Stellar Patrol Ranger

Author : P.M. Griffin
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781645409243

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Stellar Patrol Ranger by P.M. Griffin Pdf

A deadly cargo is hidden on an even deadlier world. Stellar Patrol Ranger Taigue Murchu has to track down a band of drug-runners before they unleash their toxic contraband on an unsuspecting population. The war-torn Federation has no resources to hunt the pirates and even fewer to confront them if they did, so it’s up to the under-funded and under-manned, not to mention the universally disliked, Stellar Patrol. The most likely drop-point for the contraband is Ruby, a frozen planet with a devastating history. No one goes there except smugglers and scientists. Enter Dr. Banna Lis, an archopologist with her eyes on one prize, the excavation of Ruby’s long-dead civilization. When Taigue conscripts her to include him on her dig, working undercover as an assistant, sparks fly. But once the pair discover the pirates have already infiltrated the planet, they’re going to have to work together both to protect the ruins and save millions of lives.

Author : Dave Gowel
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781118175620

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The Power in a Link by Dave Gowel Pdf

Make your LinkedIn account work for you and your business LinkedIn is not just another social media tool. It's the world's largest professional online network, with over 120 million users in over two hundred countries. The Power in a Link shows you how to employ this remarkable yet misunderstood resource to execute networking strategies and processes for your business, secure deals, and use (not abuse) your existing relationships. Author David Gowel, the man the Boston Globe has called the "LinkedIn Jedi," delivers the understanding necessary to map networks, stimulate word of mouth, and leverage unparalleled business intelligence to close deals. Arguing that LinkedIn is not social media at all, but instead belongs in a category all of its own, the book cuts through the noise in the crowded social media world with practical applications and explains why all professionals should embrace it in order to achieve success faster through relationships. This book: Advises readers how to spur effective network growth by projecting the right message online Demonstrates how to build and enhance readers' online presence Shows readers how to seek targeted introductions to the connections that matter most Explains why LinkedIn has been misunderstood and therefore misused by many users as well as how to correct past LinkedIn mistakes Partly conceptual, partly autobiographical, and partly technical, The Power in a Link includes success stories from Gowel and other professionals that demonstrate the effectiveness of his techniques.

Author : Steve Perry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0380773015

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Stellar Ranger by Steve Perry Pdf

Author : Patrick Dearen
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798890220097

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Starflight to Eternity by Patrick Dearen Pdf

Spur Award-Winning Author Patrick Dearen STARFLIGHT TO ETERNITY (a.k.a. Starflight to Faroul) “I held the secret of creation in my hands, but I lost it and can never have it again!” Starflight to Eternity, a wizened old man named Kasterfayette has returned from deep space, bearing a strange tale of the planet Faroul. This legendary world is said to be a place where time began and ends, and where a man may gain the power to create. But Faroul is much more, for it holds the destiny of the universe. Alan Burke, a young officer assigned to a starship, deserts when superiors hurl missiles against his home planet. Turning to space piracy, he takes vengeance by preying on government ships. During an attack on a transport, Burke rescues Kasterfayette, a top-secret prisoner who whispers in his dying breaths the location of Faroul. Along with a vicious conspirator called Poteet, a prostitute named Davon, and a young man he loves as a son, Burke sets out on a perilous interstellar journey for Faroul and the deepest secrets of the cosmos.

