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Seconds to Live or Die

Life-Saving Lessons from a Former CIA Officer

by Robert Montgomery ...

Narrated by Adam Verner ...

Unabridged

5 hours 53 min

We never know when violence might be visited upon us—at home, in the workplace, at school—anywhere. Crime, sexual assaults, threats to our children, and terrorist attacks are all part of the global landscape.There are concrete measures anyone can take to mitigate danger and if necessary, to fight like a sociopath to defeat a sociopath.Robert Montgomery wrote Seconds to Live or Die to help you ... Read more

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We never know when violence might be visited upon us—at home, in the workplace, at school—anywhere. Crime, sexual assaults, threats to our children, and terrorist attacks are all part of the global landscape.There are concrete measures anyone can take to mitigate danger and if necessary, to fight like a sociopath to defeat a sociopath.Robert Montgomery wrote Seconds to Live or Die to help you
... Read more
The Invisible Injured

Psychological Trauma in the Canadian Military from the First World War to Afghanistan

by Adam Montgomery ...

Series Book 46 - McGill-Queen's/AMS Healthcare Studies in the History of Medicine, Health, and Society
Canadian soldiers returning home have always been changed by war and peacekeeping, frequently in harmful but unseen ways. The Invisible Injured explores the Canadian military’s continuous battle with psychological trauma from 1914 to 2014 to show that while public understanding and sympathy toward affected soldiers has increased, myths and stigmas have remained.Whether diagnosed with shell shock, ... Read more

$32.99 CAD

Canadian soldiers returning home have always been changed by war and peacekeeping, frequently in harmful but unseen ways. The Invisible Injured explores the Canadian military’s continuous battle with psychological trauma from 1914 to 2014 to show that while public understanding and sympathy toward affected soldiers has increased, myths and stigmas have remained.Whether diagnosed with shell shock,
... Read more
After the War

Surviving PTSD and Changing Mental Health Culture

by Stéphane Grenier, Adam Montgomery ...

After serving in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide and civil war, Lieutenant Colonel Stéphane Grenier returned to Canada haunted by his experiences. Facing post-traumatic stress disorder and an archaic establishment, he spent ten years confronting--and changing--the military mental health system from within.Coining the term “Operational Stress Injury” to allow the military to see mental injury in ... Read more

$11.99 CAD

After serving in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide and civil war, Lieutenant Colonel Stéphane Grenier returned to Canada haunted by his experiences. Facing post-traumatic stress disorder and an archaic establishment, he spent ten years confronting--and changing--the military mental health system from within.Coining the term “Operational Stress Injury” to allow the military to see mental injury in
... Read more
Horrific Scribes Presents: Worlds Collide

25 Works of Earth-Shattering Horror

by L. Andrew Cooper, H.J. Dutton, Barry Charman, Iluka Chayan, Emmie Christie, Christopher Degnie, Zary Fekete, Tracy Fritz, Katherine Garrison, P.N. Harrison, Jan-Andrew Henderson, Matt Hollingsworth, L.N. Hunter, Lene MacLeod, Thomas C. Mavroudis, Nenad Mitrović, Shawn Montgomery, Adam Murray, Jason Frederick Myers, Lira Palmer, Luke Ramer, Alistair Rey, Mario Senzale, Jeffery Scott Sims, E.W.H. Thornton, Maxim Volk, Pamela Weis ...

Series Book 3 - Horrific Scribes Anthologies
YOUR REALITY SHATTERSThe occult world collides with the everyday. The underworld runs over. Wild "nature" smashes assumptions about "civilization." Old Worlds prey on the New. But some of the most devastating collisions occur between worlds within worlds...Horrific Scribes Presents: Worlds Collide offers 25 works about horrifying confrontations between realms by Barry Charman, Iluka Chayan, Emmie ... Read more

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YOUR REALITY SHATTERSThe occult world collides with the everyday. The underworld runs over. Wild "nature" smashes assumptions about "civilization." Old Worlds prey on the New. But some of the most devastating collisions occur between worlds within worlds...Horrific Scribes Presents: Worlds Collide offers 25 works about horrifying confrontations between realms by Barry Charman, Iluka Chayan, Emmie
... Read more
Poe and Women

Recognition and Revision

by Amy Branam Armiento, Travis Montgomery, Melanie R. Anderson, Adam C. Bradford, Kevin Knott, John Edward Martin, Clara Petino, Alexandra Reuber, Sandra Tomc0 ...

