Argo

by Antonio Mendez
Argo
Author: Antonio Mendez
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2013-02-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 0147509734
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The true account of a daring rescue that inspired the film ARGO, winner of the 2012 Academy Award for Best Picture On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the American embassy in Tehran and captured dozens of American hostages, sparking a 444-day ordeal and a quake in global politics still reverberating today. But there is a little-known drama connected to the crisis: six Americans escaped. And a top-level CIA officer named Antonio Mendez devised an ingenious yet incredibly risky plan to rescue them before they were detected. Disguising himself as a Hollywood producer, and supported by a cast of expert forgers, deep cover CIA operatives, foreign agents, and Hollywood special effects artists, Mendez traveled to Tehran under the guise of scouting locations for a fake science fiction film called Argo. While pretending to find the perfect film backdrops, Mendez and a colleague succeeded in contacting the escapees, and smuggling them out of Iran. Antonio Mendez finally details the extraordinarily complex and dangerous operation he led more than three decades ago. A riveting story of secret identities and international intrigue, Argo is the gripping account of the history-making collusion between Hollywood and high-stakes espionage.

Argo

by Mark Knowles
Argo
Author: Mark Knowles
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 574
Release: 2021-11-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1801102716
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You've read the myth of the Golden Fleece. Now find out how it really was for Jason and the Argonauts in this gripping reimagining of the famous Ancient Greek tale, and first book in the breathtaking Blades of Bronze series. Perfect for fans of Madeline Miller, Neil Gaiman and Natalie Haynes. He has come to take what is yours... Iolkos, Greece, 1230 BC. King Pelias has grown paranoid, tormented by his murderous past and a prophecy of the man who will one day destroy him. When a stranger arrives to compete in the Games of Poseidon, Pelias is horrified, for this young man should never have grown to manhood. He is Jason, Pelias' nephew, who survived his uncle's assassins as a child. Now Jason wants his revenge – and the kingdom. But Pelias is cunning as well as powerful. He gives Jason an impossible challenge: to claim the throne, he must first steal the fabled Golden Fleece of Colchis. Jason assembles a band of Greece's finest warriors. They are the Argonauts, named for their trusty ship. But even with these mighty allies, Jason will have to overcome the brutal challenges hurled his way. His mission and many lives depend on his wits – and his sword. PRAISE FOR THE BLADES OF BRONZE SERIES AND MARK KNOWLES 'A bold and thrilling voyage that plunges you deep into the world of ancient myth' Daisy Dunn 'Mark Knowles has taken the legend of Jason and the Golden Fleece, and stripped it down to its bare bones... A deeply researched historical epic, so brilliantly brought to life I could taste the salt air on my tongue... Epic battles, well-rounded characters sailing through a brilliantly described world' Adam Lofthouse 'What a spectacular triumph! Knowles has taken a reassuringly familiar legend and elevated it into a new, realistic and engrossing story' Sam Taw 'Knowles has combined historical realities with sure-footed imagination... brilliant' Dr Paul Millett '[Knowles] has teamed his love of learning classics and childhood love of sword-and-sandals epics to accomplish something remarkable' Boarding Schools' Association

Call It Horses

by Jessie van Eerden
Call It Horses
Author: Jessie van Eerden
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-10-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780983740599
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Winner of the 2019 Dzanc Prize for Fiction Set in small-town West Virginia in the twilight of the eighties, Call It Horses tells the story of three women--niece, aunt, and stowaway--and an improbable road trip. Frankie is an orphan (or a reluctant wife). Mave is an autodidact (or the town pariah). Nan is an artist (or the town whore). Each separately haunted, Frankie, Mave, and Nan--with a hound in tow--set out in an Oldsmobile Royale for Abiquiú and the desert of Georgia O'Keeffe, seeking an escape from everything they've known. Frankie records the journey in letters to her aunt Mave's dead lover, a linguist named Ruth, sketching out her troubled life and her complicated relationship with Mave, who became her guardian when Frankie was orphaned at sixteen. Slowly, one letter at a time, Frankie exposes the ruins of herself and her fellow passengers: things that chase them, that died too soon, that never lived. With lush prose and brutal empathy, Frankie tells Ruth--and herself--the story of liminality experienced by a woman standing just outside of motherhood, fulfillment, and love.

Speech and Reality

by Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
Speech and Reality
Author: Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
Publisher: Argo Books
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1970-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780912148021
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Argo

by Bernard Smith
Argo
Author: Bernard Smith
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2004-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0595329217
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Jason Steele has no time to lose. He has managed to achieve a position of power at a young age. But even this success, is not enough. He has higher ambitions and feels an urgent need to hurry. And with the sudden arrival of a spaceship signaling to the political powers of earth, his chance has arrived. Now all he has to do is: convince the President he can captain the ship, then get a crew he can trust, and battle for the future of earth and his crew. Argo is a science fiction work, with humor, adventure, and a fast pace. This ARGO, travels through space, but it finds adventure in the same manner as its namesake.

GitOps and Kubernetes

by Billy Yuen
GitOps and Kubernetes
Author: Billy Yuen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2021-03-23
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1617297275
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Part 1. Background. 1. Why GitOps? -- 2. Kubernetes and GitOps -- Part 2. Patterns and processes. 3. Environment management -- 4. Pipelines -- 5. Deployment strategies -- 6. Access control and security -- 7. Secrets -- 8. Observability -- Part 3. Tools. 9. Argo CD -- 10. Jenkins X -- 11. Flux.

I am an Impure Thinker

by Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
I am an Impure Thinker
Author: Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2013-04-08
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1620324458
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The Definitive "Golden Girls" Cultural Reference Guide

by Matt Browning
The Definitive
Author: Matt Browning
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2021-09-15
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1493063375
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The Definitive Golden Girls Cultural Reference Guide is an in-depth look at the hundreds of topical references to people, places, and events that make up many of the funniest lines from the ever-popular television series, The Golden Girls. Over the course of seven seasons and 180 episodes, The Golden Girls was a consistent top 10 hit, yielding 58 Emmy nominations, multiple spin-off shows, and millions of lifelong devoted fans with its biting observations and timeless humor about such issues as dating, sex, marriage, divorce, race, gender equality, gay rights, menopause, AIDS, and more. Reruns are run on multiple cable networks daily and are streaming 24/7 on Hulu. This book brings 21st Century viewers “in on the joke” while educating readers about pop culture and world events from the past.

Out of Revolution

by Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
Out of Revolution
Author: Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 857
Release: 2013-04-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1625640196
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This classic, originally published in 1938, was reprinted in 1969 for a new generation by Berg Publishers. From the new introduction by Harold J. Berman: "That this book--written six decades ago--is without question an extraordinary book, a remarkable book, a fascinating book, has not saved it from relative obscurity. It is directed against conventional historiography, and for the most part the conventional historians have either ignored it or denounced it . . . [It] is a history in the best sense of the word. Although it embodies original scholarship of the highest professional quality, it is written primarily for the amateur, the person of general education, who wants to know where we came from and whither we are headed. But it is also a theory of history: how history should be understood, how historians should write about it . . .. Out of Revolution interprets modern Western history as a single 900-year period, initiated by total revolution . . . and punctuated thereafter by a series of total revolutions that broke out successively in the different European nations . . .. Rosenstock-Huessy was a prophet who, like many great prophets, failed in his own time, but whose time may now be coming."