Author : Andre Norton
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2001-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781618242983

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Star Soldiers by Andre Norton Pdf

Andre Norton-Grand Mistress of science fiction-presents a grand tapestry of the far-flung interstellar future, in which the first starships from Earth have burst out into the universe . . . only to run straight into the restraining grasp of the stagnant alien federation known as Central Control. Only as interstellar mercenaries can humans go to the stars; the aliens who already dominate the galaxy allow no other recourse. But when Swordsman Third Class Kana Karr and his comrades-in-arms are betrayed and abandoned on a hostile world by their alien masters, the warriors from Earth begin a desperate but glorious march across a planet whose every sword is against them. Their actions may doom humanity's future . . . or lead the way to an empire of their own! Four thousand years later, galactic civilization is collapsing, and the underfunded crew of an exploration starship is forced to set down on an uncharted planet: a mysterious, abandoned world that is achingly beautiful-and hauntingly familiar. Ranger Sergeant Kartr, telepath and stellar Patrolman, searches with his crewmates for the source of a beacon which may mean escape for them all. What he finds is far stranger: the first clue to what may become the greatest revelation in galactic history! The defining events of future historyas only Andre Norton could tell them! At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Author : Ed Emanuel
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307416711

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Soul Patrol by Ed Emanuel Pdf

LRRPs had to be the best. Anything less meant certain death. When Ed Emanuel was handpicked for the first African American special operations LRRP team in Vietnam, he knew his six-man team couldn’t have asked for a tougher proving ground than Cu Chi in the summer of 196868. Home to the largest Viet cong tunnel complex in Vietnam, Cu Chi was the deadly heart of the enemy’s stronghold in Tay Ninh Province. Team 2/6 of Company F, 51st Infantry, was quickly dubbed the Soul Patrol, a gimmicky label that belied the true depth of their courage. Stark and compelling, Emanuel’s account provides an unforgettable look at the horror and the heroism that became the daily fare of LRRPs in Vietnam. Every mission was a tightrope walk between life and death as Emanuel’s team penetrated NVA bases, sidestepped lethal booby traps, or found themselves ambushed and forced to fight their way back to the LZ to survive. Emanuel’s gripping memoir is an enduring testament to the valor of all American LRRPs, who courageously risked their lives so that others might be free.

Author : Michael B. Kitz-Miller
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781984552914

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The Life of an Airborne Ranger by Michael B. Kitz-Miller Pdf

Book Two: Take Care of Your Men—part of the trilogy—continues with Jack and Mary Clarke’s careers flourishing. Jack’s training continues at the infantry school, air assault school, and in reestablishing his jump status. His mentor, Lt. Gen. Frank Stafford, is now commander of Eighth Airborne Corps and invites Jack for a special assignment to research small unit tactics in the two airborne divisions at Fort Bragg. Jack uncovers an old boy network that has led to substandard basic military skills. With one unit scheduled for deployment to Vietnam, there is great concern making their readiness a priority. First Lieutenant Donovan leaves for his third tour in Vietnam as a company commander, where he commands two successful operations against VC-rocket launcher sites, receiving numerous commendations for valor. He is now the most highly decorated soldier in the military, but he again clashes with Orin Jensen’s incompetence. Returning from Vietnam as acting battalion commander, Mary Clarke surprises Jack with a planned trip to Austria. Their love of opera and classical music fills their evenings in Salzburg and Vienna. Jack has also discovered his wife’s independent wealth, having inherited a substantial sum from an aunt and uncle unable to have their own children. Money will never be a problem for the Donovans, whose family has been enlarged with a Welsh terrier named Patton. Jack, now a battalion commander with the Seventy-Fifth Airborne Rangers, plans and commands a major field training exercise at Fort Benning. Using high-altitude qualified parachutists, which includes himself, he outsmarts a larger force to win the exercise. Daring maneuvers against the Tenth Mountain Division allow Jack’s rangers to win yet another FTX at Fort Drum and new promotions. Mary Clarke, with a new PhD from the University of Maryland, fills large lecture halls at NC State University. She is one of few professors on campus that give failing grades to students that are not up to the mark, even while students line up for her classes, which includes graduate-level courses on the romantic novels and their many moral characters of Ayn Rand and Victor Hugo.

