Four US Navy SEALS departed one clear night in early July 2005 for the mountainous Afghanistan-Pakistan border for a reconnaissance mission. Their task was to document the activity of an al Qaeda leader rumored to be very close to Bin Laden with a small army in a Taliban stronghold. Five days later, only one of those Navy SEALS made it out alive.
This is the story of the only survivor of Operation Redwing, SEAL fire team leader Marcus Luttrell, and the extraordinary firefight that led to the largest loss of life in American Navy SEAL history.
Latin Alive: The Survival of Latin in English and Romance Languages
In Latin Alive, Joseph Solodow tells the story of how Latin developed into modern French, Spanish, and Italian, and deeply affected English as well. Offering a gripping narrative of language change, Solodow charts Latin's course from classical times to the modern era, with focus on the first millennium of the Common Era. Though the Romance languages evolved directly from Latin, Solodow shows how every important feature of Latin's evolution is also reflected in English.
In Fully Alive, Fully Human you’ll discover... · The starting point of all achievement · A 30-day menu for living, laughing, and loving your way to the good life · A simple program for creating vibrant health and a strong body, without boring diets and strenuous exercise · The 12 basic habit patterns of winners, and an easy way to make them your own · How to relax your body, relieve stress, and replenish energy by understanding and controlling the brainwave cycles of your conscious and subconscious mind
Metaphors Dead And Alive, Sleeping And Waking: A Dynamic View
Traditional thinking on metaphors has divided them into two camps: dead and alive. Conventional expressions from everyday language are classified as dead, while much rarer novel or poetic metaphors are alive. In the 1980s, new theories on the cognitive processes involved with the use of metaphor challenged these assumptions, but with little empirical support.
Through a series of experiments Denys A. Stocks tests and evaluates over two hundred reconstructed and replica tools. Combining the knowledge of a modern engineer with the approach of an archaeologist and historian, he brings alive the methods and practices of ancient Egyptian craftworking, and highlights the innovations and advances made by this remarkable civilization.
