After being sent to Colorado, Samuel Johnson, an agent for Vampires Against The Evil (VATE), never expected to come back to Iowa. But here he is, and something serious is going down. A quick drink of blood is all Samuel has time for before he's right in the middle of the mess.In a world filled with feral vampires (who act no better than animals) and the Evil Ones (whose hobbies are murder and torture), VATE is there to protect humans, who are too weak and vulnerable to defend themselves. Except that something has changed.There's a new group of human vampire hunters-and they're unusually effective. Samuel's boss suspects an alien has infiltrated their ranks. There's no other way to explain the group's success. Humans can't kill vampires-it just isn't right.Samuel goes undercover, joining the hunters as they kill vamps, but before he can expose the alien, the group realizes there is a traitor in their midst. As the investigation continues, Samuel must keep the hunters' attention focused on gangs of ferals and Evil Ones-and off himself.When the truth is finally uncovered, the fight gets bloody. Winning this one will take everything Samuel's got.
The easy way to master financial accounting courses Confused by the nitti-gritty of bookkeeping and accounting learning objectives? Do you need to get up and running on bookkeeping basics and the tools used in the field? You've come to the right place James's Nitti-Gritty of Financial Accounting is the ideal study text and reference for your accounting class. Inside you'll find explanations of the subject's fundamentals and topics such as books of prime entry, double entry bookkeeping, general ledgers, the initial trial balance, preparing sole trader and partnership accounts, appropriation of profits, company accounts, financial statements and standards, financial analysis, preparing cash flow statements, and much more, which accounting students are expected to master before they take their exams at different levels. Find all of the following and much more explained in Plain-English with no technical jargon: Recording business transactions. The Accounting Equation and why it's so significant. Explains how to track business transactions accurately with ledgers and journals. Helps you make sense of accounting and bookkeeping basics. Preparing journal entries with debits and credits. Preparing sole trader accounts. Preparing partnership accounts. Preparing company accounts. How to read and prepare financial statements. How to calculate and interpret several different financial ratios. The concepts and assumptions behind Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP). The IAS (International Accounting Standards). Inventory and Cost of Goods Sold How to calculate depreciation and amortization expenses. If you're just starting out in bookkeeping through to financial accounting or an experienced bookkeeper looking to brush up on your skills, The Nitti-Gritty of Financial Accounting is the only resource you'll need. This book will pay for itself by helping you with your determination to succeed. What can I say? You NEED this book Don't waste more time ACT NOW Get your copy today
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Dr. Garrett's messages are first-class theologically, biblically, and in heart-touch. They get to true and Christian emotions. They do me good. Paul V. Galloway Bishop in Residence -- The Boston Avenue United Methodist Church, Tulsa, Oklahoma James T. Garrett is truly an outstanding minister and one of America's most winsome and effective communicators of the Christian faith. His book deals with life's fundamentals in a most inspiring way. Charles L. Allen Methodist minister and author Houston, Texas God works purposefully to build his kingdom. In these sixteen sermons from the New Tesatment scriptures of Luke and John, James T. Garrett provides a glimpse of how the kingdom will be built. This book of sermons follows Common, Lutheran, and Roman Catholic lectionaries. Sermon titles include: - Christ Is Coming (Luke 21:25-36) - The Gospel of Christmas (John 1:1-18) - Jesus Is Rejected (Luke 4:21-30) - A Voice Out of the Clouds (Luke 9:28-36) James T. Garrett is senior minister of Marvin United Methodist Church in Tyler, Texas. Garrett is a graduate of Southern Methodist University and Perkins School of Theology.
This work chronicles the life of Tom Dooley, the doctor whose publicized exploits in Vietnam and Laos during the 1950s, helped lay the ideological groundwork for the US military intervention a decade later. A deeply religious Roman Catholic, Dooley was a playboy socialite, yet devoted to the poor.