Author : H. Joaquin Jackson,David Marion Wilkinson
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780292738997

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One Ranger by H. Joaquin Jackson,David Marion Wilkinson Pdf

A retired Texas Ranger recalls a career that took him from shootouts in South Texas to film sets in Hollywood. When his picture appeared on the cover of Texas Monthly, Joaquin Jackson became the icon of the modern Texas Rangers. Nick Nolte modeled his character in the movie Extreme Prejudice on him. Jackson even had a speaking part of his own in The Good Old Boys with Tommy Lee Jones. But the role that Jackson has always played the best is that of the man who wears the silver badge cut from a Mexican cinco peso coin, a working Texas Ranger. Legend says that one Ranger is all it takes to put down lawlessness and restore the peace: one riot, one Ranger. In this adventure-filled memoir, Joaquin Jackson recalls what it was like to be the Ranger who responded when riots threatened, violence erupted, and criminals needed to be brought to justice across a wide swath of the Texas-Mexico border from 1966 to 1993. Jackson has dramatic stories to tell. Defying all stereotypes, he was the one Ranger who ensured a fair election—and an overwhelming win for La Raza Unida party candidates—in Zavala County in 1972. He followed legendary Ranger Captain Alfred Y. Allee Sr. into a shootout at the Carrizo Springs jail that ended a prison revolt and left him with nightmares. He captured “The See More Kid,” an elusive horse thief and burglar who left clean dishes and swept floors in the houses he robbed. He investigated the 1988 shootings in Big Bend’s Colorado Canyon and tried to understand the motives of the Mexican teenagers who terrorized three river rafters and killed one. He even helped train Afghan mujahedin warriors to fight the Soviet Union. Jackson’s tenure in the Texas Rangers began when older Rangers still believed that law need not get in the way of maintaining order, and concluded as younger Rangers were turning to computer technology to help solve crimes. Though he insists, “I am only one Ranger. There was only one story that belonged to me,” his story is part of the larger story of the Texas Rangers becoming a modern law enforcement agency that serves all the people of the state. It’s a story that’s as interesting as any of the legends. And yet, Jackson’s story confirms the legends, too. With just over a hundred Texas Rangers to cover a state with 267,399 square miles, any one may become the one Ranger who, like Joaquin Jackson in Zavala County in 1972, stops one riot. “A powerful, moving read . . . One Ranger is as fascinating as the memoirs of nineteenth-century Rangers James Gillett and George Durham, and the histories by Frederick Wilkins and Walter Prescott Webb—and equally as important.” —True West “A straight-shooting book that blow[s] a few holes in the Ranger myth while providing more ammunition for the myth’s continuation. . . . Reads more like a novel than [an] autobiography.” —Austin American-Statesman

Author : Charles H. Harris,Louis R. Sadler
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806163659

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The Texas Rangers in Transition by Charles H. Harris,Louis R. Sadler Pdf

Official Texas Ranger Bicentennial™ Publication Newly rich in oil money, and all the trouble it could buy, Texas in the years following World War I underwent momentous changes—and those changes propelled the transformation of the state’s storied Rangers. Charles H. Harris III and Louis R. Sadler explore this important but relatively neglected period in the Texas Rangers’ history in this book, a sequel to their award-winning The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution: The Bloodiest Decade, 1910–1920. In a Texas awash in booze and oil in the Prohibition years, the Rangers found themselves riding herd on gamblers and bootleggers, but also tasked with everything from catching murderers to preventing circus performances on Sunday. The Texas Rangers in Transition takes up the Rangers’ story at a time of political turmoil, as the largely rural state was rapidly becoming urban. At the same time, law enforcement was facing an epidemic of bank robberies, an increase in organized crime, the growth of the Ku Klux Klan, Prohibition enforcement—new challenges that the Rangers met by transitioning from gunfighters to criminal investigators. Steeped in tradition, reluctant to change, the agency was reduced to its nadir in the depths of the Depression, the victim of slashed appropriations, an antagonistic governor, and mediocre personnel. Harris and Sadler document the further and final change that followed when, in 1935, the Texas Rangers were moved from the governor’s control to the newly created Department of Public Safety. This proved a watershed in the Rangers’ history, marking their transformation into a modern law enforcement agency, the elite investigative force that they remain to this day.

