Audacious, streetwise, and sophisticated in the ways of power and deceit, Armed Memory takes a science-fictional look at the long-term implications of high-tech bioengineering and body-modification--a real-world issue that grows hotter with every passing day.

A comprehensive history of yacht design in New Zealand as seen by one of the country's leading designers. 298 pages in full colour with plans and drawings. This book covers a unique period in the history of yachting and boating in New Zealand that happened to coincide with Jim Young's life as a boatbuilder/ designer/ yachtsman. It was an era that saw dramatic advances in design and construction technology from what was an ancient craft, steeped in tradition, unchanged for centuries, to a time when boat builders have had to relearn the trade completely as wood has been steadily replaced by synthetics. This book lays out Jim Young's boat building career from his boyhood canoe made of roofing iron and tar to some of the most successful boat designs in New Zealand maritime history.

Recent college graduate Sam Breen takes his diploma and class of 2959 ring and heads for the underwater civilization of the planet Octavia to teach English. Original.

For over thirty years Jim Rayburn kept a journal -- and now, for the first time, you are invited to experience it for yourself. Rayburn (1909 - 1970) was one of the most influential Christians of the twentieth century. His journals cover the years from 1935 through his death in 1970. His life was one of tremendous consequence, unbelievable devotion to Christ, incredible highs, and soul-crushing lows. You'll not only experience first-hand the development of Young Life, the international ministry Rayburn founded, but you'll also be witness to some of the key moments in modern Christianity and get to know some of the spiritual giants of the era. The Rayburn family generously agreed to share Jim's personal reflections so that a new generation of Christians could get to know this great man in his own words and in his own voice. Jim's story is an incredible adventure -- you will be encouraged, challenged, and brought closer to Christ as you journey through each day with Jim. 2009 marked the 100th anniversary of Jim Rayburn's birth. What better way to mark his centenary than to experience for yourself Jim's personal journals! The entries were selected and edited by Kit Sublett. The book includes over 50 photographs.

Traces the early life of the Oklahoma Indian farm boy who achieved a unique sports career as winner of Olympic gold medals in the pentathlon and decathlon and as a professional baseball and football player.

In the summer of 1776, Joseph Plumb Martin was a fifteen-year-old Connecticut farm boy who considered himself as warm a patriot as the best of them. He enlisted that July and stayed in the revolutionary army until hostilities ended in 1783. Martin fought under Washington, Lafayette, and Steuben. He took part in major battles in New York, Monmouth, and Yorktown. He wintered at Valley Forge and then at Morristown, considered even more severe. He wrote of his war years in a memoir that brings the American Revolution alive with telling details, drama, and a country boy's humor. Jim Murphy lets Joseph Plumb Martin speak for himself throughout the text, weaving in historical backfround details wherever necessary, giving voice to a teenager who was an eyewitness to the fight that set America free from the British Empire.

A portrait of Bill Clinton, the Democratic nominee for president in 1992, based on interviews with Clinton and those who know him best.