Extreme Survival
Extreme Survival: This is the definitive guide to survival in extreme situations – the events that we think will never happen to us, but one day. This book is the key to surviving the recent events of life-risk, accidents, random attacks and politically motivated insurgancies in which they live, work or take our vacations. Using the tactics, skills and tricks of the trade taught in this professional survivors “manual to save his life when the danger or terror strikes suddenly – at home, at work, on the street, when traveling in unfamiliar situations and inhospitable, when exposed to the desert.
Written by experts in the field out, this book reveals the secrets of BUSHCRAFT, Tradecraft and streetcraft, and teaches the essential skills needed to survive in any danger. With its emphasis on teaching practical skills, the manual deals with the identification and anticipation of hazards in sufficient time to develop and implement strategies and mechanisms to give the advantage in adversity – so that when opportunity knocks you, this book immediately grasps the possibilities back in their side.
Structured in two sections, the first section focuses on BUSHCRAFT techniques needed to survive outdoors in any climate and terrain: how to find protection from the elements, finding drinking water, fire making, hunting and trapping animals for food, or find their way without a map and a compass.
The second section focuses on how to ensure personal safety when situations of everyday life threatening, including hostage situations, techniques for combating terrorism, self-defense against personal attacks, how to act when a tourist, how to deal with the hijacking of automobiles and Road Rage, house fires, traffic accidents and medical emergencies.
The professional advice is designed to improve the survival instinct and improve knowledge of risks: the reader is shown how to anticipate and avoid dangerous situations, and where avoidance is impossible to respond positively and calmly to confrontation. This is the perfect manual to help you build confidence through knowledge, increase mental strength and willpower, and for the street and wilderness skills, strategies, instincts and intuition that will keep him alive in that once -on-a-life time of extreme need.
Source: southwaterbooks.com
Kendra Jade Rossi
Latest News Updated, Kendra Jade Rossi: Kendra Jade Rossi gained popularity as an Adult Films star. However she is no more associated with the pornographic industry and as a matter of fact, she tours providing guidance to the girls like her. As I followed her career I developed respect for the actress and as much disrespect Jerry Springer.
Most of Kendra’s emotional and psychological difficulties stem from her instable childhood. Kendra and her siblings had to go very rough times living in the care of various foster parents. As she stepped into her teens she had to provide for her two sisters. She took care of them and had to do a job also to support herself and her sisters.
As Jerry Springer used Kendra and Her Mother for his sinister purposes, their pictures and sex tape became widely available to public.
Kendra has got married to Lucas Rossi of Supernova and they both share their love for the animals.
Most recently Kendra has got treated by Dr. Drew for sex addiction.
She has penned her autobiography with the title Kendra Jade Rossi: Welcome to Wonderland Vol. 1. The book also contains many of her writings. The book incorporates Kendra’s journal entries from her childhood and teenage years, the notes she had taken during her sessions with the counselor etc. the book is a unique insight into her personality.
She also manages a program, which provides a chance for her fans to meet her in person. Kendra and her husband Lucas are involved in many philanthropic projects and strong advocates of animal rights.
Source: makli.com
Jeni stepanek, Mattie Stepanek
latest News Updated, Jeni stepanek, Mattie Stepanek: Jeni Stepanek appears on GMA to discuss her book abut Mattie Stepanek today. Jeni Stepanek is the mother of Mattie who died of Dysautonomic Mitochondrial Myopathy in 2004.
In “Messenger: The Legacy of Mattie J.T. Stepanek and Heartsongs”, mother Jeni tells of how she lost Mattie to the disease along with three other children. Jeni herself has the same neuromuscular disease. Mattie Stepanek was a New York Times bestselling author and humanitarian.
Oprah called the book an “inspiration.” Jeni Stepanek explains:
“Not a day goes by when I don’t receive e-mails and letters saying that Mattie’s poetry and speeches are not enough-people want to know about him directly and intimately. I am thrilled to have joined with Dutton so that I can now tell all his fans the full story behind my son.”
Source: news.lalate.com
See It/Skip It: Michael Jackson’s ‘This Is It’
October 29, 2009 by admin
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LOS ANGELES, Calif. — The stars are raving about Michael Jackson’s “This Is It.” But what do the critics have to say?
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Sarah Palin Signed A Fat $1.25 Million Check Before Bolting Office
October 29, 2009 by lee
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When Sarah Palin resigned as governor of Alaska, she left $1.25 million richer thanks to her soon-to-be blockbuster memoir “Going Rogue.”
Palin got the money, which the AP says she describes as a “retainer,” from HarperCollins to publish the book, due out Nov. 17.
