Held captive for 21 days in numerous secret Saddam Hussein prisons at the onset of the Liberation of Iraq in March 2003, Army Specialist, Edgar Hernandez and six other brave soldiers feared for their lives as they faced brutal treatment and near-death situations right up until their dramatic rescue. When his convoy came under attack from heavy enemy fire, Hernandez was shot and hit by grenade shrapnel in the face. Bleeding profusely, he and several other soldiers (including Jessica Lynch who would be held in a different location) were taken prisoner. Pawns in a tug of war between an armed militia, the Fedayeen who wanted them executed, and Iraq’s elite Special Republican Guard who became their captors, the American soldiers were beaten and paraded as war trophies to a bloodthirsty Iraqi mob as death seemed eminent. Racing in a Red Cross ambulance at 100mph through the streets of Iraq, the POWs dodged missile fire from U.S. Marines, thinking Iraqi officers were trying to escape; unaware the captive soldiers were inside. Read in his own words, Hernandez describes the anguish he felt during this horrendous ordeal. Endorsed by Major General Alfred Valenzuela, a highly decorated 33-year Army veteran, he declares Hernandez’s biography as ""a thrilling account of heroism in time of war."" POW - An American Hero, a riveting read destined to be a New York Times Best Seller.

Edgar Hernandez POW: An American Hero

Literature & Fiction

Martinez, Jose'

Rellahan, Megan

Dramas & Plays

Ocean Breeze Books

This is the official authorized autobiography of a founding member of one of the world’s most notorious rap groups, Bizzy Bone, of the Grammy-winning, multiplatinum act Bone Thugs-n-Harmony. Bizzy has always been armed with a deep-rooted sense of spirituality, his first recollection is choosing his very own body to inhabit. From there it was off to the gritty Ohio streets where eventually he and his sisters were abducted. The children were rescued a year later, while living in a trailer park in Oklahoma thanks to the TV show America’s Most Wanted. Bizzy met and collaborated with his newfound brothers, which eventually gave way to Bone Thugs-n-Harmony. Taking the Greyhound to Los Angeles, the young group was determined to meet Eric “Easy-E” Wright of N.W.A. fame to sign to his Ruthless Records. And that is exactly what happened. Bizzy says, “I want this book to be about the spiritual war that has been a part of my life, about the music industry, business in general, the past and the future.”

Inside a Bizzy Mind: Bizzy by Choice Bone by Blood

Biographies & Memoirs

De La Cruz, Jessica

Bizzy Bone

Arts & Literature

Alfred Perez Pub

Carlos Slim: The Richest Man in the World: Bob Ore Edition

Professionals & Academics

Titletown Pub

Dave McPherson is a retired Army Ranger and small businessman in California's central valley.  His wife, Maggie, is dying of the cancer that has wracked her body for months.  As she breathes her last breath she tells Dave prophetically that he will have to take up arms against an enemy that is coming right to his doorstep.  At that very moment United States President Sranga lays dying in a San Diego hospital from a gunshot wound to the brain.  Just before he expires a demonic force takes control of his body and his mind and prevents the President's death.  Sranga's recovery puts Dave McPherson on a collision course with an out of control federal government that has declared war on him and anyone else that defies the President.  Dave has chosen not to back down from this fight.  In fact he has prepared himself to make a stand and fight against those that would deprive him of his rights, his property and his life.  But the massive military force arrayed against him might make this stand his last stand.

The Ranger's Last Stand

Genre Fiction

Tate Pub & Enterprises Llc

In Diversity, Funding, and Standardized Testing in American Education, noted education expert Jose Martinez s examines current aspects of inequality in American education, examining the complex nexus of funding, diversity, and the increasingly contentious role of standardized testing. A readable narrative format assesses the extensive documentation, which demonstrates that inequality is becoming entrenched throughout the education system, in no small measure due to biases in standardized testing systems. Students from kindergarten through university face the arising challenges while their environments are becoming more diverse. Funding levels in education are also posited as causes of inequality. This complements the view that standardized testing at all levels of education mirrors and exacerbates entrenched economic inequality. Education funding and standardized testing at all levels have thus become basic mechanisms that purposefully reproduce and maintain a two-tiered society. The solutions are not difficult to discern, as other societies can attest, but Martinez's thought-provoking new book moves toward engaging them.

Diversity, Funding, and Standardized Testing in American Education: causes of inequality

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Academica Press

Covid-19 and the transformation of american society

In Covid-19 and the Transformation of American Society, the first book-length consideration of the Covid-19 pandemic's implications, noted sociologist Jose Martinez lays bare the immense social changes that we should expect from the nouvel coronavirus, which has upended American life since March 2020. A vital theme of his critique is how inequality already entrenched in American society may worsen due to large-scale economic disruption that resonates strongly in the socioeconomic circumstances of minorities and the poor. On the other hand, society may also experience constructive social changes resulting from a widespread reconsideration of consumerism driven by frank reassessments of our wants and needs. This book addresses how the coronavirus has contributed to long-lasting reconsiderations of social relationships, from dating to leisure to education, in both negative and positive ways, and how national and cultural politics will never be the same. Martinez's timely book opens a new field in foretelling an unanticipated future for American society and, indeed, the entire world. It concludes with a consideration of possible solutions to address social changes that we are unlikely to avoid.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

In Covid-19 and the Transformation of American Society, the first book-length consideration of the Covid-19 pandemic's implications, noted sociologist Jose Martinez lays bare the immense social changes that we should expect from the nouvel coronavirus, which has upended American life since March 2020. A vital theme of his critique is how inequality already entrenched in American society may worsen due to large-scale economic disruption that resonates strongly in the socioeconomic circumstances of minorities and the poor. On the other hand, society may also experience constructive social changes resulting from a widespread reconsideration of consumerism driven by frank reassessments of our wants and needs. This book addresses how the coronavirus has contributed to long-lasting reconsiderations of social relationships, from dating to leisure to education, in both negative and positive ways, and how national and cultural politics will never be the same. Martinez opens a new field in foretelling an unanticipated future for American society and, indeed, the entire world. It concludes with a consideration of possible solutions to address social changes that we are unlikely to avoid.

The power of now, will help balance your life by subduing the thoughts of your past and the future and focusing on the present moment which itself is the truest path to being happy, mindful, enlightened, and creating the future that you want.This book has been written and arranged to educate, and inform those that are still belong held back by the failures of their past, and those who want to become mindful of the present in order to harness the power of now, to better their present and future. You need to be guided by simple principles in order to optimize the power of now, in your lifestyle. When you become mindful, you will be able to free yourself from your past toxic beliefs and thoughts, and then harness your inner capabilities, in order to rewrite your present and future story.

Power of Now: Mindfulness, Living in the moment and creating the future that you want (Spartan University)

Religion & Spirituality

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Money Mindset Secrets: 9 Steps to Financial Freedom

Self-Help

Success

Gesetz Uber Die Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank: Handkommentar (German Edition)

Poppe, Anna-Lena

Business

Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft

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