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Someone call Michele Fiore," pleaded one of the final four protesters at the Malheur Wildlife Refuge. A week earlier Mike Arnold and Lissa Casey pleaded, on behalf of their client Ammon Bundy, for the protesters to "please stand down." Lissa, Mike, and Michele Fiore give a play by play of how they ended up at the Refuge during the final standoff. An interview first heard on the Law Is War Podcast with Mike Arnold.

"Someone call Michele Fiore," pleaded one of the final four protesters at the Malheur Wildlife Refuge. A week earlier Mike Arnold and Lissa Casey pleaded, on behalf of their client Ammon Bundy, for the protesters to "please stand down." Lissa, Mike, and Michele Fiore give a play by play of how they ended up at the Refuge during the final standoff. An interview first heard on the Law Is War Podcast with Mike Arnold. Bonus story at the end of the eBook and paperback.

This book is the never-before-told story of the dream to set up camp in a vast African wasteland and return it to its former glory as one of the world's premier wildlands. Outdoor writer Mike Arnold takes us on an impressionistic journey through Coutada 11, a once again magnificent natural area in Mozambique's Zambeze Delta. Mike leads us from its poached-out days as a source of bush meat for starving villagers and civil war military troops to the arrival in the early '90s of hunting outfitter Mark Haldane and his partners, on their often perilous, sometimes hilarious, travails to take the defiled and uninhabitable place and make it whole again. Through Mike's encounters with Haldane and his crew of scientists, guides, and motor-cycle-riding poacher patrols; with local villagers who were an integral part from the beginning; and, of course, with the apex predators, birds, and game animals that 30 years ago no one could have imagined thriving in this locale, this book serves as proof that a small group of dedicated people can make all the difference, and dreams can come true.

Pocket Art of Warby Sun Tzu("Master Sun")Translated by Lionel Giles (Unabridged, Unannotated)Afterword by Mike ArnoldSeries: Pocket ClassicsVolume 2

A love story like you've never read before. A tale of love, loss, and ultimate redemption. A journey laced with warring mental health, compulsive addictive tendencies, and desperate attempts for understanding and peace. Eventual self-discovery. Sat in an Edinburgh train station, Lucas recalls meeting Megan, a girl who shines a new light into his dark life, and once again life feels as though it's worth living, but lights are never without their shadows. Transported back through the years, Lucas intimately retells the spiral of falling in love, the ups and downs, their meetings and exclusions, and his path through the thick and thin. Both Megan and Lucas try desperately to escape their inner demons, finding sanctuary in one another, but never entirely. Everyone must face themselves eventually. They meet and break. Push and pull. Fix and fall apart. Through suffering, torment, escape, and ecstasy, can they learn the lesson that will ultimately set them free? I Escape Through You is a stunningly-written debut novel with a beautifully intimate and delicate style that won't be able to help but relate to. Loved by readers all over the world, this is a book that stings, feeling almost like a personal diary entry that you may have written yourself. Reflections you may see yourself in. Touching on all kinds of topics from across modern love, including attachment and mental health, follow Lucas as he recalls his story as he falls in love with Megan, and the realisations and lessons he learns along the way. I Escape Through You is a brilliant story about people, how they connect, how they love, and how that love and connection change over time. It's the need to escape and find our happy endings, but experiencing the stark realisation that true love doesn't come from loving others, but comes from a far deeper, much more real place. This novel will draw you in, resonate with so many parts of you, and leave you feeling like you've just awoken from a surreal dream. A love story like you've never read before. Featured on the LoveReadingUK July 'Indie Books We Love 2021' List! “When I first heard of ‘I Escape Through You’ by Mike Arnold it sounded like a story of the right person at the wrong time. However, this book is more than that. Taking a more intimate look at mental health, and how people leap into relationships in order to try to fix themselves as opposed to working to fix themselves,” - Charlotte Walker - LoveReading UK

The legendary Arnold Schwarzenegger has had a storied life. As well as you think you know him, there is so much about this successful Austrian immigrant that you don’t know. His name is now one of the most recognized, respected and celebrated in the world. This report gets inside the mind of a truly driven man from humble beginnings who became a living legend. Get to know the KING of Bodybuilding, who conquered Hollywood and Politics in this 43-page report that shares his success secrets in and out of the gym.