Take a revealing look at gay sex and gay history - and the man who helped kick-start gay activism in today's society.The Mattachine is the origin of the contemporary American gay movement. One of the major players in this movement was Hal Call, America’s first openly gay journalist and the man most responsible for the end of government censorship of frontal male nude photography through the mail. Behind the Mask of the Mattachine: The Early Movement for Homosexual Emancipation, the Hal Call Chronicles travels back to the times before Stonewall and its aftermath, to the beginnings of the modern homosexual movement and the lesser-known individuals who started it. This stunning chronicle boldly goes beyond the standard whitewashed/desexualized history usually provided by other gay historians, to give the unexpurgated - and sexually charged - history of the activists who organized homosexuals, using the biography of the controversial Hal Call as its springboard.Behind the Mask of the Mattachine provides a revealing illustration of gay life and gay sex in the past through an intergenerational history of the early gay men’s movement. Noted author James T. Sears generously weaves oral history, seldom seen historical documents, and rare photographs to provide a rich behind-the-scenes look at the first wave of Mattachine activists and the emerging gay pornography industry. This historical chronicle of a previously neglected era is packed with details of Call’s personal struggles, his celebration of the phallus, and his assertion linking homophobia and heteronormativity to our culture’s sex-negative tradition. The reader is transported to the sexual underworld of youthful hustlers, porno kingpins, spurned lovers, sex clubs, cruising grounds, secretive societies, and personal in-fighting over the direction of gay activism. This enthralling narrative is impeccably referenced.Behind the Mask of the Mattachine examines:the origins of the Mattachine Societythe Mattachine Foundation of Harry Hay and others of the “Fifth Order”the Weimar Republic in Germany—the roots of the modern homosexual movementnetworking of homosexuals through correspondence clubs and speakeasies in Depression-era Americathe intense rivalries between San Francisco and New York City Mattachine groupscensorship of books, magazines, and filmsmuch more!The book explores the lives of three generations of pre-Stonewall gay activists:Magnus Hirschfeld and Benedikt FriedländerHenry Gerber and Manual boyFrankHarry Hay and Hal CallBehind the Mask of the Mattachine is not only candid about gay sex and its impact on society but also puts a needed spotlight on a time in lesser-known gay history. This is important, illuminating reading for historians and gay persons interested in the undeniably sexually charged history of the early gay men’s movement.Take a look at these other James T. Sears books on LGBT issues: Growing Up Gay in the South online at http://www.haworthpress.com/store/product.asp?sku=0502 and Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Issues in Education online at http://www.haworthpress.com/store/product.asp?sku=5180
Take a revealing look at gay sex and gay history - and the man who helped kick-start gay activism in today's society.The Mattachine is the origin of the contemporary American gay movement. One of the major players in this movement was Hal Call, America’s first openly gay journalist and the man most responsible for the end of government censorship of frontal male nude photography through the mail. Behind the Mask of the Mattachine: The Early Movement for Homosexual Emancipation, the Hal Call Chronicles travels back to the times before Stonewall and its aftermath, to the beginnings of the modern homosexual movement and the lesser-known individuals who started it. This stunning chronicle boldly goes beyond the standard whitewashed/desexualized history usually provided by other gay historians, to give the unexpurgated - and sexually charged - history of the activists who organized homosexuals, using the biography of the controversial Hal Call as its springboard.Behind the Mask of the Mattachine provides a revealing illustration of gay life and gay sex in the past through an intergenerational history of the early gay men’s movement. Noted author James T. Sears generously weaves oral history, seldom seen historical documents, and rare photographs to provide a rich behind-the-scenes look at the first wave of Mattachine activists and the emerging gay pornography industry. This historical chronicle of a previously neglected era is packed with details of Call’s personal struggles, his celebration of the phallus, and his assertion linking homophobia and heteronormativity to our culture’s sex-negative tradition. The reader is transported to the sexual underworld of youthful hustlers, porno kingpins, spurned lovers, sex clubs, cruising grounds, secretive societies, and personal in-fighting over the direction of gay activism. This enthralling narrative is impeccably referenced.Behind the Mask of the Mattachine examines:the origins of the Mattachine Societythe Mattachine Foundation of Harry Hay and others of the “Fifth Order”the Weimar Republic in Germany—the roots of the modern homosexual movementnetworking of homosexuals through correspondence clubs and speakeasies in Depression-era Americathe intense rivalries between San Francisco and New York City Mattachine groupscensorship of books, magazines, and filmsmuch more!The book explores the lives of three generations of pre-Stonewall gay activists:Magnus Hirschfeld and Benedikt FriedländerHenry Gerber and Manual boyFrankHarry Hay and Hal CallBehind the Mask of the Mattachine is not only candid about gay sex and its impact on society but also puts a needed spotlight on a time in lesser-known gay history. This is important, illuminating reading for historians and gay persons interested in the undeniably sexually charged history of the early gay men’s movement.Take a look at these other James T. Sears books on LGBT issues: Growing Up Gay in the South online at http://www.haworthpress.com/store/product.asp?sku=0502 and Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Issues in Education online at http://www.haworthpress.com/store/product.asp?sku=5180
From the first game wardens in the Everglades to present-day wildlife officers, law enforcement in the wild, untamed Everglades has kept pace with changing times. Today's game wardens chase escaped convicts, keep surveillance on drug runners, and recover wreckage from plane crashes as well as arrest deer, turkey, and alligator poachers. Meet the men and women who have dedicated their lives to protecting the wildlife and natural resources in the only Everglades on earth. For anyone interested in law enforcement or the Everglades.