Series series Perspectives on Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe notoriously identified “the death . . . of a beautiful woman” as “the most poetical topic in the world.” Despite this cringeworthy claim, it is widely known that Poe drew creative inspiration from female authors and that women figure prominently among the artists and critics fascinated by the writer’s creative legacy. Filling a major gap in scholarship on Poe, this volume ... Read more

$115.99 CAD

Edgar Allan Poe notoriously identified “the death . . . of a beautiful woman” as “the most poetical topic in the world.” Despite this cringeworthy claim, it is widely known that Poe drew creative inspiration from female authors and that women figure prominently among the artists and critics fascinated by the writer’s creative legacy. Filling a major gap in scholarship on Poe, this volume
... Read more
The End of Strategic Stability?

Nuclear Weapons and the Challenge of Regional Rivalries

by Lawrence Rubin, Adam N. Stulberg, Evan Montgomery, Andrey Pavlov, Anastasia Malygina, Sadia Tasleem, Emily B. Landau, Annie Tracy Samuel, Rajesh Basrur0, Dmitry Adamsky1, Tong Zhao2, Happymon Jacob3, Ilai Saltzman4, Ala' Alrababa'h5, Jeffrey Knopf6, Matthew Kroenig7, Adam Mount8 ...

During the Cold War, many believed that the superpowers shared a conception of strategic stability, a coexistence where both sides would compete for global influence but would be deterred from using nuclear weapons. In actuality, both sides understood strategic stability and deterrence quite differently. Today’s international system is further complicated by more nuclear powers, regional rivalries ... Read more

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During the Cold War, many believed that the superpowers shared a conception of strategic stability, a coexistence where both sides would compete for global influence but would be deterred from using nuclear weapons. In actuality, both sides understood strategic stability and deterrence quite differently. Today’s international system is further complicated by more nuclear powers, regional rivalries
... Read more
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The Theory Of Social Revolutions (Unabridged)

by BROOKS ADAMS ...

Narrated by Kenneth Montgomery ...

Unabridged

5 hours

Brooks Adams , was an American historian and a critic of capitalism. He believed that commercial civilizations rise and fall in predictable cycles. First, masses of people draw together in large population centers and engage in commercial activities. As their desire for wealth grows, they discard spiritual and creative values. Their greed leads to distrust and dishonesty, and eventually the ... Read more

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Brooks Adams , was an American historian and a critic of capitalism. He believed that commercial civilizations rise and fall in predictable cycles. First, masses of people draw together in large population centers and engage in commercial activities. As their desire for wealth grows, they discard spiritual and creative values. Their greed leads to distrust and dishonesty, and eventually the
... Read more

Horrific Scribes Presents: Invasions of World, Home, Body, and Mind

24 tales of terror without boundaries

by L. Andrew Cooper, H.J. Dutton, Phoebe Barr, Jim Best, Amanda M. Blake, Jon Clendaniel, David Corse, Richard Dansky, John Davis, Laura DeHaan, T. Fox Dunham, Joseph Hirsch, Tom Johnstone, Kasimma, Emmanuel Komen, Leonardo J. Lamanna, Steven Mathes, Thomas C. Mavroudis, Trisha Ridinger McKee, Eric Nash, M. Brandon Robbins, Cassandra O'Sullivan Sachar, Sydney Sackett, K. Thompson, Fendy S. Tulodo ...

