A Special Kind of Courage
Author | : Chris Ryder |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Explosive ordnance disposal |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Chris Ryder |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Explosive ordnance disposal |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Geraldo Rivera |
Publisher | : Simon & Schuster |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
True stories of eleven modern youths who have faced various crises, including death, with exemplary courage.
Author | : HW Coyle |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2013-12-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1304679543 |
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Author | : Jim Horsley |
Publisher | : Thomas Nelson |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1998-05-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1418558109 |
As a decorated Navy combat pilot, Jim Horsley flew to the top of his field, yet still felt unfulfilled. A Different Kind of Courage is the engaging account of his search for true significance.
Author | : Jonathan Lear |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0674040023 |
Presents the story of Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation. This title contains a philosophical and ethical inquiry into a people faced with the end of their way of life.
Author | : Chris Hunter |
Publisher | : Bantam Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Iraq War, 2003- |
ISBN | : 9780593058657 |
Chris Hunter says the bomb technician's prayer many times over during his tour of Iraq. His is the most dangerous job, in the most dangerous place in the world - to make safe the British sector in Iraq against some of the most technically advanced terrorists in the world. It is a 24/7 job - his team defuse over 45 bombs in the first two months alone. The people they're up against don't play by the Geneva Convention. For them, there are no rules, only results. Bombs, rockets, grenades, ambushes, booby traps - death by any means necessary. Welcome to the real Wild West. The job of Bomb Disposal Officer in Iraq is a lonely one. You are alone with the sound of your own breathing and the drumming of your heart in a protective suit in forty plus degrees of heat. The drawbridge has been pulled up behind you as you advance on your goal. Playtime is over. It's just you and the bomb. Just when life couldn't get any more dangerous for Chris Hunter, the stakes are raised again. Halfway through his tour, he is told the following: 'They want you dead, Chris. You and your team have captured their weaponry, you've fingered them with forensics, you've neutralised a shedload of their IEDs, and basically you're making Behadli and his lot look like cunts. They're out to kill the golden-haired bomb man in Basra.'
Author | : Krystyna Louw |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2010-12-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1450244025 |
The story of an extraordinary woman who refuses to succumb to the inevitable and flees Nazi occupied Poland with two childrena journey that brought her love, betrayal and miraculously narrow escapes.
Author | : Chris Burke |
Publisher | : Backinprint.com |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780595192656 |
Chris Burke became one of America’s favorite personalities when he starred as "Corky" on the hit ABC television series "Life Goes On." Not since Helen Keller has one person so thoroughly changed the way the world views people with disabilities. Twenty-five years earlier, when Chris was born with Down syndrome, doctors advised his parents to put him in an institution. Instead, they showered him with love, and encouraged him to reach for his dreams. This is Chris’s story, and the story of his family’s love and determination. Here he tells what it’s really like to grow up with Down syndrome…how he pursued his seemingly impossible show business goals...and how he has dedicated his life to helping people with special needs, especially those with what he calls "Up Syndrome." Profoundly inspirational, "A Special Kind of Hero" is a triumphant story of courage and hope that proves Chris’ motto: "Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goal." "A poignant, joyful and inspirational story." —Literary Guild "Excellent…fascinating…a realistic portrait of an intriguing individual." —Down Syndrome News
Author | : Jim Detert |
Publisher | : Harvard Business Press |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2021-05-18 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 164782009X |
An inspirational, practical, and research-based guide for standing up and speaking out skillfully at work. Have you ever wanted to disagree with your boss? Speak up about your company's lack of diversity or unequal pay practices? Make a tough decision you knew would be unpopular? We all have opportunities to be courageous at work. But since courage requires risk—to our reputations, our social standing, and, in some cases, our jobs—we often fail to act, which leaves us feeling powerless and regretful for not doing what we know is right. There's a better way to handle these crucial moments—and Choosing Courage provides the moral imperative and research-based tactics to help you become more competently courageous at work. Doing for courage what Angela Duckworth has done for grit and Brene Brown for vulnerability, Jim Detert, the world's foremost expert on workplace courage, explains that courage isn't a character trait that only a few possess; it's a virtue developed through practice. And with the right attitude and approach, you can learn to hone it like any other skill and incorporate it into your everyday life. Full of stories of ordinary people who've acted courageously, Choosing Courage will give you a fresh perspective on the power of voicing your authentic ideas and opinions. Whether you’re looking to make a mark, stay true to your values, act with more integrity, or simply grow as a professional, this is the guide you need to achieve greater impact at work.
Author | : A. R. Oppenheimer |
Publisher | : Irish Academic Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2008-10-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1788550188 |
In this groundbreaking title, A. R. Oppenheimer tells how the Irish Republican Army became the most adept and experienced insurgency group the world has ever seen through their bombing expertise – and how, after generations of conflict, it all came to an end. The book is a comprehensive account of more than 150 years of Irish republican strategic, tactical, and operational details, and an analysis of the IRA’s mission, doctrine, targeting, and acquisition of weapons and explosives. As a leading expert on non-conventional weapons and explosives, Oppenheimer vividly presents the story behind the bombs – those who built and deployed them; those who had to deal with and dismantle them; and those who suffered or died from them. He analyses where, how, and why the IRA’s 19,000 bombs were built, targeted and deployed, and explores what the IRA was hoping to accomplish in its unrivaled campaign of violence and insurgency through covert acquisition, training, intelligence and counter-intelligence. Beginning with the Fenian ‘Dynamiters’ in the second half of the nineteenth century, Oppenheimer fully describes and assesses the impact of the pre-1970s bombing campaigns in Northern Ireland and England and the evolution of strategies and tactics during the Troubles. He concludes with the decommissioning of an arsenal big enough to arm several battalions – which included an entire home-crafted missile system, an unsurpassed range of improvised explosive devices (IEDs), and enough explosives to blow up several urban centres. The author scrutinises the level of deadly improvisation that became the hallmark of the Provisional IRA’s expertise and the ingenuity in its pioneering IED timing, delay and disguise technologies, and follows the arms race it carried on with the British Army and security services in a long war of mutual assured disruption. He also provides an insight into the bombing equipment and guns in the vast IRA inventory held at Irish Police HQ in Dublin.