If she scored that much dough off the bat — and who knows just how huge her advance really was — just imagine what she’ll receive down the line when “Going Rogue” goes gangbusters.
It’s already a hot seller on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.com, and when she appears on “The Oprah Winfrey Show” the day before the release, Oprah’s
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A Moveable Feast
Latest News Updated, A Moveable Feast: A Moveable Feast is a set of memoirs by American author Ernest Hemingway about his years in Paris as part of the American expatriate circle of writers in the 1920s. In addition to painting a picture of Hemingway’s time as a struggling young writer, the book also sketches the story of Hemingway and his first wife, Hadley.
A Moveable Feast is considered by many to contain some of his best writing. Some of the prominent people to make an appearance in the book include Aleister Crowley, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ford Madox Ford, Hilaire Belloc, Pascin, John Dos Passos, James Joyce and Gertrude Stein. The book was edited by Ernest’s fourth wife, Mary Hemingway, and published in 1964, four years after Hemingway’s death.
The book contains Hemingway’s personal accounts, observations, and stories of his experience in 1920s Paris. He provides the detail of specific addresses of cafes, bars, hotels, and apartments that still can be found in modern day Paris. The title was suggested by Hemingway’s friend A.E. Hotchner, author of Papa Hemingway, and comes from a conversation the two once had about the city during Hotchner’s first visits there:
“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”
Editing by Mary Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway worked on the manuscript of A Moveable Feast during his later years, painstakingly rewriting several key passages, and had prepared a final draft before he died. After his death, however, his fourth wife, Mary, in her capacity as Hemingway’s literary executor, engaged in extensive editing. Literary scholar Gerry Brenner from the University of Montana documents her edits and questions their validity in many cases in his paper, “Are We Going to Hemingway’s Feast?”, concluding that some of them were misguided, and others derived from questionable motives. This would contradict with Mary’s stated policy for her role as executor, which had been an avowed hands-off approach.
After examining the vast collection of Ernest Hemingway’s personal papers, which were opened to the public in 1979 with the opening of the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston and included notes and initial drafts of A Moveable Feast, Brenner indicates that Mary changed the order of the chapters in Hemingway’s final draft, to “preserve chronology”. Brenner notes how this seems to disrupt the intent of the book, interrupting the series of juxtaposed character sketches between such individuals as Sylvia Beach (owner of the bookstore “Shakespeare and Company”) and Gertrude Stein. Additionally, Brenner points out that one whole chapter, titled “Birth of a New School”, which had been dropped by Hemingway altogether, was inserted back in by Mary without sufficient justification in its contents or execution.
By far the most serious edit, Brenner alleges, is that Mary deleted a lengthy apology to Hadley, Hemingway’s first wife and perhaps intended heroine. This apology appeared in various forms in every draft of the book, and Brenner suggests that Mary deleted it because it impugned her own role as wife with its implications that Hadley was the most important spouse.
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“Jordan killing publishing industry with her book”
October 23, 2009 by lee
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In an outburst against the growing trend of celebrity novels, Lynda La Plante, the doyenne of crime fiction, has hit out at glamour model Katie Price, a.k.a Jordan, insisting she’s terrible thing for young girls.
The comments from La Plante, who has written best-sellers including Above Suspicion and the scripts for television series such as Prime Suspect, which starred Dame Helen Mirren, raised eyebrows at The Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards, held at the Grosvenor House Hotel, in Mayfair, where she was inducted into the Hall of Fame.
“Publishers, stop spending your millions on this tripe,” the Telegraph quoted her as saying.
“The publishing industry is going to implode. They can”t pay the millions to these celebrities. If we don”t cut through the dross, this trite tripe… these reality TV writers who are here for their 15 minutes of fame.
“Katie Price’’s book outsold the Booker Prize list. She’’s a terrible thing for young girls who just want pink welly boots,” she added.
The awards ceremony was attended by Martine McCutcheon, the former EastEnders actress, whose debut novel, The Mistress, is published next month.
McCutcheon’s authorial skills have been roundly trashed since the first chapter of her debut novel was posted online by publisher Pan Macmillan recently.
But that was to be nothing compared to the critique handed out by author La Plante.
La Plante said: “I have nothing against Martine McCutcheon, but who knows what she was paid.”
Ramon Salcido, Carmina Salcido
The busy life of Carmina Salcido will likely shift into overdrive following today’s airing of the hour-long ABC News 20/20 program on her nearly miraculous survival of Ramón Salcido’s murder spree in Sonoma Valley 20 years ago.
Carmina Salcido, 23, has received a steady stream of requests for media interviews and bookstore appearances since the book she co-authored, “Not Lost Forever,” went on sale 10 days ago.
