Expendable

Expendable
Title Expendable PDF eBook
Author James Alan Gardner
Publisher Open Road Media
Pages 354
Release 2014-04-01
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1497625246

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In a world where the marginalized of society are sent into space on suicide missions, one woman decides to fight back: “Riveting” (David Feintuch). In Expendable, the first volume of the League of Peoples, Festina Ramos is assigned to escort an unstable admiral to planet Melaquin. Little is known about Melaquin, for every explorer who’s landed there has disappeared. It’s come to be known as the “planet of no return,” and the High Council has made a habit of sending troublesome admirals there in an attempt to get rid of them. It’s clear that this is intended to be Ramos’s last mission, but she doesn’t plan on dying, no matter how expendable she may be.

The Expendable Man

The Expendable Man
Title The Expendable Man PDF eBook
Author Dorothy B. Hughes
Publisher New York Review of Books
Pages 265
Release 2012-07-03
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1590175093

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“It was surprising what old experiences remembered could do to a presumably educated, civilized man.” And Hugh Denismore, a young doctor driving his mother’s Cadillac from Los Angeles to Phoenix, is eminently educated and civilized. He is privileged, would seem to have the world at his feet, even. Then why does the sight of a few redneck teenagers disconcert him? Why is he reluctant to pick up a disheveled girl hitchhiking along the desert highway? And why is he the first person the police suspect when she is found dead in Arizona a few days later? Dorothy B. Hughes ranks with Raymond Chandler and Patricia Highsmith as a master of mid-century noir. In books like In a Lonely Place and Ride the Pink Horse she exposed a seething discontent underneath the veneer of twentieth-century prosperity. With The Expendable Man, first published in 1963, Hughes upends the conventions of the wrong-man narrative to deliver a story that engages readers even as it implicates them in the greatest of all American crimes.

The Expendables

The Expendables
Title The Expendables PDF eBook
Author Jeff Rubin
Publisher Vintage Canada
Pages 369
Release 2022-02-01
Genre Political Science
ISBN 0735279411

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER A Globe and Mail Favourite Book of 2020 From the #1 bestselling author of Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller, a provocative, far-reaching account of how the middle class got stuck with the bill for globalization, and how the blowback—from Brexit to Trump to populist Europe—will change the developed world. Real wages in North America have not risen since the 1970s. Union membership has collapsed. Full-time employment is beginning to look like a quaint idea from the distant past. If it seems that the middle class is in retreat around the developed world, it is. Former CIBC World Markets Chief Economist Jeff Rubin argues that all this was foreseeable back when Canada, the United States and Mexico first started talking free trade. Growing global inequality is a problem of our own making, he says. And solving it won't be easy if we draw on the same ideas about capital and labour, right and left, that led us to this cliff. Articulating a vision that dovetails with the ideas of both Naomi Klein and Donald Trump, The Expendables is an exhilaratingly fresh perspective that is at once humane and irascible, fearless and rigorous, and most importantly, timely. GDP is growing, the stock market is up and unemployment is down, but the surprise of the book is that even the good news is good for only one percent of us.

The Expendable

The Expendable
Title The Expendable PDF eBook
Author John Lewis Floyd
Publisher
Pages 510
Release 2020-08-15
Genre
ISBN 9781734542103

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A gripping, true story of one sailor's struggle to survive the opening battle of WWII in the Pacific. When the U.S. Fleet flees to the safety of Allied waters, Charles Beckner, a young Navy Corpsman is left behind, trapped on Bataan with no apparent avenue for escape.

Expendable Elite

Expendable Elite
Title Expendable Elite PDF eBook
Author Daniel Marvin
Publisher Trine Day
Pages 969
Release 2006-08-01
Genre History
ISBN 1937584070

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Exposing the unique nature of the United States’ elite fighting force, this narrative reveals how covert operations are often masked to permit and even sponsor assassination, outright purposeful killing of innocents, illegal use of force, and bizarre methods in combat operations. Through this compelling memoir, the author reveals the fear these warriors share not of the enemy they have been trained to fight in battle, but of the wrath of the U.S. government should they find themselves classified as “expendable.”

Expendable

Expendable
Title Expendable PDF eBook
Author James Alan Gardner
Publisher Harper Collins
Pages 364
Release 1997
Genre Outer space
ISBN 9781568653785

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On any given planetdown mission, there's always someone whose job it is to walk into danger and get killed. What must it be like to be him, knowing your lifespan is as short as a fruitfly's?

Behind the Scenes of They Were Expendable

Behind the Scenes of They Were Expendable
Title Behind the Scenes of They Were Expendable PDF eBook
Author Lou Sabini
Publisher McFarland
Pages 199
Release 2015-05-11
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1476619751

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In 1945 U.S. Navy photographer Nick Scutti found himself in the Florida Keys on the set of the classic World War II drama They Were Expendable, taking candid shots of director John Ford, stars Robert Montgomery and John Wayne and the supporting cast and crew. Scutti's never before published collection of fully captioned photos provides a unique chronicle of the 30-day location shoot, revealing details of the making of the film and in some instances disproving certain statements made by MGM publicity and Ford himself. Brief biographies are included of the stars of the film and of the men the film was based upon.