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With the same daredevil flying action found in Top Gun and the riveting nonstop storytelling that has established James W. Huston's reputation, here is an explosive novel that takes us from the cockpits of carrier-based naval fighters to the inside of the CIA and the Mossad, as one man's determination to avenge a wrongful death has the potential to ignite an international war of deceit, murder, and retaliation. Sean Woods and Tony Vialli are F-14 pilots stationed aboard the USS George Washington in the Mediterranean. During a port call in Naples, Vialli falls for a beautiful woman he meets on a train who tells him she's Italian. She finally reveals she isn't Italian at all, and lures him out of the country to visit her. Vialli submits false leave papers, swears Woods to secrecy, and flies off to see her. His lover's trip becomes a nightmare when Vialli and the woman are brutally attacked in what appears to be a terrorist action. Enraged over his friend's vicious assault and furious at the lack of American response, Woods thinks the United States should retaliate against the man claiming responsibility, who says he is part of a secret society of Assassins founded in the eleventh century. Woods wants his country to declare war against this man personally, but his congressman pays no attention. A group of Israeli Air Force pilots offer Woods the chance to exact his own revenge by flying a section of F-14s with the Israelis, without the U.S. Navy's knowledge. Woods's flight turns into one of the biggest air battles since World War II. He must fight for his life, then fight to keep what he has done secret from the Navy and the rest of the world-all because of a woman whose identity and motives continue to elude him. James W. Huston has crafted a spellbinding tale worthy of the best of Robert Ludlum and Tom Clancy. His crisp, energetic writing keeps the reader enthralled throughout this multilayered story of military action, personal courage. international intrigue, and true-life events. Having set his own standard with Balance of Power and The Price of Power, he raises it to an entirely new level with Flash Point.

Logistics is a subject which few people, including professional soldiers, have thoroughly understood. Yet logistics must support both tactical operations and the day-to-day life of the Army in the same way that a well-run household supports the people who live in it. Professor Huston, who has served in tactical units in wartime and has studied logistics in both war and peace, as a military man and a civilian has prepared a clear and comprehensive history of U.S. Army logistics from the time of the American Revolution through the Korean War. He shows the role of all aspects of logistics –supply; transportation; evacuation; and hospitalization; and service – in peace, and in war, and in systematic fashion traces the development of the Army’s logistical system. The Sinews of War is offered to professional military men in all the armed services, and to thoughtful students of problems of national defense, as an essential contribution to their education. Author Bio Dr. James A. Huston, professor of history at Purdue University, received A.B. and A.M. degrees from Indiana University, and the Ph.D. from New York University. He has done graduate work at Oxford University and at the University of Fribourg. He has been the Ernest J. King, Professor of Maritime History at the Naval War College and a NATO Fellow. In the summer of 195 Dr. Huston was Director for the National Defense Education Act History Institute held at Purdue University. For the academic year 1966-67 he was a member of the faculty at the National War College, Washington, D.C. Dr. Huston served with the 134th Infantry in the European Theater of Operations during World War II as a rifle battalion operations officer and is now a colonel of Infantry in the Active Reserve. He is the author of Combat History of the 134th Infantry, Biography of a Battalion, and Across the Face of France, as well as numerous articles on military and international affairs.

Martin Scorsese was at death's door when he was making Raging Bull due to a cocaine addiction. Quentin Tarantino can only type with one finger at a time. Robert Rodriguez's children are called Rocket, Racer, Rebel, Rogue and Rhiannon. Ridley Scott has never won an Oscar for Best Director. Mel Brooks defused land mines in World War II. Christopher Nolan can't see red or green. Stanley Kubrick thought his best movie was Eyes Wide Shut. Tim Burton has a phobia of chimpanzees. George Lucas said that Darth Vader was inspired from Doctor Doom from the Marvel Comics. Guillermo Del Toro's father was kidnapped in the early 1990s. James Cameron paid off the ransom of $1 million. Joss Whedon's cult show, Firefly, was supposed to run for seven seasons. Edgar Wright shot the Klingon scene in Star Trek: Into Darkness David Fincher's favourite book is Dracula. Charlie Chaplin has an asteroid named after him. M. Night Shymalan wrote Stuart Little. Alfred Hitchcock had a phobia of eggs.

The Subversive Edge of Psychoanalysis examines the radical and non-conformist perspectives of both classical and contemporary psychoanalysis. The chapters included in this book span the course of David James Fisher’s career. They contextualize significant cases from the recent history of psychoanalysis, critically analyze key aspects of psychoanalytic work, consider the role of psychoanalysis in the history of the twentieth century, and provide biographical sketches of major figures in the field. The book concludes with a cogent interview of the author by a distinguished psychohistorian, depicting how subjectivity, family themes, politics, and cultural affinities marked his choice of subject matter and methodology, his identifications, and his antipathies. The Subversive Edge of Psychoanalysis will appeal to mental health professionals and students with an interest in psychoanalytic practice and theory and academics and researchers who are fascinated by the subversive, non-conforming aspects of both classical and contemporary psychoanalysis.

Utilizing many sources new to publication, James L. Haley delivers a most readable and enjoyable narrative history of Texas, told through stories—the words and recollections of Texans who actually lived the state’s spectacular history. From Jim Bowie’s and Davy Crockett’s myth-enshrouded stand at the Alamo, to the Mexican-American War, and to Sam Houston’s heroic failed effort to keep Texas in the Union during the Civil War, the transitions in Texas history have often been as painful and tense as the “normal” periods in between. Here, in all of its epic grandeur, is the story of Texas as its own passionate nation. “Texas native Haley does an outstanding job of narrating the outsized and dramatic history of the Lone Star State. John Steinbeck observed, ‘Like most passionate nations, Texas has its own private history based on, but not limited by, facts.’ Cognizant of this, Haley takes pains to separate folklore from fact. He's a good storyteller, but then it's hard to go wrong with the colorful characters he has to work with: pioneer nationalists Sam Houston and Davy Crockett, Quaker abolitionist Benjamin Lundy, a wagonload of liquored-up turn-of-the-century oilmen and such latter-day heroes as Lyndon Johnson, John Connally and Janis Joplin.”—Publishers Weekly Starred Review

In 1895, Louis Lumi�re supposedly said that cinema is Òan invention without a future.Ó James Naremore uses this legendary remark as a starting point for a meditation on the so-called death of cinema in the digital age, and as a way of introducing a wide-ranging series of his essays on movies past and present. These essays include discussions of authorship, adaptation, and acting; commentaries on Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Vincente Minnelli, John Huston, and Stanley Kubrick; and reviews of more recent work by non-Hollywood directors Pedro Costa, Abbas Kiarostami, Raœl Ruiz, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Important themes recur: the relations between modernity, modernism, and postmodernism; the changing mediascape and death of older technologies; and the need for robust critical writing in an era when print journalism is waning and the humanities are devalued. The book concludes with essays on four major American film critics: James Agee, Manny Farber, Andrew Sarris, and Jonathan Rosenbaum.

From The Big Sleep to Babette's Feast, from Lawrence of Arabia to Drugstore Cowboy, The Movie Guide offers the inside word on 3,500 of the best motion pictures ever made. James Monaco is the president and founder of BASELINE, the world's leading supplier of information to the film and television industries. Among his previous books are The Encyclopedia of Film, American Film Now, and How to Read a Film.