them are talking about the robbery or what really happened to Ronnie Gibbons. And the money? Only a fraction was recovered, meaning that most of the $7 million is still out there somewhere.

Author : Noel Behn
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-14
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781504036641

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Big Stick-Up at Brink's! by Noel Behn Pdf

A riveting and frequently hilarious insider account of one of the twentieth century’s most outrageous capers. On the evening of January 17, 1950, armed robbers wearing Captain Marvel masks entered the Brink’s Armored Car building in Boston, Massachusetts. They walked out less than an hour later with more than $2.7 million in cash and securities. It was a brazen and expertly executed theft that captured the imaginations of millions of Americans and baffled the FBI and local law enforcement officials. But what appeared on the surface to be the perfect crime was, in fact, the end result of a mind-boggling series of mistakes, miscalculations, and missteps. The men behind the masks were not expert bank robbers but a motley crew of small-time crooks who bumbled their way into a record-breaking payday and managed to elude the long arm of the law for six years. New York Times–bestselling author Noel Behn tape-recorded nearly one thousand hours of interviews with the surviving robbers, including motormouthed mastermind Tony Pino, a character so colorful he might have been dreamed up by a Hollywood screenwriter, to tell the uncensored story of the heist forever known as “the Great Brink’s Robbery.” Fun and suspenseful from first page to last, Behn’s true-crime classic was the basis for The Brink’s Job (1978), the Academy Award–nominated film directed by William Friedkin and starring Peter Falk and Peter Boyle.

Author : Alistair Darling
Publisher : Atlantic Books
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780857892829

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Back from the Brink by Alistair Darling Pdf

Alistair Darling's long-awaited book will be one of the most reviewed, widely discussed, and saleable political memoirs of recent years. In the late summer of 2007, shares of Northern Rock went into free-fall, causing a run on the bank - the first in over 150 years. Northern Rock proved to be only the first. Twelve months later, as the world was engulfed in the worst banking crisis for more than a century, one of its largest banks, RBS, came within hours of collapse. Back from the Brink tells the gripping story of Alistair Darling's one thousand days in Number 11 Downing Street. As Chancellor, he had to avert the collapse of RBS hours before the cash machines would have ceased to function; at the eleventh hour, he stopped Barclays from acquiring Lehman Brothers in order to protect UK taxpayers; he used anti-terror legislation to stop Icelandic banks from withdrawing funds from Britain. From crisis talks in Washington, to dramatic meetings with the titans of international banking, to dealing with the massive political and economic fallout in the UK, Darling places the reader in the rooms where the destinies of millions weighed heavily on the shoulders of a few. His book is also a candid account of life in the Downing Street pressure cooker and his relationship with Gordon Brown during the last years of New Labor. Back from the Brink is a vivid and immediate depiction of the British government's handling of an unprecedented global financial catastrophe. Alistair Darling's knowledge and understanding provide a unique perspective on the events that rocked international capitalism. It is also a vital historical document.

Author : André Brink
Publisher : Random House
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781448139705

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Philida by André Brink Pdf

The year is 1832 and the Cape is rife with rumours about the liberation of slaves. Philida is the mother of four children by Francois Brink, the son of her master. Francois has reneged on his promise to set her free and his father has ordered him to marry a white woman from a prominent family, selling Philida on to owners in the harsh country in the north. Unwilling to accept this fate, Philida tests the limits of her freedom by setting off on a journey. She travels across the great wilderness to the far north of Cape Town - determined to survive and be free. LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2012.

Author : Andrew Duguid
Publisher : Springer
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137299307

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On the Brink by Andrew Duguid Pdf

Huge losses very nearly destroyed Lloyd's, a revered British institution, the world's largest insurance market. Ten thousand people faced big personal bills they thought profoundly unfair. They challenged a complacent institution, forcing it to confront its biggest ever crisis. This book tells what really happened, from the inside.

Author : David R. Gibson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691151311

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Talk at the Brink by David R. Gibson Pdf

Uses the tools of Conversaton analysis to show how the decisions of the ExComm were made during the Cuban Missile Crisis, based on audio tapes made by President Kennedy.

Author : Lisa Dalrymple
Publisher : Tell Me More Storybook
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1554552311

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Skink on the Brink by Lisa Dalrymple Pdf

Possessing a beautiful blue tail that protects him from enemies, Stewie enjoys days of singing and climbing only to become alarmed when his tail gradually turns gray, making him feel less special until a new friend helps him realize that changing is part of growing up.

