Green Politics

As alliances begin to crumble, Firestorm agents Brady Hawk and Alex Duncan are requested to help a lone CIA operative thwart Al Hasib from getting their hands on Sarin gas at the Somalian port city of Berbera. The mission gets complicated when Emily Thornton re-enters the scene and tries to convince Hawk to join forces with Searchlight as secrets about Alex's past come to light. Meanwhile, Senator J.D. Blunt continues to live in a shroud of secrecy in Africa...until someone from his past threatens to expose Firestorm and kill him.

In the third installment of the James Flynn thriller series, Flynn is working on an article for his magazine The National about the famous D.B. Cooper skyjacking case in Washington when a brazen criminal leaps from a commercial jet with a million dollars. While it's not an exact replication of Cooper's heist, FBI officials can't deny the similarities between the cases and the thief's obvious attempt to make himself out to be Cooper's equal.

Hawk embarks on a mission to Prague to stop an attempt on the life of Jordanian Prime Minister Yaseen Abbadi. However, the terrorist organization Al Hasib has every reason to make sure Abbadi never leaves the country alive, setting up a showdown with Hawk. Meanwhile, J.D. Blunt makes his intentions clear while uncovering another plot to kill thousands of innocent Americans - and he's not sure who to trust any more. And he needs Hawk more than ever.

When ex-CIA operative turned investigative reporter James Flynn discovers a shocking document covered up during the JFK assassination investigation, he unearths a deathbed confession from a government official. Compelled by his quest for the truth he launches down a path leading to the Holy Grail of investigative journalism: the mastermind of the JFK assassination conspiracy. But when his investigation unravels dark secrets, Flynn uncovers something far more sinister - a plot to assassinate the current President and start a nuclear world war. And only Flynn can stop it.

A mundane Monday morning for US Senator Jeffrey Daniels takes a drastic turn when he discovers that his son has been kidnapped by a domestic terrorist group. Under the terms of the group's ransom, Daniels is unable to turn to law enforcement for help out of fear that his son might be killed. In desperation, the senator contacts his brother in law, Seth Matthews, who leads a team of former military, CIA, and FBI personnel who specialize in asset retrieval called The White Knights.

Grassroots Rising is a passionate call to action for the global body politic, providing practical solutions for how to survive - and thrive - in catastrophic times. Author Ronnie Cummins aims to educate and inspire citizens worldwide to organize and become active participants in preventing ecological collapse. This audiobook offers a blueprint for building and supercharging a grassroots regeneration movement based on consumer activism, farmer innovation, political change, and regenerative finance.

This book brings unique perspectives to this key debate by exploring the history of green entrepreneurship since the nineteenth century, and its spread globally in industries including renewable energy, organic food, natural beauty, ecotourism, recycling, architecture, and finance. The book uses the lens of the extraordinary and often eccentric men and women who defied convention and imagined that business could help save the planet, rather than consume it. The social and religious beliefs that drove many of these individuals are explored.

With political unrest spreading like a plague across the world, black ops agent Brady Hawk and the Magnum team come across a coded file linked to the suspected source of the upheaval: The Alliance. However, the only person who can crack the code is The Cobbler, a forger located in Prague. But when Hawk and an old friend team up to capture The Cobbler, they find themselves in the crosshairs of an assassin sent to protect the organization’s most valuable asset. As Hawk fights to survive in an unforgiving country, a conspiracy comes to light that threatens everything he holds dear.

As the Magnum Group unravels a mystery regarding the purpose of Russian spies that secretly entered the US, Brady Hawk finds himself in the den of one of the most ruthless Russian military leaders during the Cold War. As his role in the infiltration of spies into the US becomes clear, the Russian general makes a bold move that sets off a dangerous chain of events, threatening the safety of the US military, and the entire city of Washington.

When three CIA assets embedded in foreign drug cartels go missing, The Magnum Group is enlisted to investigate the source of a potential leak—a US ambassador with close ties to the president.

Arguments for Future: Argumentieren lernen wie Luisa und Greta in fünf kurzen knackigen Kapiteln: Was kommt auf uns zu? Inwiefern sind Gesellschaft und Politik dafür verantwortlich? Wie kann ich Klimamythen entschärfen? Tipps, wie Klimakommunikation gelingen kann. Und Ideen für eigenes Engagement und Gesprächstaktiken. Also, "Misch dich ein".

El objetivo de este audiolibro es ofrecer una visión objetiva de la situación insostenible a la que hemos llegado dando a conocer al lector las causas que la han provocado y ofrecer una mirada hacia el futuro analizando algunos de los cambios que pueden implementar tanto las empresas como los consumidores para conseguir un desarrollo económico que no dañe el medio ambiente. Somos perfectamente conscientes de que es necesario un cambio ¿sabemos en qué consiste el cambio?

DeDe Mercer is a Radiant who can control other people’s thoughts, make them do what she wants. For years she’s controlled her power, keeping her secret, never using it on anyone— until the day she had no choice. Now the government is after her, after her brother, too, because he’ll come into his power before long. The Department of Energy, the Defense Intelligence Agency, Homeland Security— they all want her, and they’re willing to do anything, hurt anyone, kill if necessary, to make her their weapon.

No matter how President Obama spins his proposed government policies, it amounts to the same thing: a power grab. In his new book, best-selling author Christopher Horner reveals an out-of-control administration that wants to impose mandates, raise taxes, and even subjugate our authority to international organizations such as the United Nations.

Toyota would like us to think that Mother Nature drives a Prius, Ford wants us to Join the Green Revolution,” and McDonald’s has painted its golden arches green. But are big brands and the celebrities endorsing them really as green as they claim? In The Greenwash Effect, Guy Pearse looks behind the corporate façade in the tradition of Fast Food Nation and No Logo - and what he finds will startle you.

Bank Job is a white-knuckle ride into the dark heart of the global financial system. Discover how art hacks life as artist and filmmaker duo Hilary Powell and Dan Edelstyn bring a community together to buy up and abolish crippling debt by printing their own money in a disused bank in East London. Behind the opaque language of loans and the defunct diagrams of debt, they discover a system flawed by design and ripe for hacking.

Charles D. Thompson, Jr., was born in Southwestern Virginia into an extended family of small farmers. Yet, as he came of age, he witnessed the demise of every farm in his family. Over the course of his own life of farming, rural education, organizing, and activism, the stories of his home place have been his constant inspiration, helping him identify with the losses of others and to fight against injustices. In Going Over Home, Thompson shares revelations and reflections, from cattle auctions with his grandfather to community gardens in the coal camps of Eastern Kentucky.

As hundreds of thousand of Muslims make the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, Katarina Petrov seeks to undermine the United States’ tenuous trust with the international community with a false flag. With The Chamber, Petrov’s shadow organization, struggling to maintain its control among the power brokers of the world, she engages Hawk and the Firestorm team in a dangerous game. And in this showdown, it’s winner take all.

World-famous hacker Black Wolf has extracted a list of intelligence operatives embedded in terrorist organizations around the world - and he's selling it to the highest bidder at an exclusive event in Vienna. When the Firestorm team gets wind of the sale, Hawk and Alex travel to Austria to infiltrate the event and prevent the list from falling into the hands of Al Hasib and dealing a devastating blow to the security of agents and innocent civilians alike.

The growing wealth inequality continues to dominate headlines. The divide between the haves and have nots in America is increasingly political and tensions are rising. On one side, the wealthy wield power and advantage, keeping the system operating in their favor, all while retreating into enclaves that separate them further and further from the poor and working class.