In the 1930s, as nations braced for war, the German military build up caught Britain and the United States off-guard, particularly in aviation technology. The unending quest for speed resulted in the need for radical alternatives to piston engines. In Germany, Dr. Hans von Ohain was the first to complete a flight-worthy turbojet engine for aircraft. It was installed in a Heinkel-designed aircraft, and the Germans began the jet age on August 27, 1939. The Germans led the jet race throughout the war and were the first to produce jet aircraft for combat operations. In England, the doggedly determined Frank Whittle also developed a turbojet engine, but without the support enjoyed by his German counterpart. The British came second in the jet race when Whittle's engine powered the Gloster Pioneer on May 15, 1941. The Whittle-Gloster relationship continued and produced the only Allied combat jet aircraft during the war, the Meteor, which was relegated to Home Defense in Britain. In America, General Electric copied the Whittle designs, and Bell Aircraft contracted to build the first American jet plane. On October 1, 1942, a lackluster performance from the Bell Airacomet, ushered in the American jet age. The Yanks forged ahead, and had numerous engine and airframe programs in development by the end of the war. But, the Germans did it right and did it first, while the Allies lagged throughout the war, only rising to technological prominence on the ashes of the German defeat. Pavelec's analysis of the jet race uncovers all the excitement in the high-stakes race to develop effective jet engines for warfare and transport.

“Zeroes in on the interesting, irreverent, long-ignored tidbits that shape behavior in all conflicts and important periods of history.”—The Denver Post What made the founding fathers so great (or were they?). And don’t forget the founding mothers. We have intrigue and skullduggery with spies from Nathan Hale to Benedict Arnold, with enlightening stops on the distaff side of espionage for Patience Wright (no relation to our esteemed author), Lydia Darragh, and Ann Bates. “[Mike] Wright uncovers the gamut of the revolutionary era with a highly readable, breezy narrative style, and some of his speculations eloquently illustrate the ironies always present in grand historical movements. . . . This work will inform, amuse, and provide an interesting perspective on the Revolution.”—Booklist

As business cycles speed up, many customers gain significant competitive advantage from quicker and more accurate business decision-making by using real data. For many customers, choosing the path to co-locate their transactional and analytical workloads on System z® better leverages their existing investment in hardware, software, and skills. We created a project to address a number of best practice questions on how to manage these newer, analytical type workloads, especially when co-located with traditional transactional workloads. The goal of this IBM® Redbooks® publication is to provide technical guidance and performance trade-offs associated with resource management and potentially DB2® data-sharing in a variety of mixed transactional / data warehouse System z topologies. The term co-location used here and in the rest of the book is specifically defined as the practice of housing both transactional (OLTP) and data warehouse (analytical) workloads within the same System z configuration. We also assumed that key portions of the transactional and data warehouse databases would reside on DB2 for z/OS®. The databases may or may not reside in a DB2 data-sharing environment; we discuss those pros and cons in this book. The intended audience includes DB2 data warehouse architects and practitioners who are facing choices in resource management and system topologies in the data warehouse arena. This specifically includes Business Intelligence (BI) administrators, DB2 database administrators (DBAs) and z/OS performance administrators / systems programmers. In addition, decision makers and architects can utilize this book to assist in making platform and database topology decisions. The book is divided into four parts. Part I, "Introducing the co-location project" covers the System z value proposition and why one should consider System z as the central platform for their data warehousing / business analytics needs. Some topics are risk avoidance via data consolidation, continuous availability, simplified disaster recovery, IBM Smart Analytics Optimizer, reduced network bandwidth requirements, and the unique virtualization and resource management capabilities of System z LPAR, z/VM® and WLM. Part I also provides some of the common System z co-location topologies along with an explanation of the general pros and cons of each. This would be useful input for an architect to understand where a customer is today and where they might consider moving to. Part II, "Project environment" covers the environment, products, workloads, workload drivers, and data models implemented for this study. The environment consisted of a logically partitioned z10TM 32way, running z/VM, Linux®, and z/OS operating system instances. On those instances we ran products such as z/OS DB2 V9, IBM Cognos® Business Intelligence Version 8.4 for Linux on System z, InfoSphereTM Warehouse for System z, InfoSphere Change Data Capture, z/OS WebSphere® V7, Tivoli® Omegamon for DB2 Performance expert. Utilizing these products we created transactional (OLTP), data warehouse query, and data warehouse refresh workloads. All the workloads were based on an existing web-based transactional Bookstore workload, that's currently utilized for internal testing within the System p® and z labs. While some IBM Cognos BI and ISWz product usage and experiences information is covered in this book, we do not go into the depth typically found in IBM Redbooks publications, since there's another book focused specifically on that

The world first heard of Klaus Fuchs, the head of theoretical physics at the British Research Establishment at Harwell in February 1950 when he appeared at the Old Bailey, accused of passing secrets to the Soviet Union. For over sixty years disinformation and lies surrounded the story of Klaus Fuchs as the Governments of Britain, the United States and Russia all tried to cover up the truth about his treachery. Piecing together the story from archives in Britain, the United States, Russia and Germany, The Spy Who Changed the World unravels the truth about Fuchs and reveals for the first time his long career of espionage. It proves that he played a pivotal role in Britain's bomb programme in the race to keep up with the United States in the atomic age, and that he revealed vital secrets about the atom bomb, as well as the immensely destructive hydrogen bomb to the Soviet Government. It is a dramatic tale of clandestine meetings, deadly secrets, family entanglements and illicit love affairs, all set against the tumultuous years from the rise of Hitler to the start of the Cold War.