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Like many historical events, the American Revolution is sometimes overlooked, ignored, or minimized by historians due to being shrouded in romantic myth and stubborn stereotypes. Here historian Phillip Thomas Tucker provides an in-depth look at the events of the Battle of Trenton, weeding out fiction and legend and presenting new insights and analysis.

March 2002. While the world watches Afghanistan, Jack Noble is in Baghdad, Iraq—on loan from the Marines to the CIA. Supposed to be part of the team, he ends up just a security detail. When he and his partner Bear confront four CIA agents abusing an Iraqi family, they’re arrested within hours. Jack only wanted to finish his service, but his intervention lands him in a conspiracy reaching the highest levels of the U.S. government.

Then: First Lieutenant Sean Elliott and nine other mixed-service US soldiers on a convoy in Afghanistan suddenly found themselves and their MRAP vehicle thrown back to Earth’s Paleolithic Age. And they were not alone. Displaced Romans, Neolithic Europeans, and more showed up as well. Some would be allies. Some became deadly foes. Now: Scientists from an almost unimaginably far future need the survivors’ advice and support to reconnoiter and ultimately recover other groups displaced in time.

In the half-century since its birth, as Sports Illustrated grew from a struggling start-up to America's preeminent sports magazine, one thing has remained constant: the commitment to great storytelling. That part of the magazine's mission has always been easy to define: Identify the most compelling sports stories of our time and get the best writers in the business to tell them. This book brings together a lineup of writing talent worthy of the Hall of Fame and the classic stories they produced for Sports Illustrated over the past 50 years. Many of the writers whose work is collected here are longtime favorites of SI readers (Frank Deford, Rick Reilly, Steve Rushin, Gary Smith).

Jack Noble was just passing through—a small town, a broken-down Jeep, and a quiet place to lay low. But small towns have secrets, and this one is about to explode. A chance encounter with an old ally and a barroom brawl with the town's most dangerous men light the fuse on a powder keg of corruption, betrayal, and blood.

The U.S. dollar’s dominance seems under threat. The near collapse of the U.S. financial system in 2008-2009, political paralysis that has blocked effective policymaking, and emerging competitors such as the Chinese renminbi have heightened speculation about the dollar’s looming displacement as the main reserve currency. Yet, as The Dollar Trap powerfully argues, the financial crisis, a dysfunctional international monetary system, and U.S. policies have paradoxically strengthened the dollar’s importance.

Jack Noble thought the mission was simple—track the target, gather intel, and get out clean. But nothing is ever simple. Not for Jack. When the operation goes sideways, he’s forced into a deadly confrontation with a powerful adversary who always seems one step ahead. Cut off from his team and left to operate alone, Jack finds himself in the crosshairs of an international conspiracy with stakes far higher than he realized. His only option? Go on the offensive. From covert black sites in the Mediterranean to the underworld of Berlin, Jack must outmaneuver operatives who know his every move.

For 18 years Jack has been a “transplant tourism director,” sending wealthy Americans and Europeans in need of kidneys and other organs to third-world countries where they would buy them from transplant centers on the take. The death of a client and a newfound relationship lead to a crisis of conscience as he is forced to choose between a $2 million commission - and participating in a murder.

Hours of non-stop suspense from Wall Street Journal & USA Today Bestselling Author L. T. Ryan. Books 4-6 are heart-pounding, addictive, and thrilling.

It was supposed to be over. But nothing in Jack Noble’s world ever stays that way. Captured. Transported. Delivered straight into the hands of his former handler, Frank Skinner. The man Jack once spared is now calling in the debt—and the cost is higher than Jack ever expected. Forced back into the shadow world of covert operations, Jack is tasked with one last mission. But this one isn’t about justice. It’s about survival. A woman he thought was dead has resurfaced, and her enemies have declared war. The only way out is to go in deeper than ever before.

Buy bank-owned properties at fire-sale prices! Banks and lending institutions own more than one million foreclosed properties, more are in the foreclosure pipeline. How to Buy Bank-Owned Properties for Pennies on the Dollar (2011) provides detailed, step-based guidance on buying REO properties.

Human beings have been battling one another since time immemorial. But why war and terrorism? Why are men almost always the killers, and why are war and sex so inextricably linked? Why do we kill members of our own species intentionally, when few other animals do so?

For all the thousands of books that have been written about religion, few until this one have attempted to examine it scientifically: to ask why - and how - it has shaped so many lives so strongly. Is religion a product of blind evolutionary instinct or rational choice? Is it truly the best way to live a moral life? Ranging through biology, history, and psychology, Daniel C. Dennett charts religion’s evolution from “wild” folk belief to “domesticated” dogma.

Jack Noble’s plan was simple: lay low on the sun-drenched shores of Greece and disappear. But nothing about Jack’s life stays simple for long. A desperate father. A ransom note. A girl in peril. Suddenly, Jack is in the crosshairs of a ruthless criminal empire that controls the island like their own private kingdom. What starts as a rescue mission spirals into a deadly game of cat and mouse. Jack’s every move is shadowed by unseen enemies who know more about him than they should.

This book will appeal to foodies and those who are deprived of cookbooks in audio format. Molecular Gastronomy documents the sensory phenomena of eating and uses basic physics to put to bed many culinary myths. This audiobook presents pieces of conventional wisdom - such as whether it is better to make a stock by placing meat in already boiling water, or water before it is boiled - and gives its history before making scientific pronouncements.

A military unit is thrust back into Paleolithic times with only their guns and portable hardware. Ten soldiers on convoy in Afghanistan suddenly find themselves lost in time. Somehow they arrived in Earth's Paleolithic Asia. With no idea how they arrived or how to get back, the shock of the event is severe. They discover groups of the similarly displaced: imperial Romans, Neolithic Europeans, and a small cadre of East Indian peasants.

In this groundbreaking epic biography, Douglas Brinkley draws on never-before-published materials to examine the life and achievements of our "naturalist president." By setting aside more than 230 million acres of wild America for posterity between 1901 and 1909, Theodore Roosevelt made conservation a universal endeavor. This crusade for the American wilderness was perhaps the greatest U.S. presidential initiative between the Civil War and World War I.

Even a drifter has to stop once in a while... Jack Noble has crossed the country, never staying too long in one spot. He's not running or hiding. He's buying time. Simply living until the day he can disappear and provide his daughter with a normal life. But when his Jeep dies outside a small Texas town, he finds a reason to stick around for a couple days. An old friend. Someone he thought was gone from his life forever.

Written for anyone who wants to develop a deeper more meaningful relationship with God, Mansions of the Heart offers a step-by-step guide through a spiritual formation road map based on Teresa of Avila's Seven Mansions. The book includes a Mapping Tool that will help you discern your place on your spiritual journey and offers church leaders a process for helping church members to grow into spiritual maturity.

Peter Dale Scott has written extensively on the Kennedy assassination and other dark corners of the American political scene. His encyclopedic knowledge enables him to connect the dots among the players, the organizations, and the unacknowledged collusions--the deep politics-- of our often troubled political system. Deep Politics on Oswald, Mexico, and Cuba, originally published in 1995, narrows the focus of Scott's earlier Deep Politics and the Death of JFK.