In 1968 James T. Gillam was a poorly focused college student at Ohio University who was dismissed and then drafted into the Army. Unlike most African-Americans who entered the Army then, he became a Sergeant and an instructor at the Fort McClellan Alabama School of Infantry. In September 1968 he joined the First Battalion, 22nd Regiment of the 4th Infantry Division in Vietnam. Within a month he transformed from an uncertain sergeant—who tried to avoid combat—to an aggressive soldier, killing his first enemy and planning and executing successful ambushes in the jungle. Gillam was a regular point man and occasional tunnel rat who fought below ground, an arena that few people knew about until after the war ended. By January 1970 he had earned a Combat Infantry Badge and been promoted to Staff Sergeant. Then Washington’s politics and military strategy took his battalion to the border of Cambodia. Search-and-destroy missions became longer and deadlier. From January to May his unit hunted and killed the enemy in a series of intense firefights, some of them in close combat. In those months Gillam was shot twice and struck by shrapnel twice. He became a savage, strangling a soldier in hand-to-hand combat inside a lightless tunnel. As his mid-summer date to return home approached, Gillam became fiercely determined to come home alive. The ultimate test of that determination came during the Cambodian invasion. On his last night in Cambodia, the enemy got inside the wire of the firebase, and the killing became close range and brutal. Gillam left the Army in June 1970, and within two weeks of his last encounter with death, he was once again a college student and destined to become a university professor. The nightmares and guilt about killing are gone, and so is the callous on his soul. Life and Death in the Central Highlands is a gripping, personal account of one soldier’s war in the Vietnam War.
Featured in The Vietnam War PBS series by Ken Burns & Lynn Novick In 1968 James T. Gillam was a poorly focused college student at Ohio University who was dismissed and then drafted into the Army. Unlike most African-Americans who entered the Army then, he became a Sergeant and an instructor at the Fort McClellan Alabama School of Infantry. In September 1968 he joined the First Battalion, 22nd Regiment of the 4th Infantry Division in Vietnam. Within a month he transformed from an uncertain sergeant—who tried to avoid combat—to an aggressive soldier, killing his first enemy and planning and executing successful ambushes in the jungle. Gillam was a regular point man and occasional tunnel rat who fought below ground, an arena that few people knew about until after the war ended. By January 1970 he had earned a Combat Infantry Badge and been promoted to Staff Sergeant.Then Washington’s politics and military strategy took his battalion to the border of Cambodia. Search-and-destroy missions became longer and deadlier. From January to May his unit hunted and killed the enemy in a series of intense firefights, some of them in close combat. In those months Gillam was shot twice and struck by shrapnel twice. He became a savage, strangling a soldier in hand-to-hand combat inside a lightless tunnel. As his mid-summer date to return home approached, Gillam became fiercely determined to come home alive. The ultimate test of that determination came during the Cambodian invasion. On his last night in Cambodia, the enemy got inside the wire of the firebase, and the killing became close range and brutal.Gillam left the Army in June 1970, and within two weeks of his last encounter with death, he was once again a college student and destined to become a university professor. The nightmares and guilt about killing are gone, and so is the callous on his soul. Life and Death in the Central Highlands is a gripping, personal account of one soldier’s war in the Vietnam War.Number 5 in the North Texas Military Biography and Memoir Series
Advances in technology and risk modeling have boosted derivative markets. The resulting increase in arbitrage activities has narrowed profit margins in all financial markets. Consistent risk methodology is now an essential tool for overcoming competitive pricing and for anticipating the consequences of market turbulence. It is now possible to calculate the potential impact of every major deal on the overall risk profile of the firm. Market risk and credit risk can be quantified and considered against the expected contribution to shareholder value or return on capital. These measurements create a theoretical framework for harmonizing activity at financial firms. In practice, however, today's markets and technologies evolve so rapidly that the requirements and the capabilities shift before any reengineering cycle can be completed. A quagmire of data seriously confounds the task of extracting reliable information for risk management. The data problem becomes acute when you move to global risk management, because a flaw anywhere affects the whole process and is much harder to trace. Timely, accurate information about all positions is a prerequisite for effective management in this new global marketplace. You can't run flexible "what if" stress tests or determine global VaR (value at risk) accurately without a central transaction file. When the next contagion hits, the winners will be the ones who have correctly measured the stress on their whole portfolio and adjusted their holdings to achieve some immunization.
