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Text for Senior Seminar, CE-401, at the University of Kentucky, Department of Civil Engineering. An excellent desktop reference for civil engineers in practice regarding the non-technical aspects of engineering practice. Get more details including the Table of Contents at: http://richardcheeks.com/professor/Semester%20Information/Table-of-Contents.pdf

"Always Perfect", is a mom's reflection of her journey with her daughter being diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes at the age of four. For all of the moms that are going through this journey, I hope this book helps you to realize that you are not alone and that no matter what struggles you and your children face, your children are and will always be PERFECT.

Deuteronomy rendered into E-Prime by Dr. David F. Maas with Interlinear Hebrew in IPA

Fly with the men of the 1st Cavalry through the 1968 Tet Offensive, then to Khe Sanh and the A Shau Valley. Join the Special Forces missions to the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos and Cambodia. This is a personal, brutally honest, account by a helicopter pilot during the pivotal battles of the Viet Nam war. He is a witness to American victories and the unswerving bravery of his comrades. In pursuit of a determined enemy, they fly with indomitable resolution. Hear of their willingness to face a gauntlet of death each day, and rise the next day to do it all again. He comes home to a bitter unhinged America turning against their army and the people of South Viet Nam. He finds duty and honor ...

I am ash. I am dust. I'm what's left from a fire that burned so completely, there seems no need to put it out. And deep down in that pile of ash, that pile of charred remains, a glowing ember burns intently. That is my core, that ember. It is the fight in me, and it feels stronger every minute. Tell me, what would you do for your family? To what ends would you go to ensure they remained safe? My name is Ember now, and I'll do the unthinkable, and maybe the unforgivable, to protect my family and my team. Just stand back and watch the fireworks as I show you my new world.

In the year 2000, an out of work reporter is approached by a man who is not whom he appears to be. Lured into a romantic affair with him, the reporter is soon to lose everything—her family, her home, her country and nearly her life. EXILE is the true story of Janet Phelan, who fled the US after the attempts to permanently silence her went awry. The lengths to which the intelligence community will go to cover their tracks is revealed in this memoir. The ultimate question—what is the meaning behind this grave assault on an American citizen—unfolds as the story is told.

After a war breaks out between the Geese Forces and the Duck Imperial Army, a group of geese try to climb Mt. Mounti to retrieve the Gem of Goosian to win the war. While climbing the mountain, they find that the gem is more than it seems. It can do more than previously thought which makes the geese have to fight for their very survival.

THE MAN, THE WOMAN HE LOVED AND THE SON OF GOD. HERE I AM is a novel based on the life of John the Baptist. From the moment of his conception to his horrific death, you follow his life as a confused young man searching for his identity, to a man in love with a woman whom he cannot take as a wife, to the prophet who finally becomes the powerful voice of one crying in the wilderness, “Prepare the way!” John and Jesus are cousins and playmates who gradually become aware of their destinies. One is the son of a priest with all the education and advantages that befit his class, while the other is the son of a lowly carpenter from a small, remote village. Throughout John’s ...

This book of poetry explores the early life of DYC, who turned to poetry as she encountered love, loss, domestic violence and more, while growing up in the heart of the Lower East Side.