Series Book 1 - Horrific Scribes Anthologies
Invaders threaten us from above, below, within, and beyond. Not scared enough yet? This anthology will help! From the Horrific Scribes web archive of original short fiction (and some poetry) come 24 selections that involve horrific invasions. Only 23 are short stories--one is a group of poems--and that's not the only way the book cover deceives you. None of the stories involves UFOs attacking ... Read more

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Invaders threaten us from above, below, within, and beyond. Not scared enough yet? This anthology will help! From the Horrific Scribes web archive of original short fiction (and some poetry) come 24 selections that involve horrific invasions. Only 23 are short stories--one is a group of poems--and that's not the only way the book cover deceives you. None of the stories involves UFOs attacking
... Read more
Horrific Scribes Presents: Rulemakers and Rulebreakers

26 Works of Order and Chaos

by L. Andrew Cooper, H.J. Dutton, Sam Arlington, Raymond Brunell, Harley Carnell, Emmie Christie, Nicholas De Marino, Sarina Dorie, Eric Fomley, Douglas Ford, Matt Hollingsworth, Douglas Kolacki, Christine Lajewski, Devin James Leonard, E.J. LeRoy, Susan L. Lin, Mavrik McMeekan, Jason Frederick Myers, Lena Ng, Dimitry Partsi, Nick Porisch, Nilay Kumar Sarker, C.M. Saunders, Briar Shannon, Steve Toase, Mark Towse, Fendy S. Tulodo, Andrew Welsh-Huggins ...

Series Book 2 - Horrific Scribes Anthologies
Which is more terrifying, the imposition of order that might involve stifling limitations and repugnant values, or spiraling into chaos as order splinters or disappears? The 26 authors in Horrific Scribes Presents: Rulemakers and Rulebreakers have 26 answers, each with the potential to shatter you. Prepare for works by Sam Arlington, Raymond Brunell, Harley Carnell, Emmie Christie, Nicholas De ... Read more

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Which is more terrifying, the imposition of order that might involve stifling limitations and repugnant values, or spiraling into chaos as order splinters or disappears? The 26 authors in Horrific Scribes Presents: Rulemakers and Rulebreakers have 26 answers, each with the potential to shatter you. Prepare for works by Sam Arlington, Raymond Brunell, Harley Carnell, Emmie Christie, Nicholas De
... Read more
Nobody's Normal

How Culture Created the Stigma of Mental Illness

by Roy Richard Grinker ...

A compassionate and captivating examination of evolving attitudes toward mental illness throughout history and the fight to end the stigma.For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining many to asylums. In Nobody’s Normal, anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker chronicles the progress and setbacks in the struggle against mental-illness stigma—from ... Read more

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A compassionate and captivating examination of evolving attitudes toward mental illness throughout history and the fight to end the stigma.For centuries, scientists and society cast moral judgments on anyone deemed mentally ill, confining many to asylums. In Nobody’s Normal, anthropologist Roy Richard Grinker chronicles the progress and setbacks in the struggle against mental-illness stigma—from
... Read more

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Sleepwalk to War: Quarterly Essay 86

On Alliance Failure and China Delusions

by Hugh White ...

Series Book 86 - Quarterly Essay
In this essential essay, Hugh White explores Australia’s fateful choice to back the United States to the hilt, and oppose China. How did we come to this position – what led both sides of politics to align with America so absolutely?White considers the wisdom of the choice in relation to AUKUS, Taiwan, the Quad, Biden and Trump. Can America’s containment strategy hope to succeed? Can America bear ... Read more

$9.99 CAD

In this essential essay, Hugh White explores Australia’s fateful choice to back the United States to the hilt, and oppose China. How did we come to this position – what led both sides of politics to align with America so absolutely?White considers the wisdom of the choice in relation to AUKUS, Taiwan, the Quad, Biden and Trump. Can America’s containment strategy hope to succeed? Can America bear
... Read more
Canadians Under Fire

by Robert Engen ...

Infantrymen have been the sledgehammer of land warfare throughout the twentieth century but precisely how they fought at the tactical level has been difficult to determine. American historian S.L.A. Marshall for instance famously claimed that most Allied soldiers would not fight at all even when their lives were at stake. ... Read more

$39.99 CAD

Infantrymen have been the sledgehammer of land warfare throughout the twentieth century but precisely how they fought at the tactical level has been difficult to determine. American historian S.L.A. Marshall for instance famously claimed that most Allied soldiers would not fight at all even when their lives were at stake.
... Read more

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