Author : P.M. Griffin
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781645406129

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Return to War by P.M. Griffin Pdf

Four Space Commandos in a Desperate Fight Against an Army of Alien Raiders… The Britynons were the only race to receive the Federation's most severe punishment—confinement to their own solar system. Commando-Colonel Islaen Connor well remembers the rape of her homeworld by these off-worlders. They come as locusts, stripping a planet of its resources, returning nothing. Now the Britynons have come in secret to another world, beautiful and primitive. Islaen Connor vows to stand between the renegades and the fate they plan for the planet and its people—even if it means death for her and her three comrades… "Excellent SF Adventure!"—Andre Norton

Author : Jack Murphy
Publisher : Threshold Editions
Page : 5 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501191251

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Murphy's Law by Jack Murphy Pdf

“Sure to go down as an important piece of military-memoir history…a fast-paced, insightful, hold-nothing-back memoir” (Brandon Webb, former Navy Seal, New York Times bestselling author) from a former Army Ranger sniper and Special Operations weapon sergeant-turned-journalist about the incredible highs and devastating lows of his career. Growing up in small New York towns, Jack Murphy knew he wanted to lead a life far from the ordinary—a life of adventure and valor. After the 9/11 attacks, he enlisted in the Army, knowing this was his chance to fight for a cause he staunchly supported. After making it through the rigorous Ranger Indoctrination Program, he graduated from sniper school and was promptly deployed to Afghanistan, where his experiences went from ordinary to extraordinary. In this gripping military memoir, Murphy recounts the multiple missions he underwent as a Ranger, a Special Forces weapons sergeant, and ultimately, a boots-on-the-ground journalist. From enemy ambushes, dodging explosives, crashing terrorists’ weddings, and landing helicopters in the streets of Mosul, Jack provides a hard-hitting glimpse of what combat is like in some of the world’s most dangerous, war-torn places. With tours of duty in two of the most decorated units of the armed forces, Murphy brings a unique perspective to the military genre as he reflects on his great triumphs and shattering failures both on and off the battlefield. Later, Murphy turned his attention to breaking news within the military. His stories have taken him from Iraq to Switzerland, from Syria to South Korea. From crossing Middle Eastern borders in the dead of night, to rolling into an IED-laden zone, Murphy’s stories are always a thrill a minute. “Powerful. Gritty. Real. An absolutely captivating account of bravery and adventure” (Brad Thor), Murphy’s Law tells a story of intense bravery and sacrifice—both on and off the battlefield.

Author : Pauline Griffin
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781645409007

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Jungle Assault by Pauline Griffin Pdf

A team of techno-warriors— in a tooth-and-claw battle for survival! To the Commandos, Amazoon is straight out of a delirium-soaked dream. Dense, dripping jungle, a paradise for savage predators—and hell for humans who dare to intrude. The hostile planet hides a deadly treasure they must recover: a cache of stolen Navy materiel. But a crash landing strands the team far off target. And ahead lies a gauntlet of fever and venom, guarded by primordial adversaries deadlier than the most sophisticated star-fighter...crawling, slithering, and swimming machines designed to deliver quick death—or slow torture... "Excellent SF Adventure!"—Andre Norton

Author : Steven Caldwell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0517292289

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space patrol by Steven Caldwell Pdf

Author : Peter A. French
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015050472524

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The Virtues of Vengeance by Peter A. French Pdf

"In the course of his study of vengeance as a moral concept, French exposes important distinctions between types of moral theories (karmic and non-karmic) and between people who are morally handicapped and those who are morally challenged. He examines concepts relevant to vengeance, such as honor, moral authority, and evil, and issues such as the rationality of revenge and proportionality in punishment."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Andre Norton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:54008169

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Star Rangers by Andre Norton Pdf