"Based on a true story."

What are the true facts behind the rags to riches story of Sam W. Dwyer? Was Dwyer an IRA assassin? And what was his actual involvement in the assassination attempt on the British Prime Minister Edward Heath at Baldonnel Airdrome in Dublin in 1973?

From a fifteen-year-old who left his home in Glenmalure County, Wicklow, Ireland, to a distinguished military police agent in the Irish army, a manager-promoter with a Dublin rock group, and a private investigator for seven years, Dwyer reached the heights of success. But the dark shadows that crossed Dwyer's path...

Sandra Visser and Thomas Williams offer a brief, accessible introduction to the life and thought of Saint Anselm (c. 1033-1109). Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury for the last sixteen years of his life, is one of the foremost philosopher-theologians of the Middle Ages. His keen and rigorous thinking earned him the title "The Father of Scholasticism," and his influence is discernible in figures as various as Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, the voluntarists of the late-thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and the Protestant reformers.
In part I of this book, Visser and Williams lay out the...

John Barry, an Irish immigrant to Philadelphia in 1760, commenced a naval career that included being victorious in thirty naval engagements verses the British. Captain Barry was credited with the first capture of a British warship. He was wounded in a ferocious sea battle, quelled three mutinies and captured over twenty ships during his career. He fought the last naval battle of the Revolutionary War. Commodore John Barry was the First Flag Officer of the United States Navy and Father of the American Navy. The historical fiction of John Barry's life is fun, informative, emotional, and...

Sandra Visser and Thomas Williams offer a brief, accessible introduction to the life and thought of Saint Anselm (c. 1033-1109). Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury for the last sixteen years of his life, is one of the foremost philosopher-theologians of the Middle Ages. His keen and rigorous thinking earned him the title "The Father of Scholasticism," and his influence is discernible in figures as various as Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, the voluntarists of the late-thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and the Protestant reformers.
In part I of this book, Visser and Williams lay out the...

The younger generations have not studied the history of our fragile world and mock the concept of history repeating itself. We cannot have U.S. energy security without global energy security." The battle for the Arctic could be described as the new Cold War between our two countries. We have lost our edge as the world's strongest economy that would cause other countries to get pneumonia if we caught a cold. Now if we get a cold they send Kleenex. Our weakness in the United States in one of not being pro-active to terrorist and to threats of wars; we are no longer a country to be feared. They...