A Lethal Lesson
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21 Destructive Lessons Blacks Learn
What you know also can hurt you! The quality of your life is a reflection of what you know and how you think, and what you know and how you think you learned. In this book, you would find at least twenty-one of the most common but limiting lessons you most likely have learned especially as a black person, how these have formed the bedrock for the way you think, and consequently the quality of the life you now lead. It would also help you do the following: Escape the damaging effect of these destructive mind-sets. Effect a revolution of your mind. Unleash the unlimited power within you. Change your life and of those around you for the better. Become a person of influence too . . . regardless of the colour of your skin or limitations, and all by yourself.
Doomsday Men
The gripping, untold story of the doomsday bomb—the ultimate weapon of mass destruction. "Chillingly compelling." — New Scientist In 1950, Hungarian-born scientist Leo Szilard made a dramatic announcement on American radio: science was on the verge of creating a doomsday bomb. For the first time in history, mankind realized that he had within his grasp a truly God-like power, the ability to destroy life itself. The shockwave from this statement reverberated across the following decade and beyond. If detonated, Szilard's doomsday device—a huge cobalt-clad H-bomb—would pollute the atmosphere with radioactivity and end all life on earth. The scientific creators of such apocalyptic weapons had transformed the laws of nature into instruments of mass destruction and for many people in the Cold War there was little to distinguish real scientists from that "fictional master of megadeath," Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove. Indeed, as P. D. Smith's chilling account, Doomsday Men, shows, the dream of the superweapon begins in popular culture. This is a story that cannot be told without the iconic films and fictions that portray our deadly fascination with superweapons, from H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds to Nevil Shute's On the Beach and Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Although scientists admitted it was possible to build the cobalt bomb, no superpower would admit to having created one. However, it remained a terrifying possibility, striking fear into the hearts of people around the world. The story of the cobalt bomb is an unwritten chapter of the Cold War, but now P. D. Smith reveals the personalities behind this feared technology and shows how the scientists responsible for the twentieth century's most terrible weapons grew up in a culture dreaming of superweapons and Wellsian utopias. He argues that, in the end, the doomsday machine became the ultimate symbol of humanity's deepest fears about the science of destruction. "Weaving together biography, science and art, Smith has created a compelling history of physics in the twentieth century, focusing on the long-lasting search for ever more destructive weapons—from the development of chemical warfare in World War I Germany through the arms race of the Cold War. . . . Captivating and thoroughly referenced, this chronicle should interest a wide audience, from science and history buffs to armchair politicos." — Publishers Weekly
Murder in the Heartland: Book Three
Author: Harry Spiller
language: en
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Release Date: 2011-01-07
In a place where murder isn’t supposed to happen—rural Missouri and Southern Illinois—deputy sheriff and investigator Harry Spiller learned the hard reality: murder is all around us. It doesn’t matter whether you live in a big city or small county with farms and churches—murder is swift and can happen to anyone, anywhere, and anytime. All too often, victims fall prey in places we think are safe to raise our families, where we take walks on hot summer nights, where our children play in the park or yard without concern, and where we leave our doors unlocked at night. Murder in the Heartland, Book 3 tells the stories of innocent victims in these seemingly innocent places. From his research and investigations of twelve murder cases, Spiller recounts the gruesome details of a homicidal nurse, a murder instigated by the devil, and the “death of the machine.” Each account includes chilling mug shots, crime scene photos, and interviews from the murderers themselves. As much as we like to think we’re safe, murder can happen even in rural America—and it does. Join Spiller in the last installment of his three-book series of these horrifying murders in the heartland.