Bøger af Robbie Grayson

Dissolve the Past is the third installment of Robbie Grayson's Feels Like Anaphylaxis series, which describes a trauma recovery process called discharging the freeze.

Amerigrant is a captivating pocketbook exploration of 99 examples of how immigrants navigate the intricate landscape of American culture.

In 2005, a four-man PsyOp team was assigned to Sadr City, a violent Baghdad neighborhood of more than 2.5 million residents. The mission? Turn the ideological tide against insurgent leader Muqtada Al Sadr and his Mehdi militia by the promotion of pro-democratic messages among the Iraqis. The means? Use of psychological operations: non-kinetic force. Written in boots-on-the-ground-real time, Boone Cutler unveils basic principles of psychological warfare, illustrating the effectiveness of real-world tactics that he and his team implemented to reach that part of the Iraqi consciousness that has long been the victim of learned helplessness. Boone's miniscule attention to detail and vivid storytelling ability allows the reader to track the effectiveness of non-kinetic warfare in Sadr City, encounter by encounter. Ultimately, Boone makes the case that non-kinetic warfare is, perhaps, the most overlooked tool in the United States' arsenal for legitimate, successful, and long-term nation-building.

"Thoughts from My Hammock: Seasons" is a collection of a collection of poems and essays inspired by the seasons of nature and life.

Aviation touches nearly everyone's lives, but few know much about what it takes or how they can be involved. From soloing a glider at age 14 or pursuing a career at age 40, Open Air is your guide to all things aviation! Jeff Jorgenson, a Navy veteran, father of two, and civilian flight instructor is your virtual aviation ambassador. He shares his journey in aviation while he takes you on an entertaining and informative "walk-around" an airplane. You will learn what it really takes to be a pilot along with money-saving tips and pilot hacks from drones to jets! Coupled with a touch of aviation history, this is the ideal guide for anyone with an unaided interest in aviation!

In "I Am My Sister's Keeper," Amarin Trichanh details vignettes of her journey in the United States Army when at the beginning she tried to ignore and avoid sexual harassment only eventually to confront and expose it. Spanning thirteen years, including two tours to Iraq and one tour to Afghanistan, Amarin illustrates the numerous ways that the sexual coercion and exploitation of female soldiers was made possible at every level of command. A victim of military sexual abuse herself, Amarin advocates for the mental, emotional, and physical security and safety and women in the Armed Forces.

Cult-to-country is about country musician, Michael Ricks, growing up in a household where his parents were rabidly devoted to a religious cult that, among other things, preached against the use of modern medicine to the detriment of over 100 church member deaths in under twenty years. The eldest of nine children, Michael suffered the brunt of emotional, psychological and physical abuse meted out by his ardent father who worked thoroughly to instill suffering as a normal way of life. Michael describes how music helped him cope through the abuse and well into his adult years.Musically gifted by the age of 12, Michael took a paddle his father used to hit the children and turned it into a makeshift guitar. Thus began Michael's lifelong love affair with the banjo and guitar and country music. After years of attacks of stress-induced asthma, Michael began a personal journey to ferret out the roots of his anxiety: a journey which has taken him into the world of country music. Michael's story is a story of ongoing anxiety-remission through his love of country music and his knack for taking instruments of pain into instruments of redemption.

In the face of disaster your personality can get you hurt-even killed. That's because not all personalities are equal to the challenges that ensure survival. If, however, you know what to look for to increase your emotional intelligence, then the right kind of training can give you an advantage. Inspired by Amanda Ripley's The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes-and Why, Robbie Grayson uses 44 pictograms to illustrate "the survival arc" and how your individual personality can undermine your chances of surviving a range of disasters and how you can better be prepared for the next unfavorable situation that comes your way.

The body doesn't discriminate near-death experiences