Author : John Campbell
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442221581

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Nigeria by John Campbell Pdf

Nigeria, the United States’ most important strategic partner in West Africa, is in grave trouble. While Nigerians often claim they are masters of dancing on the brink without falling off, the disastrous administration of President Goodluck Jonathan, the radical Islamic insurrection Boko Haram, and escalating violence in the delta and the north may finally provide the impetus that pushes it into the abyss of state failure. In this thoroughly updated edition, John Campbellexplores Nigeria’s post-colonial history and presents a nuanced explanation of the events and conditions that have carried this complex, dynamic, and very troubled giant to the edge. Central to his analysis are the oil wealth, endemic corruption, and elite competition that have undermined Nigeria’s nascent democratic institutions and alienated an increasingly impoverished population. However, state failure is not inevitable, nor is it in the interest of the United States. Campbell provides concrete new policy options that would not only allow the United States to help Nigeria avoid state failure but also to play a positive role in Nigeria’s political, social, and economic development.

Author : Laurie Brink, OP
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814667248

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The Heavens Are Telling the Glory of God by Laurie Brink, OP Pdf

Building on the work of Teilhard de Chardin, the New Cosmology integrates scientific facts and theories, including discoveries about the expanding universe and evolution, and proposes that creation is developing into greater complexity. But how are we to understand concepts like “original sin” and “redemption” if creation isn’t complete and humanity is still in process? How does one “retrofit” religious tradition and Scripture into this scenario? Is there room for the historical Jesus in the New Cosmology? While a ready concern for all Christians, this question has unique implications for women religious whose lives are centered on the person and mission of Jesus Christ. How is a Catholic sister to understand her vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience in light of a cosmology in which the need for redemption and the role of Jesus are significantly redefined? The Heavens Are Telling the Glory of God probes these questions and offers possible answers. Beginning with the experiences of women religious and their encounter with the New Cosmology or Universe Story, this book seeks to mediate among the various perspectives and proposes how informed and reflective engagement with science, tradition, and theology can bridge the generational divides and foster a spirituality that is both emergent and incarnational.

Author : John Feinstein
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781439127131

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Season on the Brink by John Feinstein Pdf

A Season on the Brink chronicles the basketball season that John Feinstein spent following the Indiana Hoosiers and their fiery coach, Bob Knight. Knight granted Feinstein an unprecedented inside look at college basketball -- with complete access to every moment of the season. Feinstein saw and heard it all -- practices, team meetings, strategy sessions, and mid-game huddles -- during Knight's struggle to avoid a losing season. A Season on the Brink not only captures the drama and pressure of big-time college basketball but paints a vivid portrait of a complex, brilliant coach walking a fine line between genius and madness.

Author : Tom Rogal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692197885

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Brinks in Time by Tom Rogal Pdf

Divi, daughter of the High Mage, Neeza, didn't want to be awoken in the middle of the night for a secret mission. As a mage who chose not to learn magic, these journeys meant little for her. That is until their party is attacked and she finds herself alone.Meeting a local hunter named Levus Sintar, they find themselves thrust into a conflict that puts them in the warpath of Dyyros' mystical dictator, Ulcinar.In the middle is the Moonsaber, an onyx sword once belonging to Levus' dad, hidden until recently. It gives its bearer unique, but dangerous powers.To defeat this powerful being, they must convince the races and kingdoms of the Mainland to fight together for a common cause once again . . . something that hasn't happened for 700 years. Brinks in Time: The Unification begins the tale of Levus and Divi, two strangers from different ways of life, thrown into something much larger than themselves. As they soon realize, they possess great promise: One that can save Gyyerlith, the other capable of destroying it.

Author : John Castellucci
Publisher : Dodd Mead
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038006115

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The Big Dance by John Castellucci Pdf

Author : Melissa Brinks
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780762496563

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Little Book of Video Games by Melissa Brinks Pdf

Revisit your favorites, find something new, or play your way through this light-hearted guide to the most celebrated and iconic arcade, console, and computer games from the 1950s to the 2000s. An accessible, informative look at the history and evolution some of the most popular and iconic video games from their early beginnings up to the 2000s. Author Melissa Brinks explores each influential game and its impact on they would have on the games that would follow, with brief, engaging profiles and surprising trivia that is perfect for fans of all levels. From the groundbreaking games of the 1950s to the genre-defining games of the 60s and 70s to the modern classics of the 1990s and early 2000s, The Little Book of Video Games includes games from a wide variety of genres and consoles including (but not limited to): Pong, Spacewar!, Adventure, Pac-Man, Rogue, Donkey Kong, Galaga, Dragon's Lair, Tetris, Super Mario Bros., The Oregon Trail, Castlevania, Legend of Zelda, Final Fantasy, Mega Man, SimCity, Mother, Mortal Kombat, Myst, Doom, Warcraft, Diablo, Tomb Raider, Pokémon, Tamagotchi, GoldenEye 007, Ultima Online, Metal Gear Solid, Dance Dance Revolution, Half-Life, Silent Hill, The Sims, and more. Now you can learn, share, and enjoy your favorite classic video games without having to press a power button!