Public interest in her story is certain to be stoked by the 20/20 report, which will show at 10 p.m. tonight on ABC.
Carmina Salcido will make her first bookstore appearance at 2 p.m. Saturday at Copperfield’s Books in Petaluma, 140 Kentucky St. “Not Lost Forever,” which Salcido co-authored with Steve Jackson, has quickly become Copperfield’s No. 1 selling non-fiction hardcover book.
On Sunday, Oct. 25, Salcido will speak at a 4 p.m. event at the Sonoma Community Center, 276 E. Napa St. in Sonoma. Readers’ Books of Sonoma will sponsor that talk and will charge $5 at the door.
Source: pressdemocrat.com
Heat Wave Richard Castle
Richard Castle’s Heat Wave book from Castle on ABC tonight. Richard Castle’s Heat Wave is a new book credited to Castle, the title character in the hit ABC series airing tonight at 9 PM EST. The 208 page book is from Hyperion publishers released last month.
Castle has been a hit for ABC, recently pulling in 7.5 ratings share, 21% up from its premiere. To add to the momentum is a new book Heat Wave as if written by the title character Richard Castle.
In fact, even the bio is written as if true:
About the Author
Richard Castle is the author of numerous bestsellers, including the critically acclaimed Derrick Storm series. His first novel, In a Hail of Bullets, published while he was still in college, received the Nom DePlume Society’s prestigious Tom Straw Award for Mystery Literature. Castle currently lives in Manhattan with his daughter and mother, both of whom infuse his life with humor and inspiration.
Heat Wave is described as follows:
Product Description
A New York real estate tycoon plunges to his death on a Manhattan sidewalk. A trophy wife with a past survives a narrow escape from a brazen attack. Mobsters and moguls with no shortage of reasons to kill trot out their alibis. And then, in the suffocating grip of a record heat wave, comes another shocking murder and a sharp turn in a tense journey into the dirty little secrets of the wealthy. Secrets that prove to be fatal. Secrets that lay hidden in the dark until one NYPD detective shines a light.
Mystery sensation Richard Castle, blockbuster author of the wildly best-selling Derrick Storm novels, introduces his newest character, NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat. Tough, sexy, professional, Nikki Heat carries a passion for justice as she leads one of New York City’s top homicide squads. She’s hit with an unexpected challenge when the commissioner assigns superstar magazine journalist Jameson Rook to ride along with her to research an article on New York’s Finest.
PulitzerPrize-winning Rook is as much a handful as he is handsome. His wise-cracking and meddling aren’t her only problems. As she works to unravel the secrets of the murdered real estate tycoon, she must also confront the spark between them. The one called heat.
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Richard Castle
Richard Castle’s Heat Wave book from Castle on ABC tonight. Richard Castle’s Heat Wave is a new book credited to Castle, the title character in the hit ABC series airing tonight at 9 PM EST. The 208 page book is from Hyperion publishers released last month.
Castle has been a hit for ABC, recently pulling in 7.5 ratings share, 21% up from its premiere. To add to the momentum is a new book Heat Wave as if written by the title character Richard Castle.
In fact, even the bio is written as if true:
About the Author
Richard Castle is the author of numerous bestsellers, including the critically acclaimed Derrick Storm series. His first novel, In a Hail of Bullets, published while he was still in college, received the Nom DePlume Society’s prestigious Tom Straw Award for Mystery Literature. Castle currently lives in Manhattan with his daughter and mother, both of whom infuse his life with humor and inspiration.
Heat Wave is described as follows:
Product Description
A New York real estate tycoon plunges to his death on a Manhattan sidewalk. A trophy wife with a past survives a narrow escape from a brazen attack. Mobsters and moguls with no shortage of reasons to kill trot out their alibis. And then, in the suffocating grip of a record heat wave, comes another shocking murder and a sharp turn in a tense journey into the dirty little secrets of the wealthy. Secrets that prove to be fatal. Secrets that lay hidden in the dark until one NYPD detective shines a light.
Mystery sensation Richard Castle, blockbuster author of the wildly best-selling Derrick Storm novels, introduces his newest character, NYPD Homicide Detective Nikki Heat. Tough, sexy, professional, Nikki Heat carries a passion for justice as she leads one of New York City’s top homicide squads. She’s hit with an unexpected challenge when the commissioner assigns superstar magazine journalist Jameson Rook to ride along with her to research an article on New York’s Finest. PulitzerPrize-winning Rook is as much a handful as he is handsome. His wise-cracking and meddling aren’t her only problems. As she works to unravel the secrets of the murdered real estate tycoon, she must also confront the spark between them. The one called heat.
Source: news.lalate.com
